The first table below looks at the demand for the Principal Consultant role in IT jobs advertised for the Berkshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Principal Consultant in their job title over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the Berkshire region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Principal Consultant
Rank 204 208 195
Rank change year-on-year
+4 -13
Permanent jobs requiring a Principal Consultant 15 14 15
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Berkshire 0.288% 0.227% 0.288%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.306% 0.241% 0.306%
Number of salaries quoted 12 14 13
Average salary £75,000 £65,000 £80,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+15.38% -18.75%
90% offered a salary of more than £65,250 £65,000 £65,000
10% offered a salary of more than £77,500 £65,000 £90,000
UK excluding London average salary £70,000 £65,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year
+7.69% -13.33%
All Job Titles
Berkshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
4901 5818 4903
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Berkshire 94.07% 94.43% 94.27%
Number of salaries quoted 3900 4958 4077
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +1.19%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £27,500 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Principal Consultant
South East

Principal Consultant
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Principal Consultant across the Berkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Berkshire Principal Consultant Jobs Demand Trend

Principal Consultant
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Principal Consultant across the Berkshire region.

Berkshire Principal Consultant Salary Trend

Principal Consultant
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Principal Consultant across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Berkshire Principal Consultant Salary Histogram

Principal Consultant
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Principal Consultant within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Reading -2 12 £71,000 +9.23%
Newbury - 1 - -
Principal Consultant
South East

Principal Consultant
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Berkshire region that cited Principal Consultant in their job title mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled with Principal Consultant in their job title.

1 21 (51.22%) Telecoms
1 21 (51.22%) Broadband
2 14 (34.15%) Network Security
3 13 (31.71%) IPv6
4 11 (26.83%) Network Architecture
4 11 (26.83%) BSS
4 11 (26.83%) Network Planning
5 9 (21.95%) VMware
5 9 (21.95%) VMware Infrastructure
5 9 (21.95%) Business Intelligence
5 9 (21.95%) Data Warehouse
6 8 (19.51%) Data Modelling
6 8 (19.51%) Cisco
7 6 (14.63%) HP
7 6 (14.63%) Citrix
7 6 (14.63%) Juniper
7 6 (14.63%) Cognos
7 6 (14.63%) F5
7 6 (14.63%) Blue Coat
8 5 (12.20%) MCTS
8 5 (12.20%) MCITP
8 5 (12.20%) Technical Architecture
8 5 (12.20%) MS Excel
8 5 (12.20%) Business Objects
8 5 (12.20%) Microsoft
8 5 (12.20%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (12.20%) Change Control
9 4 (9.756%) Data Quality
9 4 (9.756%) Metadata Management
9 4 (9.756%) Oracle OWB

Principal Consultant
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Berkshire region that cited Principal Consultant in their job title mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled with Principal Consultant in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (7.317%) Application Packaging
2 2 (4.878%) CGI
2 2 (4.878%) XMPP
Application Platforms
1 4 (9.756%) SAS
1 4 (9.756%) Lync
2 2 (4.878%) Apache
Applications
1 5 (12.20%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.439%) Cognos Business Intelligence
Communications & Networking
1 21 (51.22%) Broadband
2 14 (34.15%) Network Security
3 13 (31.71%) IPv6
4 11 (26.83%) BSS
5 3 (7.317%) NetScaler
5 3 (7.317%) Cisco Nexus
5 3 (7.317%) Unified Communications
5 3 (7.317%) SSL
5 3 (7.317%) LAN
5 3 (7.317%) WLAN
5 3 (7.317%) IPsec
5 3 (7.317%) Firewall
5 3 (7.317%) Wireless
6 2 (4.878%) 3G
6 2 (4.878%) MPLS
6 2 (4.878%) OSPF
6 2 (4.878%) BGP
6 2 (4.878%) DSL
6 2 (4.878%) L2TP
6 2 (4.878%) TACACS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (21.95%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (9.756%) Oracle OWB
2 4 (9.756%) DataStage
2 4 (9.756%) SQL Server
2 4 (9.756%) DB2
2 4 (9.756%) QlikView
3 3 (7.317%) SAP BI
4 1 (2.439%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 4 (9.756%) Talend Open Studio
General
1 21 (51.22%) Telecoms
2 2 (4.878%) Multimedia
3 1 (2.439%) Marketing
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.878%) Digital Media
1 2 (4.878%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.878%) Debian
1 2 (4.878%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (26.83%) Network Architecture
1 11 (26.83%) Network Planning
2 9 (21.95%) Business Intelligence
3 8 (19.51%) Data Modelling
4 5 (12.20%) Technical Architecture
4 5 (12.20%) Change Control
5 4 (9.756%) Metadata Management
5 4 (9.756%) ETL
5 4 (9.756%) Information Management
5 4 (9.756%) Data Management
5 4 (9.756%) Data Governance
5 4 (9.756%) Data Architecture
6 3 (7.317%) Load Balancing
6 3 (7.317%) Business Analytics
6 3 (7.317%) Project Planning
6 3 (7.317%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (7.317%) Inmon Methodology
6 3 (7.317%) Kimball Methodology
6 3 (7.317%) Analytics
7 2 (4.878%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 2 (4.878%) C
1 2 (4.878%) Perl
1 2 (4.878%) SQL
1 2 (4.878%) Scala
Qualifications
1 5 (12.20%) MCTS
1 5 (12.20%) MCITP
1 5 (12.20%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (7.317%) CCEE
2 3 (7.317%) CCAA
2 3 (7.317%) CCIA
2 3 (7.317%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 3 (7.317%) CCIE
2 3 (7.317%) CCA
2 3 (7.317%) Citrix Certification
2 3 (7.317%) CCEA
3 2 (4.878%) CCNP
3 2 (4.878%) CCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.756%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.878%) ISO 9001
2 2 (4.878%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (4.878%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 9 (21.95%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (7.317%) XenApp
2 3 (7.317%) XenServer
2 3 (7.317%) XenDesktop
2 3 (7.317%) Microsoft App-V
3 2 (4.878%) FreeRADIUS
Systems Management
1 2 (4.878%) FortiGate
1 2 (4.878%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 9 (21.95%) VMware
2 8 (19.51%) Cisco
3 6 (14.63%) HP
3 6 (14.63%) Citrix
3 6 (14.63%) Juniper
3 6 (14.63%) Cognos
3 6 (14.63%) F5
3 6 (14.63%) Blue Coat
4 5 (12.20%) Business Objects
4 5 (12.20%) Microsoft
5 4 (9.756%) Ab Initio
5 4 (9.756%) Informatica
5 4 (9.756%) MicroStrategy
5 4 (9.756%) SAP
5 4 (9.756%) Oracle
5 4 (9.756%) Sybase
5 4 (9.756%) Netezza
5 4 (9.756%) Teradata
5 4 (9.756%) Tableau
5 4 (9.756%) Talend
Berkshire
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KDR
Salary: £65000 - £90000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
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Salary: £55000 - £65000 per annum + bonus + car allowance + package
Posted: 24 May 2013
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Qlikview, Cognos, Business Objects, Tableau, Talend, SAS, Microstrategy) Data Warehousing. (Oracle, DB2, Teradata. Sybase, SQL Server, Netezza etc) ETL. (Informatica, Ab Initio, DataStage, OWB, ODI, Talend etc) Data...
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Salary: £65000 - £85000 per annum + bonus / benefits
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