Applications Engineer Contracts in England

Applications Engineer
UK > England

The median Applications Engineer daily rate in England is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 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
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 437 430 598
Rank change year-on-year -7 +168 -66
Contract jobs requiring an Applications Engineer 111 248 182
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.30% 0.49% 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.32% 0.52% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 206 129
10th Percentile £338 £363 £311
25th Percentile £385 £500 £339
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £450
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +33.33% -10.00%
75th Percentile £606 £700 £600
90th Percentile £675 £823 £663
UK median daily rate £509 £600 £450
% change year-on-year -15.21% +33.33% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 2
10th Percentile - £36.45 £52.63
25th Percentile - £48.40 £54.69
Median hourly rate £35.65 £51.48 £58.75
Median % change year-on-year -30.75% -12.37% -
75th Percentile - £68.95 £62.19
90th Percentile - £74.88 £63.88
UK median hourly rate £35.65 £51.48 £56.25
% change year-on-year -30.75% -8.48% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 34,517 47,965 67,732
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.72% 94.58% 95.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,960 34,010 48,090
10th Percentile £275 £310 £313
25th Percentile £411 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £640 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,411 1,443 1,914
10th Percentile £12.92 £14.31 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.65 £45.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.78% +100.00% +0.36%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.67 £48.49
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.45 £62.15
UK median hourly rate £35.68 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -20.71% +95.65% +1.41%

Applications Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Applications Engineer in England

Applications Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Applications Engineer in England

Applications Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Applications Engineer in England over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Applications Engineer in England

Applications Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Applications Engineer in England

Applications Engineer
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 Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 25 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
London -10 53 £500 -20.00% 35
South East +7 27 £580 +14.85% 24
East of England +16 13 £500 +42.86% 20
West Midlands +29 6 £650 +45.25% 16
Midlands +26 6 £650 +45.25% 26
South West +11 6 £400 -21.95% 20
North of England +22 4 £550 +57.14% 23
North West +8 2 - - 12
Yorkshire +23 1 - - 8
North East - 1 £550 - 3
Applications Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 25 April 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 England region featuring Applications Engineer in the job title.

1 35 (31.53%) Windows
2 34 (30.63%) Linux
3 30 (27.03%) SQL
4 25 (22.52%) Active Directory
5 22 (19.82%) Python
5 22 (19.82%) Azure
6 21 (18.92%) PowerShell
6 21 (18.92%) Windows Server
7 19 (17.12%) Security Cleared
7 19 (17.12%) AWS
8 18 (16.22%) Microsoft
8 18 (16.22%) Application Security
9 17 (15.32%) Finance
9 17 (15.32%) Migration
10 16 (14.41%) Social Skills
11 14 (12.61%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 14 (12.61%) JIRA
12 13 (11.71%) CI/CD
13 12 (10.81%) Entra ID
13 12 (10.81%) Application Packaging
13 12 (10.81%) Firewall
13 12 (10.81%) .NET
14 11 (9.91%) SC Cleared
14 11 (9.91%) Release Management
14 11 (9.91%) DevOps
14 11 (9.91%) Problem-Solving
15 10 (9.01%) Analytical Skills
15 10 (9.01%) Public Sector
15 10 (9.01%) SQL Server
15 10 (9.01%) Service Management

Applications Engineer 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 8 (7.21%) Confluence
2 7 (6.31%) IIS
3 4 (3.60%) Tomcat
4 3 (2.70%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (1.80%) IBM Notes
5 2 (1.80%) nginx
6 1 (0.90%) Apache
6 1 (0.90%) Exchange Server 2013
6 1 (0.90%) JBoss
6 1 (0.90%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.90%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.90%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 3 (2.70%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.80%) Global One
1 2 (1.80%) Teamcenter
2 1 (0.90%) Eikon
2 1 (0.90%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.90%) Endur
2 1 (0.90%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.90%) Temenos T24
2 1 (0.90%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 22 (19.82%) Azure
2 19 (17.12%) AWS
3 12 (10.81%) Entra ID
4 8 (7.21%) AWS CloudFormation
5 7 (6.31%) Power Platform
6 6 (5.41%) Dynamics 365
7 5 (4.50%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (4.50%) CloudFront
7 5 (4.50%) GitHub
7 5 (4.50%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (4.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 4 (3.60%) Slack
8 4 (3.60%) WhatsApp
9 2 (1.80%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (1.80%) PowerApps
10 1 (0.90%) Azure Storage
10 1 (0.90%) IaaS
10 1 (0.90%) PaaS
10 1 (0.90%) SaaS
10 1 (0.90%) Workato
Communications & Networking
1 12 (10.81%) Firewall
2 6 (5.41%) DNS
3 5 (4.50%) Network Security
3 5 (4.50%) VPN
4 1 (0.90%) HTTP
4 1 (0.90%) Skype
4 1 (0.90%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (9.01%) SQL Server
2 6 (5.41%) Relational Database
3 5 (4.50%) Metadata
3 5 (4.50%) MySQL
3 5 (4.50%) Power BI
4 3 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (2.70%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.80%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (1.80%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.80%) Sybase ASE
6 1 (0.90%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.90%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.90%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.90%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 14 (12.61%) JIRA
2 4 (3.60%) Browser DevTools
2 4 (3.60%) Burp Suite
2 4 (3.60%) Git
2 4 (3.60%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.90%) GitLab
3 1 (0.90%) Gradle
3 1 (0.90%) Liquibase
3 1 (0.90%) Oracle APEX
3 1 (0.90%) Robot Framework
3 1 (0.90%) Selenium
3 1 (0.90%) SonarQube
3 1 (0.90%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.90%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (0.90%) TeamCity
General
1 17 (15.32%) Finance
2 16 (14.41%) Social Skills
3 10 (9.01%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (9.01%) Public Sector
4 5 (4.50%) Retail
5 4 (3.60%) Automotive
5 4 (3.60%) Billing
6 2 (1.80%) Local Government
6 2 (1.80%) Military
7 1 (0.90%) Back Office
7 1 (0.90%) Games
7 1 (0.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.90%) Law
7 1 (0.90%) Marketing
7 1 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (10.81%) .NET
2 8 (7.21%) ADO
3 7 (6.31%) Web Services
4 5 (4.50%) FIX Protocol
4 5 (4.50%) Node.js
4 5 (4.50%) OAuth
4 5 (4.50%) OAuth2
4 5 (4.50%) SAML
5 4 (3.60%) CSS
5 4 (3.60%) HTML
5 4 (3.60%) HTML5
5 4 (3.60%) React
5 4 (3.60%) React Native
5 4 (3.60%) REST
6 2 (1.80%) .NET Core
6 2 (1.80%) .NET Framework
6 2 (1.80%) ActiveX
6 2 (1.80%) ASP.NET
6 2 (1.80%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (1.80%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 9 (8.11%) Data Centre
2 5 (4.50%) Client/Server
2 5 (4.50%) Cloud Native
2 5 (4.50%) Linux Command Line
3 4 (3.60%) Security Posture
4 3 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.80%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.80%) Driving Licence
5 2 (1.80%) Hedge funds
5 2 (1.80%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.80%) Operational Technology
6 1 (0.90%) 3D Graphics
6 1 (0.90%) Animation
6 1 (0.90%) Augmented Reality
6 1 (0.90%) CCTV
6 1 (0.90%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (0.90%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.90%) Mobile Games
6 1 (0.90%) PKI
6 1 (0.90%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 35 (31.53%) Windows
2 34 (30.63%) Linux
3 21 (18.92%) Windows Server
4 9 (8.11%) Ubuntu
4 9 (8.11%) Windows Server 2016
5 7 (6.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (4.50%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (3.60%) CentOS
8 3 (2.70%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (1.80%) Android
9 2 (1.80%) Apple iOS
9 2 (1.80%) Unix
9 2 (1.80%) VMS
10 1 (0.90%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.90%) Solaris
10 1 (0.90%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.90%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (16.22%) Application Security
2 17 (15.32%) Migration
3 14 (12.61%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 13 (11.71%) CI/CD
5 12 (10.81%) Application Packaging
6 11 (9.91%) DevOps
6 11 (9.91%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (9.91%) Release Management
7 10 (9.01%) Project Management
7 10 (9.01%) Service Management
8 9 (8.11%) Software Engineering
9 8 (7.21%) Infrastructure as Code
9 8 (7.21%) ITIL
9 8 (7.21%) Task Automation
10 7 (6.31%) Analytics
10 7 (6.31%) Data Migration
10 7 (6.31%) Incident Management
10 7 (6.31%) Workflow
11 6 (5.41%) Kalman Filter
11 6 (5.41%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 30 (27.03%) SQL
2 22 (19.82%) Python
3 21 (18.92%) PowerShell
4 8 (7.21%) C#
4 8 (7.21%) JavaScript
4 8 (7.21%) Shell Script
5 5 (4.50%) Bash
5 5 (4.50%) Go
5 5 (4.50%) Java
5 5 (4.50%) Perl
5 5 (4.50%) T-SQL
6 4 (3.60%) PHP
6 4 (3.60%) VBScript
7 3 (2.70%) C++
8 2 (1.80%) F#
8 2 (1.80%) Korn
8 2 (1.80%) VB
8 2 (1.80%) VBA
9 1 (0.90%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (17.12%) Security Cleared
2 11 (9.91%) SC Cleared
3 9 (8.11%) Degree
3 9 (8.11%) DV Cleared
4 5 (4.50%) AWS Certification
5 3 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.80%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (0.90%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.50%) QA
2 2 (1.80%) SLA
3 1 (0.90%) GDPR
3 1 (0.90%) HIPAA
3 1 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.90%) JSP 440
3 1 (0.90%) NCSC
3 1 (0.90%) SOC 2
System Software
1 25 (22.52%) Active Directory
2 7 (6.31%) Docker
3 6 (5.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (3.60%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.80%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.90%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 1 (0.90%) vSphere
6 1 (0.90%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 6 (5.41%) Single Sign-On
2 5 (4.50%) Grafana
2 5 (4.50%) SCCM
2 5 (4.50%) SCOM
3 4 (3.60%) ITRS Geneos
4 3 (2.70%) Ansible
5 2 (1.80%) Control-M
5 2 (1.80%) Puppet
6 1 (0.90%) Anchore
6 1 (0.90%) Consul
6 1 (0.90%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (0.90%) Kibana
6 1 (0.90%) Kubernetes
6 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.90%) Packer
6 1 (0.90%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.90%) Terraform
6 1 (0.90%) WSUS
Vendors
1 18 (16.22%) Microsoft
2 9 (8.11%) Atlassian
2 9 (8.11%) Red Hat
3 8 (7.21%) Bloomberg
4 6 (5.41%) CA
4 6 (5.41%) Refinitiv
4 6 (5.41%) VMware
5 5 (4.50%) IBM
6 4 (3.60%) Dynatrace
6 4 (3.60%) Oracle
6 4 (3.60%) Splunk
6 4 (3.60%) Sybase
7 2 (1.80%) Checkmarx
7 2 (1.80%) Lotus
7 2 (1.80%) Qualys
7 2 (1.80%) Rapid7
7 2 (1.80%) Reuters
7 2 (1.80%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.80%) Veracode
8 1 (0.90%) OpenLink