Applications Support Jobs in Wales

Application Support
UK > Wales

The median Application Support salary in Wales is £45,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 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
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 72 109 87
Rank change year-on-year +37 -22 +7
Permanent jobs requiring an Applications Support 46 23 53
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 2.28% 1.38% 2.80%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.47% 1.61% 2.95%
Number of salaries quoted 8 3 26
10th Percentile - £23,250 £25,750
25th Percentile - £25,500 £29,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £31,500 £30,500
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% +3.28% +10.91%
75th Percentile - £33,750 £37,770
90th Percentile £46,125 - £38,885
UK median annual salary £46,500 £49,390 £42,500
% change year-on-year -5.85% +16.21% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Wales

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Wales. 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 Wales with a recognized job title 1,865 1,433 1,794
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.46% 85.81% 94.92%
Number of salaries quoted 1,265 821 1,138
10th Percentile £26,350 £27,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,107 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £57,500 £61,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £75,000
UK median annual salary £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.42% - +9.09%

Applications Support
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Applications Support in Wales

Applications Support
Salary Trend in Wales

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

Salary trend for Applications Support in Wales

Applications Support
Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Applications Support within the Wales region over the 6 months to 28 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
South Wales +27 39 £47,500 -
West Wales +6 7 £45,000 +42.86%
Applications Support
UK

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

For the 6 months to 28 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 Wales region featuring Applications Support in the job title.

1 39 (84.78%) SQL
2 38 (82.61%) Analytical Skills
3 37 (80.43%) Actionable Insight
3 37 (80.43%) Incident Management
3 37 (80.43%) SC Cleared
3 37 (80.43%) Security Cleared
3 37 (80.43%) Remedy
3 37 (80.43%) Oracle
3 37 (80.43%) WebLogic
3 37 (80.43%) Unix
3 37 (80.43%) SLA
4 31 (67.39%) PL/SQL
4 31 (67.39%) Degree
5 30 (65.22%) Data Guard
5 30 (65.22%) Oracle RAC
5 30 (65.22%) Remedy ITSM
5 30 (65.22%) Oracle Database 11g
5 30 (65.22%) Release Management
5 30 (65.22%) Capacity Planning
5 30 (65.22%) Oracle Service Bus
5 30 (65.22%) Capacity Management
5 30 (65.22%) Oracle Database
5 30 (65.22%) Performance Tuning
5 30 (65.22%) Performance Monitoring
5 30 (65.22%) Microsoft Office
5 30 (65.22%) VLDB
5 30 (65.22%) Oracle Database 10g
5 30 (65.22%) Sun
5 30 (65.22%) Solaris
5 30 (65.22%) Linux

Applications Support Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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 (80.43%) WebLogic
2 30 (65.22%) Oracle Service Bus
Applications
1 30 (65.22%) Microsoft Excel
1 30 (65.22%) Microsoft Office
1 30 (65.22%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 30 (65.22%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 8 (17.39%) Azure
2 1 (2.17%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (65.22%) Oracle Database
1 30 (65.22%) Oracle Database 10g
1 30 (65.22%) Oracle Database 11g
1 30 (65.22%) VLDB
2 7 (15.22%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (2.17%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (15.22%) GitLab
1 7 (15.22%) JIRA
General
1 38 (82.61%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (17.39%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (15.22%) J2EE
1 7 (15.22%) Java EE
1 7 (15.22%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.17%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (2.17%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 37 (80.43%) Unix
2 30 (65.22%) Linux
2 30 (65.22%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (80.43%) Actionable Insight
1 37 (80.43%) Incident Management
2 30 (65.22%) Artificial Intelligence
2 30 (65.22%) Capacity Management
2 30 (65.22%) Capacity Planning
2 30 (65.22%) ITSM
2 30 (65.22%) Performance Monitoring
2 30 (65.22%) Performance Tuning
2 30 (65.22%) Release Management
3 8 (17.39%) ITIL
3 8 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (17.39%) Service Management
4 7 (15.22%) Containerisation
4 7 (15.22%) Customer Experience
4 7 (15.22%) Enterprise Architecture
4 7 (15.22%) Enterprise Search
4 7 (15.22%) Impact Assessments
4 7 (15.22%) Information Management
4 7 (15.22%) Software Testing
5 1 (2.17%) Performance Management
Programming Languages
1 39 (84.78%) SQL
2 31 (67.39%) PL/SQL
3 7 (15.22%) Java
3 7 (15.22%) Shell Script
4 1 (2.17%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 37 (80.43%) SC Cleared
1 37 (80.43%) Security Cleared
2 31 (67.39%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (80.43%) SLA
System Software
1 30 (65.22%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 30 (65.22%) Data Guard
1 30 (65.22%) Oracle RMAN
2 7 (15.22%) OpenSSO
2 7 (15.22%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 37 (80.43%) Oracle
1 37 (80.43%) Remedy
2 30 (65.22%) Sun