Principal Engineer Jobs in London Bridge

Principal Engineer
City of London > London Bridge

The median Principal Engineer salary in London Bridge is £102,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 August 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 3 14
Rank change year-on-year -5 +11 -
Permanent jobs requiring a Principal Engineer 1 1 13
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London Bridge 8.33% 16.67% 19.70%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.33% 16.67% 19.70%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 13
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £96,000 - £78,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £102,000 £85,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% +3.03% -
75th Percentile £108,000 - £86,250
90th Percentile - - £94,250
City of London median annual salary £112,500 £98,750 £97,500
% change year-on-year +13.92% +1.28% -8.24%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London Bridge

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in London Bridge. 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 London Bridge with a recognized job title 12 6 66
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 100.00% 100.00% 100.00%
Number of salaries quoted 4 6 65
10th Percentile £69,625 £45,000 £51,250
25th Percentile £80,313 £57,813 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £68,750 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% -8.33% +1.69%
75th Percentile £93,563 £80,938 £92,500
90th Percentile £102,225 £83,125 £106,250
City of London median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year - -3.33% +3.45%

Principal Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London Bridge

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

Job vacancy trend for Principal Engineer in London Bridge

Principal Engineer
Salary Trend in London Bridge

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

Salary trend for Principal Engineer in London Bridge

Principal Engineer Skill Set
Top 14 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London Bridge

For the 6 months to 3 August 2025, 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 London Bridge region featuring Principal Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) Clustering
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Nutanix
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Culture

Principal Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London Bridge 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 1 (100.00%) Nutanix
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Clustering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Culture
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) VMware