Appian Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Appian
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Appian skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 408 343 404
Rank change year-on-year -65 +61 +88
Contract jobs citing Appian 2 11 4
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.011% 0.074% 0.020%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.11% 0.67% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 4
10th Percentile - - £308
25th Percentile £724 - £311
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £748 £400 £388
Median % change year-on-year +86.88% +3.23% -40.38%
75th Percentile £771 £423 £475
90th Percentile - £440 £520
UK median daily rate £625 £525 £450
% change year-on-year +19.05% +16.67% -28.14%

All Application Platform Skills
UK excluding London

Appian falls under the Application Platforms category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring application platform skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 1,874 1,632 1,908
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.36% 10.91% 9.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,274 945 1,242
10th Percentile £213 £208 £213
25th Percentile £358 £350 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £455 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.40% -4.21% -1.04%
75th Percentile £563 £563 £594
90th Percentile £670 £643 £678
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 82 60 103
10th Percentile £14.91 £16.98 £14.00
25th Percentile £19.75 £21.01 £16.55
Median hourly rate £33.89 £42.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.27% +88.89% +28.57%
75th Percentile £70.95 £64.56 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £70.00 £72.40
UK median hourly rate £27.21 £35.00 £26.78
% change year-on-year -22.26% +30.69% +44.76%

Appian
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Appian relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Appian job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Appian
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Appian.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Appian

Appian
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Appian within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 16 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
South East -19 2 £748 +66.11% 1
Appian
UK

Appian
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Tricentis Tosca
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (100.00%) GitLab
1 2 (100.00%) Robot Framework
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
1 2 (100.00%) SonarQube
General
1 2 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Head of Development
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Jinja
1 2 (100.00%) JSON
1 2 (100.00%) NETCONF
1 2 (100.00%) XML
2 1 (50.00%) YANG
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Workflow
2 1 (50.00%) B2B
2 1 (50.00%) Code Quality
2 1 (50.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) Open Source
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Strategic Thinking
2 1 (50.00%) Thought Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 2 (100.00%) Veracode