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 22 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
22 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 396 403 482
Rank change year-on-year +7 +79 -58
Permanent jobs requiring a Principal Engineer 200 268 452
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.59% 0.67% 0.63%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.62% 0.69% 0.65%
Number of salaries quoted 122 237 228
10th Percentile £60,000 £63,750 £60,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £77,500 £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 £147,500 £105,000
90th Percentile £124,750 £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 32,508 38,611 69,620
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.12% 95.94% 97.35%
Number of salaries quoted 24,864 27,418 42,055
10th Percentile £33,250 £36,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,359 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.83% +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 22 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 22 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 84 (42.00%) Software Engineering
2 77 (38.50%) AWS
3 55 (27.50%) Social Skills
4 53 (26.50%) Java
5 48 (24.00%) Python
6 44 (22.00%) Problem-Solving
7 39 (19.50%) Security Cleared
8 35 (17.50%) SaaS
8 35 (17.50%) Kubernetes
9 33 (16.50%) Algorithms
10 32 (16.00%) Cybersecurity
11 31 (15.50%) GraphQL
12 30 (15.00%) Data Structures
12 30 (15.00%) Kafka
12 30 (15.00%) Data Science
13 29 (14.50%) Go
14 28 (14.00%) Agile
15 26 (13.00%) Computer Security
15 26 (13.00%) Dell
15 26 (13.00%) Apache Spark
15 26 (13.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
15 26 (13.00%) GCP
15 26 (13.00%) Threat Intelligence
16 25 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 25 (12.50%) Big Data
16 25 (12.50%) Redis
17 24 (12.00%) Amazon SQS
17 24 (12.00%) Hadoop
17 24 (12.00%) Microservices
17 24 (12.00%) Elasticsearch

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 26 (13.00%) 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 77 (38.50%) AWS
2 35 (17.50%) SaaS
3 26 (13.00%) GCP
4 24 (12.00%) Amazon SQS
5 23 (11.50%) Amazon S3
6 21 (10.50%) Azure
6 21 (10.50%) Google Docs
6 21 (10.50%) Lucidchart
6 21 (10.50%) Miro
6 21 (10.50%) Slack
7 7 (3.50%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (3.50%) Serverless
8 4 (2.00%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (2.00%) GitHub
9 3 (1.50%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (1.00%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (1.00%) AWS Fargate
10 2 (1.00%) Azure AKS
10 2 (1.00%) Azure Functions
10 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 25 (12.50%) Big Data
1 25 (12.50%) Redis
2 24 (12.00%) Elasticsearch
2 24 (12.00%) Hadoop
3 21 (10.50%) Scylla
4 6 (3.00%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (1.50%) Apache Hive
6 3 (1.50%) MongoDB
6 3 (1.50%) Neo4j
7 2 (1.00%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (1.00%) MySQL
7 2 (1.00%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.00%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.50%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (2.50%) 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%) Visual Studio
4 2 (1.00%) Subversion
5 1 (0.50%) Jenkins
General
1 55 (27.50%) Social Skills
2 25 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 24 (12.00%) Aerospace
4 15 (7.50%) Manufacturing
5 12 (6.00%) 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%) Marketing
10 2 (1.00%) Analytical Skills
10 2 (1.00%) Banking
10 2 (1.00%) Health Technology
10 2 (1.00%) Wearables
11 1 (0.50%) Aviation
11 1 (0.50%) Digital Healthcare
11 1 (0.50%) Military
11 1 (0.50%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (15.50%) GraphQL
2 30 (15.00%) Kafka
3 17 (8.50%) .NET
3 17 (8.50%) React
4 15 (7.50%) Spring
4 15 (7.50%) Spring Boot
5 11 (5.50%) 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 33 (16.50%) Algorithms
2 30 (15.00%) Data Structures
3 16 (8.00%) Cloud Native
4 9 (4.50%) Product Ownership
5 7 (3.50%) Virtual Team
6 6 (3.00%) IoT
6 6 (3.00%) Management Information System
7 5 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.50%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.50%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.50%) Smart City
9 2 (1.00%) Digital Currency
9 2 (1.00%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.50%) CUDA
10 1 (0.50%) Educational Technology
10 1 (0.50%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.50%) Ray Tracing
10 1 (0.50%) SIMD
Operating Systems
1 17 (8.50%) Linux
2 11 (5.50%) Windows
3 5 (2.50%) Mac OS
4 3 (1.50%) Android
5 2 (1.00%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (42.00%) Software Engineering
2 44 (22.00%) Problem-Solving
3 32 (16.00%) Cybersecurity
4 30 (15.00%) Data Science
5 28 (14.00%) Agile
6 26 (13.00%) Computer Security
6 26 (13.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
6 26 (13.00%) Threat Intelligence
7 24 (12.00%) Microservices
8 23 (11.50%) Roadmaps
9 22 (11.00%) Data Strategy
9 22 (11.00%) Mentoring
9 22 (11.00%) User Experience
10 21 (10.50%) High Availability
10 21 (10.50%) UX Research
11 19 (9.50%) Systems Engineering
12 17 (8.50%) Decision-Making
12 17 (8.50%) TDD
13 16 (8.00%) Analytics
13 16 (8.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 53 (26.50%) Java
2 48 (24.00%) Python
3 29 (14.50%) Go
4 23 (11.50%) Bash
4 23 (11.50%) Scala
5 18 (9.00%) TypeScript
6 15 (7.50%) C#
7 13 (6.50%) Kotlin
8 11 (5.50%) SQL
9 8 (4.00%) JavaScript
10 7 (3.50%) C
11 3 (1.50%) Assembly Language
11 3 (1.50%) C++
11 3 (1.50%) R
12 2 (1.00%) PHP
12 2 (1.00%) Ruby
12 2 (1.00%) Rust
13 1 (0.50%) AWK
13 1 (0.50%) Fortran
13 1 (0.50%) Perl
Qualifications
1 39 (19.50%) Security Cleared
2 20 (10.00%) Degree
3 15 (7.50%) DV Cleared
4 6 (3.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (2.00%) 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 35 (17.50%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.00%) SCOM
2 6 (3.00%) WSUS
3 5 (2.50%) Terraform
4 1 (0.50%) Puppet
Vendors
1 26 (13.00%) Dell
2 22 (11.00%) Google
3 10 (5.00%) 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