Principal Engineer Jobs in England

Principal Engineer
UK > England

The median Principal Engineer salary in England is £80,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 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
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 278 474 387
Rank change year-on-year +196 -87 +128
Permanent jobs requiring a Principal Engineer 830 580 1,220
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.98% 0.62% 0.93%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.03% 0.68% 0.97%
Number of salaries quoted 352 414 394
10th Percentile £60,000 £61,202 £60,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £68,480 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £84,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.33% -0.59% +21.43%
75th Percentile £96,250 £115,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £150,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £80,000 £84,500 £85,000
% change year-on-year -5.33% -0.59% +21.43%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 80,250 85,781 125,417
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.48% 91.57% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 60,143 54,189 75,436
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £60,567 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.84% +0.95% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,375 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,923 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.80% - +9.09%

Principal Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Principal Engineer in England

Principal Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Principal Engineer in England

Principal Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Principal Engineer in England over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Principal Engineer in England

Principal Engineer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Principal Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 25 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +54 175 £98,750 -8.14% 63
North of England +94 159 £65,000 -11.86% 46
South West +93 150 £70,000 -12.50% 55
South East +27 135 £75,000 +7.14% 65
Midlands +89 114 £75,000 -9.09% 19
North West +52 83 £65,000 -3.70% 40
East of England +90 78 £77,500 +6.90% 62
West Midlands +69 63 £70,000 -36.36% 12
Yorkshire +95 56 £65,000 -18.75% 6
East Midlands +18 51 £85,000 +3.03% 7
North East +9 20 - -
Principal Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 25 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 England region featuring Principal Engineer in the job title.

1 208 (25.06%) Problem-Solving
2 204 (24.58%) Google
3 197 (23.73%) Mentoring
4 193 (23.25%) Agile
5 173 (20.84%) Roadmaps
6 172 (20.72%) DevOps
6 172 (20.72%) Data Engineering
7 169 (20.36%) GCP
8 167 (20.12%) Analytical Skills
9 158 (19.04%) Self-Motivation
10 156 (18.80%) Technology Roadmap
10 156 (18.80%) Platform Engineering
11 155 (18.67%) Data Pipeline
12 154 (18.55%) Technical Leadership
13 153 (18.43%) Data Science
13 153 (18.43%) BigQuery
14 149 (17.95%) Looker
15 147 (17.71%) Software Engineering
16 143 (17.23%) GDPR
16 143 (17.23%) DataOps
16 143 (17.23%) Change Management
17 127 (15.30%) Degree
18 100 (12.05%) Systems Engineering
19 97 (11.69%) AWS
20 66 (7.95%) Security Cleared
21 62 (7.47%) Social Skills
22 61 (7.35%) Customer Service
23 55 (6.63%) Java
24 54 (6.51%) Azure
25 50 (6.02%) Master's Degree

Principal Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 10 (1.20%) Confluence
2 6 (0.72%) IIS
2 6 (0.72%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (0.72%) SharePoint
3 5 (0.60%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.36%) Apache
5 2 (0.24%) JBoss
6 1 (0.12%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.12%) CMS
Applications
1 6 (0.72%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.36%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 169 (20.36%) GCP
2 97 (11.69%) AWS
3 54 (6.51%) Azure
4 42 (5.06%) Dropbox
4 42 (5.06%) Google Drive
4 42 (5.06%) OneDrive
5 19 (2.29%) Serverless
6 18 (2.17%) AWS Lambda
7 14 (1.69%) SaaS
8 7 (0.84%) Amazon EKS
9 6 (0.72%) Amazon SageMaker
9 6 (0.72%) Azure Machine Learning
9 6 (0.72%) Datadog
10 5 (0.60%) Amazon S3
11 4 (0.48%) Amazon ECS
11 4 (0.48%) AWS Fargate
11 4 (0.48%) Azure AKS
11 4 (0.48%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (0.48%) Azure Functions
11 4 (0.48%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 16 (1.93%) Internet
1 16 (1.93%) LAN
1 16 (1.93%) WAN
2 13 (1.57%) Wireless
3 7 (0.84%) Firewall
4 6 (0.72%) TETRA
5 5 (0.60%) Bluetooth
5 5 (0.60%) Network Security
5 5 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
6 4 (0.48%) 4G
6 4 (0.48%) MPLS
7 3 (0.36%) BGP
7 3 (0.36%) IGMP
7 3 (0.36%) IPv6
7 3 (0.36%) Multicast
7 3 (0.36%) OSPF
7 3 (0.36%) RIP
7 3 (0.36%) VLAN
7 3 (0.36%) VoIP
7 3 (0.36%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 153 (18.43%) BigQuery
2 149 (17.95%) Looker
3 8 (0.96%) Data Lake
4 5 (0.60%) Big Data
5 4 (0.48%) Apache Hive
5 4 (0.48%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (0.48%) Hadoop
5 4 (0.48%) MongoDB
6 3 (0.36%) Neo4j
6 3 (0.36%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (0.36%) Redis
7 2 (0.24%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (0.24%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (0.24%) MySQL
7 2 (0.24%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.24%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.12%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.12%) HBase
8 1 (0.12%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 14 (1.69%) Rational DOORS
2 10 (1.20%) JIRA
3 5 (0.60%) Selenium
4 4 (0.48%) Cypress.io
5 3 (0.36%) Android Studio
5 3 (0.36%) Git
5 3 (0.36%) Postman
5 3 (0.36%) Rational Rhapsody
5 3 (0.36%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.24%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.24%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.12%) Gatling
7 1 (0.12%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.12%) TeamCity
General
1 167 (20.12%) Analytical Skills
2 62 (7.47%) Social Skills
3 40 (4.82%) Aerospace
4 38 (4.58%) Manufacturing
5 35 (4.22%) Finance
6 28 (3.37%) Electronics
7 24 (2.89%) Telecoms
8 14 (1.69%) Marketing
9 13 (1.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 12 (1.45%) Automotive
10 12 (1.45%) Public Sector
11 9 (1.08%) Banking
12 8 (0.96%) Health Technology
12 8 (0.96%) Military
13 7 (0.84%) Aviation
13 7 (0.84%) Retail
14 5 (0.60%) Aeronautics
14 5 (0.60%) Games
15 4 (0.48%) Legal
16 3 (0.36%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (3.01%) Spring Boot
2 24 (2.89%) Spring
3 20 (2.41%) .NET
4 17 (2.05%) Kafka
4 17 (2.05%) React
5 16 (1.93%) Node.js
6 13 (1.57%) GraphQL
7 10 (1.20%) PyTorch
8 8 (0.96%) scikit-learn
8 8 (0.96%) TensorFlow
9 6 (0.72%) .NET Core
9 6 (0.72%) MXNet
10 5 (0.60%) CSS
11 3 (0.36%) Next.js
11 3 (0.36%) Playwright
12 2 (0.24%) DPDK
12 2 (0.24%) eBPF
12 2 (0.24%) Flutter
12 2 (0.24%) LangChain
12 2 (0.24%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 158 (19.04%) Self-Motivation
2 42 (5.06%) iPad
3 12 (1.45%) FPGA
4 11 (1.33%) Cloud Native
5 10 (1.20%) IoT
6 9 (1.08%) Data Structures
7 7 (0.84%) Algorithms
7 7 (0.84%) Embedded Systems
8 6 (0.72%) Data Centre
8 6 (0.72%) Management Information System
8 6 (0.72%) Mobile App
9 5 (0.60%) Hackathon
10 4 (0.48%) Renewable Energy
11 3 (0.36%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (0.36%) Smart City
11 3 (0.36%) VHDL
12 2 (0.24%) Digital Currency
12 2 (0.24%) Enterprise Software
12 2 (0.24%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 2 (0.24%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 20 (2.41%) Linux
2 11 (1.33%) Windows
3 7 (0.84%) Android
4 5 (0.60%) Embedded Linux
5 4 (0.48%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.36%) Unix
7 1 (0.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 208 (25.06%) Problem-Solving
2 197 (23.73%) Mentoring
3 193 (23.25%) Agile
4 173 (20.84%) Roadmaps
5 172 (20.72%) Data Engineering
5 172 (20.72%) DevOps
6 156 (18.80%) Platform Engineering
6 156 (18.80%) Technology Roadmap
7 155 (18.67%) Data Pipeline
8 154 (18.55%) Technical Leadership
9 153 (18.43%) Data Science
10 147 (17.71%) Software Engineering
11 143 (17.23%) Change Management
11 143 (17.23%) DataOps
12 100 (12.05%) Systems Engineering
13 61 (7.35%) Customer Service
14 45 (5.42%) Project Delivery
15 42 (5.06%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 36 (4.34%) Data Modelling
17 32 (3.86%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 55 (6.63%) Java
2 48 (5.78%) Python
3 27 (3.25%) SQL
4 26 (3.13%) Kotlin
5 24 (2.89%) C
5 24 (2.89%) C#
6 22 (2.65%) TypeScript
7 15 (1.81%) C++
8 10 (1.20%) JavaScript
9 9 (1.08%) Scala
10 7 (0.84%) Go
11 6 (0.72%) Embedded C
12 4 (0.48%) Assembly Language
12 4 (0.48%) Swift
13 3 (0.36%) R
13 3 (0.36%) Ruby
14 2 (0.24%) Perl
15 1 (0.12%) MATLAB
15 1 (0.12%) PHP
15 1 (0.12%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 127 (15.30%) Degree
2 66 (7.95%) Security Cleared
3 50 (6.02%) Master's Degree
4 39 (4.70%) Chartered Engineer
5 23 (2.77%) SC Cleared
6 17 (2.05%) DV Cleared
7 16 (1.93%) HNC
8 9 (1.08%) Computer Science Degree
9 8 (0.96%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.36%) MCT
10 3 (0.36%) Sun Certification
11 2 (0.24%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.24%) HND
12 1 (0.12%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 143 (17.23%) GDPR
2 10 (1.20%) QA
3 8 (0.96%) Data Quality
4 4 (0.48%) IEC 62304
4 4 (0.48%) ISO 13485
4 4 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 15288
5 2 (0.24%) Def Stans
5 2 (0.24%) IEC 61508
5 2 (0.24%) SLA
System Software
1 21 (2.53%) Firmware
2 9 (1.08%) Docker
3 8 (0.96%) Active Directory
3 8 (0.96%) Embedded Firmware
4 6 (0.72%) Forefront TMG
4 6 (0.72%) Hyper-V
4 6 (0.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.72%) VMware Workstation
5 4 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 21 (2.53%) Kubernetes
2 17 (2.05%) Terraform
3 6 (0.72%) SCOM
3 6 (0.72%) WSUS
4 2 (0.24%) Ansible
Vendors
1 204 (24.58%) Google
2 41 (4.94%) EMC
3 22 (2.65%) Microsoft
4 16 (1.93%) Fortinet
4 16 (1.93%) Juniper
4 16 (1.93%) Sandvine
5 7 (0.84%) Databricks
6 6 (0.72%) Dataiku
6 6 (0.72%) QinetiQ
6 6 (0.72%) VMware
7 3 (0.36%) Progress
8 2 (0.24%) CheckPoint
8 2 (0.24%) Confluent
8 2 (0.24%) Forcepoint
8 2 (0.24%) ForgeRock
8 2 (0.24%) Oracle
8 2 (0.24%) SAP
8 2 (0.24%) Sitecore
8 2 (0.24%) Temenos
9 1 (0.12%) SnapLogic