Principal Engineer Jobs in Hampshire

Principal Engineer
South East > Hampshire

The median Principal Engineer salary in Hampshire is £75,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 June 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
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 141 161 151
Rank change year-on-year +20 -10 -1
Permanent jobs requiring a Principal Engineer 53 3 110
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hampshire 1.22% 0.11% 2.04%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.29% 0.11% 2.10%
Number of salaries quoted 29 3 6
10th Percentile - - £66,875
25th Percentile £60,000 £41,250 £80,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £47,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +57.89% -44.12% +21.43%
75th Percentile £90,000 £58,750 £108,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £61,750 £115,000
South East median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £67,725
% change year-on-year - +3.36% -3.25%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Hampshire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Hampshire. 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 Hampshire with a recognized job title 4,122 2,625 5,241
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.72% 94.22% 97.18%
Number of salaries quoted 3,205 1,989 3,554
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,500 £29,075
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +1.90% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £80,650 £81,250
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%

Principal Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Principal Engineer in Hampshire

Principal Engineer
Salary Trend in Hampshire

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

Salary trend for Principal Engineer in Hampshire

Principal Engineer
Salary Histogram in Hampshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Principal Engineer in Hampshire over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Principal Engineer in Hampshire

Principal Engineer
Job Locations in Hampshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Principal Engineer within the Hampshire region over the 6 months to 2 June 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
Southampton - 20 £78,750 - 1
Portsmouth - 13 £90,000 -
Lymington - 3 £70,000 -
Basingstoke - 3 £95,000 - 1
Fareham - 1 £70,000 -
Principal Engineer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 2 June 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 Hampshire region featuring Principal Engineer in the job title.

1 9 (16.98%) Software Engineering
2 8 (15.09%) Collaborative Working
2 8 (15.09%) Technical Leadership
2 8 (15.09%) Technology Roadmap
2 8 (15.09%) Roadmaps
3 7 (13.21%) Synthetic Environment
3 7 (13.21%) Mentoring
3 7 (13.21%) Military
4 6 (11.32%) Degree
4 6 (11.32%) Google
4 6 (11.32%) C++
4 6 (11.32%) Mathematics
4 6 (11.32%) Azure
4 6 (11.32%) Systems Engineering
5 5 (9.43%) Customer Requirements
5 5 (9.43%) Acceptance Criteria
5 5 (9.43%) Physics
5 5 (9.43%) Git
5 5 (9.43%) GitHub
5 5 (9.43%) DevOps
5 5 (9.43%) Java
5 5 (9.43%) .NET
5 5 (9.43%) Requirements Management
6 4 (7.55%) Electronics
6 4 (7.55%) C
6 4 (7.55%) Signal Processing
6 4 (7.55%) Social Skills
7 3 (5.66%) Data Pipeline
7 3 (5.66%) Wearables
7 3 (5.66%) DataOps

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

Applications
1 3 (5.66%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (5.66%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (5.66%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 6 (11.32%) Azure
2 5 (9.43%) GitHub
3 3 (5.66%) Amazon ECS
3 3 (5.66%) Amazon EKS
3 3 (5.66%) Amazon S3
3 3 (5.66%) AWS
3 3 (5.66%) AWS Fargate
3 3 (5.66%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (5.66%) Azure AKS
3 3 (5.66%) Azure Functions
3 3 (5.66%) CloudFront
3 3 (5.66%) Dropbox
3 3 (5.66%) GCP
3 3 (5.66%) Google Drive
3 3 (5.66%) OneDrive
3 3 (5.66%) Serverless
4 2 (3.77%) Akamai
4 2 (3.77%) Amazon SQS
4 2 (3.77%) Cloudflare
4 2 (3.77%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.66%) Ethernet
1 3 (5.66%) TCP/IP
2 2 (3.77%) 5G
2 2 (3.77%) Wireless
3 1 (1.89%) 3GPP
3 1 (1.89%) 4G
3 1 (1.89%) 5G NR
3 1 (1.89%) GSM
3 1 (1.89%) LTE
3 1 (1.89%) Software-Defined Radio
3 1 (1.89%) UMTS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.66%) BigQuery
1 3 (5.66%) Looker
2 1 (1.89%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (9.43%) Git
2 3 (5.66%) Subversion
2 3 (5.66%) Visual Studio
3 1 (1.89%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.89%) TeamCity
General
1 7 (13.21%) Military
2 4 (7.55%) Electronics
2 4 (7.55%) Social Skills
3 3 (5.66%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (5.66%) Wearables
4 2 (3.77%) Automotive
4 2 (3.77%) Finance
5 1 (1.89%) Games
5 1 (1.89%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.89%) Marketing
5 1 (1.89%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.89%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (9.43%) .NET
2 3 (5.66%) Spring
2 3 (5.66%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.66%) Arduino
1 3 (5.66%) iPad
1 3 (5.66%) Legacy Applications
1 3 (5.66%) Raspberry Pi
1 3 (5.66%) SCADA
1 3 (5.66%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (3.77%) Mobile App
3 1 (1.89%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (1.89%) FPGA
3 1 (1.89%) SIMD
3 1 (1.89%) Verilog
3 1 (1.89%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.66%) Embedded Linux
1 3 (5.66%) Linux
1 3 (5.66%) VxWorks
1 3 (5.66%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (16.98%) Software Engineering
2 8 (15.09%) Collaborative Working
2 8 (15.09%) Roadmaps
2 8 (15.09%) Technical Leadership
2 8 (15.09%) Technology Roadmap
3 7 (13.21%) Mentoring
3 7 (13.21%) Synthetic Environment
4 6 (11.32%) Mathematics
4 6 (11.32%) Systems Engineering
5 5 (9.43%) Acceptance Criteria
5 5 (9.43%) Customer Requirements
5 5 (9.43%) DevOps
5 5 (9.43%) Physics
5 5 (9.43%) Requirements Management
6 4 (7.55%) Signal Processing
7 3 (5.66%) Change Management
7 3 (5.66%) Data Engineering
7 3 (5.66%) Integration Testing
7 3 (5.66%) Waterfall
7 3 (5.66%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 6 (11.32%) C++
2 5 (9.43%) Java
3 4 (7.55%) C
4 3 (5.66%) C#
4 3 (5.66%) Scala
4 3 (5.66%) VB.NET
5 1 (1.89%) Assembly Language
5 1 (1.89%) Bash
5 1 (1.89%) MATLAB
5 1 (1.89%) Perl
5 1 (1.89%) Python
5 1 (1.89%) Ruby
5 1 (1.89%) SQL
5 1 (1.89%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 6 (11.32%) Degree
2 1 (1.89%) DV Cleared
2 1 (1.89%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.66%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (5.66%) Virtual Machines
1 3 (5.66%) VirtualBox
1 3 (5.66%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (3.77%) Docker
3 1 (1.89%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (1.89%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (5.66%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (11.32%) Google
2 3 (5.66%) Microsoft
2 3 (5.66%) VMware
3 2 (3.77%) ForgeRock
3 2 (3.77%) Sitecore
4 1 (1.89%) Intel
4 1 (1.89%) SAP
4 1 (1.89%) Xilinx