Principal Engineer Jobs with Work from Home Options

Principal Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Principal Engineer salary in Work from Home is £85,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 400 395 483
Rank change year-on-year -5 +88 -76
Permanent jobs requiring a Principal Engineer 196 301 397
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.58% 0.70% 0.59%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.60% 0.72% 0.61%
Number of salaries quoted 114 265 222
10th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £74,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £90,000 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +2.86% +16.67%
75th Percentile £116,250 £135,000 £105,000
90th Percentile £125,000 £160,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £80,000 £83,500 £85,000
% change year-on-year -4.19% -1.76% +21.43%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 32,462 41,558 65,000
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.99% 96.10% 97.40%
Number of salaries quoted 24,940 29,452 41,851
10th Percentile £33,000 £36,503 £36,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,447 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.40% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £79,600
90th Percentile £92,500 £99,750 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,686 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.19% - +9.09%

Principal Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Principal Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Principal Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Principal Engineer
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Principal Engineer.

Principal Engineer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Principal Engineer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Principal Engineer over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Principal Engineer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Principal Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 26 April 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 jobs with remote work options featuring Principal Engineer in the job title.

1 88 (44.90%) Software Engineering
2 82 (41.84%) AWS
3 52 (26.53%) Python
3 52 (26.53%) Social Skills
4 50 (25.51%) Java
5 49 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
6 43 (21.94%) Cybersecurity
7 42 (21.43%) SaaS
8 41 (20.92%) Kubernetes
9 37 (18.88%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
9 37 (18.88%) Dell
9 37 (18.88%) Data Science
9 37 (18.88%) Threat Intelligence
10 35 (17.86%) Algorithms
10 35 (17.86%) Kafka
11 34 (17.35%) Agile
12 33 (16.84%) GraphQL
13 32 (16.33%) Data Structures
13 32 (16.33%) Computer Security
14 30 (15.31%) Security Cleared
14 30 (15.31%) Go
15 28 (14.29%) Apache Spark
15 28 (14.29%) Big Data
15 28 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 27 (13.78%) Hadoop
16 27 (13.78%) GCP
17 26 (13.27%) Redis
17 26 (13.27%) Amazon SQS
18 25 (12.76%) Analytics
18 25 (12.76%) Amazon S3

Principal Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 28 (14.29%) Apache Spark
2 7 (3.57%) Confluence
3 6 (3.06%) IIS
3 6 (3.06%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (3.06%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.53%) Apache
5 1 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 6 (3.06%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 82 (41.84%) AWS
2 42 (21.43%) SaaS
3 27 (13.78%) GCP
4 26 (13.27%) Amazon SQS
5 25 (12.76%) Amazon S3
6 23 (11.73%) Google Docs
6 23 (11.73%) Lucidchart
6 23 (11.73%) Miro
6 23 (11.73%) Slack
7 17 (8.67%) Azure
8 7 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (3.57%) Serverless
9 3 (1.53%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (1.53%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (1.02%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (1.02%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (1.02%) AWS Fargate
10 2 (1.02%) Azure AKS
10 2 (1.02%) Azure Functions
10 2 (1.02%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.04%) Network Security
1 4 (2.04%) Wireless
2 3 (1.53%) BGP
2 3 (1.53%) IGMP
2 3 (1.53%) IPv6
2 3 (1.53%) Multicast
2 3 (1.53%) OSPF
2 3 (1.53%) RIP
2 3 (1.53%) SNMP
2 3 (1.53%) VLAN
2 3 (1.53%) VoIP
2 3 (1.53%) VRRP
3 2 (1.02%) Ethernet
3 2 (1.02%) NGN
3 2 (1.02%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.51%) Bluetooth
4 1 (0.51%) OFDM
4 1 (0.51%) Software-Defined Radio
4 1 (0.51%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.51%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (14.29%) Big Data
2 27 (13.78%) Hadoop
3 26 (13.27%) Redis
4 25 (12.76%) Elasticsearch
5 23 (11.73%) Scylla
6 7 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (1.53%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (1.53%) Apache Hive
7 3 (1.53%) MongoDB
7 3 (1.53%) Neo4j
8 2 (1.02%) MySQL
9 1 (0.51%) Apache Accumulo
9 1 (0.51%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.51%) Flink
9 1 (0.51%) HBase
9 1 (0.51%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.51%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (3.57%) JIRA
2 4 (2.04%) Cypress.io
3 3 (1.53%) Android Studio
3 3 (1.53%) Postman
3 3 (1.53%) Rational DOORS
3 3 (1.53%) Rational Rhapsody
3 3 (1.53%) Selenium
3 3 (1.53%) Visual Studio
4 2 (1.02%) Git
5 1 (0.51%) JUnit
General
1 52 (26.53%) Social Skills
2 28 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 22 (11.22%) Aerospace
4 15 (7.65%) Manufacturing
5 12 (6.12%) Finance
6 10 (5.10%) Legal
7 6 (3.06%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (3.06%) Tech for Good
7 6 (3.06%) Telecoms
8 4 (2.04%) Marketing
9 3 (1.53%) Automotive
9 3 (1.53%) Games
9 3 (1.53%) Public Sector
10 2 (1.02%) Banking
10 2 (1.02%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.51%) Aviation
11 1 (0.51%) Digital Healthcare
11 1 (0.51%) Electronics
11 1 (0.51%) Law
11 1 (0.51%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (17.86%) Kafka
2 33 (16.84%) GraphQL
3 16 (8.16%) React
4 15 (7.65%) .NET
5 14 (7.14%) Spring
5 14 (7.14%) Spring Boot
6 10 (5.10%) Node.js
7 3 (1.53%) CSS
7 3 (1.53%) Playwright
7 3 (1.53%) RESTful
7 3 (1.53%) WinForms
8 2 (1.02%) .NET Core
8 2 (1.02%) Apache NiFi
8 2 (1.02%) DPDK
8 2 (1.02%) eBPF
8 2 (1.02%) gRPC
8 2 (1.02%) Keras
8 2 (1.02%) LAMP
8 2 (1.02%) PyTorch
9 1 (0.51%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 35 (17.86%) Algorithms
2 32 (16.33%) Data Structures
3 25 (12.76%) Cloud Native
4 11 (5.61%) Virtual Team
5 9 (4.59%) Product Ownership
6 6 (3.06%) IoT
6 6 (3.06%) Management Information System
7 4 (2.04%) Enterprise Storage
7 4 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.53%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.53%) Smart City
9 2 (1.02%) Digital Currency
9 2 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.02%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.51%) CUDA
10 1 (0.51%) Distributed Systems
10 1 (0.51%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.51%) Ray Tracing
10 1 (0.51%) SIMD
10 1 (0.51%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 22 (11.22%) Linux
2 15 (7.65%) Windows
3 9 (4.59%) Mac OS
4 4 (2.04%) Mac OS X
5 3 (1.53%) Android
6 2 (1.02%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.51%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (44.90%) Software Engineering
2 49 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 43 (21.94%) Cybersecurity
4 37 (18.88%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 37 (18.88%) Data Science
4 37 (18.88%) Threat Intelligence
5 34 (17.35%) Agile
6 32 (16.33%) Computer Security
7 25 (12.76%) Analytics
8 24 (12.24%) Data Strategy
8 24 (12.24%) User Experience
9 23 (11.73%) High Availability
9 23 (11.73%) Roadmaps
9 23 (11.73%) UX Research
10 22 (11.22%) Microservices
11 21 (10.71%) TDD
12 20 (10.20%) Technical Leadership
13 19 (9.69%) Mentoring
14 18 (9.18%) Computer Science
15 17 (8.67%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 52 (26.53%) Python
2 50 (25.51%) Java
3 30 (15.31%) Go
4 25 (12.76%) Bash
5 24 (12.24%) Scala
6 18 (9.18%) TypeScript
7 15 (7.65%) Kotlin
8 13 (6.63%) C#
9 9 (4.59%) SQL
10 6 (3.06%) C
10 6 (3.06%) JavaScript
11 4 (2.04%) Assembly Language
12 3 (1.53%) R
13 2 (1.02%) C++
14 1 (0.51%) Fortran
14 1 (0.51%) Perl
14 1 (0.51%) PHP
14 1 (0.51%) Ruby
14 1 (0.51%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.51%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 30 (15.31%) Security Cleared
2 24 (12.24%) Degree
3 9 (4.59%) DV Cleared
4 7 (3.57%) Master's Degree
5 6 (3.06%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (3.06%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.53%) MCT
6 3 (1.53%) Sun Certification
7 1 (0.51%) Chartered Engineer
7 1 (0.51%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.06%) QA
2 1 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 15288
System Software
1 6 (3.06%) Active Directory
1 6 (3.06%) Docker
1 6 (3.06%) Forefront TMG
1 6 (3.06%) Hyper-V
1 6 (3.06%) VMware Infrastructure
1 6 (3.06%) VMware Workstation
2 2 (1.02%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 41 (20.92%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.06%) SCOM
2 6 (3.06%) Terraform
2 6 (3.06%) WSUS
3 4 (2.04%) Ansible
3 4 (2.04%) vRealize
3 4 (2.04%) vRealize Orchestrator
4 1 (0.51%) Rancher
Vendors
1 37 (18.88%) Dell
2 25 (12.76%) Google
3 7 (3.57%) Microsoft
4 6 (3.06%) VMware
5 4 (2.04%) Atlassian
6 3 (1.53%) Progress
7 2 (1.02%) EMC
7 2 (1.02%) ForgeRock
7 2 (1.02%) Sitecore
8 1 (0.51%) Intel
8 1 (0.51%) Oracle
8 1 (0.51%) StreamSets