Principal Engineer Jobs in Northern Ireland

Principal Engineer
UK > Northern Ireland

As of 1 May 2025, there is not enough information available from job vacancies posted within the last 6 months to determine the median Principal Engineer salary in Northern Ireland.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 70 95
Rank change year-on-year +39 +25 -
Permanent jobs requiring a Principal Engineer 6 2 3
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 2.08% 0.29% 0.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.25% 0.30% 0.36%
Number of salaries quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £80,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +14.29% -
75th Percentile - - £75,000
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £65,000 £80,000 £83,500
% change year-on-year -18.75% -4.19% -1.76%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Northern Ireland

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Northern Ireland. 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 Northern Ireland with a recognized job title 267 661 826
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.71% 95.52% 95.16%
Number of salaries quoted 72 321 450
10th Percentile £23,854 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £34,112 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,250 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% +10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £70,313 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £66,025
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,777 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.95% -12.04% -

Principal Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Job vacancy trend for Principal Engineer in Northern Ireland

Principal Engineer
Salary Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Salary trend for Principal Engineer in Northern Ireland

Principal Engineer
Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Principal Engineer within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
County Antrim +44 6 - - 5
Principal Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 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 Northern Ireland region featuring Principal Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) DNS
1 6 (100.00%) IPv6
1 6 (100.00%) Firewall
1 6 (100.00%) QA
1 6 (100.00%) Reverse Proxy
1 6 (100.00%) Azure
1 6 (100.00%) Social Skills
1 6 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (66.67%) User Stories
2 4 (66.67%) Requirements Gathering
2 4 (66.67%) Presentation Skills
2 4 (66.67%) Software Architecture
2 4 (66.67%) HTML5
2 4 (66.67%) Business Process Improvement
2 4 (66.67%) Unit Testing
2 4 (66.67%) Integration Testing
2 4 (66.67%) Degree
2 4 (66.67%) Computer Science
2 4 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 4 (66.67%) Artificial Intelligence
2 4 (66.67%) Software Engineering
2 4 (66.67%) Video\Live Streaming
2 4 (66.67%) Scrum
2 4 (66.67%) Information Security
2 4 (66.67%) PhD
2 4 (66.67%) HTML
2 4 (66.67%) Node.js
2 4 (66.67%) Process Improvement
2 4 (66.67%) WebRTC
2 4 (66.67%) Sass

Principal Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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 (33.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) Amazon ECR
2 2 (33.33%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (33.33%) Azure AKS
2 2 (33.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 2 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) Azure Event Grid
2 2 (33.33%) GCP
2 2 (33.33%) GitHub
2 2 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (100.00%) DNS
1 6 (100.00%) Firewall
1 6 (100.00%) IPv6
1 6 (100.00%) Reverse Proxy
2 2 (33.33%) Multicast
2 2 (33.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Apache Archiva
1 2 (33.33%) Artifactory
1 2 (33.33%) Bitbucket
1 2 (33.33%) Git
1 2 (33.33%) GitLab
1 2 (33.33%) Sonatype Nexus
1 2 (33.33%) Vagrant
General
1 6 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (66.67%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) AngularJS
1 4 (66.67%) HTML
1 4 (66.67%) HTML5
1 4 (66.67%) Node.js
1 4 (66.67%) Sass
1 4 (66.67%) WebRTC
2 2 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (33.33%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Video\Live Streaming
2 2 (33.33%) PKI
2 2 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Linux
1 2 (33.33%) VMS
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (66.67%) Artificial Intelligence
2 4 (66.67%) Business Process Improvement
2 4 (66.67%) Computer Science
2 4 (66.67%) Information Security
2 4 (66.67%) Integration Testing
2 4 (66.67%) Process Improvement
2 4 (66.67%) Requirements Gathering
2 4 (66.67%) Scrum
2 4 (66.67%) SDLC
2 4 (66.67%) Software Architecture
2 4 (66.67%) Software Engineering
2 4 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 4 (66.67%) Unit Testing
2 4 (66.67%) User Stories
3 2 (33.33%) Customer-Centricity
3 2 (33.33%) GitOps
3 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (33.33%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) TypeScript
2 2 (33.33%) Bash
2 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 2 (33.33%) Python
2 2 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (66.67%) Degree
1 4 (66.67%) Master's Degree
1 4 (66.67%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Ansible
1 2 (33.33%) Argo
1 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 2 (33.33%) Kustomize
1 2 (33.33%) Prometheus
1 2 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Veracode