Applications Specialist Contracts

Application Specialist
UK

The median Application Specialist daily rate in the UK is £513 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 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
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 551 681 777
Rank change year-on-year +130 +96 -152
Contract jobs requiring an Applications Specialist 35 41 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.080% 0.068% 0.061%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.086% 0.072% 0.064%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 23 40
10th Percentile £318 £403 £348
25th Percentile £425 £444 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -2.91% +8.99%
75th Percentile £560 £550 £650
90th Percentile £575 £585 £681
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £513 £450
% change year-on-year -2.44% +13.89% +2.86%
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 excluding London median hourly rate £59.50 £5.00 -
% change year-on-year +1090.00% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 UK with a recognized job title 40,482 56,783 84,604
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.58% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,407 39,621 59,331
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,642 1,607 2,111
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.28 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.45 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.68 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.71% +95.65% +1.41%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.60 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -11.76% +117.95% +2.63%

Applications Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Applications Specialist in the UK

Applications Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Applications Specialist in the UK

Applications Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Applications Specialist over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Applications Specialist in the UK

Applications Specialist
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Applications Specialist in the UK

Applications Specialist
Top 6 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 25 April 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
England +112 31 £515 +3.00% 28
London +101 24 £520 +4.00% 9
Work from Home +122 17 £525 +7.69% 8
UK excluding London +64 4 £500 -2.44% 20
South East +8 3 £500 -20.00% 7
South West - 1 - - 4

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

For the 6 months to 25 April 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 featuring Applications Specialist in the job title.

1 16 (45.71%) Windows
2 11 (31.43%) SC Cleared
2 11 (31.43%) Security Cleared
3 10 (28.57%) IBM
4 8 (22.86%) PowerShell
4 8 (22.86%) QA
4 8 (22.86%) Application Packaging
5 7 (20.00%) WebSphere
5 7 (20.00%) Finance
5 7 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
5 7 (20.00%) SSL
5 7 (20.00%) Unix
5 7 (20.00%) WebSphere Application Server
5 7 (20.00%) WebLogic
5 7 (20.00%) IBM UrbanCode
6 6 (17.14%) Information Security
6 6 (17.14%) SQL
6 6 (17.14%) Microsoft
6 6 (17.14%) WebSphere MQ
6 6 (17.14%) SCCM
6 6 (17.14%) DataPower
7 5 (14.29%) Change Management
7 5 (14.29%) Oracle
7 5 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (14.29%) DevOps
8 4 (11.43%) IaaS
8 4 (11.43%) Azure
8 4 (11.43%) SaaS
8 4 (11.43%) PaaS
8 4 (11.43%) Availability Management

Applications Specialist Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (20.00%) WebLogic
1 7 (20.00%) WebSphere
1 7 (20.00%) WebSphere Application Server
2 1 (2.86%) IIS
2 1 (2.86%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (2.86%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 4 (11.43%) Azure
1 4 (11.43%) Azure DevOps
1 4 (11.43%) Azure Key Vault
1 4 (11.43%) IaaS
1 4 (11.43%) PaaS
1 4 (11.43%) SaaS
2 2 (5.71%) Mimecast
3 1 (2.86%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (20.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.86%) Relational Database
1 1 (2.86%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (20.00%) IBM UrbanCode
2 4 (11.43%) Oracle APEX
3 2 (5.71%) InstallShield
3 2 (5.71%) MSI
4 1 (2.86%) TeamCity
General
1 7 (20.00%) Finance
2 3 (8.57%) Social Skills
3 2 (5.71%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.86%) Banking
4 1 (2.86%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (17.14%) WebSphere MQ
2 2 (5.71%) .NET
3 1 (2.86%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (2.86%) WCF
3 1 (2.86%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 6 (17.14%) DataPower
2 3 (8.57%) Driving Licence
2 3 (8.57%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.86%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (2.86%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 16 (45.71%) Windows
2 7 (20.00%) Unix
3 4 (11.43%) Solaris
3 4 (11.43%) VMS
4 1 (2.86%) Linux
4 1 (2.86%) Windows 10
4 1 (2.86%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (22.86%) Application Packaging
2 7 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 6 (17.14%) Information Security
4 5 (14.29%) Change Management
4 5 (14.29%) DevOps
4 5 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (11.43%) Availability Management
5 4 (11.43%) CI/CD
5 4 (11.43%) Infrastructure Maintenance
5 4 (11.43%) Knowledge Transfer
5 4 (11.43%) Migration
5 4 (11.43%) Performance Management
5 4 (11.43%) Thought Leadership
6 3 (8.57%) Business Strategy
6 3 (8.57%) Release Management
6 3 (8.57%) Service Delivery
6 3 (8.57%) Task Automation
7 2 (5.71%) Application Security
7 2 (5.71%) Project Delivery
7 2 (5.71%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (22.86%) PowerShell
2 6 (17.14%) SQL
3 3 (8.57%) Shell Script
4 2 (5.71%) C#
4 2 (5.71%) JavaScript
4 2 (5.71%) VBScript
5 1 (2.86%) F#
5 1 (2.86%) VB
Qualifications
1 11 (31.43%) SC Cleared
1 11 (31.43%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.71%) Degree
3 1 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.86%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (22.86%) QA
2 1 (2.86%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (5.71%) Active Directory
1 2 (5.71%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 6 (17.14%) SCCM
2 3 (8.57%) Netcool
3 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 10 (28.57%) IBM
2 6 (17.14%) Microsoft
3 5 (14.29%) Oracle
4 3 (8.57%) SAP
5 2 (5.71%) Dynatrace
5 2 (5.71%) Proofpoint
6 1 (2.86%) Ariba
6 1 (2.86%) Salesforce