Principal Developer Contracts in London

Principal Developer
England > London

The median Principal Developer daily rate in London is £850 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 May 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
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 382 494 599
Rank change year-on-year +112 +105 -143
Contract jobs requiring a Principal Developer 11 11 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.062% 0.041% 0.021%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.066% 0.043% 0.022%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 5 8
10th Percentile - - £574
25th Percentile £575 - £609
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £850 £500 £644
Median % change year-on-year +70.00% -22.33% -4.63%
75th Percentile £875 £838 £750
90th Percentile £883 £935 -
England median daily rate £700 £613 £600
% change year-on-year +14.29% +2.08% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 16,617 25,468 37,159
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.23% 95.25% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,021 18,449 27,170
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £443 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £676 £700 £681
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 338 290 447
10th Percentile £16.01 £18.00 £16.40
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.53 £22.21
Median hourly rate £27.66 £35.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.55% +0.71% +10.62%
75th Percentile £43.75 £61.50 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £78.20 £67.75
England median hourly rate £36.50 £44.32 £22.50
% change year-on-year -17.64% +96.98% +2.27%

Principal Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Principal Developer in London

Principal Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Principal Developer in London

Principal Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Principal Developer in London over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Principal Developer in London

Principal Developer
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 Developer within the London region over the 6 months to 6 May 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 - 3 £600 -
Principal Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 6 May 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 London region featuring Principal Developer in the job title.

1 8 (72.73%) Software Engineering
2 6 (54.55%) TDD
2 6 (54.55%) DevOps
3 5 (45.45%) AWS
3 5 (45.45%) Agile
3 5 (45.45%) Finance
3 5 (45.45%) C#
3 5 (45.45%) .NET
3 5 (45.45%) Serverless
4 4 (36.36%) Clean Code
4 4 (36.36%) PySpark
4 4 (36.36%) CI/CD
4 4 (36.36%) Python
4 4 (36.36%) Front Office
4 4 (36.36%) NumPy
4 4 (36.36%) Pandas
5 3 (27.27%) Azure
6 2 (18.18%) .NET Core
6 2 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (18.18%) Deployment Automation
6 2 (18.18%) Architectural Design
6 2 (18.18%) Continuous Delivery
6 2 (18.18%) Terraform
6 2 (18.18%) Java
6 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
6 2 (18.18%) PowerShell
6 2 (18.18%) Test Automation
6 2 (18.18%) .NET Framework
7 1 (9.09%) JSON
7 1 (9.09%) Business Analysis

Principal Developer 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (45.45%) AWS
1 5 (45.45%) Serverless
2 3 (27.27%) Azure
3 2 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (9.09%) Azure API Management
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Batch
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Functions
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Storage
4 1 (9.09%) Power Automate
4 1 (9.09%) Power Platform
4 1 (9.09%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (9.09%) Big Data
1 1 (9.09%) Data Lake
1 1 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (9.09%) OLTP
1 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Git
1 1 (9.09%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 5 (45.45%) Finance
2 4 (36.36%) Front Office
3 1 (9.09%) Electronics
3 1 (9.09%) Manufacturing
3 1 (9.09%) Marketing
3 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
3 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (45.45%) .NET
2 4 (36.36%) NumPy
2 4 (36.36%) Pandas
2 4 (36.36%) PySpark
3 2 (18.18%) .NET Core
3 2 (18.18%) .NET Framework
4 1 (9.09%) AngularJS
4 1 (9.09%) ARM Templates
4 1 (9.09%) Flutter
4 1 (9.09%) JSON
4 1 (9.09%) Web Services
4 1 (9.09%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Mobile App
1 1 (9.09%) Public Cloud
1 1 (9.09%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) Software Engineering
2 6 (54.55%) DevOps
2 6 (54.55%) TDD
3 5 (45.45%) Agile
4 4 (36.36%) CI/CD
4 4 (36.36%) Clean Code
5 2 (18.18%) Architectural Design
5 2 (18.18%) Continuous Delivery
5 2 (18.18%) Deployment Automation
5 2 (18.18%) Test Automation
6 1 (9.09%) BDD
6 1 (9.09%) Business Analysis
6 1 (9.09%) Data Migration
6 1 (9.09%) Digital Marketing
6 1 (9.09%) Kanban
6 1 (9.09%) Migration
6 1 (9.09%) OWASP
6 1 (9.09%) Regression Testing
6 1 (9.09%) Scrum
6 1 (9.09%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) C#
2 4 (36.36%) Python
3 2 (18.18%) Java
3 2 (18.18%) PowerShell
4 1 (9.09%) Dart
4 1 (9.09%) Ruby
4 1 (9.09%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Terraform
2 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) SAP
2 1 (9.09%) Virgin Media