Principal Developer Jobs in the South East

Principal Developer
England > South East

The median Principal Developer salary in the South East is £82,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 17 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 374 392 465
Rank change year-on-year +18 +73 -146
Permanent jobs requiring a Principal Developer 12 21 9
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.073% 0.14% 0.046%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.077% 0.15% 0.048%
Number of salaries quoted 8 21 6
10th Percentile - £78,750 -
25th Percentile £46,796 £97,500 £97,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £105,000 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% - +50.00%
75th Percentile £87,500 £115,000 £112,500
90th Percentile - £117,500 -
England median annual salary £80,000 £90,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% - +20.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the South East. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the South East with a recognized job title 15,505 13,865 18,792
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.94% 90.72% 96.29%
Number of salaries quoted 11,279 8,656 12,686
10th Percentile £27,250 £29,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £35,750 £39,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £64,750 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £54,000 £60,047 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.07% +0.08% +9.09%

Principal Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings that featured Principal Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Principal Developer in the South East

Principal Developer
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Principal Developer in the South East.

Salary trend for Principal Developer in the South East

Principal Developer
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Principal Developer in the South East over the 6 months to 17 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Principal Developer in the South East

Principal Developer
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Principal Developer within the South East region over the 6 months to 17 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Thames Valley 0 4 £85,000 -19.05%
Hampshire -5 4 £80,000 -3.03%
Oxfordshire - 4 £85,000 -
Surrey - 1 - -
Principal Developer
England

Principal Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 17 April 2024, Principal Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the South East region featuring Principal Developer in the job title.

1 5 (41.67%) JavaScript
1 5 (41.67%) Oracle
1 5 (41.67%) UX Design
1 5 (41.67%) User Experience
1 5 (41.67%) React
1 5 (41.67%) Front End Development
2 4 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 4 (33.33%) Full Stack Development
2 4 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 4 (33.33%) Azure
2 4 (33.33%) AWS
2 4 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 4 (33.33%) Python
3 3 (25.00%) JDBC
3 3 (25.00%) XML
3 3 (25.00%) Migration
3 3 (25.00%) HTTP
3 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (25.00%) Software AG
3 3 (25.00%) Salesforce
3 3 (25.00%) Internet
3 3 (25.00%) SQL Server
3 3 (25.00%) PL/SQL
3 3 (25.00%) SQL
3 3 (25.00%) YAML
3 3 (25.00%) JSON
3 3 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
3 3 (25.00%) Swagger
3 3 (25.00%) REST

Principal Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Business Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 4 (33.33%) AWS
1 4 (33.33%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 3 (25.00%) HTTP
1 3 (25.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (41.67%) React
2 3 (25.00%) JDBC
2 3 (25.00%) JSON
2 3 (25.00%) REST
2 3 (25.00%) Swagger
2 3 (25.00%) XML
2 3 (25.00%) YAML
3 1 (8.33%) CSS
3 1 (8.33%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Linux
1 2 (16.67%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) Front End Development
1 5 (41.67%) User Experience
1 5 (41.67%) UX Design
2 4 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 4 (33.33%) Full Stack Development
2 4 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
3 3 (25.00%) Migration
3 3 (25.00%) Proactive Monitoring
4 1 (8.33%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 5 (41.67%) JavaScript
2 4 (33.33%) Python
3 3 (25.00%) PL/SQL
3 3 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) Oracle
2 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (25.00%) Salesforce
2 3 (25.00%) Software AG
3 2 (16.67%) webMethods