Principal Software Engineer Jobs with Work from Home Options

Principal Software Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Principal Software Engineer salary in Work from Home is £75,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 15 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
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 498 581 678
Rank change year-on-year +83 +97 -160
Permanent jobs requiring a Principal Software Engineer 88 65 170
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.26% 0.16% 0.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% 0.17% 0.25%
Number of salaries quoted 48 61 85
10th Percentile £63,500 £55,000 £66,600
25th Percentile £66,875 £73,750 £76,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £90,000 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +2.86% +40.00%
75th Percentile £107,813 £111,250 £100,000
90th Percentile £117,000 £160,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £85,000 £84,500 £87,500
% change year-on-year +0.59% -3.43% +9.38%

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 32,407 39,036 68,066
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.06% 95.93% 97.36%
Number of salaries quoted 24,817 27,718 41,828
10th Percentile £33,250 £36,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,375 £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 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Principal Software Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Principal Software Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Principal Software 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 Software Engineer.

Principal Software Engineer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Principal Software Engineer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Principal Software Engineer over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Principal Software Engineer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 15 May 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 jobs with remote work options featuring Principal Software Engineer in the job title.

1 88 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 44 (50.00%) AWS
3 38 (43.18%) Java
4 37 (42.05%) Social Skills
5 33 (37.50%) Data Science
6 32 (36.36%) Threat Intelligence
6 32 (36.36%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
6 32 (36.36%) Dell
6 32 (36.36%) SaaS
6 32 (36.36%) Cybersecurity
7 31 (35.23%) Computer Security
7 31 (35.23%) Python
8 30 (34.09%) Kubernetes
9 28 (31.82%) Data Structures
10 27 (30.68%) Problem-Solving
11 26 (29.55%) Apache Spark
12 25 (28.41%) GCP
12 25 (28.41%) Algorithms
12 25 (28.41%) Elasticsearch
12 25 (28.41%) Big Data
12 25 (28.41%) Redis
12 25 (28.41%) Bash
12 25 (28.41%) Google
13 24 (27.27%) Scala
13 24 (27.27%) Hadoop
13 24 (27.27%) Kafka
13 24 (27.27%) Go
13 24 (27.27%) User Experience
14 23 (26.14%) Lucidchart
14 23 (26.14%) Amazon S3

Principal Software 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 26 (29.55%) Apache Spark
2 3 (3.41%) Confluence
3 2 (2.27%) Apache
4 1 (1.14%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 44 (50.00%) AWS
2 32 (36.36%) SaaS
3 25 (28.41%) GCP
4 23 (26.14%) Amazon S3
4 23 (26.14%) Amazon SQS
4 23 (26.14%) Google Docs
4 23 (26.14%) Lucidchart
4 23 (26.14%) Miro
4 23 (26.14%) Slack
5 7 (7.95%) Azure
6 4 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (4.55%) Serverless
7 2 (2.27%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (1.14%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.27%) Ethernet
1 2 (2.27%) NGN
1 2 (2.27%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.14%) 5G
2 1 (1.14%) Bluetooth
2 1 (1.14%) OFDM
2 1 (1.14%) Software-Defined Radio
2 1 (1.14%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (1.14%) Wireless
2 1 (1.14%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (28.41%) Big Data
1 25 (28.41%) Elasticsearch
1 25 (28.41%) Redis
2 24 (27.27%) Hadoop
3 23 (26.14%) Scylla
4 4 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.14%) Apache Accumulo
5 1 (1.14%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (1.14%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.14%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.14%) Flink
5 1 (1.14%) HBase
5 1 (1.14%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (3.41%) JIRA
2 1 (1.14%) JUnit
General
1 37 (42.05%) Social Skills
2 22 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4 (4.55%) Tech for Good
3 4 (4.55%) Telecoms
4 3 (3.41%) Aerospace
5 2 (2.27%) Finance
6 1 (1.14%) Aviation
6 1 (1.14%) Legal
6 1 (1.14%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (27.27%) Kafka
2 23 (26.14%) GraphQL
3 16 (18.18%) React
4 14 (15.91%) .NET
5 11 (12.50%) Node.js
6 6 (6.82%) Spring
6 6 (6.82%) Spring Boot
7 3 (3.41%) Apache NiFi
7 3 (3.41%) RESTful
7 3 (3.41%) WinForms
8 2 (2.27%) .NET Core
8 2 (2.27%) DPDK
8 2 (2.27%) eBPF
9 1 (1.14%) Flutter
9 1 (1.14%) Keras
9 1 (1.14%) Micronaut
9 1 (1.14%) PyTorch
9 1 (1.14%) Quarkus
9 1 (1.14%) Vue
9 1 (1.14%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 28 (31.82%) Data Structures
2 25 (28.41%) Algorithms
3 9 (10.23%) Cloud Native
4 8 (9.09%) Virtual Team
5 4 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (3.41%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.14%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.14%) Educational Technology
7 1 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.14%) SIMD
Operating Systems
1 11 (12.50%) Linux
2 8 (9.09%) Mac OS
2 8 (9.09%) Windows
3 2 (2.27%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 33 (37.50%) Data Science
3 32 (36.36%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 32 (36.36%) Cybersecurity
3 32 (36.36%) Threat Intelligence
4 31 (35.23%) Computer Security
5 27 (30.68%) Problem-Solving
6 24 (27.27%) User Experience
7 23 (26.14%) High Availability
7 23 (26.14%) UX Research
8 22 (25.00%) Agile
9 13 (14.77%) Microservices
10 12 (13.64%) Test Automation
11 11 (12.50%) Roadmaps
11 11 (12.50%) TDD
12 10 (11.36%) Analytics
13 9 (10.23%) Data Strategy
13 9 (10.23%) Kalman Filter
13 9 (10.23%) Multithreading
14 8 (9.09%) Component Testing
Programming Languages
1 38 (43.18%) Java
2 31 (35.23%) Python
3 25 (28.41%) Bash
4 24 (27.27%) Go
4 24 (27.27%) Scala
5 14 (15.91%) C#
6 10 (11.36%) Kotlin
7 9 (10.23%) TypeScript
8 6 (6.82%) C
9 5 (5.68%) JavaScript
10 3 (3.41%) Assembly Language
11 1 (1.14%) C++
11 1 (1.14%) Perl
11 1 (1.14%) PHP
11 1 (1.14%) Ruby
11 1 (1.14%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 10 (11.36%) Security Cleared
2 9 (10.23%) Degree
3 4 (4.55%) SC Cleared
4 3 (3.41%) DV Cleared
4 3 (3.41%) Sun Certification
5 1 (1.14%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 3 (3.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 30 (34.09%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.14%) Rancher
2 1 (1.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 32 (36.36%) Dell
2 25 (28.41%) Google
3 3 (3.41%) Progress
4 1 (1.14%) Intel
4 1 (1.14%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.14%) StreamSets