Applications Engineer Jobs in Central London

Applications Engineer
London > Central London

The median Applications Engineer salary in Central London is £57,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 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
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 155 182 214
Rank change year-on-year +27 +32 +43
Permanent jobs requiring an Applications Engineer 5 10 27
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 0.20% 0.26% 0.52%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.28% 0.54%
Number of salaries quoted 5 6 25
10th Percentile - £48,125 £42,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £52,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £67,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.81% +28.57% -12.50%
75th Percentile £68,750 £100,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,000 £105,625 £72,300
London median annual salary £66,250 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -5.36% +7.69% -3.70%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Central London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Central London. 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 Central London with a recognized job title 2,294 3,595 4,963
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.47% 95.16% 95.92%
Number of salaries quoted 1,626 2,805 4,135
10th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £54,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £74,000
Median % change year-on-year - -2.03% +2.07%
75th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £112,500 £112,500
London median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +3.57%

Applications Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Applications Engineer in Central London

Applications Engineer
Salary Trend in Central London

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

Salary trend for Applications Engineer in Central London

Applications Engineer
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Applications Engineer in Central London over the 6 months to 12 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Applications Engineer in Central London

Applications Engineer
Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Applications Engineer within the Central London region over the 6 months to 12 May 2025. 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
City of London +30 4 £51,250 -24.07% 6
Applications Engineer
London

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

For the 6 months to 12 May 2025, 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 across the Central London region featuring Applications Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (80.00%) SQL
1 4 (80.00%) Finance
2 3 (60.00%) Linux
2 3 (60.00%) Fintech
2 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (40.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (40.00%) Serverless
3 2 (40.00%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (40.00%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (40.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (40.00%) Time Management
3 2 (40.00%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (40.00%) Docker
3 2 (40.00%) logstash
3 2 (40.00%) Kibana
3 2 (40.00%) JIRA
3 2 (40.00%) Git
3 2 (40.00%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (40.00%) Amazon S3
3 2 (40.00%) AWS
3 2 (40.00%) Python
3 2 (40.00%) SLA
3 2 (40.00%) Legal
3 2 (40.00%) Advertising
3 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (20.00%) Perl
4 1 (20.00%) MySQL
4 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (20.00%) Active Directory

Applications Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (40.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (40.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (40.00%) Serverless
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (20.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (20.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Git
1 2 (40.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (80.00%) Finance
2 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (40.00%) Advertising
3 2 (40.00%) Legal
4 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (20.00%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Fintech
2 2 (40.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (40.00%) Time Management
3 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (20.00%) Customer Service
3 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (20.00%) ERP
3 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (20.00%) People Management
3 1 (20.00%) Project Management
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) SQL
2 2 (40.00%) Python
3 1 (20.00%) Bash
3 1 (20.00%) Perl
3 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) SLA
2 1 (20.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (20.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
2 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Kibana
1 2 (40.00%) logstash
2 1 (20.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Aderant
1 1 (20.00%) iManage
1 1 (20.00%) Intapp
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft