Principal Engineer Jobs in Merton

Principal Engineer
South London > Merton

The median Principal Engineer salary in Merton is £95,000 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 27 35 32
Rank change year-on-year +8 -3 0
Permanent jobs requiring a Principal Engineer 4 2 9
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Merton 3.33% 1.40% 6.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.45% 1.47% 6.87%
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £92,500 £52,000 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £54,000 -
Median % change year-on-year +75.93% - -
75th Percentile £97,500 £56,000 -
90th Percentile - - -
South London median annual salary £95,000 £54,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +75.93% -32.50% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Merton

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Merton. 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 Merton with a recognized job title 116 136 131
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.67% 95.10% 90.97%
Number of salaries quoted 48 42 68
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £32,000 £41,063 £38,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £75,625 £78,125 £80,000
90th Percentile £89,750 £92,375 £80,225
South London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -15.62%

Principal Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Merton

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

Job vacancy trend for Principal Engineer in Merton

Principal Engineer
Salary Trend in Merton

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

Salary trend for Principal Engineer in Merton

Principal Engineer
Job Locations in Merton

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Principal Engineer within the Merton 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
New Malden -12 2 - - 4
Principal Engineer
South London

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

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 Merton region featuring Principal Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (50.00%) Java
1 2 (50.00%) SOA
1 2 (50.00%) Progress
1 2 (50.00%) Sun Certification
1 2 (50.00%) Validation
1 2 (50.00%) Migration
1 2 (50.00%) Scrum
1 2 (50.00%) Agile
1 2 (50.00%) Spring
1 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (50.00%) Requirements Management
1 2 (50.00%) JIRA
1 2 (50.00%) Test Scripting
1 2 (50.00%) Kanban
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) Confluence
1 2 (50.00%) Node.js
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps
1 2 (50.00%) Microservices
1 2 (50.00%) Data Structures
1 2 (50.00%) Spring Boot
1 2 (50.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (50.00%) Service Design
1 2 (50.00%) Serverless
1 2 (50.00%) Systems Engineering
1 2 (50.00%) Containerisation

Principal Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Merton 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 2 (50.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (50.00%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) JIRA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Node.js
1 2 (50.00%) Spring
1 2 (50.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Agile
1 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps
1 2 (50.00%) Integration Patterns
1 2 (50.00%) Kanban
1 2 (50.00%) Microservices
1 2 (50.00%) Migration
1 2 (50.00%) Requirements Management
1 2 (50.00%) Roadmaps
1 2 (50.00%) Scrum
1 2 (50.00%) Service Design
1 2 (50.00%) SOA
1 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (50.00%) Systems Engineering
1 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (50.00%) Test Scripting
1 2 (50.00%) Validation
1 2 (50.00%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Sun Certification
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Progress