The first table below looks at the demand for the Principal Software Engineer role in IT jobs advertised for the South East 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 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 South East region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Principal Software Engineer
Rank 439 430 407
Rank change year-on-year
-9 -23
Permanent jobs requiring a Principal Software Engineer 2 8 12
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South East 0.009% 0.034% 0.053%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.010% 0.035% 0.056%
Number of salaries quoted 2 8 10
Average salary £50,000 £47,500 £62,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.26% -24.00%
UK excluding London average salary £50,000 £47,500 £42,000
% change year-on-year
+5.26% +13.09%
All Job Titles
South East
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
21050 22607 21256
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South East 94.89% 95.23% 94.42%
Number of salaries quoted 17463 19538 18266
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £26,500 £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 Software Engineer
England

Principal Software Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East 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 South East region.

South East Principal Software Engineer Salary Trend

Principal Software Engineer
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Principal Software Engineer within the South East region over the 3 months to 21 May 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
Berkshire - 2 £50,000 -
Principal Software Engineer
England

Principal Software Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the South East 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 4 (50.00%) Signal Processing
1 4 (50.00%) ClearCase
2 3 (37.50%) RSS
2 3 (37.50%) UML
2 3 (37.50%) Web Services
2 3 (37.50%) XML
2 3 (37.50%) XML Schema
2 3 (37.50%) RDF
2 3 (37.50%) Hibernate
2 3 (37.50%) Agile Software Development
2 3 (37.50%) Spring
2 3 (37.50%) Amazon AWS
2 3 (37.50%) MongoDB
2 3 (37.50%) NoSQL
2 3 (37.50%) Amazon SQS
2 3 (37.50%) Amazon EMR
2 3 (37.50%) Amazon DynamoDB
2 3 (37.50%) RESTful
2 3 (37.50%) Hadoop
2 3 (37.50%) Dublin Core
2 3 (37.50%) Requirements Analysis
2 3 (37.50%) Degree
2 3 (37.50%) JSON
3 2 (25.00%) Refactoring
3 2 (25.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (25.00%) QA
3 2 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (25.00%) Data Architecture
3 2 (25.00%) Java EE
3 2 (25.00%) Taxonomies

Principal Software Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the South East 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 3 (37.50%) RSS
1 3 (37.50%) Web Services
1 3 (37.50%) XML
1 3 (37.50%) XML Schema
1 3 (37.50%) Hibernate
1 3 (37.50%) Spring
1 3 (37.50%) RESTful
1 3 (37.50%) JSON
2 2 (25.00%) Java EE
2 2 (25.00%) Qt
2 2 (25.00%) MFC
3 1 (12.50%) .NET
3 1 (12.50%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 3 (37.50%) Amazon AWS
1 3 (37.50%) Amazon SQS
1 3 (37.50%) Amazon EMR
Applications
1 2 (25.00%) MS Office
1 2 (25.00%) MS Excel
1 2 (25.00%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) LTE
1 2 (25.00%) 3G
1 2 (25.00%) Wi-Fi
1 2 (25.00%) GSM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) MongoDB
1 3 (37.50%) NoSQL
1 3 (37.50%) Amazon DynamoDB
1 3 (37.50%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) ClearCase
2 2 (25.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 2 (25.00%) Telecoms
1 2 (25.00%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Computer Science
1 2 (25.00%) Taxonomies
1 2 (25.00%) Ontologies
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Windows 7
1 2 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Signal Processing
2 3 (37.50%) UML
2 3 (37.50%) RDF
2 3 (37.50%) Agile Software Development
2 3 (37.50%) Requirements Analysis
3 2 (25.00%) Refactoring
3 2 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (25.00%) Data Architecture
3 2 (25.00%) Image Processing
3 2 (25.00%) Digital Signal Processing
3 2 (25.00%) Systems Analysis
3 2 (25.00%) Cost-Benefit Analysis
4 1 (12.50%) OOA/OOD
4 1 (12.50%) OO
4 1 (12.50%) TDD
4 1 (12.50%) Software Engineering
4 1 (12.50%) Software Architecture
4 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) MATLAB
1 2 (25.00%) C++
1 2 (25.00%) VC++
2 1 (12.50%) C#
2 1 (12.50%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) Dublin Core
2 2 (25.00%) QA
Fleet, Hampshire
The successful applicant will be technically leading the team responsible for the development of LTE and UTRAN 37.901 Performance test cases for Anite's new Performance test...
Anite Telecoms Limited
Salary: Competitive + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 24 April 2013