Principal Engineer Contracts in the South West

Principal Engineer
England > South West

As of 24 April 2024, there is not enough information available from job vacancies posted within the last 6 months to determine the median Principal Engineer daily rate in the South West.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 136 150 159
Rank change year-on-year +14 +9 -18
Contract jobs requiring a Principal Engineer 14 18 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.44% 0.49% 0.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.47% 0.53% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 5 3
10th Percentile - - £613
25th Percentile - £413 £631
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £425 £675
Median % change year-on-year - -37.04% -
75th Percentile - £620 £694
90th Percentile - £625 £698
England median daily rate £600 £725 £615
% change year-on-year -17.24% +17.89% +11.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 11 4
10th Percentile £62.25 £65.00 £56.48
25th Percentile £63.75 £76.66 £64.20
Median hourly rate £67.50 £83.31 £77.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.98% +7.50% -
75th Percentile £71.25 £83.40 £82.00
90th Percentile £75.84 - £83.39
England median hourly rate £67.50 £83.31 £53.45
% change year-on-year -18.98% +55.88% +13.71%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the South West. 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 the South West with a recognized job title 2,985 3,400 3,576
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.46% 92.32% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,927 2,534 2,546
10th Percentile £210 £263 £225
25th Percentile £391 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £588
90th Percentile £703 £713 £661
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 386 279 203
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.09 £15.90
25th Percentile £26.75 £51.25 £16.99
Median hourly rate £48.29 £65.00 £45.20
Median % change year-on-year -25.71% +43.81% +6.35%
75th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £63.05
90th Percentile £77.50 £85.00 £69.05
England median hourly rate £35.50 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -21.11% +100.00% +0.36%

Principal Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Principal Engineer in the South West

Principal Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Principal Engineer in the South West.

Daily rate trend for Principal Engineer in the South West

Principal Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Principal Engineer in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for Principal Engineer in the South West

Principal Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Principal Engineer in the South West over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Principal Engineer in the South West

Principal Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 South West region over the 6 months to 24 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
Bristol +26 12 - - 24
Devon 0 1 - - 12
Gloucestershire -2 1 - - 9
Principal Engineer
England

Principal Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West

For the 6 months to 24 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 South West region featuring Principal Engineer in the job title.

1 7 (50.00%) Aerospace
2 4 (28.57%) Systems Engineering
3 2 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 2 (14.29%) Security Cleared
4 1 (7.14%) YAML
4 1 (7.14%) 3D Modelling
4 1 (7.14%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (7.14%) Amazon S3
4 1 (7.14%) AWS
4 1 (7.14%) REST
4 1 (7.14%) Data Quality
4 1 (7.14%) Analytics
4 1 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (7.14%) Data Transformation
4 1 (7.14%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (7.14%) DevOps
4 1 (7.14%) Mentoring
4 1 (7.14%) AWS Certification
4 1 (7.14%) Amazon Kinesis
4 1 (7.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (7.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (7.14%) Parquet
4 1 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (7.14%) CESG Certified Professional
4 1 (7.14%) Data Lake
4 1 (7.14%) Serverless
4 1 (7.14%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (7.14%) AWS CodePipeline
4 1 (7.14%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (7.14%) Amazon EKS

Principal Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 1 (7.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (7.14%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (7.14%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (7.14%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (7.14%) Amazon EventBridge
1 1 (7.14%) Amazon Kinesis
1 1 (7.14%) Amazon Macie
1 1 (7.14%) Amazon S3
1 1 (7.14%) AWS
1 1 (7.14%) AWS CodeBuild
1 1 (7.14%) AWS CodeCommit
1 1 (7.14%) AWS CodePipeline
1 1 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (7.14%) AWS Step Functions
1 1 (7.14%) Serverless
1 1 (7.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (7.14%) Data Lake
1 1 (7.14%) Parquet
General
1 7 (50.00%) Aerospace
2 1 (7.14%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) JSON
1 1 (7.14%) REST
1 1 (7.14%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (28.57%) Systems Engineering
2 1 (7.14%) 3D Modelling
2 1 (7.14%) Analytics
2 1 (7.14%) CAD
2 1 (7.14%) CI/CD
2 1 (7.14%) Containerisation
2 1 (7.14%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (7.14%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (7.14%) Data Transformation
2 1 (7.14%) DevOps
2 1 (7.14%) Digital Engineering
2 1 (7.14%) Incident Management
2 1 (7.14%) Information Security
2 1 (7.14%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (7.14%) Mentoring
2 1 (7.14%) Product Strategy
2 1 (7.14%) Quality Management
2 1 (7.14%) Risk Analysis
2 1 (7.14%) Risk Management
2 1 (7.14%) Technical Leadership
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 2 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) AWS Certification
2 1 (7.14%) CESG Certified Professional
2 1 (7.14%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) Data Quality
1 1 (7.14%) NCSC
1 1 (7.14%) RMADS
Vendors
1 1 (7.14%) Autodesk