Principal Engineer Contracts in the West Midlands

Principal Engineer
England > West Midlands

The median Principal Engineer daily rate in the West Midlands is £550 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 100 141 167
Rank change year-on-year +41 +26 -
Contract jobs requiring a Principal Engineer 12 2 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.62% 0.084% 0.028%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.68% 0.088% 0.029%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 2 0
10th Percentile £448 £511 -
25th Percentile £519 £555 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £669 -
Median % change year-on-year -17.76% - -
75th Percentile £575 £817 -
90th Percentile - £882 -
England median daily rate £600 £725 £615
% change year-on-year -17.24% +17.89% +11.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £56.25 - -
Median hourly rate £57.50 - -
75th Percentile £58.75 - -
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
West Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands. 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 the West Midlands with a recognized job title 1,761 2,271 3,434
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.34% 94.94% 96.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,184 1,562 2,511
10th Percentile £259 £250 £215
25th Percentile £363 £388 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +17.28%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £700 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 134 67 85
10th Percentile £12.01 £12.50 £12.30
25th Percentile £15.00 £15.05 £14.00
Median hourly rate £22.25 £19.00 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.11% +11.76% +6.25%
75th Percentile £42.31 £26.50 £20.00
90th Percentile £55.88 £55.25 £23.15
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 the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Principal Engineer in the West Midlands

Principal Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Principal Engineer in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Principal Engineer in the West Midlands

Principal Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Principal Engineer in the West Midlands

Principal Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Principal Engineer in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Principal Engineer in the West Midlands

Principal Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands 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
Worcestershire - 6 £550 - 1
Staffordshire - 1 £350 - 1
Principal Engineer
England

Principal Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region featuring Principal Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (50.00%) DHCP
1 6 (50.00%) TCP/IP
1 6 (50.00%) DNS
1 6 (50.00%) MATLAB
1 6 (50.00%) Simulink
1 6 (50.00%) Visualisation
1 6 (50.00%) SCCM
1 6 (50.00%) C#
1 6 (50.00%) Java
1 6 (50.00%) Unix
1 6 (50.00%) Windows
1 6 (50.00%) Linux
1 6 (50.00%) Virtual Environments
1 6 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 6 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (41.67%) Systems Engineering
2 5 (41.67%) C
2 5 (41.67%) NIST
2 5 (41.67%) White-Box Testing
2 5 (41.67%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
2 5 (41.67%) AUTOSAR
2 5 (41.67%) Verification and Validation
2 5 (41.67%) Security Monitoring
2 5 (41.67%) vCenter Server
2 5 (41.67%) Master's Degree
2 5 (41.67%) VMware NSX
2 5 (41.67%) UML
2 5 (41.67%) QMS
2 5 (41.67%) DV Cleared
2 5 (41.67%) Security Cleared

Principal Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Applications
1 6 (50.00%) Simulink
2 5 (41.67%) Stateflow
2 5 (41.67%) TargetLink
Communications & Networking
1 6 (50.00%) DHCP
1 6 (50.00%) DNS
1 6 (50.00%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 5 (41.67%) Bitbucket
1 5 (41.67%) Git
1 5 (41.67%) Subversion
General
1 5 (41.67%) Automotive
Miscellaneous
1 5 (41.67%) Algorithms
1 5 (41.67%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 6 (50.00%) Linux
1 6 (50.00%) Unix
1 6 (50.00%) Windows
2 5 (41.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (41.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 6 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 6 (50.00%) Virtual Environments
1 6 (50.00%) Visualisation
2 5 (41.67%) Black-Box Testing
2 5 (41.67%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (41.67%) Functional Testing
2 5 (41.67%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
2 5 (41.67%) Line Management
2 5 (41.67%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
2 5 (41.67%) Project Management
2 5 (41.67%) Quality Management
2 5 (41.67%) Security Hardening
2 5 (41.67%) Security Monitoring
2 5 (41.67%) SIEM
2 5 (41.67%) Software Audit
2 5 (41.67%) Systems Engineering
2 5 (41.67%) UML
2 5 (41.67%) Verification and Validation
2 5 (41.67%) White-Box Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (50.00%) C#
1 6 (50.00%) Java
1 6 (50.00%) MATLAB
2 5 (41.67%) C
Qualifications
1 5 (41.67%) Degree
1 5 (41.67%) DV Cleared
1 5 (41.67%) Master's Degree
1 5 (41.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (41.67%) AUTOSAR
1 5 (41.67%) ISO 26262
1 5 (41.67%) MISRA
1 5 (41.67%) MISRA C
1 5 (41.67%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (41.67%) VMware ESXi
1 5 (41.67%) VMware Infrastructure
1 5 (41.67%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 6 (50.00%) SCCM
2 5 (41.67%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) Veeam
1 5 (41.67%) VMware