Applications Engineer Contracts in the South West

Applications Engineer
England > South West

The median Applications Engineer daily rate in the South West is £370, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 8 June 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
8 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 105 144 149
Rank change year-on-year +39 +5 +16
Contract jobs requiring an Applications Engineer 10 6 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.57% 0.18% 0.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.63% 0.20% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 6 8
10th Percentile £346 £356 £358
25th Percentile £355 £363 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £370 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% -20.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £385 £439 £588
90th Percentile £439 £439 £621
England median daily rate £413 £500 £600
% change year-on-year -17.35% -16.67% +41.18%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the South 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 South West with a recognized job title 1,592 3,044 3,130
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.66% 92.69% 92.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 982 1,901 2,305
10th Percentile £218 £215 £283
25th Percentile £365 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% +5.00%
75th Percentile £620 £625 £644
90th Percentile £687 £700 £719
England median daily rate £514 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.10% -4.55% +3.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 152 448 251
10th Percentile £18.13 £13.85 £17.72
25th Percentile £21.19 £27.50 £49.84
Median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £64.15
Median % change year-on-year -0.01% -14.26% +39.45%
75th Percentile £68.00 £71.25 £75.00
90th Percentile £72.73 £75.00 £83.40
England median hourly rate £29.57 £38.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -23.21% -14.44% +88.21%

Applications Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Applications Engineer in the South West

Applications Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Applications Engineer in the South West

Applications Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Applications Engineer in the South West over the 6 months to 8 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Applications Engineer in the South West

Applications Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Applications Engineer in the South West

Applications Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 8 June 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
Bristol +18 7 £370 -1.33% 14
Wiltshire - 2 £530 - 5
Gloucestershire - 1 - - 2
Applications Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 8 June 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 West region featuring Applications Engineer in the job title.

1 8 (80.00%) .NET
1 8 (80.00%) Manufacturing
2 7 (70.00%) TDD
2 7 (70.00%) Finance
2 7 (70.00%) Programme Management
2 7 (70.00%) Software Engineering
2 7 (70.00%) Google
2 7 (70.00%) Marketing
2 7 (70.00%) Web Development
2 7 (70.00%) Degree
2 7 (70.00%) Computer Science
2 7 (70.00%) Digital Marketing
2 7 (70.00%) Continuous Integration
2 7 (70.00%) Test Automation
2 7 (70.00%) Azure
2 7 (70.00%) AWS
2 7 (70.00%) User Experience
2 7 (70.00%) GCP
2 7 (70.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 7 (70.00%) Software Delivery
2 7 (70.00%) Management Information System
2 7 (70.00%) Electronics
2 7 (70.00%) Telecoms
2 7 (70.00%) Service Management
2 7 (70.00%) Service Delivery
2 7 (70.00%) Business Intelligence
2 7 (70.00%) C#
2 7 (70.00%) HTML
2 7 (70.00%) JavaScript
2 7 (70.00%) SAP

Applications Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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 1 (10.00%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 7 (70.00%) AWS
1 7 (70.00%) Azure
1 7 (70.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) MS Access
1 1 (10.00%) MySQL
1 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 8 (80.00%) Manufacturing
2 7 (70.00%) Electronics
2 7 (70.00%) Finance
2 7 (70.00%) Marketing
2 7 (70.00%) Public Sector
2 7 (70.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (70.00%) Telecoms
3 1 (10.00%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (80.00%) .NET
2 7 (70.00%) CSS
2 7 (70.00%) HTML
3 1 (10.00%) ODBC
Miscellaneous
1 7 (70.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (10.00%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (10.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Windows
1 2 (20.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (10.00%) Solaris
2 1 (10.00%) Windows 10
2 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Business Intelligence
1 7 (70.00%) CI/CD
1 7 (70.00%) Computer Science
1 7 (70.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 7 (70.00%) Continuous Integration
1 7 (70.00%) Digital Marketing
1 7 (70.00%) Programme Management
1 7 (70.00%) Service Delivery
1 7 (70.00%) Service Management
1 7 (70.00%) Software Delivery
1 7 (70.00%) Software Engineering
1 7 (70.00%) TDD
1 7 (70.00%) Test Automation
1 7 (70.00%) User Experience
1 7 (70.00%) Web Development
2 6 (60.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (10.00%) GitOps
3 1 (10.00%) Incident Management
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (10.00%) Knowledge Transfer
Programming Languages
1 7 (70.00%) C#
1 7 (70.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (20.00%) SQL
3 1 (10.00%) Java
3 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (10.00%) Python
3 1 (10.00%) VB
3 1 (10.00%) VB.NET
3 1 (10.00%) VB6
3 1 (10.00%) VBA
Qualifications
1 7 (70.00%) Azure Certification
1 7 (70.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 7 (70.00%) Degree
2 2 (20.00%) DV Cleared
2 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (70.00%) Google
1 7 (70.00%) SAP
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) Oracle
3 1 (10.00%) Red Hat
3 1 (10.00%) VMware