Principal Software Engineer Jobs in Merton

Principal Software Engineer
South London > Merton

The median Principal Software Engineer salary in Merton is £95,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 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
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 26 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Principal Software Engineer 2 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Merton 1.56% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 1.61% - -
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £92,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 - -
75th Percentile £97,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South London median annual salary £95,000 - £80,000

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 124 130 132
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.88% 94.89% 91.03%
Number of salaries quoted 51 40 63
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £32,000 £41,188 £37,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% -4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £73,750 £79,063 £80,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £92,500 -
South London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -14.53%

Principal Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Merton

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

Job vacancy trend for Principal Software Engineer in Merton

Principal Software Engineer
Salary Trend in Merton

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

Salary trend for Principal Software Engineer in Merton

Principal Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 26 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Merton

For the 6 months to 2 May 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 Merton region featuring Principal Software Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) SOA
1 2 (100.00%) Progress
1 2 (100.00%) Sun Certification
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Spring
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
1 2 (100.00%) Test Scripting
1 2 (100.00%) Kanban
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Confluence
1 2 (100.00%) Node.js
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Data Structures
1 2 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (100.00%) Service Design
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 2 (100.00%) Integration Patterns

Principal Software 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 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Node.js
1 2 (100.00%) Spring
1 2 (100.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Integration Patterns
1 2 (100.00%) Kanban
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) Service Design
1 2 (100.00%) SOA
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Sun Certification
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Progress