Applications Support Engineer Jobs

Application Support Engineer
UK

The median Application Support Engineer salary in the UK is £42,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 763 803 914
Rank change year-on-year +40 +111 -241
Permanent jobs requiring an Applications Support Engineer 131 190 301
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.18% 0.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.20% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 115 133 264
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,800 £29,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £35,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +5.88% -5.56%
75th Percentile £61,250 £57,500 £52,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £66,250 £73,375
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,500 £35,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% -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 92,901 95,961 148,050
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.57% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 66,751 60,281 85,224
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,686 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.19% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,495
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

Applications Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Applications Support Engineer in the UK

Applications Support Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Applications Support Engineer in the UK

Applications Support Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Applications Support Engineer over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Applications Support Engineer in the UK

Applications Support 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 Support Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 26 April 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 +85 117 £42,500 - 31
UK excluding London -28 86 £37,500 +7.14% 26
Work from Home +36 53 £43,750 -7.89% 14
London +127 44 £60,000 +16.50% 11
South East +42 34 £42,500 +6.25% 1
Midlands +13 23 £28,500 -18.57% 5
East Midlands -4 21 £28,500 -18.57% 3
Scotland -52 12 £29,000 -42.00% 7
South West -28 7 £35,000 +7.69% 7
North of England +13 6 £35,500 -5.33% 5
Yorkshire +70 5 £40,000 +5.26% 3
East of England +24 2 £36,750 -41.20% 2
West Midlands +20 2 £30,250 -13.57% 2
Northern Ireland +10 1 £50,000 +38.89%
North West +2 1 £31,000 +3.33% 2
Wales - 1 £47,500 -

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

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, Applications Support 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 Support Engineer in the job title.

1 82 (62.60%) SQL
2 40 (30.53%) Problem-Solving
3 37 (28.24%) Microsoft
4 36 (27.48%) Azure
5 35 (26.72%) Windows
6 33 (25.19%) Linux
7 29 (22.14%) Finance
7 29 (22.14%) Degree
7 29 (22.14%) Analytical Skills
8 28 (21.37%) ITIL
9 25 (19.08%) Active Directory
10 24 (18.32%) Law
10 24 (18.32%) SQL Server
11 23 (17.56%) Java
12 20 (15.27%) Social Skills
13 19 (14.50%) Microsoft 365
14 18 (13.74%) Service Management
14 18 (13.74%) Python
15 16 (12.21%) PL/SQL
15 16 (12.21%) SLA
15 16 (12.21%) Customer Requirements
16 15 (11.45%) MySQL
17 14 (10.69%) User Acceptance Testing
17 14 (10.69%) C#
17 14 (10.69%) AWS
17 14 (10.69%) User Experience
17 14 (10.69%) Fintech
18 12 (9.16%) Entra ID
18 12 (9.16%) Windows Server
18 12 (9.16%) Customer Service

Applications Support 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 10 (7.63%) IIS
1 10 (7.63%) Tomcat
2 9 (6.87%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (5.34%) SharePoint
4 5 (3.82%) WebSphere
5 3 (2.29%) Confluence
Applications
1 8 (6.11%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.53%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.53%) Eikon
2 1 (0.76%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 36 (27.48%) Azure
2 19 (14.50%) Microsoft 365
3 14 (10.69%) AWS
4 12 (9.16%) Entra ID
5 9 (6.87%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 9 (6.87%) Azure Monitor
6 8 (6.11%) WhatsApp
7 6 (4.58%) Power Automate
8 5 (3.82%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (3.05%) Azure Logic Apps
9 4 (3.05%) Power Platform
9 4 (3.05%) PowerApps
9 4 (3.05%) SaaS
10 2 (1.53%) Slack
11 1 (0.76%) Azure Stack
11 1 (0.76%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 10 (7.63%) Firewall
2 9 (6.87%) VPN
3 5 (3.82%) DNS
3 5 (3.82%) Remote Desktop
3 5 (3.82%) SAN
3 5 (3.82%) SSL
4 4 (3.05%) Intranet
5 1 (0.76%) Internet
5 1 (0.76%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (18.32%) SQL Server
2 15 (11.45%) MySQL
3 5 (3.82%) Pentaho
4 4 (3.05%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (3.05%) Power BI
5 2 (1.53%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 2 (1.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (1.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.76%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.76%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (9.16%) JIRA
2 6 (4.58%) Bitbucket
3 3 (2.29%) Git
4 2 (1.53%) IntelliJ
5 1 (0.76%) Eclipse
5 1 (0.76%) GitLab
5 1 (0.76%) Gradle
5 1 (0.76%) JUnit
General
1 29 (22.14%) Analytical Skills
1 29 (22.14%) Finance
2 24 (18.32%) Law
3 20 (15.27%) Social Skills
4 7 (5.34%) Legal
5 6 (4.58%) Banking
6 5 (3.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (3.05%) Front Office
7 4 (3.05%) Marketing
8 2 (1.53%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.53%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.76%) Advertising
9 1 (0.76%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.58%) Kafka
2 3 (2.29%) HTML
2 3 (2.29%) Spring Boot
3 2 (1.53%) .NET
3 2 (1.53%) FIX Protocol
3 2 (1.53%) Spring
4 1 (0.76%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.87%) Linux Command Line
2 8 (6.11%) Greenfield Project
3 6 (4.58%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (3.82%) Clustering
4 5 (3.82%) Data Centre
4 5 (3.82%) Driving Licence
4 5 (3.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 5 (3.82%) Reference Data
5 4 (3.05%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (1.53%) iPhone
6 2 (1.53%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.76%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.76%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.76%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.76%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 35 (26.72%) Windows
2 33 (25.19%) Linux
3 12 (9.16%) Windows Server
4 10 (7.63%) Unix
5 8 (6.11%) Windows 10
6 4 (3.05%) Apple iOS
7 2 (1.53%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.76%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.76%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.76%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (30.53%) Problem-Solving
2 28 (21.37%) ITIL
3 18 (13.74%) Service Management
4 16 (12.21%) Customer Requirements
5 14 (10.69%) Fintech
5 14 (10.69%) User Acceptance Testing
5 14 (10.69%) User Experience
6 12 (9.16%) Customer Service
6 12 (9.16%) Software Engineering
7 10 (7.63%) High Availability
8 9 (6.87%) Agile
8 9 (6.87%) Migration
9 8 (6.11%) Computer Science
9 8 (6.11%) Infrastructure as Code
10 6 (4.58%) Continuous Improvement
10 6 (4.58%) Incident Management
11 5 (3.82%) Database Tuning
11 5 (3.82%) ERP
11 5 (3.82%) ETL
11 5 (3.82%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 82 (62.60%) SQL
2 23 (17.56%) Java
3 18 (13.74%) Python
4 16 (12.21%) PL/SQL
5 14 (10.69%) C#
6 6 (4.58%) PowerShell
7 5 (3.82%) Shell Script
8 4 (3.05%) C++
9 3 (2.29%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 29 (22.14%) Degree
2 9 (6.87%) Microsoft Certification
3 8 (6.11%) Azure Certification
4 7 (5.34%) Master's Degree
5 5 (3.82%) A+ Certification
5 5 (3.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (3.82%) MCDST
6 4 (3.05%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (12.21%) SLA
2 2 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 25 (19.08%) Active Directory
2 4 (3.05%) Docker
3 2 (1.53%) vSphere
4 1 (0.76%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 9 (6.87%) Terraform
2 7 (5.34%) ITRS Geneos
3 5 (3.82%) Grafana
3 5 (3.82%) Microsoft Clustering
3 5 (3.82%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (3.82%) Pingdom
4 1 (0.76%) Kibana
4 1 (0.76%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.76%) logstash
Vendors
1 37 (28.24%) Microsoft
2 10 (7.63%) Murex
3 8 (6.11%) Oracle
4 5 (3.82%) AppDynamics
4 5 (3.82%) CA
4 5 (3.82%) SolarWinds
4 5 (3.82%) Splunk
4 5 (3.82%) Sybase
5 4 (3.05%) Bloomberg
6 2 (1.53%) Apple
6 2 (1.53%) Ivanti
6 2 (1.53%) MarketAxess
6 2 (1.53%) Okta
6 2 (1.53%) PagerDuty
6 2 (1.53%) Tradeweb
6 2 (1.53%) Trayport
7 1 (0.76%) Citrix
7 1 (0.76%) Civica
7 1 (0.76%) Sage
7 1 (0.76%) VMware