Applications Developer Contracts in London

Application Developer
England > London

The median Application Developer daily rate in London is £588 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 322 378 515
Rank change year-on-year +56 +137 -97
Contract jobs requiring an Applications Developer 73 110 103
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.41% 0.42% 0.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.44% 0.44% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 66 70
10th Percentile £325 £369 £424
25th Percentile £409 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £550 £564
Median % change year-on-year +6.82% -2.44% +18.68%
75th Percentile £850 £587 £636
90th Percentile - £700 £703
England median daily rate £475 £549 £536
% change year-on-year -13.48% +2.38% +19.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £32.00
Median hourly rate - - £34.00
75th Percentile - - £36.00
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £24.50 £72.50 £40.34
% change year-on-year -66.21% +79.74% -19.33%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in 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 London with a recognized job title 16,469 25,124 36,818
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.32% 95.22% 95.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,901 18,241 26,939
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £444 £463 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 325 285 443
10th Percentile £16.01 £18.00 £16.30
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.75 £22.68
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.54% +1.43% +10.62%
75th Percentile £46.48 £62.50 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.02 £80.00 £68.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £44.06 £23.00
% change year-on-year -14.88% +91.54% +3.00%

Applications Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Applications Developer in London

Applications Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Applications Developer in London

Applications Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Applications Developer in London

Applications Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Applications Developer in London

Applications Developer
Contract Job Locations in 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 London 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
Central London +29 6 £510 -13.19% 2
West London - 3 £600 -
Applications Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 12 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 London region featuring Applications Developer in the job title.

1 42 (57.53%) Agile
2 28 (38.36%) C#
3 26 (35.62%) Social Skills
4 25 (34.25%) JavaScript
5 23 (31.51%) JIRA
5 23 (31.51%) Azure
5 23 (31.51%) PowerApps
6 22 (30.14%) Analytical Skills
7 21 (28.77%) Power Platform
8 20 (27.40%) REST
9 19 (26.03%) TypeScript
9 19 (26.03%) Business Intelligence
10 18 (24.66%) Software Engineering
10 18 (24.66%) Continuous Improvement
10 18 (24.66%) Power Automate
11 17 (23.29%) React
11 17 (23.29%) SQL Server
12 16 (21.92%) Microsoft
12 16 (21.92%) Degree
12 16 (21.92%) Design Patterns
12 16 (21.92%) Power BI
13 15 (20.55%) npm
13 15 (20.55%) RxJS
13 15 (20.55%) webpack
13 15 (20.55%) WebSockets
13 15 (20.55%) AngularJS
13 15 (20.55%) Web Application Development
13 15 (20.55%) Electronic Trading
13 15 (20.55%) Front Office
14 14 (19.18%) .NET

Applications Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 10 (13.70%) SharePoint
2 7 (9.59%) Confluence
3 2 (2.74%) Site Server
4 1 (1.37%) CMS
4 1 (1.37%) Headless CMS
4 1 (1.37%) JBoss
Business Applications
1 3 (4.11%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 23 (31.51%) Azure
1 23 (31.51%) PowerApps
2 21 (28.77%) Power Platform
3 18 (24.66%) Power Automate
4 15 (20.55%) npm
5 12 (16.44%) Azure Logic Apps
5 12 (16.44%) Serverless
6 11 (15.07%) Azure Functions
6 11 (15.07%) Microsoft 365
7 10 (13.70%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (10.96%) GitHub
9 5 (6.85%) AWS
9 5 (6.85%) Microsoft Purview
10 4 (5.48%) Azure API Management
10 4 (5.48%) Azure Service Bus
11 3 (4.11%) Azure Batch
11 3 (4.11%) Azure Key Vault
11 3 (4.11%) Azure Storage
12 2 (2.74%) Amazon S3
12 2 (2.74%) Dynamics 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (23.29%) SQL Server
2 16 (21.92%) Power BI
3 9 (12.33%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (10.96%) NoSQL
5 6 (8.22%) Metadata
6 3 (4.11%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (4.11%) Big Data
6 3 (4.11%) Data Lake
6 3 (4.11%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (4.11%) OLTP
7 2 (2.74%) GIS
7 2 (2.74%) Sybase ASE
8 1 (1.37%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 23 (31.51%) JIRA
2 15 (20.55%) webpack
3 7 (9.59%) Git
3 7 (9.59%) GitLab
4 3 (4.11%) Jenkins
4 3 (4.11%) Team Foundation Server
4 3 (4.11%) Visual Studio
4 3 (4.11%) Visual Studio Team System
5 1 (1.37%) CocoaPods
5 1 (1.37%) JUnit
5 1 (1.37%) Xcode
5 1 (1.37%) XCTest
General
1 26 (35.62%) Social Skills
2 22 (30.14%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (20.55%) Front Office
4 9 (12.33%) Banking
4 9 (12.33%) Finance
4 9 (12.33%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.74%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (1.37%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (27.40%) REST
2 17 (23.29%) React
3 15 (20.55%) AngularJS
3 15 (20.55%) RxJS
3 15 (20.55%) WebSockets
4 14 (19.18%) .NET
5 7 (9.59%) HTML
6 6 (8.22%) Web Services
7 5 (6.85%) CSS
8 4 (5.48%) HTML5 Canvas
9 3 (4.11%) ARM Templates
9 3 (4.11%) ASP.NET Web Forms
9 3 (4.11%) JSON
9 3 (4.11%) Node.js
9 3 (4.11%) XML
10 2 (2.74%) .NET Core
10 2 (2.74%) .NET Framework
11 1 (1.37%) ASP.NET Core
11 1 (1.37%) Electron
11 1 (1.37%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.22%) Mobile App
2 3 (4.11%) Reinsurance
3 2 (2.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (2.74%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.37%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.37%) Low-Code
4 1 (1.37%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.37%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (57.53%) Agile
2 19 (26.03%) Business Intelligence
3 18 (24.66%) Continuous Improvement
3 18 (24.66%) Software Engineering
4 16 (21.92%) Design Patterns
5 15 (20.55%) Electronic Trading
5 15 (20.55%) Web Application Development
6 14 (19.18%) DevOps
6 14 (19.18%) Full Stack Development
7 8 (10.96%) MVC
8 7 (9.59%) Design Thinking
8 7 (9.59%) SDLC
9 6 (8.22%) Data Visualisation
9 6 (8.22%) Front End Development
9 6 (8.22%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (8.22%) Visualisation
10 5 (6.85%) CI/CD
10 5 (6.85%) Data Governance
10 5 (6.85%) ITIL
10 5 (6.85%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 28 (38.36%) C#
2 25 (34.25%) JavaScript
3 19 (26.03%) TypeScript
4 12 (16.44%) PowerShell
5 9 (12.33%) SQL
6 6 (8.22%) Lua
6 6 (8.22%) Python
7 5 (6.85%) Java
7 5 (6.85%) MATLAB
8 2 (2.74%) Korn
8 2 (2.74%) Perl
8 2 (2.74%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.37%) ABAP
9 1 (1.37%) Scala
9 1 (1.37%) Swift
9 1 (1.37%) T-SQL
9 1 (1.37%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 16 (21.92%) Degree
2 10 (13.70%) Master's Degree
3 5 (6.85%) Security Cleared
4 2 (2.74%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.37%) CAPM
5 1 (1.37%) PMI Certification
System Software
1 2 (2.74%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (4.11%) Ansible
1 3 (4.11%) Terraform
2 2 (2.74%) Puppet
3 1 (1.37%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 16 (21.92%) Microsoft
2 9 (12.33%) Oracle
3 5 (6.85%) Databricks
4 2 (2.74%) ESRI
4 2 (2.74%) SAP
4 2 (2.74%) Sybase
5 1 (1.37%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.37%) Virgin Media