Applications Manager Contracts

Application Manager
UK

The median Application Manager daily rate in the UK is £538, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 16 August 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
16 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 522 520 567
Rank change year-on-year -2 +47 +132
Contract jobs requiring an Applications Manager 29 49 93
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.088% 0.13% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.096% 0.14% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 39 68
10th Percentile £403 £398 £440
25th Percentile £500 £491 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £556
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% +3.37% +4.85%
75th Percentile £700 £650 £638
90th Percentile £765 £800 £770
UK excluding London median daily rate £625 £600 £575
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% +19.79%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 30,252 36,027 49,108
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.30% 92.91% 94.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,090 23,211 33,915
10th Percentile £281 £300 £305
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.69% -1.11%
75th Percentile £621 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,545 2,018 1,468
10th Percentile £13.60 £14.23 £14.47
25th Percentile £17.25 £20.12 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% +2.38% +63.55%
75th Percentile £53.86 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £45.00 £37.00
% change year-on-year -44.11% +21.62% +72.98%

Applications Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Applications Manager in the UK

Applications Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Applications Manager in the UK

Applications Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Applications Manager over the 6 months to 16 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Applications Manager in the UK

Applications Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Applications Manager in the UK

Applications Manager
Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Applications Manager within the UK over the 6 months to 16 August 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 -12 24 £573 -0.43% 52
UK excluding London -6 13 £625 +4.17% 33
London +6 11 £525 -7.89% 26
Work from Home +19 9 £460 -16.36% 27
Midlands -10 6 £700 +3.70% 3
West Midlands -6 5 £700 +3.70% 3
South East +22 4 £650 +4.00% 12
North of England -16 2 £536 -6.74% 13
Yorkshire -14 1 £573 -0.43% 2
East Midlands - 1 £575 -
North West - 1 £500 - 10
Northern Ireland - 1 £425 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 16 August 2025, Applications Manager 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 Manager in the job title.

1 11 (37.93%) Finance
2 10 (34.48%) Agile
2 10 (34.48%) Azure
2 10 (34.48%) Social Skills
3 8 (27.59%) Project Management
4 7 (24.14%) Stakeholder Management
4 7 (24.14%) DevOps
5 6 (20.69%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (17.24%) Migration
6 5 (17.24%) Microsoft
6 5 (17.24%) SharePoint
6 5 (17.24%) SQL
6 5 (17.24%) Banking
7 4 (13.79%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (13.79%) Onboarding
7 4 (13.79%) JIRA
7 4 (13.79%) Mobile App
7 4 (13.79%) Windows
7 4 (13.79%) Active Directory
8 3 (10.34%) Scrum
8 3 (10.34%) Service Management
8 3 (10.34%) Identity Management
8 3 (10.34%) CRM
8 3 (10.34%) Legal
8 3 (10.34%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (10.34%) PMP
8 3 (10.34%) PMI Certification
8 3 (10.34%) SAP
8 3 (10.34%) ITIL
8 3 (10.34%) PRINCE2

Applications Manager 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 5 (17.24%) SharePoint
2 3 (10.34%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (6.90%) Confluence
4 1 (3.45%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.45%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (3.45%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 10 (34.48%) Azure
2 4 (13.79%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (10.34%) Asana
3 3 (10.34%) AWS
3 3 (10.34%) Entra ID
3 3 (10.34%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (10.34%) OneDrive
3 3 (10.34%) SaaS
3 3 (10.34%) Slack
4 2 (6.90%) Oracle CX
5 1 (3.45%) Dynamics 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.90%) DTS
1 2 (6.90%) NoSQL
2 1 (3.45%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (3.45%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (3.45%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (13.79%) JIRA
General
1 11 (37.93%) Finance
2 10 (34.48%) Social Skills
3 5 (17.24%) Banking
4 3 (10.34%) Legal
4 3 (10.34%) Retail
4 3 (10.34%) Retail Banking
5 2 (6.90%) Corporate Banking
5 2 (6.90%) Private Banking
6 1 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (3.45%) Automotive
6 1 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (3.45%) Investment Banking
6 1 (3.45%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.90%) .NET
2 1 (3.45%) CSS
2 1 (3.45%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.79%) Mobile App
1 4 (13.79%) Onboarding
2 3 (10.34%) Mobile Banking
3 2 (6.90%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.45%) Low-Code
4 1 (3.45%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 4 (13.79%) Windows
2 3 (10.34%) Android
2 3 (10.34%) Apple iOS
3 1 (3.45%) Linux
3 1 (3.45%) Unix
3 1 (3.45%) Windows 10
3 1 (3.45%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (34.48%) Agile
2 8 (27.59%) Project Management
3 7 (24.14%) DevOps
3 7 (24.14%) Stakeholder Management
4 6 (20.69%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (17.24%) Migration
6 3 (10.34%) Artificial Intelligence
6 3 (10.34%) Asset Management
6 3 (10.34%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (10.34%) CRM
6 3 (10.34%) Identity Management
6 3 (10.34%) ITIL
6 3 (10.34%) Multi-Factor Authentication
6 3 (10.34%) PRINCE2
6 3 (10.34%) Project Delivery
6 3 (10.34%) Project Governance
6 3 (10.34%) Release Management
6 3 (10.34%) Scrum
6 3 (10.34%) Service Management
6 3 (10.34%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 5 (17.24%) SQL
2 2 (6.90%) JavaScript
3 1 (3.45%) C#
3 1 (3.45%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (10.34%) DV Cleared
1 3 (10.34%) PMI Certification
1 3 (10.34%) PMP
1 3 (10.34%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.45%) CISM
2 1 (3.45%) CISSP
2 1 (3.45%) CRISC
2 1 (3.45%) Degree
2 1 (3.45%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.90%) GDPR
1 2 (6.90%) QA
2 1 (3.45%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.45%) NIST
2 1 (3.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (13.79%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (10.34%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (6.90%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.45%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (17.24%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.34%) Oracle
2 3 (10.34%) SAP
3 2 (6.90%) Ariba
4 1 (3.45%) MuleSoft
4 1 (3.45%) Planview
4 1 (3.45%) Salesforce