The first table below looks at the demand for the Principal Engineer role in IT jobs advertised for the North West region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Principal Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 19 June 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 North West region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Principal Engineer
Rank 241 248 229
Rank change year-on-year
+7 -19
Permanent jobs requiring a Principal Engineer 5 3 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West 0.068% 0.041% 0.014%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.072% 0.043% 0.015%
Number of salaries quoted 3 3 0
Average salary £34,500 £41,500 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
-16.86% -
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
All Job Titles
North West
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
6980 7021 6692
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West 95.43% 95.92% 95.40%
Number of salaries quoted 5948 6227 5918
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
90% offered a salary of more than £23,500 £23,000 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-1.29% +2.66%
Principal Engineer
England

Principal Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West Principal Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Principal Engineer
Salary Trend

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

North West Principal Engineer Salary Trend

Principal Engineer
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Principal Engineer within the North West region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
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Job
Vacancies
Cumbria - 4 £34,500 -
Manchester -13 1 £38,500 -7.22% 2
Principal Engineer
England

Principal Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the North West region that cited Principal Engineer 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 Engineer in their job title.

1 5 (55.56%) Linux
2 4 (44.44%) Agile Software Development
2 4 (44.44%) BBC
2 4 (44.44%) LAMP
2 4 (44.44%) Games
2 4 (44.44%) Scrum
2 4 (44.44%) Apache
2 4 (44.44%) UML
2 4 (44.44%) SOA
2 4 (44.44%) Java
2 4 (44.44%) JavaScript
2 4 (44.44%) PHP
2 4 (44.44%) SQL
2 4 (44.44%) ActionScript
2 4 (44.44%) MySQL
2 4 (44.44%) Ruby
2 4 (44.44%) Web Services
2 4 (44.44%) Ontologies
2 4 (44.44%) Semantic Web
2 4 (44.44%) Game Development
2 4 (44.44%) REST
3 2 (22.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (22.22%) Project Planning
3 2 (22.22%) MS PowerPoint
3 2 (22.22%) MS Office
3 2 (22.22%) SAP
3 2 (22.22%) MS Excel
3 2 (22.22%) CISSP
3 2 (22.22%) Project Management
3 2 (22.22%) CISM

Principal Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the North West region that cited Principal Engineer 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 Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (44.44%) LAMP
1 4 (44.44%) Web Services
1 4 (44.44%) REST
Application Platforms
1 4 (44.44%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (22.22%) MS PowerPoint
1 2 (22.22%) MS Office
1 2 (22.22%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) Ethernet
1 1 (11.11%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (44.44%) MySQL
General
1 4 (44.44%) Games
2 1 (11.11%) Music Industry
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) BBC
1 4 (44.44%) Ontologies
1 4 (44.44%) Semantic Web
2 2 (22.22%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 5 (55.56%) Linux
2 1 (11.11%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Agile Software Development
1 4 (44.44%) Scrum
1 4 (44.44%) UML
1 4 (44.44%) SOA
1 4 (44.44%) Game Development
2 2 (22.22%) Project Planning
2 2 (22.22%) Project Management
2 2 (22.22%) Security Management
2 2 (22.22%) Information Security
2 2 (22.22%) Information Management
3 1 (11.11%) OO
3 1 (11.11%) Digital Signal Processing
3 1 (11.11%) Signal Processing
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) Java
1 4 (44.44%) JavaScript
1 4 (44.44%) PHP
1 4 (44.44%) SQL
1 4 (44.44%) ActionScript
1 4 (44.44%) Ruby
2 1 (11.11%) Embedded C
2 1 (11.11%) Embedded C++
2 1 (11.11%) C
2 1 (11.11%) C++
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) CISSP
1 2 (22.22%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) SAP
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