Applications Engineer Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Applications Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Applications Engineer daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £400, 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 279 294 358
Rank change year-on-year +15 +64 +157
Contract jobs requiring an Applications Engineer 25 51 120
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.25% 0.33% 0.46%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% 0.36% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 24 103
10th Percentile £313 £405 £406
25th Percentile £366 £461 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £650
Median % change year-on-year -20.04% -23.04% +71.62%
75th Percentile £436 £675 £823
90th Percentile £615 £689 £835
UK median daily rate £410 £509 £600
% change year-on-year -19.41% -15.21% +33.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £52.97
25th Percentile - - £59.83
Median hourly rate - - £72.50
75th Percentile - - £74.88
90th Percentile - - £75.55
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £35.65 £54.56
% change year-on-year +47.27% -34.66% -3.00%

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 Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

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

Applications Engineer
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 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 remote working options citing Applications Engineer over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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 remote working options 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 1 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Applications Engineer in the job title.

1 11 (44.00%) Windows
2 10 (40.00%) Microsoft
3 8 (32.00%) Social Skills
4 7 (28.00%) SC Cleared
4 7 (28.00%) Security Cleared
5 6 (24.00%) Azure
5 6 (24.00%) SaaS
5 6 (24.00%) PLM
6 5 (20.00%) Teamcenter
6 5 (20.00%) Finance
6 5 (20.00%) Active Directory
6 5 (20.00%) CAD
6 5 (20.00%) SQL
6 5 (20.00%) XML
6 5 (20.00%) Data Governance
6 5 (20.00%) Data Quality
6 5 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (20.00%) User Experience
6 5 (20.00%) Siemens NX
6 5 (20.00%) Entra ID
6 5 (20.00%) Windows Server
6 5 (20.00%) Slack
7 4 (16.00%) Asana
7 4 (16.00%) IT Asset Management
7 4 (16.00%) OneDrive
7 4 (16.00%) SCCM
7 4 (16.00%) Android
7 4 (16.00%) Apple iOS
7 4 (16.00%) Microsoft Exchange

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 4 (16.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (16.00%) SharePoint
2 3 (12.00%) JBoss
2 3 (12.00%) Tomcat
3 1 (4.00%) IIS
Applications
1 5 (20.00%) Siemens NX
2 1 (4.00%) MS Visio
2 1 (4.00%) Notion
Business Applications
1 5 (20.00%) Teamcenter
2 1 (4.00%) Kondor
Cloud Services
1 6 (24.00%) Azure
1 6 (24.00%) SaaS
2 5 (20.00%) Entra ID
2 5 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (20.00%) Slack
3 4 (16.00%) Asana
3 4 (16.00%) OneDrive
4 3 (12.00%) Power Platform
5 2 (8.00%) AWS
5 2 (8.00%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (8.00%) Azure Storage
5 2 (8.00%) GitHub
5 2 (8.00%) Power Automate
5 2 (8.00%) PowerApps
6 1 (4.00%) Google Workspace
6 1 (4.00%) IaaS
6 1 (4.00%) Mimecast
6 1 (4.00%) OpenShift
6 1 (4.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.00%) Power BI
1 3 (12.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (8.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (8.00%) Data Lake
2 2 (8.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (8.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (4.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (12.00%) MSI
2 2 (8.00%) AdminStudio
3 1 (4.00%) Git
3 1 (4.00%) JIRA
3 1 (4.00%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 8 (32.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (20.00%) Finance
3 2 (8.00%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (8.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.00%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (20.00%) XML
2 3 (12.00%) Web Services
3 1 (4.00%) .NET
3 1 (4.00%) SAML
3 1 (4.00%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (4.00%) Blackberry
2 1 (4.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (4.00%) EFT
2 1 (4.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (4.00%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (4.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 11 (44.00%) Windows
2 5 (20.00%) Windows Server
3 4 (16.00%) Android
3 4 (16.00%) Apple iOS
4 2 (8.00%) Linux
5 1 (4.00%) Mac OS
5 1 (4.00%) Unix
5 1 (4.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (24.00%) PLM
2 5 (20.00%) CAD
2 5 (20.00%) Data Governance
2 5 (20.00%) User Experience
3 4 (16.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 4 (16.00%) Asset Management
3 4 (16.00%) Identity Management
3 4 (16.00%) IT Asset Management
4 3 (12.00%) Analytics
4 3 (12.00%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (12.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (12.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
5 2 (8.00%) Application Packaging
5 2 (8.00%) Data Modelling
5 2 (8.00%) Deployment Automation
5 2 (8.00%) ETL
5 2 (8.00%) Software Deployment
6 1 (4.00%) Data Analysis
6 1 (4.00%) Incident Management
6 1 (4.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 5 (20.00%) SQL
2 2 (8.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (4.00%) Bash
3 1 (4.00%) C#
3 1 (4.00%) F#
3 1 (4.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (28.00%) SC Cleared
1 7 (28.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (20.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.00%) QA
2 1 (4.00%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (8.00%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 5 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (16.00%) SCCM
3 2 (8.00%) ThinApp
4 1 (4.00%) Ansible
4 1 (4.00%) Kubernetes
4 1 (4.00%) Progress Chef
4 1 (4.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.00%) Databricks
2 2 (8.00%) Ivanti
3 1 (4.00%) Bloomberg
3 1 (4.00%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (4.00%) Globalscape
3 1 (4.00%) Google
3 1 (4.00%) Netskope
3 1 (4.00%) Palo Alto
3 1 (4.00%) Rapid7
3 1 (4.00%) Refinitiv
3 1 (4.00%) Sybase