Applications Engineer Contracts in the South East

Applications Engineer
England > South East

The median Applications Engineer daily rate in the South East is £438, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 27 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
27 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 154 169 161
Rank change year-on-year +15 -8 +62
Contract jobs requiring an Applications Engineer 8 19 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.23% 0.37% 0.94%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.26% 0.40% 0.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 7 39
10th Percentile £316 - £381
25th Percentile £400 £565 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year -27.08% -4.00% +66.67%
75th Percentile £488 £631 £738
90th Percentile - £683 £788
England median daily rate £439 £525 £600
% change year-on-year -16.38% -12.50% +41.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - £48.40
Median hourly rate £52.50 - £51.48
75th Percentile £53.75 - £54.56
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £52.50 £40.00 £54.56
% change year-on-year +31.25% -26.69% +6.46%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 3,133 4,772 5,457
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.52% 92.23% 95.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,039 2,898 3,768
10th Percentile £213 £255 £225
25th Percentile £375 £405 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.31% +4.50% -
75th Percentile £600 £634 £606
90th Percentile £663 £688 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 246 420 245
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.85 £16.00
25th Percentile £15.50 £21.89 £21.05
Median hourly rate £25.23 £57.35 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -56.02% +14.70% +134.25%
75th Percentile £61.68 £71.37 £64.63
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £26.30 £43.00 £43.75
% change year-on-year -38.84% -1.71% +70.37%

Applications Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Applications Engineer in the South East

Applications Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Applications Engineer in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Applications Engineer in the South East

Applications Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Applications Engineer in the South East over the 6 months to 27 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Applications Engineer in the South East

Applications Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Applications Engineer in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Applications Engineer in the South East

Applications Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 27 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
Thames Valley +22 4 £400 -33.33% 25
Surrey - 4 £475 - 7
Berkshire +14 3 £400 -33.33% 8
Buckinghamshire - 1 - - 6
Applications Engineer
England

Applications Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 27 July 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 South East region featuring Applications Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (37.50%) Java
1 3 (37.50%) JavaScript
1 3 (37.50%) Web Services
1 3 (37.50%) XML
1 3 (37.50%) Linux
1 3 (37.50%) Python
1 3 (37.50%) Eclipse
1 3 (37.50%) PPP
1 3 (37.50%) Smartcard
1 3 (37.50%) C#
1 3 (37.50%) C++
1 3 (37.50%) Cryptography
1 3 (37.50%) Software Engineering
1 3 (37.50%) Ubuntu
1 3 (37.50%) JSON
1 3 (37.50%) Multithreading
1 3 (37.50%) Valgrind
1 3 (37.50%) Memory Management
1 3 (37.50%) REST
1 3 (37.50%) User Experience
1 3 (37.50%) Front End Development
1 3 (37.50%) NFC
1 3 (37.50%) Multithreaded Programming
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) SCCM
2 2 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
2 2 (25.00%) ThinApp
2 2 (25.00%) Software Deployment
2 2 (25.00%) Application Packaging

Applications Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) Azure
1 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (12.50%) IaaS
1 1 (12.50%) PaaS
1 1 (12.50%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) NFC
1 3 (37.50%) PPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Eclipse
1 3 (37.50%) Valgrind
2 2 (25.00%) AdminStudio
2 2 (25.00%) MSI
General
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Finance
3 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) JSON
1 3 (37.50%) REST
1 3 (37.50%) Web Services
1 3 (37.50%) XML
2 1 (12.50%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Smartcard
2 1 (12.50%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Linux
1 3 (37.50%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Cryptography
1 3 (37.50%) Front End Development
1 3 (37.50%) Memory Management
1 3 (37.50%) Multithreaded Programming
1 3 (37.50%) Multithreading
1 3 (37.50%) Software Engineering
1 3 (37.50%) User Experience
2 2 (25.00%) Application Packaging
2 2 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
2 2 (25.00%) Software Deployment
3 1 (12.50%) Contract Management
3 1 (12.50%) DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (12.50%) Migration
3 1 (12.50%) Process Improvement
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Architecture
3 1 (12.50%) Unit Testing
3 1 (12.50%) Use Case
3 1 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) C#
1 3 (37.50%) C++
1 3 (37.50%) Java
1 3 (37.50%) JavaScript
1 3 (37.50%) Python
2 1 (12.50%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) CTC Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) SCCM
1 2 (25.00%) ThinApp
2 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Ivanti