Applications Engineer Contracts in Berkshire

Applications Engineer
South East > Berkshire

The median Applications Engineer daily rate in Berkshire is £400, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 88 114 102
Rank change year-on-year +26 -12 +28
Contract jobs requiring an Applications Engineer 5 10 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.43% 0.50% 0.72%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.46% 0.54% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 8
10th Percentile - £500 £358
25th Percentile - £500 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £600 £400
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +50.00% -36.00%
75th Percentile - £625 £476
90th Percentile - £633 £675
South East median daily rate £400 £580 £500
% change year-on-year -31.03% +16.00% +33.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £48.40
75th Percentile - - £51.48
90th Percentile - - £53.33
South East median hourly rate £52.50 - £48.40

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Berkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Berkshire. 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 Berkshire with a recognized job title 1,085 1,866 1,720
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.50% 94.05% 95.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 655 992 1,104
10th Percentile £311 £213 £325
25th Percentile £413 £381 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.76% -2.38% +7.09%
75th Percentile £625 £608 £625
90th Percentile £675 £688 £713
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 116 56
10th Percentile £27.46 £18.75 £17.61
25th Percentile £50.06 £41.44 £22.66
Median hourly rate £63.37 £59.50 £56.89
Median % change year-on-year +6.51% +4.60% +170.88%
75th Percentile £76.77 £70.42 £73.69
90th Percentile £88.19 £86.32 £79.72
South East median hourly rate £32.50 £47.50 £48.40
% change year-on-year -31.58% -1.86% +130.48%

Applications Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Applications Engineer in Berkshire

Applications Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Applications Engineer in Berkshire

Applications Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Applications Engineer in Berkshire

Applications Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Applications Engineer within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Reading +25 2 - - 1
Wokingham - 2 £400 -
Applications Engineer
South East

Applications Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Applications Engineer 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 Berkshire region featuring Applications Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (40.00%) MSI
1 2 (40.00%) AdminStudio
1 2 (40.00%) Ivanti
1 2 (40.00%) SCCM
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft App-V
1 2 (40.00%) Software Deployment
1 2 (40.00%) ThinApp
1 2 (40.00%) Deployment Automation
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
1 2 (40.00%) Documentation Skills
1 2 (40.00%) Application Packaging
2 1 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (20.00%) ARM Templates
2 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) IaaS
2 1 (20.00%) Octopus Deploy
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Terraform
2 1 (20.00%) Data Analysis
2 1 (20.00%) Linux
2 1 (20.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 1 (20.00%) Data Protection

Applications Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 (20.00%) IIS
1 1 (20.00%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (20.00%) IaaS
1 1 (20.00%) PaaS
1 1 (20.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) AdminStudio
1 2 (40.00%) MSI
2 1 (20.00%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 2 (40.00%) Documentation Skills
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) ARM Templates
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
2 1 (20.00%) Linux
2 1 (20.00%) Unix
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Application Packaging
1 2 (40.00%) Deployment Automation
1 2 (40.00%) Software Deployment
2 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (20.00%) Data Analysis
2 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (20.00%) ITIL
2 1 (20.00%) Migration
2 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (20.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) SCCM
1 2 (40.00%) ThinApp
2 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Ivanti
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle