Principal Developer Contract Job Trends in Bury

Principal Developer
Manchester > Bury

As of 16 July 2026, there is not enough information available from job vacancies posted within the last 6 months to determine the median Principal Developer daily rate in Bury.

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Principal Developer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Bury 6.67% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 6.67% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
Manchester median daily rate - - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Bury

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Bury. 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 Bury with a recognized job title 15 3 1
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 100.00% 30.00% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £500 - £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £325
75th Percentile £756 - £338
90th Percentile £772 - -
Manchester median daily rate £485 £450 £495
% change year-on-year +7.78% -9.09% -1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £21.10 -
Manchester median hourly rate £60.00 £21.71 £31.00
% change year-on-year +176.40% -29.98% +63.16%

Principal Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bury

For the 6 months to 16 July 2026, Principal Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Bury region featuring Principal Developer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Anthropic Claude
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Claude Code
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Experience
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Copilot
1 1 (100.00%) Google Gemini
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Monorepo
1 1 (100.00%) Next.js
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Product Thinking
1 1 (100.00%) React
1 1 (100.00%) REST

Principal Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bury by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Anthropic Claude
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Copilot
1 1 (100.00%) Google Gemini
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Claude Code
General
1 1 (100.00%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Next.js
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js
1 1 (100.00%) React
1 1 (100.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Monorepo
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Product Thinking
1 1 (100.00%) Software Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Debt
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform