Principal Engineer Contracts in London

Principal Engineer
England > London

The median Principal Engineer daily rate in London 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 364 441 571
Rank change year-on-year +77 +130 -80
Contract jobs requiring a Principal Engineer 36 41 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.20% 0.16% 0.086%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.17% 0.090%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 26 24
10th Percentile £563 £613 £500
25th Percentile £569 £663 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £725 £615
Median % change year-on-year -17.24% +17.89% +0.41%
75th Percentile £750 £788 £681
90th Percentile £867 £963 £775
England median daily rate £600 £725 £615
% change year-on-year -17.24% +17.89% +11.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £45.30 £48.60 -
Median hourly rate £48.65 £52.19 -
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% - -
75th Percentile £53.79 £55.79 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £67.50 £83.31 £54.41
% change year-on-year -18.98% +53.13% +15.76%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 16,560 23,906 36,699
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.67% 95.05% 95.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,921 17,459 27,030
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £440 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 324 281 404
10th Percentile £16.00 £17.98 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.17 £22.63 £23.75
Median hourly rate £27.81 £36.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.75% +2.86% +7.12%
75th Percentile £46.59 £63.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £66.85 £82.25 £67.50
England median hourly rate £39.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -12.22% +87.50% +14.01%

Principal Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Principal Engineer in London

Principal Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Principal Engineer in London

Principal Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Principal Engineer in London

Principal Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Principal Engineer in London

Principal Engineer
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London 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
West London - 11 £575 - 7
Central London +44 5 £944 - 14
East London - 2 £600 - 4
Principal Engineer
England

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

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 London region featuring Principal Engineer in the job title.

1 17 (47.22%) AWS
2 16 (44.44%) Software Engineering
3 13 (36.11%) .NET
4 12 (33.33%) C#
5 10 (27.78%) SQL
5 10 (27.78%) .NET Core
6 9 (25.00%) Azure
6 9 (25.00%) TypeScript
6 9 (25.00%) JavaScript
6 9 (25.00%) Python
6 9 (25.00%) Agile
7 8 (22.22%) Analytics
8 7 (19.44%) React
8 7 (19.44%) DevOps
8 7 (19.44%) Data Governance
8 7 (19.44%) Machine Learning
8 7 (19.44%) CSS
8 7 (19.44%) T-SQL
8 7 (19.44%) Artificial Intelligence
8 7 (19.44%) LLM
9 6 (16.67%) Security Cleared
9 6 (16.67%) Java
9 6 (16.67%) Microservices
10 5 (13.89%) Problem-Solving
10 5 (13.89%) Social Skills
11 4 (11.11%) CI/CD
11 4 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
11 4 (11.11%) Banking
11 4 (11.11%) SC Cleared
11 4 (11.11%) Finance

Principal Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 (2.78%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 17 (47.22%) AWS
2 9 (25.00%) Azure
3 3 (8.33%) Entra ID
4 2 (5.56%) Azure AKS
4 2 (5.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (2.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (2.78%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (2.78%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (2.78%) Amazon EventBridge
5 1 (2.78%) Amazon Kinesis
5 1 (2.78%) Amazon Macie
5 1 (2.78%) AWS CodeBuild
5 1 (2.78%) AWS CodeCommit
5 1 (2.78%) AWS CodePipeline
5 1 (2.78%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (2.78%) AWS Step Functions
5 1 (2.78%) GCP
5 1 (2.78%) GitHub
5 1 (2.78%) Serverless
5 1 (2.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.78%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (2.78%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (2.78%) Data Lake
1 1 (2.78%) Parquet
General
1 5 (13.89%) Social Skills
2 4 (11.11%) Banking
2 4 (11.11%) Finance
3 2 (5.56%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.78%) Aerospace
4 1 (2.78%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.78%) Electronics
4 1 (2.78%) Investment Banking
4 1 (2.78%) Manufacturing
4 1 (2.78%) Marketing
4 1 (2.78%) Retail
4 1 (2.78%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (36.11%) .NET
2 10 (27.78%) .NET Core
3 7 (19.44%) CSS
3 7 (19.44%) React
4 3 (8.33%) SailPoint
5 2 (5.56%) .NET Framework
5 2 (5.56%) REST
6 1 (2.78%) JSON
6 1 (2.78%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.78%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (2.78%) Legacy Code
1 1 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (44.44%) Software Engineering
2 9 (25.00%) Agile
3 8 (22.22%) Analytics
4 7 (19.44%) Artificial Intelligence
4 7 (19.44%) Data Governance
4 7 (19.44%) DevOps
4 7 (19.44%) LLM
4 7 (19.44%) Machine Learning
5 6 (16.67%) Microservices
6 5 (13.89%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (11.11%) CI/CD
7 4 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
8 3 (8.33%) Change Management
8 3 (8.33%) Identity Access Management
8 3 (8.33%) Scrum
8 3 (8.33%) Software Deployment
9 2 (5.56%) Coaching
9 2 (5.56%) Data Engineering
9 2 (5.56%) Fintech
9 2 (5.56%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 12 (33.33%) C#
2 10 (27.78%) SQL
3 9 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 9 (25.00%) Python
3 9 (25.00%) TypeScript
4 7 (19.44%) T-SQL
5 6 (16.67%) Java
6 1 (2.78%) R
Qualifications
1 6 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 4 (11.11%) SC Cleared
3 3 (8.33%) Degree
4 2 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.78%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.78%) CISM
5 1 (2.78%) CISSP
5 1 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.78%) CSSLP
5 1 (2.78%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.78%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.78%) Actionable Recommendations
1 1 (2.78%) Data Quality
1 1 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (2.78%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (8.33%) Active Directory
1 3 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (8.33%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.56%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (8.33%) CyberArk
1 3 (8.33%) Microsoft
1 3 (8.33%) ServiceNow
2 1 (2.78%) Databricks
2 1 (2.78%) SAP
2 1 (2.78%) Virgin Media
2 1 (2.78%) VMware