Principal Engineer Jobs in Central London

Principal Engineer
London > Central London

The median Principal Engineer salary in Central London is £107,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 November 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 187 174 258
Rank change year-on-year -13 +84 -35
Permanent jobs requiring a Principal Engineer 23 20 32
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 0.61% 0.57% 0.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.65% 0.59% 0.45%
Number of salaries quoted 11 19 26
10th Percentile - £92,500 £67,945
25th Percentile £80,000 £93,750 £87,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £107,500 £115,000 £112,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% +2.22% +19.68%
75th Percentile £120,000 £135,000 £122,500
90th Percentile £130,000 £140,000 £124,375
London median annual salary £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
% change year-on-year - - +8.11%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Central London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Central London. 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 Central London with a recognized job title 3,525 3,373 7,187
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.05% 96.65% 95.64%
Number of salaries quoted 1,989 2,850 5,820
10th Percentile £42,500 £39,085 £42,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £52,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - -3.33% +7.14%
75th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
London median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year - +3.45% +3.57%

Principal Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Principal Engineer in Central London

Principal Engineer
Salary Trend in Central London

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

Salary trend for Principal Engineer in Central London

Principal Engineer
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Principal Engineer in Central London over the 6 months to 14 November 2024.

Salary histogram for Principal Engineer in Central London

Principal Engineer
Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Principal Engineer within the Central London region over the 6 months to 14 November 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
City of London +14 22 £107,500 -6.52% 2
City of Westminster - 1 - -
Principal Engineer
London

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

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 Central London region featuring Principal Engineer in the job title.

1 11 (47.83%) Continuous Improvement
2 10 (43.48%) Enterprise Software
2 10 (43.48%) Presales
2 10 (43.48%) Linux
2 10 (43.48%) Artificial Intelligence
2 10 (43.48%) NAS
2 10 (43.48%) Bash
2 10 (43.48%) Tech Ops
3 8 (34.78%) Finance
4 7 (30.43%) Social Skills
4 7 (30.43%) DevOps
4 7 (30.43%) Data Centre
5 6 (26.09%) Presentation Skills
5 6 (26.09%) NFS
6 5 (21.74%) Degree
7 4 (17.39%) Mathematics
7 4 (17.39%) Requirements Engineering
7 4 (17.39%) Software Engineering
8 2 (8.70%) Information Security
8 2 (8.70%) Azure
8 2 (8.70%) Infrastructure as Code
8 2 (8.70%) GCP
8 2 (8.70%) Application Security
8 2 (8.70%) Platform Engineering
9 1 (4.35%) Containerisation
9 1 (4.35%) Incident Response
9 1 (4.35%) Technical Leadership
9 1 (4.35%) GitHub
9 1 (4.35%) Mentoring
9 1 (4.35%) TypeScript

Principal Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 1 (4.35%) Revit
Cloud Services
1 2 (8.70%) Azure
1 2 (8.70%) GCP
2 1 (4.35%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (4.35%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (4.35%) AWS
2 1 (4.35%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (4.35%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 10 (43.48%) NAS
Development Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Ant
1 1 (4.35%) CircleCI
General
1 8 (34.78%) Finance
2 7 (30.43%) Social Skills
3 6 (26.09%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.35%) Material-UI
1 1 (4.35%) React
Miscellaneous
1 10 (43.48%) Enterprise Software
2 7 (30.43%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.35%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (4.35%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 10 (43.48%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (47.83%) Continuous Improvement
2 10 (43.48%) Artificial Intelligence
2 10 (43.48%) Presales
2 10 (43.48%) Tech Ops
3 7 (30.43%) DevOps
4 4 (17.39%) Mathematics
4 4 (17.39%) Requirements Engineering
4 4 (17.39%) Software Engineering
5 2 (8.70%) Application Security
5 2 (8.70%) Information Security
5 2 (8.70%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (8.70%) Platform Engineering
6 1 (4.35%) Containerisation
6 1 (4.35%) Incident Response
6 1 (4.35%) Infrastructure Automation
6 1 (4.35%) OO
6 1 (4.35%) Purple Team
6 1 (4.35%) Red Team
6 1 (4.35%) Technical Leadership
6 1 (4.35%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 10 (43.48%) Bash
2 1 (4.35%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (21.74%) Degree
System Software
1 6 (26.09%) NFS
2 1 (4.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (4.35%) Kubernetes
1 1 (4.35%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (4.35%) Google
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft