Principal Engineer Jobs in Yorkshire

Principal Engineer
England > Yorkshire

The median Principal Engineer salary in Yorkshire is £65,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 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
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 163 258 230
Rank change year-on-year +95 -28 -8
Permanent jobs requiring a Principal Engineer 56 48 52
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 0.97% 0.58% 0.72%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.02% 0.63% 0.75%
Number of salaries quoted 10 42 39
10th Percentile - £46,250 £58,750
25th Percentile - £67,188 £71,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.75% - +6.67%
75th Percentile - £87,500 £88,750
90th Percentile £66,000 £92,500 £110,500
England median annual salary £80,000 £84,500 £85,000
% change year-on-year -5.33% -0.59% +21.43%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Yorkshire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire. 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 Yorkshire with a recognized job title 5,501 7,569 6,928
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.32% 91.24% 96.36%
Number of salaries quoted 4,235 3,568 4,692
10th Percentile £27,000 £31,250 £28,189
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £54,882 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.72% +9.76% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £78,750
England median annual salary £54,000 £60,567 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.84% +0.95% +9.09%

Principal Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Job postings that featured Principal Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Principal Engineer in Yorkshire

Principal Engineer
Salary Trend in Yorkshire

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Principal Engineer in Yorkshire.

Salary trend for Principal Engineer in Yorkshire

Principal Engineer
Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Principal Engineer within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 25 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
West Yorkshire +84 32 £65,000 -20.00% 7
South Yorkshire - 14 £65,000 - 1
North Yorkshire +43 6 - - 2
East Yorkshire - 3 - -
Principal Engineer
England

Principal Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire

For the 6 months to 25 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 job ads across the Yorkshire region featuring Principal Engineer in the job title.

1 27 (48.21%) Google
2 21 (37.50%) Change Management
2 21 (37.50%) Agile
2 21 (37.50%) DevOps
2 21 (37.50%) Mentoring
2 21 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
2 21 (37.50%) BigQuery
2 21 (37.50%) GCP
2 21 (37.50%) Data Engineering
2 21 (37.50%) Looker
2 21 (37.50%) GDPR
2 21 (37.50%) Data Science
2 21 (37.50%) Self-Motivation
2 21 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
2 21 (37.50%) Data Pipeline
2 21 (37.50%) DataOps
2 21 (37.50%) Platform Engineering
3 18 (32.14%) Roadmaps
3 18 (32.14%) Technical Leadership
3 18 (32.14%) Technology Roadmap
4 10 (17.86%) Software Engineering
5 6 (10.71%) iPad
5 6 (10.71%) Dropbox
5 6 (10.71%) Google Drive
5 6 (10.71%) OneDrive
6 5 (8.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 3 (5.36%) .NET Core
7 3 (5.36%) C#
7 3 (5.36%) SQL
7 3 (5.36%) .NET

Principal Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 21 (37.50%) GCP
2 6 (10.71%) Dropbox
2 6 (10.71%) Google Drive
2 6 (10.71%) OneDrive
3 3 (5.36%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.57%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (37.50%) BigQuery
1 21 (37.50%) Looker
General
1 21 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (5.36%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.36%) .NET
1 3 (5.36%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 21 (37.50%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (10.71%) iPad
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (37.50%) Agile
1 21 (37.50%) Change Management
1 21 (37.50%) Data Engineering
1 21 (37.50%) Data Pipeline
1 21 (37.50%) Data Science
1 21 (37.50%) DataOps
1 21 (37.50%) DevOps
1 21 (37.50%) Mentoring
1 21 (37.50%) Platform Engineering
1 21 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
2 18 (32.14%) Roadmaps
2 18 (32.14%) Technical Leadership
2 18 (32.14%) Technology Roadmap
3 10 (17.86%) Software Engineering
4 5 (8.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (3.57%) Resource Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (5.36%) C#
1 3 (5.36%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (37.50%) GDPR
Vendors
1 27 (48.21%) Google