Appian Contracts

Appian
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Appian skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Appian over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 508 557 684
Rank change year-on-year +49 +127 +121
Contract jobs citing Appian 12 25 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.041% 0.057% 0.057%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.36% 0.60% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 17 29
10th Percentile £397 £415 £389
25th Percentile £475 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £498 £495
Median % change year-on-year +15.58% +0.51% -17.50%
75th Percentile £688 £534 £534
90th Percentile £875 £540 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £510 £450
% change year-on-year -1.96% +13.33% -48.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £66.63
25th Percentile - - £67.19
Median hourly rate - - £68.75
75th Percentile - - £69.69
90th Percentile - - £69.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £68.75

All Application Platform Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 3,315 4,173 6,554
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.32% 9.58% 10.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,210 2,865 4,602
10th Percentile £275 £250 £263
25th Percentile £400 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% -0.87%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £638
90th Percentile £713 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £454 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +0.78% -5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 161 147
10th Percentile £16.55 £13.00 £15.50
25th Percentile £22.00 £15.42 £18.50
Median hourly rate £41.00 £27.52 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +49.01% -31.21% +81.82%
75th Percentile £64.50 £46.18 £66.00
90th Percentile £76.00 £68.00 £78.48
UK excluding London median hourly rate £46.18 £23.75 £26.24
% change year-on-year +94.44% -9.49% +41.84%

Appian
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Appian as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Appian in the UK

Appian
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Appian.

Daily rate trend for Appian in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Appian over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Appian in the UK

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Top 11 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 1 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
England +47 11 £600 +15.38% 9
UK excluding London +59 7 £500 -1.96% 6
London +32 4 £750 +44.23% 3
Work from Home +35 3 £500 -4.31% 13
South East +44 2 - - 1
South West - 2 £500 - 2
North of England - 2 £496 - 2
Midlands +22 1 - - 1
North West - 1 £391 - 2
West Midlands - 1 - - 1
Yorkshire - 1 £600 -

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (16.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (8.33%) Azure
1 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) MySQL
1 1 (8.33%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) JIRA
1 1 (8.33%) Selenium
1 1 (8.33%) TestRail
General
1 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Banking
2 2 (16.67%) Telecoms
3 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (8.33%) German Language
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Appian Developer
1 5 (41.67%) Developer
2 2 (16.67%) Analyst
2 2 (16.67%) Lead
2 2 (16.67%) Product Owner
3 1 (8.33%) Appian Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Architect
3 1 (8.33%) BPM Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Lead Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Product Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Product Management Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Products Support Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (8.33%) SQL Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Support Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Test Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Tester
3 1 (8.33%) UAT Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) .NET
1 1 (8.33%) HTML
1 1 (8.33%) JSON
1 1 (8.33%) OAuth
1 1 (8.33%) REST
1 1 (8.33%) SAML
1 1 (8.33%) SOAP
1 1 (8.33%) Web Services
1 1 (8.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Low-Code
1 2 (16.67%) Product Ownership
2 1 (8.33%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) Agile
2 4 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (33.33%) SDLC
3 3 (25.00%) Decision-Making
3 3 (25.00%) Scrum
4 2 (16.67%) B2B
4 2 (16.67%) Backlog Prioritisation
4 2 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 2 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (16.67%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 2 (16.67%) Lean Six Sigma
4 2 (16.67%) Product Roadmap
4 2 (16.67%) Roadmaps
4 2 (16.67%) Six Sigma
4 2 (16.67%) Software Testing
4 2 (16.67%) Sprint Planning
4 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (16.67%) Thought Leadership
4 2 (16.67%) Use Case
4 2 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) Degree
1 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) ISTQB
2 1 (8.33%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Blue Prism
1 2 (16.67%) Cisco
1 2 (16.67%) Nokia
1 2 (16.67%) Rakuten
2 1 (8.33%) CA Agile Central
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) Oracle