Principal Software Engineer Jobs in Edinburgh

Principal Software Engineer
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median Principal Software 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 71 148 153
Rank change year-on-year +77 +5 -38
Permanent jobs requiring a Principal Software Engineer 40 3 5
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 2.61% 0.14% 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.72% 0.15% 0.22%
Number of salaries quoted 7 3 5
10th Percentile £96,500 £64,000 -
25th Percentile - £70,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £85,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -5.56% +20.00%
75th Percentile - £103,750 -
90th Percentile £101,500 £113,500 -
Scotland median annual salary £100,000 £81,250 £75,000
% change year-on-year +23.08% +8.33% -

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 Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Principal Software Engineer in Edinburgh

Principal Software Engineer
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

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

Salary trend for Principal Software Engineer in Edinburgh

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

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

1 40 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 33 (82.50%) Dell
2 33 (82.50%) Cybersecurity
2 33 (82.50%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 33 (82.50%) Threat Intelligence
2 33 (82.50%) Data Science
3 32 (80.00%) SaaS
3 32 (80.00%) Computer Security
4 31 (77.50%) Java
4 31 (77.50%) AWS
5 25 (62.50%) Kafka
5 25 (62.50%) GCP
5 25 (62.50%) Kubernetes
5 25 (62.50%) Python
6 24 (60.00%) Google
6 24 (60.00%) Bash
6 24 (60.00%) Scala
6 24 (60.00%) Hadoop
6 24 (60.00%) Big Data
6 24 (60.00%) Go
6 24 (60.00%) Apache Spark
7 23 (57.50%) Data Structures
7 23 (57.50%) Algorithms
7 23 (57.50%) User Experience
7 23 (57.50%) Lucidchart
7 23 (57.50%) Redis
7 23 (57.50%) Elasticsearch
7 23 (57.50%) Slack
7 23 (57.50%) Scylla
7 23 (57.50%) GraphQL

Principal Software 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 (60.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 32 (80.00%) SaaS
2 31 (77.50%) AWS
3 25 (62.50%) GCP
4 23 (57.50%) Amazon S3
4 23 (57.50%) Amazon SQS
4 23 (57.50%) Google Docs
4 23 (57.50%) Lucidchart
4 23 (57.50%) Miro
4 23 (57.50%) Slack
5 1 (2.50%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (60.00%) Big Data
1 24 (60.00%) Hadoop
2 23 (57.50%) Elasticsearch
2 23 (57.50%) Redis
2 23 (57.50%) Scylla
3 1 (2.50%) Apache Accumulo
3 1 (2.50%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (2.50%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.50%) Flink
3 1 (2.50%) HBase
3 1 (2.50%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (2.50%) JUnit
General
1 23 (57.50%) Social Skills
2 21 (52.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (2.50%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (62.50%) Kafka
2 23 (57.50%) GraphQL
3 1 (2.50%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (2.50%) React
3 1 (2.50%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 23 (57.50%) Algorithms
1 23 (57.50%) Data Structures
2 10 (25.00%) Cloud Native
3 9 (22.50%) Virtual Team
4 1 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 10 (25.00%) Linux
2 9 (22.50%) Mac OS
2 9 (22.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 33 (82.50%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 33 (82.50%) Cybersecurity
2 33 (82.50%) Data Science
2 33 (82.50%) Threat Intelligence
3 32 (80.00%) Computer Security
4 23 (57.50%) High Availability
4 23 (57.50%) Problem-Solving
4 23 (57.50%) User Experience
4 23 (57.50%) UX Research
5 10 (25.00%) Agile
5 10 (25.00%) Analytics
6 9 (22.50%) Kalman Filter
6 9 (22.50%) Multithreading
6 9 (22.50%) Performance Optimisation
6 9 (22.50%) Reverse Engineering
6 9 (22.50%) TDD
6 9 (22.50%) Test Automation
6 9 (22.50%) Threat Analysis
6 9 (22.50%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 31 (77.50%) Java
2 25 (62.50%) Python
3 24 (60.00%) Bash
3 24 (60.00%) Go
3 24 (60.00%) Scala
4 1 (2.50%) TypeScript
System Software
1 2 (5.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 25 (62.50%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.50%) Rancher
Vendors
1 33 (82.50%) Dell
2 24 (60.00%) Google
3 1 (2.50%) StreamSets