Applications Architect Contracts with Work from Home Options

Application Architect
UK > Work from Home

The median Application Architect daily rate in Work from Home is £575 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 May 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
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 333 430 528
Rank change year-on-year +97 +98 -88
Contract jobs requiring an Applications Architect 11 41 95
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.072% 0.16% 0.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.077% 0.17% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 23 68
10th Percentile £494 £531 £500
25th Percentile £506 £578 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £648 £623
Median % change year-on-year -11.20% +4.02% -0.40%
75th Percentile £638 £722 £700
90th Percentile - £738 £775
UK median daily rate £630 £675 £643
% change year-on-year -6.67% +5.06% +11.74%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 14,262 24,476 42,692
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.48% 95.36% 95.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,547 17,287 30,849
10th Percentile £325 £356 £356
25th Percentile £425 £443 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 576 563 608
10th Percentile £14.34 £18.50 £13.21
25th Percentile £23.32 £25.98 £18.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +40.00%
75th Percentile £63.00 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £36.42 £45.00 £23.14
% change year-on-year -19.07% +94.45% +2.04%

Applications Architect
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Applications Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Applications Architect trend for jobs with a WFH option

Applications Architect
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Applications Architect.

Applications Architect daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Applications Architect
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Applications Architect over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Applications Architect daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Applications Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 2 May 2024, Applications Architect 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Applications Architect in the job title.

1 6 (54.55%) Finance
2 5 (45.45%) CRM
2 5 (45.45%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (45.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 5 (45.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (27.27%) DevOps
3 3 (27.27%) PowerShell
3 3 (27.27%) Azure
3 3 (27.27%) SQL
4 2 (18.18%) .NET
4 2 (18.18%) Citrix
4 2 (18.18%) Microsoft App-V
4 2 (18.18%) Agile
4 2 (18.18%) Application Packaging
4 2 (18.18%) C#
4 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
4 2 (18.18%) Microservices
4 2 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (18.18%) Translating Business Requirements
5 1 (9.09%) SOLID
5 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
5 1 (9.09%) ARM Templates
5 1 (9.09%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (9.09%) Application Security
5 1 (9.09%) CI/CD
5 1 (9.09%) Azure API Management
5 1 (9.09%) Smoke Testing
5 1 (9.09%) Business Process Modelling
5 1 (9.09%) Break/Fix
5 1 (9.09%) Azure Data Factory

Applications Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Business Applications
1 5 (45.45%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 3 (27.27%) Azure
2 2 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (9.09%) Azure API Management
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Functions
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (9.09%) PaaS
3 1 (9.09%) SaaS
3 1 (9.09%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (9.09%) NoSQL
1 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
1 1 (9.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) MSI
1 1 (9.09%) Visual Studio
General
1 6 (54.55%) Finance
2 5 (45.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (9.09%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) .NET
2 1 (9.09%) ARM Templates
2 1 (9.09%) JSON
2 1 (9.09%) OAuth
2 1 (9.09%) OpenID
2 1 (9.09%) REST
2 1 (9.09%) SOAP
2 1 (9.09%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
1 1 (9.09%) Mainframe
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) CRM
1 5 (45.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 3 (27.27%) DevOps
3 2 (18.18%) Agile
3 2 (18.18%) Application Packaging
3 2 (18.18%) Microservices
3 2 (18.18%) Translating Business Requirements
4 1 (9.09%) B2C
4 1 (9.09%) Business Process Modelling
4 1 (9.09%) Change Management
4 1 (9.09%) Data Modelling
4 1 (9.09%) Data Protection
4 1 (9.09%) ETL
4 1 (9.09%) Incident Management
4 1 (9.09%) OO
4 1 (9.09%) Scrum
4 1 (9.09%) Security Testing
4 1 (9.09%) Smoke Testing
4 1 (9.09%) SOLID
4 1 (9.09%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) PowerShell
1 3 (27.27%) SQL
2 2 (18.18%) C#
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) QA
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft App-V
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Citrix
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft