Applications Developer Contracts

Application Developer
UK

The median Application Developer daily rate in the UK is £475 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 16 May 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
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 449 443 593
Rank change year-on-year -6 +150 -144
Contract jobs requiring an Applications Developer 131 249 263
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.31% 0.44% 0.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.33% 0.46% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 174 177
10th Percentile £318 £373 £384
25th Percentile £381 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +2.33% +19.44%
75th Percentile £625 £605 £631
90th Percentile £850 £675 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £549 £525
% change year-on-year -18.03% +4.57% +31.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £33.47
25th Percentile £22.75 £71.25 £35.67
Median hourly rate £24.50 £72.50 £40.34
Median % change year-on-year -66.21% +79.74% +168.90%
75th Percentile £26.25 £73.75 £44.00
90th Percentile - - £45.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.50 - £46.67
% change year-on-year - - -6.66%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 the UK with a recognized job title 39,484 53,902 83,447
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.62% 95.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,682 37,660 58,636
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,662 1,503 2,044
10th Percentile £12.82 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.38 £15.76
Median hourly rate £36.58 £45.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.72% +87.50% +6.67%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.44 £76.20 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

Applications Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Applications Developer in the UK

Applications Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Applications Developer in the UK

Applications Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Applications Developer over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Applications Developer in the UK

Applications Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Applications Developer in the UK

Applications Developer
Top 14 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 16 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
England +32 115 £475 -13.48% 46
London +65 69 £588 +6.82% 11
UK excluding London +4 45 £450 -18.03% 39
Work from Home +20 34 £475 -13.64% 29
South West -16 15 £413 -25.00% 3
South East +3 11 £475 -15.63% 6
East of England +14 8 £475 +48.44% 7
Midlands +24 6 - - 7
West Midlands +29 5 - - 5
North of England +17 2 £500 +8.11% 10
North West +14 2 £500 +5.26% 4
Wales - 2 £450 - 2
Scotland +26 1 - - 4
East Midlands +7 1 - - 2

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

For the 6 months to 16 May 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 featuring Applications Developer in the job title.

1 49 (37.40%) Agile
2 46 (35.11%) C#
3 41 (31.30%) JavaScript
3 41 (31.30%) Power Platform
4 39 (29.77%) Azure
5 37 (28.24%) Power Automate
6 36 (27.48%) PowerApps
7 32 (24.43%) SQL Server
8 31 (23.66%) .NET
9 28 (21.37%) Social Skills
10 27 (20.61%) REST
11 25 (19.08%) Microsoft
12 22 (16.79%) Business Intelligence
12 22 (16.79%) SQL
12 22 (16.79%) Analytical Skills
12 22 (16.79%) JIRA
13 21 (16.03%) Degree
13 21 (16.03%) Software Engineering
14 20 (15.27%) SharePoint
14 20 (15.27%) DevOps
15 19 (14.50%) React
15 19 (14.50%) Continuous Improvement
15 19 (14.50%) TypeScript
15 19 (14.50%) Design Patterns
15 19 (14.50%) Power BI
16 18 (13.74%) Public Sector
16 18 (13.74%) Mobile App
16 18 (13.74%) AngularJS
16 18 (13.74%) Microsoft 365
17 17 (12.98%) Serverless

Applications Developer Skill Set
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 20 (15.27%) SharePoint
2 7 (5.34%) Confluence
3 5 (3.82%) IBM Notes
4 2 (1.53%) CMS
4 2 (1.53%) IIS
4 2 (1.53%) Site Server
5 1 (0.76%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.76%) JBoss
Business Applications
1 5 (3.82%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.76%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.76%) SAP SD
2 1 (0.76%) Shopify
2 1 (0.76%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 41 (31.30%) Power Platform
2 39 (29.77%) Azure
3 37 (28.24%) Power Automate
4 36 (27.48%) PowerApps
5 18 (13.74%) Microsoft 365
6 17 (12.98%) Serverless
7 16 (12.21%) Azure Functions
8 15 (11.45%) Azure DevOps
9 14 (10.69%) Azure Logic Apps
9 14 (10.69%) npm
10 9 (6.87%) AWS
10 9 (6.87%) GitHub
11 6 (4.58%) Dynamics 365
12 5 (3.82%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 5 (3.82%) Azure Service Bus
12 5 (3.82%) Azure Storage
12 5 (3.82%) Microsoft Purview
13 4 (3.05%) Azure API Management
13 4 (3.05%) Azure Key Vault
14 3 (2.29%) Azure Batch
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.53%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (24.43%) SQL Server
2 19 (14.50%) Power BI
3 10 (7.63%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (6.11%) NoSQL
5 6 (4.58%) Metadata
6 5 (3.82%) Azure SQL Database
6 5 (3.82%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (3.82%) Relational Database
7 4 (3.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (2.29%) Big Data
8 3 (2.29%) Data Lake
8 3 (2.29%) MongoDB
8 3 (2.29%) MySQL
8 3 (2.29%) OLTP
9 2 (1.53%) GIS
9 2 (1.53%) MariaDB
9 2 (1.53%) Sybase ASE
10 1 (0.76%) SAP HANA
10 1 (0.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 22 (16.79%) JIRA
2 14 (10.69%) webpack
3 11 (8.40%) Git
4 7 (5.34%) GitLab
5 4 (3.05%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 3 (2.29%) Jenkins
6 3 (2.29%) Team Foundation Server
6 3 (2.29%) Visual Studio
6 3 (2.29%) Visual Studio Team System
7 2 (1.53%) Moq
7 2 (1.53%) NUnit
8 1 (0.76%) CocoaPods
8 1 (0.76%) JUnit
8 1 (0.76%) Xcode
8 1 (0.76%) XCTest
General
1 28 (21.37%) Social Skills
2 22 (16.79%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (13.74%) Public Sector
4 14 (10.69%) Front Office
5 9 (6.87%) Banking
5 9 (6.87%) Finance
6 4 (3.05%) Local Government
7 1 (0.76%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.76%) Swedish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (23.66%) .NET
2 27 (20.61%) REST
3 19 (14.50%) React
4 18 (13.74%) AngularJS
5 14 (10.69%) CSS
5 14 (10.69%) RxJS
5 14 (10.69%) WebSockets
6 13 (9.92%) HTML
7 9 (6.87%) .NET Framework
8 7 (5.34%) Web Services
9 6 (4.58%) .NET Core
10 5 (3.82%) ASP.NET
10 5 (3.82%) HTML5 Canvas
10 5 (3.82%) JSON
11 4 (3.05%) ASP.NET MVC
11 4 (3.05%) React Native
11 4 (3.05%) XML
12 3 (2.29%) ARM Templates
12 3 (2.29%) ASP.NET Web Forms
12 3 (2.29%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 18 (13.74%) Mobile App
2 7 (5.34%) Low-Code
3 6 (4.58%) Cloud Native
4 5 (3.82%) Algorithms
4 5 (3.82%) Data Structures
4 5 (3.82%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (3.05%) Legacy Applications
6 3 (2.29%) Reinsurance
7 2 (1.53%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.53%) NHS
7 2 (1.53%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.76%) IoT
8 1 (0.76%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.76%) Life Science
8 1 (0.76%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (0.76%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 12 (9.16%) Android
2 8 (6.11%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (37.40%) Agile
2 22 (16.79%) Business Intelligence
3 21 (16.03%) Software Engineering
4 20 (15.27%) DevOps
5 19 (14.50%) Continuous Improvement
5 19 (14.50%) Design Patterns
6 16 (12.21%) MVC
7 15 (11.45%) Full Stack Development
7 15 (11.45%) Web Application Development
8 14 (10.69%) Electronic Trading
9 12 (9.16%) Problem-Solving
10 11 (8.40%) Migration
11 8 (6.11%) Microservices
12 7 (5.34%) CRM
12 7 (5.34%) Design Thinking
12 7 (5.34%) Web Development
13 6 (4.58%) API Design
13 6 (4.58%) CI/CD
13 6 (4.58%) Front End Development
13 6 (4.58%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 46 (35.11%) C#
2 41 (31.30%) JavaScript
3 22 (16.79%) SQL
4 19 (14.50%) TypeScript
5 14 (10.69%) Python
6 12 (9.16%) PowerShell
7 8 (6.11%) Java
8 6 (4.58%) Lua
9 5 (3.82%) MATLAB
10 4 (3.05%) C
10 4 (3.05%) Swift
11 3 (2.29%) Kotlin
11 3 (2.29%) Objective-C
11 3 (2.29%) VB.NET
12 2 (1.53%) Korn
12 2 (1.53%) Perl
12 2 (1.53%) PL/1
12 2 (1.53%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.76%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.76%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 21 (16.03%) Degree
2 13 (9.92%) Security Cleared
3 12 (9.16%) Master's Degree
4 9 (6.87%) SC Cleared
5 4 (3.05%) Azure Certification
6 3 (2.29%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.76%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.53%) QA
System Software
1 3 (2.29%) Docker
2 1 (0.76%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (2.29%) Ansible
1 3 (2.29%) Terraform
2 2 (1.53%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.53%) Puppet
Vendors
1 25 (19.08%) Microsoft
2 10 (7.63%) Oracle
3 5 (3.82%) Databricks
3 5 (3.82%) Lotus
3 5 (3.82%) New Relic
3 5 (3.82%) Splunk
4 2 (1.53%) ESRI
4 2 (1.53%) Sybase
4 2 (1.53%) Virgin Media
4 2 (1.53%) Xamarin
5 1 (0.76%) Adobe
5 1 (0.76%) Apple
5 1 (0.76%) Google
5 1 (0.76%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.76%) SAP