Principal Engineer Jobs in the South West

Principal Engineer
England > South West

The median Principal Engineer salary in the South West 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 135 232 215
Rank change year-on-year +97 -17 0
Permanent jobs requiring a Principal Engineer 180 37 99
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 1.81% 0.56% 1.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.88% 0.63% 1.22%
Number of salaries quoted 107 31 68
10th Percentile £55,000 £47,500 £62,625
25th Percentile £64,375 £65,000 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -5.88% +25.93%
75th Percentile £80,000 £95,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £102,500 -
England median annual salary £77,500 £85,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -8.82% - +21.43%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the South West. 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 West with a recognized job title 9,582 5,850 8,093
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.16% 88.91% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 7,009 3,668 5,118
10th Percentile £28,000 £30,000 £29,150
25th Percentile £36,750 £37,879 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £65,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £79,050 £80,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,331 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.98% +0.55% +9.09%

Principal Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Principal Engineer in the South West

Principal Engineer
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for Principal Engineer in the South West

Principal Engineer
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Principal Engineer in the South West over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Principal Engineer in the South West

Principal Engineer
Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 1 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
Bristol +50 74 £65,000 -27.78% 14
Devon - 29 £70,000 - 2
Somerset +27 26 £65,000 -13.33% 1
Gloucestershire -17 20 £75,000 -5.06% 7
Dorset -8 17 £80,000 +77.78% 1
Wiltshire -3 8 - - 2
Cornwall - 6 £80,000 -
Principal Engineer
England

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

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 job ads across the South West region featuring Principal Engineer in the job title.

1 40 (22.22%) Systems Engineering
2 39 (21.67%) Agile
3 37 (20.56%) Software Engineering
4 33 (18.33%) Self-Motivation
5 32 (17.78%) Problem-Solving
6 29 (16.11%) Mentoring
7 28 (15.56%) Google
8 26 (14.44%) Analytical Skills
9 25 (13.89%) Data Engineering
9 25 (13.89%) BigQuery
9 25 (13.89%) GCP
9 25 (13.89%) Looker
9 25 (13.89%) Data Pipeline
9 25 (13.89%) Platform Engineering
10 24 (13.33%) Security Cleared
10 24 (13.33%) Aerospace
11 22 (12.22%) DevOps
12 21 (11.67%) Change Management
12 21 (11.67%) DataOps
12 21 (11.67%) GDPR
12 21 (11.67%) Data Science
13 19 (10.56%) Social Skills
14 15 (8.33%) Roadmaps
14 15 (8.33%) Degree
15 13 (7.22%) Technical Leadership
16 12 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 12 (6.67%) Firmware
17 11 (6.11%) Technology Roadmap
18 10 (5.56%) Java
19 9 (5.00%) SDLC

Principal Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 3 (1.67%) IIS
1 3 (1.67%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (1.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 25 (13.89%) GCP
2 3 (1.67%) AWS
2 3 (1.67%) Dropbox
2 3 (1.67%) Google Drive
2 3 (1.67%) OneDrive
3 2 (1.11%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.11%) Firewall
2 1 (0.56%) Bluetooth
2 1 (0.56%) OFDM
2 1 (0.56%) Software-Defined Radio
2 1 (0.56%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (0.56%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (13.89%) BigQuery
1 25 (13.89%) Looker
2 4 (2.22%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 6 (3.33%) Rational DOORS
2 3 (1.67%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 26 (14.44%) Analytical Skills
2 24 (13.33%) Aerospace
3 19 (10.56%) Social Skills
4 8 (4.44%) Finance
5 6 (3.33%) Electronics
6 5 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.22%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.67%) Games
8 3 (1.67%) Military
8 3 (1.67%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.56%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.56%) .NET
1 1 (0.56%) .NET Framework
1 1 (0.56%) AngularJS
1 1 (0.56%) Flutter
1 1 (0.56%) PyTorch
1 1 (0.56%) Qt
1 1 (0.56%) React
1 1 (0.56%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 33 (18.33%) Self-Motivation
2 7 (3.89%) FPGA
3 4 (2.22%) Mobile App
4 3 (1.67%) IoT
4 3 (1.67%) iPad
5 2 (1.11%) Acoustics
5 2 (1.11%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.11%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.22%) Android
1 4 (2.22%) Apple iOS
1 4 (2.22%) Linux
2 3 (1.67%) Windows
3 1 (0.56%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (22.22%) Systems Engineering
2 39 (21.67%) Agile
3 37 (20.56%) Software Engineering
4 32 (17.78%) Problem-Solving
5 29 (16.11%) Mentoring
6 25 (13.89%) Data Engineering
6 25 (13.89%) Data Pipeline
6 25 (13.89%) Platform Engineering
7 22 (12.22%) DevOps
8 21 (11.67%) Change Management
8 21 (11.67%) Data Science
8 21 (11.67%) DataOps
9 15 (8.33%) Roadmaps
10 13 (7.22%) Technical Leadership
11 12 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 11 (6.11%) Technology Roadmap
13 9 (5.00%) SDLC
14 8 (4.44%) Cybersecurity
15 7 (3.89%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
16 6 (3.33%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 10 (5.56%) Java
2 8 (4.44%) C
3 7 (3.89%) SQL
4 6 (3.33%) C++
5 5 (2.78%) Python
6 4 (2.22%) Kotlin
6 4 (2.22%) Scala
6 4 (2.22%) Swift
7 3 (1.67%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.56%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 24 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 15 (8.33%) Degree
3 6 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
3 6 (3.33%) DV Cleared
4 3 (1.67%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.56%) Chartered Engineer
5 1 (0.56%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (11.67%) GDPR
2 4 (2.22%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.11%) Def Stans
3 2 (1.11%) IEC 61508
3 2 (1.11%) QA
4 1 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 15288
System Software
1 12 (6.67%) Firmware
2 7 (3.89%) Embedded Firmware
3 3 (1.67%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.67%) Forefront TMG
3 3 (1.67%) Hyper-V
3 3 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.67%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 3 (1.67%) SCOM
1 3 (1.67%) WSUS
Vendors
1 28 (15.56%) Google
2 6 (3.33%) QinetiQ
3 5 (2.78%) Microsoft
4 3 (1.67%) VMware