Principal Software Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Principal Software Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Principal Software Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £75,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 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
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 600 688 627
Rank change year-on-year +88 -61 -10
Permanent jobs requiring a Principal Software Engineer 146 74 228
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.21% 0.12% 0.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.13% 0.34%
Number of salaries quoted 73 60 76
10th Percentile - £46,250 £57,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £54,688 £68,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,250 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -9.12% +36.00%
75th Percentile £84,000 £86,250 £93,750
90th Percentile £99,950 £92,750 -
UK median annual salary £85,000 £82,500 £86,250
% change year-on-year +3.03% -4.35% +4.55%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 65,759 56,227 67,484
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.79% 89.40% 95.76%
Number of salaries quoted 46,939 31,686 43,278
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,650 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,750 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £53,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.67% - +9.09%

Principal Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Principal Software Engineer in the UK excluding London

Principal Software Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Principal Software Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Principal Software Engineer in the UK excluding London

Principal Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Principal Software Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 18 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Principal Software Engineer in the UK excluding London

Principal Software Engineer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 18 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
Scotland -3 61 £100,000 +29.03% 1
South West +7 31 £75,000 -5.06% 7
North of England +51 19 £65,000 +23.81% 2
South East +39 19 £75,000 -9.09% 10
Yorkshire +78 10 £65,000 +23.81%
North West +8 9 £65,000 -13.33% 2
East of England +31 8 £77,500 - 7
Midlands +3 6 £85,000 +3.03% 3
East Midlands -20 5 £85,000 +3.03% 2
Wales - 2 - -
West Midlands +40 1 £85,000 +41.67% 1
Principal Software Engineer
UK

Principal Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 18 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 UK excluding London region featuring Principal Software Engineer in the job title.

1 146 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 56 (38.36%) AWS
3 51 (34.93%) Data Science
4 49 (33.56%) Python
5 46 (31.51%) Java
6 44 (30.14%) Social Skills
6 44 (30.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 43 (29.45%) Agile
8 35 (23.97%) Cybersecurity
9 33 (22.60%) Dell
9 33 (22.60%) Threat Intelligence
9 33 (22.60%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
10 32 (21.92%) Problem-Solving
10 32 (21.92%) SaaS
10 32 (21.92%) Computer Security
11 31 (21.23%) SDLC
12 29 (19.86%) Kubernetes
13 28 (19.18%) Cloud Native
13 28 (19.18%) Analytics
14 26 (17.81%) GCP
15 25 (17.12%) Data Structures
15 25 (17.12%) Algorithms
15 25 (17.12%) Coaching
15 25 (17.12%) User Experience
15 25 (17.12%) Kafka
15 25 (17.12%) Elasticsearch
15 25 (17.12%) Bash
16 24 (16.44%) Scala
16 24 (16.44%) Hadoop
16 24 (16.44%) Computer Science

Principal Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 24 (16.44%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.37%) JBoss
Business Applications
1 3 (2.05%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 56 (38.36%) AWS
2 32 (21.92%) SaaS
3 26 (17.81%) GCP
4 23 (15.75%) Amazon S3
4 23 (15.75%) Amazon SQS
4 23 (15.75%) Google Docs
4 23 (15.75%) Lucidchart
4 23 (15.75%) Miro
4 23 (15.75%) Slack
5 19 (13.01%) Azure
6 5 (3.42%) Datadog
7 2 (1.37%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (1.37%) Serverless
8 1 (0.68%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.42%) Bluetooth
1 5 (3.42%) Wi-Fi
1 5 (3.42%) Wireless
2 2 (1.37%) Ethernet
2 2 (1.37%) NGN
2 2 (1.37%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.68%) 5G
3 1 (0.68%) OFDM
3 1 (0.68%) Software-Defined Radio
3 1 (0.68%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (17.12%) Elasticsearch
2 24 (16.44%) Big Data
2 24 (16.44%) Hadoop
2 24 (16.44%) Redis
3 23 (15.75%) Scylla
4 3 (2.05%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.37%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.37%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.68%) Apache Accumulo
6 1 (0.68%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.68%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.68%) Flink
6 1 (0.68%) HBase
6 1 (0.68%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (0.68%) Cucumber
1 1 (0.68%) Cypress.io
1 1 (0.68%) Jenkins
1 1 (0.68%) JUnit
1 1 (0.68%) Selenium
General
1 44 (30.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 44 (30.14%) Social Skills
2 24 (16.44%) Finance
3 19 (13.01%) Games
4 18 (12.33%) Banking
4 18 (12.33%) Financial Institution
4 18 (12.33%) Investment Banking
4 18 (12.33%) Law
4 18 (12.33%) Marketing
4 18 (12.33%) Presentation Skills
5 5 (3.42%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (3.42%) Retail
6 4 (2.74%) Electronics
6 4 (2.74%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.37%) Military
7 2 (1.37%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.37%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (17.12%) Kafka
2 23 (15.75%) GraphQL
3 11 (7.53%) .NET
4 7 (4.79%) React
5 6 (4.11%) Node.js
6 5 (3.42%) .NET Core
7 2 (1.37%) DPDK
7 2 (1.37%) eBPF
7 2 (1.37%) Flutter
7 2 (1.37%) Hibernate
7 2 (1.37%) RESTful
7 2 (1.37%) Spring
7 2 (1.37%) Spring Boot
8 1 (0.68%) .NET Framework
8 1 (0.68%) AngularJS
8 1 (0.68%) Apache NiFi
8 1 (0.68%) PyTorch
8 1 (0.68%) Qt
8 1 (0.68%) Vue
8 1 (0.68%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 28 (19.18%) Cloud Native
2 25 (17.12%) Algorithms
2 25 (17.12%) Data Structures
3 9 (6.16%) Virtual Team
4 8 (5.48%) Self-Motivation
5 7 (4.79%) FPGA
6 5 (3.42%) Embedded Systems
6 5 (3.42%) Hackathon
7 4 (2.74%) IoT
7 4 (2.74%) Mobile App
7 4 (2.74%) Renewable Energy
8 2 (1.37%) Acoustics
8 2 (1.37%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.37%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 1 (0.68%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.68%) Educational Technology
9 1 (0.68%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.68%) SIMD
Operating Systems
1 18 (12.33%) Linux
2 9 (6.16%) Mac OS
2 9 (6.16%) Windows
3 4 (2.74%) Android
3 4 (2.74%) Apple iOS
3 4 (2.74%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 146 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 51 (34.93%) Data Science
3 43 (29.45%) Agile
4 35 (23.97%) Cybersecurity
5 33 (22.60%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
5 33 (22.60%) Threat Intelligence
6 32 (21.92%) Computer Security
6 32 (21.92%) Problem-Solving
7 31 (21.23%) SDLC
8 28 (19.18%) Analytics
9 25 (17.12%) Coaching
9 25 (17.12%) User Experience
10 24 (16.44%) Computer Science
10 24 (16.44%) High Availability
11 23 (15.75%) UX Research
12 21 (14.38%) Machine Learning
13 20 (13.70%) Artificial Intelligence
13 20 (13.70%) Mathematics
14 18 (12.33%) Asset Management
14 18 (12.33%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 49 (33.56%) Python
2 46 (31.51%) Java
3 25 (17.12%) Bash
4 24 (16.44%) Go
4 24 (16.44%) Scala
5 18 (12.33%) C
6 12 (8.22%) C++
7 10 (6.85%) C#
8 6 (4.11%) TypeScript
9 5 (3.42%) Kotlin
9 5 (3.42%) SQL
10 4 (2.74%) Embedded C
10 4 (2.74%) Swift
11 3 (2.05%) Assembly Language
12 2 (1.37%) JavaScript
12 2 (1.37%) Perl
13 1 (0.68%) PHP
13 1 (0.68%) Ruby
13 1 (0.68%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 10 (6.85%) Degree
1 10 (6.85%) Security Cleared
2 4 (2.74%) DV Cleared
3 2 (1.37%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.68%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.74%) IEC 62304
1 4 (2.74%) ISO 13485
2 2 (1.37%) Def Stans
2 2 (1.37%) IEC 61508
2 2 (1.37%) QA
System Software
1 8 (5.48%) Embedded Firmware
1 8 (5.48%) Firmware
2 3 (2.05%) Docker
Systems Management
1 29 (19.86%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.05%) Terraform
3 2 (1.37%) Ansible
4 1 (0.68%) Rancher
Vendors
1 33 (22.60%) Dell
2 24 (16.44%) Google
3 6 (4.11%) Microsoft
4 2 (1.37%) Oracle
4 2 (1.37%) Temenos
5 1 (0.68%) Intel
5 1 (0.68%) StreamSets