The first table below looks at the demand for the Principal Engineer role in IT jobs advertised for the Oxford 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 21 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 Oxford region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Principal Engineer
Rank 75 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs requiring a Principal Engineer 7 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxford 0.676% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.716% - -
Number of salaries quoted 7 0 0
Average salary £45,000 - -
UK excluding London average salary £50,000 £47,500 £45,250
% change year-on-year
+5.26% +4.97%
All Job Titles
Oxford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
978 617 769
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxford 94.40% 96.71% 97.34%
Number of salaries quoted 843 548 700
Average salary £42,500 £40,000 £41,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.25% -2.43%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £27,500 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Principal Engineer
Oxfordshire

Principal Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxford 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 Oxford region.

Oxford Principal Engineer Salary Trend

Principal Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Oxford 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 8 (80.00%) Degree
2 7 (70.00%) C
2 7 (70.00%) Embedded C
2 7 (70.00%) Electronics
2 7 (70.00%) Automotive
2 7 (70.00%) Assembly Language
2 7 (70.00%) Firmware
3 3 (30.00%) Spring
3 3 (30.00%) Hibernate
3 3 (30.00%) Agile Software Development
3 3 (30.00%) RDF
3 3 (30.00%) Web Services
3 3 (30.00%) XML
3 3 (30.00%) RSS
3 3 (30.00%) XML Schema
3 3 (30.00%) MongoDB
3 3 (30.00%) NoSQL
3 3 (30.00%) Amazon SQS
3 3 (30.00%) RESTful
3 3 (30.00%) Hadoop
3 3 (30.00%) Dublin Core
3 3 (30.00%) Amazon AWS
3 3 (30.00%) JSON
3 3 (30.00%) Amazon EMR
3 3 (30.00%) Amazon DynamoDB
4 2 (20.00%) Refactoring
4 2 (20.00%) QA
4 2 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (20.00%) Data Architecture
4 2 (20.00%) Systems Analysis

Principal Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Oxford 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 3 (30.00%) Spring
1 3 (30.00%) Hibernate
1 3 (30.00%) Web Services
1 3 (30.00%) XML
1 3 (30.00%) RSS
1 3 (30.00%) XML Schema
1 3 (30.00%) RESTful
1 3 (30.00%) JSON
2 2 (20.00%) Java EE
3 1 (10.00%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 3 (30.00%) Amazon SQS
1 3 (30.00%) Amazon AWS
1 3 (30.00%) Amazon EMR
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) MongoDB
1 3 (30.00%) NoSQL
1 3 (30.00%) Hadoop
1 3 (30.00%) Amazon DynamoDB
General
1 7 (70.00%) Electronics
1 7 (70.00%) Automotive
Miscellaneous
1 7 (70.00%) Firmware
2 2 (20.00%) Taxonomies
2 2 (20.00%) Ontologies
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (30.00%) Agile Software Development
1 3 (30.00%) RDF
2 2 (20.00%) Refactoring
2 2 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (20.00%) Data Architecture
2 2 (20.00%) Systems Analysis
2 2 (20.00%) Cost-Benefit Analysis
3 1 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (10.00%) TDD
3 1 (10.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 7 (70.00%) C
1 7 (70.00%) Embedded C
1 7 (70.00%) Assembly Language
2 1 (10.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 8 (80.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) Dublin Core
2 2 (20.00%) QA
Oxford, Oxfordshire
My client is looking to expand the team currently based at their site in Oxford by bringing on board a Principal Firmware Engineer to be focal point in...
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Salary: £40000 - £50000.00 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 14 May 2013