Principal Engineer Contract Job Trends in Knutsford

Principal Engineer
Cheshire > Knutsford

The median Principal Engineer daily rate in Knutsford is £495, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 25 July 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Principal Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Knutsford 0.40% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.45% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £493 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 - -
75th Percentile £498 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Cheshire median daily rate £495 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Knutsford

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Knutsford. 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 Knutsford with a recognized job title 224 233 168
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.96% 89.62% 94.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 195 219 146
10th Percentile £360 £312 £339
25th Percentile £416 £357 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £402 £445
Median % change year-on-year +20.65% -9.66% -21.24%
75th Percentile £617 £490 £551
90th Percentile £667 £537 £614
Cheshire median daily rate £489 £430 £465
% change year-on-year +13.60% -7.53% -7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 0
10th Percentile £15.73 - -
25th Percentile £15.93 - -
Median hourly rate £16.87 - -
75th Percentile £17.80 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Cheshire median hourly rate £32.23 £31.50 £17.72
% change year-on-year +2.32% +77.74% -39.44%

Principal Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Principal Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford.

Principal Engineer job vacancy trend in Knutsford

Principal Engineer Skill Set
Top 22 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Knutsford

For the 6 months to 25 July 2026, Principal Engineer 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 Knutsford region featuring Principal Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Bedrock
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Camunda
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) LangChain
1 1 (100.00%) LangGraph
1 1 (100.00%) LangSmith
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Technology Roadmap
1 1 (100.00%) Technology Transformation
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow

Principal Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Knutsford 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Camunda
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Bedrock
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) LangSmith
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) LangChain
1 1 (100.00%) LangGraph
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Technology Roadmap
1 1 (100.00%) Technology Transformation
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python