Principal Engineer Jobs in Essex

Principal Engineer
East of England > Essex

The median Principal Engineer salary in Essex is £80,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 May 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
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 68 87 84
Rank change year-on-year +19 -3 -
Permanent jobs requiring a Principal Engineer 4 1 19
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Essex 0.46% 0.12% 1.95%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.49% 0.15% 2.09%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 - £60,000
75th Percentile - - £65,000
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median annual salary £77,500 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +6.90% +11.54% +36.84%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Essex

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Essex. 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 Essex with a recognized job title 821 677 907
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.15% 79.27% 92.93%
Number of salaries quoted 670 377 449
10th Percentile £25,759 £26,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - -
75th Percentile £61,250 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £77,750
East of England median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -13.64% +10.00% -

Principal Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

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

Job vacancy trend for Principal Engineer in Essex

Principal Engineer
Salary Trend in Essex

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

Salary trend for Principal Engineer in Essex

Principal Engineer
Job Locations in Essex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Principal Engineer within the Essex region over the 6 months to 5 May 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
Colchester - 3 - -
Chelmsford - 1 £80,000 -
Principal Engineer
East of England

Principal Engineer Skill Set
Top 18 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Essex

For the 6 months to 5 May 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 Essex region featuring Principal Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (75.00%) Google
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps
1 3 (75.00%) Mentoring
1 3 (75.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (75.00%) BigQuery
1 3 (75.00%) GCP
1 3 (75.00%) Data Engineering
1 3 (75.00%) Change Management
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
1 3 (75.00%) Looker
1 3 (75.00%) GDPR
1 3 (75.00%) Data Science
1 3 (75.00%) Self-Motivation
1 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (75.00%) Data Pipeline
1 3 (75.00%) DataOps
1 3 (75.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering

Principal Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Essex 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 3 (75.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) BigQuery
1 3 (75.00%) Looker
General
1 3 (75.00%) Analytical Skills
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
1 3 (75.00%) Change Management
1 3 (75.00%) Data Engineering
1 3 (75.00%) Data Pipeline
1 3 (75.00%) Data Science
1 3 (75.00%) DataOps
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps
1 3 (75.00%) Mentoring
1 3 (75.00%) Platform Engineering
1 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Google