Principal Engineer Job Trends in Wokingham

Principal Engineer
Berkshire > Wokingham

The median Principal Engineer salary in Wokingham is £62,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 8 June 2026.

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

6 months to
8 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Principal Engineer 2 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Wokingham 1.41% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 1.52% - -
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £58,750 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 - -
75th Percentile £66,250 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median annual salary £68,750 £85,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -19.12% +25.93% -38.64%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Wokingham

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Wokingham. 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 Wokingham with a recognized job title 132 20 70
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.96% 57.14% 100.00%
Number of salaries quoted 104 17 62
10th Percentile - - £22,800
25th Percentile £40,000 £33,750 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +33.33% -31.82%
75th Percentile £66,250 £83,750 £55,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,000 £72,500
Berkshire median annual salary £55,000 £57,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -3.51% +8.57% -8.70%

Principal Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Wokingham

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 Wokingham.

Principal Engineer job vacancy trend in Wokingham

Principal Engineer
Salary Trend in Wokingham

Salary distribution trend for Principal Engineer job vacancies in Wokingham.

Salary distribution trend for Principal Engineer job vacancies in Wokingham

Principal Engineer Skill Set
Top 24 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wokingham

For the 6 months to 8 June 2026, 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 Wokingham region featuring Principal Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Argo
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) GitOps
1 2 (100.00%) Grafana
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Istio
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Kustomize
1 2 (100.00%) Loki
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
1 2 (100.00%) OpenShift
1 2 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Leadership

Principal Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wokingham 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 2 (100.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Loki
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) GitOps
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
1 2 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Argo
1 2 (100.00%) Grafana
1 2 (100.00%) Istio
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Kustomize
1 2 (100.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat