Applications Engineer Job Trends in England

Applications Engineer
UK > England

The median Applications Engineer salary in England is £45,497 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 January 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 409 434 489
Rank change year-on-year +25 +55 +74
Permanent jobs requiring an Applications Engineer 213 262 194
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.40% 0.54% 0.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.44% 0.59% 0.41%
Number of salaries quoted 192 179 155
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £39,625 £36,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,497 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.01% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £70,000 £57,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £71,500 £77,000
UK median annual salary £45,497 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.01% - -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 48,032 44,628 46,871
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.90% 92.71% 95.12%
Number of salaries quoted 30,380 23,318 36,700
10th Percentile £28,750 £33,750 £31,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £41,670
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -6.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,750 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -4.17%

Applications Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Applications Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Applications Engineer job vacancy trend in England

Applications Engineer
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for Applications Engineer job vacancies in England.

Salary distribution trend for Applications Engineer job vacancies in England

Applications Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Applications Engineer in England over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Applications Engineer in England

Applications Engineer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Applications Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 14 January 2026. 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
London +84 68 £70,000 +7.69% 18
South East +5 57 £45,000 +0.56% 27
North of England +1 42 £45,000 - 28
North West +21 25 £45,497 -9.01% 16
East of England +33 17 £45,000 -30.77% 24
Midlands -18 14 £37,500 -6.25% 44
South West +7 13 £90,000 +63.64% 13
Yorkshire -19 10 £28,250 -25.17% 11
East Midlands -33 8 £45,000 +32.35% 20
North East +10 7 £45,497 -9.01% 1
West Midlands +7 6 £37,500 -31.82% 24
Applications Engineer
UK

Applications Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 14 January 2026, Applications Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region featuring Applications Engineer in the job title.

1 69 (32.39%) Problem-Solving
2 56 (26.29%) Microsoft
3 55 (25.82%) SQL
4 48 (22.54%) Azure
5 46 (21.60%) Windows
6 45 (21.13%) Task Automation
7 43 (20.19%) Data Analysis
8 42 (19.72%) PowerShell
9 36 (16.90%) Incident Management
10 33 (15.49%) Degree
11 31 (14.55%) Problem Management
12 30 (14.08%) C#
12 30 (14.08%) QA
12 30 (14.08%) SLA
13 29 (13.62%) Python
14 28 (13.15%) Validation
15 26 (12.21%) SQL Server
16 25 (11.74%) AWS
16 25 (11.74%) ITIL
17 24 (11.27%) Linux
18 23 (10.80%) Continuous Improvement
18 23 (10.80%) Security Cleared
19 22 (10.33%) Windows Server
20 19 (8.92%) Agile
20 19 (8.92%) Application Security
20 19 (8.92%) Root Cause Analysis
20 19 (8.92%) Service Management
21 18 (8.45%) AI
21 18 (8.45%) REST
22 17 (7.98%) CI/CD

Applications Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 11 (5.16%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.82%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (2.82%) Tomcat
2 6 (2.82%) WebSphere
2 6 (2.82%) WebSphere Application Server
3 4 (1.88%) Oracle Workflow
4 2 (0.94%) IIS
Applications
1 5 (2.35%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.94%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (2.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.88%) NEC Housing
3 2 (0.94%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 48 (22.54%) Azure
2 25 (11.74%) AWS
3 16 (7.51%) Microsoft 365
4 14 (6.57%) Serverless
5 13 (6.10%) SaaS
6 11 (5.16%) Power Platform
7 8 (3.76%) Amazon EKS
7 8 (3.76%) AWS Lambda
7 8 (3.76%) Dynamics 365
7 8 (3.76%) GitHub
8 7 (3.29%) Microsoft Copilot
9 6 (2.82%) Amazon ECR
9 6 (2.82%) AWS CloudFormation
9 6 (2.82%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (2.82%) Azure Event Grid
9 6 (2.82%) Azure Functions
9 6 (2.82%) Azure Monitor
9 6 (2.82%) Azure Storage
9 6 (2.82%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (2.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.76%) VPN
2 6 (2.82%) DHCP
2 6 (2.82%) DNS
2 6 (2.82%) SSL
3 4 (1.88%) DMZ
3 4 (1.88%) STUN
3 4 (1.88%) VLAN
3 4 (1.88%) VoIP
4 3 (1.41%) Intranet
5 2 (0.94%) Extranet
6 1 (0.47%) Firewall
6 1 (0.47%) Internet
6 1 (0.47%) LAN
6 1 (0.47%) Modbus
6 1 (0.47%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (0.47%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.47%) Telnet
6 1 (0.47%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (12.21%) SQL Server
2 9 (4.23%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (2.82%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (2.82%) Azure SQL Database
3 6 (2.82%) DB2
4 5 (2.35%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (2.35%) MySQL
4 5 (2.35%) Power BI
5 4 (1.88%) BusinessObjects
5 4 (1.88%) MS Access
5 4 (1.88%) SAP Data Services
6 3 (1.41%) Oracle Database
6 3 (1.41%) Redis
6 3 (1.41%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.94%) DynamoDB
7 2 (0.94%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.47%) Metadata
8 1 (0.47%) Power Query
8 1 (0.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (2.82%) Jenkins
2 4 (1.88%) Toad
3 2 (0.94%) JIRA
4 1 (0.47%) Browser DevTools
4 1 (0.47%) Visual Studio
General
1 68 (31.92%) Social Skills
2 26 (12.21%) Finance
3 14 (6.57%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (5.16%) Banking
5 7 (3.29%) Legal
6 6 (2.82%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (2.35%) Marketing
7 5 (2.35%) Telecoms
8 4 (1.88%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.88%) Law
8 4 (1.88%) Local Government
8 4 (1.88%) Manufacturing
8 4 (1.88%) Police
8 4 (1.88%) Public Sector
9 3 (1.41%) Electronics
9 3 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.94%) Back Office
10 2 (0.94%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.94%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.47%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (8.45%) REST
2 16 (7.51%) SOAP
3 12 (5.63%) React
4 9 (4.23%) .NET
5 7 (3.29%) Kafka
6 6 (2.82%) LAPP Stack
6 6 (2.82%) LDAP
6 6 (2.82%) Node.js
6 6 (2.82%) RESTful
6 6 (2.82%) WebSphere MQ
6 6 (2.82%) WPF
7 5 (2.35%) AngularJS
7 5 (2.35%) gRPC
7 5 (2.35%) Spring Boot
7 5 (2.35%) Vue
7 5 (2.35%) WebSockets
8 4 (1.88%) EDI
8 4 (1.88%) FreeSWITCH
8 4 (1.88%) Microsoft Graph
9 2 (0.94%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 8 (3.76%) Linux Command Line
1 8 (3.76%) Mobile App
2 7 (3.29%) Cloud Native
2 7 (3.29%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (3.29%) Enterprise Software
2 7 (3.29%) Onboarding
3 6 (2.82%) Driving Licence
3 6 (2.82%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (2.35%) AI Agents
5 4 (1.88%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.41%) Low-Code
6 3 (1.41%) Management Information System
7 2 (0.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.47%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.47%) Cyberattack
8 1 (0.47%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.47%) Marketing Technology
8 1 (0.47%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.47%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.47%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 46 (21.60%) Windows
2 24 (11.27%) Linux
3 22 (10.33%) Windows Server
4 10 (4.69%) Android
4 10 (4.69%) Unix
5 6 (2.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (2.35%) Windows 10
7 4 (1.88%) Debian
8 3 (1.41%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.94%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (32.39%) Problem-Solving
2 45 (21.13%) Task Automation
3 43 (20.19%) Data Analysis
4 36 (16.90%) Incident Management
5 31 (14.55%) Problem Management
6 28 (13.15%) Validation
7 25 (11.74%) ITIL
8 23 (10.80%) Continuous Improvement
9 19 (8.92%) Agile
9 19 (8.92%) Application Security
9 19 (8.92%) Root Cause Analysis
9 19 (8.92%) Service Management
10 18 (8.45%) AI
11 17 (7.98%) CI/CD
11 17 (7.98%) Cybersecurity
11 17 (7.98%) DevOps
11 17 (7.98%) SDLC
12 16 (7.51%) Cloud Operations
12 16 (7.51%) Mentoring
12 16 (7.51%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 55 (25.82%) SQL
2 42 (19.72%) PowerShell
3 30 (14.08%) C#
4 29 (13.62%) Python
5 17 (7.98%) Java
6 9 (4.23%) JavaScript
7 7 (3.29%) Bash
7 7 (3.29%) PL/SQL
8 6 (2.82%) Go
9 4 (1.88%) Shell Script
9 4 (1.88%) VB
10 3 (1.41%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.94%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.94%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.47%) C++
12 1 (0.47%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.47%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 33 (15.49%) Degree
2 23 (10.80%) Security Cleared
3 8 (3.76%) AWS Certification
4 6 (2.82%) CISSP
4 6 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (2.82%) CREST Certified
4 6 (2.82%) ITIL Certification
4 6 (2.82%) SANS
5 4 (1.88%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (1.41%) MCP
6 3 (1.41%) SC Cleared
7 2 (0.94%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.47%) A+ Certification
8 1 (0.47%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.47%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.47%) HNC
8 1 (0.47%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (14.08%) QA
1 30 (14.08%) SLA
2 7 (3.29%) Cyber Essentials
2 7 (3.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (2.82%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.88%) ISO 9001
4 4 (1.88%) NCSC
4 4 (1.88%) NIST
5 3 (1.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 3 (1.41%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.94%) GDPR
6 2 (0.94%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.94%) SOC 2
System Software
1 8 (3.76%) Active Directory
2 7 (3.29%) Docker
3 4 (1.88%) Kamailio
4 3 (1.41%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.94%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (3.76%) Kibana
1 8 (3.76%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.82%) Grafana
3 2 (0.94%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.47%) Control-M
4 1 (0.47%) Docker Swarm
4 1 (0.47%) logstash
Vendors
1 56 (26.29%) Microsoft
2 11 (5.16%) Oracle
3 7 (3.29%) Red Hat
3 7 (3.29%) SAP
4 6 (2.82%) IBM
5 5 (2.35%) Salesforce
5 5 (2.35%) Zoho
6 4 (1.88%) NEC
7 3 (1.41%) LexisNexis
7 3 (1.41%) Sitecore
8 2 (0.94%) OpenAI
8 2 (0.94%) VMware
9 1 (0.47%) ANSYS
9 1 (0.47%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.47%) Databricks
9 1 (0.47%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.47%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud