South East Principal Engineer Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for the Principal Engineer role in IT jobs within the South East region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. 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 15 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Principal Engineer
Location Avon Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Berkshire Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Devon Dorset East Midlands East of England East Sussex England Essex Gatwick Gloucester Gloucestershire Hampshire Hastings Hertfordshire Isle of Wight Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Liverpool London Merseyside Middlesex Newport North West Peterborough Portsmouth Reading Sheffield Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire UK Wales West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Yorkshire	3 months to 15 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	403	463
Rank change on same period last year	+60
Matching permanent IT job ads	44	39
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.026 %	0.017 %
As % of the category below	0.140 %	0.093 %
Salaries quoted	23	34
Average minimum salary	£43,306	£44,286
Average salary	£45,927	£48,214
% change on same period last year	-4.74 %
Average maximum salary	£48,548	£52,143
UK excluding London average salary	£45,572	£43,976
% change on same period last year	+3.62 %
Job Titles South East
Matching permanent IT job ads	31331	42023
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	18.31 %	18.46 %
Salaries quoted	26009	34638
Average minimum salary	£36,614	£37,106
Average salary	£39,883	£40,355
% change on same period last year	-1.17 %
Average maximum salary	£43,152	£43,605
UK excluding London average salary	£38,166	£39,195
% change on same period last year	-2.62 %
Principal Engineer England

Principal Engineer
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Principal Engineer across the South East region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Principal Engineer
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Principal Engineer across the South East region.

Principal Engineer
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Principal Engineer across the South East region over the 3 months to 15 October 2008.

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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 South East region over the 3 months to 15 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Hampshire	0	15	£40,375	-16.17 %
Buckinghamshire	+25	7	-	-
Berkshire	+40	7	£45,200	-6.80 %
Middlesex	+30	6	£50,000	-9.09 %
East Sussex	-6	5	£48,000	+7.71 %
Isle of Wight	-	1	£40,000	-
West Sussex	-	1	£41,500	-

Principal Engineer England

Principal Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 15 October 2008, IT jobs across the South East 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 29 (25.00 %) Degree 2 25 (21.55 %) Electric 3 23 (19.83 %) Electronics 4 21 (18.10 %) C++ 5 17 (14.66 %) Pensions 6 14 (12.07 %) Multimedia 6 14 (12.07 %) Aerospace 7 13 (11.21 %) ASIC 8 12 (10.34 %) C 8 12 (10.34 %) UNIX 8 12 (10.34 %) Field-Programmable Gate Array 9 11 (9.483 %) Java 10 10 (8.621 %) Project Management 11 9 (7.759 %) Smartcard 11 9 (7.759 %) Validation

11 9 (7.759 %) OO 11 9 (7.759 %) Cryptography 12 8 (6.897 %) Handset 12 8 (6.897 %) Telecoms 12 8 (6.897 %) Assembly Language 13 7 (6.034 %) Software Testing 14 6 (5.172 %) Military 14 6 (5.172 %) VHDL 14 6 (5.172 %) Device Driver 14 6 (5.172 %) Wireless 15 5 (4.310 %) Construction 15 5 (4.310 %) Ericsson 15 5 (4.310 %) 3G 15 5 (4.310 %) Firmware 15 5 (4.310 %) Pharmaceutical

Principal Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 15 October 2008, IT jobs across the South East 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 5 (4.310 %) WebServices 1 5 (4.310 %) XML 1 5 (4.310 %) .NET 2 4 (3.448 %) ASP.NET 3 2 (1.724 %) Middleware 4 1 (0.862 %) Hibernate 4 1 (0.862 %) Spring 4 1 (0.862 %) AJAX 4 1 (0.862 %) .NET Framework 4 1 (0.862 %) Velocity 4 1 (0.862 %) KML 4 1 (0.862 %) Struts 4 1 (0.862 %) J2EE 4 1 (0.862 %) HTML	Application Platforms 1 2 (1.724 %) Oracle Application Server 2 1 (0.862 %) JBoss 2 1 (0.862 %) CMS
Applications 1 4 (3.448 %) MATLAB 2 2 (1.724 %) MS Excel 3 1 (0.862 %) MS Office 3 1 (0.862 %) FrameMaker 3 1 (0.862 %) Windchill	Communications & Networking 1 6 (5.172 %) Wireless 2 5 (4.310 %) 3G 3 3 (2.586 %) Internet 3 3 (2.586 %) Ethernet 4 2 (1.724 %) TCP/IP 4 2 (1.724 %) ATM 4 2 (1.724 %) Frame Relay 4 2 (1.724 %) BGP 5 1 (0.862 %) DVB 5 1 (0.862 %) WiMAX 5 1 (0.862 %) ZigBee 5 1 (0.862 %) MIMO 5 1 (0.862 %) Bluetooth
Database & Business Intelligence 1 5 (4.310 %) SQL Server	Development Applications 1 4 (3.448 %) Visual Studio 2 1 (0.862 %) Eclipse
General 1 25 (21.55 %) Electric 2 23 (19.83 %) Electronics 3 17 (14.66 %) Pensions 4 14 (12.07 %) Multimedia 4 14 (12.07 %) Aerospace 5 8 (6.897 %) Telecoms 6 6 (5.172 %) Military 7 5 (4.310 %) Pharmaceutical 7 5 (4.310 %) Construction 8 2 (1.724 %) Government 8 2 (1.724 %) Marketing 8 2 (1.724 %) Avionics 9 1 (0.862 %) Health 9 1 (0.862 %) Automotive 9 1 (0.862 %) Chemicals	Miscellaneous 1 13 (11.21 %) ASIC 2 12 (10.34 %) Field-Programmable Gate Array 3 9 (7.759 %) Smartcard 3 9 (7.759 %) Cryptography 4 8 (6.897 %) Handset 5 6 (5.172 %) VHDL 5 6 (5.172 %) Device Driver 6 5 (4.310 %) Firmware 6 5 (4.310 %) Mathematics 6 5 (4.310 %) Physics 7 2 (1.724 %) DTV 7 2 (1.724 %) STB 8 1 (0.862 %) Management Information System 8 1 (0.862 %) Streaming Media 8 1 (0.862 %) IPTV 8 1 (0.862 %) PDA 8 1 (0.862 %) CCTV
Operating Systems 1 12 (10.34 %) UNIX 2 2 (1.724 %) Windows 2 2 (1.724 %) Linux 3 1 (0.862 %) VMS 3 1 (0.862 %) Windows Mobile 3 1 (0.862 %) Red Hat Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 10 (8.621 %) Project Management 2 9 (7.759 %) OO 2 9 (7.759 %) Validation 3 7 (6.034 %) Software Testing 4 4 (3.448 %) Requirements Management 5 3 (2.586 %) Software Engineering 5 3 (2.586 %) Configuration Management 5 3 (2.586 %) Security Cleared 6 2 (1.724 %) Network Design 6 2 (1.724 %) Strategic Management 6 2 (1.724 %) OOD 7 1 (0.862 %) UML 7 1 (0.862 %) OOA/OOD 7 1 (0.862 %) PDM 7 1 (0.862 %) Agile Software Development 7 1 (0.862 %) TDD 7 1 (0.862 %) Pair Programming 7 1 (0.862 %) Content Management 7 1 (0.862 %) Business Development 7 1 (0.862 %) Quality Management
Programming Languages 1 21 (18.10 %) C++ 2 12 (10.34 %) C 3 11 (9.483 %) Java 4 8 (6.897 %) Assembly Language 5 5 (4.310 %) C# 6 3 (2.586 %) Embedded C++ 7 1 (0.862 %) VC++ 7 1 (0.862 %) Embedded C	Qualifications 1 29 (25.00 %) Degree 2 1 (0.862 %) Chartered Engineer 2 1 (0.862 %) CCIE 2 1 (0.862 %) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (0.862 %) ISO9001	Vendors 1 5 (4.310 %) Ericsson 2 2 (1.724 %) Oracle 2 2 (1.724 %) Cisco 2 2 (1.724 %) Microsoft 2 2 (1.724 %) Juniper 2 2 (1.724 %) Alcatel 3 1 (0.862 %) Red Hat