Applications Developer Contracts in London

Application Developer
England > London

The median Application Developer daily rate in London is £510, 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 332 367 505
Rank change year-on-year +35 +138 -67
Contract jobs requiring an Applications Developer 68 115 99
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.38% 0.46% 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.41% 0.48% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 68 65
10th Percentile £263 £400 £418
25th Percentile £325 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £850 £589 £625
90th Percentile - £675 £690
England median daily rate £456 £549 £548
% change year-on-year -16.89% +0.27% +21.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £17.38
England median hourly rate £24.50 £72.50 £17.38
% change year-on-year -66.21% +317.15% -53.04%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 16,560 23,906 36,699
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.67% 95.05% 95.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,921 17,459 27,030
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £440 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 324 281 404
10th Percentile £16.00 £17.98 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.17 £22.63 £23.75
Median hourly rate £27.81 £36.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.75% +2.86% +7.12%
75th Percentile £46.59 £63.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £66.85 £82.25 £67.50
England median hourly rate £39.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -12.22% +87.50% +14.01%

Applications Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Applications Developer in London

Applications Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Applications Developer in London.

Daily rate trend for Applications Developer in London

Applications Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Applications Developer in London

Applications Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Applications Developer in London.

Hourly rate trend for Applications Developer in London

Applications Developer
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London 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
Central London +37 8 £510 -2.86% 2
West London - 4 £600 -
Applications Developer
England

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

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 London region featuring Applications Developer in the job title.

1 35 (51.47%) Agile
2 27 (39.71%) C#
3 25 (36.76%) Azure
4 23 (33.82%) PowerApps
5 21 (30.88%) Power Platform
6 20 (29.41%) Social Skills
7 19 (27.94%) JIRA
7 19 (27.94%) SQL Server
7 19 (27.94%) Business Intelligence
8 18 (26.47%) Power Automate
8 18 (26.47%) Analytical Skills
9 17 (25.00%) JavaScript
10 16 (23.53%) Microsoft
10 16 (23.53%) Power BI
11 14 (20.59%) Azure Logic Apps
11 14 (20.59%) Serverless
11 14 (20.59%) Software Engineering
11 14 (20.59%) PowerShell
12 13 (19.12%) SharePoint
12 13 (19.12%) Azure Functions
12 13 (19.12%) REST
13 12 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
13 12 (17.65%) .NET
13 12 (17.65%) Oracle
13 12 (17.65%) PostgreSQL
13 12 (17.65%) Banking
13 12 (17.65%) Degree
14 11 (16.18%) Microsoft 365
14 11 (16.18%) DevOps
14 11 (16.18%) Azure DevOps

Applications Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 13 (19.12%) SharePoint
2 9 (13.24%) Confluence
3 3 (4.41%) Site Server
4 1 (1.47%) CMS
4 1 (1.47%) Headless CMS
4 1 (1.47%) JBoss
Business Applications
1 3 (4.41%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.47%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 25 (36.76%) Azure
2 23 (33.82%) PowerApps
3 21 (30.88%) Power Platform
4 18 (26.47%) Power Automate
5 14 (20.59%) Azure Logic Apps
5 14 (20.59%) Serverless
6 13 (19.12%) Azure Functions
7 11 (16.18%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (16.18%) Microsoft 365
8 10 (14.71%) GitHub
9 9 (13.24%) npm
10 5 (7.35%) AWS
10 5 (7.35%) Microsoft Purview
11 4 (5.88%) Azure API Management
11 4 (5.88%) Azure Service Bus
12 3 (4.41%) Amazon S3
12 3 (4.41%) Azure Batch
12 3 (4.41%) Azure Key Vault
12 3 (4.41%) Azure Storage
12 3 (4.41%) IaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (27.94%) SQL Server
2 16 (23.53%) Power BI
3 12 (17.65%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (14.71%) NoSQL
5 6 (8.82%) Metadata
6 3 (4.41%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (4.41%) Big Data
6 3 (4.41%) Data Lake
6 3 (4.41%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (4.41%) GIS
6 3 (4.41%) OLTP
7 2 (2.94%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 19 (27.94%) JIRA
2 9 (13.24%) GitLab
2 9 (13.24%) webpack
3 6 (8.82%) Git
4 3 (4.41%) Jenkins
4 3 (4.41%) Visual Studio Team System
5 1 (1.47%) JUnit
5 1 (1.47%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (1.47%) Visual Studio
General
1 20 (29.41%) Social Skills
2 18 (26.47%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (17.65%) Banking
4 10 (14.71%) Public Sector
5 9 (13.24%) Finance
5 9 (13.24%) Front Office
6 1 (1.47%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (19.12%) REST
2 12 (17.65%) .NET
3 10 (14.71%) React
4 9 (13.24%) AngularJS
4 9 (13.24%) RxJS
4 9 (13.24%) WebSockets
5 6 (8.82%) HTML
5 6 (8.82%) Web Services
6 3 (4.41%) .NET Core
6 3 (4.41%) ARM Templates
6 3 (4.41%) CSS
6 3 (4.41%) JSON
6 3 (4.41%) XML
7 2 (2.94%) .NET Framework
7 2 (2.94%) HTML5 Canvas
8 1 (1.47%) Android SDK
8 1 (1.47%) ASP.NET Web Forms
8 1 (1.47%) Flask
8 1 (1.47%) Kafka
8 1 (1.47%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.82%) Mobile App
2 2 (2.94%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.47%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (1.47%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.47%) Low-Code
3 1 (1.47%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.47%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.94%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (51.47%) Agile
2 19 (27.94%) Business Intelligence
3 14 (20.59%) Software Engineering
4 12 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
5 11 (16.18%) DevOps
5 11 (16.18%) Full Stack Development
6 10 (14.71%) Design Patterns
7 9 (13.24%) Design Thinking
7 9 (13.24%) Electronic Trading
7 9 (13.24%) Web Application Development
8 6 (8.82%) Data Visualisation
8 6 (8.82%) MVC
8 6 (8.82%) SDLC
8 6 (8.82%) Visualisation
9 5 (7.35%) Data Analysis
9 5 (7.35%) Data Governance
9 5 (7.35%) ITIL
9 5 (7.35%) Migration
9 5 (7.35%) Problem-Solving
10 4 (5.88%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 27 (39.71%) C#
2 17 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 14 (20.59%) PowerShell
4 10 (14.71%) TypeScript
5 9 (13.24%) SQL
6 8 (11.76%) Python
7 6 (8.82%) Lua
8 5 (7.35%) MATLAB
9 4 (5.88%) Java
10 3 (4.41%) Korn
11 2 (2.94%) Perl
11 2 (2.94%) Shell Script
12 1 (1.47%) Scala
12 1 (1.47%) T-SQL
12 1 (1.47%) VB.NET
12 1 (1.47%) VBA
Qualifications
1 12 (17.65%) Degree
2 10 (14.71%) Master's Degree
3 5 (7.35%) Security Cleared
4 2 (2.94%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 1 (1.47%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (4.41%) Ansible
1 3 (4.41%) Terraform
2 2 (2.94%) Puppet
3 1 (1.47%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 16 (23.53%) Microsoft
2 12 (17.65%) Oracle
3 5 (7.35%) Databricks
4 3 (4.41%) ESRI
5 2 (2.94%) Sybase
6 1 (1.47%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.47%) SAP
6 1 (1.47%) Virgin Media