Applications Support Jobs in Reading

Application Support
Berkshire > Reading

The median Application Support salary in Reading is £33,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 75 128 93
Rank change year-on-year +53 -35 -2
Permanent jobs requiring an Applications Support 49 12 34
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 2.86% 0.74% 1.96%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.02% 0.80% 2.01%
Number of salaries quoted 10 9 16
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £25,375
25th Percentile £30,813 £28,500 £29,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,500 £55,000 £30,000
Median % change year-on-year -39.09% +83.33% -18.92%
75th Percentile £54,375 £57,500 £39,813
90th Percentile £61,625 £67,500 £50,000
Berkshire median annual salary £42,500 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year - -5.56% +14.65%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Reading

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Reading. 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 permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Reading with a recognized job title 1,621 1,509 1,692
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.74% 93.61% 97.41%
Number of salaries quoted 1,036 812 1,015
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £73,863
90th Percentile £80,000 £92,500 £82,500
Berkshire median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £57,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +0.88% +3.64%

Applications Support
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Applications Support in Reading

Applications Support
Salary Trend in Reading

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Applications Support in Reading.

Salary trend for Applications Support in Reading

Applications Support
Salary Histogram in Reading

Salary distribution for jobs citing Applications Support in Reading over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Applications Support in Reading

Applications Support Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading

For the 6 months to 24 April 2024, Applications Support 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 permanent job ads across the Reading region featuring Applications Support in the job title.

1 44 (89.80%) SC Cleared
1 44 (89.80%) Security Cleared
2 38 (77.55%) Oracle
2 38 (77.55%) Analytical Skills
2 38 (77.55%) Actionable Insight
3 37 (75.51%) SLA
3 37 (75.51%) Remedy
3 37 (75.51%) WebLogic
3 37 (75.51%) Unix
4 36 (73.47%) Incident Management
5 26 (53.06%) Java
6 24 (48.98%) Problem-Solving
6 24 (48.98%) Social Skills
7 23 (46.94%) ITIL
7 23 (46.94%) Service Management
7 23 (46.94%) Spring
8 22 (44.90%) Information Management
8 22 (44.90%) Enterprise Architecture
8 22 (44.90%) Java EE
8 22 (44.90%) OpenSSO
8 22 (44.90%) Shell Script
8 22 (44.90%) J2EE
8 22 (44.90%) Elasticsearch
8 22 (44.90%) Impact Assessments
8 22 (44.90%) Containerisation
8 22 (44.90%) Police
8 22 (44.90%) Enterprise Search
8 22 (44.90%) Single Sign-On
9 17 (34.69%) Degree
10 16 (32.65%) Linux

Applications Support Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 37 (75.51%) WebLogic
2 15 (30.61%) Oracle Service Bus
3 1 (2.04%) Confluence
Applications
1 15 (30.61%) Microsoft Excel
1 15 (30.61%) Microsoft Office
1 15 (30.61%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 15 (30.61%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 5 (10.20%) AWS
2 1 (2.04%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.16%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (44.90%) Elasticsearch
2 15 (30.61%) Oracle Database
2 15 (30.61%) Oracle Database 10g
2 15 (30.61%) Oracle Database 11g
2 15 (30.61%) VLDB
3 1 (2.04%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (2.04%) Bitbucket
1 1 (2.04%) Eclipse
1 1 (2.04%) Git
1 1 (2.04%) Gradle
1 1 (2.04%) IntelliJ
1 1 (2.04%) JIRA
1 1 (2.04%) JUnit
General
1 38 (77.55%) Analytical Skills
2 24 (48.98%) Social Skills
3 22 (44.90%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (46.94%) Spring
2 22 (44.90%) J2EE
2 22 (44.90%) Java EE
3 3 (6.12%) Spring Boot
4 1 (2.04%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 7 (14.29%) CMDB
2 1 (2.04%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 37 (75.51%) Unix
2 16 (32.65%) Linux
3 15 (30.61%) Solaris
4 4 (8.16%) Windows
4 4 (8.16%) Windows Server
5 1 (2.04%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (77.55%) Actionable Insight
2 36 (73.47%) Incident Management
3 24 (48.98%) Problem-Solving
4 23 (46.94%) ITIL
4 23 (46.94%) Service Management
5 22 (44.90%) Containerisation
5 22 (44.90%) Enterprise Architecture
5 22 (44.90%) Enterprise Search
5 22 (44.90%) Impact Assessments
5 22 (44.90%) Information Management
6 15 (30.61%) Artificial Intelligence
6 15 (30.61%) Capacity Planning
6 15 (30.61%) ITSM
6 15 (30.61%) Performance Monitoring
6 15 (30.61%) Performance Tuning
7 14 (28.57%) Capacity Management
7 14 (28.57%) Release Management
8 4 (8.16%) Configuration Management
9 3 (6.12%) Migration
9 3 (6.12%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 26 (53.06%) Java
2 22 (44.90%) Shell Script
3 16 (32.65%) SQL
4 15 (30.61%) PL/SQL
5 1 (2.04%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 44 (89.80%) SC Cleared
1 44 (89.80%) Security Cleared
2 17 (34.69%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (75.51%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (30.61%) Oracle RAC
2 4 (8.16%) Active Directory
3 2 (4.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 22 (44.90%) OpenSSO
1 22 (44.90%) Single Sign-On
2 15 (30.61%) Data Guard
2 15 (30.61%) Oracle RMAN
3 4 (8.16%) SCOM
4 1 (2.04%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 38 (77.55%) Oracle
2 37 (75.51%) Remedy
3 15 (30.61%) Sun
4 7 (14.29%) ServiceNow