Applications Engineer Contract Job Trends in Cambridge
Applications Engineer
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge
The median Applications Engineer daily rate in Cambridge is £506, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 November 2026.
The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.
| 6 months to 15 Nov 2026 |
Same period 2025 | Same period 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | 25 | - | 28 |
| Rank change year-on-year | - | - | - |
| Contract Applications Engineer jobs | 4 | 0 | 2 |
| As % of all contract jobs in Cambridge | 2.15% | - | 1.05% |
| As % of the Job Titles category | 2.44% | - | 1.17% |
| Number of daily rates quoted | 4 | 0 | 1 |
| 10th Percentile | - | - | - |
| 25th Percentile | £500 | - | £825 |
| Median daily rate (50th Percentile) | £506 | - | £850 |
| 75th Percentile | £519 | - | £875 |
| 90th Percentile | - | - | - |
| Cambridgeshire median daily rate | £506 | - | £850 |
All Contract IT Job Roles
Cambridge
For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job adverts in Cambridge matching a recognised job title. The table also shows what proportion of all contract IT job adverts they make up.
| 6 months to 15 Nov 2026 |
Same period 2025 | Same period 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Contract job adverts in Cambridge matching a recognised job title | 164 | 180 | 171 |
| % of contract job adverts matching a recognised job title | 88.17% | 87.80% | 90.00% |
| Number of daily rates quoted | 61 | 91 | 85 |
| 10th Percentile | £185 | £213 | £266 |
| 25th Percentile | £342 | £400 | £331 |
| Median daily rate (50th Percentile) | £500 | £503 | £425 |
| Median % change year-on-year | -0.50% | +18.24% | -9.81% |
| 75th Percentile | £575 | £625 | £538 |
| 90th Percentile | £688 | £700 | £620 |
| Cambridgeshire median daily rate | £525 | £496 | £450 |
| % change year-on-year | +5.83% | +10.24% | -5.26% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted | 29 | 8 | 7 |
| 10th Percentile | - | £26.53 | £20.72 |
| 25th Percentile | £13.50 | £38.75 | £22.77 |
| Median hourly rate | £32.75 | £49.10 | £27.50 |
| Median % change year-on-year | -33.30% | +78.55% | +45.81% |
| 75th Percentile | £47.50 | £69.38 | £60.63 |
| 90th Percentile | £77.50 | £78.75 | £63.75 |
| Cambridgeshire median hourly rate | £16.50 | £16.00 | £22.90 |
| % change year-on-year | +3.13% | -30.12% | +29.20% |
Applications Engineer Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge
Historical trend showing the proportion of contract Applications Engineer job postings relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge.
Applications Engineer Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge
Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Applications Engineer job vacancies in Cambridge.
Applications Engineer Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridge
Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Applications Engineer job vacancies in Cambridge.
Applications Engineer Skill Set Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridge
For the 6 months to 15 November 2026, Applications Engineer contract job ads cited the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract Applications Engineer job ads across the Cambridge region.
| Rank | Skill | Share | Job Ads |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | DevOps | 100.0% | 4 |
| 1 | Infrastructure Engineering | 100.0% | 4 |
| 1 | LDAP | 100.0% | 4 |
| 1 | Linux | 100.0% | 4 |
| 1 | Puppet | 100.0% | 4 |
| 1 | Red Hat Enterprise Linux | 100.0% | 4 |
| 7 | Apache | 75.0% | 3 |
| 7 | Artifactory | 75.0% | 3 |
| 7 | Bash | 75.0% | 3 |
| 7 | CI/CD | 75.0% | 3 |
| 7 | Confluence | 75.0% | 3 |
| 7 | Coverity | 75.0% | 3 |
| 7 | Docker | 75.0% | 3 |
| 7 | Gerrit | 75.0% | 3 |
| 7 | Git | 75.0% | 3 |
| 7 | Grafana | 75.0% | 3 |
| 7 | Groovy | 75.0% | 3 |
| 7 | HAProxy | 75.0% | 3 |
| 7 | InfluxDB | 75.0% | 3 |
| 7 | Jenkins | 75.0% | 3 |
| 7 | JIRA | 75.0% | 3 |
| 7 | Jolokia | 75.0% | 3 |
| 7 | Kerberos | 75.0% | 3 |
| 7 | LAMP | 75.0% | 3 |
| 7 | LAPP Stack | 75.0% | 3 |
| 7 | MATLAB | 75.0% | 3 |
| 7 | Migration | 75.0% | 3 |
| 7 | MySQL | 75.0% | 3 |
| 7 | Perforce | 75.0% | 3 |
| 7 | Platform Engineering | 75.0% | 3 |
Applications Engineer Skill Set Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridge by Category
The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.
Job Titles
| Rank | Job Title | Share | Job Ads |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | DevOps Engineer | 100.0% | 4 |
| 1 | Infrastructure Engineer | 100.0% | 4 |