Principal Engineer Jobs in Edinburgh

Principal Engineer
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median Principal Engineer salary in Edinburgh is £100,000 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 80 125 148
Rank change year-on-year +45 +23 -30
Permanent jobs requiring a Principal Engineer 26 7 13
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 1.64% 0.39% 0.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.70% 0.41% 0.50%
Number of salaries quoted 11 7 10
10th Percentile - £54,500 £75,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £72,500 £79,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £85,000 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -2.86% +6.06%
75th Percentile - - £91,250
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median annual salary £70,000 £85,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -17.65% +6.25% +6.67%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Edinburgh

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Edinburgh. 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 Edinburgh with a recognized job title 1,527 1,708 2,580
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.22% 94.63% 97.84%
Number of salaries quoted 1,075 1,018 1,593
10th Percentile £32,600 £35,000 £33,488
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £71,250 £77,715 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,419 £85,000
Scotland median annual salary £52,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.45% - +15.79%

Principal Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Principal Engineer in Edinburgh

Principal Engineer
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Principal Engineer in Edinburgh.

Salary trend for Principal Engineer in Edinburgh

Principal Engineer
Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

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

Salary histogram for Principal Engineer in Edinburgh

Principal Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh region featuring Principal Engineer in the job title.

1 20 (76.92%) AWS
2 19 (73.08%) Java
2 19 (73.08%) Software Engineering
3 16 (61.54%) GCP
4 15 (57.69%) Algorithms
4 15 (57.69%) Data Science
4 15 (57.69%) Problem-Solving
4 15 (57.69%) Google
4 15 (57.69%) Social Skills
5 13 (50.00%) Python
5 13 (50.00%) Kafka
5 13 (50.00%) SaaS
5 13 (50.00%) Kubernetes
6 12 (46.15%) User Experience
6 12 (46.15%) Apache Spark
6 12 (46.15%) Data Structures
6 12 (46.15%) Cybersecurity
6 12 (46.15%) Elasticsearch
6 12 (46.15%) Go
6 12 (46.15%) Lucidchart
6 12 (46.15%) Scylla
6 12 (46.15%) Threat Intelligence
6 12 (46.15%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
6 12 (46.15%) GraphQL
6 12 (46.15%) Dell
6 12 (46.15%) Slack
6 12 (46.15%) Bash
6 12 (46.15%) Scala
6 12 (46.15%) Hadoop
6 12 (46.15%) Amazon S3

Principal Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 12 (46.15%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 20 (76.92%) AWS
2 16 (61.54%) GCP
3 13 (50.00%) SaaS
4 12 (46.15%) Amazon S3
4 12 (46.15%) Amazon SQS
4 12 (46.15%) Google Docs
4 12 (46.15%) Lucidchart
4 12 (46.15%) Miro
4 12 (46.15%) Slack
5 2 (7.69%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (46.15%) Big Data
1 12 (46.15%) Elasticsearch
1 12 (46.15%) Hadoop
1 12 (46.15%) Redis
1 12 (46.15%) Scylla
2 3 (11.54%) BigQuery
2 3 (11.54%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (11.54%) Looker
Development Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Cypress.io
General
1 15 (57.69%) Social Skills
2 12 (46.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (11.54%) Legal
4 1 (3.85%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (50.00%) Kafka
2 12 (46.15%) GraphQL
3 1 (3.85%) React
Miscellaneous
1 15 (57.69%) Algorithms
2 12 (46.15%) Data Structures
3 3 (11.54%) Management Information System
3 3 (11.54%) Product Ownership
3 3 (11.54%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (73.08%) Software Engineering
2 15 (57.69%) Data Science
2 15 (57.69%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (46.15%) Computer Security
3 12 (46.15%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 12 (46.15%) Cybersecurity
3 12 (46.15%) High Availability
3 12 (46.15%) Threat Intelligence
3 12 (46.15%) User Experience
3 12 (46.15%) UX Research
4 4 (15.38%) Agile
4 4 (15.38%) DevOps
4 4 (15.38%) Mentoring
5 3 (11.54%) Analytics
5 3 (11.54%) Computer Science
5 3 (11.54%) Data Engineering
5 3 (11.54%) Data Management
5 3 (11.54%) Data Strategy
5 3 (11.54%) Decision-Making
5 3 (11.54%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 19 (73.08%) Java
2 13 (50.00%) Python
3 12 (46.15%) Bash
3 12 (46.15%) Go
3 12 (46.15%) Scala
4 2 (7.69%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.54%) GDPR
2 1 (3.85%) QA
System Software
1 1 (3.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 15 (57.69%) Google
2 12 (46.15%) Dell
11 Principal Engineer jobs in Scotland