Applications Engineer Contracts in the City of London

Applications Engineer
Central London > City of London

The median Applications Engineer daily rate in the City of London is £488, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 16 June 2024.

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

6 months to
16 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 119 154 186
Rank change year-on-year +35 +32 -42
Contract jobs requiring an Applications Engineer 8 12 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.37% 0.35% 0.096%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.39% 0.37% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 8 3
10th Percentile £385 £546 £534
25th Percentile £387 £606 £540
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +8.33% +26.32%
75th Percentile £699 £675 £665
90th Percentile £710 £679 £674
Central London median daily rate £488 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -25.00% +8.33% +26.32%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
City of London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the City of London. 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 City of London with a recognized job title 2,076 3,249 3,945
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.14% 94.83% 95.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,437 2,191 2,948
10th Percentile £350 £363 £363
25th Percentile £450 £475 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £600 £565
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +6.19% +3.20%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £688
90th Percentile £788 £815 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £555
% change year-on-year -8.33% +8.11% +3.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 20 50
10th Percentile £15.62 £15.37 £15.56
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.03 £21.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £35.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.71% -12.50% +122.53%
75th Percentile £34.69 £72.50 £54.88
90th Percentile £46.15 £88.30 £62.83
Central London median hourly rate £27.00 £35.00 £40.50
% change year-on-year -22.86% -13.58% +113.30%

Applications Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Applications Engineer in the City of London

Applications Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Applications Engineer in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Applications Engineer in the City of London

Applications Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Applications Engineer in the City of London over the 6 months to 16 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Applications Engineer in the City of London

Applications Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Applications Engineer in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Applications Engineer in the City of London

Applications Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 16 June 2024, 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 City of London region featuring Applications Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (62.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (50.00%) Task Automation
2 4 (50.00%) Linux
2 4 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (50.00%) Shell Script
3 3 (37.50%) RESTful
3 3 (37.50%) C++
3 3 (37.50%) Java
3 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
3 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
3 3 (37.50%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (37.50%) Analytical Thinking
3 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (37.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 3 (37.50%) MongoDB
3 3 (37.50%) RabbitMQ
3 3 (37.50%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 3 (37.50%) Kafka
3 3 (37.50%) Go
3 3 (37.50%) DevOps
3 3 (37.50%) SaltStack
3 3 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (37.50%) Microservices
3 3 (37.50%) Data Structures
3 3 (37.50%) Algorithms
3 3 (37.50%) Kubernetes
3 3 (37.50%) Grafana
3 3 (37.50%) Python
3 3 (37.50%) Consul
3 3 (37.50%) Prometheus

Applications Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 (12.50%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) MongoDB
2 1 (12.50%) MySQL
2 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 3 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Back Office
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) Kafka
1 3 (37.50%) RabbitMQ
1 3 (37.50%) RESTful
2 1 (12.50%) CSS
2 1 (12.50%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (12.50%) HTML
2 1 (12.50%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Algorithms
1 3 (37.50%) Data Structures
1 3 (37.50%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (12.50%) Data Centre
2 1 (12.50%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (12.50%) CentOS
2 1 (12.50%) Windows
2 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
2 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (50.00%) Task Automation
3 3 (37.50%) Analytical Thinking
3 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
3 3 (37.50%) DevOps
3 3 (37.50%) Microservices
3 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (37.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 2 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (12.50%) Application Security
5 1 (12.50%) Data Migration
5 1 (12.50%) Migration
5 1 (12.50%) OOP
5 1 (12.50%) Release Management
5 1 (12.50%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) Shell Script
2 3 (37.50%) C++
2 3 (37.50%) Go
2 3 (37.50%) Java
2 3 (37.50%) Python
3 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
3 2 (25.00%) SQL
4 1 (12.50%) Bash
4 1 (12.50%) PHP
4 1 (12.50%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Consul
1 3 (37.50%) Grafana
1 3 (37.50%) Kubernetes
1 3 (37.50%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (37.50%) SaltStack
3 2 (25.00%) Bloomberg
3 2 (25.00%) Refinitiv
4 1 (12.50%) Atlassian
4 1 (12.50%) Red Hat