Principal Engineer Jobs in Edinburgh

Principal Engineer
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median Principal Engineer salary in Edinburgh is £100,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 60 134 143
Rank change year-on-year +74 +9 -32
Permanent jobs requiring a Principal Engineer 52 17 15
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 3.39% 0.79% 0.65%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.54% 0.83% 0.66%
Number of salaries quoted 11 16 8
10th Percentile - £61,875 £57,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £66,563 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £85,000 £83,750
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% +1.49% +1.52%
75th Percentile - £87,500 £90,000
90th Percentile - £106,293 £90,375
Scotland median annual salary £67,500 £85,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -20.59% +6.25% -3.03%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Edinburgh

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh. 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 Edinburgh with a recognized job title 1,470 2,051 2,266
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.83% 95.53% 97.84%
Number of salaries quoted 1,037 1,207 1,413
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,331 £33,488
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £72,433 £77,715 £68,750
90th Percentile £91,934 £90,000 £85,000
Scotland median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% +10.53%

Principal Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Principal Engineer in Edinburgh

Principal Engineer
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

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

Salary trend for Principal Engineer in Edinburgh

Principal Engineer
Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing Principal Engineer in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Principal Engineer in Edinburgh

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 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 Edinburgh region featuring Principal Engineer in the job title.

1 44 (84.62%) Software Engineering
2 37 (71.15%) Dell
2 37 (71.15%) Cybersecurity
2 37 (71.15%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 37 (71.15%) Threat Intelligence
3 36 (69.23%) Data Science
4 33 (63.46%) SaaS
5 32 (61.54%) Computer Security
5 32 (61.54%) AWS
6 31 (59.62%) Java
7 30 (57.69%) Problem-Solving
8 29 (55.77%) Kubernetes
8 29 (55.77%) Python
9 28 (53.85%) GCP
10 27 (51.92%) Algorithms
10 27 (51.92%) Google
11 26 (50.00%) Social Skills
12 25 (48.08%) Kafka
13 24 (46.15%) Big Data
13 24 (46.15%) Bash
13 24 (46.15%) Scala
13 24 (46.15%) Hadoop
13 24 (46.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 24 (46.15%) Apache Spark
13 24 (46.15%) Go
14 23 (44.23%) Elasticsearch
14 23 (44.23%) Lucidchart
14 23 (44.23%) Data Structures
14 23 (44.23%) User Experience
14 23 (44.23%) GraphQL

Principal Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Application Platforms
1 24 (46.15%) Apache Spark
2 4 (7.69%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.92%) Simulink
1 1 (1.92%) Stateflow
Cloud Services
1 33 (63.46%) SaaS
2 32 (61.54%) AWS
3 28 (53.85%) GCP
4 23 (44.23%) Amazon S3
4 23 (44.23%) Amazon SQS
4 23 (44.23%) Google Docs
4 23 (44.23%) Lucidchart
4 23 (44.23%) Miro
4 23 (44.23%) Slack
5 2 (3.85%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.69%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (46.15%) Big Data
1 24 (46.15%) Hadoop
2 23 (44.23%) Elasticsearch
2 23 (44.23%) Redis
2 23 (44.23%) Scylla
3 4 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (5.77%) BigQuery
4 3 (5.77%) Looker
5 1 (1.92%) Apache Accumulo
5 1 (1.92%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (1.92%) Flink
5 1 (1.92%) HBase
5 1 (1.92%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (7.69%) JIRA
2 1 (1.92%) Cypress.io
2 1 (1.92%) JUnit
General
1 26 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 24 (46.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 7 (13.46%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (5.77%) Legal
5 1 (1.92%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (48.08%) Kafka
2 23 (44.23%) GraphQL
3 1 (1.92%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (1.92%) React
3 1 (1.92%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 27 (51.92%) Algorithms
2 23 (44.23%) Data Structures
3 14 (26.92%) Cloud Native
4 9 (17.31%) Virtual Team
5 4 (7.69%) Enterprise Storage
6 3 (5.77%) Management Information System
6 3 (5.77%) Product Ownership
6 3 (5.77%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.92%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.92%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 10 (19.23%) Linux
2 9 (17.31%) Mac OS
2 9 (17.31%) Windows
3 4 (7.69%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (84.62%) Software Engineering
2 37 (71.15%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 37 (71.15%) Cybersecurity
2 37 (71.15%) Threat Intelligence
3 36 (69.23%) Data Science
4 32 (61.54%) Computer Security
5 30 (57.69%) Problem-Solving
6 23 (44.23%) High Availability
6 23 (44.23%) User Experience
6 23 (44.23%) UX Research
7 17 (32.69%) Agile
7 17 (32.69%) Analytics
8 13 (25.00%) Multithreading
8 13 (25.00%) Security Analytics
9 10 (19.23%) Test Automation
10 9 (17.31%) Component Testing
10 9 (17.31%) Kalman Filter
10 9 (17.31%) Reverse Engineering
10 9 (17.31%) TDD
10 9 (17.31%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 31 (59.62%) Java
2 29 (55.77%) Python
3 24 (46.15%) Bash
3 24 (46.15%) Go
3 24 (46.15%) Scala
4 2 (3.85%) TypeScript
5 1 (1.92%) C++
5 1 (1.92%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 4 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (7.69%) Degree
1 4 (7.69%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.77%) GDPR
2 1 (1.92%) QA
System Software
1 2 (3.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 29 (55.77%) Kubernetes
2 4 (7.69%) Ansible
2 4 (7.69%) vRealize
2 4 (7.69%) vRealize Orchestrator
3 1 (1.92%) Rancher
Vendors
1 37 (71.15%) Dell
2 27 (51.92%) Google
3 4 (7.69%) Atlassian
4 1 (1.92%) StreamSets