Applications Engineer Contracts in England

Applications Engineer
UK > England

The median Applications Engineer daily rate in England is £410, 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 418 429 422
Rank change year-on-year +11 -7 +171
Contract jobs requiring an Applications Engineer 67 113 242
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.28% 0.30% 0.48%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.30% 0.33% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 78 201
10th Percentile £325 £338 £363
25th Percentile £355 £385 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year -18.00% -16.67% +33.33%
75th Percentile £463 £606 £700
90th Percentile £650 £681 £823
UK median daily rate £410 £509 £600
% change year-on-year -19.41% -15.21% +33.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - £48.40
Median hourly rate £52.50 £35.65 £54.56
Median % change year-on-year +47.27% -34.66% -7.13%
75th Percentile £53.75 - £73.75
90th Percentile - - £75.10
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £35.65 £54.56
% change year-on-year +47.27% -34.66% -3.00%

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 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 1 May 2025.

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 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 +7 25 £400 -20.00% 52
North West +36 21 £423 - 18
North of England +36 21 £423 -23.14% 33
South West +48 8 £370 -7.50% 18
South East +26 6 £400 -31.03% 56
Midlands +22 6 £700 +7.69% 42
West Midlands +14 6 £700 +7.69% 21
Applications Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 24 (35.82%) Microsoft
2 20 (29.85%) Social Skills
3 19 (28.36%) SQL
3 19 (28.36%) Windows
4 18 (26.87%) Azure
5 17 (25.37%) User Experience
5 17 (25.37%) Finance
6 16 (23.88%) Security Cleared
7 15 (22.39%) Incident Management
7 15 (22.39%) Service Delivery
8 12 (17.91%) Active Directory
8 12 (17.91%) Root Cause Analysis
8 12 (17.91%) CI/CD
8 12 (17.91%) Public Sector
9 11 (16.42%) Problem-Solving
9 11 (16.42%) XML
9 11 (16.42%) HTML
9 11 (16.42%) JavaScript
9 11 (16.42%) Teamcenter
10 10 (14.93%) PLM
10 10 (14.93%) Google
10 10 (14.93%) C#
10 10 (14.93%) Business Intelligence
10 10 (14.93%) CAD
10 10 (14.93%) Data Quality
10 10 (14.93%) Data Governance
10 10 (14.93%) Siemens NX
11 9 (13.43%) GCP
11 9 (13.43%) Microsoft 365
11 9 (13.43%) AWS

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 7 (10.45%) Microsoft Exchange
1 7 (10.45%) SharePoint
2 5 (7.46%) IIS
3 3 (4.48%) JBoss
3 3 (4.48%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.49%) WebLogic
Applications
1 10 (14.93%) Siemens NX
2 1 (1.49%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.49%) Notion
Business Applications
1 11 (16.42%) Teamcenter
2 8 (11.94%) Kondor
Cloud Services
1 18 (26.87%) Azure
2 9 (13.43%) AWS
2 9 (13.43%) GCP
2 9 (13.43%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (10.45%) SaaS
4 6 (8.96%) Entra ID
4 6 (8.96%) Power Platform
5 5 (7.46%) PowerApps
5 5 (7.46%) Slack
6 4 (5.97%) Asana
6 4 (5.97%) OneDrive
7 3 (4.48%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (2.99%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (2.99%) Azure Storage
8 2 (2.99%) GitHub
8 2 (2.99%) IaaS
8 2 (2.99%) PaaS
8 2 (2.99%) Power Automate
9 1 (1.49%) Google Workspace
9 1 (1.49%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.99%) Firewall
1 2 (2.99%) SAN
1 2 (2.99%) WAN
1 2 (2.99%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (1.49%) FTP
2 1 (1.49%) VPN
2 1 (1.49%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (13.43%) SQL Server
2 3 (4.48%) Power BI
3 2 (2.99%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (2.99%) Data Lake
3 2 (2.99%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (2.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (1.49%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.49%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 3 (4.48%) MSI
2 2 (2.99%) AdminStudio
2 2 (2.99%) GitLab
3 1 (1.49%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 20 (29.85%) Social Skills
2 17 (25.37%) Finance
3 12 (17.91%) Public Sector
4 7 (10.45%) Electronics
4 7 (10.45%) Manufacturing
4 7 (10.45%) Marketing
4 7 (10.45%) Telecoms
5 6 (8.96%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (5.97%) Legal
7 2 (2.99%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.99%) Law
8 1 (1.49%) Back Office
8 1 (1.49%) Banking
8 1 (1.49%) Front Office
8 1 (1.49%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (16.42%) HTML
1 11 (16.42%) XML
2 9 (13.43%) .NET
3 7 (10.45%) CSS
4 4 (5.97%) Middleware
5 3 (4.48%) Web Services
6 1 (1.49%) Apache Axis
6 1 (1.49%) ARM Templates
6 1 (1.49%) ASP.NET
6 1 (1.49%) FIX Protocol
6 1 (1.49%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (1.49%) SAML
6 1 (1.49%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 8 (11.94%) Management Information System
1 8 (11.94%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 5 (7.46%) Onboarding
3 4 (5.97%) Legacy Applications
4 2 (2.99%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.99%) Replication
5 1 (1.49%) Blackberry
5 1 (1.49%) CCTV
5 1 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.49%) EFT
5 1 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.49%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 19 (28.36%) Windows
2 9 (13.43%) Unix
3 8 (11.94%) Windows Server
4 5 (7.46%) Apple iOS
5 4 (5.97%) Android
5 4 (5.97%) Linux
6 2 (2.99%) VMS
7 1 (1.49%) Mac OS
7 1 (1.49%) Windows 10
7 1 (1.49%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (25.37%) User Experience
2 15 (22.39%) Incident Management
2 15 (22.39%) Service Delivery
3 12 (17.91%) CI/CD
3 12 (17.91%) Root Cause Analysis
4 11 (16.42%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (14.93%) Business Intelligence
5 10 (14.93%) CAD
5 10 (14.93%) Data Governance
5 10 (14.93%) PLM
6 8 (11.94%) Cash Management
7 7 (10.45%) Continuous Delivery
7 7 (10.45%) Continuous Integration
7 7 (10.45%) Programme Management
7 7 (10.45%) Service Management
7 7 (10.45%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 7 (10.45%) Software Delivery
7 7 (10.45%) Software Engineering
7 7 (10.45%) TDD
7 7 (10.45%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 19 (28.36%) SQL
2 11 (16.42%) JavaScript
3 10 (14.93%) C#
4 8 (11.94%) PowerShell
5 3 (4.48%) Python
6 1 (1.49%) ABAP
6 1 (1.49%) COBOL
6 1 (1.49%) F#
6 1 (1.49%) Java
6 1 (1.49%) Ruby
6 1 (1.49%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 16 (23.88%) Security Cleared
2 9 (13.43%) SC Cleared
3 7 (10.45%) Azure Certification
3 7 (10.45%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (10.45%) Degree
4 6 (8.96%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.49%) CISSP
5 1 (1.49%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (1.49%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (14.93%) Data Quality
2 5 (7.46%) QA
3 1 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 1 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.49%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (17.91%) Active Directory
2 4 (5.97%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (2.99%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 6 (8.96%) Microsoft Intune
1 6 (8.96%) SCCM
1 6 (8.96%) Terraform
2 3 (4.48%) Kubernetes
2 3 (4.48%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (2.99%) Ansible
3 2 (2.99%) CASB
3 2 (2.99%) SCOrch
3 2 (2.99%) ThinApp
4 1 (1.49%) Grafana
4 1 (1.49%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.49%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 24 (35.82%) Microsoft
2 10 (14.93%) Google
3 8 (11.94%) Bloomberg
3 8 (11.94%) Refinitiv
3 8 (11.94%) SAP
3 8 (11.94%) Sybase
4 2 (2.99%) Databricks
4 2 (2.99%) Ivanti
5 1 (1.49%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (1.49%) ForgeRock
5 1 (1.49%) Globalscape
5 1 (1.49%) Netskope
5 1 (1.49%) Oracle
5 1 (1.49%) Palo Alto
5 1 (1.49%) Rapid7