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 20 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 445 449 605
Rank change year-on-year +4 +156 -128
Contract jobs requiring an Applications Developer 135 255 258
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.32% 0.45% 0.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.34% 0.47% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 181 173
10th Percentile £321 £373 £378
25th Percentile £386 £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 £626
90th Percentile £850 £675 £688
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 39,468 54,175 84,246
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.79% 94.61% 95.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,716 37,826 59,224
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% +8.47%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £489 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.20% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,674 1,504 2,051
10th Percentile £12.83 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.82
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +4.19%

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 20 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 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
England +25 119 £475 -13.48% 70
London +62 71 £581 +5.68% 18
UK excluding London +3 47 £450 -18.03% 59
Work from Home +14 36 £475 -13.64% 38
South West -16 15 £413 -25.00% 3
South East +11 11 £475 -15.63% 11
East of England +14 9 £456 +41.47% 8
Midlands +15 6 - - 15
West Midlands +24 5 - - 9
North of England +22 3 £450 -2.70% 15
North West +12 3 £450 -5.26% 7
Wales - 2 £450 - 3
Scotland +33 1 - - 4
East Midlands +11 1 - - 6

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

For the 6 months to 20 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 50 (37.04%) Agile
2 47 (34.81%) C#
3 42 (31.11%) JavaScript
3 42 (31.11%) Power Platform
4 40 (29.63%) Azure
5 37 (27.41%) PowerApps
5 37 (27.41%) Power Automate
6 32 (23.70%) SQL Server
7 31 (22.96%) .NET
8 28 (20.74%) REST
8 28 (20.74%) Social Skills
9 25 (18.52%) Microsoft
10 22 (16.30%) Business Intelligence
10 22 (16.30%) SQL
10 22 (16.30%) SharePoint
10 22 (16.30%) Analytical Skills
10 22 (16.30%) JIRA
11 21 (15.56%) Degree
11 21 (15.56%) DevOps
11 21 (15.56%) Software Engineering
12 20 (14.81%) Public Sector
13 19 (14.07%) Power BI
13 19 (14.07%) Design Patterns
13 19 (14.07%) React
13 19 (14.07%) Continuous Improvement
13 19 (14.07%) TypeScript
14 18 (13.33%) AngularJS
14 18 (13.33%) Mobile App
14 18 (13.33%) Microsoft 365
15 17 (12.59%) MVC

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 22 (16.30%) SharePoint
2 7 (5.19%) Confluence
3 5 (3.70%) IBM Notes
4 3 (2.22%) Site Server
5 2 (1.48%) CMS
5 2 (1.48%) IIS
6 1 (0.74%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.74%) JBoss
Business Applications
1 5 (3.70%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.74%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.74%) SAP SD
2 1 (0.74%) Shopify
2 1 (0.74%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 42 (31.11%) Power Platform
2 40 (29.63%) Azure
3 37 (27.41%) Power Automate
3 37 (27.41%) PowerApps
4 18 (13.33%) Microsoft 365
5 17 (12.59%) Serverless
6 16 (11.85%) Azure DevOps
6 16 (11.85%) Azure Functions
7 14 (10.37%) Azure Logic Apps
7 14 (10.37%) npm
8 11 (8.15%) AWS
9 9 (6.67%) GitHub
10 6 (4.44%) Dynamics 365
11 5 (3.70%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 5 (3.70%) Azure Service Bus
11 5 (3.70%) Azure Storage
11 5 (3.70%) Microsoft Purview
12 4 (2.96%) Azure API Management
12 4 (2.96%) Azure Key Vault
13 3 (2.22%) Azure Batch
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.48%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (23.70%) SQL Server
2 19 (14.07%) Power BI
3 11 (8.15%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (5.93%) NoSQL
5 6 (4.44%) Metadata
6 5 (3.70%) Azure SQL Database
6 5 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (3.70%) Relational Database
7 4 (2.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (2.22%) Big Data
8 3 (2.22%) Data Lake
8 3 (2.22%) GIS
8 3 (2.22%) MongoDB
8 3 (2.22%) MySQL
8 3 (2.22%) OLTP
9 2 (1.48%) MariaDB
9 2 (1.48%) Sybase ASE
10 1 (0.74%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.74%) SAP HANA
10 1 (0.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 22 (16.30%) JIRA
2 14 (10.37%) webpack
3 11 (8.15%) Git
4 7 (5.19%) GitLab
5 4 (2.96%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 3 (2.22%) Jenkins
6 3 (2.22%) Team Foundation Server
6 3 (2.22%) Visual Studio
6 3 (2.22%) Visual Studio Team System
7 2 (1.48%) Moq
7 2 (1.48%) NUnit
8 1 (0.74%) CocoaPods
8 1 (0.74%) JUnit
8 1 (0.74%) Xcode
8 1 (0.74%) XCTest
General
1 28 (20.74%) Social Skills
2 22 (16.30%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (14.81%) Public Sector
4 14 (10.37%) Front Office
5 9 (6.67%) Banking
5 9 (6.67%) Finance
6 4 (2.96%) Local Government
7 1 (0.74%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.74%) Swedish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (22.96%) .NET
2 28 (20.74%) REST
3 19 (14.07%) React
4 18 (13.33%) AngularJS
5 14 (10.37%) CSS
5 14 (10.37%) HTML
5 14 (10.37%) RxJS
5 14 (10.37%) WebSockets
6 9 (6.67%) .NET Framework
7 7 (5.19%) Web Services
8 6 (4.44%) .NET Core
9 5 (3.70%) ASP.NET
9 5 (3.70%) HTML5 Canvas
9 5 (3.70%) JSON
10 4 (2.96%) ASP.NET MVC
10 4 (2.96%) React Native
10 4 (2.96%) XML
11 3 (2.22%) ARM Templates
11 3 (2.22%) ASP.NET Web Forms
11 3 (2.22%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 18 (13.33%) Mobile App
2 7 (5.19%) Low-Code
3 6 (4.44%) Cloud Native
4 5 (3.70%) Algorithms
4 5 (3.70%) Data Structures
4 5 (3.70%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (2.96%) Legacy Applications
6 3 (2.22%) Reinsurance
7 2 (1.48%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.48%) NHS
7 2 (1.48%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.74%) IoT
8 1 (0.74%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.74%) Life Science
8 1 (0.74%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (0.74%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 12 (8.89%) Android
2 8 (5.93%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (37.04%) Agile
2 22 (16.30%) Business Intelligence
3 21 (15.56%) DevOps
3 21 (15.56%) Software Engineering
4 19 (14.07%) Continuous Improvement
4 19 (14.07%) Design Patterns
5 17 (12.59%) MVC
6 15 (11.11%) Full Stack Development
6 15 (11.11%) Web Application Development
7 14 (10.37%) Electronic Trading
8 12 (8.89%) Problem-Solving
9 11 (8.15%) Migration
10 8 (5.93%) Microservices
11 7 (5.19%) CRM
11 7 (5.19%) Design Thinking
11 7 (5.19%) Web Development
12 6 (4.44%) API Design
12 6 (4.44%) CI/CD
12 6 (4.44%) Front End Development
12 6 (4.44%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 47 (34.81%) C#
2 42 (31.11%) JavaScript
3 22 (16.30%) SQL
4 19 (14.07%) TypeScript
5 15 (11.11%) Python
6 13 (9.63%) PowerShell
7 8 (5.93%) Java
8 6 (4.44%) Lua
9 5 (3.70%) MATLAB
10 4 (2.96%) C
10 4 (2.96%) Swift
11 3 (2.22%) Korn
11 3 (2.22%) Kotlin
11 3 (2.22%) Objective-C
11 3 (2.22%) VB.NET
12 2 (1.48%) Perl
12 2 (1.48%) PL/1
12 2 (1.48%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.74%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.74%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 21 (15.56%) Degree
2 14 (10.37%) Security Cleared
3 12 (8.89%) Master's Degree
4 9 (6.67%) SC Cleared
5 4 (2.96%) Azure Certification
6 3 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.74%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.48%) QA
System Software
1 3 (2.22%) Docker
2 1 (0.74%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (2.22%) Ansible
1 3 (2.22%) Terraform
2 2 (1.48%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.48%) Puppet
Vendors
1 25 (18.52%) Microsoft
2 11 (8.15%) Oracle
3 5 (3.70%) Databricks
3 5 (3.70%) Lotus
3 5 (3.70%) New Relic
3 5 (3.70%) Splunk
4 3 (2.22%) ESRI
5 2 (1.48%) Sybase
5 2 (1.48%) Virgin Media
5 2 (1.48%) Xamarin
6 1 (0.74%) Adobe
6 1 (0.74%) Apple
6 1 (0.74%) Google
6 1 (0.74%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.74%) SAP