Applications Engineer Contracts in the East of England

Applications Engineer
England > East of England

The median Applications Engineer daily rate in the East of England is £348 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 95 114 93
Rank change year-on-year +19 -21 +19
Contract jobs requiring an Applications Engineer 14 7 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.74% 0.36% 1.74%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.83% 0.39% 1.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 4 42
10th Percentile £296 £319 -
25th Percentile £332 £339 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £348 £400 £375
Median % change year-on-year -13.13% +6.67% -
75th Percentile £500 £478 £438
90th Percentile - £484 -
England median daily rate £500 £600 £425
% change year-on-year -16.67% +41.18% -10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £35.65 - -
England median hourly rate £35.65 £54.56 £58.75
% change year-on-year -34.66% -7.13% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
East of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the East of England. 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 East of England with a recognized job title 1,681 1,803 2,340
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 88.43% 91.76% 92.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 747 1,090 1,382
10th Percentile £202 £195 £168
25th Percentile £313 £315 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £463
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +2.70% +8.82%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £550
90th Percentile £650 £700 £663
England median daily rate £525 £550 £528
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.27% +7.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 595 268 350
10th Percentile £14.16 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £15.25 £13.25
Median hourly rate £43.00 £42.50 £15.88
Median % change year-on-year +1.18% +167.72% -1.55%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £45.15
90th Percentile £75.25 £70.00 £60.00
England median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -17.38% +95.65% +6.98%

Applications Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Applications Engineer in the East of England

Applications Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Daily rate trend for Applications Engineer in the East of England

Applications Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Applications Engineer in the East of England over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Applications Engineer in the East of England

Applications Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Applications Engineer in the East of England

Applications Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 East of England region over the 6 months to 23 May 2024. 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
Essex +14 9 £500 - 2
Hertfordshire - 5 £340 - 7
Applications Engineer
England

Applications Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England

For the 6 months to 23 May 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 East of England region featuring Applications Engineer in the job title.

1 7 (50.00%) IIS
2 5 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 5 (35.71%) Security Patching
2 5 (35.71%) Windows Server
2 5 (35.71%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (35.71%) SQL
2 5 (35.71%) Windows
2 5 (35.71%) Security Cleared
3 4 (28.57%) SC Cleared
3 4 (28.57%) DV Cleared
3 4 (28.57%) Problem Management
3 4 (28.57%) Release Management
3 4 (28.57%) Tomcat
3 4 (28.57%) Web Services
3 4 (28.57%) Active Directory
3 4 (28.57%) Change Management
3 4 (28.57%) Automotive
3 4 (28.57%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (28.57%) Root Cause Analysis
4 3 (21.43%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (21.43%) DevOps
4 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (21.43%) .NET
4 3 (21.43%) SLA
4 3 (21.43%) Degree
4 3 (21.43%) Load Balancing
4 3 (21.43%) SCCM
4 3 (21.43%) SCOM
4 3 (21.43%) Azure

Applications Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 7 (50.00%) IIS
2 4 (28.57%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (7.14%) PTC Creo
1 1 (7.14%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 3 (21.43%) Azure
1 3 (21.43%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 5 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 4 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (28.57%) Automotive
3 2 (14.29%) Finance
4 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (28.57%) Web Services
2 3 (21.43%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 5 (35.71%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (14.29%) Driving Licence
3 1 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 5 (35.71%) Windows
1 5 (35.71%) Windows Server
2 1 (7.14%) VMS
2 1 (7.14%) Windows 10
2 1 (7.14%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (35.71%) Security Patching
2 4 (28.57%) Change Management
2 4 (28.57%) Problem Management
2 4 (28.57%) Release Management
2 4 (28.57%) Root Cause Analysis
3 3 (21.43%) DevOps
3 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (21.43%) Load Balancing
4 2 (14.29%) Bill of Materials
4 2 (14.29%) CAD
4 2 (14.29%) CAE
4 2 (14.29%) FMEA
4 2 (14.29%) Project Delivery
4 2 (14.29%) Project Management
4 2 (14.29%) Systems Engineering
4 2 (14.29%) Validation
5 1 (7.14%) Data Protection
5 1 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 5 (35.71%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (35.71%) Security Cleared
2 4 (28.57%) DV Cleared
2 4 (28.57%) SC Cleared
3 3 (21.43%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (21.43%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (28.57%) Active Directory
1 4 (28.57%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (7.14%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 3 (21.43%) SCCM
1 3 (21.43%) SCOM
Vendors
1 1 (7.14%) VMware