Applications Developer Contracts in London

Application Developer
England > London

The median Application Developer daily rate in London is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 August 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
15 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 320 320 369
Rank change year-on-year 0 +49 +145
Contract jobs requiring an Applications Developer 53 66 96
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.39% 0.41% 0.41%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.42% 0.43% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 54 50
10th Percentile £404 £263 £377
25th Percentile £414 £316 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £469 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.33% -14.77% -
75th Percentile £613 £615 £599
90th Percentile £741 £732 £655
England median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -9.09%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 12,562 15,228 22,229
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.93% 94.07% 94.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,468 10,711 16,299
10th Percentile £325 £350 £356
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 204 200 234
10th Percentile £17.98 £17.25 £18.50
25th Percentile £22.98 £22.00 £22.93
Median hourly rate £29.54 £33.29 £37.75
Median % change year-on-year -11.27% -11.83% +12.69%
75th Percentile £50.13 £54.06 £64.88
90th Percentile £65.00 £71.88 £81.58
England median hourly rate £25.23 £45.00 £42.00
% change year-on-year -43.94% +7.14% +63.55%

Applications Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Applications Developer in London

Applications Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Applications Developer in London

Applications Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Applications Developer in London over the 6 months to 15 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Applications Developer in London

Applications Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Applications Developer in London

Applications Developer
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 15 August 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
Central London +9 16 £433 -15.20% 6
East London - 1 £400 -
Applications Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 15 August 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 London region featuring Applications Developer in the job title.

1 16 (30.19%) Power Platform
2 15 (28.30%) PowerApps
2 15 (28.30%) Agile
3 14 (26.42%) Python
4 13 (24.53%) SQL
5 12 (22.64%) Microsoft
5 12 (22.64%) AWS
6 11 (20.75%) Java
6 11 (20.75%) C#
6 11 (20.75%) .NET
6 11 (20.75%) Azure
7 10 (18.87%) Finance
8 9 (16.98%) Oracle
8 9 (16.98%) SQL Server
8 9 (16.98%) Test Automation
8 9 (16.98%) DevOps
8 9 (16.98%) Power Automate
8 9 (16.98%) Social Skills
9 8 (15.09%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (15.09%) Microsoft 365
10 7 (13.21%) Public Sector
10 7 (13.21%) Banking
10 7 (13.21%) JavaScript
11 6 (11.32%) HTML
11 6 (11.32%) REST
11 6 (11.32%) CI/CD
11 6 (11.32%) TypeScript
11 6 (11.32%) Analytical Skills
11 6 (11.32%) Robotic Process Automation
12 5 (9.43%) React

Applications Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 5 (9.43%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.77%) ArcGIS
3 1 (1.89%) CMS
Applications
1 4 (7.55%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.89%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (1.89%) Oracle EBS R12
1 1 (1.89%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 16 (30.19%) Power Platform
2 15 (28.30%) PowerApps
3 12 (22.64%) AWS
4 11 (20.75%) Azure
5 9 (16.98%) Power Automate
6 8 (15.09%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (9.43%) Amazon Neptune
8 4 (7.55%) Serverless
9 2 (3.77%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (3.77%) Amazon MSK
9 2 (3.77%) Amazon S3
9 2 (3.77%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (3.77%) AWS Step Functions
9 2 (3.77%) Azure Functions
9 2 (3.77%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (3.77%) Azure Service Bus
9 2 (3.77%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (1.89%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (1.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 1 (1.89%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.89%) Internet
1 1 (1.89%) LAN
1 1 (1.89%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (16.98%) SQL Server
2 5 (9.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 4 (7.55%) Power BI
4 3 (5.66%) Oracle Database
5 2 (3.77%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (3.77%) Data Lake
5 2 (3.77%) DynamoDB
5 2 (3.77%) Metadata
6 1 (1.89%) DB2
6 1 (1.89%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.89%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.89%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.89%) Spotfire
6 1 (1.89%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (3.77%) JIRA
2 1 (1.89%) Git
2 1 (1.89%) JUnit
2 1 (1.89%) Selenium
General
1 10 (18.87%) Finance
2 9 (16.98%) Social Skills
3 7 (13.21%) Banking
3 7 (13.21%) Public Sector
4 6 (11.32%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (9.43%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (3.77%) Legal
6 2 (3.77%) Local Government
6 2 (3.77%) Publishing
6 2 (3.77%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (20.75%) .NET
2 6 (11.32%) HTML
2 6 (11.32%) REST
3 5 (9.43%) CSS
3 5 (9.43%) React
4 4 (7.55%) HTML5 Canvas
5 3 (5.66%) Node.js
5 3 (5.66%) Web Services
5 3 (5.66%) WPF
6 2 (3.77%) Django
6 2 (3.77%) JSON
6 2 (3.77%) RESTful
6 2 (3.77%) Spring
6 2 (3.77%) Spring Boot
7 1 (1.89%) AngularJS
7 1 (1.89%) ASP.NET Web API
7 1 (1.89%) Flutter
7 1 (1.89%) Kafka
7 1 (1.89%) Next.js
7 1 (1.89%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 5 (9.43%) Mobile App
2 4 (7.55%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (3.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (1.89%) BYOD
4 1 (1.89%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.89%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.89%) e-Learning
4 1 (1.89%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.66%) Windows
2 2 (3.77%) Linux
3 1 (1.89%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (28.30%) Agile
2 9 (16.98%) DevOps
2 9 (16.98%) Test Automation
3 8 (15.09%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (11.32%) CI/CD
4 6 (11.32%) Robotic Process Automation
5 5 (9.43%) API Integration
5 5 (9.43%) API Management
5 5 (9.43%) Data Analysis
5 5 (9.43%) Full-Stack Development
5 5 (9.43%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (7.55%) Business Case
6 4 (7.55%) Business Intelligence
6 4 (7.55%) Data Reconciliation
6 4 (7.55%) Disaster Recovery
6 4 (7.55%) Front End Development
6 4 (7.55%) Microservices
6 4 (7.55%) Migration
6 4 (7.55%) Secure Coding
7 3 (5.66%) Data Encryption
Programming Languages
1 14 (26.42%) Python
2 13 (24.53%) SQL
3 11 (20.75%) C#
3 11 (20.75%) Java
4 7 (13.21%) JavaScript
5 6 (11.32%) TypeScript
6 2 (3.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (1.89%) C
7 1 (1.89%) C++
7 1 (1.89%) Dart
7 1 (1.89%) Go
7 1 (1.89%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.89%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (9.43%) AWS Certification
1 5 (9.43%) SC Cleared
1 5 (9.43%) Security Cleared
2 4 (7.55%) AWS Certified Developer
3 2 (3.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.66%) QA
2 2 (3.77%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.89%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (3.77%) Docker
2 1 (1.89%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.89%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (3.77%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.89%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 12 (22.64%) Microsoft
2 9 (16.98%) Oracle
3 4 (7.55%) UiPath
4 3 (5.66%) Axway
4 3 (5.66%) webMethods
5 2 (3.77%) Citrix
5 2 (3.77%) ESRI
5 2 (3.77%) SAP
6 1 (1.89%) Ariba
6 1 (1.89%) Databricks
6 1 (1.89%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.89%) IBM
6 1 (1.89%) Northgate
6 1 (1.89%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.89%) Splunk
6 1 (1.89%) TIBCO
6 1 (1.89%) VMware