Applications Manager Contract Job Trends in London

Application Manager
England > London

The median Application Manager daily rate in London is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 9 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 366 355 373
Rank change year-on-year -11 +18 +129
Contract jobs requiring an Applications Manager 15 22 36
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.10% 0.14% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.15% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 19 31
10th Percentile £463 £458 £425
25th Percentile £513 £513 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £722 £700 £625
90th Percentile £746 £715 £700
England median daily rate £600 £600 £550
% change year-on-year - +9.09% +1.15%

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 13,179 14,595 18,242
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.19% 93.55% 93.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,760 9,478 13,182
10th Percentile £338 £338 £336
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -3.18% -2.22% -2.17%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £763 £799 £788
England median daily rate £507 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -3.38% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 230 152 214
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.25 £18.05
25th Percentile £21.12 £23.80 £21.75
Median hourly rate £27.61 £36.65 £36.14
Median % change year-on-year -24.68% +1.41% +3.26%
75th Percentile £53.59 £54.06 £58.75
90th Percentile £75.16 £80.75 £73.31
England median hourly rate £25.15 £37.25 £45.00
% change year-on-year -32.48% -17.22% +36.36%

Applications Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Applications Manager' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Applications Manager job vacancy trend in London

Applications Manager
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Applications Manager job vacancies in London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Applications Manager job vacancies in London

Applications Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Applications Manager in London over the 6 months to 9 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Applications Manager in London

Applications Manager
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Applications Manager job vacancies in London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Applications Manager job vacancies in London

Applications Manager
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 Manager within the London region over the 6 months to 9 December 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 +8 4 £725 +3.57% 1
Applications Manager
England

Applications Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 9 December 2025, Applications Manager contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring Applications Manager in the job title.

1 7 (46.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 5 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (26.67%) DevOps
3 4 (26.67%) Roadmaps
4 3 (20.00%) Agile
4 3 (20.00%) Azure
4 3 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (20.00%) JIRA
4 3 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
4 3 (20.00%) Project Management
4 3 (20.00%) Service Delivery
4 3 (20.00%) SQL
4 3 (20.00%) SQL Server
4 3 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (13.33%) AI
5 2 (13.33%) AWS
5 2 (13.33%) Business Case
5 2 (13.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 2 (13.33%) GDPR
5 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
5 2 (13.33%) Migration
5 2 (13.33%) Process Improvement
5 2 (13.33%) Product Management
5 2 (13.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (13.33%) Technical Debt
5 2 (13.33%) Test Automation
6 1 (6.67%) Active Directory
6 1 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (6.67%) Anomaly Detection
6 1 (6.67%) Apache Spark

Applications Manager Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (6.67%) Apache Spark
1 1 (6.67%) Confluence
1 1 (6.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (6.67%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 3 (20.00%) Azure
2 2 (13.33%) AWS
3 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (6.67%) Dynamics 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (6.67%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (6.67%) Big Data
2 1 (6.67%) Flink
Development Applications
1 3 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 7 (46.67%) Finance
2 6 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Banking
4 1 (6.67%) Corporate Banking
4 1 (6.67%) Digital Health
4 1 (6.67%) Digital Healthcare
4 1 (6.67%) French Language
4 1 (6.67%) Front Office
4 1 (6.67%) Health Technology
4 1 (6.67%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (6.67%) Private Banking
4 1 (6.67%) Retail Banking
4 1 (6.67%) Wearables
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) Kafka
1 1 (6.67%) OpenTelemetry
1 1 (6.67%) Spring
1 1 (6.67%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Mobile App
2 1 (6.67%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (6.67%) Biopharmaceutical
2 1 (6.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (6.67%) Mobile Banking
2 1 (6.67%) Onboarding
2 1 (6.67%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Linux
1 1 (6.67%) Unix
1 1 (6.67%) Windows
1 1 (6.67%) Windows 10
1 1 (6.67%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 5 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (26.67%) DevOps
3 4 (26.67%) Roadmaps
4 3 (20.00%) Agile
4 3 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
4 3 (20.00%) Project Management
4 3 (20.00%) Service Delivery
4 3 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (13.33%) AI
5 2 (13.33%) Business Case
5 2 (13.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 2 (13.33%) Migration
5 2 (13.33%) Process Improvement
5 2 (13.33%) Product Management
5 2 (13.33%) Technical Debt
5 2 (13.33%) Test Automation
6 1 (6.67%) Kanban
6 1 (6.67%) QMS
Programming Languages
1 3 (20.00%) SQL
2 1 (6.67%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (6.67%) Degree
1 1 (6.67%) PMI Certification
1 1 (6.67%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) GDPR
1 2 (13.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (6.67%) QA
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Active Directory
1 1 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Grafana
1 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (6.67%) Prometheus
1 1 (6.67%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.67%) Salesforce