Applications Specialist Contracts in London

Application Specialist
England > London

The median Application Specialist daily rate in London is £450 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 12 May 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
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 367 458 598
Rank change year-on-year +91 +140 -143
Contract jobs requiring an Applications Specialist 28 30 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.16% 0.11% 0.052%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.12% 0.054%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 19 13
10th Percentile £290 £400 £373
25th Percentile £300 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £544 £550 £738
90th Percentile £575 £578 £836
England median daily rate £475 £475 £550
% change year-on-year - -13.64% +29.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £22.00 -
England median hourly rate £59.50 £13.50 -
% change year-on-year +340.74% - -

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 16,469 25,124 36,818
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.32% 95.22% 95.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,901 18,241 26,939
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £444 £463 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 325 285 443
10th Percentile £16.01 £18.00 £16.30
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.75 £22.68
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.54% +1.43% +10.62%
75th Percentile £46.48 £62.50 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.02 £80.00 £68.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £44.06 £23.00
% change year-on-year -14.88% +91.54% +3.00%

Applications Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Applications Specialist in London

Applications Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Applications Specialist in London

Applications Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Applications Specialist in London over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Applications Specialist in London

Applications Specialist
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Applications Specialist 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 12 May 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 +43 7 £450 -23.40%
West London +20 1 £250 -42.40%
Applications Specialist
England

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

For the 6 months to 12 May 2024, Applications Specialist 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 Specialist in the job title.

1 13 (46.43%) Windows
2 11 (39.29%) Microsoft
3 9 (32.14%) Application Packaging
3 9 (32.14%) PowerShell
4 8 (28.57%) QA
5 7 (25.00%) Finance
6 6 (21.43%) Active Directory
6 6 (21.43%) Information Security
6 6 (21.43%) User Acceptance Testing
6 6 (21.43%) SCCM
6 6 (21.43%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (17.86%) Azure
7 5 (17.86%) IBM UrbanCode
7 5 (17.86%) WebSphere
7 5 (17.86%) IBM
7 5 (17.86%) SSL
7 5 (17.86%) WebSphere Application Server
7 5 (17.86%) WebLogic
7 5 (17.86%) SQL
8 4 (14.29%) ITIL
8 4 (14.29%) Service Delivery
8 4 (14.29%) WebSphere MQ
8 4 (14.29%) Migration
8 4 (14.29%) Incident Management
8 4 (14.29%) DataPower
8 4 (14.29%) Task Automation
8 4 (14.29%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (14.29%) Customer Service
8 4 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (14.29%) ServiceNow

Applications Specialist 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 (17.86%) WebLogic
1 5 (17.86%) WebSphere
1 5 (17.86%) WebSphere Application Server
2 1 (3.57%) IIS
2 1 (3.57%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 5 (17.86%) Azure
2 4 (14.29%) Dynamics 365
2 4 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (7.14%) Mimecast
4 1 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.57%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (3.57%) IaaS
4 1 (3.57%) PaaS
4 1 (3.57%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (17.86%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.57%) Relational Database
1 1 (3.57%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (17.86%) IBM UrbanCode
2 3 (10.71%) InstallShield
2 3 (10.71%) MSI
3 1 (3.57%) Oracle APEX
3 1 (3.57%) TeamCity
General
1 7 (25.00%) Finance
2 3 (10.71%) Social Skills
3 2 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Banking
4 1 (3.57%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (14.29%) WebSphere MQ
2 1 (3.57%) .NET
2 1 (3.57%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (3.57%) WCF
2 1 (3.57%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.29%) DataPower
2 3 (10.71%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.57%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (3.57%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 13 (46.43%) Windows
2 1 (3.57%) Solaris
2 1 (3.57%) Unix
2 1 (3.57%) VMS
2 1 (3.57%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (32.14%) Application Packaging
2 6 (21.43%) Information Security
2 6 (21.43%) User Acceptance Testing
3 4 (14.29%) Customer Service
3 4 (14.29%) Incident Management
3 4 (14.29%) ITIL
3 4 (14.29%) Migration
3 4 (14.29%) Service Delivery
3 4 (14.29%) Task Automation
4 3 (10.71%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (10.71%) Project Planning
4 3 (10.71%) Release Management
5 2 (7.14%) Application Security
5 2 (7.14%) Asset Management
5 2 (7.14%) Change Management
5 2 (7.14%) Data Ingestion
5 2 (7.14%) Project Delivery
5 2 (7.14%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (7.14%) Time Management
5 2 (7.14%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 9 (32.14%) PowerShell
2 5 (17.86%) SQL
3 2 (7.14%) JavaScript
3 2 (7.14%) VBScript
4 1 (3.57%) C#
4 1 (3.57%) VB
Qualifications
1 3 (10.71%) SC Cleared
1 3 (10.71%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.57%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (28.57%) QA
2 1 (3.57%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (21.43%) Active Directory
1 6 (21.43%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 6 (21.43%) SCCM
2 4 (14.29%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (10.71%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 11 (39.29%) Microsoft
2 5 (17.86%) IBM
3 4 (14.29%) ServiceNow
4 2 (7.14%) Dynatrace
4 2 (7.14%) Oracle
4 2 (7.14%) Proofpoint
5 1 (3.57%) Salesforce
5 1 (3.57%) SAP