Applications Engineer Jobs in the City of London

Applications Engineer
Central London > City of London

The median Applications Engineer salary in the City of London is £51,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 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
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 140 172 214
Rank change year-on-year +32 +42 +28
Permanent jobs requiring an Applications Engineer 4 10 24
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 0.20% 0.30% 0.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.31% 0.53%
Number of salaries quoted 4 6 22
10th Percentile - £48,125 £42,875
25th Percentile £42,500 £52,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,250 £67,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -24.07% +28.57% -12.50%
75th Percentile £66,563 £100,000 £63,125
90th Percentile £76,125 £105,625 £70,625
Central London median annual salary £57,500 £67,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.81% +28.57% -12.50%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
City of London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the City of 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 the City of London with a recognized job title 1,906 3,218 4,491
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.02% 95.86% 96.19%
Number of salaries quoted 1,453 2,554 3,761
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,075 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £53,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £73,750 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.69% -1.67% +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £112,500 £112,500
Central London median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £74,000
% change year-on-year - -2.03% +2.07%

Applications Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Applications Engineer in the City of London

Applications Engineer
Salary Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Applications Engineer in the City of London.

Salary trend for Applications Engineer in the City of London

Applications Engineer
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Applications Engineer in the City of London over the 6 months to 13 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Applications Engineer in the City of London

Applications Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 13 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 City of London region featuring Applications Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) SQL
1 4 (100.00%) Finance
2 3 (75.00%) Linux
2 3 (75.00%) Fintech
2 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (50.00%) Serverless
3 2 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (50.00%) JIRA
3 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (50.00%) Python
3 2 (50.00%) SLA
3 2 (50.00%) Advertising
3 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (50.00%) Time Management
3 2 (50.00%) Git
3 2 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (50.00%) Amazon S3
3 2 (50.00%) AWS
3 2 (50.00%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (50.00%) Docker
3 2 (50.00%) logstash
3 2 (50.00%) Kibana
4 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (25.00%) People Management
4 1 (25.00%) Bash
4 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement

Applications Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (50.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (25.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Git
1 2 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (100.00%) Finance
2 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (50.00%) Advertising
4 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (25.00%) Financial Institution
4 1 (25.00%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Fintech
2 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (50.00%) Time Management
3 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Customer Service
3 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (25.00%) ERP
3 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (25.00%) People Management
3 1 (25.00%) Project Management
3 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) Python
3 1 (25.00%) Bash
3 1 (25.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Kibana
1 2 (50.00%) logstash