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 £415, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 29 May 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
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 291 318 355
Rank change year-on-year +27 +37 +32
Contract jobs requiring an Applications Engineer 44 79 78
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.34% 0.38% 0.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.37% 0.41% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 50 50
10th Percentile - £331 £324
25th Percentile £355 £375 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £538 £473
Median % change year-on-year -22.79% +13.76% +18.13%
75th Percentile £463 £675 £510
90th Percentile £573 £750 £675
UK median daily rate £414 £500 £600
% change year-on-year -17.20% -16.67% +41.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - £48.40
Median hourly rate £52.50 £35.65 £51.48
Median % change year-on-year +47.27% -30.75% -1.94%
75th Percentile £53.75 - £54.56
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £35.65 £54.56
% change year-on-year +47.27% -34.66% -3.00%

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 11,802 19,038 21,534
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.73% 92.39% 94.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,509 11,591 14,985
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -3.81% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 844 2,364 1,082
10th Percentile £13.76 £12.50 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.75 £17.81
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% -5.88% +112.50%
75th Percentile £62.24 £62.14 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.97 £37.18 £45.00
% change year-on-year -24.78% -17.38% +87.50%

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 29 May 2025.

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 29 May 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
North of England +27 22 £436 -20.73% 139
North West +25 22 £436 - 61
South West +47 10 £370 -7.50% 89
South East +21 4 £400 -31.03% 179
West Midlands +9 4 £650 +18.18% 77
Midlands +6 4 £650 +18.18% 143
Scotland -5 4 £483 -34.58% 37
Applications Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 29 May 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 UK excluding London region featuring Applications Engineer in the job title.

1 20 (45.45%) User Experience
2 14 (31.82%) Teamcenter
2 14 (31.82%) Security Cleared
2 14 (31.82%) Service Delivery
2 14 (31.82%) XML
3 13 (29.55%) SQL
3 13 (29.55%) CAD
3 13 (29.55%) Data Quality
3 13 (29.55%) Data Governance
3 13 (29.55%) PLM
3 13 (29.55%) Siemens NX
4 12 (27.27%) Social Skills
5 10 (22.73%) Incident Management
5 10 (22.73%) SC Cleared
5 10 (22.73%) Finance
6 9 (20.45%) C#
6 9 (20.45%) HTML
6 9 (20.45%) .NET
6 9 (20.45%) JavaScript
6 9 (20.45%) Root Cause Analysis
6 9 (20.45%) CI/CD
6 9 (20.45%) Public Sector
7 8 (18.18%) Azure
7 8 (18.18%) Unix
7 8 (18.18%) Manufacturing
7 8 (18.18%) Management Information System
7 8 (18.18%) Microsoft
8 7 (15.91%) Service Management
8 7 (15.91%) Bloomberg
8 7 (15.91%) Electronics

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 2 (4.55%) IIS
2 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.27%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.27%) Tomcat
Applications
1 13 (29.55%) Siemens NX
2 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 14 (31.82%) Teamcenter
2 7 (15.91%) Kondor
Cloud Services
1 8 (18.18%) Azure
2 7 (15.91%) AWS
2 7 (15.91%) GCP
3 2 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (4.55%) OpenShift
4 1 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.27%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (2.27%) Entra ID
4 1 (2.27%) IaaS
4 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (2.27%) PaaS
4 1 (2.27%) Power Platform
4 1 (2.27%) PowerApps
4 1 (2.27%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.27%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.55%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.27%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.27%) MS Access
2 1 (2.27%) MySQL
2 1 (2.27%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.27%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (4.55%) AdminStudio
1 2 (4.55%) Git
1 2 (4.55%) MSI
2 1 (2.27%) Bitbucket
2 1 (2.27%) JIRA
2 1 (2.27%) Visual Studio
General
1 12 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 10 (22.73%) Finance
3 9 (20.45%) Public Sector
4 8 (18.18%) Manufacturing
5 7 (15.91%) Electronics
5 7 (15.91%) Marketing
5 7 (15.91%) Telecoms
6 4 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (4.55%) Legal
8 1 (2.27%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (31.82%) XML
2 9 (20.45%) .NET
2 9 (20.45%) HTML
3 7 (15.91%) CSS
4 2 (4.55%) Middleware
5 1 (2.27%) Apache Axis
5 1 (2.27%) ARM Templates
5 1 (2.27%) ASP.NET
5 1 (2.27%) Loki
5 1 (2.27%) ODBC
Miscellaneous
1 8 (18.18%) Management Information System
2 7 (15.91%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 1 (2.27%) CCTV
3 1 (2.27%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (2.27%) Mainframe
3 1 (2.27%) Operational Technology
3 1 (2.27%) PKI
3 1 (2.27%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 8 (18.18%) Unix
2 5 (11.36%) Windows
3 3 (6.82%) Windows Server
4 2 (4.55%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (2.27%) Linux
5 1 (2.27%) Solaris
5 1 (2.27%) Windows 10
5 1 (2.27%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (45.45%) User Experience
2 14 (31.82%) Service Delivery
3 13 (29.55%) CAD
3 13 (29.55%) Data Governance
3 13 (29.55%) PLM
4 10 (22.73%) Incident Management
5 9 (20.45%) CI/CD
5 9 (20.45%) Root Cause Analysis
6 7 (15.91%) Cash Management
6 7 (15.91%) Computer Science
6 7 (15.91%) Continuous Delivery
6 7 (15.91%) Continuous Integration
6 7 (15.91%) Digital Marketing
6 7 (15.91%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (15.91%) Programme Management
6 7 (15.91%) Software Delivery
6 7 (15.91%) Software Engineering
6 7 (15.91%) TDD
6 7 (15.91%) Test Automation
6 7 (15.91%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 13 (29.55%) SQL
2 9 (20.45%) C#
2 9 (20.45%) JavaScript
3 5 (11.36%) PowerShell
4 3 (6.82%) Python
5 2 (4.55%) Java
6 1 (2.27%) Bash
6 1 (2.27%) COBOL
6 1 (2.27%) Ruby
6 1 (2.27%) VB
6 1 (2.27%) VB.NET
6 1 (2.27%) VB6
6 1 (2.27%) VBA
Qualifications
1 14 (31.82%) Security Cleared
2 10 (22.73%) SC Cleared
3 7 (15.91%) Azure Certification
3 7 (15.91%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (15.91%) Degree
4 4 (9.09%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.27%) CISSP
5 1 (2.27%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (2.27%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (29.55%) Data Quality
2 4 (9.09%) QA
3 1 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (6.82%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.55%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (2.27%) Docker
3 1 (2.27%) Hyper-V
3 1 (2.27%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 1 (2.27%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (6.82%) Kubernetes
1 3 (6.82%) Terraform
2 2 (4.55%) Ansible
2 2 (4.55%) SCCM
2 2 (4.55%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (4.55%) ThinApp
3 1 (2.27%) Grafana
3 1 (2.27%) Progress Chef
3 1 (2.27%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 7 (15.91%) Bloomberg
2 7 (15.91%) Google
2 7 (15.91%) Refinitiv
2 7 (15.91%) SAP
2 7 (15.91%) Sybase
3 2 (4.55%) Ivanti
3 2 (4.55%) Oracle
3 2 (4.55%) VMware
4 1 (2.27%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.27%) Splunk
4 1 (2.27%) Veritas