Principal Engineer Job Trends in Corsham

Principal Engineer
Wiltshire > Corsham

The median Principal Engineer salary in Corsham is £85,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 March 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Principal Engineer 2 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Corsham 1.80% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 1.82% - -
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £76,500 - -
25th Percentile £78,750 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 - -
75th Percentile £88,750 - -
90th Percentile £89,500 - -
Wiltshire median annual salary £85,000 - -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Corsham

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Corsham. 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 Corsham with a recognized job title 110 72 124
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 99.10% 100.00% 98.41%
Number of salaries quoted 60 64 95
10th Percentile £47,500 £46,625 £38,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £47,500 £46,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £50,000 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% +2.04% -10.91%
75th Percentile £80,000 £52,500 £63,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,875 £85,000
Wiltshire median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £48,750
% change year-on-year +10.00% +2.56% +2.63%

Principal Engineer Skill Set
Top 26 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Corsham

For the 6 months to 16 March 2026, Principal Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Corsham region featuring Principal Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (50.00%) Data Loss Prevention
2 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Network Security
2 1 (50.00%) NIST
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Qualys
2 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) SIEM
2 1 (50.00%) Splunk
2 1 (50.00%) Tenable
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Detection
2 1 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server

Principal Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Corsham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) YubiKey
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Data Loss Prevention
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) SIEM
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Detection
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (50.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Qualys
1 1 (50.00%) Splunk
1 1 (50.00%) Tenable
1 1 (50.00%) VMware