Applications Specialist Contracts in England

Application Specialist
UK > England

The median Application Specialist daily rate in England is £475 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 12 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
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 504 608 751
Rank change year-on-year +104 +143 -165
Contract jobs requiring an Applications Specialist 38 43 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.10% 0.087% 0.050%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.092% 0.052%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 25 27
10th Percentile £290 £378 £295
25th Percentile £300 £400 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -13.64% +29.41%
75th Percentile £536 £550 £650
90th Percentile £575 £583 £755
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £550
% change year-on-year +5.26% -13.64% +22.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £6.60 -
25th Percentile £58.75 £9.00 -
Median hourly rate £59.50 £13.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +340.74% - -
75th Percentile £60.25 £18.50 -
90th Percentile - £21.20 -
UK median hourly rate £59.50 £13.50 -
% change year-on-year +340.74% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 34,086 46,552 67,167
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.70% 94.63% 95.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,604 33,063 47,842
10th Percentile £281 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £645 £663 £644
90th Percentile £750 £760 £743
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,443 1,372 1,853
10th Percentile £12.87 £14.50 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.63
Median hourly rate £37.50 £44.06 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.88% +91.54% +3.00%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £48.76
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £64.55
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.67% +88.21% +5.89%

Applications Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Applications Specialist in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Applications Specialist in England

Applications Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Applications Specialist in England.

Daily rate trend for Applications Specialist in England

Applications Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Applications Specialist in England over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Applications Specialist in England

Applications Specialist
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Applications Specialist in England.

Hourly rate trend for Applications Specialist in England

Applications Specialist
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Applications Specialist within the England region over the 6 months to 12 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
London +91 28 £450 -10.00% 10
South East +16 6 £450 +28.57% 5
South West - 1 - - 5
Applications Specialist
UK

Applications Specialist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 12 May 2024, Applications Specialist 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 England region featuring Applications Specialist in the job title.

1 14 (36.84%) Windows
2 13 (34.21%) IBM
3 11 (28.95%) Microsoft
4 10 (26.32%) Security Cleared
4 10 (26.32%) SC Cleared
5 9 (23.68%) PowerShell
5 9 (23.68%) QA
5 9 (23.68%) Application Packaging
6 7 (18.42%) User Acceptance Testing
6 7 (18.42%) Finance
6 7 (18.42%) WebSphere
6 7 (18.42%) Unix
6 7 (18.42%) SSL
6 7 (18.42%) WebSphere Application Server
6 7 (18.42%) WebLogic
6 7 (18.42%) IBM UrbanCode
7 6 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (15.79%) Virtual Desktop
7 6 (15.79%) Driving Licence
7 6 (15.79%) SQL
7 6 (15.79%) Active Directory
7 6 (15.79%) WebSphere MQ
7 6 (15.79%) Netcool
7 6 (15.79%) Shell Script
7 6 (15.79%) Information Security
7 6 (15.79%) SCCM
7 6 (15.79%) DataPower
8 5 (13.16%) ITIL
8 5 (13.16%) Azure
8 5 (13.16%) Social Skills

Applications Specialist Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 7 (18.42%) WebLogic
1 7 (18.42%) WebSphere
1 7 (18.42%) WebSphere Application Server
2 1 (2.63%) IIS
2 1 (2.63%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (2.63%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 5 (13.16%) Azure
2 4 (10.53%) Dynamics 365
2 4 (10.53%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (5.26%) Mimecast
4 1 (2.63%) AWS
4 1 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.63%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (2.63%) IaaS
4 1 (2.63%) PaaS
4 1 (2.63%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (18.42%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.63%) Relational Database
1 1 (2.63%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (18.42%) IBM UrbanCode
2 3 (7.89%) InstallShield
2 3 (7.89%) MSI
3 1 (2.63%) Oracle APEX
3 1 (2.63%) TeamCity
General
1 7 (18.42%) Finance
2 5 (13.16%) Social Skills
3 2 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.63%) Banking
4 1 (2.63%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (15.79%) WebSphere MQ
2 2 (5.26%) .NET
3 1 (2.63%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (2.63%) WCF
3 1 (2.63%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.79%) DataPower
1 6 (15.79%) Driving Licence
2 3 (7.89%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.63%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.63%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (2.63%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 14 (36.84%) Windows
2 7 (18.42%) Unix
3 1 (2.63%) Linux
3 1 (2.63%) Solaris
3 1 (2.63%) VMS
3 1 (2.63%) Windows 10
3 1 (2.63%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (23.68%) Application Packaging
2 7 (18.42%) User Acceptance Testing
3 6 (15.79%) Information Security
3 6 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (13.16%) Customer Service
4 5 (13.16%) ITIL
5 4 (10.53%) Incident Management
5 4 (10.53%) Migration
5 4 (10.53%) Service Delivery
5 4 (10.53%) Task Automation
6 3 (7.89%) Project Planning
6 3 (7.89%) Release Management
7 2 (5.26%) Asset Management
7 2 (5.26%) Change Management
7 2 (5.26%) Data Ingestion
7 2 (5.26%) DevOps
7 2 (5.26%) Operational Acceptance Testing
7 2 (5.26%) Project Delivery
7 2 (5.26%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (5.26%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (23.68%) PowerShell
2 6 (15.79%) Shell Script
2 6 (15.79%) SQL
3 2 (5.26%) C#
3 2 (5.26%) JavaScript
3 2 (5.26%) VBScript
4 1 (2.63%) F#
4 1 (2.63%) VB
Qualifications
1 10 (26.32%) SC Cleared
1 10 (26.32%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.26%) Degree
3 1 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.63%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (23.68%) QA
2 1 (2.63%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (15.79%) Active Directory
1 6 (15.79%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 6 (15.79%) Netcool
1 6 (15.79%) SCCM
2 4 (10.53%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (7.89%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 13 (34.21%) IBM
2 11 (28.95%) Microsoft
3 4 (10.53%) ServiceNow
4 2 (5.26%) Dynatrace
4 2 (5.26%) Oracle
4 2 (5.26%) Proofpoint
4 2 (5.26%) SAP
5 1 (2.63%) Salesforce