The first table below looks at the demand for the Principal Consultant role in IT jobs advertised for the Scotland 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 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 Scotland region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Principal Consultant
Rank - 151 146
Permanent jobs requiring a Principal Consultant 0 3 10
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland - 0.087% 0.291%
As % of the Job Titles category - 0.092% 0.307%
Number of salaries quoted 0 3 8
Average salary - £72,500 £90,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -19.44%
UK excluding London average salary £70,000 £65,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year
+7.69% -13.33%
All Job Titles
Scotland
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
2957 3263 3257
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 94.47% 94.88% 94.74%
Number of salaries quoted 1764 2393 2441
Average salary £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.66% -6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £25,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Principal Consultant
UK

Principal Consultant
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland Principal Consultant Salary Trend

Principal Consultant
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland 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 1 (50.00%) CISA
1 1 (50.00%) CISM
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) GAP Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Information Security Management
1 1 (50.00%) Security Management
1 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (50.00%) MVC
1 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (50.00%) GIAC
1 1 (50.00%) Risk Assessment
1 1 (50.00%) Information Security
1 1 (50.00%) CESG
1 1 (50.00%) CESG CLAS
1 1 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (50.00%) TDD
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) COBIT
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (50.00%) PCI DSS
1 1 (50.00%) PCI QSA
1 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 1 (50.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) SIEM
1 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET

Principal Consultant
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland 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 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (50.00%) CESG
1 1 (50.00%) CESG CLAS
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) GAP Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Information Security Management
1 1 (50.00%) Security Management
1 1 (50.00%) MVC
1 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (50.00%) Risk Assessment
1 1 (50.00%) Information Security
1 1 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (50.00%) TDD
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (50.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) SIEM
1 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CISSP
1 1 (50.00%) CISA
1 1 (50.00%) CISM
1 1 (50.00%) GIAC
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) PCI QSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (50.00%) COBIT
1 1 (50.00%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Dell