Principal Engineer Contracts in England

Principal Engineer
UK > England

The median Principal Engineer daily rate in England is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 390 546 716
Rank change year-on-year +156 +170 -88
Contract jobs requiring a Principal Engineer 161 90 71
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.43% 0.19% 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.46% 0.20% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 40 43
10th Percentile £498 £459 £440
25th Percentile £525 £558 £520
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £725 £615
Median % change year-on-year -17.24% +17.89% +11.82%
75th Percentile £655 £788 £694
90th Percentile £849 £925 £775
UK median daily rate £600 £725 £615
% change year-on-year -17.24% +17.89% +11.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 109 24 14
10th Percentile £52.50 £52.59 £49.48
25th Percentile £58.02 £65.00 £50.38
Median hourly rate £67.50 £83.31 £54.41
Median % change year-on-year -18.98% +53.13% +15.76%
75th Percentile £77.50 £83.40 £72.54
90th Percentile £80.00 - £80.57
UK median hourly rate £67.27 £83.31 £54.41
% change year-on-year -19.26% +53.13% +0.55%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. 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 contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 34,808 44,443 66,953
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.80% 94.49% 95.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,757 31,614 47,944
10th Percentile £288 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +7.00%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,654 1,321 1,753
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.36 £12.80
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.90
Median hourly rate £39.50 £45.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.22% +87.50% +14.01%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £77.50 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%

Principal Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Principal Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Principal Engineer in England

Principal Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Principal Engineer in England.

Daily rate trend for Principal Engineer in England

Principal Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Principal Engineer in England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Principal Engineer in England

Principal Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Principal Engineer in England.

Hourly rate trend for Principal Engineer in England

Principal Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Principal Engineer in England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Principal Engineer in England

Principal Engineer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Principal Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 12 June 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
East of England +44 43 - - 34
London +77 36 £600 -17.24% 77
South East +41 33 - - 31
North of England +28 20 £625 +13.64% 53
North West +29 19 £625 - 39
Midlands +30 14 £550 +10.00% 16
South West -7 13 - - 23
West Midlands +29 12 £550 +10.00% 9
East Midlands - 2 £500 - 7
North East - 1 - - 4
Principal Engineer
UK

Principal Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, Principal Engineer contract 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 contract job ads across the England region featuring Principal Engineer in the job title.

1 48 (29.81%) Software Engineering
2 40 (24.84%) Security Cleared
3 38 (23.60%) Systems Engineering
4 26 (16.15%) SC Cleared
5 22 (13.66%) Validation
5 22 (13.66%) Verification and Validation
6 20 (12.42%) AWS
7 19 (11.80%) C#
8 18 (11.18%) Azure
9 17 (10.56%) Degree
10 16 (9.94%) Agile
11 14 (8.70%) DV Cleared
11 14 (8.70%) .NET
11 14 (8.70%) MATLAB
12 13 (8.07%) Java
12 13 (8.07%) Aerospace
12 13 (8.07%) DevOps
13 11 (6.83%) SQL
13 11 (6.83%) Python
13 11 (6.83%) Infrastructure as Code
14 10 (6.21%) C
14 10 (6.21%) TypeScript
14 10 (6.21%) .NET Core
15 9 (5.59%) Analytics
15 9 (5.59%) Algorithms
15 9 (5.59%) JavaScript
16 8 (4.97%) Artificial Intelligence
16 8 (4.97%) React
16 8 (4.97%) Problem-Solving
16 8 (4.97%) Social Skills

Principal Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (0.62%) OpenStack
Applications
1 7 (4.35%) Simulink
2 5 (3.11%) Stateflow
2 5 (3.11%) TargetLink
3 1 (0.62%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.62%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.62%) Revit
Cloud Services
1 20 (12.42%) AWS
2 18 (11.18%) Azure
3 6 (3.73%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (2.48%) Entra ID
5 2 (1.24%) Azure AKS
5 2 (1.24%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (1.24%) GitHub
6 1 (0.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (0.62%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (0.62%) Amazon Kinesis
6 1 (0.62%) AWS CodePipeline
6 1 (0.62%) Azure App Service
6 1 (0.62%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (0.62%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (0.62%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (0.62%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (0.62%) GCP
6 1 (0.62%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (0.62%) Serverless
6 1 (0.62%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.73%) DHCP
1 6 (3.73%) DNS
1 6 (3.73%) TCP/IP
2 3 (1.86%) WAN
3 2 (1.24%) LAN
4 1 (0.62%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.62%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (0.62%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (0.62%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (0.62%) Data Lake
1 1 (0.62%) DynamoDB
1 1 (0.62%) MongoDB
1 1 (0.62%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 5 (3.11%) Bitbucket
1 5 (3.11%) Git
1 5 (3.11%) Subversion
2 4 (2.48%) Rational DOORS
3 1 (0.62%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 13 (8.07%) Aerospace
2 8 (4.97%) Social Skills
3 7 (4.35%) Automotive
3 7 (4.35%) Electronics
3 7 (4.35%) Military
4 5 (3.11%) Banking
4 5 (3.11%) Finance
5 2 (1.24%) Manufacturing
5 2 (1.24%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (1.24%) Public Sector
6 1 (0.62%) Advertising
6 1 (0.62%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (0.62%) Investment Banking
6 1 (0.62%) Marketing
6 1 (0.62%) Retail
6 1 (0.62%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (8.70%) .NET
2 10 (6.21%) .NET Core
3 8 (4.97%) React
4 7 (4.35%) CSS
5 3 (1.86%) SailPoint
6 2 (1.24%) .NET Framework
6 2 (1.24%) REST
7 1 (0.62%) ARM Templates
7 1 (0.62%) AWS CDK
7 1 (0.62%) Flutter
7 1 (0.62%) J2EE
7 1 (0.62%) Java EE
7 1 (0.62%) JSON
7 1 (0.62%) LangChain
7 1 (0.62%) React Native
7 1 (0.62%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.59%) Algorithms
2 5 (3.11%) Analogue Electronics
2 5 (3.11%) Management Information System
3 4 (2.48%) Clustering
4 2 (1.24%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.62%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.62%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.62%) Legacy Code
5 1 (0.62%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.62%) PCIe
5 1 (0.62%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.73%) Linux
1 6 (3.73%) Unix
1 6 (3.73%) Windows
2 5 (3.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (3.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (29.81%) Software Engineering
2 38 (23.60%) Systems Engineering
3 22 (13.66%) Validation
3 22 (13.66%) Verification and Validation
4 16 (9.94%) Agile
5 13 (8.07%) DevOps
6 11 (6.83%) Infrastructure as Code
7 9 (5.59%) Analytics
8 8 (4.97%) Artificial Intelligence
8 8 (4.97%) LLM
8 8 (4.97%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (4.35%) Cybersecurity
9 7 (4.35%) Data Governance
9 7 (4.35%) Machine Learning
10 6 (3.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 6 (3.73%) Project Management
10 6 (3.73%) Technical Leadership
10 6 (3.73%) UML
10 6 (3.73%) Virtual Environments
10 6 (3.73%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 19 (11.80%) C#
2 14 (8.70%) MATLAB
3 13 (8.07%) Java
4 11 (6.83%) Python
4 11 (6.83%) SQL
5 10 (6.21%) C
5 10 (6.21%) TypeScript
6 9 (5.59%) JavaScript
7 7 (4.35%) T-SQL
8 5 (3.11%) Embedded C
9 1 (0.62%) Bicep
9 1 (0.62%) C++
9 1 (0.62%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.62%) R
9 1 (0.62%) Scala
Qualifications
1 40 (24.84%) Security Cleared
2 26 (16.15%) SC Cleared
3 17 (10.56%) Degree
4 14 (8.70%) DV Cleared
5 6 (3.73%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.24%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.24%) Chartered Engineer
7 1 (0.62%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.62%) CISM
7 1 (0.62%) CISSP
7 1 (0.62%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.62%) CSSLP
7 1 (0.62%) HNC
7 1 (0.62%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.73%) NIST
2 5 (3.11%) AUTOSAR
2 5 (3.11%) ISO 26262
2 5 (3.11%) MISRA
2 5 (3.11%) MISRA C
3 1 (0.62%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (0.62%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 5 (3.11%) VMware ESXi
1 5 (3.11%) VMware Infrastructure
1 5 (3.11%) VMware NSX
2 4 (2.48%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (3.73%) SCCM
2 5 (3.11%) vCenter Server
3 3 (1.86%) Kubernetes
4 2 (1.24%) Ansible
5 1 (0.62%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (3.73%) VMware
2 5 (3.11%) Veeam
3 4 (2.48%) Microsoft
4 3 (1.86%) CyberArk
4 3 (1.86%) Keysight
4 3 (1.86%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.24%) IBM
6 1 (0.62%) Databricks
6 1 (0.62%) Mentor Graphics
6 1 (0.62%) SAP
6 1 (0.62%) Virgin Media