Principal Software Engineer Jobs in Cheltenham

Principal Software Engineer
Gloucestershire > Cheltenham

The median Principal Software Engineer salary in Cheltenham is £95,750 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 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
26 Apr 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 62 51 65
Rank change year-on-year -11 +14 +33
Permanent jobs requiring a Principal Software Engineer 3 2 1
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheltenham 0.72% 0.67% 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.74% 0.81% 0.27%
Number of salaries quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile £84,925 - -
25th Percentile £87,438 £70,000 £69,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,750 £77,000 £76,500
Median % change year-on-year +24.35% +0.65% +15.91%
75th Percentile £99,938 £84,000 £83,250
90th Percentile £99,975 - -
Gloucestershire median annual salary £75,000 £81,000 £76,500
% change year-on-year -7.41% +5.88% +15.91%

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 404 246 376
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.88% 82.00% 97.16%
Number of salaries quoted 307 211 310
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £29,875
25th Percentile £43,750 £44,375 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +33.33% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £73,750 £62,827
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £75,000
Gloucestershire median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +1.01%

Principal Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheltenham

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

Job vacancy trend for Principal Software Engineer in Cheltenham

Principal Software Engineer
Salary Trend in Cheltenham

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

Salary trend for Principal Software Engineer in Cheltenham

Principal Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 25 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheltenham

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, Principal Software 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 Software Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (66.67%) C++
2 2 (66.67%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) Spring Boot
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (33.33%) Terraform
3 1 (33.33%) Serverless
3 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
3 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (33.33%) C
3 1 (33.33%) Java
3 1 (33.33%) Hibernate
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Spring
3 1 (33.33%) Ansible
3 1 (33.33%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (33.33%) Azure

Principal Software 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 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Serverless
General
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Hibernate
1 1 (33.33%) Spring
1 1 (33.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Embedded Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) C++
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) C
2 1 (33.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
9 Principal Software Engineer jobs in the South West