Application Discovery Contracts

Application Discovery
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Application Discovery skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Application Discovery over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 564 654 814
Rank change year-on-year +90 +160 -98
Contract jobs citing Application Discovery 20 43 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.046% 0.077% 0.039%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.054% 0.086% 0.043%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 28 25
10th Percentile £355 £200 £333
25th Percentile £405 £275 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £300 £513
Median % change year-on-year +53.33% -41.52% +52.00%
75th Percentile £470 £500 £675
90th Percentile £615 £538 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £460 £275 £513
% change year-on-year +67.27% -46.39% +75.84%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Application Discovery falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,178 49,770 79,013
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.13% 89.61% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,737 34,458 55,587
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,579 1,678 1,852
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.96 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%
75th Percentile £61.28 £65.00 £50.15
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
% change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -

Application Discovery
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Application Discovery as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Application Discovery in the UK

Application Discovery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Application Discovery.

Daily rate trend for Application Discovery in the UK

Application Discovery
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Application Discovery over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Application Discovery in the UK

Application Discovery
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Application Discovery.

Hourly rate trend for Application Discovery in the UK

Application Discovery
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Application Discovery within the UK 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
Work from Home +114 17 £465 +69.09%
England +61 12 £460 +12.13% 2
UK excluding London +13 8 £460 +67.27% 1
South East +11 6 £460 +9.52% 1
London +72 3 £438 -16.67% 1
North West +16 2 £369 -
North of England +16 2 £369 +36.62%

Application Discovery
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 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (5.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (15.00%) SaaS
2 2 (10.00%) Azure
2 2 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (5.00%) AWS
3 1 (5.00%) GCP
3 1 (5.00%) OneDrive
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) MSI
General
1 4 (20.00%) Finance
2 2 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
2 2 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Banking
3 1 (5.00%) Italian Language
3 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.00%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 9 (45.00%) Applications Packager
2 4 (20.00%) Project Manager
2 4 (20.00%) SC Cleared Application Packager
3 3 (15.00%) Lead
3 3 (15.00%) Senior
3 3 (15.00%) Senior Manager
3 3 (15.00%) Senior Project Manager
4 2 (10.00%) Applications Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Manager
4 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Project Manager
4 2 (10.00%) Migration Manager
4 2 (10.00%) Migration Project Manager
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Infrastructure Manager
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Infrastructure Project Manager
4 2 (10.00%) Windows Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Applications Consultant
5 1 (5.00%) Data Business Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Lead Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Microsoft 365 Business Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) SCCM Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (5.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 7 (35.00%) Windows
2 1 (5.00%) VMS
2 1 (5.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (40.00%) Application Packaging
2 6 (30.00%) Customer Requirements
3 4 (20.00%) Agile
3 4 (20.00%) Migration
3 4 (20.00%) Waterfall
4 2 (10.00%) Decision-Making
4 2 (10.00%) Resource Management
4 2 (10.00%) Time Management
4 2 (10.00%) User Acceptance Testing
5 1 (5.00%) Deployment Automation
5 1 (5.00%) Fintech
5 1 (5.00%) Impact Assessments
5 1 (5.00%) Requirements Gathering
5 1 (5.00%) Service Management
5 1 (5.00%) Smoke Testing
5 1 (5.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (5.00%) SQL
2 1 (5.00%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 9 (45.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (40.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft App-V
1 1 (5.00%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 3 (15.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (5.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.00%) Citrix
3 1 (5.00%) Google