Principal Engineer Jobs in England

Principal Engineer
UK > England

The median Principal Engineer salary in England is £80,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 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
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 271 476 380
Rank change year-on-year +205 -96 +132
Permanent jobs requiring a Principal Engineer 895 528 1,321
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.03% 0.60% 0.98%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.09% 0.65% 1.02%
Number of salaries quoted 394 377 412
10th Percentile £60,000 £61,700 £60,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £85,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% - +21.43%
75th Percentile £93,750 £115,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £152,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £85,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% - +21.43%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 81,760 80,739 129,993
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.54% 91.52% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 60,876 51,417 74,746
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,125 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.83% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Principal Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Principal Engineer in England

Principal Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Principal Engineer in England

Principal Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Principal Engineer in England over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Principal Engineer in England

Principal Engineer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Principal Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 18 May 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
London +56 189 £92,500 -13.95% 78
North of England +128 163 £65,000 -14.75% 55
South West +84 162 £70,000 -12.50% 35
South East +44 155 £75,000 +7.14% 76
Midlands +88 119 £75,000 -9.09% 14
East of England +79 88 £77,500 +6.90% 64
North West +57 85 £65,000 -11.86% 48
West Midlands +66 63 £75,000 -31.82% 7
Yorkshire +103 58 £65,000 -18.75% 5
East Midlands +36 56 £75,000 -9.09% 7
North East +6 20 - - 2
Principal Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 18 May 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 England region featuring Principal Engineer in the job title.

1 209 (23.35%) Problem-Solving
2 203 (22.68%) Google
3 196 (21.90%) Mentoring
4 195 (21.79%) Agile
5 174 (19.44%) Data Engineering
6 173 (19.33%) DevOps
7 171 (19.11%) Roadmaps
7 171 (19.11%) GCP
8 167 (18.66%) Analytical Skills
9 164 (18.32%) Software Engineering
10 159 (17.77%) Self-Motivation
11 157 (17.54%) Data Pipeline
12 155 (17.32%) Platform Engineering
13 154 (17.21%) Data Science
14 153 (17.09%) Technical Leadership
14 153 (17.09%) Technology Roadmap
14 153 (17.09%) BigQuery
15 149 (16.65%) Looker
16 144 (16.09%) Change Management
17 143 (15.98%) GDPR
17 143 (15.98%) DataOps
18 131 (14.64%) Degree
19 117 (13.07%) Systems Engineering
20 96 (10.73%) AWS
21 88 (9.83%) Security Cleared
22 70 (7.82%) Social Skills
23 62 (6.93%) Java
24 60 (6.70%) Customer Service
25 57 (6.37%) Azure
26 52 (5.81%) Master's Degree

Principal Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 10 (1.12%) Confluence
2 6 (0.67%) Apache Spark
2 6 (0.67%) IIS
2 6 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (0.67%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.45%) Apache
4 1 (0.11%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.11%) CMS
4 1 (0.11%) JBoss
4 1 (0.11%) nginx
Applications
1 8 (0.89%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.22%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.22%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 171 (19.11%) GCP
2 96 (10.73%) AWS
3 57 (6.37%) Azure
4 42 (4.69%) Dropbox
4 42 (4.69%) Google Drive
4 42 (4.69%) OneDrive
5 19 (2.12%) Serverless
6 18 (2.01%) AWS Lambda
7 11 (1.23%) SaaS
8 8 (0.89%) Amazon EKS
9 6 (0.67%) Datadog
10 5 (0.56%) Amazon S3
10 5 (0.56%) Amazon SageMaker
10 5 (0.56%) Azure Machine Learning
11 4 (0.45%) Amazon ECS
11 4 (0.45%) AWS Fargate
11 4 (0.45%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (0.45%) Azure Functions
11 4 (0.45%) CloudFront
11 4 (0.45%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 15 (1.68%) Internet
1 15 (1.68%) LAN
1 15 (1.68%) WAN
2 13 (1.45%) Wireless
3 7 (0.78%) Firewall
4 6 (0.67%) TETRA
5 5 (0.56%) 4G
5 5 (0.56%) Bluetooth
5 5 (0.56%) Wi-Fi
6 4 (0.45%) Ethernet
6 4 (0.45%) MPLS
6 4 (0.45%) Network Security
6 4 (0.45%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.34%) BGP
7 3 (0.34%) IGMP
7 3 (0.34%) IPv6
7 3 (0.34%) OSPF
7 3 (0.34%) RIP
7 3 (0.34%) SNMP
7 3 (0.34%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 153 (17.09%) BigQuery
2 149 (16.65%) Looker
3 8 (0.89%) Data Lake
4 6 (0.67%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (0.56%) Big Data
6 4 (0.45%) Apache Hive
6 4 (0.45%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (0.45%) Hadoop
6 4 (0.45%) MongoDB
6 4 (0.45%) NoSQL
6 4 (0.45%) Redis
7 3 (0.34%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (0.34%) Neo4j
8 2 (0.22%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (0.22%) MySQL
8 2 (0.22%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.11%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.11%) HBase
9 1 (0.11%) Power BI
9 1 (0.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 16 (1.79%) Rational DOORS
2 10 (1.12%) JIRA
3 5 (0.56%) Git
3 5 (0.56%) Visual Studio
4 4 (0.45%) Cypress.io
4 4 (0.45%) Selenium
5 3 (0.34%) Android Studio
5 3 (0.34%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.34%) Postman
5 3 (0.34%) Rational Rhapsody
6 2 (0.22%) Subversion
7 1 (0.11%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.11%) TeamCity
General
1 167 (18.66%) Analytical Skills
2 70 (7.82%) Social Skills
3 43 (4.80%) Aerospace
4 39 (4.36%) Manufacturing
5 34 (3.80%) Finance
6 31 (3.46%) Electronics
7 24 (2.68%) Telecoms
8 14 (1.56%) Automotive
9 13 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 13 (1.45%) Marketing
10 12 (1.34%) Public Sector
11 10 (1.12%) Military
12 9 (1.01%) Banking
13 8 (0.89%) Health Technology
13 8 (0.89%) Legal
14 7 (0.78%) Aviation
14 7 (0.78%) Retail
15 6 (0.67%) Law
16 5 (0.56%) Aeronautics
16 5 (0.56%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (3.13%) Spring Boot
2 27 (3.02%) Spring
3 22 (2.46%) .NET
4 16 (1.79%) Kafka
4 16 (1.79%) React
5 15 (1.68%) Node.js
6 11 (1.23%) GraphQL
7 9 (1.01%) PyTorch
8 7 (0.78%) .NET Core
8 7 (0.78%) scikit-learn
8 7 (0.78%) TensorFlow
9 5 (0.56%) MXNet
10 4 (0.45%) CSS
11 3 (0.34%) Playwright
12 2 (0.22%) DPDK
12 2 (0.22%) eBPF
12 2 (0.22%) gRPC
12 2 (0.22%) Keras
12 2 (0.22%) LangChain
12 2 (0.22%) Quarkus
Miscellaneous
1 159 (17.77%) Self-Motivation
2 42 (4.69%) iPad
3 13 (1.45%) FPGA
4 12 (1.34%) Cloud Native
5 10 (1.12%) IoT
6 9 (1.01%) Data Structures
7 8 (0.89%) Management Information System
8 7 (0.78%) Algorithms
8 7 (0.78%) Embedded Systems
9 6 (0.67%) Data Centre
9 6 (0.67%) Mobile App
10 5 (0.56%) Hackathon
11 4 (0.45%) Renewable Energy
12 3 (0.34%) Distributed Systems
12 3 (0.34%) Enterprise Software
12 3 (0.34%) Greenfield Project
12 3 (0.34%) Smart City
12 3 (0.34%) VHDL
13 2 (0.22%) Legacy Applications
13 2 (0.22%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 23 (2.57%) Linux
2 14 (1.56%) Windows
3 7 (0.78%) Android
4 5 (0.56%) Embedded Linux
5 4 (0.45%) Apple iOS
5 4 (0.45%) Unix
6 2 (0.22%) VxWorks
7 1 (0.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 209 (23.35%) Problem-Solving
2 196 (21.90%) Mentoring
3 195 (21.79%) Agile
4 174 (19.44%) Data Engineering
5 173 (19.33%) DevOps
6 171 (19.11%) Roadmaps
7 164 (18.32%) Software Engineering
8 157 (17.54%) Data Pipeline
9 155 (17.32%) Platform Engineering
10 154 (17.21%) Data Science
11 153 (17.09%) Technical Leadership
11 153 (17.09%) Technology Roadmap
12 144 (16.09%) Change Management
13 143 (15.98%) DataOps
14 117 (13.07%) Systems Engineering
15 60 (6.70%) Customer Service
16 46 (5.14%) Project Delivery
17 45 (5.03%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 35 (3.91%) Microservices
19 34 (3.80%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 62 (6.93%) Java
2 51 (5.70%) Python
3 29 (3.24%) SQL
4 26 (2.91%) C
5 24 (2.68%) C#
5 24 (2.68%) Kotlin
6 22 (2.46%) TypeScript
7 19 (2.12%) C++
8 11 (1.23%) Scala
9 10 (1.12%) JavaScript
10 9 (1.01%) Go
11 6 (0.67%) Embedded C
12 4 (0.45%) Assembly Language
12 4 (0.45%) Ruby
12 4 (0.45%) Swift
13 3 (0.34%) R
14 2 (0.22%) Bash
14 2 (0.22%) Perl
14 2 (0.22%) Rust
14 2 (0.22%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 131 (14.64%) Degree
2 88 (9.83%) Security Cleared
3 52 (5.81%) Master's Degree
4 39 (4.36%) Chartered Engineer
5 29 (3.24%) DV Cleared
6 26 (2.91%) SC Cleared
7 15 (1.68%) HNC
8 10 (1.12%) Computer Science Degree
9 8 (0.89%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.34%) MCT
10 3 (0.34%) Sun Certification
11 2 (0.22%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.22%) CCIE
11 2 (0.22%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.22%) JNCIA
11 2 (0.22%) JNCIS
12 1 (0.11%) HND
12 1 (0.11%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 143 (15.98%) GDPR
2 9 (1.01%) QA
3 8 (0.89%) Data Quality
4 4 (0.45%) IEC 62304
4 4 (0.45%) ISO 13485
4 4 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 15288
5 2 (0.22%) Def Stans
5 2 (0.22%) IEC 61508
5 2 (0.22%) SLA
System Software
1 24 (2.68%) Firmware
2 10 (1.12%) Docker
3 9 (1.01%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.89%) Active Directory
4 8 (0.89%) Embedded Firmware
5 6 (0.67%) Forefront TMG
5 6 (0.67%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.67%) VMware Workstation
6 4 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.22%) VirtualBox
8 1 (0.11%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 20 (2.23%) Kubernetes
2 15 (1.68%) Terraform
3 6 (0.67%) SCOM
3 6 (0.67%) WSUS
4 2 (0.22%) Ansible
5 1 (0.11%) Puppet
Vendors
1 203 (22.68%) Google
2 41 (4.58%) EMC
3 24 (2.68%) Microsoft
4 15 (1.68%) Fortinet
4 15 (1.68%) Juniper
4 15 (1.68%) Sandvine
5 9 (1.01%) VMware
6 8 (0.89%) QinetiQ
7 6 (0.67%) Databricks
8 5 (0.56%) Dataiku
9 3 (0.34%) Progress
10 2 (0.22%) CheckPoint
10 2 (0.22%) Confluent
10 2 (0.22%) Forcepoint
10 2 (0.22%) ForgeRock
10 2 (0.22%) Oracle
10 2 (0.22%) SAP
10 2 (0.22%) Sitecore
11 1 (0.11%) SnapLogic
11 1 (0.11%) Xilinx