Principal Developer Contracts in England

Principal Developer
UK > England

The median Principal Developer daily rate in England is £700 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

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

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 524 632 739
Rank change year-on-year +108 +107 -140
Contract jobs requiring a Principal Developer 21 27 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.056% 0.053% 0.039%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.061% 0.056% 0.041%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 13 28
10th Percentile £575 - £497
25th Percentile £594 £500 £534
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £700 £600
Median % change year-on-year - +16.67% +14.29%
75th Percentile £875 £838 £675
90th Percentile - £850 £695
UK median daily rate £700 £700 £600
% change year-on-year - +16.67% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £80.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £80.00 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 34,467 47,939 67,846
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.73% 94.60% 95.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,885 33,999 48,181
10th Percentile £275 £310 £313
25th Percentile £411 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £640 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,421 1,437 1,912
10th Percentile £13.00 £14.28 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.96 £44.53 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% +97.91% +0.36%
75th Percentile £60.25 £65.75 £48.62
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.35 £62.24
UK median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -20.09% +95.65% +0.24%

Principal Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Principal Developer in England

Principal Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Principal Developer in England

Principal Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Principal Developer in England over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Principal Developer in England

Principal Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Principal Developer in England

Principal Developer
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 Developer within the England region over the 6 months to 26 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +110 11 £850 +70.00% 3
North of England +27 6 £700 +33.33% 3
North West +20 6 £700 +33.33% 3
East of England - 2 - - 1
South West +16 1 - - 4
South East - 1 £663 - 2
Principal Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, Principal Developer 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 Developer in the job title.

1 10 (47.62%) Software Engineering
2 7 (33.33%) TDD
2 7 (33.33%) DevOps
3 6 (28.57%) Finance
3 6 (28.57%) C#
3 6 (28.57%) .NET
4 5 (23.81%) Agile
4 5 (23.81%) AWS
4 5 (23.81%) Serverless
5 4 (19.05%) Clean Code
5 4 (19.05%) CI/CD
5 4 (19.05%) PySpark
5 4 (19.05%) NumPy
5 4 (19.05%) Pandas
5 4 (19.05%) Azure
5 4 (19.05%) Scrum
5 4 (19.05%) Front Office
5 4 (19.05%) Salesforce
5 4 (19.05%) Python
6 3 (14.29%) Java
6 3 (14.29%) Microsoft
6 3 (14.29%) Test Automation
6 3 (14.29%) PowerShell
6 3 (14.29%) Local Government
6 3 (14.29%) Terraform
6 3 (14.29%) Continuous Delivery
6 3 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (14.29%) Deployment Automation
7 2 (9.52%) Architectural Design
7 2 (9.52%) Public Sector

Principal Developer 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (23.81%) AWS
1 5 (23.81%) Serverless
2 4 (19.05%) Azure
3 3 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (4.76%) Azure API Management
4 1 (4.76%) Azure Batch
4 1 (4.76%) Azure Functions
4 1 (4.76%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (4.76%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (4.76%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (4.76%) Azure Storage
4 1 (4.76%) Power Automate
4 1 (4.76%) Power Platform
4 1 (4.76%) PowerApps
4 1 (4.76%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.76%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (4.76%) Big Data
1 1 (4.76%) Data Lake
1 1 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (4.76%) OLTP
1 1 (4.76%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Git
1 1 (4.76%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 6 (28.57%) Finance
2 4 (19.05%) Front Office
3 3 (14.29%) Local Government
4 2 (9.52%) Electronics
4 2 (9.52%) Manufacturing
4 2 (9.52%) Marketing
4 2 (9.52%) Public Sector
4 2 (9.52%) Telecoms
5 1 (4.76%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (28.57%) .NET
2 4 (19.05%) NumPy
2 4 (19.05%) Pandas
2 4 (19.05%) PySpark
3 2 (9.52%) .NET Core
3 2 (9.52%) .NET Framework
3 2 (9.52%) AngularJS
4 1 (4.76%) ARM Templates
4 1 (4.76%) Flutter
4 1 (4.76%) JSON
4 1 (4.76%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (4.76%) Visualforce
4 1 (4.76%) Web Services
4 1 (4.76%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.52%) Public Cloud
2 1 (4.76%) Mobile App
2 1 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (47.62%) Software Engineering
2 7 (33.33%) DevOps
2 7 (33.33%) TDD
3 5 (23.81%) Agile
4 4 (19.05%) CI/CD
4 4 (19.05%) Clean Code
4 4 (19.05%) Scrum
5 3 (14.29%) Continuous Delivery
5 3 (14.29%) Deployment Automation
5 3 (14.29%) Test Automation
6 2 (9.52%) Architectural Design
6 2 (9.52%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (9.52%) Containerisation
6 2 (9.52%) Digital Marketing
6 2 (9.52%) OO
6 2 (9.52%) Programme Management
6 2 (9.52%) Project Delivery
6 2 (9.52%) Regression Testing
6 2 (9.52%) SOLID
6 2 (9.52%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (28.57%) C#
2 4 (19.05%) Python
3 3 (14.29%) Java
3 3 (14.29%) PowerShell
4 2 (9.52%) SQL
5 1 (4.76%) Apex Code
5 1 (4.76%) Dart
5 1 (4.76%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2 (9.52%) DV Cleared
1 2 (9.52%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (9.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (14.29%) Terraform
2 2 (9.52%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (19.05%) Salesforce
2 3 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 2 (9.52%) SAP
4 1 (4.76%) Virgin Media