Applications Developer Contracts in Central London

Application Developer
London > Central London

The median Application Developer daily rate in Central London is £510 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 7 May 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
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 131 159 193
Rank change year-on-year +28 +34 -39
Contract jobs requiring an Applications Developer 6 17 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.25% 0.45% 0.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.26% 0.47% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 8 10
10th Percentile £491 £369 £400
25th Percentile £496 £394 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £588 £554
Median % change year-on-year -13.19% +6.09% -7.71%
75th Percentile £515 £675 £589
90th Percentile - £709 £647
London median daily rate £588 £550 £565
% change year-on-year +6.82% -2.65% +15.90%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Central London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Central 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 Central London with a recognized job title 2,299 3,591 4,259
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.32% 95.20% 94.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,640 2,455 3,245
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £444 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £563
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +4.89% +7.14%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £675
90th Percentile £800 £813 £763
London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 26 53
10th Percentile £20.19 £15.50 £13.88
25th Percentile £22.13 £18.93 £18.50
Median hourly rate £25.78 £35.00 £37.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.34% -5.41% +108.60%
75th Percentile £27.81 £57.50 £50.75
90th Percentile £40.38 £86.65 £65.10
London median hourly rate £27.25 £35.75 £35.00
% change year-on-year -23.78% +2.14% +8.63%

Applications Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings that featured Applications Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Applications Developer in Central London

Applications Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Applications Developer in Central London.

Daily rate trend for Applications Developer in Central London

Applications Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Applications Developer in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for Applications Developer in Central London

Applications Developer
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Applications Developer within the Central London region over the 6 months to 7 May 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
City of London +36 6 £510 -13.19% 1
Applications Developer
London

Applications Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London

For the 6 months to 7 May 2024, Applications 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 job ads across the Central London region featuring Applications Developer in the job title.

1 5 (83.33%) Azure
1 5 (83.33%) DevOps
1 5 (83.33%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) AWS
2 3 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 3 (50.00%) Python
2 3 (50.00%) SQL
2 3 (50.00%) Degree
2 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 2 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 2 (33.33%) ETL
3 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 2 (33.33%) Site Server
3 2 (33.33%) Migration
3 2 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (33.33%) Agile
3 2 (33.33%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (33.33%) Korn
3 2 (33.33%) Oracle
3 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
3 2 (33.33%) CRM
3 2 (33.33%) SharePoint
3 2 (33.33%) GIS
3 2 (33.33%) ESRI
3 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 2 (33.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (33.33%) Power Platform
3 2 (33.33%) PowerApps

Applications Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (33.33%) SharePoint
1 2 (33.33%) Site Server
2 1 (16.67%) JBoss
Business Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) Azure
1 5 (83.33%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) AWS
3 2 (33.33%) Amazon S3
3 2 (33.33%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (33.33%) IaaS
3 2 (33.33%) Power Platform
3 2 (33.33%) PowerApps
4 1 (16.67%) GitHub
4 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) GIS
1 2 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Git
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
1 1 (16.67%) JUnit
General
1 3 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) REST
2 1 (16.67%) HTML
2 1 (16.67%) J2EE
2 1 (16.67%) JMS
2 1 (16.67%) Kafka
2 1 (16.67%) Spring
2 1 (16.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
1 1 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) Agile
2 2 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 2 (33.33%) CRM
2 2 (33.33%) ETL
2 2 (33.33%) Migration
2 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (33.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 1 (16.67%) Architectural Design
3 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
3 1 (16.67%) Code Quality
3 1 (16.67%) CQRS
3 1 (16.67%) Data Development
3 1 (16.67%) Front End Development
3 1 (16.67%) Full Stack Development
3 1 (16.67%) Scrum
3 1 (16.67%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Python
1 3 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (33.33%) Korn
2 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 1 (16.67%) Java
3 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) Degree
1 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) Master's Degree
2 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Ansible
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) ESRI
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle