Principal Engineer Jobs in the South East

Principal Engineer
England > South East

The median Principal Engineer salary in the South East is £75,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 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
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 252 293 265
Rank change year-on-year +41 -28 +41
Permanent jobs requiring a Principal Engineer 143 125 238
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.86% 0.84% 1.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.91% 0.93% 1.24%
Number of salaries quoted 46 61 50
10th Percentile £60,500 £61,202 -
25th Percentile £62,813 £65,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £67,725
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +3.36% -3.25%
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £73,863
90th Percentile £90,000 £117,500 £90,125
England median annual salary £80,000 £84,500 £85,000
% change year-on-year -5.33% -0.59% +21.43%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the South East. 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 East with a recognized job title 15,676 13,491 19,184
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.90% 90.50% 96.41%
Number of salaries quoted 11,332 8,454 12,614
10th Percentile £27,500 £29,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%

Principal Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Principal Engineer in the South East

Principal Engineer
Salary Trend in the South East

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

Salary trend for Principal Engineer in the South East

Principal Engineer
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Principal Engineer in the South East over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Principal Engineer in the South East

Principal Engineer
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Principal Engineer within the South East region over the 6 months to 5 May 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
Thames Valley +11 70 £70,000 -3.45% 24
Hampshire +18 45 £75,000 +38.89% 19
Berkshire +1 29 £67,500 -38.64% 12
Oxfordshire +18 23 £75,000 +20.80% 8
Buckinghamshire -5 18 £75,000 +13.64% 4
Surrey -18 16 - - 10
Kent - 6 - - 5
East Sussex +19 3 - -
West Sussex - 2 £82,500 - 1
Sussex - 1 £80,000 -
Principal Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 5 May 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 South East region featuring Principal Engineer in the job title.

1 43 (30.07%) Technical Leadership
2 42 (29.37%) Roadmaps
3 39 (27.27%) Google
4 38 (26.57%) Mentoring
5 36 (25.17%) Technology Roadmap
6 35 (24.48%) Agile
7 32 (22.38%) Problem-Solving
8 31 (21.68%) DevOps
9 29 (20.28%) GCP
10 27 (18.88%) Data Engineering
10 27 (18.88%) Looker
10 27 (18.88%) Self-Motivation
10 27 (18.88%) BigQuery
10 27 (18.88%) Data Pipeline
10 27 (18.88%) Platform Engineering
11 24 (16.78%) DataOps
11 24 (16.78%) GDPR
11 24 (16.78%) Data Science
11 24 (16.78%) Analytical Skills
11 24 (16.78%) Degree
11 24 (16.78%) Change Management
12 22 (15.38%) Systems Engineering
13 21 (14.69%) Software Engineering
14 16 (11.19%) Social Skills
15 12 (8.39%) Dropbox
15 12 (8.39%) Google Drive
15 12 (8.39%) OneDrive
15 12 (8.39%) Mathematics
15 12 (8.39%) iPad
16 11 (7.69%) Azure

Principal Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (1.40%) JBoss
Business Applications
1 3 (2.10%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 29 (20.28%) GCP
2 12 (8.39%) Dropbox
2 12 (8.39%) Google Drive
2 12 (8.39%) OneDrive
3 11 (7.69%) Azure
4 7 (4.90%) AWS
5 5 (3.50%) Datadog
6 4 (2.80%) GitHub
7 3 (2.10%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (2.10%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (2.10%) Amazon S3
7 3 (2.10%) AWS Fargate
7 3 (2.10%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (2.10%) Azure AKS
7 3 (2.10%) Azure Functions
7 3 (2.10%) CloudFront
7 3 (2.10%) Serverless
8 2 (1.40%) Akamai
8 2 (1.40%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (1.40%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.20%) Wireless
2 5 (3.50%) 4G
3 2 (1.40%) 5G
4 1 (0.70%) 3GPP
4 1 (0.70%) 5G NR
4 1 (0.70%) Firewall
4 1 (0.70%) GSM
4 1 (0.70%) LTE
4 1 (0.70%) Software-Defined Radio
4 1 (0.70%) UMTS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (18.88%) BigQuery
1 27 (18.88%) Looker
2 3 (2.10%) Data Lake
3 2 (1.40%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.70%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.70%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.70%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (6.99%) Rational DOORS
2 4 (2.80%) Git
3 2 (1.40%) Subversion
4 1 (0.70%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.70%) TeamCity
General
1 24 (16.78%) Analytical Skills
2 16 (11.19%) Social Skills
3 9 (6.29%) Manufacturing
4 6 (4.20%) Automotive
5 5 (3.50%) Electronics
5 5 (3.50%) Telecoms
6 4 (2.80%) Finance
6 4 (2.80%) Military
7 2 (1.40%) Wearables
8 1 (0.70%) Games
8 1 (0.70%) Marketing
8 1 (0.70%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.40%) .NET
1 2 (1.40%) Spring
1 2 (1.40%) Spring Boot
2 1 (0.70%) Flutter
2 1 (0.70%) Node.js
2 1 (0.70%) React
Miscellaneous
1 27 (18.88%) Self-Motivation
2 12 (8.39%) iPad
3 6 (4.20%) FPGA
3 6 (4.20%) Management Information System
4 5 (3.50%) Hackathon
5 2 (1.40%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.40%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 2 (1.40%) VHDL
6 1 (0.70%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (0.70%) SIMD
6 1 (0.70%) Verilog
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.50%) Linux
2 4 (2.80%) Embedded Linux
3 3 (2.10%) Windows
4 1 (0.70%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (30.07%) Technical Leadership
2 42 (29.37%) Roadmaps
3 38 (26.57%) Mentoring
4 36 (25.17%) Technology Roadmap
5 35 (24.48%) Agile
6 32 (22.38%) Problem-Solving
7 31 (21.68%) DevOps
8 27 (18.88%) Data Engineering
8 27 (18.88%) Data Pipeline
8 27 (18.88%) Platform Engineering
9 24 (16.78%) Change Management
9 24 (16.78%) Data Science
9 24 (16.78%) DataOps
10 22 (15.38%) Systems Engineering
11 21 (14.69%) Software Engineering
12 12 (8.39%) Mathematics
13 11 (7.69%) Customer Requirements
14 10 (6.99%) Collaborative Working
15 7 (4.90%) IT Strategy
15 7 (4.90%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 9 (6.29%) Java
2 5 (3.50%) C
2 5 (3.50%) Scala
3 4 (2.80%) C++
3 4 (2.80%) Python
3 4 (2.80%) SQL
4 2 (1.40%) Perl
5 1 (0.70%) Assembly Language
5 1 (0.70%) Bash
5 1 (0.70%) Embedded C
5 1 (0.70%) Embedded C++
5 1 (0.70%) MATLAB
5 1 (0.70%) Ruby
5 1 (0.70%) Tcl
5 1 (0.70%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 24 (16.78%) Degree
2 10 (6.99%) Security Cleared
3 6 (4.20%) Master's Degree
4 2 (1.40%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.40%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (16.78%) GDPR
2 3 (2.10%) Data Quality
System Software
1 11 (7.69%) Firmware
2 3 (2.10%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.40%) Docker
4 1 (0.70%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (2.10%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 39 (27.27%) Google
2 7 (4.90%) Microsoft
3 2 (1.40%) ForgeRock
3 2 (1.40%) Oracle
3 2 (1.40%) Sitecore
3 2 (1.40%) Temenos
4 1 (0.70%) EMC
4 1 (0.70%) Intel
4 1 (0.70%) SAP
4 1 (0.70%) Xilinx