The first table below looks at the demand for the Principal Developer role in IT jobs advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Principal Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 17 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 England region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Principal Developer
Rank 825 857 849
Rank change year-on-year
+32 -8
Permanent jobs requiring a Principal Developer 5 6 10
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 0.005% 0.005% 0.009%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.005% 0.006% 0.009%
Number of salaries quoted 5 5 7
Average salary £45,000 £60,000 £55,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-25.00% +9.09%
90% offered a salary of more than £43,500 £60,000 £45,500
10% offered a salary of more than £48,000 £61,500 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year
-25.00% +20.00%
All Job Titles
England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
95250 107641 110251
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 94.45% 94.76% 94.31%
Number of salaries quoted 80210 93021 93605
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £27,500 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £67,500 £72,500 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Principal Developer
UK

Principal Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England Principal Developer Jobs Demand Trend

Principal Developer
Salary Trend

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

England Principal Developer Salary Trend

Principal Developer
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Principal Developer within the England region over the 3 months to 17 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
West Midlands - 3 £45,000 -
East of England - 1 £42,500 -
East Midlands - 1 £50,000 -
Principal Developer
UK

Principal Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the England region that cited Principal Developer 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 Developer in their job title.

1 10 (55.56%) JavaScript
1 10 (55.56%) CSS
2 9 (50.00%) Python
2 9 (50.00%) C#
3 8 (44.44%) HTML
3 8 (44.44%) PHP
4 7 (38.89%) .NET
4 7 (38.89%) SQL Server
4 7 (38.89%) TDD
5 6 (33.33%) Subversion
5 6 (33.33%) OO
5 6 (33.33%) Web Services
6 5 (27.78%) Computer Science
6 5 (27.78%) Continuous Integration
6 5 (27.78%) Git (software)
6 5 (27.78%) BDD
6 5 (27.78%) Jenkins
7 4 (22.22%) Cucumber
7 4 (22.22%) Sass
7 4 (22.22%) Hudson
7 4 (22.22%) Responsive Web Design
7 4 (22.22%) RESTful
7 4 (22.22%) Degree
7 4 (22.22%) JSON
7 4 (22.22%) Refactoring
7 4 (22.22%) Arabic Language
7 4 (22.22%) Hindi Language
7 4 (22.22%) Ruby
7 4 (22.22%) Extreme Programming
7 4 (22.22%) Web Design

Principal Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the England region that cited Principal Developer 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 Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 10 (55.56%) CSS
2 8 (44.44%) HTML
3 7 (38.89%) .NET
4 6 (33.33%) Web Services
5 4 (22.22%) XML
5 4 (22.22%) JSON
5 4 (22.22%) ASP.NET
5 4 (22.22%) RESTful
5 4 (22.22%) Sass
6 3 (16.67%) WCF
7 2 (11.11%) XHTML
8 1 (5.556%) Middleware
8 1 (5.556%) LAMP
8 1 (5.556%) SAP XI
8 1 (5.556%) Silverlight
8 1 (5.556%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 4 (22.22%) SharePoint
2 3 (16.67%) DotNetNuke
2 3 (16.67%) Umbraco
2 3 (16.67%) SharePoint 2010
3 1 (5.556%) Drupal
3 1 (5.556%) CMS
3 1 (5.556%) IIS
3 1 (5.556%) Apache
3 1 (5.556%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (5.556%) SAP CRM
1 1 (5.556%) SAP IS-U
Communications & Networking
1 4 (22.22%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (38.89%) SQL Server
2 3 (16.67%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (11.11%) Oracle 10g
3 2 (11.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (11.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (11.11%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (5.556%) Redis
4 1 (5.556%) SQL Server 2012
4 1 (5.556%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 6 (33.33%) Subversion
2 5 (27.78%) Git (software)
2 5 (27.78%) Jenkins
3 4 (22.22%) Cucumber
3 4 (22.22%) Hudson
4 1 (5.556%) PHPUnit
4 1 (5.556%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (5.556%) Ant
4 1 (5.556%) Visual Studio
4 1 (5.556%) NUnit
4 1 (5.556%) CruiseControl
General
1 4 (22.22%) Arabic Language
1 4 (22.22%) Hindi Language
2 1 (5.556%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 5 (27.78%) Computer Science
2 4 (22.22%) BBC
3 3 (16.67%) NHS
4 1 (5.556%) iDTV
Operating Systems
1 3 (16.67%) Android
1 3 (16.67%) Apple iOS
2 1 (5.556%) UNIX
2 1 (5.556%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (38.89%) TDD
2 6 (33.33%) OO
3 5 (27.78%) Continuous Integration
3 5 (27.78%) BDD
4 4 (22.22%) Responsive Web Design
4 4 (22.22%) Refactoring
4 4 (22.22%) Extreme Programming
4 4 (22.22%) Web Design
5 3 (16.67%) MVC
5 3 (16.67%) Scrum
6 2 (11.11%) Agile Software Development
6 2 (11.11%) E-Commerce
6 2 (11.11%) SOA
6 2 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
7 1 (5.556%) CRM
7 1 (5.556%) Integration Testing
7 1 (5.556%) Waterfall
7 1 (5.556%) Build Automation
Programming Languages
1 10 (55.56%) JavaScript
2 9 (50.00%) C#
2 9 (50.00%) Python
3 8 (44.44%) PHP
4 4 (22.22%) Ruby
5 3 (16.67%) C++
6 2 (11.11%) Java
6 2 (11.11%) Perl
6 2 (11.11%) SQL
6 2 (11.11%) T-SQL
6 2 (11.11%) C
7 1 (5.556%) PHP5
7 1 (5.556%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 4 (22.22%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 1 (5.556%) Varnish
Vendors
1 3 (16.67%) Oracle
2 2 (11.11%) Business Objects
2 2 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.556%) Zend
3 1 (5.556%) SAP
3 1 (5.556%) Siebel
3 1 (5.556%) Chordiant