Principal Engineer Jobs in Belfast

Principal Engineer
County Antrim > Belfast

As of 14 November 2024, there is not enough information available from job vacancies posted within the last 6 months to determine the median Principal Engineer salary in Belfast.

6 months to
14 Nov 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 46 - 96
Rank change year-on-year - - -26
Permanent jobs requiring a Principal Engineer 8 0 2
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Belfast 1.94% - 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.98% - 0.27%
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - £70,000
75th Percentile - - £75,000
90th Percentile - - -
County Antrim median annual salary - - £70,000

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Belfast

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Belfast. 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 Belfast with a recognized job title 405 530 752
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 98.30% 98.15% 96.16%
Number of salaries quoted 205 206 362
10th Percentile £38,000 £29,622 £28,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £35,781 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £80,000 £68,250 £64,313
90th Percentile £94,500 £77,500 £77,500
County Antrim median annual salary £60,000 £50,000 £49,250
% change year-on-year +20.00% +1.52% +9.44%

Principal Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Belfast

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

Job vacancy trend for Principal Engineer in Belfast

Principal Engineer
Salary Trend in Belfast

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

Salary trend for Principal Engineer in Belfast

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

For the 6 months to 14 November 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 Belfast region featuring Principal Engineer in the job title.

1 7 (87.50%) DNS
1 7 (87.50%) IPv6
1 7 (87.50%) Firewall
1 7 (87.50%) QA
1 7 (87.50%) Reverse Proxy
1 7 (87.50%) Azure
1 7 (87.50%) Cybersecurity
1 7 (87.50%) Social Skills
2 6 (75.00%) Software Engineering
3 5 (62.50%) Artificial Intelligence
3 5 (62.50%) Video\Live Streaming
3 5 (62.50%) Scrum
3 5 (62.50%) Information Security
3 5 (62.50%) PhD
3 5 (62.50%) HTML
3 5 (62.50%) Degree
3 5 (62.50%) Computer Science
3 5 (62.50%) Unit Testing
3 5 (62.50%) Integration Testing
3 5 (62.50%) Software Architecture
3 5 (62.50%) HTML5
3 5 (62.50%) Business Process Improvement
3 5 (62.50%) Test Automation
3 5 (62.50%) User Stories
3 5 (62.50%) SDLC
3 5 (62.50%) Master's Degree
3 5 (62.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (62.50%) Node.js
3 5 (62.50%) Process Improvement
3 5 (62.50%) WebRTC

Principal Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Belfast 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 2 (25.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (87.50%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) Amazon ECR
2 2 (25.00%) AWS
2 2 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (25.00%) Azure AKS
2 2 (25.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 2 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (25.00%) Azure Event Grid
2 2 (25.00%) GCP
2 2 (25.00%) GitHub
2 2 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 7 (87.50%) DNS
1 7 (87.50%) Firewall
1 7 (87.50%) IPv6
1 7 (87.50%) Reverse Proxy
2 2 (25.00%) Multicast
2 2 (25.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Apache Archiva
1 2 (25.00%) Artifactory
1 2 (25.00%) Bitbucket
1 2 (25.00%) Git
1 2 (25.00%) GitLab
1 2 (25.00%) Sonatype Nexus
1 2 (25.00%) Vagrant
General
1 7 (87.50%) Social Skills
2 5 (62.50%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (62.50%) AngularJS
1 5 (62.50%) HTML
1 5 (62.50%) HTML5
1 5 (62.50%) Node.js
1 5 (62.50%) Sass
1 5 (62.50%) WebRTC
2 2 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (25.00%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) Video\Live Streaming
2 2 (25.00%) PKI
2 2 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Linux
1 2 (25.00%) VMS
1 2 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Cybersecurity
2 6 (75.00%) Software Engineering
3 5 (62.50%) Artificial Intelligence
3 5 (62.50%) Business Process Improvement
3 5 (62.50%) Computer Science
3 5 (62.50%) Information Security
3 5 (62.50%) Integration Testing
3 5 (62.50%) Process Improvement
3 5 (62.50%) Requirements Gathering
3 5 (62.50%) Scrum
3 5 (62.50%) SDLC
3 5 (62.50%) Software Architecture
3 5 (62.50%) Test Automation
3 5 (62.50%) Unit Testing
3 5 (62.50%) User Stories
4 2 (25.00%) Customer-Centricity
4 2 (25.00%) GitOps
4 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (25.00%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) TypeScript
2 2 (25.00%) Bash
2 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (25.00%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (62.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 5 (62.50%) Degree
1 5 (62.50%) Master's Degree
1 5 (62.50%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (87.50%) QA
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Ansible
1 2 (25.00%) Argo
1 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (25.00%) Kustomize
1 2 (25.00%) Prometheus
1 2 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Veracode