Applications Developer Contracts in the North West

Application Developer
England > North West

The median Application Developer daily rate in the North West is £455, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 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
20 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 122 129 148
Rank change year-on-year +7 +19 +35
Contract jobs requiring an Applications Developer 5 4 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.23% 0.15% 0.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.16% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 6
10th Percentile - £391 £369
25th Percentile £305 £405 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £438 £463
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -5.41% -11.90%
75th Percentile £625 £500 £488
90th Percentile - £545 £538
England median daily rate £440 £450 £525
% change year-on-year -2.22% -14.29% -4.55%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North West. 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 West with a recognized job title 1,997 2,453 2,881
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.28% 94.17% 94.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,299 1,524 2,008
10th Percentile £248 £256 £288
25th Percentile £367 £381 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -4.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £553 £576 £588
90th Percentile £663 £670 £670
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 152 272 153
10th Percentile £13.00 £11.19 £15.34
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.50 £17.46
Median hourly rate £28.75 £29.50 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.54% +11.32% +6.00%
75th Percentile £56.44 £49.31 £43.75
90th Percentile £74.88 £70.90 £55.20
England median hourly rate £27.38 £41.27 £44.00
% change year-on-year -33.66% -6.22% +76.00%

Applications Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Applications Developer in the North West

Applications Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Applications Developer in the North West

Applications Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Applications Developer in the North West over the 6 months to 20 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Applications Developer in the North West

Applications Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Applications Developer in the North West

Applications Developer
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 20 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
Manchester +9 2 £310 -27.06% 4
Merseyside +4 2 £600 +9.09%
Cumbria - 1 - -
Applications Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 20 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 West region featuring Applications Developer in the job title.

1 3 (60.00%) Scrum
1 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
1 3 (60.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (40.00%) Oracle Database
2 2 (40.00%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (40.00%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (40.00%) Oracle Database 11g
2 2 (40.00%) Workflow
2 2 (40.00%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (40.00%) Oracle Workflow
2 2 (40.00%) Oracle
2 2 (40.00%) Unix
2 2 (40.00%) Solaris
2 2 (40.00%) Linux
2 2 (40.00%) Oracle Forms
2 2 (40.00%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (40.00%) Tomcat
2 2 (40.00%) Java
2 2 (40.00%) PL/SQL
2 2 (40.00%) SQL
2 2 (40.00%) Oracle Database 10g
2 2 (40.00%) Middleware
3 1 (20.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (20.00%) .NET
3 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (20.00%) E-business
3 1 (20.00%) Data Security

Applications Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (40.00%) Oracle Workflow
1 2 (40.00%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Service Bus
1 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (20.00%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle Database
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle Database 10g
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle Database 11g
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (20.00%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle Forms
General
1 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Middleware
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (20.00%) .NET
2 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET Web API
2 1 (20.00%) HTML5 Canvas
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
1 2 (40.00%) Solaris
1 2 (40.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Agile
1 3 (60.00%) Scrum
2 2 (40.00%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (40.00%) Workflow
3 1 (20.00%) Data Security
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) E-business
3 1 (20.00%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Java
1 2 (40.00%) PL/SQL
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) C#
2 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft