Principal Engineer Jobs with Work from Home Options

Principal Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Principal Engineer salary in Work from Home is £75,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 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
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 384 393 476
Rank change year-on-year +9 +83 -49
Permanent jobs requiring a Principal Engineer 208 265 476
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.59% 0.70% 0.63%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.61% 0.73% 0.65%
Number of salaries quoted 131 236 223
10th Percentile £60,000 £64,375 £60,000
25th Percentile £64,470 £76,750 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £93,750 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +7.14% +16.67%
75th Percentile £112,500 £142,500 £105,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £160,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £85,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -11.76% - +21.43%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 33,957 36,209 73,459
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.26% 95.94% 97.30%
Number of salaries quoted 25,728 26,374 42,749
10th Percentile £33,250 £36,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,000 £45,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Principal Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Principal Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Principal Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Principal Engineer
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Principal Engineer.

Principal Engineer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Principal Engineer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Principal Engineer over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Principal Engineer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Principal Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 9 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 jobs with remote work options featuring Principal Engineer in the job title.

1 81 (38.94%) Software Engineering
2 74 (35.58%) AWS
3 52 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 47 (22.60%) Java
5 46 (22.12%) Python
6 43 (20.67%) Security Cleared
7 38 (18.27%) Problem-Solving
8 29 (13.94%) Kubernetes
9 26 (12.50%) Azure
10 25 (12.02%) Algorithms
10 25 (12.02%) Agile
11 24 (11.54%) Aerospace
11 24 (11.54%) Microservices
11 24 (11.54%) Mentoring
12 23 (11.06%) Roadmaps
12 23 (11.06%) GraphQL
13 22 (10.58%) Systems Engineering
13 22 (10.58%) GCP
13 22 (10.58%) Data Structures
13 22 (10.58%) Kafka
13 22 (10.58%) Go
13 22 (10.58%) Degree
14 21 (10.10%) SaaS
14 21 (10.10%) Data Strategy
15 20 (9.62%) C#
16 19 (9.13%) Cybersecurity
16 19 (9.13%) TypeScript
16 19 (9.13%) React
17 18 (8.65%) Apache Spark
17 18 (8.65%) .NET

Principal Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 18 (8.65%) Apache Spark
2 6 (2.88%) IIS
2 6 (2.88%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (2.88%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.44%) Apache
3 3 (1.44%) Confluence
4 1 (0.48%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.48%) nginx
Applications
1 6 (2.88%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 74 (35.58%) AWS
2 26 (12.50%) Azure
3 22 (10.58%) GCP
4 21 (10.10%) SaaS
5 16 (7.69%) Amazon SQS
6 15 (7.21%) Amazon S3
7 13 (6.25%) Google Docs
7 13 (6.25%) Lucidchart
7 13 (6.25%) Miro
7 13 (6.25%) Slack
8 8 (3.85%) Serverless
9 7 (3.37%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (2.40%) GitHub
11 4 (1.92%) Amazon EKS
12 3 (1.44%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (1.44%) Azure Functions
13 2 (0.96%) Amazon ECS
13 2 (0.96%) AWS Fargate
13 2 (0.96%) Azure AKS
13 2 (0.96%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.92%) Wireless
2 3 (1.44%) BGP
2 3 (1.44%) IGMP
2 3 (1.44%) IPv6
2 3 (1.44%) Multicast
2 3 (1.44%) OSPF
2 3 (1.44%) RIP
2 3 (1.44%) SNMP
2 3 (1.44%) VLAN
2 3 (1.44%) VoIP
2 3 (1.44%) VRRP
3 2 (0.96%) Ethernet
3 2 (0.96%) NGN
3 2 (0.96%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.48%) Bluetooth
4 1 (0.48%) OFDM
4 1 (0.48%) Software-Defined Radio
4 1 (0.48%) SSL
4 1 (0.48%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.48%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (8.17%) Big Data
2 16 (7.69%) Elasticsearch
2 16 (7.69%) Hadoop
2 16 (7.69%) Redis
3 13 (6.25%) Scylla
4 6 (2.88%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (2.88%) NoSQL
5 5 (2.40%) Relational Database
6 4 (1.92%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (1.44%) Apache Hive
7 3 (1.44%) MongoDB
7 3 (1.44%) Neo4j
8 1 (0.48%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.48%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.48%) MySQL
8 1 (0.48%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (3.37%) Git
2 4 (1.92%) Cypress.io
3 3 (1.44%) Android Studio
3 3 (1.44%) JIRA
3 3 (1.44%) Postman
3 3 (1.44%) Rational DOORS
3 3 (1.44%) Rational Rhapsody
3 3 (1.44%) Selenium
3 3 (1.44%) Subversion
3 3 (1.44%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.48%) Jenkins
General
1 52 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 24 (11.54%) Aerospace
3 17 (8.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 15 (7.21%) Manufacturing
5 13 (6.25%) Finance
6 10 (4.81%) Legal
7 6 (2.88%) Tech for Good
7 6 (2.88%) Telecoms
8 4 (1.92%) Automotive
8 4 (1.92%) Health Technology
8 4 (1.92%) Public Sector
9 3 (1.44%) Games
9 3 (1.44%) Wearables
10 2 (0.96%) Analytical Skills
10 2 (0.96%) Banking
10 2 (0.96%) Marketing
11 1 (0.48%) Aviation
11 1 (0.48%) Law
11 1 (0.48%) Military
11 1 (0.48%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (11.06%) GraphQL
2 22 (10.58%) Kafka
3 19 (9.13%) React
4 18 (8.65%) .NET
5 16 (7.69%) Spring
5 16 (7.69%) Spring Boot
6 11 (5.29%) Node.js
7 5 (2.40%) CSS
8 3 (1.44%) .NET Core
8 3 (1.44%) Playwright
8 3 (1.44%) PyTorch
8 3 (1.44%) RESTful
8 3 (1.44%) WinForms
9 2 (0.96%) Apache NiFi
9 2 (0.96%) DPDK
9 2 (0.96%) eBPF
9 2 (0.96%) gRPC
9 2 (0.96%) Keras
9 2 (0.96%) Micronaut
9 2 (0.96%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 25 (12.02%) Algorithms
2 22 (10.58%) Data Structures
3 11 (5.29%) Cloud Native
4 9 (4.33%) Product Ownership
5 6 (2.88%) IoT
5 6 (2.88%) Management Information System
6 5 (2.40%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.44%) Educational Technology
7 3 (1.44%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.44%) Smart City
8 2 (0.96%) Digital Currency
8 2 (0.96%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (0.96%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.48%) CUDA
9 1 (0.48%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.48%) Ray Tracing
9 1 (0.48%) SIMD
9 1 (0.48%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (5.29%) Linux
2 6 (2.88%) Windows
3 3 (1.44%) Android
4 2 (0.96%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (0.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.48%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (38.94%) Software Engineering
2 38 (18.27%) Problem-Solving
3 25 (12.02%) Agile
4 24 (11.54%) Mentoring
4 24 (11.54%) Microservices
5 23 (11.06%) Roadmaps
6 22 (10.58%) Systems Engineering
7 21 (10.10%) Data Strategy
8 19 (9.13%) Cybersecurity
9 16 (7.69%) Data Science
9 16 (7.69%) Decision-Making
10 15 (7.21%) Data Engineering
11 14 (6.73%) Computer Science
11 14 (6.73%) User Experience
12 13 (6.25%) Computer Security
12 13 (6.25%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
12 13 (6.25%) DevOps
12 13 (6.25%) High Availability
12 13 (6.25%) TDD
12 13 (6.25%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 47 (22.60%) Java
2 46 (22.12%) Python
3 22 (10.58%) Go
4 20 (9.62%) C#
5 19 (9.13%) TypeScript
6 16 (7.69%) Scala
7 15 (7.21%) Bash
7 15 (7.21%) SQL
8 13 (6.25%) Kotlin
9 9 (4.33%) JavaScript
10 7 (3.37%) C
11 6 (2.88%) C++
12 3 (1.44%) Assembly Language
12 3 (1.44%) R
12 3 (1.44%) Rust
13 2 (0.96%) PHP
13 2 (0.96%) Ruby
14 1 (0.48%) AWK
14 1 (0.48%) Fortran
14 1 (0.48%) Perl
Qualifications
1 43 (20.67%) Security Cleared
2 22 (10.58%) Degree
3 16 (7.69%) DV Cleared
4 7 (3.37%) SC Cleared
5 6 (2.88%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.44%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.44%) MCT
6 3 (1.44%) Sun Certification
7 2 (0.96%) Chartered Engineer
8 1 (0.48%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.40%) QA
2 1 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 15288
System Software
1 7 (3.37%) Docker
2 6 (2.88%) Active Directory
2 6 (2.88%) Forefront TMG
2 6 (2.88%) Hyper-V
2 6 (2.88%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (2.88%) VMware Workstation
3 2 (0.96%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 29 (13.94%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.88%) SCOM
2 6 (2.88%) WSUS
3 5 (2.40%) Terraform
4 1 (0.48%) Puppet
Vendors
1 14 (6.73%) Google
2 13 (6.25%) Dell
3 12 (5.77%) Microsoft
4 6 (2.88%) VMware
5 3 (1.44%) Progress
6 2 (0.96%) ForgeRock
6 2 (0.96%) Oracle
6 2 (0.96%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.48%) EMC
7 1 (0.48%) Intel