Application Rationalisation Contracts

Application Rationalisation
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Application Rationalisation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Application Rationalisation 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 580 679 829
Rank change year-on-year +99 +150 -114
Contract jobs citing Application Rationalisation 4 18 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.009% 0.032% 0.022%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.011% 0.036% 0.024%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 12 12
10th Percentile £508 - -
25th Percentile £556 £525 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £625 £515
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% +21.36% -20.77%
75th Percentile £756 £688 £540
90th Percentile £783 £860 -
UK excluding London median daily rate - £850 £468
% change year-on-year - +81.82% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Application Rationalisation 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% -

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Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Application Rationalisation in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Application Rationalisation in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Application Rationalisation in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Application Rationalisation in the UK

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Top 4 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Application Rationalisation 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
England +75 2 £675 +3.85% 2
London +74 2 £675 +3.85% 1
Scotland +50 2 - -
UK excluding London +27 2 - - 1

Application Rationalisation
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 2 (50.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (25.00%) IaaS
1 1 (25.00%) PaaS
1 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (25.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Power BI
1 1 (25.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
1 1 (25.00%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
2 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Billing
3 1 (25.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Deskside Support
1 1 (25.00%) Desktop Support
1 1 (25.00%) Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Software Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (25.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (25.00%) Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Asset Management
1 2 (50.00%) Compatibility Testing
1 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (50.00%) Portfolio Management
1 2 (50.00%) Software Asset Management
1 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (25.00%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Modelling
2 1 (25.00%) Budgeting and Forecasting
2 1 (25.00%) Business Case
2 1 (25.00%) Cost Management
2 1 (25.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (25.00%) Cost Transparency
2 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (25.00%) Expense Management
2 1 (25.00%) Financial Modelling
2 1 (25.00%) FinOps
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (25.00%) SDLC
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft