Principal Software Engineer Jobs in the South West

Principal Software Engineer
England > South West

The median Principal Software Engineer salary in the South West is £75,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 16 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
16 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 254 269 268
Rank change year-on-year +15 -1 -16
Permanent jobs requiring a Principal Software Engineer 31 11 49
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.34% 0.15% 0.62%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.36% 0.17% 0.65%
Number of salaries quoted 23 10 39
10th Percentile £63,500 £57,125 £58,000
25th Percentile - £70,000 £80,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £79,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.06% -7.06% +36.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £91,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £93,000 £92,500 -
England median annual salary £83,750 £83,500 £87,500
% change year-on-year +0.30% -4.57% -7.89%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the South West. 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 the South West with a recognized job title 8,646 6,610 7,595
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.14% 89.69% 96.41%
Number of salaries quoted 6,395 4,001 5,136
10th Percentile £28,000 £29,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £51,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £54,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% - +9.09%

Principal Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Principal Software Engineer in the South West

Principal Software Engineer
Salary Trend in the South West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Principal Software Engineer in the South West.

Salary trend for Principal Software Engineer in the South West

Principal Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Principal Software Engineer in the South West over the 6 months to 16 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Principal Software Engineer in the South West

Principal Software Engineer
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Principal Software Engineer within the South West region over the 6 months to 16 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
Dorset - 11 £80,000 - 2
Bristol +22 10 £70,000 +7.69% 4
Gloucestershire -4 10 £75,000 -7.41% 1
Principal Software Engineer
England

Principal Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West

For the 6 months to 16 April 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 South West region featuring Principal Software Engineer in the job title.

1 31 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 9 (29.03%) Security Cleared
2 9 (29.03%) Agile
2 9 (29.03%) C
3 8 (25.81%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (25.81%) Social Skills
3 8 (25.81%) C++
4 7 (22.58%) Java
4 7 (22.58%) Firmware
4 7 (22.58%) FPGA
4 7 (22.58%) Degree
4 7 (22.58%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (22.58%) Embedded Firmware
5 5 (16.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (16.13%) Customer-Centricity
5 5 (16.13%) AWS
5 5 (16.13%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (16.13%) SDLC
6 4 (12.90%) Kotlin
6 4 (12.90%) Swift
6 4 (12.90%) Mobile App
6 4 (12.90%) Mobile Application Development
6 4 (12.90%) iOS Development
6 4 (12.90%) Android
6 4 (12.90%) Apple iOS
6 4 (12.90%) Computer Science
6 4 (12.90%) Telecoms
6 4 (12.90%) Finance
6 4 (12.90%) Strategic Roadmap
6 4 (12.90%) Project Delivery

Principal Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 5 (16.13%) AWS
2 1 (3.23%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (3.23%) Azure
2 1 (3.23%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.23%) Bluetooth
1 1 (3.23%) OFDM
1 1 (3.23%) Software-Defined Radio
1 1 (3.23%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (3.23%) ZigBee
General
1 8 (25.81%) Social Skills
2 5 (16.13%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (16.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4 (12.90%) Finance
3 4 (12.90%) Telecoms
4 2 (6.45%) Military
5 1 (3.23%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.23%) .NET
1 1 (3.23%) .NET Framework
1 1 (3.23%) AngularJS
1 1 (3.23%) Flutter
1 1 (3.23%) Hibernate
1 1 (3.23%) PyTorch
1 1 (3.23%) Qt
1 1 (3.23%) React
1 1 (3.23%) Spring
1 1 (3.23%) Spring Boot
1 1 (3.23%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 8 (25.81%) Self-Motivation
2 7 (22.58%) FPGA
3 4 (12.90%) Mobile App
4 2 (6.45%) Acoustics
5 1 (3.23%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (12.90%) Android
1 4 (12.90%) Apple iOS
2 1 (3.23%) Embedded Linux
2 1 (3.23%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 9 (29.03%) Agile
3 7 (22.58%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (16.13%) Customer-Centricity
4 5 (16.13%) SDLC
5 4 (12.90%) Computer Science
5 4 (12.90%) iOS Development
5 4 (12.90%) Mobile Application Development
5 4 (12.90%) Project Delivery
5 4 (12.90%) Roadmaps
5 4 (12.90%) Strategic Roadmap
5 4 (12.90%) Systems Engineering
5 4 (12.90%) Work Breakdown Structure
6 3 (9.68%) Mentoring
7 2 (6.45%) Coaching
7 2 (6.45%) Configuration Management
7 2 (6.45%) Cybersecurity
7 2 (6.45%) Data Conversion
7 2 (6.45%) Line Management
7 2 (6.45%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 9 (29.03%) C
2 8 (25.81%) C++
3 7 (22.58%) Java
4 4 (12.90%) Kotlin
4 4 (12.90%) Swift
5 3 (9.68%) Python
5 3 (9.68%) TypeScript
6 1 (3.23%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 9 (29.03%) Security Cleared
2 7 (22.58%) Degree
3 3 (9.68%) DV Cleared
4 2 (6.45%) SC Cleared
5 1 (3.23%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.45%) Def Stans
1 2 (6.45%) IEC 61508
1 2 (6.45%) QA
System Software
1 7 (22.58%) Embedded Firmware
1 7 (22.58%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (3.23%) Ansible
1 1 (3.23%) Terraform