Applications Developer Contracts in the Thames Valley

Application Developer
South East > Thames Valley

The median Application Developer daily rate in the Thames Valley is £475 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 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
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 133 141 156
Rank change year-on-year +8 +15 -30
Contract jobs requiring an Applications Developer 8 7 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.30% 0.24% 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.32% 0.26% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 7 8
10th Percentile £389 £387 £363
25th Percentile £447 £426 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £470 £473
Median % change year-on-year +1.14% -0.61% +19.24%
75th Percentile £516 £529 £609
90th Percentile £608 £555 £638
South East median daily rate £475 £582 £525
% change year-on-year -18.31% +10.76% +23.53%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Thames Valley

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley. 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 the Thames Valley with a recognized job title 2,501 2,739 3,365
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.18% 94.38% 95.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,434 1,904 2,301
10th Percentile £208 £313 £190
25th Percentile £370 £407 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £491
% change year-on-year - +1.88% +9.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 188 75 103
10th Percentile £15.74 £17.27 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.25 £21.33 £12.38
Median hourly rate £45.00 £48.40 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.02% +176.57% -16.86%
75th Percentile £63.29 £66.21 £23.63
90th Percentile £85.37 £79.19 £56.50
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £48.40 £20.00
% change year-on-year -1.86% +142.00% -20.00%

Applications Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Applications Developer in the Thames Valley

Applications Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Applications Developer in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Applications Developer in the Thames Valley

Applications Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Applications Developer in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Applications Developer in the Thames Valley

Applications Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Applications Developer in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Applications Developer in the Thames Valley

Applications Developer
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 2 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
Berkshire - 6 £475 -
Buckinghamshire +20 1 £400 -17.92%
Oxfordshire +8 1 £375 -18.03% 1
Applications Developer
South East

Applications Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley

For the 6 months to 2 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 Thames Valley region featuring Applications Developer in the job title.

1 4 (50.00%) Python
1 4 (50.00%) Local Government
1 4 (50.00%) Qualitative Research
1 4 (50.00%) Power Platform
1 4 (50.00%) Power Automate
1 4 (50.00%) Quantitative Research
2 2 (25.00%) NHS
2 2 (25.00%) User Stories
2 2 (25.00%) Agile
2 2 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (12.50%) Content Management
3 1 (12.50%) MVC
3 1 (12.50%) Migration
3 1 (12.50%) CMS
3 1 (12.50%) WinForms
3 1 (12.50%) Apple
3 1 (12.50%) C#
3 1 (12.50%) C++
3 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
3 1 (12.50%) SQL
3 1 (12.50%) .NET
3 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
3 1 (12.50%) Google
3 1 (12.50%) .NET Framework
3 1 (12.50%) WCF
3 1 (12.50%) WPF
3 1 (12.50%) Android
3 1 (12.50%) Azure
3 1 (12.50%) AWS
3 1 (12.50%) Apple iOS

Applications Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 1 (12.50%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) Power Automate
1 4 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (12.50%) AWS
2 1 (12.50%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Cognitive Search
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (12.50%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (50.00%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) .NET
1 1 (12.50%) .NET Framework
1 1 (12.50%) AngularJS
1 1 (12.50%) Node.js
1 1 (12.50%) WCF
1 1 (12.50%) WinForms
1 1 (12.50%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) NHS
2 1 (12.50%) Mobile App
2 1 (12.50%) Onboarding
2 1 (12.50%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Android
1 1 (12.50%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Qualitative Research
1 4 (50.00%) Quantitative Research
2 2 (25.00%) Agile
2 2 (25.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (25.00%) User Stories
3 1 (12.50%) Android Development
3 1 (12.50%) API Design
3 1 (12.50%) API Development
3 1 (12.50%) Coaching
3 1 (12.50%) Content Management
3 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (12.50%) DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) Full Stack Development
3 1 (12.50%) iOS Development
3 1 (12.50%) Migration
3 1 (12.50%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (12.50%) C#
2 1 (12.50%) C++
2 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
2 1 (12.50%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Apple
1 1 (12.50%) Google
1 1 (12.50%) Virgin Media