Applications Support Jobs in Birmingham

Application Support
West Midlands > Birmingham

The median Application Support salary in Birmingham is £52,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 85 127 122
Rank change year-on-year +42 -5 +39
Permanent jobs requiring an Applications Support 18 23 12
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 1.28% 0.83% 0.62%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.35% 0.88% 0.66%
Number of salaries quoted 18 14 12
10th Percentile £33,350 £27,225 £25,838
25th Percentile £41,250 £35,000 £27,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £43,750 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% +25.00% -22.22%
75th Percentile £61,250 £48,750 £43,750
90th Percentile £63,750 £79,625 £56,125
West Midlands median annual salary £42,500 £32,121 £38,320
% change year-on-year +32.31% -16.18% -4.20%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Birmingham

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Birmingham. 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 Birmingham with a recognized job title 1,329 2,602 1,818
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.66% 94.28% 93.23%
Number of salaries quoted 777 2,117 1,390
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £68,750 £70,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £83,750 £84,964 £81,525
West Midlands median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%

Applications Support
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Applications Support in Birmingham

Applications Support
Salary Trend in Birmingham

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

Salary trend for Applications Support in Birmingham

Applications Support
Salary Histogram in Birmingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing Applications Support in Birmingham over the 6 months to 14 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Applications Support in Birmingham

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

For the 6 months to 14 May 2025, 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 Birmingham region featuring Applications Support in the job title.

1 14 (77.78%) Oracle
2 13 (72.22%) SQL
2 13 (72.22%) Oracle Fusion
3 12 (66.67%) Incident Management
4 11 (61.11%) Middleware
4 11 (61.11%) Oracle EBS
4 11 (61.11%) Oracle Applications
5 9 (50.00%) ServiceNow
6 8 (44.44%) Cost Reduction
6 8 (44.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (38.89%) Customer-Centricity
7 7 (38.89%) Collaborative Working
7 7 (38.89%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (38.89%) Customer-Centric Approach
8 4 (22.22%) Mentoring
9 3 (16.67%) Azure
9 3 (16.67%) Social Skills
9 3 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (16.67%) Data Protection
10 2 (11.11%) Retail
10 2 (11.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (11.11%) .NET
10 2 (11.11%) Python
10 2 (11.11%) SharePoint
10 2 (11.11%) Java
10 2 (11.11%) Microsoft
10 2 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (11.11%) AWS
10 2 (11.11%) PCI DSS
10 2 (11.11%) Enterprise Software

Applications Support Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 2 (11.11%) SharePoint
2 1 (5.56%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 11 (61.11%) Oracle Applications
1 11 (61.11%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 3 (16.67%) Azure
2 2 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
2 2 (11.11%) AWS
2 2 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (11.11%) Serverless
3 1 (5.56%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (5.56%) Power Automate
3 1 (5.56%) Power Platform
3 1 (5.56%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) Power BI
General
1 8 (44.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 3 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 2 (11.11%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (72.22%) Oracle Fusion
2 11 (61.11%) Middleware
3 2 (11.11%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (66.67%) Incident Management
2 8 (44.44%) Cost Reduction
3 7 (38.89%) Collaborative Working
3 7 (38.89%) Customer-Centric Approach
3 7 (38.89%) Customer-Centricity
3 7 (38.89%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (22.22%) Mentoring
5 3 (16.67%) Data Protection
6 2 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (11.11%) Root Cause Analysis
7 1 (5.56%) Business Intelligence
7 1 (5.56%) Change Management
7 1 (5.56%) ITIL
7 1 (5.56%) Kanban
7 1 (5.56%) Service Delivery
7 1 (5.56%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 13 (72.22%) SQL
2 2 (11.11%) Java
2 2 (11.11%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) PCI DSS
1 2 (11.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors
1 14 (77.78%) Oracle
2 9 (50.00%) ServiceNow
3 2 (11.11%) Microsoft