Hybrid/Remote Applications Developer Contract Job Trends

Application Developer
UK > Work from Home

The median Application Developer daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £425, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 September 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
17 Sep 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 289 288 350
Rank change year-on-year -1 +62 +109
Contract jobs requiring an Applications Developer 28 38 68
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.28% 0.30% 0.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.30% 0.32% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 29 38
10th Percentile £305 - £351
25th Percentile £334 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £500 £513 £600
90th Percentile £574 £614 £673
UK median daily rate £462 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +2.56% -10.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £56.88 - -
Median hourly rate £58.75 - -
75th Percentile £60.63 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £57.50 -
% change year-on-year -8.70% - -

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 9,248 11,830 19,137
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.86% 93.47% 94.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,100 7,591 13,518
10th Percentile £325 £325 £339
25th Percentile £413 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £745
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 293 294 441
10th Percentile £13.36 £19.39 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.50 £31.25 £25.71
Median hourly rate £38.70 £45.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.00% -10.00% +4.08%
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.38 £68.75
90th Percentile £68.00 £75.00 £79.19
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.88
% change year-on-year -41.51% -2.01% +68.77%

Applications Developer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

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

Applications Developer
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with Hybrid Work Options

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for remote Applications Developer job vacancies.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for remote Applications Developer job vacancies

Applications Developer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Applications Developer over the 6 months to 17 September 2025.

Applications Developer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Applications Developer
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with Hybrid Work Options

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for remote Applications Developer job vacancies.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for remote Applications Developer job vacancies

Applications Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 17 September 2025, 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 jobs with hybrid or remote work options featuring Applications Developer in the job title.

1 17 (60.71%) Power Platform
2 16 (57.14%) PowerApps
3 13 (46.43%) Microsoft
3 13 (46.43%) Agile
3 13 (46.43%) Azure
4 11 (39.29%) Power Automate
5 9 (32.14%) Public Sector
5 9 (32.14%) DevOps
5 9 (32.14%) C#
5 9 (32.14%) JavaScript
6 8 (28.57%) SharePoint
7 7 (25.00%) HTML5 Canvas
8 6 (21.43%) .NET
9 5 (17.86%) SQL
9 5 (17.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 5 (17.86%) Security Cleared
9 5 (17.86%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (14.29%) Microsoft Graph
10 4 (14.29%) Deployment Automation
10 4 (14.29%) Azure Service Bus
10 4 (14.29%) Sprint Planning
10 4 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
10 4 (14.29%) ASP.NET Web API
10 4 (14.29%) Translating Business Requirements
10 4 (14.29%) QA
10 4 (14.29%) SC Cleared
10 4 (14.29%) Scrum
10 4 (14.29%) HTML
10 4 (14.29%) Data Security
11 3 (10.71%) CI/CD

Applications Developer 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 (28.57%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.57%) Apache
2 1 (3.57%) ArcGIS
Business Applications
1 1 (3.57%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 17 (60.71%) Power Platform
2 16 (57.14%) PowerApps
3 13 (46.43%) Azure
4 11 (39.29%) Power Automate
5 5 (17.86%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (14.29%) Azure Service Bus
6 4 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (3.57%) AWS
7 1 (3.57%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (3.57%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (3.57%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (3.57%) IaaS
7 1 (3.57%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.57%) Power BI
1 1 (3.57%) UniData
Development Applications
1 2 (7.14%) JIRA
2 1 (3.57%) Git
2 1 (3.57%) Jenkins
General
1 9 (32.14%) Public Sector
2 3 (10.71%) Finance
2 3 (10.71%) Social Skills
3 2 (7.14%) Banking
3 2 (7.14%) Publishing
4 1 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Legal
4 1 (3.57%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (25.00%) HTML5 Canvas
2 6 (21.43%) .NET
3 4 (14.29%) ASP.NET Web API
3 4 (14.29%) HTML
3 4 (14.29%) Microsoft Graph
4 3 (10.71%) CSS
4 3 (10.71%) REST
5 2 (7.14%) OpenID
5 2 (7.14%) React
5 2 (7.14%) WPF
6 1 (3.57%) Apache NiFi
6 1 (3.57%) Django
6 1 (3.57%) FastAPI
6 1 (3.57%) JSON
6 1 (3.57%) Keycloak
6 1 (3.57%) Loki
6 1 (3.57%) SAP Fiori
6 1 (3.57%) SAPUI5
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (3.57%) Low-Code
2 1 (3.57%) Onboarding
2 1 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (3.57%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.14%) Windows
2 1 (3.57%) CentOS
2 1 (3.57%) Linux
2 1 (3.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (46.43%) Agile
2 9 (32.14%) DevOps
3 4 (14.29%) Data Security
3 4 (14.29%) Deployment Automation
3 4 (14.29%) Scrum
3 4 (14.29%) Sprint Planning
3 4 (14.29%) Translating Business Requirements
4 3 (10.71%) CI/CD
4 3 (10.71%) Data Encryption
4 3 (10.71%) Data Protection
4 3 (10.71%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (10.71%) Migration
4 3 (10.71%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (10.71%) Test Automation
5 2 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (7.14%) Robotic Process Automation
5 2 (7.14%) Secure Coding
6 1 (3.57%) Continuous Delivery
6 1 (3.57%) Identity Access Management
6 1 (3.57%) SFIA
Programming Languages
1 9 (32.14%) C#
1 9 (32.14%) JavaScript
2 5 (17.86%) SQL
3 3 (10.71%) Python
4 1 (3.57%) Go
4 1 (3.57%) Java
4 1 (3.57%) TypeScript
4 1 (3.57%) UniBasic
Qualifications
1 5 (17.86%) Security Cleared
2 4 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.57%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (3.57%) Degree
3 1 (3.57%) DV Cleared
3 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (14.29%) QA
2 1 (3.57%) HMG Security Policy Framework
2 1 (3.57%) ISO 22301
2 1 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 1 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 1 (3.57%) Ansible
1 1 (3.57%) Argo
1 1 (3.57%) Kubernetes
1 1 (3.57%) MIIS
1 1 (3.57%) Prometheus
1 1 (3.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (46.43%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.14%) Citrix
2 2 (7.14%) UiPath
3 1 (3.57%) ESRI
3 1 (3.57%) Oracle
3 1 (3.57%) Red Hat
3 1 (3.57%) SAP
3 1 (3.57%) VMware
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