Applications Specialist Contract Job Trends in London

Application Specialist
England > London

The median Application Specialist daily rate in London is £415, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025.

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

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 372 352 381
Rank change year-on-year -20 +29 +156
Contract jobs requiring an Applications Specialist 8 17 24
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.056% 0.11% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.060% 0.12% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 14 15
10th Percentile £375 £389 £355
25th Percentile £391 £490 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £531 £500
Median % change year-on-year -21.88% +6.25% -4.76%
75th Percentile £594 £550 £618
90th Percentile £853 £585 £850
England median daily rate £525 £495 £500
% change year-on-year +6.06% -1.00% -4.76%

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 13,283 14,093 17,699
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.33% 93.53% 93.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,798 9,130 12,805
10th Percentile £343 £335 £330
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -3.18% -2.22% -3.02%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £684
90th Percentile £760 £799 £788
England median daily rate £510 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -2.86% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 231 153 211
10th Percentile £17.50 £18.47 £17.75
25th Percentile £22.25 £23.80 £21.50
Median hourly rate £29.65 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.30% - -
75th Percentile £56.98 £53.75 £58.75
90th Percentile £76.58 £80.75 £72.50
England median hourly rate £26.78 £36.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -25.61% -20.00% +38.46%

Applications Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Applications Specialist job vacancy trend in London

Applications Specialist
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

Applications Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Applications Specialist in London over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Applications Specialist in London

Applications Specialist
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

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

Applications Specialist
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 Specialist within the London region over the 6 months to 19 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 +2 1 £675 +35.00%
Applications Specialist
England

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

For the 6 months to 19 December 2025, Applications Specialist 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 Specialist in the job title.

1 4 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (37.50%) SQL
2 3 (37.50%) Workflow
3 2 (25.00%) Aderant
3 2 (25.00%) API Management
3 2 (25.00%) Batch Processing
3 2 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (25.00%) Collaborative Culture
3 2 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (25.00%) CRM
3 2 (25.00%) Data Modelling
3 2 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (25.00%) DevOps
3 2 (25.00%) Eclipse
3 2 (25.00%) Elite 3E
3 2 (25.00%) FIX Protocol
3 2 (25.00%) Google
3 2 (25.00%) iManage
3 2 (25.00%) Intapp
3 2 (25.00%) ITIL
3 2 (25.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (25.00%) Linux
3 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (25.00%) Migration
3 2 (25.00%) Mimecast
3 2 (25.00%) PaaS
3 2 (25.00%) Patch Management
3 2 (25.00%) Performance Testing
3 2 (25.00%) Power BI
3 2 (25.00%) Power Platform

Applications Specialist 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 (12.50%) MQSeries
1 1 (12.50%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) Mimecast
1 2 (25.00%) PaaS
1 2 (25.00%) Power Platform
1 2 (25.00%) SaaS
2 1 (12.50%) AWS
2 1 (12.50%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (25.00%) Power BI
2 1 (12.50%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (12.50%) KDB
2 1 (12.50%) Kdb+
2 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Eclipse
1 2 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (12.50%) GitLab
General
1 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (37.50%) Finance
3 2 (25.00%) Banking
3 2 (25.00%) Billing
3 2 (25.00%) Investment Banking
3 2 (25.00%) Law
3 2 (25.00%) Legal
4 1 (12.50%) Front Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) FIX Protocol
1 2 (25.00%) Web Services
2 1 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (12.50%) Kafka
2 1 (12.50%) Middleware
2 1 (12.50%) RESTful
2 1 (12.50%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 2 (25.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 1 (12.50%) Derivative
2 1 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (12.50%) Equities
2 1 (12.50%) Fixed Income
2 1 (12.50%) Private Cloud
2 1 (12.50%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Linux
2 1 (12.50%) Windows
2 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (37.50%) Workflow
3 2 (25.00%) API Management
3 2 (25.00%) Batch Processing
3 2 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (25.00%) Collaborative Culture
3 2 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (25.00%) CRM
3 2 (25.00%) Data Modelling
3 2 (25.00%) DevOps
3 2 (25.00%) ITIL
3 2 (25.00%) Migration
3 2 (25.00%) Patch Management
3 2 (25.00%) Performance Testing
4 1 (12.50%) Analytics
4 1 (12.50%) API Development
4 1 (12.50%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 1 (12.50%) IT Asset Management
4 1 (12.50%) Low Latency
4 1 (12.50%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) SQL
2 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (25.00%) Python
3 1 (12.50%) Bash
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
1 1 (12.50%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Ansible
1 1 (12.50%) Grafana
1 1 (12.50%) ITRS Geneos
1 1 (12.50%) Kibana
1 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
1 1 (12.50%) logstash
1 1 (12.50%) Red Hat Satellite
1 1 (12.50%) Terraform
1 1 (12.50%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Aderant
1 2 (25.00%) Google
1 2 (25.00%) iManage
1 2 (25.00%) Intapp
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Bloomberg
2 1 (12.50%) Calypso
2 1 (12.50%) Dynatrace
2 1 (12.50%) Murex
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle
2 1 (12.50%) Red Hat
2 1 (12.50%) Reuters
2 1 (12.50%) Solace
2 1 (12.50%) SolarWinds
2 1 (12.50%) Sophis
2 1 (12.50%) Splunk