Application Support
UK

The median Application Support salary in the UK is £45,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 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
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 314 359 392
Rank change year-on-year +45 +33 -97
Permanent jobs requiring an Applications Support 909 932 1,455
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.92% 0.90% 0.93%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.98% 0.98% 0.97%
Number of salaries quoted 685 732 1,198
10th Percentile £27,500 £29,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,640 £33,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +17.65% -
75th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £73,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £41,000 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year +9.33% - +7.14%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

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

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 93,221 94,676 150,515
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.51% 96.07%
Number of salaries quoted 66,838 59,581 85,408
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

Applications Support
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Applications Support in the UK

Applications Support
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Applications Support in the UK

Applications Support
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Applications Support over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Applications Support in the UK

Applications Support
Top 18 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 5 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
England +68 809 £47,000 -6.00% 169
UK excluding London +55 550 £41,000 +9.33% 99
London +83 345 £62,500 - 72
Work from Home +22 333 £50,000 +8.70% 69
South East +86 165 £42,500 +6.25% 25
North of England +1 118 £40,000 +5.26% 23
Midlands +59 97 £32,121 -10.78% 17
North West +9 72 £45,000 +8.43% 16
East Midlands +27 60 £31,250 -10.71% 10
Wales +36 46 £45,000 +42.86%
East of England +25 46 £47,500 +6.66% 19
Yorkshire +47 37 £35,579 -5.12% 4
West Midlands +23 37 £32,121 -19.70% 7
South West -36 36 £43,500 +33.85% 12
Scotland -45 36 £40,750 -9.44% 6
North East -16 9 £37,500 +36.36% 3
Northern Ireland +13 5 £57,500 +33.72%
Channel Islands - 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 5 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 featuring Applications Support in the job title.

1 447 (49.17%) SQL
2 266 (29.26%) Finance
3 238 (26.18%) Social Skills
4 235 (25.85%) Problem-Solving
5 198 (21.78%) Microsoft
6 189 (20.79%) ITIL
7 174 (19.14%) Analytical Skills
8 170 (18.70%) Degree
9 156 (17.16%) Oracle
10 150 (16.50%) Linux
11 148 (16.28%) Unix
12 142 (15.62%) SQL Server
13 130 (14.30%) SLA
14 128 (14.08%) Windows
15 113 (12.43%) Incident Management
16 106 (11.66%) Azure
17 101 (11.11%) Service Management
18 96 (10.56%) Security Cleared
19 92 (10.12%) Customer Service
20 86 (9.46%) CRM
21 85 (9.35%) Actionable Insight
22 84 (9.24%) ITSM
22 84 (9.24%) Release Management
23 82 (9.02%) ERP
24 81 (8.91%) SC Cleared
25 76 (8.36%) JIRA
26 75 (8.25%) PL/SQL
27 74 (8.14%) WebLogic
27 74 (8.14%) Remedy
28 69 (7.59%) Solaris

Applications Support 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 74 (8.14%) WebLogic
2 52 (5.72%) SharePoint
3 45 (4.95%) Oracle Service Bus
4 34 (3.74%) IIS
5 27 (2.97%) Tomcat
6 26 (2.86%) Microsoft Exchange
7 14 (1.54%) Apache
8 13 (1.43%) Confluence
9 12 (1.32%) CMS
10 7 (0.77%) EPiServer
11 5 (0.55%) JBoss
11 5 (0.55%) WebSphere
Applications
1 64 (7.04%) Microsoft Office
2 56 (6.16%) Microsoft Excel
3 52 (5.72%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 62 (6.82%) Dynamics CRM
2 45 (4.95%) Remedy ITSM
3 23 (2.53%) NEC Housing
4 22 (2.42%) PlanetPress Connect
5 15 (1.65%) Fidessa
6 12 (1.32%) Dynamics NAV
7 11 (1.21%) Dynamics GP
8 10 (1.10%) SAP S/4HANA
9 9 (0.99%) thinkFolio
10 8 (0.88%) Endur
11 7 (0.77%) Dynamics AX
12 6 (0.66%) Infor SunSystems
12 6 (0.66%) ION Anvil
12 6 (0.66%) ION MarketView
12 6 (0.66%) NetSuite
12 6 (0.66%) Oracle Applications
12 6 (0.66%) Temenos T24
13 5 (0.55%) Aladdin
13 5 (0.55%) Magento
14 4 (0.44%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 106 (11.66%) Azure
2 57 (6.27%) Dynamics 365
3 56 (6.16%) Power Platform
4 43 (4.73%) AWS
4 43 (4.73%) Microsoft 365
5 30 (3.30%) SaaS
6 25 (2.75%) Power Automate
7 22 (2.42%) PowerApps
8 12 (1.32%) Entra ID
8 12 (1.32%) WhatsApp
9 10 (1.10%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (0.99%) Azure Monitor
11 8 (0.88%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 7 (0.77%) IaaS
13 5 (0.55%) Google Sheets
13 5 (0.55%) PaaS
14 4 (0.44%) Azure Logic Apps
14 4 (0.44%) SuccessFactors
15 2 (0.22%) Azure Data Factory
15 2 (0.22%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 29 (3.19%) Firewall
2 23 (2.53%) DNS
3 17 (1.87%) TCP/IP
4 15 (1.65%) DHCP
4 15 (1.65%) FIX Connectivity
5 11 (1.21%) VPN
6 6 (0.66%) Broadband
6 6 (0.66%) Internet
7 5 (0.55%) Remote Desktop
7 5 (0.55%) SAN
7 5 (0.55%) SSL
8 4 (0.44%) 5G
8 4 (0.44%) FTP
8 4 (0.44%) Intranet
9 2 (0.22%) HTTP
9 2 (0.22%) HTTPS
9 2 (0.22%) Software-Defined Networking
10 1 (0.11%) LAN
10 1 (0.11%) WAN
10 1 (0.11%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 142 (15.62%) SQL Server
2 68 (7.48%) Oracle Database
3 45 (4.95%) Oracle Database 10g
3 45 (4.95%) Oracle Database 11g
3 45 (4.95%) VLDB
4 34 (3.74%) Power BI
5 30 (3.30%) Elasticsearch
6 25 (2.75%) Data Warehouse
7 24 (2.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 17 (1.87%) MySQL
8 17 (1.87%) Relational Database
9 12 (1.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 9 (0.99%) Geospatial Data
10 9 (0.99%) GIS
10 9 (0.99%) MS Access
11 7 (0.77%) BusinessObjects
12 5 (0.55%) Crystal Reports
12 5 (0.55%) Pentaho
13 4 (0.44%) Azure SQL Database
13 4 (0.44%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 76 (8.36%) JIRA
2 22 (2.42%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 21 (2.31%) Eclipse
4 9 (0.99%) Oracle Forms
5 8 (0.88%) GitLab
5 8 (0.88%) Visual Studio
6 7 (0.77%) Bitbucket
6 7 (0.77%) Git
7 2 (0.22%) Browser DevTools
7 2 (0.22%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.11%) Gradle
8 1 (0.11%) JUnit
General
1 266 (29.26%) Finance
2 238 (26.18%) Social Skills
3 174 (19.14%) Analytical Skills
4 66 (7.26%) Front Office
5 64 (7.04%) Banking
6 36 (3.96%) Law
6 36 (3.96%) Police
7 29 (3.19%) Marketing
8 27 (2.97%) Manufacturing
9 26 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 22 (2.42%) Back Office
10 22 (2.42%) Retail
11 20 (2.20%) Legal
11 20 (2.20%) Local Government
12 19 (2.09%) Public Sector
13 14 (1.54%) Investment Banking
14 10 (1.10%) Automotive
15 7 (0.77%) Private Banking
16 6 (0.66%) Organisational Skills
17 4 (0.44%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (4.07%) .NET
2 32 (3.52%) J2EE
3 31 (3.41%) Spring
4 30 (3.30%) Web Services
5 29 (3.19%) FIX Protocol
5 29 (3.19%) Java EE
6 15 (1.65%) REST
7 11 (1.21%) ASP.NET
7 11 (1.21%) JSON
7 11 (1.21%) XML
8 10 (1.10%) HTML
8 10 (1.10%) SOAP
9 9 (0.99%) EDI
10 8 (0.88%) XSLT
11 7 (0.77%) Middleware
12 6 (0.66%) Kafka
12 6 (0.66%) OLE
13 5 (0.55%) CSS
14 4 (0.44%) .NET Framework
15 3 (0.33%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 21 (2.31%) Driving Licence
1 21 (2.31%) Enterprise Software
2 19 (2.09%) Self-Motivation
3 18 (1.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 18 (1.98%) Onboarding
4 16 (1.76%) Management Information System
4 16 (1.76%) Product Ownership
5 15 (1.65%) Eurex
6 14 (1.54%) Derivative
6 14 (1.54%) Public Cloud
7 12 (1.32%) CCTV
7 12 (1.32%) Equities
7 12 (1.32%) Mobile App
7 12 (1.32%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 11 (1.21%) Analytical Mindset
8 11 (1.21%) CMDB
8 11 (1.21%) Greenfield Project
9 10 (1.10%) Hedge funds
10 9 (0.99%) Linux Command Line
11 8 (0.88%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 150 (16.50%) Linux
2 148 (16.28%) Unix
3 128 (14.08%) Windows
4 69 (7.59%) Solaris
5 24 (2.64%) Windows Server
6 15 (1.65%) CentOS
7 10 (1.10%) Ubuntu
8 7 (0.77%) Windows 10
9 6 (0.66%) AIX
10 4 (0.44%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.22%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.22%) Windows 7
12 1 (0.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.11%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 235 (25.85%) Problem-Solving
2 189 (20.79%) ITIL
3 113 (12.43%) Incident Management
4 101 (11.11%) Service Management
5 92 (10.12%) Customer Service
6 86 (9.46%) CRM
7 85 (9.35%) Actionable Insight
8 84 (9.24%) ITSM
8 84 (9.24%) Release Management
9 82 (9.02%) ERP
10 57 (6.27%) Performance Tuning
11 55 (6.05%) Agile
12 53 (5.83%) Artificial Intelligence
13 51 (5.61%) Performance Monitoring
14 46 (5.06%) Capacity Planning
15 45 (4.95%) Capacity Management
16 41 (4.51%) Business Intelligence
16 41 (4.51%) Project Management
16 41 (4.51%) Service Delivery
17 40 (4.40%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 447 (49.17%) SQL
2 75 (8.25%) PL/SQL
3 63 (6.93%) Java
4 61 (6.71%) T-SQL
5 55 (6.05%) C#
6 49 (5.39%) Shell Script
7 47 (5.17%) Python
8 43 (4.73%) PowerShell
9 31 (3.41%) JavaScript
10 19 (2.09%) Bash
11 15 (1.65%) Perl
11 15 (1.65%) Ruby
12 9 (0.99%) C
12 9 (0.99%) VBA
13 7 (0.77%) C++
13 7 (0.77%) XPath
14 5 (0.55%) COBOL
15 3 (0.33%) VB
16 1 (0.11%) PHP
Qualifications
1 170 (18.70%) Degree
2 96 (10.56%) Security Cleared
3 81 (8.91%) SC Cleared
4 14 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (1.10%) Master's Degree
5 10 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
6 9 (0.99%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 7 (0.77%) Azure Certification
8 6 (0.66%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 5 (0.55%) ITIL Certification
10 4 (0.44%) A+ Certification
10 4 (0.44%) AWS Certification
10 4 (0.44%) CIPD
10 4 (0.44%) MCDST
11 2 (0.22%) ECDL
11 2 (0.22%) MCP
12 1 (0.11%) CTC Cleared
12 1 (0.11%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 130 (14.30%) SLA
2 14 (1.54%) Accessibility
3 8 (0.88%) Data Quality
4 7 (0.77%) GDPR
5 4 (0.44%) SOC 1
6 3 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.22%) QA
8 1 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 45 (4.95%) Oracle RAC
2 44 (4.84%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.66%) Docker
4 2 (0.22%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.22%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 45 (4.95%) Data Guard
1 45 (4.95%) Oracle RMAN
2 29 (3.19%) OpenSSO
2 29 (3.19%) Single Sign-On
3 10 (1.10%) Grafana
4 9 (0.99%) Terraform
5 7 (0.77%) ITRS Geneos
6 6 (0.66%) Kubernetes
7 5 (0.55%) Microsoft Clustering
7 5 (0.55%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (0.55%) Pingdom
8 4 (0.44%) Control-M
8 4 (0.44%) SCOM
8 4 (0.44%) WhatsUp Gold
9 2 (0.22%) Kibana
10 1 (0.11%) logstash
10 1 (0.11%) Packer
10 1 (0.11%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 198 (21.78%) Microsoft
2 156 (17.16%) Oracle
3 74 (8.14%) Remedy
4 50 (5.50%) Sun
5 31 (3.41%) ION Trading
6 30 (3.30%) SAP
7 29 (3.19%) ServiceNow
8 23 (2.53%) NEC
8 23 (2.53%) Trayport
9 22 (2.42%) Bloomberg
9 22 (2.42%) FNZ
9 22 (2.42%) Murex
10 20 (2.20%) Guidewire
11 17 (1.87%) Civica
12 16 (1.76%) Red Hat
13 15 (1.65%) CQG
13 15 (1.65%) Patsystems
13 15 (1.65%) Reuters
14 14 (1.54%) Salesforce
15 11 (1.21%) Sage