Principal Software Engineer Jobs in Glasgow

Principal Software Engineer
Scotland > Glasgow

The median Principal Software Engineer salary in Glasgow is £70,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 209 - 119
Rank change year-on-year - - -15
Permanent jobs requiring a Principal Software Engineer 24 0 5
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 0.61% - 0.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.62% - 0.32%
Number of salaries quoted 4 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £67,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 - £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 - -
90th Percentile £76,000 - -
Scotland median annual salary £100,000 £81,250 £75,000
% change year-on-year +23.08% +8.33% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Glasgow

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Glasgow. 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 Glasgow with a recognized job title 3,875 1,346 1,575
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 98.03% 85.95% 98.01%
Number of salaries quoted 841 689 898
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £27,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £48,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +14.58% +1.05%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £78,000 £77,500 £72,750
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 Glasgow

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

Job vacancy trend for Principal Software Engineer in Glasgow

Principal Software Engineer
Salary Trend in Glasgow

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

Salary trend for Principal Software Engineer in Glasgow

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

For the 6 months to 26 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 Glasgow region featuring Principal Software Engineer in the job title.

1 24 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 23 (95.83%) Agile
3 22 (91.67%) SDLC
4 20 (83.33%) Coaching
4 20 (83.33%) Cloud Native
4 20 (83.33%) Operational Stability
4 20 (83.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 20 (83.33%) Financial Institution
4 20 (83.33%) Finance
4 20 (83.33%) Law
4 20 (83.33%) Games
4 20 (83.33%) Banking
4 20 (83.33%) Asset Management
4 20 (83.33%) Artificial Intelligence
4 20 (83.33%) Investment Banking
4 20 (83.33%) Marketing
4 20 (83.33%) Machine Learning
5 19 (79.17%) Business Analysis
5 19 (79.17%) AWS
5 19 (79.17%) Mathematics
5 19 (79.17%) Computer Science
5 19 (79.17%) Use Case
5 19 (79.17%) Data Analysis
5 19 (79.17%) Presentation Skills
5 19 (79.17%) Data Science
5 19 (79.17%) Analytics
6 14 (58.33%) Python
7 10 (41.67%) Financial Modelling
8 5 (20.83%) Java
9 4 (16.67%) Node.js

Principal Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow 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 1 (4.17%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 19 (79.17%) AWS
2 1 (4.17%) Azure
2 1 (4.17%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.17%) Big Data
1 1 (4.17%) Hadoop
General
1 20 (83.33%) Banking
1 20 (83.33%) Finance
1 20 (83.33%) Financial Institution
1 20 (83.33%) Games
1 20 (83.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 20 (83.33%) Investment Banking
1 20 (83.33%) Law
1 20 (83.33%) Marketing
2 19 (79.17%) Presentation Skills
3 4 (16.67%) Social Skills
4 3 (12.50%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (16.67%) Node.js
1 4 (16.67%) React
2 3 (12.50%) RESTful
3 1 (4.17%) Kafka
3 1 (4.17%) Micronaut
Miscellaneous
1 20 (83.33%) Cloud Native
2 3 (12.50%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.17%) Distributed Applications
3 1 (4.17%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (4.17%) Educational Technology
3 1 (4.17%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 23 (95.83%) Agile
3 22 (91.67%) SDLC
4 20 (83.33%) Artificial Intelligence
4 20 (83.33%) Asset Management
4 20 (83.33%) Coaching
4 20 (83.33%) Machine Learning
4 20 (83.33%) Operational Stability
5 19 (79.17%) Analytics
5 19 (79.17%) Business Analysis
5 19 (79.17%) Computer Science
5 19 (79.17%) Data Analysis
5 19 (79.17%) Data Science
5 19 (79.17%) Mathematics
5 19 (79.17%) Use Case
6 10 (41.67%) Financial Modelling
7 3 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (12.50%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 3 (12.50%) Microservices
7 3 (12.50%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 14 (58.33%) Python
2 5 (20.83%) Java
3 1 (4.17%) Kotlin
3 1 (4.17%) Scala
Systems Management
1 4 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (4.17%) Databricks