Applications Specialist Contracts in the UK excluding London

Application Specialist
UK > UK excluding London

The median Application Specialist daily rate in the UK excluding London is £415, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 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
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 326 394 438
Rank change year-on-year +68 +44 +49
Contract jobs requiring an Applications Specialist 13 5 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.10% 0.024% 0.038%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.026% 0.040%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 4
10th Percentile £356 - £419
25th Percentile £378 - £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £500 £494
Median % change year-on-year -17.00% +1.27% +9.72%
75th Percentile £455 - £548
90th Percentile £511 - £602
UK median daily rate £460 £506 £500
% change year-on-year -9.14% +1.25% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £21.20 £58.75 -
Median hourly rate £21.40 £59.50 £5.00
Median % change year-on-year -64.03% +1090.00% -
75th Percentile £21.60 £60.25 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £21.40 £59.50 £13.50
% change year-on-year -64.03% +340.74% -

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 11,790 19,217 22,597
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.17% 92.60% 94.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,554 11,733 15,842
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.55% -1.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £599 £598
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 829 2,245 1,162
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.79 £15.75 £18.08
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.50 £42.43
Median % change year-on-year -29.11% -6.91% +117.60%
75th Percentile £64.52 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.02 £45.00
% change year-on-year -19.49% -19.95% +91.49%

Applications Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Applications Specialist in the UK excluding London

Applications Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Applications Specialist in the UK excluding London

Applications Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Applications Specialist in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Applications Specialist in the UK excluding London

Applications Specialist
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Applications Specialist in the UK excluding London

Applications Specialist
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 Specialist within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 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 - 4 £381 - 17
Scotland - 4 £428 - 3
South East +45 3 - - 18
North West - 3 £363 - 5
South West +43 1 £575 - 3
Yorkshire - 1 £400 - 11
East of England - 1 - - 10
Applications Specialist
UK

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

For the 6 months to 2 May 2025, Applications Specialist 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 Specialist in the job title.

1 5 (38.46%) VMware
1 5 (38.46%) Linux
2 4 (30.77%) Unix
2 4 (30.77%) Python
2 4 (30.77%) Veritas
2 4 (30.77%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 4 (30.77%) Splunk
2 4 (30.77%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (30.77%) Ansible
2 4 (30.77%) Loki
2 4 (30.77%) Terraform
2 4 (30.77%) Grafana
2 4 (30.77%) Prometheus
2 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
3 3 (23.08%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 3 (23.08%) Shell Script
3 3 (23.08%) Windows
4 2 (15.38%) Finance
4 2 (15.38%) ITIL
4 2 (15.38%) SQL
4 2 (15.38%) Git
4 2 (15.38%) Relational Database
4 2 (15.38%) Bitbucket
4 2 (15.38%) OpenShift
4 2 (15.38%) Data Quality
4 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
4 2 (15.38%) Kubernetes
5 1 (7.69%) Garbage Collection
5 1 (7.69%) DBS Check
5 1 (7.69%) Windows Server 2016

Applications Specialist 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 1 (7.69%) Apache
1 1 (7.69%) IIS
1 1 (7.69%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (15.38%) OpenShift
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (7.69%) Power Automate
2 1 (7.69%) Power Platform
2 1 (7.69%) PowerApps
2 1 (7.69%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) Relational Database
2 1 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (7.69%) RDBMS
2 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Bitbucket
1 2 (15.38%) Git
2 1 (7.69%) Hudson
General
1 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Finance
2 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
3 1 (7.69%) Banking
3 1 (7.69%) Digital Health
3 1 (7.69%) Investment Banking
3 1 (7.69%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (30.77%) Loki
2 1 (7.69%) LDAP
2 1 (7.69%) Middleware
2 1 (7.69%) SOAP
2 1 (7.69%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 5 (38.46%) Linux
2 4 (30.77%) Unix
3 3 (23.08%) Windows
4 1 (7.69%) Oracle Linux
4 1 (7.69%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (7.69%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (23.08%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 2 (15.38%) ITIL
3 1 (7.69%) Agile
3 1 (7.69%) Change Management
3 1 (7.69%) Configuration Management
3 1 (7.69%) Data Management
3 1 (7.69%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (7.69%) Garbage Collection
3 1 (7.69%) High Availability
3 1 (7.69%) Investment Management
3 1 (7.69%) JVM Tuning
3 1 (7.69%) Migration
3 1 (7.69%) Problem Management
3 1 (7.69%) Regression Testing
3 1 (7.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (7.69%) Test Scripting
3 1 (7.69%) UML
3 1 (7.69%) Use Case
3 1 (7.69%) Wealth Management
3 1 (7.69%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 4 (30.77%) Python
2 3 (23.08%) Shell Script
3 2 (15.38%) SQL
4 1 (7.69%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) DBS Check
1 1 (7.69%) DV Cleared
1 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
1 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (30.77%) Veritas Cluster Server
1 4 (30.77%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (7.69%) Active Directory
2 1 (7.69%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 1 (7.69%) Docker
2 1 (7.69%) Hyper-V
2 1 (7.69%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (30.77%) Ansible
1 4 (30.77%) Grafana
1 4 (30.77%) Prometheus
1 4 (30.77%) Terraform
2 2 (15.38%) Kubernetes
3 1 (7.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) VMware
2 4 (30.77%) Splunk
2 4 (30.77%) Veritas
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.69%) Oracle