Application Discovery Contracts

Application Discovery
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Application Discovery skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Application Discovery over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 559 650 828
Rank change year-on-year +91 +178 -137
Contract jobs citing Application Discovery 20 44 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.047% 0.077% 0.040%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.055% 0.086% 0.044%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 28 26
10th Percentile £355 £200 £381
25th Percentile £405 £268 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £290 £513
Median % change year-on-year +58.62% -43.47% +57.85%
75th Percentile £470 £462 £675
90th Percentile £615 £538 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £460 £275 £513
% change year-on-year +67.27% -46.39% +75.84%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Application Discovery is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,622 51,397 80,021
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.09% 89.76% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,613 35,611 56,174
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £439 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £480
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,439 1,690 1,913
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.77 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.54%

Application Discovery
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Application Discovery as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Application Discovery in the UK

Application Discovery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Application Discovery.

Daily rate trend for Application Discovery in the UK

Application Discovery
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Application Discovery over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Application Discovery in the UK

Application Discovery
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Application Discovery.

Hourly rate trend for Application Discovery in the UK

Application Discovery
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Application Discovery within the UK over the 6 months to 20 May 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
Work from Home +111 17 £465 +69.09%
England +93 12 £460 +67.27% 2
UK excluding London +38 8 £460 +67.27% 1
South East +20 6 £460 - 1
London +92 3 £438 -16.67% 1
North of England +29 2 £369 +36.62%
North West +17 2 £369 -

Application Discovery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (5.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (15.00%) SaaS
2 2 (10.00%) Azure
2 2 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (5.00%) AWS
3 1 (5.00%) GCP
3 1 (5.00%) OneDrive
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) MSI
General
1 4 (20.00%) Finance
2 2 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
2 2 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Banking
3 1 (5.00%) Italian Language
3 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.00%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 9 (45.00%) Applications Packager
2 4 (20.00%) Project Manager
2 4 (20.00%) SC Cleared Application Packager
3 3 (15.00%) Lead
3 3 (15.00%) Senior
3 3 (15.00%) Senior Manager
3 3 (15.00%) Senior Project Manager
4 2 (10.00%) Applications Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Manager
4 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Project Manager
4 2 (10.00%) Migration Manager
4 2 (10.00%) Migration Project Manager
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Infrastructure Manager
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Infrastructure Project Manager
4 2 (10.00%) Windows Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Applications Consultant
5 1 (5.00%) Business Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Data Business Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Lead Architect
5 1 (5.00%) SCCM Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (5.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 7 (35.00%) Windows
2 1 (5.00%) VMS
2 1 (5.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (40.00%) Application Packaging
2 6 (30.00%) Customer Requirements
3 4 (20.00%) Agile
3 4 (20.00%) Migration
3 4 (20.00%) Waterfall
4 2 (10.00%) Decision-Making
4 2 (10.00%) Resource Management
4 2 (10.00%) Time Management
4 2 (10.00%) User Acceptance Testing
5 1 (5.00%) Deployment Automation
5 1 (5.00%) Fintech
5 1 (5.00%) Impact Assessments
5 1 (5.00%) Requirements Gathering
5 1 (5.00%) Service Management
5 1 (5.00%) Smoke Testing
5 1 (5.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (5.00%) SQL
2 1 (5.00%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 9 (45.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (40.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft App-V
1 1 (5.00%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 3 (15.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (5.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.00%) Citrix
3 1 (5.00%) Google