Principal Software Engineer Jobs in Manchester

Principal Software Engineer
North West > Manchester

The median Principal Software Engineer salary in Manchester is £82,500 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 226 227 250
Rank change year-on-year +1 +23 -39
Permanent jobs requiring a Principal Software Engineer 2 6 11
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 0.034% 0.13% 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.036% 0.14% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 2 5 6
10th Percentile £66,250 £57,750 £63,000
25th Percentile £71,875 £67,500 £70,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £75,000 £79,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -5.66% +11.58%
75th Percentile £91,875 £83,750 £87,188
90th Percentile £96,750 £90,500 £91,250
North West median annual salary £65,000 £75,000 £76,500
% change year-on-year -13.33% -1.96% +22.40%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Manchester

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Manchester. 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 Manchester with a recognized job title 5,614 4,140 5,610
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.01% 91.94% 96.82%
Number of salaries quoted 4,168 2,576 3,609
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £31,570
25th Percentile £40,750 £43,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £68,188 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £85,000
North West median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%

Principal Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Principal Software Engineer in Manchester

Principal Software Engineer
Salary Trend in Manchester

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

Salary trend for Principal Software Engineer in Manchester

Principal Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in Manchester

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

Salary histogram for Principal Software Engineer in Manchester

Principal Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 18 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester

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 Manchester region featuring Principal Software Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Spring
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) C++
2 1 (50.00%) HTML
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (50.00%) CSS

Principal Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) CSS
1 1 (50.00%) HTML
1 1 (50.00%) Spring
1 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) C++
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared