Principal Engineer Job Trends in St Albans

Principal Engineer
Hertfordshire > St Albans

The median Principal Engineer salary in St Albans is £85,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 December 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Principal Engineer 4 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in St Albans 4.82% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 5.13% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £82,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 - -
75th Percentile £87,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Hertfordshire median annual salary £60,000 - £82,500
% change year-on-year - - +37.50%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
St Albans

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in St Albans. 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 St Albans with a recognized job title 78 39 31
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.98% 79.59% 96.88%
Number of salaries quoted 58 12 30
10th Percentile £28,000 £42,375 £39,085
25th Percentile £46,438 £56,250 £45,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +33.33% -12.50%
75th Percentile £82,500 £95,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,750 £99,500 -
Hertfordshire median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +4.76%

Principal Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in St Albans

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Principal Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in St Albans.

Principal Engineer job vacancy trend in St Albans

Principal Engineer
Salary Trend in St Albans

Salary distribution trend for Principal Engineer job vacancies in St Albans.

Salary distribution trend for Principal Engineer job vacancies in St Albans

Principal Engineer Skill Set
Top 17 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in St Albans

For the 6 months to 1 December 2025, Principal Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the St Albans region featuring Principal Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) Software Architecture
3 2 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
3 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (50.00%) Decision-Making
3 2 (50.00%) Design Patterns
3 2 (50.00%) Event-Driven
3 2 (50.00%) High Availability
3 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (50.00%) Microservices
3 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (50.00%) Product Roadmap
3 2 (50.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
4 1 (25.00%) Azure
4 1 (25.00%) C#
4 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering

Principal Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in St Albans by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) Software Architecture
3 2 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
3 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (50.00%) Decision-Making
3 2 (50.00%) Design Patterns
3 2 (50.00%) Event-Driven
3 2 (50.00%) High Availability
3 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (50.00%) Microservices
3 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (50.00%) Product Roadmap
3 2 (50.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
4 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) C#