Principal Developer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Principal Developer
UK > Work from Home

As of 1 June 2024, there is not enough information available from job vacancies posted within the last 6 months to determine the median Principal Developer daily rate in Work from Home.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 345 449 610
Rank change year-on-year +104 +161 -119
Contract jobs requiring a Principal Developer 3 12 18
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.020% 0.050% 0.041%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.022% 0.052% 0.043%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 16
10th Percentile - £663 £538
25th Percentile - £719 £569
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £825 £625
Median % change year-on-year - +32.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile - £838 £675
90th Percentile - - £725
UK median daily rate £700 £700 £625
% change year-on-year - +12.00% +4.17%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 13,691 22,958 42,210
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.52% 95.26% 95.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,251 16,282 30,640
10th Percentile £325 £360 £358
25th Percentile £425 £444 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £539 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.60% +2.67% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £631
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 566 531 565
10th Percentile £14.26 £16.98 £13.50
25th Percentile £22.84 £25.00 £19.50
Median hourly rate £44.87 £52.50 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.53% +43.84% +57.26%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.72 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £77.50 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.50
% change year-on-year -16.67% +83.67% +12.28%

Principal Developer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Principal Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Principal Developer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Principal Developer
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Principal Developer.

Principal Developer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Principal Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, Principal Developer 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Principal Developer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) C#
1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) .NET
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (100.00%) TDD
1 3 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
1 3 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 2 (66.67%) Project Delivery
2 2 (66.67%) SOLID
2 2 (66.67%) Public Cloud
2 2 (66.67%) AngularJS
2 2 (66.67%) Docker
2 2 (66.67%) Marketing
2 2 (66.67%) Digital Marketing
2 2 (66.67%) Unit Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (66.67%) Programme Management
2 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) SAP
2 2 (66.67%) OO
2 2 (66.67%) Regression Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Electronics
2 2 (66.67%) Telecoms

Principal Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Azure API Management
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Batch
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Functions
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Service Bus
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Storage
2 1 (33.33%) Power Automate
2 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
2 1 (33.33%) PowerApps
2 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (33.33%) Big Data
1 1 (33.33%) Data Lake
1 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (33.33%) OLTP
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 2 (66.67%) Electronics
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
1 2 (66.67%) Manufacturing
1 2 (66.67%) Marketing
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
1 2 (66.67%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) .NET
2 2 (66.67%) AngularJS
3 1 (33.33%) ARM Templates
3 1 (33.33%) JSON
3 1 (33.33%) Web Services
3 1 (33.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 3 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) TDD
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 2 (66.67%) Digital Marketing
2 2 (66.67%) OO
2 2 (66.67%) Programme Management
2 2 (66.67%) Project Delivery
2 2 (66.67%) Regression Testing
2 2 (66.67%) SOLID
2 2 (66.67%) Unit Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Business Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Microservices
3 1 (33.33%) OWASP
3 1 (33.33%) Secure Coding
3 1 (33.33%) Service Design
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) C#
1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (66.67%) SQL
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
2 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) SAP