Applications Manager Contracts

Application Manager
UK

The median Application Manager daily rate in the UK is £570, 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 536 590 688
Rank change year-on-year +54 +98 -74
Contract jobs requiring an Applications Manager 48 107 160
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.19% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.20% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 83 129
10th Percentile £384 £425 £413
25th Percentile £475 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year +3.64% +3.77% +11.58%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £600
90th Percentile £794 £783 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £613 £550 £485
% change year-on-year +11.36% +13.40% +8.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £64.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £64.50

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 40,557 52,491 83,111
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.86% 94.51% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,070 36,644 58,616
10th Percentile £280 £313 £318
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,936 1,486 1,938
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.75
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.42 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.81 £65.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +7.82%

Applications Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Applications Manager in the UK

Applications Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Applications Manager in the UK

Applications Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Applications Manager in the UK

Applications Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Applications Manager in the UK

Applications Manager
Top 10 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Applications Manager 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 +38 44 £575 +4.55% 39
UK excluding London +17 22 £613 +11.36% 32
London +43 20 £550 - 6
Work from Home +81 11 £575 +9.52% 16
South East +11 10 £625 +38.89% 6
West Midlands +17 5 £800 +34.45% 8
Midlands +14 5 £800 +39.13% 8
South West +4 5 £375 -34.78% 1
North of England +15 2 £575 -4.17% 11
Yorkshire +13 2 £575 +12.20% 3

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

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, Applications Manager 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 Manager in the job title.

1 23 (47.92%) Agile
2 16 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 14 (29.17%) Stakeholder Management
4 13 (27.08%) Migration
5 12 (25.00%) Finance
5 12 (25.00%) Project Delivery
6 10 (20.83%) Project Management
6 10 (20.83%) Waterfall
7 9 (18.75%) Azure
8 8 (16.67%) SAP
9 7 (14.58%) Mobile App
10 6 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
10 6 (12.50%) Scrum
10 6 (12.50%) Security Cleared
10 6 (12.50%) JIRA
11 5 (10.42%) Supplier Management
11 5 (10.42%) SC Cleared
11 5 (10.42%) Workflow
11 5 (10.42%) ITSM
11 5 (10.42%) Service Management
11 5 (10.42%) PMO
12 4 (8.33%) SDLC
12 4 (8.33%) Product Ownership
12 4 (8.33%) SQL
12 4 (8.33%) CRM
12 4 (8.33%) Law
12 4 (8.33%) Change Management
12 4 (8.33%) Retail
12 4 (8.33%) DV Cleared
12 4 (8.33%) Degree

Applications Manager 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 3 (6.25%) Confluence
2 2 (4.17%) Documentum
3 1 (2.08%) CMS
Business Applications
1 3 (6.25%) Primavera
2 2 (4.17%) SAP WM
3 1 (2.08%) SAP ERP
3 1 (2.08%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 9 (18.75%) Azure
2 3 (6.25%) Power Automate
2 3 (6.25%) Power Platform
2 3 (6.25%) PowerApps
3 2 (4.17%) GitHub
3 2 (4.17%) Slack
4 1 (2.08%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (2.08%) BigCommerce
4 1 (2.08%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (2.08%) PaaS
4 1 (2.08%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.08%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.25%) Azure SQL Database
1 3 (6.25%) Data Lake
1 3 (6.25%) Power BI
2 1 (2.08%) SAP HANA
2 1 (2.08%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (12.50%) JIRA
2 2 (4.17%) Git
2 2 (4.17%) Jenkins
2 2 (4.17%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 16 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 12 (25.00%) Finance
3 4 (8.33%) Law
3 4 (8.33%) Retail
4 3 (6.25%) Billing
5 2 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.08%) Banking
6 1 (2.08%) Electronics
6 1 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.08%) Legal
6 1 (2.08%) Mandarin Language
6 1 (2.08%) Marketing
6 1 (2.08%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (2.08%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.08%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.08%) ADO
1 1 (2.08%) SAP Basis
1 1 (2.08%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (14.58%) Mobile App
2 4 (8.33%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.17%) Data Centre
3 2 (4.17%) Renewable Energy
3 2 (4.17%) Solar Panel
4 1 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.08%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.08%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.08%) Android
1 1 (2.08%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (47.92%) Agile
2 14 (29.17%) Stakeholder Management
3 13 (27.08%) Migration
4 12 (25.00%) Project Delivery
5 10 (20.83%) Project Management
5 10 (20.83%) Waterfall
6 6 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (12.50%) Scrum
7 5 (10.42%) ITSM
7 5 (10.42%) Service Management
7 5 (10.42%) Supplier Management
7 5 (10.42%) Workflow
8 4 (8.33%) Change Management
8 4 (8.33%) CRM
8 4 (8.33%) SDLC
9 3 (6.25%) Business Intelligence
9 3 (6.25%) Data Analysis
9 3 (6.25%) Data Modelling
9 3 (6.25%) ITIL
9 3 (6.25%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 4 (8.33%) SQL
2 3 (6.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 3 (6.25%) Python
2 3 (6.25%) R
Qualifications
1 6 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 5 (10.42%) SC Cleared
3 4 (8.33%) Degree
3 4 (8.33%) DV Cleared
4 3 (6.25%) CIMA
5 1 (2.08%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.08%) ISTQB
5 1 (2.08%) PMI Certification
5 1 (2.08%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.42%) PMO
2 2 (4.17%) QA
System Software
1 1 (2.08%) Active Directory
1 1 (2.08%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (2.08%) AppManager
Vendors
1 8 (16.67%) SAP
2 3 (6.25%) Microsoft
3 2 (4.17%) Oracle
3 2 (4.17%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.08%) Adobe
4 1 (2.08%) Citrix
4 1 (2.08%) Sitecore