Principal Developer Contract Job Trends in Suffolk

Principal Developer
East of England > Suffolk

As of 21 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 Suffolk.

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Principal Developer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Suffolk 0.51% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.57% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
East of England median daily rate - - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Suffolk

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Suffolk. 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 Suffolk with a recognized job title 175 71 62
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 88.83% 97.26% 96.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 41 38
10th Percentile £325 £178 £105
25th Percentile £425 £200 £188
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £300 £225
Median % change year-on-year +70.83% +33.33% -57.14%
75th Percentile £602 £423 £503
90th Percentile £725 £530 £575
East of England median daily rate £500 £500 £425
% change year-on-year - +17.65% -10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 16
10th Percentile £16.25 - £11.25
25th Percentile £16.81 - £14.05
Median hourly rate £19.37 £17.79 £14.60
Median % change year-on-year +8.85% +21.85% -17.89%
75th Percentile £23.00 £31.99 £48.75
90th Percentile - £40.50 -
East of England median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £43.90
% change year-on-year -5.88% -3.19% +1.35%

Principal Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Suffolk

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

Principal Developer job vacancy trend in Suffolk

Principal Developer
Contract Job Locations in Suffolk

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 Suffolk region over the 6 months to 21 July 2026. 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
Bury St Edmunds - 1 - -
Principal Developer
East of England

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

For the 6 months to 21 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 Suffolk 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 Suffolk 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