Principal Engineer Jobs in the South East

Principal Engineer
England > South East

The median Principal Engineer salary in the South East is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 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
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 225 301 275
Rank change year-on-year +76 -26 0
Permanent jobs requiring a Principal Engineer 189 76 258
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 1.01% 0.57% 1.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.07% 0.64% 1.26%
Number of salaries quoted 69 59 56
10th Percentile - £61,202 -
25th Percentile £60,000 £63,750 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £67,725
Median % change year-on-year - +3.36% -3.25%
75th Percentile £80,000 £91,250 £73,863
90th Percentile £90,000 £115,500 £87,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £85,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -11.76% - +21.43%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the South East. 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 the South East with a recognized job title 17,582 11,899 20,479
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.31% 89.64% 96.02%
Number of salaries quoted 12,383 7,812 12,372
10th Percentile £27,750 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,713 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.53% +1.19% +9.09%

Principal Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Principal Engineer in the South East

Principal Engineer
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Principal Engineer in the South East.

Salary trend for Principal Engineer in the South East

Principal Engineer
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Principal Engineer in the South East over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Principal Engineer in the South East

Principal Engineer
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Principal Engineer within the South East region over the 6 months to 12 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
Thames Valley +61 104 £70,000 +2.94% 12
Hampshire +16 56 £70,000 +47.37% 3
Berkshire +28 39 £68,750 -37.50% 7
Buckinghamshire +15 33 £70,000 +9.38% 3
Oxfordshire +12 32 £60,000 -3.36% 2
Surrey -29 15 - - 7
Kent - 6 - - 1
Sussex - 5 £45,000 -
East Sussex +17 3 - -
Principal Engineer
England

Principal Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 12 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 South East region featuring Principal Engineer in the job title.

1 42 (22.22%) Mentoring
2 40 (21.16%) Technical Leadership
3 39 (20.63%) Google
4 38 (20.11%) Roadmaps
5 35 (18.52%) Problem-Solving
6 34 (17.99%) DevOps
7 33 (17.46%) Systems Engineering
7 33 (17.46%) Agile
8 32 (16.93%) Technology Roadmap
8 32 (16.93%) GCP
9 28 (14.81%) Software Engineering
10 27 (14.29%) Degree
10 27 (14.29%) Data Engineering
10 27 (14.29%) Looker
10 27 (14.29%) BigQuery
10 27 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
10 27 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
10 27 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
11 26 (13.76%) Security Cleared
12 24 (12.70%) Change Management
12 24 (12.70%) Data Science
12 24 (12.70%) DataOps
12 24 (12.70%) GDPR
12 24 (12.70%) Analytical Skills
13 20 (10.58%) Azure
14 17 (8.99%) Social Skills
15 13 (6.88%) Customer Requirements
15 13 (6.88%) Firmware
16 12 (6.35%) Electronics
16 12 (6.35%) Aerospace

Principal Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (1.59%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (1.59%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (1.59%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.53%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 32 (16.93%) GCP
2 20 (10.58%) Azure
3 12 (6.35%) Dropbox
3 12 (6.35%) Google Drive
3 12 (6.35%) OneDrive
4 10 (5.29%) AWS
5 5 (2.65%) Datadog
5 5 (2.65%) GitHub
6 3 (1.59%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (1.59%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (1.59%) Amazon S3
6 3 (1.59%) AWS Fargate
6 3 (1.59%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (1.59%) Azure AKS
6 3 (1.59%) Azure Functions
6 3 (1.59%) CloudFront
6 3 (1.59%) Serverless
7 2 (1.06%) Akamai
7 2 (1.06%) Amazon SQS
7 2 (1.06%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.17%) Wireless
2 5 (2.65%) 4G
2 5 (2.65%) Ethernet
3 3 (1.59%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.06%) 5G
5 1 (0.53%) 3GPP
5 1 (0.53%) 5G NR
5 1 (0.53%) Firewall
5 1 (0.53%) GSM
5 1 (0.53%) LTE
5 1 (0.53%) Software-Defined Radio
5 1 (0.53%) UMTS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (14.29%) BigQuery
1 27 (14.29%) Looker
2 3 (1.59%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.53%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.53%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.53%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (6.35%) Rational DOORS
2 5 (2.65%) Git
3 3 (1.59%) Subversion
3 3 (1.59%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.53%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.53%) TeamCity
General
1 24 (12.70%) Analytical Skills
2 17 (8.99%) Social Skills
3 12 (6.35%) Aerospace
3 12 (6.35%) Electronics
4 10 (5.29%) Military
5 9 (4.76%) Manufacturing
6 8 (4.23%) Telecoms
7 6 (3.17%) Automotive
8 3 (1.59%) Wearables
9 2 (1.06%) Advertising
9 2 (1.06%) Finance
10 1 (0.53%) Games
10 1 (0.53%) Marketing
10 1 (0.53%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.65%) .NET
2 3 (1.59%) Spring
2 3 (1.59%) Spring Boot
3 2 (1.06%) Yocto
4 1 (0.53%) Flutter
4 1 (0.53%) Node.js
4 1 (0.53%) React
Miscellaneous
1 27 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
2 12 (6.35%) iPad
3 9 (4.76%) Management Information System
4 6 (3.17%) FPGA
5 5 (2.65%) Hackathon
5 5 (2.65%) Raspberry Pi
6 3 (1.59%) Arduino
6 3 (1.59%) Legacy Applications
6 3 (1.59%) SCADA
7 2 (1.06%) ARM Cortex
7 2 (1.06%) CAN bus
7 2 (1.06%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.06%) VHDL
8 1 (0.53%) Embedded Systems
8 1 (0.53%) SIMD
8 1 (0.53%) Verilog
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.70%) Linux
2 6 (3.17%) Windows
3 4 (2.12%) Embedded Linux
4 3 (1.59%) VxWorks
5 2 (1.06%) FreeRTOS
5 2 (1.06%) Unix
6 1 (0.53%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (22.22%) Mentoring
2 40 (21.16%) Technical Leadership
3 38 (20.11%) Roadmaps
4 35 (18.52%) Problem-Solving
5 34 (17.99%) DevOps
6 33 (17.46%) Agile
6 33 (17.46%) Systems Engineering
7 32 (16.93%) Technology Roadmap
8 28 (14.81%) Software Engineering
9 27 (14.29%) Data Engineering
9 27 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
9 27 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
10 24 (12.70%) Change Management
10 24 (12.70%) Data Science
10 24 (12.70%) DataOps
11 13 (6.88%) Customer Requirements
12 12 (6.35%) Mathematics
13 11 (5.82%) Collaborative Working
14 10 (5.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 10 (5.29%) Synthetic Environment
Programming Languages
1 9 (4.76%) C++
2 8 (4.23%) Java
3 7 (3.70%) C
4 6 (3.17%) Scala
5 4 (2.12%) Python
5 4 (2.12%) SQL
6 3 (1.59%) C#
6 3 (1.59%) Embedded C
6 3 (1.59%) Embedded C++
6 3 (1.59%) VB.NET
7 2 (1.06%) Perl
8 1 (0.53%) Assembly Language
8 1 (0.53%) Bash
8 1 (0.53%) MATLAB
8 1 (0.53%) Ruby
8 1 (0.53%) Tcl
8 1 (0.53%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 27 (14.29%) Degree
2 26 (13.76%) Security Cleared
3 7 (3.70%) DV Cleared
4 6 (3.17%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.06%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (12.70%) GDPR
2 3 (1.59%) Data Quality
System Software
1 13 (6.88%) Firmware
2 3 (1.59%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (1.59%) VirtualBox
2 3 (1.59%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.06%) Docker
4 1 (0.53%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (1.59%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 39 (20.63%) Google
2 8 (4.23%) Microsoft
3 5 (2.65%) QinetiQ
4 3 (1.59%) Cisco
4 3 (1.59%) VMware
5 2 (1.06%) ForgeRock
5 2 (1.06%) Sitecore
6 1 (0.53%) EMC
6 1 (0.53%) Intel
6 1 (0.53%) SAP
6 1 (0.53%) Xilinx