The first table below looks at the demand for the Principal Developer role in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Principal Developer 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 currently tracked.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Principal Developer
Rank 857 892 873
Rank change year-on-year
+35 -19
Permanent jobs requiring a Principal Developer 5 7 8
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.005% 0.006% 0.006%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.005% 0.006% 0.007%
Number of salaries quoted 5 6 5
Average salary £45,000 £60,000 £55,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-25.00% +9.09%
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £60,000 £48,750
% change year-on-year
-25.00% +23.07%
All Job Titles
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
102035 114410 117207
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 94.41% 94.80% 94.20%
Number of salaries quoted 84835 98106 99148
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £27,500 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £67,500 £72,500 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%

Principal Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Principal Developer Jobs Demand Trend

Principal Developer
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Principal Developer within the UK.

Principal Developer Salary Trend

Principal Developer
Top 7 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Principal Developer within the UK over the 3 months to 24 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
England +23 5 £45,000 -25.00%
West Midlands - 3 £45,000 -
Herefordshire - 3 £45,000 -
Hereford - 3 £45,000 -
East of England - 2 £42,500 -
Cambridge - 2 £42,500 -
Cambridgeshire - 2 £42,500 -

Principal Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited Principal Developer 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 Developer in their job title.

1 10 (52.63%) C#
1 10 (52.63%) JavaScript
1 10 (52.63%) CSS
2 9 (47.37%) Python
3 8 (42.11%) PHP
3 8 (42.11%) HTML
3 8 (42.11%) SQL Server
3 8 (42.11%) TDD
4 7 (36.84%) Subversion
4 7 (36.84%) .NET
5 6 (31.58%) Web Services
5 6 (31.58%) OO
6 5 (26.32%) Computer Science
6 5 (26.32%) Continuous Integration
6 5 (26.32%) Git (software)
6 5 (26.32%) BDD
6 5 (26.32%) Jenkins
7 4 (21.05%) Sass
7 4 (21.05%) Hudson
7 4 (21.05%) Responsive Web Design
7 4 (21.05%) ASP.NET
7 4 (21.05%) Cucumber
7 4 (21.05%) RESTful
7 4 (21.05%) Arabic Language
7 4 (21.05%) Hindi Language
7 4 (21.05%) Ruby
7 4 (21.05%) Degree
7 4 (21.05%) JSON
7 4 (21.05%) Refactoring
7 4 (21.05%) Web Design

Principal Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited Principal Developer 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 Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 10 (52.63%) CSS
2 8 (42.11%) HTML
3 7 (36.84%) .NET
4 6 (31.58%) Web Services
5 4 (21.05%) Sass
5 4 (21.05%) ASP.NET
5 4 (21.05%) RESTful
5 4 (21.05%) JSON
5 4 (21.05%) XML
6 3 (15.79%) WCF
7 2 (10.53%) XHTML
8 1 (5.263%) Middleware
8 1 (5.263%) SAP XI
8 1 (5.263%) LAMP
8 1 (5.263%) jQuery
8 1 (5.263%) Silverlight
Application Platforms
1 4 (21.05%) SharePoint
2 3 (15.79%) Umbraco
2 3 (15.79%) DotNetNuke
2 3 (15.79%) SharePoint 2010
3 1 (5.263%) IIS
3 1 (5.263%) Apache
3 1 (5.263%) Tomcat
3 1 (5.263%) CMS
3 1 (5.263%) Drupal
Business Applications
1 1 (5.263%) SAP CRM
1 1 (5.263%) SAP IS-U
Communications & Networking
1 4 (21.05%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (42.11%) SQL Server
2 3 (15.79%) Oracle 10g
2 3 (15.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 3 (15.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 3 (15.79%) SQL Server 2008
2 3 (15.79%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 2 (10.53%) SQL Server 2012
4 1 (5.263%) MySQL
4 1 (5.263%) Redis
Development Applications
1 7 (36.84%) Subversion
2 5 (26.32%) Git (software)
2 5 (26.32%) Jenkins
3 4 (21.05%) Hudson
3 4 (21.05%) Cucumber
4 1 (5.263%) Ant
4 1 (5.263%) Visual Studio
4 1 (5.263%) NUnit
4 1 (5.263%) CruiseControl
4 1 (5.263%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (5.263%) PHPUnit
General
1 4 (21.05%) Arabic Language
1 4 (21.05%) Hindi Language
2 1 (5.263%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 5 (26.32%) Computer Science
2 4 (21.05%) BBC
3 3 (15.79%) NHS
4 1 (5.263%) iDTV
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.79%) Android
1 3 (15.79%) Apple iOS
2 1 (5.263%) UNIX
2 1 (5.263%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (42.11%) TDD
2 6 (31.58%) OO
3 5 (26.32%) Continuous Integration
3 5 (26.32%) BDD
4 4 (21.05%) Responsive Web Design
4 4 (21.05%) Refactoring
4 4 (21.05%) Web Design
4 4 (21.05%) Scrum
4 4 (21.05%) Extreme Programming
5 3 (15.79%) MVC
5 3 (15.79%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (10.53%) Waterfall
6 2 (10.53%) Agile Software Development
6 2 (10.53%) E-Commerce
6 2 (10.53%) SOA
7 1 (5.263%) CRM
7 1 (5.263%) Integration Testing
7 1 (5.263%) Build Automation
Programming Languages
1 10 (52.63%) C#
1 10 (52.63%) JavaScript
2 9 (47.37%) Python
3 8 (42.11%) PHP
4 4 (21.05%) Ruby
5 3 (15.79%) T-SQL
5 3 (15.79%) C++
6 2 (10.53%) Java
6 2 (10.53%) SQL
6 2 (10.53%) Perl
6 2 (10.53%) C
7 1 (5.263%) ABAP
7 1 (5.263%) PHP5
Qualifications
1 4 (21.05%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) QA
System Software
1 1 (5.263%) Varnish
Vendors
1 4 (21.05%) Oracle
2 3 (15.79%) Business Objects
3 2 (10.53%) Microsoft
4 1 (5.263%) Siebel
4 1 (5.263%) Chordiant
4 1 (5.263%) SAP
4 1 (5.263%) Zend
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