Principal Engineer Contracts in England

Principal Engineer
UK > England

The median Principal Engineer daily rate in England is £600 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 422 575 694
Rank change year-on-year +153 +119 -100
Contract jobs requiring a Principal Engineer 123 84 73
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.33% 0.17% 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.36% 0.18% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 40 42
10th Percentile £519 £413 £466
25th Percentile £525 £588 £517
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £725 £615
Median % change year-on-year -17.24% +17.89% +11.82%
75th Percentile £738 £788 £688
90th Percentile £800 £925 £768
UK median daily rate £600 £725 £600
% change year-on-year -17.24% +20.83% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 84 17 13
10th Percentile £45.90 £51.89 £49.40
25th Percentile £56.25 £65.00 £50.06
Median hourly rate £67.50 £83.31 £53.81
Median % change year-on-year -18.98% +54.82% +14.49%
75th Percentile £80.00 £83.40 £75.14
90th Percentile - - £80.79
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £83.31 £53.08
% change year-on-year -18.98% +56.95% -1.90%

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 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 26 April 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 26 April 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 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
South East +50 35 £775 +26.02% 66
East of England +39 28 - - 57
London +95 21 £650 -10.34% 74
South West +18 13 - - 60
West Midlands +41 12 £550 -17.76% 12
Midlands +37 12 £550 -17.76% 20
North of England +29 10 £525 -4.55% 45
North West +25 9 £525 - 39
North East - 1 - -
Principal Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 26 April 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 34 (27.64%) Software Engineering
2 33 (26.83%) Systems Engineering
3 25 (20.33%) Security Cleared
4 22 (17.89%) Validation
5 20 (16.26%) Verification and Validation
6 16 (13.01%) Degree
7 14 (11.38%) MATLAB
8 13 (10.57%) Agile
8 13 (10.57%) AWS
9 12 (9.76%) DV Cleared
9 12 (9.76%) Azure
9 12 (9.76%) Aerospace
10 11 (8.94%) Java
10 11 (8.94%) SC Cleared
10 11 (8.94%) DevOps
11 10 (8.13%) C
11 10 (8.13%) C#
12 9 (7.32%) Algorithms
12 9 (7.32%) Infrastructure as Code
13 8 (6.50%) Cybersecurity
13 8 (6.50%) Management Information System
14 7 (5.69%) Automotive
14 7 (5.69%) Military
14 7 (5.69%) Simulink
14 7 (5.69%) Integration Testing
14 7 (5.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 7 (5.69%) Social Skills
15 6 (4.88%) NIST
15 6 (4.88%) Customer Requirements
15 6 (4.88%) Virtual Environments

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 2 (1.63%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (5.69%) Simulink
2 5 (4.07%) Stateflow
2 5 (4.07%) TargetLink
3 1 (0.81%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.81%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.81%) Revit
Cloud Services
1 13 (10.57%) AWS
2 12 (9.76%) Azure
3 5 (4.07%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (2.44%) Serverless
5 2 (1.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (1.63%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (1.63%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (1.63%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (1.63%) Amazon EventBridge
5 2 (1.63%) Amazon Kinesis
5 2 (1.63%) Amazon Macie
5 2 (1.63%) Amazon S3
5 2 (1.63%) AWS CodeBuild
5 2 (1.63%) AWS CodeCommit
5 2 (1.63%) AWS CodePipeline
5 2 (1.63%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (1.63%) AWS Step Functions
5 2 (1.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (0.81%) GitHub
6 1 (0.81%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.88%) DHCP
1 6 (4.88%) DNS
1 6 (4.88%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.81%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.63%) Amazon Athena
1 2 (1.63%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (1.63%) Data Lake
1 2 (1.63%) Parquet
2 1 (0.81%) DynamoDB
2 1 (0.81%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 6 (4.88%) Git
2 5 (4.07%) Bitbucket
2 5 (4.07%) Subversion
3 2 (1.63%) JIRA
4 1 (0.81%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.81%) Rational DOORS
General
1 12 (9.76%) Aerospace
2 7 (5.69%) Automotive
2 7 (5.69%) Military
2 7 (5.69%) Social Skills
3 6 (4.88%) Electronics
4 4 (3.25%) Finance
5 3 (2.44%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (2.44%) Banking
6 2 (1.63%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.81%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.81%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.88%) .NET
2 5 (4.07%) React
3 3 (2.44%) .NET Core
4 2 (1.63%) .NET Framework
4 2 (1.63%) CSS
4 2 (1.63%) JSON
4 2 (1.63%) REST
4 2 (1.63%) YAML
5 1 (0.81%) AWS CDK
5 1 (0.81%) Flutter
5 1 (0.81%) HTML
5 1 (0.81%) Kafka
5 1 (0.81%) LangChain
5 1 (0.81%) Node.js
5 1 (0.81%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.32%) Algorithms
2 8 (6.50%) Management Information System
3 5 (4.07%) Analogue Electronics
4 4 (3.25%) Clustering
5 1 (0.81%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.81%) Driving Licence
5 1 (0.81%) Legacy Code
5 1 (0.81%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.81%) PCIe
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.88%) Linux
1 6 (4.88%) Unix
1 6 (4.88%) Windows
2 5 (4.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (4.07%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (27.64%) Software Engineering
2 33 (26.83%) Systems Engineering
3 22 (17.89%) Validation
4 20 (16.26%) Verification and Validation
5 13 (10.57%) Agile
6 11 (8.94%) DevOps
7 9 (7.32%) Infrastructure as Code
8 8 (6.50%) Cybersecurity
9 7 (5.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 7 (5.69%) Integration Testing
10 6 (4.88%) Customer Requirements
10 6 (4.88%) Line Management
10 6 (4.88%) Project Management
10 6 (4.88%) Virtual Environments
10 6 (4.88%) Visualisation
11 5 (4.07%) Black-Box Testing
11 5 (4.07%) Quality Management
11 5 (4.07%) SIEM
11 5 (4.07%) Software Testing
11 5 (4.07%) UML
Programming Languages
1 14 (11.38%) MATLAB
2 11 (8.94%) Java
3 10 (8.13%) C
3 10 (8.13%) C#
4 6 (4.88%) TypeScript
5 5 (4.07%) Embedded C
5 5 (4.07%) JavaScript
5 5 (4.07%) Python
6 1 (0.81%) Kotlin
6 1 (0.81%) Scala
6 1 (0.81%) SQL
6 1 (0.81%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (20.33%) Security Cleared
2 16 (13.01%) Degree
3 12 (9.76%) DV Cleared
4 11 (8.94%) SC Cleared
5 5 (4.07%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.63%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.63%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.63%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.81%) CESG Certified Professional
7 1 (0.81%) Chartered Engineer
7 1 (0.81%) CISM
7 1 (0.81%) CISSP
7 1 (0.81%) CSSLP
7 1 (0.81%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.88%) NIST
2 5 (4.07%) AUTOSAR
2 5 (4.07%) ISO 26262
2 5 (4.07%) MISRA
2 5 (4.07%) MISRA C
3 2 (1.63%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.63%) Def Stans
4 1 (0.81%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.81%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.81%) NCSC
4 1 (0.81%) RMADS
System Software
1 5 (4.07%) VMware ESXi
1 5 (4.07%) VMware Infrastructure
1 5 (4.07%) VMware NSX
2 2 (1.63%) Docker
3 1 (0.81%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (4.88%) SCCM
2 5 (4.07%) vCenter Server
3 2 (1.63%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.81%) Ansible
4 1 (0.81%) Argo
Vendors
1 5 (4.07%) Veeam
1 5 (4.07%) VMware
2 3 (2.44%) Keysight
3 1 (0.81%) Mentor Graphics
3 1 (0.81%) Virgin Media