Applications Specialist Contracts in the Channel Islands

Application Specialist
UK > Channel Islands

The median Application Specialist daily rate in the Channel Islands is £560, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 July 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
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring an Applications Specialist 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Channel Islands 10.00% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 10.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 - -
UK median daily rate £496 £425 £500
% change year-on-year +16.76% -15.00% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Channel Islands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the Channel Islands. 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 Channel Islands with a recognized job title 20 3 5
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 100.00% 100.00% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 3 0
10th Percentile £421 £361 -
25th Percentile £452 £437 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £683 £575 -
Median % change year-on-year +18.70% - -
75th Percentile £738 £588 -
90th Percentile £760 - -
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +1.42%

Applications Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in the Channel Islands

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

Job vacancy trend for Applications Specialist in the Channel Islands

Applications Specialist
Contract Job Locations in the Channel Islands

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 Channel Islands region over the 6 months to 3 July 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
Jersey - 2 £560 -
Applications Specialist
UK

Applications Specialist Skill Set
Top 15 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Channel Islands

For the 6 months to 3 July 2025, 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 across the Channel Islands region featuring Applications Specialist in the job title.

1 1 (50.00%) ITIL
1 1 (50.00%) Middleware
1 1 (50.00%) Service Management
1 1 (50.00%) Law
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (50.00%) System Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Portfolio Management
1 1 (50.00%) Information Governance
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
1 1 (50.00%) NCSC
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector

Applications Specialist Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Channel Islands 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
General
1 1 (50.00%) Law
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Middleware
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (50.00%) Information Governance
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL
1 1 (50.00%) Portfolio Management
1 1 (50.00%) Service Management
1 1 (50.00%) System Testing
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (50.00%) NCSC