Senior Applications Engineer Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Senior Applications Engineer
Central London > City of London

The median Senior Applications Engineer daily rate in the City of London is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 11 April 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 128 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Applications Engineer 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.23% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £536 - -
25th Percentile £560 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median daily rate £600 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 2,077 1,623 2,140
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.49% 92.96% 94.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,413 1,032 1,525
10th Percentile £355 £350 £343
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +2.22% -5.06%
75th Percentile £675 £679 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £789
Central London median daily rate £550 £570 £550
% change year-on-year -3.51% +3.64% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 10 17
10th Percentile £18.75 £22.00 £15.30
25th Percentile £18.90 £24.66 £19.92
Median hourly rate £36.28 £32.83 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% +45.89% -35.71%
75th Percentile £52.41 £60.00 £27.50
90th Percentile £62.36 £108.75 £44.10
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £30.04 £25.00
% change year-on-year -13.07% +20.14% -28.57%

Senior Applications Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Senior Applications Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Senior Applications Engineer job vacancy trend in the City of London

Senior Applications Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Applications Engineer job vacancies in the City of London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Applications Engineer job vacancies in the City of London

Senior Applications Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 11 April 2026, Senior Applications Engineer contract job roles required 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 job ads across the City of London region featuring Senior Applications Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (60.00%) Application Security
1 3 (60.00%) Backlog Management
1 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (60.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
1 3 (60.00%) Incident Response
1 3 (60.00%) Product Backlog
1 3 (60.00%) Product Management
1 3 (60.00%) Programme Management
1 3 (60.00%) Regulatory Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) Risk Management
1 3 (60.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 3 (60.00%) SDLC
1 3 (60.00%) Security Architecture
1 3 (60.00%) SLA
1 3 (60.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 3 (60.00%) Static Application Security Testing
1 3 (60.00%) Threat Modelling
1 3 (60.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 2 (40.00%) iManage
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (20.00%) Azure
3 1 (20.00%) Cisco
3 1 (20.00%) DNS
3 1 (20.00%) GCP
3 1 (20.00%) Google
3 1 (20.00%) Meraki
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (20.00%) Mimecast
3 1 (20.00%) Patch Management

Senior Applications Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) GCP
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (20.00%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) DNS
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Application Security
1 3 (60.00%) Backlog Management
1 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (60.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
1 3 (60.00%) Incident Response
1 3 (60.00%) Product Backlog
1 3 (60.00%) Product Management
1 3 (60.00%) Programme Management
1 3 (60.00%) Regulatory Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) Risk Management
1 3 (60.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 3 (60.00%) SDLC
1 3 (60.00%) Security Architecture
1 3 (60.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 3 (60.00%) Static Application Security Testing
1 3 (60.00%) Threat Modelling
1 3 (60.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (20.00%) Patch Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) iManage
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco
2 1 (20.00%) Google
2 1 (20.00%) Meraki