Applications Specialist Contracts

Application Specialist
UK

The median Application Specialist daily rate in the UK is £425, 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 534 651 795
Rank change year-on-year +117 +144 -129
Contract jobs requiring an Applications Specialist 50 46 53
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.083% 0.061%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.088% 0.064%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 26 39
10th Percentile £290 £375 £333
25th Percentile £300 £404 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% -9.09% +22.22%
75th Percentile £525 £538 £650
90th Percentile £575 £588 £747
UK excluding London median daily rate £401 £400 £475
% change year-on-year +0.13% -15.79% +35.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £13.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £5.00 -

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 Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Applications Specialist in the UK

Applications Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Applications Specialist in the UK

Applications Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Applications Specialist in the UK

Applications Specialist
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Applications Specialist in the UK

Applications Specialist
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 Applications Specialist 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 +92 49 £413 -17.45% 44
London +89 33 £450 -10.00% 10
Work from Home +112 18 £508 +6.84% 12
UK excluding London +25 13 £401 +0.13% 37
South East +14 12 £401 +14.43% 12
North of England +16 1 - - 2
North West +14 1 - - 1

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

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

1 18 (36.00%) IBM
2 17 (34.00%) Security Cleared
3 16 (32.00%) SC Cleared
4 14 (28.00%) Windows
5 13 (26.00%) Unix
6 12 (24.00%) Netcool
6 12 (24.00%) Shell Script
6 12 (24.00%) Microsoft
7 11 (22.00%) Driving Licence
8 10 (20.00%) PowerShell
9 9 (18.00%) Application Packaging
9 9 (18.00%) QA
10 8 (16.00%) Azure
10 8 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
10 8 (16.00%) Social Skills
11 7 (14.00%) Customer Service
11 7 (14.00%) Virtual Desktop
11 7 (14.00%) User Acceptance Testing
11 7 (14.00%) Finance
11 7 (14.00%) Active Directory
11 7 (14.00%) SQL
12 6 (12.00%) WebSphere MQ
12 6 (12.00%) WebSphere Application Server
12 6 (12.00%) WebLogic
12 6 (12.00%) SSL
12 6 (12.00%) Information Security
12 6 (12.00%) Service Delivery
12 6 (12.00%) WebSphere
12 6 (12.00%) DataPower
12 6 (12.00%) SCCM

Applications Specialist 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 6 (12.00%) WebLogic
1 6 (12.00%) WebSphere
1 6 (12.00%) WebSphere Application Server
2 1 (2.00%) IIS
2 1 (2.00%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 8 (16.00%) Azure
2 5 (10.00%) Dynamics 365
2 5 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (4.00%) AWS
3 2 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (4.00%) Mimecast
4 1 (2.00%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (2.00%) GitHub
4 1 (2.00%) IaaS
4 1 (2.00%) PaaS
4 1 (2.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (12.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (2.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (2.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (2.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 6 (12.00%) IBM UrbanCode
2 3 (6.00%) InstallShield
2 3 (6.00%) MSI
3 1 (2.00%) Oracle APEX
3 1 (2.00%) TeamCity
3 1 (2.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 8 (16.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (14.00%) Finance
3 2 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.00%) Banking
4 1 (2.00%) Marketing
4 1 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (2.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.00%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (12.00%) WebSphere MQ
2 3 (6.00%) .NET
3 1 (2.00%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (2.00%) WCF
3 1 (2.00%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 11 (22.00%) Driving Licence
2 6 (12.00%) DataPower
3 3 (6.00%) Learning Management System
3 3 (6.00%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.00%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (2.00%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 14 (28.00%) Windows
2 13 (26.00%) Unix
3 1 (2.00%) Linux
3 1 (2.00%) Solaris
3 1 (2.00%) VMS
3 1 (2.00%) Windows 10
3 1 (2.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (18.00%) Application Packaging
2 8 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (14.00%) Customer Service
3 7 (14.00%) User Acceptance Testing
4 6 (12.00%) Information Security
4 6 (12.00%) Service Delivery
5 5 (10.00%) Incident Management
5 5 (10.00%) ITIL
6 4 (8.00%) Migration
6 4 (8.00%) Task Automation
7 3 (6.00%) DevOps
7 3 (6.00%) Project Planning
7 3 (6.00%) Release Management
7 3 (6.00%) Time Management
8 2 (4.00%) Asset Management
8 2 (4.00%) Change Management
8 2 (4.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
8 2 (4.00%) Stakeholder Management
8 2 (4.00%) User Experience
8 2 (4.00%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 12 (24.00%) Shell Script
2 10 (20.00%) PowerShell
3 7 (14.00%) SQL
4 3 (6.00%) C#
5 2 (4.00%) JavaScript
5 2 (4.00%) VBScript
6 1 (2.00%) C++
6 1 (2.00%) F#
6 1 (2.00%) Python
6 1 (2.00%) R
6 1 (2.00%) VB
6 1 (2.00%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 17 (34.00%) Security Cleared
2 16 (32.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (18.00%) QA
2 1 (2.00%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (14.00%) Active Directory
1 7 (14.00%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (2.00%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 12 (24.00%) Netcool
2 6 (12.00%) SCCM
3 5 (10.00%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (6.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 18 (36.00%) IBM
2 12 (24.00%) Microsoft
3 5 (10.00%) ServiceNow
4 2 (4.00%) Dynatrace
4 2 (4.00%) Oracle
4 2 (4.00%) Proofpoint
5 1 (2.00%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.00%) SAP
5 1 (2.00%) Tanium
5 1 (2.00%) Zscaler