Applications Developer Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Application Developer
UK > Work from Home

The median Application Developer daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £484, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 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
1 May 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 286 314 341
Rank change year-on-year +28 +27 +139
Contract jobs requiring an Applications Developer 18 31 137
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.18% 0.20% 0.53%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.22% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 23 104
10th Percentile £425 £458 £373
25th Percentile £440 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.79% -13.64% +1.24%
75th Percentile £521 £699 £605
90th Percentile £614 £850 £668
UK median daily rate £453 £475 £550
% change year-on-year -4.63% -13.64% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £56.88 - £71.25
Median hourly rate £58.75 - £72.50
75th Percentile £60.63 - £73.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £24.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year +114.29% -45.56% +11.57%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 9,288 14,354 24,650
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.77% 93.54% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,350 9,595 17,415
10th Percentile £337 £325 £360
25th Percentile £414 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.69% +2.76%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 579 565
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £18.50
25th Percentile £18.19 £23.39 £26.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £44.74 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.06% -18.65% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.00 £63.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Applications Developer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Applications Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Applications Developer trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Applications Developer
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Applications Developer.

Applications Developer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Applications Developer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Applications Developer over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Applications Developer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Applications Developer
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Applications Developer.

Applications Developer hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Applications Developer 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 Developer in the job title.

1 6 (33.33%) Azure
2 5 (27.78%) Power Platform
2 5 (27.78%) PowerApps
3 4 (22.22%) CI/CD
3 4 (22.22%) Power Automate
3 4 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (22.22%) React
3 4 (22.22%) Microsoft
3 4 (22.22%) SharePoint
3 4 (22.22%) Agile
4 3 (16.67%) Finance
4 3 (16.67%) AWS
4 3 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (16.67%) Continuous Delivery
4 3 (16.67%) DevOps
4 3 (16.67%) User Experience
4 3 (16.67%) Clean Code
5 2 (11.11%) Public Sector
5 2 (11.11%) Vue
5 2 (11.11%) Deployment Automation
5 2 (11.11%) Sprint Planning
5 2 (11.11%) TypeScript
5 2 (11.11%) iOS Development
5 2 (11.11%) Translating Business Requirements
5 2 (11.11%) Derivative
5 2 (11.11%) Equity Derivative
5 2 (11.11%) Security Cleared
5 2 (11.11%) PowerShell
5 2 (11.11%) Test Automation
5 2 (11.11%) Apple iOS

Applications Developer 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (22.22%) SharePoint
2 1 (5.56%) ArcGIS
2 1 (5.56%) CMS
2 1 (5.56%) Headless CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 6 (33.33%) Azure
2 5 (27.78%) Power Platform
2 5 (27.78%) PowerApps
3 4 (22.22%) Power Automate
4 3 (16.67%) AWS
5 1 (5.56%) Apple Pay
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Stack
5 1 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (5.56%) Tricentis Tosca
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (5.56%) MariaDB
1 1 (5.56%) MySQL
1 1 (5.56%) UniData
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Git
1 1 (5.56%) Jenkins
1 1 (5.56%) webpack
General
1 3 (16.67%) Finance
2 2 (11.11%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Legal
3 1 (5.56%) Local Government
3 1 (5.56%) Retail
3 1 (5.56%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (22.22%) React
2 2 (11.11%) AngularJS
2 2 (11.11%) Node.js
2 2 (11.11%) Vue
3 1 (5.56%) .NET
3 1 (5.56%) AVFoundation
3 1 (5.56%) CSS
3 1 (5.56%) CSS3
3 1 (5.56%) FastAPI
3 1 (5.56%) HTML
3 1 (5.56%) HTML5
3 1 (5.56%) HTML5 Canvas
3 1 (5.56%) iOS SDK
3 1 (5.56%) Next.js
3 1 (5.56%) OpenID
3 1 (5.56%) React Native
3 1 (5.56%) Redux
3 1 (5.56%) RESTful
3 1 (5.56%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) Derivative
1 2 (11.11%) Equities
1 2 (11.11%) Equity Derivative
2 1 (5.56%) EMV
2 1 (5.56%) Mobile App
2 1 (5.56%) Mobile Payment
2 1 (5.56%) Onboarding
2 1 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (5.56%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.11%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (22.22%) Agile
1 4 (22.22%) CI/CD
1 4 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (16.67%) Clean Code
2 3 (16.67%) Continuous Delivery
2 3 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
2 3 (16.67%) DevOps
2 3 (16.67%) User Experience
3 2 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (11.11%) Deployment Automation
3 2 (11.11%) iOS Development
3 2 (11.11%) Sprint Planning
3 2 (11.11%) Test Automation
3 2 (11.11%) Translating Business Requirements
4 1 (5.56%) BDD
4 1 (5.56%) Data Governance
4 1 (5.56%) Data Protection
4 1 (5.56%) TDD
4 1 (5.56%) Technical Architecture
4 1 (5.56%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.11%) JavaScript
1 2 (11.11%) PowerShell
1 2 (11.11%) Python
1 2 (11.11%) TypeScript
2 1 (5.56%) Bash
2 1 (5.56%) C#
2 1 (5.56%) Java
2 1 (5.56%) Shell Script
2 1 (5.56%) SQL
2 1 (5.56%) UniBasic
Qualifications
1 2 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) QA
2 1 (5.56%) Accessibility
2 1 (5.56%) PCI DSS
2 1 (5.56%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) Kubernetes
1 1 (5.56%) MIIS
Vendors
1 4 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.56%) Apple
2 1 (5.56%) ESRI
2 1 (5.56%) Oracle
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