Application Discovery Contracts in England

Application Discovery
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Application Discovery skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Application Discovery over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 533 616 751
Rank change year-on-year +83 +135 -140
Contract jobs citing Application Discovery 12 43 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.032% 0.085% 0.023%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.037% 0.094% 0.025%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 27 9
10th Percentile £353 - £425
25th Percentile £366 - £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £200 £550
Median % change year-on-year +130.00% -63.64% +105.61%
75th Percentile £511 £275 £675
90th Percentile £615 £490 £688
UK median daily rate £460 £260 £513
% change year-on-year +76.92% -49.27% +55.30%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Application Discovery is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,171 45,739 64,432
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.55% 90.26% 90.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,096 32,069 45,706
10th Percentile £300 £325 £330
25th Percentile £413 £444 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.18%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £769 £744
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,236 1,617 1,773
10th Percentile £12.89 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.38 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.65 £37.50 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.93% +56.25% -
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.23
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -5.41% +48.00% -

Application Discovery
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Application Discovery as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Application Discovery in England

Application Discovery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Application Discovery in England.

Daily rate trend for Application Discovery in England

Application Discovery
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Application Discovery in England over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Application Discovery in England

Application Discovery
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Application Discovery in England.

Hourly rate trend for Application Discovery in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Application Discovery within the England region over the 6 months to 26 April 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
South East +24 6 £460 - 1
London +105 3 £438 -16.67%
North of England +19 2 £369 +84.44%
North West +15 2 £369 +84.44%
Application Discovery
UK

Application Discovery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (8.33%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (16.67%) SaaS
2 1 (8.33%) Azure
2 1 (8.33%) OneDrive
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) MSI
General
1 3 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (8.33%) Banking
2 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (25.00%) Applications Packager
1 3 (25.00%) Lead
1 3 (25.00%) Project Manager
2 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Manager
2 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Project Manager
2 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared Application Packager
2 2 (16.67%) Senior
2 2 (16.67%) Senior Infrastructure Manager
2 2 (16.67%) Senior Infrastructure Project Manager
2 2 (16.67%) Senior Manager
2 2 (16.67%) Senior Project Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Applications Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Applications Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Applications Project Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Data Business Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) IT Project Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Lead Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Migration Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Migration Project Manager
3 1 (8.33%) SCCM Consultant
Operating Systems
1 5 (41.67%) Windows
2 1 (8.33%) VMS
2 1 (8.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (25.00%) Agile
1 3 (25.00%) Application Packaging
1 3 (25.00%) Migration
1 3 (25.00%) Waterfall
2 2 (16.67%) Customer Requirements
2 2 (16.67%) Resource Management
2 2 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (8.33%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (8.33%) Fintech
3 1 (8.33%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (8.33%) Smoke Testing
3 1 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (16.67%) PowerShell
2 1 (8.33%) SQL
2 1 (8.33%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 4 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft App-V
1 1 (8.33%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (8.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (16.67%) Citrix
3 1 (8.33%) Google