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 £509 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 June 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
8 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 284 318 484
Rank change year-on-year +34 +166 -33
Contract jobs requiring an Applications Engineer 57 134 139
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.39% 0.56% 0.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.42% 0.59% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 116 104
10th Percentile £405 £425 -
25th Percentile £446 £500 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £675 £375
Median % change year-on-year -24.63% +80.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £675 £823 £441
90th Percentile £710 £835 £621
UK median daily rate £501 £600 £425
% change year-on-year -16.58% +41.18% -10.53%
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 13,702 22,790 42,423
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.48% 95.25% 95.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,229 16,154 30,827
10th Percentile £325 £357 £358
25th Percentile £425 £444 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £633
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 567 528 568
10th Percentile £14.26 £16.98 £13.75
25th Percentile £22.54 £25.00 £19.50
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.32 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.81% +32.44% +70.19%
75th Percentile £63.38 £66.71 £58.47
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.15 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%

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 8 June 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 8 June 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 27 (47.37%) Windows
2 21 (36.84%) Linux
2 21 (36.84%) Azure
3 20 (35.09%) Data Centre
4 19 (33.33%) SQL
5 18 (31.58%) AWS
6 16 (28.07%) Migration
7 14 (24.56%) Active Directory
8 13 (22.81%) ETL
8 13 (22.81%) Replication
8 13 (22.81%) High Availability
8 13 (22.81%) Elite 3E
9 12 (21.05%) Application Packaging
10 11 (19.30%) Finance
11 10 (17.54%) Workflow
11 10 (17.54%) JIRA
11 10 (17.54%) SC Cleared
11 10 (17.54%) Security Cleared
11 10 (17.54%) Atlassian
11 10 (17.54%) CI/CD
12 9 (15.79%) Infrastructure as Code
13 8 (14.04%) Task Automation
13 8 (14.04%) Problem-Solving
13 8 (14.04%) AWS CloudFormation
13 8 (14.04%) Application Security
13 8 (14.04%) Ubuntu
13 8 (14.04%) Confluence
13 8 (14.04%) Microsoft
13 8 (14.04%) ADO
14 7 (12.28%) Python

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 8 (14.04%) Confluence
2 1 (1.75%) Red Hat Fuse
Business Applications
1 13 (22.81%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 21 (36.84%) Azure
2 18 (31.58%) AWS
3 8 (14.04%) AWS CloudFormation
4 6 (10.53%) Entra ID
5 5 (8.77%) CloudFront
5 5 (8.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (1.75%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.75%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 5 (8.77%) DNS
1 5 (8.77%) Network Security
1 5 (8.77%) VPN
2 3 (5.26%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.53%) SQL Server
2 4 (7.02%) MongoDB
3 2 (3.51%) MySQL
4 1 (1.75%) Metadata
4 1 (1.75%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.75%) Power BI
4 1 (1.75%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (17.54%) JIRA
2 1 (1.75%) Git
2 1 (1.75%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.75%) Oracle APEX
2 1 (1.75%) TeamCity
General
1 11 (19.30%) Finance
2 7 (12.28%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (12.28%) Social Skills
3 5 (8.77%) Public Sector
3 5 (8.77%) Retail
4 4 (7.02%) Legal
5 2 (3.51%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (3.51%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.75%) Back Office
6 1 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.75%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (14.04%) ADO
2 5 (8.77%) OAuth
2 5 (8.77%) OAuth2
2 5 (8.77%) REST
2 5 (8.77%) SAML
2 5 (8.77%) Web Services
3 4 (7.02%) RabbitMQ
4 3 (5.26%) .NET
4 3 (5.26%) Kafka
4 3 (5.26%) RESTful
5 1 (1.75%) CSS
5 1 (1.75%) FIX Protocol
5 1 (1.75%) HTML
5 1 (1.75%) HTML5
5 1 (1.75%) WCF
5 1 (1.75%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 20 (35.09%) Data Centre
2 13 (22.81%) Replication
3 6 (10.53%) Linux Command Line
4 5 (8.77%) Cloud Native
5 3 (5.26%) Algorithms
5 3 (5.26%) Data Structures
5 3 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (5.26%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (3.51%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.75%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (1.75%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.75%) Operational Technology
7 1 (1.75%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 27 (47.37%) Windows
2 21 (36.84%) Linux
3 8 (14.04%) Ubuntu
4 3 (5.26%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.75%) Android
5 1 (1.75%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.75%) CentOS
5 1 (1.75%) Unix
5 1 (1.75%) Windows Mobile
5 1 (1.75%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (1.75%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (28.07%) Migration
2 13 (22.81%) ETL
2 13 (22.81%) High Availability
3 12 (21.05%) Application Packaging
4 10 (17.54%) CI/CD
4 10 (17.54%) Workflow
5 9 (15.79%) Infrastructure as Code
6 8 (14.04%) Application Security
6 8 (14.04%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (14.04%) Task Automation
7 6 (10.53%) Identity Access Management
7 6 (10.53%) Service Management
8 5 (8.77%) Data Security
8 5 (8.77%) Defensive Programming
8 5 (8.77%) DevOps
8 5 (8.77%) DevSecOps
8 5 (8.77%) Incident Response
8 5 (8.77%) Infrastructure Management
8 5 (8.77%) Penetration Testing
8 5 (8.77%) The Twelve-Factor App
Programming Languages
1 19 (33.33%) SQL
2 7 (12.28%) Python
3 4 (7.02%) C#
3 4 (7.02%) C++
3 4 (7.02%) Shell Script
4 3 (5.26%) Bash
4 3 (5.26%) Go
4 3 (5.26%) Java
5 2 (3.51%) F#
5 2 (3.51%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.75%) Perl
6 1 (1.75%) PHP
6 1 (1.75%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.75%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (17.54%) SC Cleared
1 10 (17.54%) Security Cleared
2 5 (8.77%) AWS Certification
3 4 (7.02%) Degree
4 2 (3.51%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.75%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.26%) QA
2 1 (1.75%) GDPR
2 1 (1.75%) HIPAA
2 1 (1.75%) SOC 2
System Software
1 14 (24.56%) Active Directory
2 5 (8.77%) Docker
3 3 (5.26%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 2 (3.51%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 3 (5.26%) Consul
1 3 (5.26%) Grafana
1 3 (5.26%) Kubernetes
1 3 (5.26%) Prometheus
2 2 (3.51%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (1.75%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (1.75%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (17.54%) Atlassian
2 8 (14.04%) Microsoft
3 5 (8.77%) Intapp
4 3 (5.26%) SaltStack
5 2 (3.51%) Apple
5 2 (3.51%) Checkmarx
5 2 (3.51%) Oracle
5 2 (3.51%) Qualys
5 2 (3.51%) Rapid7
5 2 (3.51%) Red Hat
5 2 (3.51%) Tanium
5 2 (3.51%) Veracode
5 2 (3.51%) Zscaler
6 1 (1.75%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.75%) SAP
6 1 (1.75%) ServiceNow