Applications Engineer Contracts in the West Midlands

Applications Engineer
England > West Midlands

The median Applications Engineer daily rate in the West Midlands is £650 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 17 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
17 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 104 141 166
Rank change year-on-year +37 +25 -44
Contract jobs requiring an Applications Engineer 6 4 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.31% 0.16% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.34% 0.17% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 3
10th Percentile £538 £405 £485
25th Percentile £625 £432 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £479 £600
Median % change year-on-year +35.77% -20.21% -
75th Percentile £675 £510 £794
90th Percentile - - £895
England median daily rate £517 £600 £465
% change year-on-year -13.83% +29.03% -7.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands. 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 West Midlands with a recognized job title 1,753 2,306 3,529
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.21% 94.31% 96.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,185 1,594 2,594
10th Percentile £256 £250 £213
25th Percentile £363 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% +5.26% +18.75%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £700 £688 £672
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 136 69 85
10th Percentile £12.08 £12.50 £12.10
25th Percentile £15.00 £15.25 £13.75
Median hourly rate £22.00 £19.00 £17.28
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% +9.95% +4.73%
75th Percentile £40.81 £26.38 £20.00
90th Percentile £55.63 £53.50 £23.75
England median hourly rate £35.00 £43.00 £22.29
% change year-on-year -18.60% +92.95% -0.60%

Applications Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Applications Engineer in the West Midlands

Applications Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Applications Engineer in the West Midlands

Applications Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Applications Engineer in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 17 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Applications Engineer in the West Midlands

Applications Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Applications Engineer in the West Midlands

Applications Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 17 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
Coventry - 5 £650 - 1
Worcestershire - 1 £450 - 2
Applications Engineer
England

Applications Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 17 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 across the West Midlands region featuring Applications Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Windows
1 6 (100.00%) Finance
2 5 (83.33%) Infrastructure Management
2 5 (83.33%) OAuth2
2 5 (83.33%) Docker
2 5 (83.33%) AWS Certification
2 5 (83.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 5 (83.33%) Entra ID
2 5 (83.33%) Identity Access Management
2 5 (83.33%) Penetration Testing
2 5 (83.33%) Network Security
2 5 (83.33%) OAuth
2 5 (83.33%) Azure
2 5 (83.33%) AWS
2 5 (83.33%) Defensive Programming
2 5 (83.33%) CloudFront
2 5 (83.33%) VPN
2 5 (83.33%) DNS
2 5 (83.33%) Active Directory
2 5 (83.33%) SAML
2 5 (83.33%) Retail
2 5 (83.33%) Cloud Native
2 5 (83.33%) The Twelve-Factor App
2 5 (83.33%) Task Automation
2 5 (83.33%) DevSecOps
2 5 (83.33%) Application Security
2 5 (83.33%) CI/CD
2 5 (83.33%) Incident Response
2 5 (83.33%) Cloud Security
2 5 (83.33%) Data Security

Applications Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 1 (16.67%) IIS
1 1 (16.67%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) AWS
1 5 (83.33%) Azure
1 5 (83.33%) CloudFront
1 5 (83.33%) Entra ID
1 5 (83.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 1 (16.67%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (83.33%) DNS
1 5 (83.33%) Network Security
1 5 (83.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 6 (100.00%) Finance
2 5 (83.33%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (83.33%) OAuth
1 5 (83.33%) OAuth2
1 5 (83.33%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (83.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (16.67%) Windows Server
2 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Application Security
1 5 (83.33%) CI/CD
1 5 (83.33%) Cloud Security
1 5 (83.33%) Data Security
1 5 (83.33%) Defensive Programming
1 5 (83.33%) DevSecOps
1 5 (83.33%) Identity Access Management
1 5 (83.33%) Incident Response
1 5 (83.33%) Infrastructure Management
1 5 (83.33%) Penetration Testing
1 5 (83.33%) Task Automation
1 5 (83.33%) The Twelve-Factor App
2 1 (16.67%) Asset Management
2 1 (16.67%) Data Management
2 1 (16.67%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
1 1 (16.67%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) AWS Certification
System Software
1 5 (83.33%) Active Directory
1 5 (83.33%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft