Principal Engineer Contracts in London

Principal Engineer
England > London

The median Principal Engineer daily rate in London is £650 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 368 463 562
Rank change year-on-year +95 +99 -105
Contract jobs requiring a Principal Engineer 21 37 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.12% 0.14% 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.14% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 25 26
10th Percentile - £518 £481
25th Percentile £575 £663 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £725 £575
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% +26.09% +4.78%
75th Percentile £756 £788 £634
90th Percentile £882 £970 £738
England median daily rate £600 £725 £615
% change year-on-year -17.24% +17.89% +11.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £45.30 - £41.32
Median hourly rate £48.65 £78.80 £43.74
Median % change year-on-year -38.26% +80.16% -
75th Percentile £53.79 - £46.16
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £67.50 £83.31 £53.81
% change year-on-year -18.98% +54.82% +14.49%

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 16,601 25,897 37,041
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.18% 95.32% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,001 18,738 27,022
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £442 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £675
90th Percentile £788 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 338 299 448
10th Percentile £16.01 £18.00 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.57 £22.02
Median hourly rate £27.66 £35.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.10% +1.43% +12.90%
75th Percentile £43.75 £60.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £76.60 £67.50
England median hourly rate £35.96 £44.53 £22.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% +97.91% +0.36%

Principal Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Principal Engineer in London

Principal Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Principal Engineer in London

Principal Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Principal Engineer in London over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Principal Engineer in London

Principal Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Principal Engineer in London.

Hourly rate trend for Principal Engineer in London

Principal Engineer
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 Engineer within the London 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
West London - 4 £600 - 3
Central London - 4 £944 - 14
East London - 2 £600 - 5
Principal Engineer
England

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

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 London region featuring Principal Engineer in the job title.

1 8 (38.10%) Software Engineering
2 7 (33.33%) AWS
3 6 (28.57%) .NET
4 5 (23.81%) Agile
5 4 (19.05%) Finance
5 4 (19.05%) C#
5 4 (19.05%) Java
5 4 (19.05%) DevOps
6 3 (14.29%) Azure
6 3 (14.29%) Microservices
6 3 (14.29%) TypeScript
6 3 (14.29%) JavaScript
6 3 (14.29%) Python
6 3 (14.29%) Banking
6 3 (14.29%) .NET Core
6 3 (14.29%) CI/CD
6 3 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (14.29%) Social Skills
7 2 (9.52%) Technology Transformation
7 2 (9.52%) Fintech
7 2 (9.52%) Acceptance Criteria
7 2 (9.52%) Infrastructure as Code
7 2 (9.52%) Architectural Design
7 2 (9.52%) Coaching
7 2 (9.52%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (9.52%) .NET Framework
7 2 (9.52%) Security Cleared
7 2 (9.52%) Analytics
8 1 (4.76%) Mentoring
8 1 (4.76%) AWS Certification

Principal Engineer 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 7 (33.33%) AWS
2 3 (14.29%) Azure
3 1 (4.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (4.76%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (4.76%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (4.76%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (4.76%) Amazon EventBridge
3 1 (4.76%) Amazon Kinesis
3 1 (4.76%) Amazon Macie
3 1 (4.76%) Amazon S3
3 1 (4.76%) AWS CodeBuild
3 1 (4.76%) AWS CodeCommit
3 1 (4.76%) AWS CodePipeline
3 1 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (4.76%) AWS Step Functions
3 1 (4.76%) GitHub
3 1 (4.76%) Serverless
3 1 (4.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.76%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (4.76%) Data Lake
1 1 (4.76%) Parquet
General
1 4 (19.05%) Finance
2 3 (14.29%) Banking
2 3 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (28.57%) .NET
2 3 (14.29%) .NET Core
3 2 (9.52%) .NET Framework
4 1 (4.76%) CSS
4 1 (4.76%) JSON
4 1 (4.76%) React
4 1 (4.76%) REST
4 1 (4.76%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.76%) Legacy Code
1 1 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (38.10%) Software Engineering
2 5 (23.81%) Agile
3 4 (19.05%) DevOps
4 3 (14.29%) CI/CD
4 3 (14.29%) Microservices
4 3 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (9.52%) Acceptance Criteria
5 2 (9.52%) Analytics
5 2 (9.52%) Architectural Design
5 2 (9.52%) Coaching
5 2 (9.52%) Fintech
5 2 (9.52%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (9.52%) Technology Transformation
6 1 (4.76%) Actionable Insight
6 1 (4.76%) Containerisation
6 1 (4.76%) Data Pipeline
6 1 (4.76%) Design Patterns
6 1 (4.76%) Knowledge Transfer
6 1 (4.76%) Mentoring
6 1 (4.76%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 4 (19.05%) C#
1 4 (19.05%) Java
2 3 (14.29%) JavaScript
2 3 (14.29%) Python
2 3 (14.29%) TypeScript
3 1 (4.76%) SQL
3 1 (4.76%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (9.52%) BPSS Clearance
1 2 (9.52%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.76%) AWS Certification
2 1 (4.76%) CISM
2 1 (4.76%) CISSP
2 1 (4.76%) CSSLP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.76%) Actionable Recommendations
1 1 (4.76%) Data Quality
1 1 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (4.76%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (4.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (4.76%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (4.76%) Virgin Media