Application Rationalisation Contracts

Application Rationalisation
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Application Rationalisation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Application Rationalisation over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 581 701 809
Rank change year-on-year +120 +108 -143
Contract jobs citing Application Rationalisation 5 21 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.011% 0.035% 0.025%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.013% 0.039% 0.027%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 17 15
10th Percentile £540 £425 £460
25th Percentile £638 £525 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £600 £515
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% +16.50% -20.77%
75th Percentile £1,088 £725 £540
90th Percentile £1,260 £785 -
UK excluding London median daily rate - £850 £468
% change year-on-year - +81.82% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Application Rationalisation is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,653 53,977 80,244
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.28% 89.91% 90.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,313 37,392 56,301
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,429 1,779 1,937
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.54 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +50.00% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.98 £35.90 £20.00
% change year-on-year +0.21% +79.50% -8.09%

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Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Application Rationalisation in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Application Rationalisation in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Application Rationalisation over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Application Rationalisation in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Application Rationalisation.

Hourly rate trend for Application Rationalisation in the UK

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Top 4 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Application Rationalisation within the UK over the 6 months to 25 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
England +107 3 £800 +14.29% 3
London +94 3 £800 +18.52% 2
UK excluding London +70 2 - -
Scotland +26 2 - -

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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 (40.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (20.00%) IaaS
1 1 (20.00%) PaaS
1 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (20.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Power BI
1 1 (20.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
1 1 (20.00%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Billing
3 1 (20.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) Analyst
1 1 (20.00%) Architect
1 1 (20.00%) Deskside Support
1 1 (20.00%) Desktop Support
1 1 (20.00%) Developer
1 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Architect
1 1 (20.00%) Programme Director
1 1 (20.00%) Software Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (20.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
2 1 (20.00%) Linux
2 1 (20.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Asset Management
1 2 (40.00%) Compatibility Testing
1 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (40.00%) Portfolio Management
1 2 (40.00%) Software Asset Management
1 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (20.00%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Modelling
2 1 (20.00%) Budgeting and Forecasting
2 1 (20.00%) Business Case
2 1 (20.00%) Cost Management
2 1 (20.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (20.00%) Cost Transparency
2 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (20.00%) Expense Management
2 1 (20.00%) Financial Modelling
2 1 (20.00%) FinOps
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (20.00%) SDLC
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft