Principal Software Engineer Contracts in West London

Principal Software Engineer
London > West London

The median Principal Software Engineer daily rate in West London is £600 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 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
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 38 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Principal Software Engineer 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West London 0.56% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.60% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £575 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - -
75th Percentile £625 - -
90th Percentile - - -
London median daily rate £600 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +26.32% -9.52% -4.11%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
West London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in West 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 West London with a recognized job title 333 522 613
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.07% 97.57% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 236 374 435
10th Percentile £189 £283 £190
25th Percentile £250 £425 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +10.00% -1.96%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £625
90th Percentile £661 £700 £675
London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 53 41
10th Percentile £16.25 £25.25 £15.50
25th Percentile £16.81 £40.00 £19.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £64.00 £21.93
Median % change year-on-year -49.22% +191.84% -2.53%
75th Percentile £42.63 £75.00 £38.75
90th Percentile £58.50 £84.50 £42.02
London median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -20.54% - +12.90%

Principal Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in West London

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

Job vacancy trend for Principal Software Engineer in West London

Principal Software Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West London

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

Daily rate trend for Principal Software Engineer in West London

Principal Software Engineer
Contract Job Locations in West London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Principal Software Engineer within the West London region over the 6 months to 19 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
Richmond upon Thames - 2 £600 -
Principal Software Engineer
London

Principal Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 10 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West London

For the 6 months to 19 April 2024, Principal Software 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 West London region featuring Principal Software Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Core
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Architectural Design
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Coaching
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Framework

Principal Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West 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 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Core
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Framework
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Architectural Design
2 1 (50.00%) Coaching
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#