Applications Engineer Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Applications Engineer
England > North of England

The median Applications Engineer daily rate in the North of England is £418, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025.

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

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 200 156 180
Rank change year-on-year -44 +24 +30
Contract jobs requiring an Applications Engineer 12 6 6
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.26% 0.17% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.28% 0.18% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 5
10th Percentile £378 £316 £413
25th Percentile £384 £322 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £418 £350 £450
Median % change year-on-year +19.29% -22.22% +25.87%
75th Percentile £448 £375 £525
90th Percentile £488 - -
England median daily rate £475 £470 £575
% change year-on-year +1.06% -18.26% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £49.25 £37.50 -
Median hourly rate £49.50 £40.00 £44.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.75% -9.09% +79.59%
75th Percentile £49.75 £42.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £49.75 £40.00 £44.00
% change year-on-year +24.38% -9.09% -12.00%

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 4,292 3,308 4,346
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.55% 92.09% 93.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,878 1,910 2,911
10th Percentile £213 £230 £270
25th Percentile £363 £369 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.47% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £550 £575 £593
90th Percentile £650 £656 £675
England median daily rate £510 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -2.86% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 268 170 208
10th Percentile £16.46 £15.35 £15.49
25th Percentile £20.00 £18.00 £17.72
Median hourly rate £30.99 £25.03 £27.90
Median % change year-on-year +23.81% -10.29% +29.77%
75th Percentile £55.25 £42.50 £46.18
90th Percentile £72.88 £60.50 £61.99
England median hourly rate £26.50 £36.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -26.39% -20.00% +38.46%

Applications Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Applications Engineer job vacancy trend in the North of England

Applications Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Applications Engineer job vacancies in the North of England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Applications Engineer job vacancies in the North of England

Applications Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Applications Engineer in the North of England over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Applications Engineer in the North of England

Applications Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Applications Engineer job vacancies in the North of England.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Applications Engineer job vacancies in the North of England

Applications Engineer
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 Engineer within the North of England region over the 6 months to 18 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
North West -14 8 £445 +27.14% 17
Yorkshire -40 2 - - 8
North East - 2 £378 - 1
Applications Engineer
England

Applications Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 18 December 2025, Applications Engineer 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 North of England region featuring Applications Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (33.33%) Azure
2 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (25.00%) Software Engineering
2 3 (25.00%) User Experience
3 2 (16.67%) AI
3 2 (16.67%) Analytics
3 2 (16.67%) AngularJS
3 2 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
3 2 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (16.67%) Data Governance
3 2 (16.67%) Data Protection
3 2 (16.67%) Data Visualisation
3 2 (16.67%) Microservices
3 2 (16.67%) Power Platform
3 2 (16.67%) React
3 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
3 2 (16.67%) SIEM
3 2 (16.67%) Siemens NX
3 2 (16.67%) Teamcenter
3 2 (16.67%) Use Case
3 2 (16.67%) UX Design
3 2 (16.67%) Visualisation
3 2 (16.67%) Workshop Facilitation
4 1 (8.33%) Acceptance Criteria
4 1 (8.33%) Actionable Insight
4 1 (8.33%) Active Directory
4 1 (8.33%) Agile
4 1 (8.33%) Akamai

Applications Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Siemens NX
2 1 (8.33%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 4 (33.33%) Azure
2 2 (16.67%) Power Platform
3 1 (8.33%) Akamai
3 1 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (8.33%) AWS
3 1 (8.33%) AWS CloudTrail
3 1 (8.33%) Entra ID
3 1 (8.33%) Firebase
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (8.33%) PowerApps
3 1 (8.33%) Vercel
3 1 (8.33%) VULTR
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (8.33%) MongoDB
1 1 (8.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) MSI
1 1 (8.33%) Selenium
General
1 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
1 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Automotive
2 1 (8.33%) Banking
2 1 (8.33%) Finance
2 1 (8.33%) Manufacturing
2 1 (8.33%) Military
2 1 (8.33%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) AngularJS
1 2 (16.67%) React
2 1 (8.33%) CSS
2 1 (8.33%) D3.js
2 1 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (8.33%) Flask
2 1 (8.33%) HTML
2 1 (8.33%) JSON
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (8.33%) Next.js
2 1 (8.33%) Node.js
2 1 (8.33%) OAuth
2 1 (8.33%) OAuth2
2 1 (8.33%) React Native
2 1 (8.33%) Regular Expression
2 1 (8.33%) RESTful
2 1 (8.33%) Spring
2 1 (8.33%) Spring Boot
2 1 (8.33%) Tailwind CSS
2 1 (8.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (16.67%) Mobile App
2 1 (8.33%) Low-Code
2 1 (8.33%) NHS
2 1 (8.33%) Robotics
2 1 (8.33%) State Machine
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (25.00%) Software Engineering
1 3 (25.00%) User Experience
2 2 (16.67%) AI
2 2 (16.67%) Analytics
2 2 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
2 2 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (16.67%) Data Governance
2 2 (16.67%) Data Protection
2 2 (16.67%) Data Visualisation
2 2 (16.67%) Microservices
2 2 (16.67%) SIEM
2 2 (16.67%) Use Case
2 2 (16.67%) UX Design
2 2 (16.67%) Visualisation
2 2 (16.67%) Workshop Facilitation
3 1 (8.33%) Acceptance Criteria
3 1 (8.33%) Co-Creation
3 1 (8.33%) Conversational UI
3 1 (8.33%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 1 (8.33%) C#
1 1 (8.33%) Java
1 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
1 1 (8.33%) Kotlin
1 1 (8.33%) Ladder Logic
1 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (8.33%) Python
1 1 (8.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) Data Quality
1 1 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (8.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (8.33%) Snort
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Kibana
1 1 (8.33%) logstash
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (8.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) ArcSight
2 1 (8.33%) Brio
2 1 (8.33%) Cisco
2 1 (8.33%) Citrix
2 1 (8.33%) F5
2 1 (8.33%) Imperva
2 1 (8.33%) Ivanti
2 1 (8.33%) Netlify
2 1 (8.33%) OpenAI
2 1 (8.33%) Siemens
2 1 (8.33%) Splunk
2 1 (8.33%) UiPath