Principal Engineer Contracts in Wokingham

Principal Engineer
Berkshire > Wokingham

The median Principal Engineer daily rate in Wokingham is £565, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 August 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
4 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Principal Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wokingham 0.53% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.65% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £558 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 - -
75th Percentile £573 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median daily rate £605 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Wokingham

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Wokingham. 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 Wokingham with a recognized job title 155 79 78
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 82.45% 98.75% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 59 44
10th Percentile £350 £323 £308
25th Percentile £400 £350 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £482 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.64% -12.36% +22.22%
75th Percentile £574 £585 £656
90th Percentile £675 £634 £788
Berkshire median daily rate £508 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -7.73% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £14.00 - £66.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +7.76%
75th Percentile £14.15 - -
90th Percentile £14.24 - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £48.00 £61.60 £56.47
% change year-on-year -22.08% +9.08% +101.69%

Principal Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Wokingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Principal Engineer in Wokingham

Principal Engineer Skill Set
Top 17 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wokingham

For the 6 months to 4 August 2025, 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 Wokingham region featuring Principal Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Release Management
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Go
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems

Principal Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wokingham 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 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Release Management
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Go
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes