Applications Developer Contracts in England

Application Developer
UK > England

The median Application Developer daily rate in England is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 417 424 445
Rank change year-on-year +7 +21 +136
Contract jobs requiring an Applications Developer 68 118 213
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.28% 0.32% 0.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.30% 0.34% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 86 140
10th Percentile £341 £306 £373
25th Percentile £363 £363 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -13.64% +2.33%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £605
90th Percentile £630 £850 £688
UK median daily rate £453 £475 £550
% change year-on-year -4.63% -13.64% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 3
10th Percentile £51.81 - -
25th Percentile £52.66 £22.75 -
Median hourly rate £55.63 £24.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +127.04% -45.56% +11.57%
75th Percentile £58.91 £26.25 £59.38
90th Percentile £59.94 - £68.00
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £24.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year +114.29% -45.56% +11.57%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in 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 England with a recognized job title 22,549 34,488 47,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,007 22,894 33,903
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 900 2,432 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Applications Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Applications Developer in England

Applications Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Applications Developer in England.

Daily rate trend for Applications Developer in England

Applications Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Applications Developer in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Applications Developer in England

Applications Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Applications Developer in England.

Hourly rate trend for Applications Developer in England

Applications Developer
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 Applications Developer within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
London +5 38 £470 -20.00% 33
South West +42 11 £370 -10.30% 5
South East +41 6 £600 +26.32% 18
North of England +22 5 £600 +20.00% 14
Midlands +20 4 £475 +137.50% 11
West Midlands +13 4 £475 +137.50% 6
East of England +24 3 £375 -21.05% 5
North West +18 3 £600 +20.00% 11
Yorkshire - 2 £450 - 3
Applications Developer
UK

Applications Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Applications Developer 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 England region featuring Applications Developer in the job title.

1 26 (38.24%) Azure
2 21 (30.88%) SQL
3 19 (27.94%) PowerApps
4 18 (26.47%) Power Platform
4 18 (26.47%) Social Skills
4 18 (26.47%) .NET
4 18 (26.47%) AWS
5 17 (25.00%) Test Automation
6 15 (22.06%) JavaScript
7 14 (20.59%) C#
7 14 (20.59%) Agile
8 13 (19.12%) CI/CD
8 13 (19.12%) Public Sector
9 12 (17.65%) TDD
9 12 (17.65%) Business Intelligence
9 12 (17.65%) Security Cleared
10 11 (16.18%) Microsoft
10 11 (16.18%) HTML
10 11 (16.18%) Oracle
10 11 (16.18%) CSS
10 11 (16.18%) Power Automate
11 10 (14.71%) Java
11 10 (14.71%) SharePoint
11 10 (14.71%) DevOps
12 9 (13.24%) User Experience
12 9 (13.24%) React
12 9 (13.24%) Software Delivery
12 9 (13.24%) Problem-Solving
12 9 (13.24%) Finance
12 9 (13.24%) Web Development

Applications Developer Skill Set
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 10 (14.71%) SharePoint
2 6 (8.82%) Confluence
3 3 (4.41%) Oracle Workflow
3 3 (4.41%) Tomcat
4 2 (2.94%) ArcGIS
5 1 (1.47%) CMS
5 1 (1.47%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 2 (2.94%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (4.41%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (2.94%) Infor CloudSuite
2 2 (2.94%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 26 (38.24%) Azure
2 19 (27.94%) PowerApps
3 18 (26.47%) AWS
3 18 (26.47%) Power Platform
4 11 (16.18%) Power Automate
5 7 (10.29%) GCP
6 5 (7.35%) GitHub
6 5 (7.35%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (7.35%) Tricentis Tosca
7 4 (5.88%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (5.88%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (5.88%) SaaS
8 3 (4.41%) Azure Stack
9 2 (2.94%) Datadog
9 2 (2.94%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (2.94%) Serverless
10 1 (1.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (1.47%) Amazon S3
10 1 (1.47%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (1.47%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.47%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (10.29%) SQL Server
2 6 (8.82%) Power BI
3 5 (7.35%) NoSQL
4 4 (5.88%) Oracle Database
5 3 (4.41%) Oracle Database 10g
5 3 (4.41%) Oracle Database 11g
5 3 (4.41%) Oracle Reports
5 3 (4.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (2.94%) Data Lake
6 2 (2.94%) MongoDB
6 2 (2.94%) SQLite
7 1 (1.47%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (1.47%) DynamoDB
7 1 (1.47%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.47%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.47%) Spotfire
7 1 (1.47%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (10.29%) JIRA
2 3 (4.41%) Oracle Forms
3 2 (2.94%) Git
4 1 (1.47%) GitLab
4 1 (1.47%) JUnit
4 1 (1.47%) Selenium
4 1 (1.47%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 18 (26.47%) Social Skills
2 13 (19.12%) Public Sector
3 9 (13.24%) Finance
4 6 (8.82%) Electronics
4 6 (8.82%) Manufacturing
4 6 (8.82%) Marketing
4 6 (8.82%) Telecoms
5 2 (2.94%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.94%) Banking
5 2 (2.94%) Local Government
6 1 (1.47%) Law
6 1 (1.47%) Military
6 1 (1.47%) Publishing
6 1 (1.47%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (26.47%) .NET
2 11 (16.18%) CSS
2 11 (16.18%) HTML
3 9 (13.24%) React
4 6 (8.82%) Node.js
4 6 (8.82%) Spring
4 6 (8.82%) Spring Boot
5 5 (7.35%) RESTful
6 4 (5.88%) Vue
7 3 (4.41%) Middleware
7 3 (4.41%) Oracle Fusion
7 3 (4.41%) REST
7 3 (4.41%) Web Services
8 2 (2.94%) .NET Framework
8 2 (2.94%) AngularJS
8 2 (2.94%) ASP.NET
8 2 (2.94%) ASP.NET Core
8 2 (2.94%) Express.js
8 2 (2.94%) Kafka
8 2 (2.94%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.29%) Management Information System
2 3 (4.41%) Mobile App
3 2 (2.94%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (2.94%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (1.47%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.47%) BYOD
4 1 (1.47%) e-Learning
4 1 (1.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (1.47%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 7 (10.29%) Linux
2 3 (4.41%) Android
2 3 (4.41%) Solaris
2 3 (4.41%) Unix
3 2 (2.94%) Windows
4 1 (1.47%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (25.00%) Test Automation
2 14 (20.59%) Agile
3 13 (19.12%) CI/CD
4 12 (17.65%) Business Intelligence
4 12 (17.65%) TDD
5 10 (14.71%) DevOps
6 9 (13.24%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (13.24%) Software Delivery
6 9 (13.24%) User Experience
6 9 (13.24%) Web Development
7 8 (11.76%) API Development
7 8 (11.76%) Computer Science
7 8 (11.76%) Software Engineering
8 7 (10.29%) Continuous Delivery
8 7 (10.29%) Continuous Integration
8 7 (10.29%) Service Delivery
8 7 (10.29%) Service Management
9 6 (8.82%) Digital Marketing
9 6 (8.82%) Programme Management
9 6 (8.82%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 21 (30.88%) SQL
2 15 (22.06%) JavaScript
3 14 (20.59%) C#
4 10 (14.71%) Java
5 5 (7.35%) Python
5 5 (7.35%) TypeScript
6 4 (5.88%) Kotlin
7 3 (4.41%) PL/SQL
8 2 (2.94%) ActionScript
9 1 (1.47%) C++
9 1 (1.47%) COBOL
9 1 (1.47%) Dart
9 1 (1.47%) Formula Language
9 1 (1.47%) Swift
9 1 (1.47%) X++
Qualifications
1 12 (17.65%) Security Cleared
2 8 (11.76%) Degree
2 8 (11.76%) SC Cleared
3 7 (10.29%) Azure Certification
3 7 (10.29%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.47%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.47%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.47%) CTC Cleared
4 1 (1.47%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.82%) QA
2 4 (5.88%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.47%) Data Quality
System Software
1 7 (10.29%) Docker
2 2 (2.94%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (7.35%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.94%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (1.47%) SCCM
3 1 (1.47%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (16.18%) Microsoft
1 11 (16.18%) Oracle
2 7 (10.29%) Google
3 6 (8.82%) SAP
4 2 (2.94%) ESRI
4 2 (2.94%) Infor
4 2 (2.94%) TIBCO
5 1 (1.47%) Axway
5 1 (1.47%) Citrix
5 1 (1.47%) Databricks
5 1 (1.47%) Splunk
5 1 (1.47%) UiPath
5 1 (1.47%) webMethods