Principal Software Engineer Jobs with Work from Home Options

Principal Software Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Principal Software 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 520 580 705
Rank change year-on-year +60 +125 -162
Permanent jobs requiring a Principal Software Engineer 73 58 181
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.21% 0.15% 0.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.16% 0.25%
Number of salaries quoted 49 53 84
10th Percentile £63,500 £57,500 £69,750
25th Percentile £67,500 £73,750 £77,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £90,000 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +2.86% +40.00%
75th Percentile £107,500 £111,250 £100,000
90th Percentile £116,750 £160,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £85,000 £84,500 £87,500
% change year-on-year +0.59% -3.43% +9.38%

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 Software Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Principal Software Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Principal Software 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 Software Engineer.

Principal Software Engineer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Principal Software Engineer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Principal Software Engineer over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Principal Software Engineer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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

1 73 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 36 (49.32%) AWS
3 28 (38.36%) Java
3 28 (38.36%) Social Skills
4 24 (32.88%) Python
5 20 (27.40%) Kubernetes
6 19 (26.03%) Data Structures
7 18 (24.66%) Problem-Solving
8 16 (21.92%) Apache Spark
8 16 (21.92%) Algorithms
8 16 (21.92%) GCP
8 16 (21.92%) React
8 16 (21.92%) Redis
8 16 (21.92%) Elasticsearch
8 16 (21.92%) C#
9 15 (20.55%) Google
9 15 (20.55%) Bash
9 15 (20.55%) Big Data
9 15 (20.55%) Data Science
10 14 (19.18%) Threat Intelligence
10 14 (19.18%) Slack
10 14 (19.18%) Scylla
10 14 (19.18%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
10 14 (19.18%) GraphQL
10 14 (19.18%) Miro
10 14 (19.18%) Google Docs
10 14 (19.18%) UX Research
10 14 (19.18%) Kafka
10 14 (19.18%) High Availability
10 14 (19.18%) SaaS

Principal Software 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 16 (21.92%) Apache Spark
2 3 (4.11%) Confluence
3 2 (2.74%) Apache
4 1 (1.37%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 36 (49.32%) AWS
2 16 (21.92%) GCP
3 14 (19.18%) Amazon S3
3 14 (19.18%) Amazon SQS
3 14 (19.18%) Google Docs
3 14 (19.18%) Lucidchart
3 14 (19.18%) Miro
3 14 (19.18%) SaaS
3 14 (19.18%) Slack
4 8 (10.96%) Azure
5 5 (6.85%) Serverless
6 4 (5.48%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (2.74%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (1.37%) Azure Functions
8 1 (1.37%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.74%) Ethernet
1 2 (2.74%) NGN
1 2 (2.74%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.37%) 5G
2 1 (1.37%) Bluetooth
2 1 (1.37%) OFDM
2 1 (1.37%) Software-Defined Radio
2 1 (1.37%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (1.37%) Wireless
2 1 (1.37%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (21.92%) Elasticsearch
1 16 (21.92%) Redis
2 15 (20.55%) Big Data
3 14 (19.18%) Hadoop
3 14 (19.18%) Scylla
4 4 (5.48%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.37%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.37%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.37%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (4.11%) JIRA
General
1 28 (38.36%) Social Skills
2 12 (16.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4 (5.48%) Tech for Good
3 4 (5.48%) Telecoms
4 3 (4.11%) Aerospace
5 2 (2.74%) Finance
6 1 (1.37%) Aviation
6 1 (1.37%) Legal
6 1 (1.37%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (21.92%) React
2 14 (19.18%) .NET
2 14 (19.18%) GraphQL
2 14 (19.18%) Kafka
3 10 (13.70%) Node.js
4 6 (8.22%) Spring
4 6 (8.22%) Spring Boot
5 3 (4.11%) RESTful
5 3 (4.11%) WinForms
6 2 (2.74%) .NET Core
6 2 (2.74%) Apache NiFi
6 2 (2.74%) DPDK
6 2 (2.74%) eBPF
7 1 (1.37%) FastAPI
7 1 (1.37%) Flutter
7 1 (1.37%) Keras
7 1 (1.37%) Micronaut
7 1 (1.37%) PyTorch
7 1 (1.37%) Quarkus
7 1 (1.37%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 19 (26.03%) Data Structures
2 16 (21.92%) Algorithms
3 4 (5.48%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (4.11%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.37%) Educational Technology
5 1 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.37%) SIMD
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.74%) Embedded Linux
1 2 (2.74%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 18 (24.66%) Problem-Solving
3 15 (20.55%) Data Science
4 14 (19.18%) Computer Security
4 14 (19.18%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 14 (19.18%) Cybersecurity
4 14 (19.18%) High Availability
4 14 (19.18%) Threat Intelligence
4 14 (19.18%) User Experience
4 14 (19.18%) UX Research
5 13 (17.81%) Agile
5 13 (17.81%) Microservices
6 11 (15.07%) Roadmaps
7 9 (12.33%) Data Strategy
8 7 (9.59%) Artificial Intelligence
8 7 (9.59%) Computer Science
8 7 (9.59%) SDLC
9 5 (6.85%) DevOps
9 5 (6.85%) Machine Learning
9 5 (6.85%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 28 (38.36%) Java
2 24 (32.88%) Python
3 16 (21.92%) C#
4 15 (20.55%) Bash
5 14 (19.18%) Go
5 14 (19.18%) Scala
6 10 (13.70%) Kotlin
6 10 (13.70%) TypeScript
7 6 (8.22%) C
8 5 (6.85%) JavaScript
9 3 (4.11%) Assembly Language
10 2 (2.74%) C++
11 1 (1.37%) Perl
11 1 (1.37%) Ruby
11 1 (1.37%) SQL
11 1 (1.37%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 10 (13.70%) Security Cleared
2 9 (12.33%) Degree
3 4 (5.48%) SC Cleared
4 3 (4.11%) DV Cleared
4 3 (4.11%) Sun Certification
5 1 (1.37%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 2 (2.74%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (27.40%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.37%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (20.55%) Google
2 14 (19.18%) Dell
3 3 (4.11%) Progress
4 1 (1.37%) Intel
4 1 (1.37%) Microsoft