Principal Engineer Jobs in Cheltenham

Principal Engineer
Gloucestershire > Cheltenham

The median Principal Engineer salary in Cheltenham is £91,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 59 52 63
Rank change year-on-year -7 +11 +31
Permanent jobs requiring a Principal Engineer 8 3 1
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheltenham 1.90% 0.98% 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.96% 1.19% 0.27%
Number of salaries quoted 3 2 1
10th Percentile £72,650 - -
25th Percentile £76,625 £70,000 £69,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £91,500 £77,000 £76,500
Median % change year-on-year +18.83% +0.65% +15.91%
75th Percentile £99,875 £84,000 £83,250
90th Percentile £99,950 - -
Gloucestershire median annual salary £75,000 £81,000 £64,500
% change year-on-year -7.41% +25.58% -2.27%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Cheltenham

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Cheltenham. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Cheltenham with a recognized job title 409 252 377
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 97.38% 82.35% 97.16%
Number of salaries quoted 307 209 316
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £43,750 £35,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £45,020
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +33.27% +0.05%
75th Percentile £67,500 £73,750 £62,827
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £72,250
Gloucestershire median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +1.01%

Principal Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheltenham

Job postings that featured Principal Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cheltenham.

Job vacancy trend for Principal Engineer in Cheltenham

Principal Engineer
Salary Trend in Cheltenham

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Principal Engineer in Cheltenham.

Salary trend for Principal Engineer in Cheltenham

Principal Engineer
Salary Histogram in Cheltenham

Salary distribution for jobs citing Principal Engineer in Cheltenham over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Principal Engineer in Cheltenham

Principal Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheltenham

For the 6 months to 4 May 2024, Principal Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Cheltenham region featuring Principal Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (75.00%) Mentoring
2 5 (62.50%) Agile
3 4 (50.00%) Google
3 4 (50.00%) Data Engineering
3 4 (50.00%) BigQuery
3 4 (50.00%) GCP
3 4 (50.00%) Looker
3 4 (50.00%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
3 4 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
4 3 (37.50%) DataOps
4 3 (37.50%) DevOps
4 3 (37.50%) Data Science
4 3 (37.50%) GDPR
4 3 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (37.50%) Software Engineering
4 3 (37.50%) DV Cleared
4 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
4 3 (37.50%) Python
4 3 (37.50%) Change Management
5 2 (25.00%) C++
5 2 (25.00%) Java
5 2 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (25.00%) AWS
5 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
6 1 (12.50%) Batch Management
6 1 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (12.50%) Systems Engineering
6 1 (12.50%) Technical Leadership

Principal Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheltenham by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) GCP
2 2 (25.00%) AWS
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (12.50%) Azure
3 1 (12.50%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) BigQuery
1 4 (50.00%) Looker
2 1 (12.50%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Rational DOORS
General
1 3 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Manufacturing
3 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) Hibernate
1 1 (12.50%) Spring
1 1 (12.50%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (12.50%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Mentoring
2 5 (62.50%) Agile
3 4 (50.00%) Data Engineering
3 4 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
3 4 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
3 4 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (37.50%) Change Management
4 3 (37.50%) Data Science
4 3 (37.50%) DataOps
4 3 (37.50%) DevOps
4 3 (37.50%) Software Engineering
5 2 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
6 1 (12.50%) Data Governance
6 1 (12.50%) Data Modelling
6 1 (12.50%) ETL
6 1 (12.50%) Process Improvement
6 1 (12.50%) Scrum
6 1 (12.50%) SysML
6 1 (12.50%) UML
6 1 (12.50%) V-Model
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) C++
2 2 (25.00%) Java
3 1 (12.50%) C
3 1 (12.50%) Scala
3 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) DV Cleared
1 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) GDPR
2 1 (12.50%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Ansible
1 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Google