Applications Developer Contracts in the North of England

Application Developer
England > North of England

The median Application Developer daily rate in the North of England is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 July 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
19 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 172 178 194
Rank change year-on-year +6 +16 +49
Contract jobs requiring an Applications Developer 6 5 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.16% 0.11% 0.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.12% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 11
10th Percentile - £394 £325
25th Percentile £305 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year - +5.88% -10.53%
75th Percentile £625 £525 £488
90th Percentile - £555 £500
England median daily rate £440 £450 £518
% change year-on-year -2.22% -13.04% -5.91%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North of England. 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 the North of England with a recognized job title 3,561 4,249 5,180
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 92.41% 95.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,314 2,626 3,541
10th Percentile £253 £263 £263
25th Percentile £375 £385 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £484 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.98% -3.15% +2.56%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £641 £655 £675
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 221 382 194
10th Percentile £12.82 £11.45 £14.58
25th Percentile £17.25 £14.03 £17.22
Median hourly rate £22.32 £24.87 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.27% +10.53% +9.76%
75th Percentile £47.12 £47.88 £43.35
90th Percentile £75.00 £68.63 £52.73
England median hourly rate £27.45 £40.33 £44.00
% change year-on-year -31.93% -8.35% +76.00%

Applications Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Applications Developer in the North of England

Applications Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Applications Developer in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Applications Developer in the North of England

Applications Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Applications Developer in the North of England over the 6 months to 19 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Applications Developer in the North of England

Applications Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Applications Developer in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Applications Developer in the North of England

Applications Developer
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 19 July 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
North West +6 5 £455 +4.00% 6
Yorkshire +2 1 £450 -10.00% 6
Applications Developer
England

Applications Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 19 July 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 North of England region featuring Applications Developer in the job title.

1 3 (50.00%) Scrum
1 3 (50.00%) Agile
1 3 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (33.33%) Oracle Database 11g
2 2 (33.33%) Workflow
2 2 (33.33%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (33.33%) Oracle Workflow
2 2 (33.33%) Oracle
2 2 (33.33%) Unix
2 2 (33.33%) Solaris
2 2 (33.33%) Linux
2 2 (33.33%) Oracle Forms
2 2 (33.33%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (33.33%) Tomcat
2 2 (33.33%) Java
2 2 (33.33%) PL/SQL
2 2 (33.33%) SQL
2 2 (33.33%) Oracle Database 10g
2 2 (33.33%) Middleware
2 2 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (33.33%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 2 (33.33%) Oracle Database
3 1 (16.67%) C#
3 1 (16.67%) Android Development
3 1 (16.67%) iOS Development
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 1 (16.67%) CI/CD

Applications Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 2 (33.33%) Oracle Workflow
1 2 (33.33%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (16.67%) Azure Service Bus
1 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
1 1 (16.67%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle Database
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle Database 10g
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle Database 11g
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (16.67%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle Forms
General
1 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) Middleware
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (16.67%) .NET
2 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET Web API
2 1 (16.67%) HTML5 Canvas
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Linux
1 2 (33.33%) Solaris
1 2 (33.33%) Unix
2 1 (16.67%) Android
2 1 (16.67%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Agile
1 3 (50.00%) Scrum
2 2 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (33.33%) Workflow
3 1 (16.67%) Android Development
3 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
3 1 (16.67%) Data Security
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) E-business
3 1 (16.67%) Integration Testing
3 1 (16.67%) iOS Development
3 1 (16.67%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Java
1 2 (33.33%) PL/SQL
1 2 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (16.67%) C#
2 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
2 1 (16.67%) Swift
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft