Applications Engineer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Applications Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Applications Engineer daily rate in Work from Home is £501 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 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
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 297 352 508
Rank change year-on-year +55 +156 -72
Contract jobs requiring an Applications Engineer 49 120 115
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.32% 0.46% 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.34% 0.49% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 103 86
10th Percentile £407 £406 £288
25th Percentile £474 £500 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £650 £389
Median % change year-on-year -23.00% +66.99% -16.29%
75th Percentile £675 £823 £500
90th Percentile £691 £835 £619
UK median daily rate £517 £600 £450
% change year-on-year -13.83% +33.33% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 2
10th Percentile - £52.97 £52.63
25th Percentile - £59.83 £54.69
Median hourly rate - £72.50 £58.75
Median % change year-on-year - +23.40% -
75th Percentile - £74.88 £62.19
90th Percentile - £75.55 £63.88
UK median hourly rate £35.65 £54.56 £56.25
% change year-on-year -34.66% -3.00% -

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 14,287 24,650 42,700
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.51% 95.33% 95.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,551 17,415 30,835
10th Percentile £325 £360 £356
25th Percentile £425 £444 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.69% +2.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £748 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 568 564 611
10th Percentile £14.27 £18.50 £13.12
25th Percentile £22.84 £26.19 £18.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +40.00%
75th Percentile £62.50 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £23.03
% change year-on-year -20.10% +95.42% +0.12%

Applications Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Applications Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Applications Engineer
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 Engineer.

Applications Engineer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Applications Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Applications Engineer over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Applications Engineer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Applications Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Applications Engineer hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 28 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Applications Engineer in the job title.

1 25 (51.02%) Windows
2 18 (36.73%) SQL
2 18 (36.73%) Azure
3 17 (34.69%) Linux
4 16 (32.65%) AWS
4 16 (32.65%) Data Centre
5 14 (28.57%) Active Directory
5 14 (28.57%) Migration
6 11 (22.45%) High Availability
6 11 (22.45%) Application Packaging
6 11 (22.45%) Replication
6 11 (22.45%) ETL
6 11 (22.45%) Elite 3E
7 9 (18.37%) CI/CD
7 9 (18.37%) Infrastructure as Code
7 9 (18.37%) Finance
8 8 (16.33%) ADO
8 8 (16.33%) Ubuntu
8 8 (16.33%) Application Security
8 8 (16.33%) AWS CloudFormation
9 7 (14.29%) JIRA
9 7 (14.29%) Atlassian
9 7 (14.29%) Microsoft
10 6 (12.24%) Python
10 6 (12.24%) SQL Server
10 6 (12.24%) SC Cleared
10 6 (12.24%) Security Cleared
10 6 (12.24%) Workflow
10 6 (12.24%) Confluence
10 6 (12.24%) Entra ID

Applications Engineer 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 6 (12.24%) Confluence
2 1 (2.04%) JBoss
2 1 (2.04%) Red Hat Fuse
2 1 (2.04%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 11 (22.45%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 18 (36.73%) Azure
2 16 (32.65%) AWS
3 8 (16.33%) AWS CloudFormation
4 6 (12.24%) Entra ID
5 5 (10.20%) CloudFront
5 5 (10.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (2.04%) GitHub
6 1 (2.04%) Power Platform
6 1 (2.04%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 5 (10.20%) DNS
1 5 (10.20%) Network Security
1 5 (10.20%) VPN
2 3 (6.12%) Firewall
3 1 (2.04%) HTTP
3 1 (2.04%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (12.24%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.08%) MongoDB
2 2 (4.08%) MySQL
2 2 (4.08%) Oracle Database
3 1 (2.04%) Metadata
3 1 (2.04%) Power BI
3 1 (2.04%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (14.29%) JIRA
2 2 (4.08%) Git
3 1 (2.04%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.04%) Oracle APEX
3 1 (2.04%) TeamCity
General
1 9 (18.37%) Finance
2 6 (12.24%) Social Skills
3 5 (10.20%) Retail
4 4 (8.16%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (6.12%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (6.12%) Public Sector
6 2 (4.08%) Legal
6 2 (4.08%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.04%) Back Office
7 1 (2.04%) Dutch Language
7 1 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (16.33%) ADO
2 5 (10.20%) OAuth
2 5 (10.20%) OAuth2
2 5 (10.20%) SAML
3 3 (6.12%) .NET
3 3 (6.12%) REST
3 3 (6.12%) Web Services
4 2 (4.08%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (2.04%) CSS
5 1 (2.04%) FIX Protocol
5 1 (2.04%) Flask
5 1 (2.04%) HTML
5 1 (2.04%) HTML5
5 1 (2.04%) Kafka
5 1 (2.04%) Pandas
5 1 (2.04%) RESTful
5 1 (2.04%) SQLAlchemy
5 1 (2.04%) WCF
5 1 (2.04%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 16 (32.65%) Data Centre
2 11 (22.45%) Replication
3 5 (10.20%) Cloud Native
4 4 (8.16%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (4.08%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (4.08%) Security Posture
6 1 (2.04%) Algorithms
6 1 (2.04%) Data Structures
6 1 (2.04%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (2.04%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (2.04%) Mobile App
6 1 (2.04%) Operational Technology
6 1 (2.04%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 25 (51.02%) Windows
2 17 (34.69%) Linux
3 8 (16.33%) Ubuntu
4 3 (6.12%) Windows Server
5 1 (2.04%) Android
5 1 (2.04%) Apple iOS
5 1 (2.04%) CentOS
5 1 (2.04%) Mac OS
5 1 (2.04%) Unix
5 1 (2.04%) Windows Mobile
5 1 (2.04%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (2.04%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (28.57%) Migration
2 11 (22.45%) Application Packaging
2 11 (22.45%) ETL
2 11 (22.45%) High Availability
3 9 (18.37%) CI/CD
3 9 (18.37%) Infrastructure as Code
4 8 (16.33%) Application Security
5 6 (12.24%) Identity Access Management
5 6 (12.24%) Task Automation
5 6 (12.24%) Workflow
6 5 (10.20%) Cloud Security
6 5 (10.20%) Data Security
6 5 (10.20%) Defensive Programming
6 5 (10.20%) DevSecOps
6 5 (10.20%) Incident Response
6 5 (10.20%) Infrastructure Management
6 5 (10.20%) Penetration Testing
6 5 (10.20%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (10.20%) The Twelve-Factor App
7 4 (8.16%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (36.73%) SQL
2 6 (12.24%) Python
3 4 (8.16%) C#
4 3 (6.12%) Bash
5 2 (4.08%) C++
5 2 (4.08%) F#
5 2 (4.08%) PowerShell
5 2 (4.08%) Shell Script
6 1 (2.04%) Go
6 1 (2.04%) Java
6 1 (2.04%) Perl
6 1 (2.04%) PHP
6 1 (2.04%) PL/SQL
6 1 (2.04%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (12.24%) SC Cleared
1 6 (12.24%) Security Cleared
2 5 (10.20%) AWS Certification
3 3 (6.12%) Degree
4 2 (4.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.04%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.12%) QA
2 1 (2.04%) GDPR
2 1 (2.04%) HIPAA
2 1 (2.04%) JSP 440
2 1 (2.04%) NCSC
2 1 (2.04%) SOC 2
System Software
1 14 (28.57%) Active Directory
2 6 (12.24%) Docker
3 1 (2.04%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 2 (4.08%) Terraform
2 1 (2.04%) Consul
2 1 (2.04%) Grafana
2 1 (2.04%) Jamf Pro
2 1 (2.04%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.04%) Prometheus
2 1 (2.04%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (14.29%) Atlassian
1 7 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.12%) Intapp
2 3 (6.12%) Oracle
3 2 (4.08%) Checkmarx
3 2 (4.08%) Qualys
3 2 (4.08%) Rapid7
3 2 (4.08%) Red Hat
3 2 (4.08%) Veracode
4 1 (2.04%) Apple
4 1 (2.04%) Dynatrace
4 1 (2.04%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.04%) SaltStack
4 1 (2.04%) SAP
4 1 (2.04%) ServiceNow