Application Rationalisation Contracts

Application Rationalisation
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Application Rationalisation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Application Rationalisation over the 6 months leading up to 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 512 579 672
Rank change year-on-year +67 +93 +147
Contract jobs citing Application Rationalisation 6 4 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.021% 0.009% 0.041%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.023% 0.011% 0.046%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 19
10th Percentile - £508 £465
25th Percentile £425 £556 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £675 £650
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +3.85% +26.21%
75th Percentile £525 £756 £725
90th Percentile £600 £783 £755
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 - £850
% change year-on-year - - +81.82%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Application Rationalisation falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,410 36,868 52,242
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.96% 86.23% 89.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,944 23,721 36,208
10th Percentile £306 £300 £325
25th Percentile £410 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.62% -4.55% +3.77%
75th Percentile £626 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £479 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.20% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,076 2,429 1,718
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.13 £16.00 £16.22
Median hourly rate £28.17 £36.50 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.84% +1.39% +40.19%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.23 £38.12 £35.00
% change year-on-year -33.83% +8.91% +75.00%

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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 14 May 2025.

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 5 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 14 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 +66 5 £450 -33.33% 1
UK excluding London +50 3 £450 -
South East - 3 £450 -
Work from Home - 2 £588 - 4
London +52 1 £525 -22.22% 1

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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:

General
1 3 (50.00%) Automotive
2 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Applications Support
1 3 (50.00%) IT Support
2 1 (16.67%) Application Rationalisation Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) SAP Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Architect
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (50.00%) ITIL
1 3 (50.00%) Service Catalogue
1 3 (50.00%) Service Delivery
2 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 2 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
2 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (16.67%) Portfolio Management
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) SAP
2 3 (50.00%) Atlassian
2 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (50.00%) Salesforce
2 3 (50.00%) ServiceNow