Principal Engineer Jobs with Work from Home Options

Principal Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Principal Engineer salary in Work from Home is £75,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 400 385 479
Rank change year-on-year -15 +94 -51
Permanent jobs requiring a Principal Engineer 200 270 473
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.58% 0.70% 0.64%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.60% 0.73% 0.65%
Number of salaries quoted 127 242 224
10th Percentile £60,000 £63,875 £60,000
25th Percentile £63,940 £76,750 £74,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £93,750 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +7.14% +16.67%
75th Percentile £115,000 £140,000 £105,000
90th Percentile £123,500 £160,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £85,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -11.76% - +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 33,422 36,879 72,309
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.21% 95.89% 97.34%
Number of salaries quoted 25,463 26,702 42,447
10th Percentile £33,250 £36,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,447 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.20% +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 1 June 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 1 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 jobs with remote work options featuring Principal Engineer in the job title.

1 76 (38.00%) Software Engineering
2 72 (36.00%) AWS
3 50 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 48 (24.00%) Java
5 45 (22.50%) Python
6 41 (20.50%) Security Cleared
7 37 (18.50%) Problem-Solving
8 28 (14.00%) Kubernetes
9 26 (13.00%) Algorithms
10 24 (12.00%) Microservices
10 24 (12.00%) Mentoring
10 24 (12.00%) GraphQL
10 24 (12.00%) Azure
10 24 (12.00%) Aerospace
11 23 (11.50%) Agile
11 23 (11.50%) SaaS
11 23 (11.50%) Kafka
11 23 (11.50%) Data Structures
11 23 (11.50%) Go
11 23 (11.50%) Roadmaps
12 21 (10.50%) Systems Engineering
12 21 (10.50%) Data Strategy
12 21 (10.50%) GCP
13 20 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
13 20 (10.00%) Degree
14 19 (9.50%) TypeScript
14 19 (9.50%) Apache Spark
15 18 (9.00%) Big Data
15 18 (9.00%) Redis
15 18 (9.00%) Data Science

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 19 (9.50%) Apache Spark
2 6 (3.00%) IIS
2 6 (3.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (3.00%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.00%) Apache
4 3 (1.50%) Confluence
5 1 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.50%) nginx
Applications
1 6 (3.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 72 (36.00%) AWS
2 24 (12.00%) Azure
3 23 (11.50%) SaaS
4 21 (10.50%) GCP
5 17 (8.50%) Amazon SQS
6 16 (8.00%) Amazon S3
7 14 (7.00%) Google Docs
7 14 (7.00%) Lucidchart
7 14 (7.00%) Miro
7 14 (7.00%) Slack
8 8 (4.00%) Serverless
9 7 (3.50%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (2.50%) GitHub
11 4 (2.00%) Amazon EKS
12 3 (1.50%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (1.50%) Azure Functions
13 2 (1.00%) Amazon ECS
13 2 (1.00%) AWS Fargate
13 2 (1.00%) Azure AKS
13 2 (1.00%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.00%) Wireless
2 3 (1.50%) BGP
2 3 (1.50%) IGMP
2 3 (1.50%) IPv6
2 3 (1.50%) Multicast
2 3 (1.50%) OSPF
2 3 (1.50%) RIP
2 3 (1.50%) SNMP
2 3 (1.50%) VLAN
2 3 (1.50%) VoIP
2 3 (1.50%) VRRP
3 2 (1.00%) Ethernet
3 2 (1.00%) NGN
3 2 (1.00%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.50%) Bluetooth
4 1 (0.50%) OFDM
4 1 (0.50%) Software-Defined Radio
4 1 (0.50%) SSL
4 1 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.50%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (9.00%) Big Data
1 18 (9.00%) Redis
2 17 (8.50%) Elasticsearch
2 17 (8.50%) Hadoop
3 14 (7.00%) Scylla
4 6 (3.00%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (2.00%) NoSQL
5 4 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (1.50%) Apache Hive
6 3 (1.50%) MongoDB
6 3 (1.50%) Neo4j
6 3 (1.50%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.00%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (1.00%) MySQL
8 1 (0.50%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (3.00%) Git
2 4 (2.00%) Cypress.io
3 3 (1.50%) Android Studio
3 3 (1.50%) JIRA
3 3 (1.50%) Postman
3 3 (1.50%) Rational DOORS
3 3 (1.50%) Rational Rhapsody
3 3 (1.50%) Selenium
3 3 (1.50%) Subversion
3 3 (1.50%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.50%) Jenkins
General
1 50 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 24 (12.00%) Aerospace
3 18 (9.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 15 (7.50%) Manufacturing
5 13 (6.50%) Finance
6 10 (5.00%) Legal
7 6 (3.00%) Tech for Good
7 6 (3.00%) Telecoms
8 4 (2.00%) Automotive
8 4 (2.00%) Public Sector
9 3 (1.50%) Games
9 3 (1.50%) Health Technology
9 3 (1.50%) Marketing
9 3 (1.50%) Wearables
10 2 (1.00%) Analytical Skills
10 2 (1.00%) Banking
11 1 (0.50%) Aviation
11 1 (0.50%) Digital Healthcare
11 1 (0.50%) Law
11 1 (0.50%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (12.00%) GraphQL
2 23 (11.50%) Kafka
3 17 (8.50%) .NET
3 17 (8.50%) React
4 16 (8.00%) Spring
4 16 (8.00%) Spring Boot
5 10 (5.00%) Node.js
6 4 (2.00%) CSS
7 3 (1.50%) .NET Core
7 3 (1.50%) Playwright
7 3 (1.50%) RESTful
7 3 (1.50%) WinForms
8 2 (1.00%) Apache NiFi
8 2 (1.00%) DPDK
8 2 (1.00%) eBPF
8 2 (1.00%) gRPC
8 2 (1.00%) Keras
8 2 (1.00%) LAMP
8 2 (1.00%) PyTorch
8 2 (1.00%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 26 (13.00%) Algorithms
2 23 (11.50%) Data Structures
3 11 (5.50%) Cloud Native
4 9 (4.50%) Product Ownership
5 6 (3.00%) IoT
5 6 (3.00%) Management Information System
6 5 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.50%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.50%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.50%) Smart City
8 2 (1.00%) Digital Currency
8 2 (1.00%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.00%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.50%) CUDA
9 1 (0.50%) Educational Technology
9 1 (0.50%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.50%) Ray Tracing
9 1 (0.50%) SIMD
Operating Systems
1 12 (6.00%) Linux
2 6 (3.00%) Windows
3 3 (1.50%) Android
4 2 (1.00%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (38.00%) Software Engineering
2 37 (18.50%) Problem-Solving
3 24 (12.00%) Mentoring
3 24 (12.00%) Microservices
4 23 (11.50%) Agile
4 23 (11.50%) Roadmaps
5 21 (10.50%) Data Strategy
5 21 (10.50%) Systems Engineering
6 20 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
7 18 (9.00%) Data Science
8 17 (8.50%) Decision-Making
9 16 (8.00%) Data Engineering
10 15 (7.50%) Computer Science
11 14 (7.00%) Computer Security
11 14 (7.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
11 14 (7.00%) High Availability
11 14 (7.00%) Threat Intelligence
11 14 (7.00%) User Experience
11 14 (7.00%) UX Research
12 12 (6.00%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 48 (24.00%) Java
2 45 (22.50%) Python
3 23 (11.50%) Go
4 19 (9.50%) TypeScript
5 17 (8.50%) C#
5 17 (8.50%) Scala
6 16 (8.00%) Bash
7 13 (6.50%) SQL
8 12 (6.00%) Kotlin
9 8 (4.00%) JavaScript
10 7 (3.50%) C
11 4 (2.00%) C++
12 3 (1.50%) Assembly Language
12 3 (1.50%) R
12 3 (1.50%) Rust
13 2 (1.00%) Ruby
14 1 (0.50%) AWK
14 1 (0.50%) Perl
14 1 (0.50%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.50%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 41 (20.50%) Security Cleared
2 20 (10.00%) Degree
3 16 (8.00%) DV Cleared
4 6 (3.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (2.50%) SC Cleared
6 3 (1.50%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.50%) MCT
6 3 (1.50%) Sun Certification
7 2 (1.00%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.50%) Chartered Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.00%) QA
2 1 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 15288
System Software
1 6 (3.00%) Active Directory
1 6 (3.00%) Docker
1 6 (3.00%) Forefront TMG
1 6 (3.00%) Hyper-V
1 6 (3.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 6 (3.00%) VMware Workstation
2 2 (1.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 28 (14.00%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.00%) SCOM
2 6 (3.00%) WSUS
3 5 (2.50%) Terraform
4 1 (0.50%) Puppet
Vendors
1 15 (7.50%) Google
2 14 (7.00%) Dell
3 12 (6.00%) Microsoft
4 6 (3.00%) VMware
5 3 (1.50%) Progress
6 2 (1.00%) ForgeRock
6 2 (1.00%) Oracle
6 2 (1.00%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.50%) EMC
7 1 (0.50%) Intel