The first table below looks at the demand for the Principal Software Engineer role in IT jobs advertised across the UK. 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 19 June 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Principal Software Engineer
Rank 843 828 839
Rank change year-on-year
-15 +11
Permanent jobs requiring a Principal Software Engineer 25 57 43
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.023% 0.047% 0.033%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.024% 0.050% 0.036%
Number of salaries quoted 20 55 42
Average salary £50,000 £47,500 £38,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.26% +23.37%
UK excluding London average salary £50,000 £47,500 £38,500
% change year-on-year
+5.26% +23.37%
All Job Titles
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
102828 114458 120840
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 94.40% 94.97% 94.13%
Number of salaries quoted 85533 98230 102542
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 £38,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-1.29% +2.66%

Principal Software Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 within the UK.

Principal Software Engineer Salary Trend

Principal Software Engineer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Principal Software Engineer over the 3 months to 19 June 2013 within the UK.

Principal Software Engineer Salary Histogram

Principal Software Engineer
Top 18 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 UK over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
England -9 23 £50,000 +5.26% 5
East of England -11 11 £50,000 -9.09% 2
Cambridgeshire +17 8 £50,000 -9.09% 1
Cambridge +10 8 £50,000 -9.09% 1
London +35 6 £87,500 +59.09% 1
South East +8 5 £50,000 +17.64%
Hertfordshire -7 3 £40,000 -28.88% 1
Stevenage -11 3 £40,000 -30.43% 1
Berkshire - 3 £50,000 -
Surrey +18 2 - -
Northern Ireland - 2 - -
Reading - 2 £50,000 -
County Antrim - 2 - -
Belfast - 2 - -
North West +3 1 £38,500 -7.22% 2
Manchester -13 1 £38,500 -7.22%
Epsom - 1 - -
Sussex - 1 - -

Principal Software Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs within the UK 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 30 (65.22%) C++
2 28 (60.87%) Java
3 27 (58.70%) Agile Software Development
4 26 (56.52%) Windows
5 25 (54.35%) Linux
6 20 (43.48%) JMS
7 19 (41.30%) Middleware
8 18 (39.13%) Solaris
9 16 (34.78%) Degree
10 9 (19.57%) UML
11 8 (17.39%) Scrum
12 7 (15.22%) Computer Science
12 7 (15.22%) C#
13 6 (13.04%) SQL
13 6 (13.04%) .NET
13 6 (13.04%) MySQL
13 6 (13.04%) Web Services
13 6 (13.04%) SOA
13 6 (13.04%) Open Source
13 6 (13.04%) Software Engineering
13 6 (13.04%) REST
14 5 (10.87%) Games
14 5 (10.87%) Ontologies
14 5 (10.87%) Multithreading
14 5 (10.87%) TCP/IP
14 5 (10.87%) Apache
14 5 (10.87%) PHP
15 4 (8.696%) ActionScript
15 4 (8.696%) JavaScript
15 4 (8.696%) C

Principal Software Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs within the UK 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 20 (43.48%) JMS
2 19 (41.30%) Middleware
3 6 (13.04%) .NET
3 6 (13.04%) Web Services
3 6 (13.04%) REST
4 4 (8.696%) XML
4 4 (8.696%) LAMP
5 3 (6.522%) JSON
5 3 (6.522%) Qt
6 2 (4.348%) HTML
6 2 (4.348%) J2EE
6 2 (4.348%) MFC
6 2 (4.348%) CSS
7 1 (2.174%) WinForms
7 1 (2.174%) Hibernate
7 1 (2.174%) Spring
7 1 (2.174%) XMPP
7 1 (2.174%) Java EE
7 1 (2.174%) WCF
7 1 (2.174%) WPF
Application Platforms
1 5 (10.87%) Apache
2 2 (4.348%) OpenCms
2 2 (4.348%) CMS
3 1 (2.174%) Amazon EMR
3 1 (2.174%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (2.174%) Amazon AWS
3 1 (2.174%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (2.174%) MS Visio
1 1 (2.174%) MS Office
1 1 (2.174%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 5 (10.87%) TCP/IP
2 3 (6.522%) GSM
3 2 (4.348%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (4.348%) Wireless
3 2 (4.348%) HTTP
3 2 (4.348%) 3G
3 2 (4.348%) LTE
4 1 (2.174%) LAN
4 1 (2.174%) UMTS
4 1 (2.174%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (13.04%) MySQL
2 2 (4.348%) RDBMS
2 2 (4.348%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.174%) Amazon DynamoDB
3 1 (2.174%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.174%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.174%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 3 (6.522%) ClearCase
2 2 (4.348%) Visual Studio
2 2 (4.348%) Rational DOORS
2 2 (4.348%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 5 (10.87%) Games
2 2 (4.348%) Telecoms
2 2 (4.348%) Finance
3 1 (2.174%) Music Industry
3 1 (2.174%) Electronics
3 1 (2.174%) Manufacturing
Miscellaneous
1 7 (15.22%) Computer Science
2 6 (13.04%) Open Source
3 5 (10.87%) Ontologies
4 4 (8.696%) BBC
4 4 (8.696%) Semantic Web
4 4 (8.696%) SaaS
4 4 (8.696%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (6.522%) Mathematics
6 1 (2.174%) Mobile App
6 1 (2.174%) Taxonomies
6 1 (2.174%) Video on Demand
6 1 (2.174%) 3D Graphics
Operating Systems
1 26 (56.52%) Windows
2 25 (54.35%) Linux
3 18 (39.13%) Solaris
4 2 (4.348%) UNIX
4 2 (4.348%) Windows 7
5 1 (2.174%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (2.174%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (58.70%) Agile Software Development
2 9 (19.57%) UML
3 8 (17.39%) Scrum
4 6 (13.04%) SOA
4 6 (13.04%) Software Engineering
5 5 (10.87%) Multithreading
6 4 (8.696%) OO
6 4 (8.696%) E-Commerce
6 4 (8.696%) Game Development
6 4 (8.696%) Signal Processing
7 3 (6.522%) Software Architecture
8 2 (4.348%) Configuration Management
8 2 (4.348%) Capacity Planning
8 2 (4.348%) Digital Signal Processing
8 2 (4.348%) Requirements Management
8 2 (4.348%) Requirements Analysis
8 2 (4.348%) SysML
8 2 (4.348%) Automated Testing
8 2 (4.348%) Test Strategy
9 1 (2.174%) Mobile Application Development
Programming Languages
1 30 (65.22%) C++
2 28 (60.87%) Java
3 7 (15.22%) C#
4 6 (13.04%) SQL
5 5 (10.87%) PHP
6 4 (8.696%) ActionScript
6 4 (8.696%) JavaScript
6 4 (8.696%) C
6 4 (8.696%) Ruby
7 2 (4.348%) Ada
7 2 (4.348%) VC++
8 1 (2.174%) MATLAB
8 1 (2.174%) Embedded C
8 1 (2.174%) Embedded C++
8 1 (2.174%) Assembly Language
8 1 (2.174%) T-SQL
8 1 (2.174%) Python
Qualifications
1 16 (34.78%) Degree
2 4 (8.696%) PhD
3 2 (4.348%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.348%) Security Cleared
4 1 (2.174%) ISTQB
4 1 (2.174%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.174%) QA
1 1 (2.174%) Dublin Core
Vendors
1 2 (4.348%) Oracle
2 1 (2.174%) Apple
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