Applications Engineer Contracts in the Midlands

Applications Engineer
England > Midlands

The median Applications Engineer daily rate in the Midlands is £650, 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 132 150 190
Rank change year-on-year +18 +40 -29
Contract jobs requiring an Applications Engineer 9 8 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.31% 0.25% 0.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.33% 0.26% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 7 13
10th Percentile £305 £358 £370
25th Percentile £306 £431 £379
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £510 £400
Median % change year-on-year +27.45% +27.50% +14.29%
75th Percentile £675 £624 £488
90th Percentile - £758 £625
England median daily rate £500 £600 £425
% change year-on-year -16.67% +41.18% -15.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the Midlands. 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 Midlands with a recognized job title 2,719 3,042 4,799
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.23% 94.50% 95.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,809 2,147 3,499
10th Percentile £213 £225 £208
25th Percentile £338 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £480 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% +1.05% +15.85%
75th Percentile £588 £595 £569
90th Percentile £675 £692 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 236 113 146
10th Percentile £11.83 £12.50 £11.63
25th Percentile £14.09 £15.00 £14.67
Median hourly rate £19.00 £20.71 £18.25
Median % change year-on-year -8.23% +13.45% +21.67%
75th Percentile £35.00 £30.00 £23.75
90th Percentile £51.91 £65.00 £35.00
England median hourly rate £39.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -12.22% +87.50% +14.01%

Applications Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Applications Engineer in the Midlands

Applications Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Applications Engineer in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Applications Engineer in the Midlands

Applications Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Applications Engineer in the Midlands over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Applications Engineer in the Midlands

Applications Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Applications Engineer in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Applications Engineer in the Midlands

Applications Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Applications Engineer within the Midlands 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
West Midlands +21 9 £650 +27.45% 12
Applications Engineer
England

Applications Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, Applications Engineer 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 Midlands region featuring Applications Engineer in the job title.

1 9 (100.00%) Windows
2 5 (55.56%) VPN
2 5 (55.56%) DNS
2 5 (55.56%) Active Directory
2 5 (55.56%) SAML
2 5 (55.56%) Data Security
2 5 (55.56%) Finance
2 5 (55.56%) Retail
2 5 (55.56%) Penetration Testing
2 5 (55.56%) Network Security
2 5 (55.56%) OAuth
2 5 (55.56%) Azure
2 5 (55.56%) AWS
2 5 (55.56%) Defensive Programming
2 5 (55.56%) CloudFront
2 5 (55.56%) Infrastructure Management
2 5 (55.56%) OAuth2
2 5 (55.56%) Docker
2 5 (55.56%) AWS Certification
2 5 (55.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 5 (55.56%) Entra ID
2 5 (55.56%) Cloud Native
2 5 (55.56%) The Twelve-Factor App
2 5 (55.56%) Task Automation
2 5 (55.56%) DevSecOps
2 5 (55.56%) Application Security
2 5 (55.56%) CI/CD
2 5 (55.56%) Incident Response
2 5 (55.56%) Cloud Security
2 5 (55.56%) Identity Access Management

Applications Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (55.56%) AWS
1 5 (55.56%) Azure
1 5 (55.56%) CloudFront
1 5 (55.56%) Entra ID
1 5 (55.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (55.56%) DNS
1 5 (55.56%) Network Security
1 5 (55.56%) VPN
General
1 5 (55.56%) Finance
1 5 (55.56%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (55.56%) OAuth
1 5 (55.56%) OAuth2
1 5 (55.56%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (55.56%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 9 (100.00%) Windows
2 4 (44.44%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Application Security
1 5 (55.56%) CI/CD
1 5 (55.56%) Cloud Security
1 5 (55.56%) Data Security
1 5 (55.56%) Defensive Programming
1 5 (55.56%) DevSecOps
1 5 (55.56%) Identity Access Management
1 5 (55.56%) Incident Response
1 5 (55.56%) Infrastructure Management
1 5 (55.56%) Penetration Testing
1 5 (55.56%) Task Automation
1 5 (55.56%) The Twelve-Factor App
Qualifications
1 5 (55.56%) AWS Certification
System Software
1 5 (55.56%) Active Directory
1 5 (55.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) SCCM