Applications Support Engineer Job Trends in England

Application Support Engineer
UK > England

The median Application Support Engineer salary in England is £42,000 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 517 557 584
Rank change year-on-year +40 +27 +207
Permanent jobs requiring an Applications Support Engineer 100 122 96
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.19% 0.25% 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.27% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 91 115 89
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £36,875 £31,250 £35,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.18% - +2.41%
75th Percentile £62,500 £50,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £63,750 £65,250
UK median annual salary £41,250 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -2.94% -5.56% +5.88%

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 Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Applications Support Engineer job vacancy trend in England

Applications Support Engineer
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for Applications Support Engineer job vacancies in England.

Salary distribution trend for Applications Support Engineer job vacancies in England

Applications Support Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

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

Salary histogram for Applications Support Engineer in England

Applications Support 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 Support 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
South East +34 39 £41,250 +26.92% 6
London +73 38 £60,000 -7.69% 2
North of England +3 15 £35,000 -22.22% 4
North West +22 10 £36,000 -28.00% 3
Yorkshire -14 5 £26,500 -29.33% 1
East of England +28 4 £43,085 - 2
Midlands -10 3 £35,000 -6.67% 4
East Midlands -34 3 £35,000 +2.94% 3
South West +11 1 £40,000 -13.51% 2
Applications Support Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 14 January 2026, Applications Support 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 Support Engineer in the job title.

1 43 (43.00%) SQL
2 40 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 40 (40.00%) Task Automation
3 39 (39.00%) Data Analysis
4 38 (38.00%) Microsoft
5 33 (33.00%) Azure
5 33 (33.00%) Windows
6 31 (31.00%) Incident Management
7 27 (27.00%) Problem Management
8 26 (26.00%) PowerShell
8 26 (26.00%) SLA
9 24 (24.00%) C#
9 24 (24.00%) QA
10 22 (22.00%) Validation
11 21 (21.00%) SQL Server
12 19 (19.00%) Root Cause Analysis
13 17 (17.00%) Linux
13 17 (17.00%) REST
13 17 (17.00%) Security Cleared
14 16 (16.00%) Cloud Operations
14 16 (16.00%) SOA
14 16 (16.00%) SOAP
15 15 (15.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 15 (15.00%) Migration
16 14 (14.00%) AWS
16 14 (14.00%) Degree
17 13 (13.00%) ITIL
18 12 (12.00%) Serverless
18 12 (12.00%) Service Management
19 11 (11.00%) Cybersecurity

Applications Support 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 6 (6.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 6 (6.00%) SharePoint
1 6 (6.00%) Tomcat
1 6 (6.00%) WebSphere
1 6 (6.00%) WebSphere Application Server
2 4 (4.00%) Oracle Workflow
3 2 (2.00%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (3.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (4.00%) NEC Housing
2 3 (3.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 33 (33.00%) Azure
2 14 (14.00%) AWS
3 12 (12.00%) Serverless
4 8 (8.00%) SaaS
5 7 (7.00%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (6.00%) Amazon EC2
6 6 (6.00%) Amazon ECR
6 6 (6.00%) Amazon EKS
6 6 (6.00%) Amazon S3
6 6 (6.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 6 (6.00%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (6.00%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (6.00%) Azure Event Grid
6 6 (6.00%) Azure Functions
6 6 (6.00%) Azure Monitor
6 6 (6.00%) Azure Storage
6 6 (6.00%) Route 53
6 6 (6.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 5 (5.00%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (4.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (8.00%) VPN
2 6 (6.00%) SSL
3 4 (4.00%) DHCP
3 4 (4.00%) DMZ
3 4 (4.00%) DNS
3 4 (4.00%) STUN
3 4 (4.00%) VLAN
3 4 (4.00%) VoIP
4 3 (3.00%) Intranet
5 2 (2.00%) Extranet
6 1 (1.00%) Firewall
6 1 (1.00%) Internet
6 1 (1.00%) LAN
6 1 (1.00%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (1.00%) TCP/IP
6 1 (1.00%) Telnet
6 1 (1.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (21.00%) SQL Server
2 6 (6.00%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (6.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 6 (6.00%) DB2
2 6 (6.00%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (5.00%) MySQL
4 4 (4.00%) BusinessObjects
4 4 (4.00%) MS Access
4 4 (4.00%) SAP Data Services
5 3 (3.00%) Oracle Database
6 2 (2.00%) Power BI
7 1 (1.00%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (1.00%) Metadata
7 1 (1.00%) Power Query
7 1 (1.00%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (4.00%) Toad
2 1 (1.00%) Browser DevTools
2 1 (1.00%) JIRA
2 1 (1.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 44 (44.00%) Social Skills
2 15 (15.00%) Finance
3 10 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (8.00%) Banking
5 5 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (4.00%) Local Government
6 4 (4.00%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.00%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.00%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (17.00%) REST
2 16 (16.00%) SOAP
3 7 (7.00%) .NET
4 6 (6.00%) LAPP Stack
4 6 (6.00%) LDAP
4 6 (6.00%) WebSphere MQ
4 6 (6.00%) WPF
5 4 (4.00%) FreeSWITCH
6 2 (2.00%) React
7 1 (1.00%) .NET Core
7 1 (1.00%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (1.00%) Middleware
7 1 (1.00%) Node.js
7 1 (1.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.00%) Linux Command Line
2 7 (7.00%) Onboarding
3 6 (6.00%) Mobile App
4 5 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (4.00%) Driving Licence
6 3 (3.00%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (2.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (1.00%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 33 (33.00%) Windows
2 17 (17.00%) Linux
3 10 (10.00%) Unix
3 10 (10.00%) Windows Server
4 6 (6.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (5.00%) Android
6 4 (4.00%) Debian
7 3 (3.00%) Mac OS
7 3 (3.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
1 40 (40.00%) Task Automation
2 39 (39.00%) Data Analysis
3 31 (31.00%) Incident Management
4 27 (27.00%) Problem Management
5 22 (22.00%) Validation
6 19 (19.00%) Root Cause Analysis
7 16 (16.00%) Cloud Operations
7 16 (16.00%) SOA
8 15 (15.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 15 (15.00%) Migration
9 13 (13.00%) ITIL
10 12 (12.00%) Service Management
11 11 (11.00%) Cybersecurity
11 11 (11.00%) DevOps
12 10 (10.00%) User Acceptance Testing
13 9 (9.00%) CRM
14 8 (8.00%) Continuous Improvement
15 7 (7.00%) Data Pipeline
15 7 (7.00%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 43 (43.00%) SQL
2 26 (26.00%) PowerShell
3 24 (24.00%) C#
4 9 (9.00%) Python
5 5 (5.00%) PL/SQL
6 4 (4.00%) Shell Script
6 4 (4.00%) VB
7 1 (1.00%) Bash
7 1 (1.00%) Go
7 1 (1.00%) Java
7 1 (1.00%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.00%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.00%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 17 (17.00%) Security Cleared
2 14 (14.00%) Degree
3 6 (6.00%) AWS Certification
3 6 (6.00%) ITIL Certification
4 4 (4.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (3.00%) MCP
6 1 (1.00%) A+ Certification
6 1 (1.00%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.00%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (26.00%) SLA
2 24 (24.00%) QA
3 7 (7.00%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (4.00%) ISO 9001
4 4 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (3.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 4 (4.00%) Kamailio
2 3 (3.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.00%) Docker
4 1 (1.00%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (7.00%) Kibana
2 6 (6.00%) Grafana
3 1 (1.00%) Control-M
3 1 (1.00%) Docker Swarm
3 1 (1.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 38 (38.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (7.00%) Oracle
2 7 (7.00%) Red Hat
3 6 (6.00%) IBM
4 5 (5.00%) Zoho
5 4 (4.00%) NEC
5 4 (4.00%) Salesforce
5 4 (4.00%) SAP
6 1 (1.00%) Databricks
6 1 (1.00%) Dynatrace