Principal Software Engineer Jobs in Birmingham

Principal Software Engineer
West Midlands > Birmingham

The median Principal Software Engineer salary in Birmingham is £92,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 10 June 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 149 - 185
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Principal Software Engineer 2 0 3
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.064% - 0.096%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.068% - 0.099%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £84,250 - -
25th Percentile £86,875 - £90,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £92,500 - £100,000
75th Percentile £96,875 - £110,000
90th Percentile £98,750 - -
West Midlands median annual salary £92,500 £60,000 £100,000
% change year-on-year +54.17% -40.00% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Birmingham

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Birmingham. 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 Birmingham with a recognized job title 2,951 1,663 3,016
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.61% 92.80% 96.20%
Number of salaries quoted 2,350 1,306 2,254
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £40,750 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.76%
75th Percentile £69,914 £70,713 £72,500
90th Percentile £84,964 £81,250 £85,000
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

Principal Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Principal Software Engineer in Birmingham

Principal Software Engineer
Salary Trend in Birmingham

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

Salary trend for Principal Software Engineer in Birmingham

Principal Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in Birmingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing Principal Software Engineer in Birmingham over the 6 months to 10 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Principal Software Engineer in Birmingham

Principal Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 13 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham

For the 6 months to 10 June 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 Birmingham region featuring Principal Software Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) TypeScript
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (50.00%) Retail
2 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence

Principal Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 1 (50.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
General
1 1 (50.00%) Retail
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared