Applications Developer Contracts in England

Application Developer
UK > England

The median Application Developer daily rate in England is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 416 476 550
Rank change year-on-year +60 +74 +23
Contract jobs requiring an Applications Developer 98 113 217
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.31% 0.28% 0.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.34% 0.30% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 80 139
10th Percentile £263 £377 £380
25th Percentile £390 £438 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -8.70% +21.05%
75th Percentile £626 £606 £638
90th Percentile £651 £850 £690
UK median daily rate £474 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -5.25% -9.09% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £17.38
UK median hourly rate £57.50 - £17.38
% change year-on-year - - -27.61%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 28,953 37,638 64,520
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.94% 93.75% 95.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,687 26,172 45,824
10th Percentile £300 £300 £313
25th Percentile £413 £418 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +7.32%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,111 1,422 1,621
10th Percentile £15.10 £15.25 £13.25
25th Percentile £21.15 £19.25 £16.69
Median hourly rate £41.50 £45.94 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.66% +53.13% +50.00%
75th Percentile £66.61 £65.00 £61.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.50 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £38.00 £45.00 £27.73
% change year-on-year -15.56% +62.28% +38.65%

Applications Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Applications Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Applications Developer in England

Applications Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Applications Developer in England.

Daily rate trend for Applications Developer in England

Applications Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Applications Developer in England over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Applications Developer in England

Applications Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Applications Developer in England.

Hourly rate trend for Applications Developer in England

Applications Developer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Applications Developer within the England region over the 6 months to 31 October 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +34 56 £530 -7.83% 13
East of England +27 12 £420 -10.73% 5
South West +28 10 £500 -14.89% 2
South East +33 8 £390 -22.00% 5
North of England +31 7 £425 - 8
North West +29 6 £423 -5.59% 5
Midlands +6 3 - - 6
West Midlands +4 3 - - 4
Yorkshire +15 1 £500 +37.93% 1
Applications Developer
UK

Applications Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 31 October 2024, 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 job ads across the England region featuring Applications Developer in the job title.

1 40 (40.82%) Power Platform
2 39 (39.80%) PowerApps
3 33 (33.67%) Power Automate
4 31 (31.63%) SharePoint
5 29 (29.59%) Azure
6 27 (27.55%) Agile
7 21 (21.43%) Java
8 20 (20.41%) Business Intelligence
9 19 (19.39%) Microsoft
9 19 (19.39%) JavaScript
9 19 (19.39%) JIRA
9 19 (19.39%) Microsoft 365
9 19 (19.39%) Power BI
9 19 (19.39%) Social Skills
10 18 (18.37%) GitHub
10 18 (18.37%) Confluence
11 17 (17.35%) DevOps
11 17 (17.35%) Migration
12 16 (16.33%) SQL Server
12 16 (16.33%) Analytical Skills
12 16 (16.33%) Security Cleared
13 15 (15.31%) NoSQL
13 15 (15.31%) GitLab
13 15 (15.31%) Oracle
13 15 (15.31%) SQL
14 14 (14.29%) Banking
14 14 (14.29%) Spring
15 13 (13.27%) Kubernetes
15 13 (13.27%) AWS
15 13 (13.27%) Azure Logic Apps

Applications Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 31 (31.63%) SharePoint
2 18 (18.37%) Confluence
3 2 (2.04%) Apache
4 1 (1.02%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.02%) CMS
4 1 (1.02%) Headless CMS
4 1 (1.02%) JBoss
4 1 (1.02%) Site Server
4 1 (1.02%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (2.04%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (7.14%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (2.04%) SAP SD
3 1 (1.02%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.02%) NEC Housing
3 1 (1.02%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (1.02%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (1.02%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 40 (40.82%) Power Platform
2 39 (39.80%) PowerApps
3 33 (33.67%) Power Automate
4 29 (29.59%) Azure
5 19 (19.39%) Microsoft 365
6 18 (18.37%) GitHub
7 13 (13.27%) AWS
7 13 (13.27%) Azure Logic Apps
8 12 (12.24%) Azure Functions
8 12 (12.24%) Serverless
9 7 (7.14%) Amazon ECS
9 7 (7.14%) Amazon EKS
10 6 (6.12%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (5.10%) Dynamics 365
11 5 (5.10%) GCP
12 4 (4.08%) Google Compute Engine
12 4 (4.08%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 3 (3.06%) OpenShift
14 2 (2.04%) IaaS
14 2 (2.04%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.04%) Intranet
2 1 (1.02%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (19.39%) Power BI
2 16 (16.33%) SQL Server
3 15 (15.31%) NoSQL
4 12 (12.24%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (3.06%) BusinessObjects
6 2 (2.04%) Metadata
6 2 (2.04%) Oracle Database
7 1 (1.02%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (1.02%) Big Data
7 1 (1.02%) GIS
7 1 (1.02%) Hadoop
7 1 (1.02%) MySQL
7 1 (1.02%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (1.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 19 (19.39%) JIRA
2 15 (15.31%) GitLab
3 8 (8.16%) Git
4 7 (7.14%) Jenkins
5 3 (3.06%) Android Studio
5 3 (3.06%) Visual Studio
6 1 (1.02%) Ant
6 1 (1.02%) Eclipse
6 1 (1.02%) IntelliJ
6 1 (1.02%) Maven
6 1 (1.02%) Subversion
General
1 19 (19.39%) Social Skills
2 16 (16.33%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (14.29%) Banking
4 11 (11.22%) Public Sector
5 10 (10.20%) Finance
6 2 (2.04%) Local Government
7 1 (1.02%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.02%) Electronics
7 1 (1.02%) Front Office
7 1 (1.02%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.02%) Marketing
7 1 (1.02%) Prime Brokerage
7 1 (1.02%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (14.29%) Spring
2 12 (12.24%) CSS
2 12 (12.24%) HTML
2 12 (12.24%) REST
2 12 (12.24%) Spring Boot
3 8 (8.16%) HTML5 Canvas
4 7 (7.14%) React
4 7 (7.14%) RESTful
5 5 (5.10%) Node.js
6 4 (4.08%) .NET
6 4 (4.08%) SPFx
6 4 (4.08%) XML
7 3 (3.06%) Android Jetpack
7 3 (3.06%) AngularJS
7 3 (3.06%) Jetpack Compose
7 3 (3.06%) SAP Fiori
7 3 (3.06%) Web Services
8 2 (2.04%) HTML5
8 2 (2.04%) Keycloak
8 2 (2.04%) Loki
Miscellaneous
1 10 (10.20%) Analytical Mindset
2 7 (7.14%) Mobile App
3 5 (5.10%) Low-Code
4 3 (3.06%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.04%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.02%) Derivative
6 1 (1.02%) Equities
6 1 (1.02%) Equity Derivative
6 1 (1.02%) Exotic Derivative
6 1 (1.02%) Fixed Income
6 1 (1.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.02%) Housing Association
6 1 (1.02%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.02%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.02%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.10%) Android
2 4 (4.08%) Linux
3 3 (3.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (2.04%) CentOS
4 2 (2.04%) Windows
5 1 (1.02%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (27.55%) Agile
2 20 (20.41%) Business Intelligence
3 17 (17.35%) DevOps
3 17 (17.35%) Migration
4 12 (12.24%) CI/CD
5 11 (11.22%) Design Thinking
5 11 (11.22%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (10.20%) Data Management
7 8 (8.16%) API Development
7 8 (8.16%) Data Encryption
7 8 (8.16%) Disaster Recovery
8 7 (7.14%) API Design
9 6 (6.12%) Containerisation
10 5 (5.10%) Continuous Integration
10 5 (5.10%) Scrum
10 5 (5.10%) TDD
10 5 (5.10%) User Experience
10 5 (5.10%) Workflow
11 4 (4.08%) Business Development
11 4 (4.08%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 21 (21.43%) Java
2 19 (19.39%) JavaScript
3 15 (15.31%) SQL
4 11 (11.22%) Kotlin
5 10 (10.20%) Python
6 8 (8.16%) C#
7 6 (6.12%) PowerShell
8 5 (5.10%) ABAP
9 4 (4.08%) PL/SQL
10 2 (2.04%) Go
10 2 (2.04%) MATLAB
10 2 (2.04%) Scala
11 1 (1.02%) C++
11 1 (1.02%) Korn
11 1 (1.02%) Perl
11 1 (1.02%) Shell Script
11 1 (1.02%) T-SQL
11 1 (1.02%) TypeScript
11 1 (1.02%) VB.NET
11 1 (1.02%) VBA
Qualifications
1 16 (16.33%) Security Cleared
2 10 (10.20%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.08%) DV Cleared
4 2 (2.04%) Azure Certification
4 2 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.04%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.06%) Data Quality
System Software
1 8 (8.16%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (13.27%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.04%) Ansible
2 2 (2.04%) Argo
2 2 (2.04%) Prometheus
2 2 (2.04%) Terraform
3 1 (1.02%) Netcool
3 1 (1.02%) Netcool/OMNIbus
3 1 (1.02%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 19 (19.39%) Microsoft
2 15 (15.31%) Oracle
3 9 (9.18%) SAP
4 4 (4.08%) Google
5 3 (3.06%) Adobe
6 2 (2.04%) Databricks
6 2 (2.04%) Foundry
6 2 (2.04%) Palantir
7 1 (1.02%) Citrix
7 1 (1.02%) DevExpress
7 1 (1.02%) ESRI
7 1 (1.02%) IBM
7 1 (1.02%) NEC
7 1 (1.02%) Orchard
7 1 (1.02%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.02%) Spotify
7 1 (1.02%) Virgin Media
7 1 (1.02%) VMware