Applications Engineer Contracts in London

Applications Engineer
England > London

The median Applications Engineer daily rate in London is £509 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 335 331 526
Rank change year-on-year -4 +195 -106
Contract jobs requiring an Applications Engineer 54 171 76
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.30% 0.63% 0.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.33% 0.66% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 149 52
10th Percentile £306 £450 £324
25th Percentile £371 £550 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -18.64% +4.17% +14.29%
75th Percentile £606 £750 £663
90th Percentile £700 £835 £749
England median daily rate £500 £600 £454
% change year-on-year -16.67% +32.16% -9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £73.25 -
England median hourly rate £35.65 £54.56 £58.75
% change year-on-year -34.66% -7.13% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 16,601 25,897 37,041
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.18% 95.32% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,001 18,738 27,022
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £442 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £675
90th Percentile £788 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 338 299 448
10th Percentile £16.01 £18.00 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.57 £22.02
Median hourly rate £27.66 £35.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.10% +1.43% +12.90%
75th Percentile £43.75 £60.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £76.60 £67.50
England median hourly rate £35.96 £44.53 £22.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% +97.91% +0.36%

Applications Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Applications Engineer in London

Applications Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Applications Engineer in London

Applications Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Applications Engineer in London over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Applications Engineer in London

Applications Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Applications Engineer in London

Applications Engineer
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 Engineer within the London 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
Central London +30 5 £425 -32.00% 2
West London - 3 £600 -
Applications Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 26 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 London region featuring Applications Engineer in the job title.

1 20 (37.04%) Linux
2 17 (31.48%) Python
2 17 (31.48%) SQL
3 15 (27.78%) Windows
4 14 (25.93%) JIRA
4 14 (25.93%) PowerShell
5 13 (24.07%) Microsoft
5 13 (24.07%) Application Security
6 10 (18.52%) Service Management
6 10 (18.52%) Firewall
6 10 (18.52%) Finance
7 9 (16.67%) Migration
7 9 (16.67%) Security Cleared
7 9 (16.67%) SC Cleared
7 9 (16.67%) Atlassian
7 9 (16.67%) Confluence
8 8 (14.81%) Data Centre
8 8 (14.81%) Windows Server
8 8 (14.81%) Shell Script
8 8 (14.81%) Red Hat
8 8 (14.81%) Bloomberg
8 8 (14.81%) SQL Server
9 7 (12.96%) .NET
9 7 (12.96%) Active Directory
9 7 (12.96%) Workflow
9 7 (12.96%) Data Migration
9 7 (12.96%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 6 (11.11%) Public Sector
10 6 (11.11%) Social Skills
10 6 (11.11%) CI/CD

Applications Engineer 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 9 (16.67%) Confluence
2 1 (1.85%) Apache
2 1 (1.85%) JBoss
2 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.85%) nginx
2 1 (1.85%) Red Hat Fuse
2 1 (1.85%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (3.70%) Global One
2 1 (1.85%) Eikon
2 1 (1.85%) Endur
2 1 (1.85%) NetSuite
2 1 (1.85%) Temenos T24
2 1 (1.85%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 4 (7.41%) AWS
1 4 (7.41%) Azure
1 4 (7.41%) GitHub
1 4 (7.41%) Slack
1 4 (7.41%) WhatsApp
2 2 (3.70%) Entra ID
2 2 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (1.85%) Azure Storage
3 1 (1.85%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (1.85%) IaaS
3 1 (1.85%) PaaS
3 1 (1.85%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (18.52%) Firewall
2 1 (1.85%) DNS
2 1 (1.85%) HTTP
2 1 (1.85%) HTTPS
2 1 (1.85%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (1.85%) Kerberos
2 1 (1.85%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (14.81%) SQL Server
2 6 (11.11%) MySQL
2 6 (11.11%) Relational Database
3 4 (7.41%) Metadata
4 3 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (3.70%) MongoDB
5 2 (3.70%) Sybase ASE
6 1 (1.85%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 14 (25.93%) JIRA
2 4 (7.41%) Browser DevTools
2 4 (7.41%) Burp Suite
3 2 (3.70%) Git
3 2 (3.70%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.85%) TeamCity
General
1 10 (18.52%) Finance
2 6 (11.11%) Public Sector
2 6 (11.11%) Social Skills
3 2 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (3.70%) Military
4 1 (1.85%) Back Office
4 1 (1.85%) Games
4 1 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (12.96%) .NET
2 5 (9.26%) FIX Protocol
3 4 (7.41%) CSS
3 4 (7.41%) HTML
3 4 (7.41%) HTML5
3 4 (7.41%) REST
3 4 (7.41%) Web Services
4 2 (3.70%) .NET Core
4 2 (3.70%) .NET Framework
4 2 (3.70%) ActiveX
4 2 (3.70%) ASP.NET
4 2 (3.70%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (3.70%) RESTful
5 1 (1.85%) IBM Integration Bus
5 1 (1.85%) JSON
5 1 (1.85%) Kafka
5 1 (1.85%) Unity (Game Engine)
5 1 (1.85%) Unreal Engine
5 1 (1.85%) WCF
5 1 (1.85%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (14.81%) Data Centre
2 5 (9.26%) Linux Command Line
3 4 (7.41%) Security Posture
4 3 (5.56%) Management Information System
5 2 (3.70%) Algorithms
5 2 (3.70%) Hedge funds
6 1 (1.85%) 3D Graphics
6 1 (1.85%) Animation
6 1 (1.85%) Augmented Reality
6 1 (1.85%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.85%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.85%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.85%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.85%) Mobile Games
6 1 (1.85%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.85%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 20 (37.04%) Linux
2 15 (27.78%) Windows
3 8 (14.81%) Windows Server
4 4 (7.41%) CentOS
4 4 (7.41%) Windows Server 2016
4 4 (7.41%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (5.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (5.56%) Unix
6 2 (3.70%) Android
6 2 (3.70%) Apple iOS
7 1 (1.85%) Windows Mobile
7 1 (1.85%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (24.07%) Application Security
2 10 (18.52%) Service Management
3 9 (16.67%) Migration
4 7 (12.96%) Data Migration
4 7 (12.96%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 7 (12.96%) Workflow
5 6 (11.11%) Analytics
5 6 (11.11%) CI/CD
5 6 (11.11%) DevOps
5 6 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
5 6 (11.11%) ITIL
5 6 (11.11%) Kalman Filter
5 6 (11.11%) Runbook
5 6 (11.11%) Vulnerability Management
6 5 (9.26%) Incident Management
6 5 (9.26%) Performance Metrics
6 5 (9.26%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (9.26%) Release Management
7 4 (7.41%) ChatOps
7 4 (7.41%) Proactive Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 17 (31.48%) Python
1 17 (31.48%) SQL
2 14 (25.93%) PowerShell
3 8 (14.81%) Shell Script
4 6 (11.11%) C#
5 5 (9.26%) Go
6 4 (7.41%) Bash
6 4 (7.41%) JavaScript
6 4 (7.41%) Perl
6 4 (7.41%) PHP
6 4 (7.41%) T-SQL
7 3 (5.56%) Java
8 2 (3.70%) C++
8 2 (3.70%) Korn
8 2 (3.70%) VB
8 2 (3.70%) VBA
9 1 (1.85%) F#
Qualifications
1 9 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 9 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 4 (7.41%) Degree
3 3 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.85%) CCNP
4 1 (1.85%) CEH
4 1 (1.85%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.85%) CISSP
4 1 (1.85%) CTC Cleared
4 1 (1.85%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.85%) GCIA
4 1 (1.85%) GCIH
4 1 (1.85%) GIAC
4 1 (1.85%) GSEC
4 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.70%) QA
2 1 (1.85%) GDPR
2 1 (1.85%) HIPAA
2 1 (1.85%) SLA
2 1 (1.85%) SOC 2
System Software
1 7 (12.96%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.85%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 1 (1.85%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 5 (9.26%) Grafana
2 4 (7.41%) ITRS Geneos
3 3 (5.56%) Ansible
4 2 (3.70%) Control-M
4 2 (3.70%) Puppet
5 1 (1.85%) Consul
5 1 (1.85%) Kubernetes
5 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.85%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.85%) SCCM
5 1 (1.85%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.85%) WSUS
Vendors
1 13 (24.07%) Microsoft
2 9 (16.67%) Atlassian
3 8 (14.81%) Bloomberg
3 8 (14.81%) Red Hat
4 6 (11.11%) Refinitiv
5 5 (9.26%) IBM
6 4 (7.41%) Dynatrace
6 4 (7.41%) Splunk
6 4 (7.41%) Sybase
7 2 (3.70%) Checkmarx
7 2 (3.70%) Oracle
7 2 (3.70%) Qualys
7 2 (3.70%) Rapid7
7 2 (3.70%) Reuters
7 2 (3.70%) Veracode
8 1 (1.85%) Citrix
8 1 (1.85%) OpenLink
8 1 (1.85%) Salesforce
8 1 (1.85%) SAP
8 1 (1.85%) Temenos