Principal Engineer Jobs with Work from Home Options

Principal Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Principal Engineer salary in Work from Home is £78,750 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 390 402 479
Rank change year-on-year +12 +77 -63
Permanent jobs requiring a Principal Engineer 205 271 442
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.61% 0.67% 0.63%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.63% 0.70% 0.65%
Number of salaries quoted 124 240 226
10th Percentile £60,000 £63,750 £60,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £77,313 £75,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,750 £95,000 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year -17.11% +8.57% +16.67%
75th Percentile £115,000 £141,875 £105,000
90th Percentile £124,250 £160,000 £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
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 32,522 38,765 68,459
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.05% 95.93% 97.35%
Number of salaries quoted 24,888 27,595 41,875
10th Percentile £33,093 £36,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.40% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Principal Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Principal Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Principal Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Principal Engineer
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Principal Engineer.

Principal Engineer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Principal Engineer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Principal Engineer over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Principal Engineer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Principal Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

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 jobs with remote work options featuring Principal Engineer in the job title.

1 88 (42.93%) Software Engineering
2 80 (39.02%) AWS
3 57 (27.80%) Social Skills
4 56 (27.32%) Java
5 50 (24.39%) Python
6 47 (22.93%) Problem-Solving
7 39 (19.02%) SaaS
8 38 (18.54%) Security Cleared
9 37 (18.05%) Kubernetes
10 36 (17.56%) Cybersecurity
11 35 (17.07%) Algorithms
12 34 (16.59%) Data Science
13 33 (16.10%) GraphQL
13 33 (16.10%) Kafka
14 32 (15.61%) Data Structures
15 31 (15.12%) Go
16 30 (14.63%) Agile
16 30 (14.63%) Computer Security
16 30 (14.63%) Dell
16 30 (14.63%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
16 30 (14.63%) Threat Intelligence
17 28 (13.66%) Apache Spark
17 28 (13.66%) GCP
18 27 (13.17%) Big Data
18 27 (13.17%) Redis
18 27 (13.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 26 (12.68%) Amazon SQS
19 26 (12.68%) Hadoop
19 26 (12.68%) Elasticsearch
20 25 (12.20%) Scala

Principal Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 28 (13.66%) Apache Spark
2 6 (2.93%) IIS
2 6 (2.93%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (2.93%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.95%) Apache
4 3 (1.46%) Confluence
5 1 (0.49%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.49%) nginx
Applications
1 6 (2.93%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 80 (39.02%) AWS
2 39 (19.02%) SaaS
3 28 (13.66%) GCP
4 26 (12.68%) Amazon SQS
5 25 (12.20%) Amazon S3
6 23 (11.22%) Google Docs
6 23 (11.22%) Lucidchart
6 23 (11.22%) Miro
6 23 (11.22%) Slack
7 21 (10.24%) Azure
8 7 (3.41%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (3.41%) Serverless
9 4 (1.95%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (1.95%) GitHub
10 3 (1.46%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (0.98%) Amazon ECS
11 2 (0.98%) AWS Fargate
11 2 (0.98%) Azure Functions
11 2 (0.98%) Cloudflare
11 2 (0.98%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.95%) Wireless
2 3 (1.46%) BGP
2 3 (1.46%) IGMP
2 3 (1.46%) IPv6
2 3 (1.46%) Multicast
2 3 (1.46%) OSPF
2 3 (1.46%) RIP
2 3 (1.46%) SNMP
2 3 (1.46%) VLAN
2 3 (1.46%) VoIP
2 3 (1.46%) VRRP
3 2 (0.98%) Ethernet
3 2 (0.98%) NGN
3 2 (0.98%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.49%) 5G
4 1 (0.49%) OFDM
4 1 (0.49%) Software-Defined Radio
4 1 (0.49%) SSL
4 1 (0.49%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.49%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (13.17%) Big Data
1 27 (13.17%) Redis
2 26 (12.68%) Elasticsearch
2 26 (12.68%) Hadoop
3 23 (11.22%) Scylla
4 6 (2.93%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (1.95%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (1.46%) Apache Hive
6 3 (1.46%) MongoDB
6 3 (1.46%) Neo4j
7 2 (0.98%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (0.98%) MySQL
7 2 (0.98%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.98%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.49%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.49%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (2.44%) Git
2 4 (1.95%) Cypress.io
3 3 (1.46%) Android Studio
3 3 (1.46%) JIRA
3 3 (1.46%) Postman
3 3 (1.46%) Rational DOORS
3 3 (1.46%) Rational Rhapsody
3 3 (1.46%) Selenium
3 3 (1.46%) Visual Studio
4 2 (0.98%) Subversion
5 1 (0.49%) Jenkins
General
1 57 (27.80%) Social Skills
2 27 (13.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 24 (11.71%) Aerospace
4 15 (7.32%) Manufacturing
5 12 (5.85%) Finance
6 10 (4.88%) Legal
7 6 (2.93%) Tech for Good
7 6 (2.93%) Telecoms
8 4 (1.95%) Automotive
8 4 (1.95%) Public Sector
9 3 (1.46%) Analytical Skills
9 3 (1.46%) Games
9 3 (1.46%) Marketing
10 2 (0.98%) Banking
10 2 (0.98%) Health Technology
10 2 (0.98%) Wearables
11 1 (0.49%) Aviation
11 1 (0.49%) Digital Healthcare
11 1 (0.49%) Military
11 1 (0.49%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (16.10%) GraphQL
1 33 (16.10%) Kafka
2 17 (8.29%) .NET
2 17 (8.29%) React
3 16 (7.80%) Spring
3 16 (7.80%) Spring Boot
4 11 (5.37%) Node.js
5 4 (1.95%) CSS
6 3 (1.46%) .NET Core
6 3 (1.46%) Playwright
6 3 (1.46%) RESTful
6 3 (1.46%) WinForms
7 2 (0.98%) Apache NiFi
7 2 (0.98%) DPDK
7 2 (0.98%) eBPF
7 2 (0.98%) gRPC
7 2 (0.98%) Keras
7 2 (0.98%) LAMP
7 2 (0.98%) PyTorch
7 2 (0.98%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 35 (17.07%) Algorithms
2 32 (15.61%) Data Structures
3 18 (8.78%) Cloud Native
4 9 (4.39%) Product Ownership
4 9 (4.39%) Virtual Team
5 6 (2.93%) IoT
5 6 (2.93%) Management Information System
6 5 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.46%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.46%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.46%) Smart City
8 2 (0.98%) Digital Currency
8 2 (0.98%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.49%) CUDA
9 1 (0.49%) Educational Technology
9 1 (0.49%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.49%) Ray Tracing
9 1 (0.49%) SIMD
9 1 (0.49%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 20 (9.76%) Linux
2 13 (6.34%) Windows
3 7 (3.41%) Mac OS
4 3 (1.46%) Android
5 2 (0.98%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.49%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (42.93%) Software Engineering
2 47 (22.93%) Problem-Solving
3 36 (17.56%) Cybersecurity
4 34 (16.59%) Data Science
5 30 (14.63%) Agile
5 30 (14.63%) Computer Security
5 30 (14.63%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
5 30 (14.63%) Threat Intelligence
6 24 (11.71%) Microservices
6 24 (11.71%) User Experience
7 23 (11.22%) High Availability
7 23 (11.22%) Roadmaps
7 23 (11.22%) UX Research
8 22 (10.73%) Data Strategy
8 22 (10.73%) Mentoring
9 20 (9.76%) TDD
10 19 (9.27%) Systems Engineering
11 18 (8.78%) Analytics
11 18 (8.78%) Technical Leadership
12 17 (8.29%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 56 (27.32%) Java
2 50 (24.39%) Python
3 31 (15.12%) Go
4 25 (12.20%) Bash
4 25 (12.20%) Scala
5 18 (8.78%) TypeScript
6 15 (7.32%) C#
7 13 (6.34%) Kotlin
8 11 (5.37%) SQL
9 8 (3.90%) C
9 8 (3.90%) JavaScript
10 4 (1.95%) Assembly Language
11 3 (1.46%) C++
11 3 (1.46%) R
12 2 (0.98%) PHP
12 2 (0.98%) Ruby
12 2 (0.98%) Rust
13 1 (0.49%) Perl
13 1 (0.49%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.49%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 38 (18.54%) Security Cleared
2 21 (10.24%) Degree
3 14 (6.83%) DV Cleared
4 6 (2.93%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (1.95%) SC Cleared
6 3 (1.46%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.46%) MCT
6 3 (1.46%) Sun Certification
7 2 (0.98%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.49%) Chartered Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.93%) QA
2 1 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 15288
System Software
1 6 (2.93%) Active Directory
1 6 (2.93%) Docker
1 6 (2.93%) Forefront TMG
1 6 (2.93%) Hyper-V
1 6 (2.93%) VMware Infrastructure
1 6 (2.93%) VMware Workstation
2 2 (0.98%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 37 (18.05%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.93%) SCOM
2 6 (2.93%) WSUS
3 5 (2.44%) Terraform
4 1 (0.49%) Puppet
Vendors
1 30 (14.63%) Dell
2 24 (11.71%) Google
3 10 (4.88%) Microsoft
4 6 (2.93%) VMware
5 3 (1.46%) Progress
6 2 (0.98%) EMC
6 2 (0.98%) ForgeRock
6 2 (0.98%) Oracle
6 2 (0.98%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.49%) Intel