Applications Engineer Contracts

Applications Engineer
UK

The median Applications Engineer daily rate in the UK is £517 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 452 463 625
Rank change year-on-year +11 +162 -49
Contract jobs requiring an Applications Engineer 146 265 227
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.34% 0.44% 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.36% 0.47% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 217 154
10th Percentile £338 £358 £283
25th Percentile £388 £463 £341
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £600 £452
Median % change year-on-year -13.83% +32.74% -4.84%
75th Percentile £625 £700 £589
90th Percentile £738 £823 £663
UK excluding London median daily rate £565 £470 £425
% change year-on-year +20.26% +10.54% -5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 4
10th Percentile - - £22.58
25th Percentile - £48.40 £41.01
Median hourly rate £35.65 £54.56 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year -34.66% -3.00% -
75th Percentile - £73.75 £61.25
90th Percentile - £75.10 £63.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.65 £48.40 £52.50
% change year-on-year -26.34% -7.81% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 40,172 56,583 84,829
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.61% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,161 39,538 59,512
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.93% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,642 1,585 2,099
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.27 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.50 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.83 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.38% +95.65% -
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -11.76% +117.95% +2.55%

Applications Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Applications Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Applications Engineer in the UK

Applications Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Applications Engineer in the UK

Applications Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Applications Engineer over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Applications Engineer in the UK

Applications Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Applications Engineer.

Hourly rate trend for Applications Engineer in the UK

Applications Engineer
Top 14 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 27 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 +5 111 £500 -16.67% 149
UK excluding London +52 71 £565 +20.26% 128
London -14 54 £509 -18.64% 35
Work from Home +62 49 £501 -23.00% 64
South East +22 26 £580 +16.00% 25
Scotland +39 16 £725 +79.01% 13
East of England +22 13 £500 +42.86% 18
West Midlands +32 6 £650 +42.86% 17
Midlands +24 6 £650 +42.86% 27
South West +12 6 £400 -20.00% 21
North of England +24 4 £550 +33.33% 24
North West +8 2 - - 12
Yorkshire +18 1 - - 9
North East - 1 £550 - 3

Applications Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, 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 featuring Applications Engineer in the job title.

1 49 (33.56%) Windows
2 45 (30.82%) SQL
3 42 (28.77%) Linux
4 38 (26.03%) Migration
5 35 (23.97%) Azure
6 30 (20.55%) Security Cleared
6 30 (20.55%) Data Centre
7 27 (18.49%) JIRA
8 25 (17.12%) Active Directory
9 24 (16.44%) Python
10 22 (15.07%) PowerShell
10 22 (15.07%) Atlassian
11 21 (14.38%) Windows Server
11 21 (14.38%) SC Cleared
11 21 (14.38%) AWS
12 20 (13.70%) Confluence
12 20 (13.70%) Service Management
12 20 (13.70%) Social Skills
13 19 (13.01%) Application Security
13 19 (13.01%) Workflow
13 19 (13.01%) Finance
13 19 (13.01%) Microsoft
14 16 (10.96%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 16 (10.96%) Analytics
14 16 (10.96%) Data Migration
15 15 (10.27%) Application Packaging
15 15 (10.27%) Kalman Filter
16 14 (9.59%) Analytical Skills
16 14 (9.59%) Entra ID
16 14 (9.59%) Problem-Solving

Applications Engineer Skill Set
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 20 (13.70%) Confluence
2 7 (4.79%) IIS
3 4 (2.74%) Tomcat
4 3 (2.05%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (1.37%) IBM Notes
5 2 (1.37%) JBoss
6 1 (0.68%) Apache
6 1 (0.68%) nginx
6 1 (0.68%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.68%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.68%) SharePoint 2013
6 1 (0.68%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (2.05%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 11 (7.53%) Elite 3E
2 2 (1.37%) Global One
2 2 (1.37%) Teamcenter
3 1 (0.68%) Eikon
3 1 (0.68%) Endur
3 1 (0.68%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.68%) Temenos T24
3 1 (0.68%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 35 (23.97%) Azure
2 21 (14.38%) AWS
3 14 (9.59%) Entra ID
4 10 (6.85%) Power Platform
5 8 (5.48%) AWS CloudFormation
5 8 (5.48%) Dynamics 365
6 5 (3.42%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (3.42%) CloudFront
6 5 (3.42%) GitHub
6 5 (3.42%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (3.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 4 (2.74%) PowerApps
7 4 (2.74%) Slack
7 4 (2.74%) WhatsApp
8 2 (1.37%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (0.68%) Azure Storage
9 1 (0.68%) IaaS
9 1 (0.68%) PaaS
9 1 (0.68%) SaaS
9 1 (0.68%) Workato
Communications & Networking
1 14 (9.59%) Firewall
2 6 (4.11%) DNS
3 5 (3.42%) Network Security
3 5 (3.42%) VPN
4 2 (1.37%) HTTP
5 1 (0.68%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.68%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (0.68%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.68%) SSL
5 1 (0.68%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (9.59%) SQL Server
2 8 (5.48%) Metadata
2 8 (5.48%) Power BI
3 6 (4.11%) MySQL
3 6 (4.11%) Relational Database
4 5 (3.42%) Oracle Database
5 3 (2.05%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (2.05%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.37%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (1.37%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.37%) Sybase ASE
7 1 (0.68%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.68%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.68%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 27 (18.49%) JIRA
2 4 (2.74%) Browser DevTools
2 4 (2.74%) Burp Suite
2 4 (2.74%) Git
2 4 (2.74%) Jenkins
2 4 (2.74%) Oracle APEX
3 1 (0.68%) GitLab
3 1 (0.68%) Gradle
3 1 (0.68%) Liquibase
3 1 (0.68%) Robot Framework
3 1 (0.68%) Selenium
3 1 (0.68%) SonarQube
3 1 (0.68%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.68%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (0.68%) TeamCity
General
1 20 (13.70%) Social Skills
2 19 (13.01%) Finance
3 14 (9.59%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (8.90%) Public Sector
5 5 (3.42%) Retail
6 4 (2.74%) Automotive
6 4 (2.74%) Billing
7 3 (2.05%) Military
7 3 (2.05%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.37%) Legal
8 2 (1.37%) Local Government
8 2 (1.37%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.68%) Back Office
9 1 (0.68%) Dutch Language
9 1 (0.68%) Games
9 1 (0.68%) Law
9 1 (0.68%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (9.59%) Web Services
2 13 (8.90%) .NET
3 11 (7.53%) REST
4 8 (5.48%) ADO
5 5 (3.42%) FIX Protocol
5 5 (3.42%) Node.js
5 5 (3.42%) OAuth
5 5 (3.42%) OAuth2
5 5 (3.42%) SAML
6 4 (2.74%) CSS
6 4 (2.74%) HTML
6 4 (2.74%) HTML5
6 4 (2.74%) React
6 4 (2.74%) React Native
7 3 (2.05%) RESTful
8 2 (1.37%) .NET Framework
8 2 (1.37%) ActiveX
8 2 (1.37%) ASP.NET
8 2 (1.37%) JSON
8 2 (1.37%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 30 (20.55%) Data Centre
2 11 (7.53%) Linux Command Line
2 11 (7.53%) Replication
3 5 (3.42%) Client/Server
3 5 (3.42%) Cloud Native
4 4 (2.74%) Security Posture
5 3 (2.05%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.05%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.37%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.37%) Driving Licence
6 2 (1.37%) Hedge funds
6 2 (1.37%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (1.37%) Operational Technology
7 1 (0.68%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.68%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.68%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (0.68%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.68%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.68%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.68%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 49 (33.56%) Windows
2 42 (28.77%) Linux
3 21 (14.38%) Windows Server
4 9 (6.16%) Ubuntu
4 9 (6.16%) Windows Server 2016
5 7 (4.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (3.42%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (2.74%) CentOS
8 3 (2.05%) Unix
8 3 (2.05%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (1.37%) Android
9 2 (1.37%) Apple iOS
9 2 (1.37%) VMS
10 1 (0.68%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.68%) Solaris
10 1 (0.68%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.68%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (26.03%) Migration
2 20 (13.70%) Service Management
3 19 (13.01%) Application Security
3 19 (13.01%) Workflow
4 16 (10.96%) Analytics
4 16 (10.96%) Data Migration
4 16 (10.96%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 15 (10.27%) Application Packaging
5 15 (10.27%) Kalman Filter
6 14 (9.59%) CI/CD
6 14 (9.59%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (8.22%) DevOps
8 11 (7.53%) ETL
8 11 (7.53%) High Availability
8 11 (7.53%) Performance Metrics
8 11 (7.53%) Release Management
9 10 (6.85%) Project Management
10 9 (6.16%) Infrastructure as Code
10 9 (6.16%) Software Engineering
11 8 (5.48%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 45 (30.82%) SQL
2 24 (16.44%) Python
3 22 (15.07%) PowerShell
4 8 (5.48%) C#
4 8 (5.48%) JavaScript
4 8 (5.48%) Shell Script
5 6 (4.11%) Bash
6 5 (3.42%) Go
6 5 (3.42%) Java
6 5 (3.42%) Perl
6 5 (3.42%) T-SQL
7 4 (2.74%) PHP
7 4 (2.74%) PL/SQL
7 4 (2.74%) VBScript
8 3 (2.05%) C++
9 2 (1.37%) F#
9 2 (1.37%) Korn
9 2 (1.37%) VB
9 2 (1.37%) VBA
Qualifications
1 30 (20.55%) Security Cleared
2 21 (14.38%) SC Cleared
3 13 (8.90%) Degree
4 11 (7.53%) DV Cleared
5 7 (4.79%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (3.42%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.37%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.68%) CCNP
8 1 (0.68%) CEH
8 1 (0.68%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.68%) CISSP
8 1 (0.68%) CTC Cleared
8 1 (0.68%) GCIA
8 1 (0.68%) GCIH
8 1 (0.68%) GIAC
8 1 (0.68%) GSEC
8 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.42%) QA
2 2 (1.37%) SLA
3 1 (0.68%) GDPR
3 1 (0.68%) HIPAA
3 1 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.68%) JSP 440
3 1 (0.68%) NCSC
3 1 (0.68%) SOC 2
System Software
1 25 (17.12%) Active Directory
2 7 (4.79%) Docker
3 5 (3.42%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (2.74%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.68%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (0.68%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.68%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 8 (5.48%) Single Sign-On
2 5 (3.42%) Grafana
2 5 (3.42%) SCCM
2 5 (3.42%) SCOM
3 4 (2.74%) Ansible
3 4 (2.74%) ITRS Geneos
4 2 (1.37%) Control-M
4 2 (1.37%) Puppet
4 2 (1.37%) Terraform
5 1 (0.68%) Anchore
5 1 (0.68%) Consul
5 1 (0.68%) Docker Swarm
5 1 (0.68%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (0.68%) Kibana
5 1 (0.68%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.68%) Packer
5 1 (0.68%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.68%) WSUS
Vendors
1 22 (15.07%) Atlassian
2 19 (13.01%) Microsoft
3 9 (6.16%) Red Hat
4 8 (5.48%) Bloomberg
4 8 (5.48%) CA
4 8 (5.48%) Oracle
5 6 (4.11%) Refinitiv
6 5 (3.42%) Dynatrace
6 5 (3.42%) IBM
6 5 (3.42%) VMware
7 4 (2.74%) Intapp
7 4 (2.74%) Splunk
7 4 (2.74%) Sybase
8 2 (1.37%) Checkmarx
8 2 (1.37%) Lotus
8 2 (1.37%) Qualys
8 2 (1.37%) Rapid7
8 2 (1.37%) Reuters
8 2 (1.37%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.37%) Veracode