Principal Software Engineer Contracts in Wilmslow

Principal Software Engineer
Cheshire > Wilmslow

The median Principal Software Engineer daily rate in Wilmslow is £650, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 27 July 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Principal Software Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wilmslow 25.00% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 25.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £625 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - -
75th Percentile £675 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Cheshire median daily rate £650 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Wilmslow

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Wilmslow. 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 Wilmslow with a recognized job title 4 2 5
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 100.00% 100.00% 71.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 5
10th Percentile - £216 £220
25th Percentile £200 £239 £230
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £281 £300
Median % change year-on-year +51.11% -6.25% -31.82%
75th Percentile £678 £327 £350
90th Percentile £684 £352 £365
Cheshire median daily rate £437 £463 £500
% change year-on-year -5.61% -7.41% +11.11%

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

For the 6 months to 27 July 2025, 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 Wilmslow region featuring Principal Software Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) X.509
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) PKI
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Informatics
1 1 (100.00%) Atlassian
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 1 (100.00%) OWASP
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Confluence
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) SpecFlow
1 1 (100.00%) Gherkin
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (100.00%) Artifactory
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Coaching
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Datadog
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Security Hardening

Principal Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wilmslow 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Datadog
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) X.509
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Artifactory
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) SpecFlow
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (100.00%) Gherkin
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) API Development
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Coaching
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Informatics
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) OWASP
1 1 (100.00%) Security Hardening
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) SOLID
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Atlassian