Applications Support Jobs in the UK excluding London

Application Support
UK > UK excluding London

The median Application Support salary in the UK excluding London is £40,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 May 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
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 318 385 340
Rank change year-on-year +67 -45 -52
Permanent jobs requiring an Applications Support 557 455 706
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.79% 0.76% 1.00%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.83% 0.85% 1.04%
Number of salaries quoted 385 322 558
10th Percentile £25,500 £26,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £37,500 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - +7.14%
75th Percentile £48,750 £47,500 £46,250
90th Percentile £56,250 £57,500 £50,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +17.65% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

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

Permanent vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 67,217 53,628 67,833
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.79% 89.16% 95.77%
Number of salaries quoted 47,585 30,477 42,470
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Applications Support
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Applications Support in the UK excluding London

Applications Support
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Applications Support in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Applications Support in the UK excluding London

Applications Support
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Applications Support in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Applications Support in the UK excluding London

Applications Support
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Applications Support within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +63 166 £42,500 +6.25% 22
North of England +11 120 £40,000 +5.26% 18
Midlands +38 101 £32,121 -8.23% 18
North West +11 74 £45,000 +8.43% 13
East Midlands +23 61 £32,500 -7.14% 13
East of England +30 48 £47,500 +6.66% 15
Wales +24 44 £45,000 +42.86%
West Midlands +20 40 £32,121 -18.97% 5
Yorkshire +52 37 £35,579 -5.12% 3
Scotland -46 37 £37,500 -16.67% 5
South West -31 35 £43,500 +33.85% 15
North East -13 9 £37,500 +36.36% 2
Northern Ireland +19 5 £57,500 +33.72%
Channel Islands - 1 - -
Applications Support
UK

Applications Support Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 9 May 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 UK excluding London region featuring Applications Support in the job title.

1 256 (45.96%) SQL
2 179 (32.14%) Problem-Solving
3 145 (26.03%) Social Skills
4 140 (25.13%) Analytical Skills
5 123 (22.08%) Degree
6 117 (21.01%) Microsoft
7 115 (20.65%) Oracle
8 110 (19.75%) ITIL
8 110 (19.75%) Finance
9 102 (18.31%) Unix
9 102 (18.31%) SLA
10 99 (17.77%) Linux
11 91 (16.34%) Security Cleared
12 83 (14.90%) Incident Management
13 80 (14.36%) Actionable Insight
14 78 (14.00%) SC Cleared
15 74 (13.29%) Service Management
16 73 (13.11%) Customer Service
17 71 (12.75%) Remedy
17 71 (12.75%) WebLogic
18 66 (11.85%) Release Management
19 65 (11.67%) ERP
20 63 (11.31%) SQL Server
21 59 (10.59%) PL/SQL
21 59 (10.59%) ITSM
22 57 (10.23%) Microsoft Office
22 57 (10.23%) Oracle Database
23 56 (10.05%) Solaris
24 54 (9.69%) Performance Tuning
25 53 (9.52%) CRM

Applications Support Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 71 (12.75%) WebLogic
2 44 (7.90%) Oracle Service Bus
3 38 (6.82%) SharePoint
4 21 (3.77%) IIS
5 17 (3.05%) Tomcat
6 12 (2.15%) Apache
7 8 (1.44%) Confluence
8 6 (1.08%) Microsoft Exchange
9 5 (0.90%) WebSphere
Applications
1 57 (10.23%) Microsoft Office
2 52 (9.34%) Microsoft Excel
3 46 (8.26%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 44 (7.90%) Remedy ITSM
2 30 (5.39%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (2.15%) NEC Housing
4 11 (1.97%) Dynamics GP
5 10 (1.80%) PlanetPress Connect
5 10 (1.80%) SAP S/4HANA
6 9 (1.62%) Dynamics NAV
7 6 (1.08%) Oracle Applications
8 5 (0.90%) Magento
8 5 (0.90%) NetSuite
9 3 (0.54%) Infor SunSystems
9 3 (0.54%) iTrent
10 2 (0.36%) Epicor Tropos
10 2 (0.36%) Oracle EBS
10 2 (0.36%) SAP HCM
10 2 (0.36%) SAP MM
11 1 (0.18%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
11 1 (0.18%) JDE OneWorld
11 1 (0.18%) Maximo
11 1 (0.18%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 51 (9.16%) Azure
2 46 (8.26%) Power Platform
3 39 (7.00%) Dynamics 365
4 31 (5.57%) AWS
4 31 (5.57%) Microsoft 365
5 17 (3.05%) Power Automate
5 17 (3.05%) SaaS
6 14 (2.51%) PowerApps
7 11 (1.97%) Entra ID
8 6 (1.08%) WhatsApp
9 5 (0.90%) Google Sheets
10 4 (0.72%) Azure Logic Apps
10 4 (0.72%) IaaS
11 2 (0.36%) PaaS
12 1 (0.18%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.62%) Firewall
1 9 (1.62%) VPN
2 6 (1.08%) Broadband
3 5 (0.90%) Remote Desktop
3 5 (0.90%) SAN
4 4 (0.72%) FTP
5 2 (0.36%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (0.18%) Internet
6 1 (0.18%) LAN
6 1 (0.18%) VLAN
6 1 (0.18%) WAN
6 1 (0.18%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (11.31%) SQL Server
2 57 (10.23%) Oracle Database
3 44 (7.90%) Oracle Database 10g
3 44 (7.90%) Oracle Database 11g
3 44 (7.90%) VLDB
4 29 (5.21%) Power BI
5 27 (4.85%) Elasticsearch
6 16 (2.87%) MySQL
7 13 (2.33%) Relational Database
8 10 (1.80%) Data Warehouse
9 9 (1.62%) Geospatial Data
9 9 (1.62%) GIS
9 9 (1.62%) MS Access
10 7 (1.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 6 (1.08%) BusinessObjects
12 5 (0.90%) Pentaho
13 4 (0.72%) Azure SQL Database
13 4 (0.72%) Crystal Reports
14 3 (0.54%) QlikView
14 3 (0.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 39 (7.00%) JIRA
2 10 (1.80%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 9 (1.62%) Oracle Forms
4 7 (1.26%) Eclipse
4 7 (1.26%) GitLab
5 6 (1.08%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.36%) Git
6 2 (0.36%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.18%) Gradle
7 1 (0.18%) JUnit
General
1 145 (26.03%) Social Skills
2 140 (25.13%) Analytical Skills
3 110 (19.75%) Finance
4 34 (6.10%) Police
5 29 (5.21%) Law
6 27 (4.85%) Manufacturing
7 24 (4.31%) Marketing
8 17 (3.05%) Legal
8 17 (3.05%) Public Sector
9 16 (2.87%) Local Government
10 13 (2.33%) Retail
11 12 (2.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 10 (1.80%) Automotive
13 6 (1.08%) Banking
13 6 (1.08%) Investment Banking
13 6 (1.08%) Private Banking
14 4 (0.72%) Documentation Skills
15 3 (0.54%) Back Office
15 3 (0.54%) Environmental Health
15 3 (0.54%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (5.21%) Spring
2 27 (4.85%) J2EE
2 27 (4.85%) Java EE
3 12 (2.15%) .NET
3 12 (2.15%) Web Services
4 9 (1.62%) HTML
5 6 (1.08%) EDI
5 6 (1.08%) Kafka
5 6 (1.08%) Middleware
5 6 (1.08%) OLE
6 5 (0.90%) CSS
7 3 (0.54%) JSON
7 3 (0.54%) Node.js
7 3 (0.54%) Spring Boot
8 2 (0.36%) XML
9 1 (0.18%) FIX Protocol
9 1 (0.18%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 21 (3.77%) Enterprise Software
2 19 (3.41%) Driving Licence
3 12 (2.15%) Management Information System
3 12 (2.15%) Public Cloud
4 11 (1.97%) Analytical Mindset
5 10 (1.80%) CCTV
6 9 (1.62%) Self-Motivation
7 8 (1.44%) Linux Command Line
7 8 (1.44%) Mobile App
8 7 (1.26%) CMDB
9 5 (0.90%) Clustering
9 5 (0.90%) Reference Data
10 3 (0.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 3 (0.54%) Legacy Code
11 2 (0.36%) Cloud Native
11 2 (0.36%) IoT
11 2 (0.36%) iPhone
11 2 (0.36%) NHS
11 2 (0.36%) Product Ownership
12 1 (0.18%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 102 (18.31%) Unix
2 99 (17.77%) Linux
3 56 (10.05%) Solaris
4 45 (8.08%) Windows
5 16 (2.87%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.36%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.36%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.36%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.36%) Windows 7
7 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.18%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 179 (32.14%) Problem-Solving
2 110 (19.75%) ITIL
3 83 (14.90%) Incident Management
4 80 (14.36%) Actionable Insight
5 74 (13.29%) Service Management
6 73 (13.11%) Customer Service
7 66 (11.85%) Release Management
8 65 (11.67%) ERP
9 59 (10.59%) ITSM
10 54 (9.69%) Performance Tuning
11 53 (9.52%) CRM
12 50 (8.98%) Performance Monitoring
13 46 (8.26%) Artificial Intelligence
14 44 (7.90%) Capacity Planning
15 43 (7.72%) Capacity Management
16 38 (6.82%) Business Intelligence
17 37 (6.64%) Project Management
18 36 (6.46%) Service Delivery
19 32 (5.75%) User Acceptance Testing
20 27 (4.85%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 256 (45.96%) SQL
2 59 (10.59%) PL/SQL
3 44 (7.90%) Shell Script
4 42 (7.54%) Java
5 33 (5.92%) T-SQL
6 22 (3.95%) C#
7 10 (1.80%) JavaScript
7 10 (1.80%) Python
8 5 (0.90%) COBOL
8 5 (0.90%) VBA
9 4 (0.72%) C
10 3 (0.54%) C++
10 3 (0.54%) PowerShell
10 3 (0.54%) VB
11 1 (0.18%) Bash
11 1 (0.18%) PHP
Qualifications
1 123 (22.08%) Degree
2 91 (16.34%) Security Cleared
3 78 (14.00%) SC Cleared
4 10 (1.80%) Microsoft Certification
5 9 (1.62%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (0.72%) A+ Certification
6 4 (0.72%) MCDST
7 3 (0.54%) ITIL Certification
7 3 (0.54%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.36%) ECDL
8 2 (0.36%) MCP
9 1 (0.18%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (18.31%) SLA
2 12 (2.15%) Accessibility
3 7 (1.26%) GDPR
4 3 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.36%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 44 (7.90%) Oracle RAC
2 23 (4.13%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.90%) Docker
4 2 (0.36%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 44 (7.90%) Data Guard
1 44 (7.90%) Oracle RMAN
2 27 (4.85%) OpenSSO
2 27 (4.85%) Single Sign-On
3 6 (1.08%) Grafana
4 5 (0.90%) ITRS Geneos
4 5 (0.90%) Microsoft Clustering
5 4 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (0.72%) SCOM
5 4 (0.72%) WhatsUp Gold
6 1 (0.18%) Kibana
6 1 (0.18%) Kubernetes
6 1 (0.18%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 117 (21.01%) Microsoft
2 115 (20.65%) Oracle
3 71 (12.75%) Remedy
4 44 (7.90%) Sun
5 20 (3.59%) SAP
6 17 (3.05%) Civica
6 17 (3.05%) ServiceNow
7 12 (2.15%) NEC
8 10 (1.80%) FNZ
9 8 (1.44%) Epicor
10 7 (1.26%) Salesforce
11 6 (1.08%) Guidewire
11 6 (1.08%) Sage
12 5 (0.90%) AppDynamics
12 5 (0.90%) CA
12 5 (0.90%) Google
12 5 (0.90%) Splunk
12 5 (0.90%) Sybase
13 4 (0.72%) Infor
14 3 (0.54%) Cognos