The first table below looks at the demand for the Principal Software 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 Software Engineer 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 Oxford region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Principal Software Engineer
Rank - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Principal Software Engineer 0 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxford - - -
As % of the Job Titles category - - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Average salary - - -
UK excluding London average salary £50,000 £47,500 £42,000
% change year-on-year
+5.26% +13.09%
All Job Titles
Oxford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
974 615 777
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxford 94.29% 97.00% 97.13%
Number of salaries quoted 838 547 703
Average salary £42,500 £40,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.25% -
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £26,000 £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 Software Engineer
Oxfordshire

Principal Software Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxford Principal Software Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Principal Software Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Oxford Principal Software Engineer Salary Trend

Principal Software Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Oxford region that cited Principal Software 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 Software Engineer in their job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Web Services
1 2 (100.00%) XML
1 2 (100.00%) RSS
1 2 (100.00%) XML Schema
1 2 (100.00%) RDF
1 2 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 2 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 2 (100.00%) Spring
1 2 (100.00%) JSON
1 2 (100.00%) RESTful
1 2 (100.00%) Hadoop
1 2 (100.00%) Dublin Core
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon AWS
1 2 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 2 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon SQS
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon EMR
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon DynamoDB
2 1 (50.00%) J2EE
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Refactoring
2 1 (50.00%) QA
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Data Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Systems Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Cost-Benefit Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Java EE
2 1 (50.00%) Taxonomies
2 1 (50.00%) Ontologies
2 1 (50.00%) Degree

Principal Software Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Oxford region that cited Principal Software 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 Software Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (100.00%) Web Services
1 2 (100.00%) XML
1 2 (100.00%) RSS
1 2 (100.00%) XML Schema
1 2 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 2 (100.00%) Spring
1 2 (100.00%) JSON
1 2 (100.00%) RESTful
2 1 (50.00%) J2EE
2 1 (50.00%) Java EE
Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon SQS
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon EMR
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Hadoop
1 2 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 2 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon DynamoDB
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Taxonomies
1 1 (50.00%) Ontologies
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) RDF
1 2 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Refactoring
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Data Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Systems Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Cost-Benefit Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Dublin Core
2 1 (50.00%) QA