Applications Developer Contracts in England

Application Developer
UK > England

The median Application Developer daily rate in England is £456, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 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
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 422 439 598
Rank change year-on-year +17 +159 -110
Contract jobs requiring an Applications Developer 128 201 189
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.34% 0.43% 0.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.37% 0.45% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 133 126
10th Percentile £300 £373 £360
25th Percentile £363 £430 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £549 £548
Median % change year-on-year -16.89% +0.27% +21.67%
75th Percentile £600 £595 £625
90th Percentile £850 £675 £673
UK median daily rate £470 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -14.55% - +22.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £22.75 £71.25 -
Median hourly rate £24.50 £72.50 £17.38
Median % change year-on-year -66.21% +317.15% -53.04%
75th Percentile £26.25 £73.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £24.50 £72.50 £17.38
% change year-on-year -66.21% +317.15% -10.92%

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 34,808 44,443 66,953
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.80% 94.49% 95.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,757 31,614 47,944
10th Percentile £288 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +7.00%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,654 1,321 1,753
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.36 £12.80
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.90
Median hourly rate £39.50 £45.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.22% +87.50% +14.01%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £77.50 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%

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 12 June 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 12 June 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 +35 68 £510 -7.27% 13
South West -8 17 £450 -18.03%
East of England +15 16 £420 +30.23% 4
South East +4 11 £475 -14.65% 6
Midlands +18 8 - - 15
West Midlands +23 7 - - 8
North West +13 4 £438 -5.41% 3
North of England +9 4 £438 +2.94% 6
East Midlands +3 1 - - 7
Applications Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 12 June 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 52 (40.63%) Power Platform
2 48 (37.50%) PowerApps
3 45 (35.16%) Power Automate
4 43 (33.59%) Agile
5 41 (32.03%) C#
6 40 (31.25%) Azure
7 38 (29.69%) JavaScript
8 33 (25.78%) SQL Server
9 31 (24.22%) SharePoint
10 28 (21.88%) REST
11 25 (19.53%) Microsoft
11 25 (19.53%) .NET
12 24 (18.75%) Social Skills
13 22 (17.19%) Business Intelligence
14 21 (16.41%) SQL
15 20 (15.63%) Microsoft 365
16 19 (14.84%) DevOps
16 19 (14.84%) JIRA
16 19 (14.84%) Public Sector
16 19 (14.84%) Serverless
16 19 (14.84%) Power BI
17 18 (14.06%) Azure Functions
17 18 (14.06%) Analytical Skills
17 18 (14.06%) CSS
18 17 (13.28%) HTML
18 17 (13.28%) Software Engineering
18 17 (13.28%) Degree
19 16 (12.50%) Azure Logic Apps
20 15 (11.72%) Migration
20 15 (11.72%) Python

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 (24.22%) SharePoint
2 9 (7.03%) Confluence
3 3 (2.34%) Site Server
4 2 (1.56%) CMS
4 2 (1.56%) IIS
5 1 (0.78%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.78%) IBM Notes
5 1 (0.78%) JBoss
Business Applications
1 5 (3.91%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.56%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.78%) NEC Housing
3 1 (0.78%) SAP PM
3 1 (0.78%) Shopify
3 1 (0.78%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 52 (40.63%) Power Platform
2 48 (37.50%) PowerApps
3 45 (35.16%) Power Automate
4 40 (31.25%) Azure
5 20 (15.63%) Microsoft 365
6 19 (14.84%) Serverless
7 18 (14.06%) Azure Functions
8 16 (12.50%) Azure Logic Apps
9 14 (10.94%) Azure DevOps
10 11 (8.59%) GitHub
11 9 (7.03%) AWS
11 9 (7.03%) npm
12 7 (5.47%) Dynamics 365
13 5 (3.91%) Azure Storage
13 5 (3.91%) Microsoft Purview
14 4 (3.13%) Azure API Management
14 4 (3.13%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 4 (3.13%) Azure Key Vault
14 4 (3.13%) Azure Service Bus
15 3 (2.34%) Azure Batch
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.56%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (25.78%) SQL Server
2 19 (14.84%) Power BI
3 13 (10.16%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (7.81%) NoSQL
5 6 (4.69%) Metadata
6 5 (3.91%) Azure SQL Database
6 5 (3.91%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (3.13%) Relational Database
7 4 (3.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (2.34%) Big Data
8 3 (2.34%) Data Lake
8 3 (2.34%) GIS
8 3 (2.34%) MySQL
8 3 (2.34%) OLTP
9 2 (1.56%) MariaDB
9 2 (1.56%) MongoDB
9 2 (1.56%) Sybase ASE
10 1 (0.78%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.78%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 19 (14.84%) JIRA
2 9 (7.03%) Git
2 9 (7.03%) GitLab
2 9 (7.03%) webpack
3 4 (3.13%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 3 (2.34%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.34%) Visual Studio Team System
5 2 (1.56%) Moq
5 2 (1.56%) NUnit
6 1 (0.78%) JUnit
6 1 (0.78%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.78%) Visual Studio
General
1 24 (18.75%) Social Skills
2 19 (14.84%) Public Sector
3 18 (14.06%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (9.38%) Banking
5 9 (7.03%) Finance
5 9 (7.03%) Front Office
6 5 (3.91%) Local Government
7 1 (0.78%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (21.88%) REST
2 25 (19.53%) .NET
3 18 (14.06%) CSS
4 17 (13.28%) HTML
5 12 (9.38%) React
6 11 (8.59%) AngularJS
7 9 (7.03%) HTML5 Canvas
7 9 (7.03%) RxJS
7 9 (7.03%) WebSockets
8 6 (4.69%) .NET Framework
8 6 (4.69%) Web Services
9 4 (3.13%) .NET Core
9 4 (3.13%) ASP.NET
9 4 (3.13%) JSON
9 4 (3.13%) XML
10 3 (2.34%) ARM Templates
10 3 (2.34%) ASP.NET MVC
10 3 (2.34%) Node.js
10 3 (2.34%) RESTful
11 2 (1.56%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 11 (8.59%) Mobile App
2 5 (3.91%) Low-Code
3 4 (3.13%) Legacy Applications
4 3 (2.34%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.56%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.56%) NHS
5 2 (1.56%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.78%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.78%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.78%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.78%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.78%) Housing Association
6 1 (0.78%) IoT
6 1 (0.78%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.78%) Life Science
6 1 (0.78%) Reinsurance
6 1 (0.78%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (0.78%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 7 (5.47%) Android
2 5 (3.91%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.78%) Linux
3 1 (0.78%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (33.59%) Agile
2 22 (17.19%) Business Intelligence
3 19 (14.84%) DevOps
4 17 (13.28%) Software Engineering
5 15 (11.72%) Migration
6 14 (10.94%) Continuous Improvement
7 12 (9.38%) Design Patterns
7 12 (9.38%) Full Stack Development
7 12 (9.38%) MVC
8 10 (7.81%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (7.81%) Web Application Development
9 9 (7.03%) Design Thinking
9 9 (7.03%) Electronic Trading
10 7 (5.47%) CRM
10 7 (5.47%) Web Development
11 6 (4.69%) CI/CD
11 6 (4.69%) Data Visualisation
11 6 (4.69%) Disaster Recovery
11 6 (4.69%) Visualisation
11 6 (4.69%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 41 (32.03%) C#
2 38 (29.69%) JavaScript
3 21 (16.41%) SQL
4 15 (11.72%) Python
5 14 (10.94%) PowerShell
6 11 (8.59%) TypeScript
7 7 (5.47%) Java
8 6 (4.69%) Lua
9 5 (3.91%) MATLAB
10 4 (3.13%) C
11 3 (2.34%) Korn
11 3 (2.34%) Objective-C
11 3 (2.34%) Swift
12 2 (1.56%) ABAP
12 2 (1.56%) Perl
12 2 (1.56%) PL/1
12 2 (1.56%) PL/SQL
12 2 (1.56%) Shell Script
12 2 (1.56%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.78%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (13.28%) Degree
2 13 (10.16%) Security Cleared
3 12 (9.38%) Master's Degree
4 9 (7.03%) SC Cleared
5 5 (3.91%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.78%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.56%) QA
2 1 (0.78%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (1.56%) Docker
2 1 (0.78%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (2.34%) Ansible
1 3 (2.34%) Terraform
2 2 (1.56%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.56%) Puppet
Vendors
1 25 (19.53%) Microsoft
2 14 (10.94%) Oracle
3 5 (3.91%) Databricks
4 3 (2.34%) ESRI
4 3 (2.34%) SAP
5 2 (1.56%) Sybase
5 2 (1.56%) Virgin Media
6 1 (0.78%) Apple
6 1 (0.78%) Google
6 1 (0.78%) Lotus
6 1 (0.78%) NEC
6 1 (0.78%) New Relic
6 1 (0.78%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.78%) Splunk