Applications Engineer Contracts in Reading

Applications Engineer
Berkshire > Reading

As of 1 May 2025, there is not enough information available from job vacancies posted within the last 6 months to determine the median Applications Engineer daily rate in Reading.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 83 76
Rank change year-on-year +25 -7 +21
Contract jobs requiring an Applications Engineer 2 8 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 0.34% 0.67% 1.06%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.36% 0.72% 1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 8
10th Percentile - £500 £358
25th Percentile - £500 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £501 £400
Median % change year-on-year - +25.13% -36.00%
75th Percentile - £550 £476
90th Percentile - £580 £675
Berkshire median daily rate £400 £600 £400
% change year-on-year -33.33% +50.00% -36.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £48.40
Berkshire median hourly rate - - £48.40

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Reading

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Reading. 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 Reading with a recognized job title 563 1,112 996
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.30% 93.29% 95.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 340 632 664
10th Percentile £325 £213 £363
25th Percentile £450 £413 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £533 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.19% -3.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £623 £651
90th Percentile £700 £688 £721
Berkshire median daily rate £504 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -1.76% -2.38% +7.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 51 24
10th Percentile - £35.00 £26.45
25th Percentile - £52.90 £51.48
Median hourly rate £70.00 £61.60 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -5.23% +150.00%
75th Percentile £71.80 £74.66 £74.20
90th Percentile £75.03 £87.46 £79.19
Berkshire median hourly rate £63.37 £59.50 £56.89
% change year-on-year +6.51% +4.60% +170.88%

Applications Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Applications Engineer in Reading

Applications Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Applications Engineer in Reading.

Daily rate trend for Applications Engineer in Reading

Applications Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Applications Engineer in Reading.

Hourly rate trend for Applications Engineer in Reading

Applications Engineer Skill Set
Top 23 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Applications Engineer 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 Reading region featuring Applications Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (50.00%) IIS
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Data Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) SaaS
1 1 (50.00%) PaaS
1 1 (50.00%) IaaS
1 1 (50.00%) Octopus Deploy
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (50.00%) ARM Templates
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD

Applications Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 1 (50.00%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) IaaS
1 1 (50.00%) PaaS
1 1 (50.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Octopus Deploy
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Data Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform