Applications Engineer Contracts in Wiltshire

Applications Engineer
South West > Wiltshire

The median Applications Engineer daily rate in Wiltshire is £530, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 16 May 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 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 53 - 80
Rank change year-on-year - - -1
Contract jobs requiring an Applications Engineer 2 0 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wiltshire 0.46% - 0.56%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.52% - 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £430
25th Percentile £495 - £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 - £500
75th Percentile £565 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median daily rate £370 £400 £500
% change year-on-year -7.50% -20.00% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Wiltshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Wiltshire. 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 Wiltshire with a recognized job title 386 849 1,007
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 88.74% 90.22% 93.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 265 641 836
10th Percentile £258 £300 £356
25th Percentile £458 £460 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £553
Median % change year-on-year - -0.45% +5.24%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £669
90th Percentile £688 £725 £723
South West median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 23 13
10th Percentile £18.69 - £29.00
25th Percentile £18.87 £14.25 £60.00
Median hourly rate £22.01 £25.00 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.96% -61.83% +20.18%
75th Percentile £25.15 £74.00 £77.50
90th Percentile £42.58 - £85.50
South West median hourly rate £61.25 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +11.36% -15.38% +36.84%

Applications Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Wiltshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Applications Engineer in Wiltshire

Applications Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wiltshire

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

Daily rate trend for Applications Engineer in Wiltshire

Applications Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wiltshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Applications Engineer in Wiltshire

Applications Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire region over the 6 months to 16 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
Corsham - 1 £530 -
Applications Engineer
South West

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

For the 6 months to 16 May 2025, 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 Wiltshire region featuring Applications Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Windows 10
2 1 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) GitOps
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Solaris
2 1 (50.00%) Tomcat
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) Workflow
2 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) Military
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) PKI

Applications Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wiltshire 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 (50.00%) Tomcat
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
General
1 1 (50.00%) Military
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Solaris
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows 10
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2012
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) GitOps
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (50.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (50.00%) VMware