Applications Engineer Jobs in England

Applications Engineer
UK > England

The median Applications Engineer salary in England is £50,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 506 553 622
Rank change year-on-year +47 +69 -17
Permanent jobs requiring an Applications Engineer 143 282 343
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.31% 0.33% 0.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.34% 0.35% 0.41%
Number of salaries quoted 107 201 255
10th Percentile £31,250 £26,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,375 £37,500 £38,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £42,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -19.05% +8.25%
75th Percentile £63,750 £61,250 £71,625
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £96,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £42,500 £53,500
% change year-on-year +17.65% -20.56% +12.63%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 41,506 80,486 84,681
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.13% 94.46% 91.53%
Number of salaries quoted 24,507 60,251 53,657
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £53,773 £60,567
Median % change year-on-year +6.93% -11.22% +0.95%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £91,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,777 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.95% -12.04% -

Applications Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Applications Engineer in England

Applications Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Applications Engineer in England

Applications Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Applications Engineer in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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 1 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
South East +55 46 £50,000 +17.65% 54
London +77 31 £71,250 +18.75% 50
Midlands +58 23 £52,500 +61.54% 42
North of England +58 18 £37,500 -9.06% 31
East of England +59 13 £40,500 -19.00% 27
West Midlands +46 13 £55,000 +37.50% 21
East Midlands +30 10 £32,500 +14.04% 20
North West +24 10 £50,890 +1.78% 15
Yorkshire +59 8 £35,000 -6.67% 13
South West +101 7 £49,000 +35.17% 17
Applications Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 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 England region featuring Applications Engineer in the job title.

1 78 (54.55%) SQL
2 66 (46.15%) Problem-Solving
3 57 (39.86%) Social Skills
4 34 (23.78%) Finance
5 29 (20.28%) Azure
6 27 (18.88%) Windows
7 26 (18.18%) Java
7 26 (18.18%) Microsoft
7 26 (18.18%) AWS
7 26 (18.18%) PowerShell
8 25 (17.48%) Python
8 25 (17.48%) Agile
8 25 (17.48%) Analytical Skills
9 24 (16.78%) Linux
10 23 (16.08%) ITIL
10 23 (16.08%) Computer Science
11 22 (15.38%) CI/CD
12 20 (13.99%) Software Engineering
12 20 (13.99%) Microsoft 365
13 19 (13.29%) Incident Management
14 18 (12.59%) High Availability
15 17 (11.89%) Degree
16 16 (11.19%) Risk Management
16 16 (11.19%) Collaborative Working
17 15 (10.49%) Power Platform
17 15 (10.49%) Power BI
18 14 (9.79%) Mentoring
18 14 (9.79%) DevOps
18 14 (9.79%) Banking
18 14 (9.79%) SQL Server

Applications Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 11 (7.69%) IIS
2 10 (6.99%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.40%) Confluence
3 2 (1.40%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.70%) Apache
4 1 (0.70%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (4.20%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.10%) Acrobat
3 1 (0.70%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 11 (7.69%) Oracle Applications
1 11 (7.69%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (1.40%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.70%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.70%) Endur
3 1 (0.70%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 29 (20.28%) Azure
2 26 (18.18%) AWS
3 20 (13.99%) Microsoft 365
4 15 (10.49%) Power Platform
5 11 (7.69%) SaaS
6 8 (5.59%) AWS CloudFormation
7 7 (4.90%) Amazon Kinesis
7 7 (4.90%) GitHub
8 5 (3.50%) Azure Logic Apps
8 5 (3.50%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (3.50%) Entra ID
9 4 (2.80%) PowerApps
10 3 (2.10%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (2.10%) GCP
10 3 (2.10%) OpenShift
10 3 (2.10%) Power Automate
10 3 (2.10%) Serverless
11 2 (1.40%) Amazon ECS
11 2 (1.40%) Amazon S3
11 2 (1.40%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.90%) FTP
2 3 (2.10%) Firewall
3 2 (1.40%) SAN
3 2 (1.40%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.70%) DHCP
4 1 (0.70%) DNS
4 1 (0.70%) FIX Connectivity
4 1 (0.70%) HTTP
4 1 (0.70%) Internet
4 1 (0.70%) Intranet
4 1 (0.70%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (0.70%) SSL
4 1 (0.70%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (10.49%) Power BI
2 14 (9.79%) SQL Server
3 12 (8.39%) MySQL
4 10 (6.99%) Relational Database
5 6 (4.20%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (3.50%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (2.80%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (2.80%) NoSQL
7 4 (2.80%) Redis
8 2 (1.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.70%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (0.70%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.70%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.70%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 10 (6.99%) Jenkins
2 8 (5.59%) Cucumber
3 7 (4.90%) Artifactory
3 7 (4.90%) git-flow
3 7 (4.90%) Gradle
3 7 (4.90%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 6 (4.20%) Git
5 5 (3.50%) JIRA
6 4 (2.80%) JUnit
7 3 (2.10%) Gatling
7 3 (2.10%) Mockito
8 2 (1.40%) AutoIt
8 2 (1.40%) InstallShield
8 2 (1.40%) NUnit
9 1 (0.70%) Appium
9 1 (0.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.70%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.70%) Maven
9 1 (0.70%) Visual Studio
General
1 57 (39.86%) Social Skills
2 34 (23.78%) Finance
3 25 (17.48%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (9.79%) Banking
5 10 (6.99%) Law
6 9 (6.29%) Local Government
7 8 (5.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (5.59%) Legal
8 6 (4.20%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (2.80%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (2.10%) Back Office
11 2 (1.40%) French Language
11 2 (1.40%) German Language
11 2 (1.40%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.40%) Public Sector
11 2 (1.40%) Retail
12 1 (0.70%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.70%) Health Technology
12 1 (0.70%) Marketing
12 1 (0.70%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (7.69%) Kafka
1 11 (7.69%) Middleware
1 11 (7.69%) Oracle Fusion
1 11 (7.69%) Spring Boot
2 7 (4.90%) .NET
2 7 (4.90%) Drools
2 7 (4.90%) RabbitMQ
3 5 (3.50%) Node.js
3 5 (3.50%) REST
3 5 (3.50%) RESTful
3 5 (3.50%) Spring
4 4 (2.80%) Android Jetpack
4 4 (2.80%) Jetpack Compose
4 4 (2.80%) SwiftUI
5 3 (2.10%) HTML
5 3 (2.10%) Java SE
5 3 (2.10%) XML
6 2 (1.40%) .NET Core
6 2 (1.40%) EDI
6 2 (1.40%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 10 (6.99%) Management Information System
2 5 (3.50%) Mobile App
3 3 (2.10%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (1.40%) Cloud Native
4 2 (1.40%) Driving Licence
5 1 (0.70%) Algorithms
5 1 (0.70%) Client/Server
5 1 (0.70%) Clustering
5 1 (0.70%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.70%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.70%) Equities
5 1 (0.70%) Eurex
5 1 (0.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (0.70%) Housing Association
5 1 (0.70%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.70%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.70%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.70%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 27 (18.88%) Windows
2 24 (16.78%) Linux
3 9 (6.29%) Windows 10
3 9 (6.29%) Windows Server
4 4 (2.80%) Android
4 4 (2.80%) Apple iOS
5 3 (2.10%) Unix
5 3 (2.10%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (1.40%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (0.70%) CentOS
7 1 (0.70%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (46.15%) Problem-Solving
2 25 (17.48%) Agile
3 23 (16.08%) Computer Science
3 23 (16.08%) ITIL
4 22 (15.38%) CI/CD
5 20 (13.99%) Software Engineering
6 19 (13.29%) Incident Management
7 18 (12.59%) High Availability
8 16 (11.19%) Collaborative Working
8 16 (11.19%) Risk Management
9 14 (9.79%) DevOps
9 14 (9.79%) Mentoring
9 14 (9.79%) Test Automation
10 13 (9.09%) Business Intelligence
10 13 (9.09%) Collaborative Culture
10 13 (9.09%) Digital Banking
11 12 (8.39%) TDD
12 11 (7.69%) Design Patterns
12 11 (7.69%) Performance Monitoring
12 11 (7.69%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 78 (54.55%) SQL
2 26 (18.18%) Java
2 26 (18.18%) PowerShell
3 25 (17.48%) Python
4 11 (7.69%) PL/SQL
5 9 (6.29%) T-SQL
6 6 (4.20%) C#
7 4 (2.80%) Swift
8 3 (2.10%) TypeScript
9 2 (1.40%) Bash
10 1 (0.70%) C
10 1 (0.70%) C++
10 1 (0.70%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.70%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.70%) Perl
10 1 (0.70%) Progress 4GL
10 1 (0.70%) XAML
Qualifications
1 17 (11.89%) Degree
2 7 (4.90%) AWS Certification
2 7 (4.90%) OCP
2 7 (4.90%) Oracle Certification
3 3 (2.10%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (2.10%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (2.10%) Security Cleared
4 2 (1.40%) CISSP
4 2 (1.40%) CREST Certified
4 2 (1.40%) DV Cleared
4 2 (1.40%) SANS
5 1 (0.70%) HND
5 1 (0.70%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (0.70%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.59%) QA
2 7 (4.90%) SLA
3 6 (4.20%) Accessibility
4 5 (3.50%) GDPR
5 4 (2.80%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 4 (2.80%) PCI DSS
6 3 (2.10%) FINRA
7 2 (1.40%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (1.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (1.40%) MiFID
8 1 (0.70%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.70%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 9 (6.29%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.80%) Docker
3 1 (0.70%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (9.09%) Kubernetes
2 9 (6.29%) Ansible
3 8 (5.59%) Terraform
4 5 (3.50%) SCCM
5 2 (1.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (1.40%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.70%) Functional Safety
6 1 (0.70%) Grafana
6 1 (0.70%) Kibana
6 1 (0.70%) logstash
6 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Clustering
6 1 (0.70%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.70%) Puppet
6 1 (0.70%) SCOM
6 1 (0.70%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 26 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 12 (8.39%) Oracle
3 11 (7.69%) ServiceNow
4 7 (4.90%) Intapp
4 7 (4.90%) SAP
5 6 (4.20%) Adobe
5 6 (4.20%) iManage
6 4 (2.80%) Databricks
7 3 (2.10%) Aderant
7 3 (2.10%) DocuSign
8 2 (1.40%) Splunk
8 2 (1.40%) VMware
9 1 (0.70%) Capita
9 1 (0.70%) Cisco
9 1 (0.70%) ION Trading
9 1 (0.70%) Patsystems
9 1 (0.70%) Progress
9 1 (0.70%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.70%) SolarWinds
9 1 (0.70%) Trayport