Principal Engineer Jobs in Milton Keynes

Principal Engineer
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The median Principal Engineer salary in Milton Keynes is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 June 2024.

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

6 months to
15 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 66 84 101
Rank change year-on-year +18 +17 -
Permanent jobs requiring a Principal Engineer 21 1 3
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 1.95% 0.12% 0.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.05% 0.13% 0.31%
Number of salaries quoted 7 1 3
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £68,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% +4.62% -
Buckinghamshire median annual salary £70,000 £64,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.38% -1.54% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Milton Keynes

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Milton Keynes. 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 Milton Keynes with a recognized job title 1,023 769 965
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.07% 94.59% 94.89%
Number of salaries quoted 687 540 627
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £34,324 £37,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% +4.00%
75th Percentile £60,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £77,500
Buckinghamshire median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.52% - +5.00%

Principal Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Job vacancy trend for Principal Engineer in Milton Keynes

Principal Engineer
Salary Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Salary trend for Principal Engineer in Milton Keynes

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

For the 6 months to 15 June 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 Milton Keynes region featuring Principal Engineer in the job title.

1 8 (38.10%) Technical Leadership
1 8 (38.10%) Technology Roadmap
1 8 (38.10%) Roadmaps
2 7 (33.33%) Aerospace
2 7 (33.33%) Google
3 4 (19.05%) Agile
3 4 (19.05%) Looker
3 4 (19.05%) Data Engineering
3 4 (19.05%) Mentoring
3 4 (19.05%) BigQuery
3 4 (19.05%) GCP
3 4 (19.05%) Platform Engineering
3 4 (19.05%) Data Pipeline
3 4 (19.05%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (14.29%) DataOps
4 3 (14.29%) Data Science
4 3 (14.29%) Dropbox
4 3 (14.29%) Google Drive
4 3 (14.29%) OneDrive
4 3 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (14.29%) DevOps
4 3 (14.29%) GDPR
4 3 (14.29%) iPad
4 3 (14.29%) Change Management
5 1 (4.76%) Scala
5 1 (4.76%) Data Governance
5 1 (4.76%) Process Improvement
5 1 (4.76%) Data Quality
5 1 (4.76%) Scrum

Principal Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Milton Keynes 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 4 (19.05%) GCP
2 3 (14.29%) Dropbox
2 3 (14.29%) Google Drive
2 3 (14.29%) OneDrive
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (19.05%) BigQuery
1 4 (19.05%) Looker
2 1 (4.76%) Data Lake
General
1 7 (33.33%) Aerospace
2 3 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 4 (19.05%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (14.29%) iPad
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (38.10%) Roadmaps
1 8 (38.10%) Technical Leadership
1 8 (38.10%) Technology Roadmap
2 4 (19.05%) Agile
2 4 (19.05%) Data Engineering
2 4 (19.05%) Data Pipeline
2 4 (19.05%) Mentoring
2 4 (19.05%) Platform Engineering
2 4 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (14.29%) Change Management
3 3 (14.29%) Data Science
3 3 (14.29%) DataOps
3 3 (14.29%) DevOps
4 1 (4.76%) Batch Management
4 1 (4.76%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (4.76%) Data Ingestion
4 1 (4.76%) Data Modelling
4 1 (4.76%) ETL
4 1 (4.76%) Scrum
4 1 (4.76%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.76%) Java
1 1 (4.76%) Python
1 1 (4.76%) Scala
1 1 (4.76%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (14.29%) GDPR
2 1 (4.76%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 7 (33.33%) Google