Applications Engineer
UK

The median Applications Engineer salary in the UK is £42,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 13 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
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 582 617 616
Rank change year-on-year +35 -1 -77
Permanent jobs requiring an Applications Engineer 317 390 795
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.32% 0.39% 0.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.34% 0.42% 0.52%
Number of salaries quoted 221 277 456
10th Percentile £26,750 £31,800 £30,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,834 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £58,750 £70,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £97,500 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £42,098 £45,000
% change year-on-year +0.96% -6.45% +12.50%

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 93,699 92,665 152,640
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.54% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 67,079 58,510 84,912
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,611
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £80,719 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,173
% change year-on-year -5.66% +5.64% +5.63%

Applications Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Applications Engineer in the UK

Applications Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Applications Engineer in the UK

Applications Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Applications Engineer over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Applications Engineer in the UK

Applications Engineer
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Applications Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 13 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 +56 282 £42,500 -22.73% 158
UK excluding London +59 257 £42,500 +0.96% 133
South East +76 103 £42,500 - 34
Work from Home +22 100 £45,500 -17.27% 66
London -7 55 £70,000 +7.69% 28
Midlands +26 52 £32,500 -13.33% 34
North of England +33 46 £41,235 -2.05% 26
East Midlands +15 33 £28,500 -21.38% 12
Yorkshire +70 25 £37,500 -8.54% 10
West Midlands +23 19 £40,000 -23.81% 22
North West 0 18 £50,000 +18.77% 15
Scotland -50 17 £37,500 -25.00% 6
Wales +27 15 £50,000 - 3
East of England +14 12 £50,000 -9.09% 19
South West -20 12 £37,500 +15.38% 18
North East -4 3 £60,000 +27.66% 1

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

For the 6 months to 13 May 2024, Applications Engineer 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 102 (32.18%) SQL
2 82 (25.87%) Windows
3 78 (24.61%) Problem-Solving
4 75 (23.66%) Linux
5 68 (21.45%) Degree
6 66 (20.82%) Microsoft
7 63 (19.87%) Software Engineering
7 63 (19.87%) Agile
8 58 (18.30%) C#
8 58 (18.30%) Social Skills
9 55 (17.35%) Azure
10 48 (15.14%) Analytical Skills
11 42 (13.25%) Finance
12 41 (12.93%) ITIL
12 41 (12.93%) Customer Requirements
13 32 (10.09%) DevOps
13 32 (10.09%) C
14 31 (9.78%) C++
14 31 (9.78%) Java
15 30 (9.46%) SQL Server
15 30 (9.46%) Python
16 29 (9.15%) .NET
16 29 (9.15%) Collaborative Working
17 28 (8.83%) Active Directory
18 27 (8.52%) Law
18 27 (8.52%) Scrum
19 26 (8.20%) Service Management
19 26 (8.20%) Windows Server
20 25 (7.89%) Power Platform
21 24 (7.57%) Microsoft 365

Applications Engineer 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 11 (3.47%) IIS
1 11 (3.47%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (3.15%) Tomcat
3 7 (2.21%) Confluence
3 7 (2.21%) SharePoint
4 5 (1.58%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.32%) Apache
5 1 (0.32%) nginx
Applications
1 14 (4.42%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (4.10%) SOLIDWORKS
3 10 (3.15%) AutoCAD
4 9 (2.84%) Solid Edge
5 7 (2.21%) Fusion 360
6 5 (1.58%) Autodesk Inventor
7 3 (0.95%) Microsoft Excel
8 1 (0.32%) Revit
Business Applications
1 5 (1.58%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.26%) Elite 3E
3 2 (0.63%) DELMIA
3 2 (0.63%) Eikon
4 1 (0.32%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.32%) Endur
4 1 (0.32%) Findur
Cloud Services
1 55 (17.35%) Azure
2 25 (7.89%) Power Platform
3 24 (7.57%) Microsoft 365
4 23 (7.26%) AWS
5 17 (5.36%) Dynamics 365
5 17 (5.36%) Entra ID
6 14 (4.42%) PowerApps
7 11 (3.47%) Power Automate
8 9 (2.84%) SaaS
9 8 (2.52%) WhatsApp
10 6 (1.89%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 6 (1.89%) Azure Monitor
11 5 (1.58%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (1.58%) GCP
12 4 (1.26%) Azure Logic Apps
13 2 (0.63%) Serverless
13 2 (0.63%) Slack
14 1 (0.32%) AWS Fargate
14 1 (0.32%) Bitrise
14 1 (0.32%) Google Play
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.79%) Firewall
2 10 (3.15%) VPN
3 7 (2.21%) Remote Desktop
4 6 (1.89%) SAN
4 6 (1.89%) SSL
5 5 (1.58%) DNS
6 4 (1.26%) Intranet
7 3 (0.95%) GPRS
8 2 (0.63%) Network Security
9 1 (0.32%) HTTP
9 1 (0.32%) HTTPS
9 1 (0.32%) Internet
9 1 (0.32%) LTE
9 1 (0.32%) Reverse Proxy
9 1 (0.32%) VLAN
9 1 (0.32%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (9.46%) SQL Server
2 15 (4.73%) MySQL
3 14 (4.42%) Power BI
4 6 (1.89%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 5 (1.58%) Pentaho
6 4 (1.26%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (1.26%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (0.95%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (0.95%) MongoDB
7 3 (0.95%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.63%) Redis
8 2 (0.63%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 2 (0.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.32%) Metadata
9 1 (0.32%) Metadata Repository
9 1 (0.32%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 20 (6.31%) Git
2 19 (5.99%) JIRA
3 12 (3.79%) Visual Studio
4 11 (3.47%) Subversion
5 8 (2.52%) Bitbucket
6 5 (1.58%) MSI
7 2 (0.63%) GitLab
7 2 (0.63%) IntelliJ
7 2 (0.63%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.63%) NUnit
8 1 (0.32%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.32%) fastlane
8 1 (0.32%) Gradle
8 1 (0.32%) JUnit
8 1 (0.32%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 58 (18.30%) Social Skills
2 48 (15.14%) Analytical Skills
3 42 (13.25%) Finance
4 27 (8.52%) Law
5 19 (5.99%) Manufacturing
6 17 (5.36%) Legal
7 16 (5.05%) Electronics
8 14 (4.42%) Marketing
9 13 (4.10%) Aerospace
10 9 (2.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (1.58%) Banking
11 5 (1.58%) General Ledger
11 5 (1.58%) Pharmaceutical
12 4 (1.26%) Back Office
12 4 (1.26%) Front Office
13 3 (0.95%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (0.95%) Public Sector
13 3 (0.95%) Telecoms
14 2 (0.63%) Influencing Skills
15 1 (0.32%) Agriculture
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (9.15%) .NET
2 19 (5.99%) WPF
3 17 (5.36%) .NET Framework
4 12 (3.79%) WinForms
5 11 (3.47%) HTML
5 11 (3.47%) Qt
6 8 (2.52%) .NET Core
7 7 (2.21%) REST
8 6 (1.89%) CSS
9 5 (1.58%) Kafka
10 4 (1.26%) ADO
10 4 (1.26%) AngularJS
11 3 (0.95%) Software Packaging
12 2 (0.63%) FIX Protocol
12 2 (0.63%) JSON
12 2 (0.63%) OAuth
12 2 (0.63%) OpenID
12 2 (0.63%) Spring
12 2 (0.63%) Web Services
12 2 (0.63%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (5.36%) Self-Motivation
2 14 (4.42%) IoT
3 13 (4.10%) Client/Server
4 12 (3.79%) Robotics
5 11 (3.47%) Algorithms
5 11 (3.47%) Distributed Systems
5 11 (3.47%) Driving Licence
6 10 (3.15%) Mobile App
7 9 (2.84%) Linux Command Line
8 8 (2.52%) Greenfield Project
8 8 (2.52%) Management Information System
9 6 (1.89%) Clustering
9 6 (1.89%) Data Structures
9 6 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (1.89%) Product Ownership
10 5 (1.58%) CMDB
10 5 (1.58%) Data Centre
10 5 (1.58%) Reference Data
11 4 (1.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 2 (0.63%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 82 (25.87%) Windows
2 75 (23.66%) Linux
3 26 (8.20%) Windows Server
4 20 (6.31%) Windows 10
5 14 (4.42%) Apple iOS
6 11 (3.47%) Ubuntu
7 10 (3.15%) Unix
8 7 (2.21%) Android
8 7 (2.21%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.32%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.32%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (24.61%) Problem-Solving
2 63 (19.87%) Agile
2 63 (19.87%) Software Engineering
3 41 (12.93%) Customer Requirements
3 41 (12.93%) ITIL
4 32 (10.09%) DevOps
5 29 (9.15%) Collaborative Working
6 27 (8.52%) Scrum
7 26 (8.20%) Service Management
8 22 (6.94%) Computer Science
8 22 (6.94%) Customer Service
8 22 (6.94%) SDLC
9 21 (6.62%) Application Packaging
9 21 (6.62%) Mentoring
9 21 (6.62%) User Experience
10 20 (6.31%) Business Intelligence
11 18 (5.68%) High Availability
12 17 (5.36%) Release Management
13 16 (5.05%) Fintech
13 16 (5.05%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 102 (32.18%) SQL
2 58 (18.30%) C#
3 32 (10.09%) C
4 31 (9.78%) C++
4 31 (9.78%) Java
5 30 (9.46%) Python
6 14 (4.42%) PL/SQL
7 9 (2.84%) JavaScript
7 9 (2.84%) PowerShell
7 9 (2.84%) T-SQL
7 9 (2.84%) XAML
8 6 (1.89%) Swift
9 5 (1.58%) Shell Script
10 4 (1.26%) Kotlin
10 4 (1.26%) MATLAB
11 3 (0.95%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.63%) VB
13 1 (0.32%) Bash
13 1 (0.32%) Go
Qualifications
1 68 (21.45%) Degree
2 14 (4.42%) Master's Degree
3 13 (4.10%) DV Cleared
3 13 (4.10%) SC Cleared
3 13 (4.10%) Security Cleared
4 10 (3.15%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (2.84%) HND
6 8 (2.52%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (1.89%) Azure Certification
7 6 (1.89%) Numerate Degree
8 4 (1.26%) AWS Certification
8 4 (1.26%) HNC
9 3 (0.95%) A+ Certification
9 3 (0.95%) MCDST
10 1 (0.32%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.32%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.32%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (5.99%) SLA
2 7 (2.21%) QA
3 4 (1.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.95%) GDPR
5 2 (0.63%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 28 (8.83%) Active Directory
2 11 (3.47%) Docker
3 3 (0.95%) Microsoft App-V
4 2 (0.63%) vSphere
5 1 (0.32%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.32%) Firmware
5 1 (0.32%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (2.84%) Terraform
2 8 (2.52%) Kubernetes
2 8 (2.52%) SCCM
3 7 (2.21%) ITRS Geneos
4 6 (1.89%) Microsoft Clustering
5 5 (1.58%) Grafana
5 5 (1.58%) Pingdom
6 3 (0.95%) Jamf Pro
6 3 (0.95%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.32%) Kibana
7 1 (0.32%) logstash
Vendors
1 66 (20.82%) Microsoft
2 14 (4.42%) VMware
3 10 (3.15%) Murex
3 10 (3.15%) Oracle
4 6 (1.89%) Autodesk
5 5 (1.58%) AppDynamics
5 5 (1.58%) CA
5 5 (1.58%) SolarWinds
5 5 (1.58%) Splunk
5 5 (1.58%) Sybase
6 4 (1.26%) Bloomberg
6 4 (1.26%) Google
6 4 (1.26%) iManage
6 4 (1.26%) Intapp
6 4 (1.26%) LexisNexis
6 4 (1.26%) Salesforce
6 4 (1.26%) ServiceNow
7 3 (0.95%) Apple
7 3 (0.95%) SAP
7 3 (0.95%) Trayport