Applications Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Applications Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Applications Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £565 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 334 358 429
Rank change year-on-year +24 +71 -49
Contract jobs requiring an Applications Engineer 71 94 100
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.34% 0.39% 0.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.37% 0.41% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 70 68
10th Percentile £363 £272 £297
25th Percentile £500 £377 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year +18.95% +11.76% -8.11%
75th Percentile £675 £546 £488
90th Percentile £750 £677 £541
UK median daily rate £521 £600 £463
% change year-on-year -13.17% +29.73% -2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 3
10th Percentile - £31.67 £18.48
25th Percentile - £42.43 £30.77
Median hourly rate £35.65 £48.40 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.34% -7.81% -
75th Percentile - £49.94 £59.38
90th Percentile - £52.71 £62.75
UK median hourly rate £35.65 £51.48 £56.25
% change year-on-year -30.75% -8.48% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 19,296 22,932 30,081
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.71% 94.05% 95.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,881 16,071 21,102
10th Percentile £213 £224 £200
25th Percentile £363 £388 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £598 £594 £573
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,186 1,194 1,502
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.02
25th Percentile £15.50 £18.10 £14.25
Median hourly rate £36.27 £42.26 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.17% +116.72% +2.63%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £41.38
90th Percentile £73.75 £74.85 £59.01
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £45.00 £22.88
% change year-on-year -22.22% +96.68% -0.52%

Applications Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Applications Engineer in the UK excluding London

Applications Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Applications Engineer in the UK excluding London

Applications Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Applications Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 18 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Applications Engineer in the UK excluding London

Applications Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Applications Engineer in the UK excluding London

Applications Engineer
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 Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 18 April 2024. 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 +21 29 £580 +12.62% 15
Scotland +41 13 £725 +79.01% 12
East of England +19 12 £500 +31.15% 14
South West +7 7 £425 -19.05% 19
Midlands +38 6 £650 +35.77% 23
West Midlands +36 6 £650 +35.77% 12
North of England +23 4 £550 +57.14% 16
North West +13 2 - - 7
Yorkshire +11 1 - - 6
North East - 1 £550 - 3
Applications Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 18 April 2024, 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 UK excluding London region featuring Applications Engineer in the job title.

1 22 (30.99%) Windows
2 20 (28.17%) Linux
3 19 (26.76%) Azure
4 18 (25.35%) Security Cleared
5 17 (23.94%) Active Directory
6 16 (22.54%) AWS
7 15 (21.13%) Migration
7 15 (21.13%) SQL
8 12 (16.90%) Social Skills
8 12 (16.90%) Windows Server
8 12 (16.90%) Application Packaging
9 11 (15.49%) Analytical Skills
10 10 (14.08%) Entra ID
10 10 (14.08%) Data Centre
10 10 (14.08%) JIRA
10 10 (14.08%) PowerShell
10 10 (14.08%) Atlassian
11 9 (12.68%) Confluence
11 9 (12.68%) Degree
11 9 (12.68%) Ubuntu
11 9 (12.68%) Finance
11 9 (12.68%) Problem-Solving
12 8 (11.27%) Infrastructure as Code
12 8 (11.27%) Public Sector
12 8 (11.27%) AWS CloudFormation
12 8 (11.27%) DV Cleared
12 8 (11.27%) Workflow
12 8 (11.27%) VMware
12 8 (11.27%) Service Management
12 8 (11.27%) ADO

Applications Engineer 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 9 (12.68%) Confluence
2 6 (8.45%) IIS
3 4 (5.63%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (4.23%) SharePoint
5 2 (2.82%) Exchange Server 2013
5 2 (2.82%) IBM Notes
5 2 (2.82%) nginx
5 2 (2.82%) SharePoint Server
5 2 (2.82%) Tomcat
6 1 (1.41%) SharePoint 2013
Business Applications
1 2 (2.82%) Teamcenter
2 1 (1.41%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 19 (26.76%) Azure
2 16 (22.54%) AWS
3 10 (14.08%) Entra ID
4 8 (11.27%) AWS CloudFormation
5 7 (9.86%) Power Platform
6 6 (8.45%) Dynamics 365
7 5 (7.04%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (7.04%) CloudFront
7 5 (7.04%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 3 (4.23%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (2.82%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (2.82%) PowerApps
10 1 (1.41%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.04%) DNS
1 5 (7.04%) Network Security
1 5 (7.04%) VPN
2 4 (5.63%) Firewall
3 2 (2.82%) Skype
4 1 (1.41%) HTTP
4 1 (1.41%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.04%) Power BI
2 4 (5.63%) Metadata
2 4 (5.63%) Oracle Database
3 3 (4.23%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (4.23%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.82%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.41%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.41%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.41%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (14.08%) JIRA
2 4 (5.63%) Oracle APEX
3 3 (4.23%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.82%) Git
5 1 (1.41%) GitLab
5 1 (1.41%) Gradle
5 1 (1.41%) Liquibase
5 1 (1.41%) Robot Framework
5 1 (1.41%) Selenium
5 1 (1.41%) SonarQube
5 1 (1.41%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (1.41%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 12 (16.90%) Social Skills
2 11 (15.49%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (12.68%) Finance
4 8 (11.27%) Public Sector
5 5 (7.04%) Retail
6 4 (5.63%) Automotive
6 4 (5.63%) Billing
7 2 (2.82%) Local Government
7 2 (2.82%) Military
8 1 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.41%) Law
8 1 (1.41%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (11.27%) ADO
1 8 (11.27%) Web Services
2 6 (8.45%) REST
3 5 (7.04%) .NET
3 5 (7.04%) Node.js
3 5 (7.04%) OAuth
3 5 (7.04%) OAuth2
3 5 (7.04%) SAML
4 4 (5.63%) React
4 4 (5.63%) React Native
5 1 (1.41%) Flask
5 1 (1.41%) jQuery
5 1 (1.41%) JSON
5 1 (1.41%) Keycloak
5 1 (1.41%) Pandas
5 1 (1.41%) RESTful
5 1 (1.41%) Spring
5 1 (1.41%) Spring Boot
5 1 (1.41%) SQLAlchemy
5 1 (1.41%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 10 (14.08%) Data Centre
2 5 (7.04%) Cloud Native
2 5 (7.04%) Linux Command Line
3 4 (5.63%) Client/Server
4 3 (4.23%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.82%) Driving Licence
5 2 (2.82%) PKI
6 1 (1.41%) CCTV
6 1 (1.41%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.41%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.41%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.41%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.41%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (1.41%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 22 (30.99%) Windows
2 20 (28.17%) Linux
3 12 (16.90%) Windows Server
4 9 (12.68%) Ubuntu
5 7 (9.86%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (5.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (5.63%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (2.82%) Solaris
7 2 (2.82%) VMS
7 2 (2.82%) Windows 10
8 1 (1.41%) Mac OS
8 1 (1.41%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (21.13%) Migration
2 12 (16.90%) Application Packaging
3 9 (12.68%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (11.27%) Infrastructure as Code
4 8 (11.27%) Service Management
4 8 (11.27%) Workflow
5 7 (9.86%) Analytics
5 7 (9.86%) CI/CD
5 7 (9.86%) Data Migration
5 7 (9.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 7 (9.86%) Kalman Filter
6 6 (8.45%) Application Security
6 6 (8.45%) DevOps
6 6 (8.45%) Identity Access Management
6 6 (8.45%) Project Management
7 5 (7.04%) Business Intelligence
7 5 (7.04%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (7.04%) Data Security
7 5 (7.04%) Defensive Programming
7 5 (7.04%) Infrastructure Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (21.13%) SQL
2 10 (14.08%) PowerShell
3 6 (8.45%) Python
4 4 (5.63%) JavaScript
4 4 (5.63%) PL/SQL
4 4 (5.63%) VBScript
5 1 (1.41%) Bash
5 1 (1.41%) C#
5 1 (1.41%) C++
5 1 (1.41%) Java
5 1 (1.41%) Perl
5 1 (1.41%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (25.35%) Security Cleared
2 9 (12.68%) Degree
3 8 (11.27%) DV Cleared
4 7 (9.86%) SC Cleared
5 5 (7.04%) AWS Certification
6 4 (5.63%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (2.82%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.82%) QA
2 1 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.41%) JSP 440
2 1 (1.41%) NCSC
2 1 (1.41%) SLA
System Software
1 17 (23.94%) Active Directory
2 7 (9.86%) Docker
2 7 (9.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (5.63%) Hyper-V
4 3 (4.23%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (2.82%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (7.04%) SCOM
1 5 (7.04%) Single Sign-On
2 4 (5.63%) SCCM
3 2 (2.82%) Terraform
4 1 (1.41%) Anchore
4 1 (1.41%) Ansible
4 1 (1.41%) Docker Swarm
4 1 (1.41%) Kibana
4 1 (1.41%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.41%) Packer
Vendors
1 10 (14.08%) Atlassian
2 8 (11.27%) VMware
3 7 (9.86%) Microsoft
4 6 (8.45%) Oracle
5 5 (7.04%) CA
6 2 (2.82%) Lotus
6 2 (2.82%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.41%) iManage
7 1 (1.41%) Intapp
7 1 (1.41%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.41%) Virgin Media