Applications Developer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Application Developer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Application Developer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £409, 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 319 329 367
Rank change year-on-year +10 +38 +65
Contract jobs requiring an Applications Developer 39 61 69
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.26% 0.32% 0.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.28% 0.35% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 42 52
10th Percentile £305 - £321
25th Percentile £355 £410 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £409 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year -9.17% -5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £500 £503 £588
90th Percentile £558 £598 £605
UK median daily rate £450 £450 £537
% change year-on-year - -16.20% -2.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £33.65 - -
25th Percentile £40.25 - -
Median hourly rate £52.50 - -
75th Percentile £57.19 - -
90th Percentile £59.25 - -
UK median hourly rate £52.50 - £72.50
% change year-on-year - - +317.15%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 13,725 17,661 21,419
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.53% 92.10% 94.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,443 10,807 14,582
10th Percentile £215 £215 £231
25th Percentile £363 £375 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +2.56%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -0.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,182 1,928 1,177
10th Percentile £13.50 £13.49 £13.98
25th Percentile £16.50 £17.72 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £39.55
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% +8.72% +85.68%
75th Percentile £55.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £42.03 £43.00
% change year-on-year -40.16% -2.26% +67.45%

Applications Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Applications Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Applications Developer in the UK excluding London

Applications Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Applications Developer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Applications Developer in the UK excluding London

Applications Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Applications Developer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 27 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Applications Developer in the UK excluding London

Applications Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Applications Developer in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Applications Developer in the UK excluding London

Applications Developer
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Applications Developer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 27 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Applications Developer in the UK excluding London

Applications Developer
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 Applications Developer within the UK excluding London 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
South West +31 10 £370 -17.78% 10
North of England 0 7 £400 -15.79% 23
Midlands -4 7 £453 - 19
South East +20 6 £550 +15.79% 29
West Midlands -4 6 £453 - 14
North West -6 6 £350 -22.22% 10
East of England -1 5 £375 -10.71% 4
Wales +5 2 £310 -31.11% 1
Yorkshire -10 1 £450 -10.00% 10
Scotland -11 1 £445 -36.43% 7
Northern Ireland - 1 £492 - 1
Applications Developer
UK

Applications Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 27 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 UK excluding London region featuring Applications Developer in the job title.

1 18 (46.15%) Azure
2 17 (43.59%) Public Sector
3 15 (38.46%) JavaScript
4 14 (35.90%) C#
4 14 (35.90%) Agile
4 14 (35.90%) Power Platform
5 13 (33.33%) PowerApps
5 13 (33.33%) .NET
6 12 (30.77%) Microsoft
6 12 (30.77%) Social Skills
7 11 (28.21%) CI/CD
7 11 (28.21%) TDD
8 10 (25.64%) HTML
9 9 (23.08%) CSS
9 9 (23.08%) Power Automate
10 8 (20.51%) Continuous Delivery
10 8 (20.51%) Business Intelligence
10 8 (20.51%) Service Management
10 8 (20.51%) Service Delivery
10 8 (20.51%) Test Automation
10 8 (20.51%) DevOps
10 8 (20.51%) User Experience
10 8 (20.51%) Degree
10 8 (20.51%) Continuous Integration
11 7 (17.95%) Computer Science
11 7 (17.95%) Software Engineering
11 7 (17.95%) Google
11 7 (17.95%) AWS
11 7 (17.95%) Management Information System
11 7 (17.95%) Finance

Applications Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 7 (17.95%) SharePoint
2 2 (5.13%) Oracle Workflow
2 2 (5.13%) Tomcat
3 1 (2.56%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (5.13%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (2.56%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.56%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 18 (46.15%) Azure
2 14 (35.90%) Power Platform
3 13 (33.33%) PowerApps
4 9 (23.08%) Power Automate
5 7 (17.95%) AWS
5 7 (17.95%) GCP
6 6 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (10.26%) Azure Service Bus
7 4 (10.26%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (5.13%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (5.13%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (2.56%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.56%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.13%) Oracle Database
1 2 (5.13%) Oracle Database 10g
1 2 (5.13%) Oracle Database 11g
1 2 (5.13%) Oracle Reports
1 2 (5.13%) Power BI
2 1 (2.56%) Relational Database
2 1 (2.56%) SQLite
2 1 (2.56%) UniData
Development Applications
1 2 (5.13%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (2.56%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.56%) JIRA
2 1 (2.56%) Visual Studio
2 1 (2.56%) webpack
General
1 17 (43.59%) Public Sector
2 12 (30.77%) Social Skills
3 7 (17.95%) Finance
4 6 (15.38%) Electronics
4 6 (15.38%) Manufacturing
4 6 (15.38%) Marketing
4 6 (15.38%) Telecoms
5 2 (5.13%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.56%) Law
6 1 (2.56%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (33.33%) .NET
2 10 (25.64%) HTML
3 9 (23.08%) CSS
4 5 (12.82%) HTML5 Canvas
5 4 (10.26%) ASP.NET Web API
5 4 (10.26%) Microsoft Graph
6 2 (5.13%) Middleware
6 2 (5.13%) Oracle Fusion
6 2 (5.13%) REST
6 2 (5.13%) RESTful
7 1 (2.56%) CSS3
7 1 (2.56%) HTML5
7 1 (2.56%) JSON
7 1 (2.56%) Node.js
7 1 (2.56%) React
7 1 (2.56%) React Native
7 1 (2.56%) Redux
7 1 (2.56%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 7 (17.95%) Management Information System
2 6 (15.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (5.13%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.56%) Mainframe
4 1 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.56%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.69%) Linux
2 2 (5.13%) Android
2 2 (5.13%) Apple iOS
2 2 (5.13%) Solaris
2 2 (5.13%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (35.90%) Agile
2 11 (28.21%) CI/CD
2 11 (28.21%) TDD
3 8 (20.51%) Business Intelligence
3 8 (20.51%) Continuous Delivery
3 8 (20.51%) Continuous Integration
3 8 (20.51%) DevOps
3 8 (20.51%) Service Delivery
3 8 (20.51%) Service Management
3 8 (20.51%) Test Automation
3 8 (20.51%) User Experience
4 7 (17.95%) Computer Science
4 7 (17.95%) Software Delivery
4 7 (17.95%) Software Engineering
4 7 (17.95%) Web Development
5 6 (15.38%) Digital Marketing
5 6 (15.38%) Programme Management
5 6 (15.38%) Scrum
5 6 (15.38%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 4 (10.26%) Data Security
Programming Languages
1 15 (38.46%) JavaScript
2 14 (35.90%) C#
3 6 (15.38%) SQL
4 3 (7.69%) Java
5 2 (5.13%) PL/SQL
6 1 (2.56%) C++
6 1 (2.56%) COBOL
6 1 (2.56%) Kotlin
6 1 (2.56%) Python
6 1 (2.56%) Swift
6 1 (2.56%) TypeScript
6 1 (2.56%) UniBasic
Qualifications
1 8 (20.51%) Degree
2 7 (17.95%) Azure Certification
2 7 (17.95%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (10.26%) Security Cleared
4 3 (7.69%) DBS Check
4 3 (7.69%) SC Cleared
5 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (2.56%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (12.82%) QA
2 1 (2.56%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (2.56%) HMG Security Policy Framework
2 1 (2.56%) ISO 22301
2 1 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 1 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (2.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.56%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.56%) SCCM
Vendors
1 12 (30.77%) Microsoft
2 7 (17.95%) Google
3 6 (15.38%) SAP
4 2 (5.13%) Oracle
5 1 (2.56%) Xamarin