Principal Software Engineer Jobs in London

Principal Software Engineer
England > London

The median Principal Software Engineer salary in London is £92,500 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 446 550 677
Rank change year-on-year +104 +127 -102
Permanent jobs requiring a Principal Software Engineer 63 53 250
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.25% 0.17% 0.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% 0.18% 0.35%
Number of salaries quoted 54 38 56
10th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £76,875
25th Percentile £85,000 £80,688 £80,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £92,500 £107,500 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.95% +19.44% -5.26%
75th Percentile £112,500 £160,000 £107,500
90th Percentile £118,875 - £115,000
England median annual salary £80,000 £90,000 £87,500
% change year-on-year -11.11% +2.86% +2.94%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in 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 London with a recognized job title 23,403 29,645 71,541
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.44% 94.97% 96.13%
Number of salaries quoted 17,198 22,316 34,853
10th Percentile £37,500 £41,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £54,988 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,713 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.53% +1.19% +9.09%

Principal Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Principal Software Engineer in London

Principal Software Engineer
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Principal Software Engineer in London

Principal Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in London

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

Salary histogram for Principal Software Engineer in London

Principal Software Engineer
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Principal Software Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 12 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
Central London +44 7 £92,500 -13.95% 2
South London -8 2 £95,000 -
Principal Software Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, Principal Software 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 London region featuring Principal Software Engineer in the job title.

1 63 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 33 (52.38%) AWS
3 17 (26.98%) Microservices
4 16 (25.40%) Java
5 15 (23.81%) Kotlin
6 14 (22.22%) Spring Boot
6 14 (22.22%) Finance
6 14 (22.22%) Spring
6 14 (22.22%) Agile
7 13 (20.63%) React
8 12 (19.05%) Serverless
8 12 (19.05%) DevOps
8 12 (19.05%) Scrum
9 11 (17.46%) Kanban
9 11 (17.46%) Test Automation
9 11 (17.46%) Node.js
9 11 (17.46%) Data Strategy
9 11 (17.46%) AWS Lambda
9 11 (17.46%) Integration Patterns
10 10 (15.87%) Containerisation
10 10 (15.87%) TypeScript
10 10 (15.87%) Confluence
10 10 (15.87%) JIRA
10 10 (15.87%) Test Scripting
10 10 (15.87%) Migration
10 10 (15.87%) C#
10 10 (15.87%) SOA
11 9 (14.29%) Decision-Making
12 8 (12.70%) Python
12 8 (12.70%) Security Cleared

Principal Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 10 (15.87%) Confluence
2 1 (1.59%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 33 (52.38%) AWS
2 12 (19.05%) Serverless
3 11 (17.46%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (7.94%) GCP
5 2 (3.17%) Azure
6 1 (1.59%) Azure Functions
6 1 (1.59%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.59%) Big Data
1 1 (1.59%) BigQuery
1 1 (1.59%) NoSQL
1 1 (1.59%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (15.87%) JIRA
General
1 14 (22.22%) Finance
2 7 (11.11%) Banking
2 7 (11.11%) Marketing
3 6 (9.52%) Health Technology
4 5 (7.94%) Social Skills
5 4 (6.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (4.76%) Legal
7 2 (3.17%) Law
8 1 (1.59%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (1.59%) Aviation
8 1 (1.59%) Electronics
8 1 (1.59%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (22.22%) Spring
1 14 (22.22%) Spring Boot
2 13 (20.63%) React
3 11 (17.46%) Node.js
4 3 (4.76%) .NET
4 3 (4.76%) Quarkus
5 2 (3.17%) Micronaut
5 2 (3.17%) OAuth
5 2 (3.17%) OAuth2
5 2 (3.17%) OpenID
5 2 (3.17%) RESTful
6 1 (1.59%) .NET Core
6 1 (1.59%) AngularJS
6 1 (1.59%) Express.js
6 1 (1.59%) GStreamer
6 1 (1.59%) NumPy
6 1 (1.59%) Pandas
6 1 (1.59%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (1.59%) scikit-learn
6 1 (1.59%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (4.76%) Data Structures
2 2 (3.17%) Cloud Native
2 2 (3.17%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (3.17%) PKI
3 1 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.59%) Linux
1 1 (1.59%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 17 (26.98%) Microservices
3 14 (22.22%) Agile
4 12 (19.05%) DevOps
4 12 (19.05%) Scrum
5 11 (17.46%) Data Strategy
5 11 (17.46%) Integration Patterns
5 11 (17.46%) Kanban
5 11 (17.46%) Test Automation
6 10 (15.87%) Containerisation
6 10 (15.87%) Migration
6 10 (15.87%) SOA
6 10 (15.87%) Test Scripting
7 9 (14.29%) Decision-Making
8 7 (11.11%) Data Modelling
8 7 (11.11%) Impact Analysis
8 7 (11.11%) Iteration Planning
8 7 (11.11%) OWASP
8 7 (11.11%) Performance Management
8 7 (11.11%) UML
Programming Languages
1 16 (25.40%) Java
2 15 (23.81%) Kotlin
3 10 (15.87%) C#
3 10 (15.87%) TypeScript
4 8 (12.70%) Python
5 3 (4.76%) C++
6 2 (3.17%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.59%) C
7 1 (1.59%) Ruby
7 1 (1.59%) Scala
7 1 (1.59%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (12.70%) Security Cleared
2 5 (7.94%) SC Cleared
3 3 (4.76%) Degree
3 3 (4.76%) DV Cleared
3 3 (4.76%) Sun Certification
4 2 (3.17%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.17%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (4.76%) Progress
2 1 (1.59%) Google