Applications Support Engineer Jobs in England

Application Support Engineer
UK > England

The median Application Support Engineer salary in England is £44,000 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 611 725 774
Rank change year-on-year +114 +49 +136
Permanent jobs requiring an Applications Support Engineer 80 115 145
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.16% 0.13% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.14% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 77 104 108
10th Percentile £31,250 £26,750 £29,925
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £32,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,000 £41,250 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £52,500 £58,438 £63,750
90th Percentile £63,750 £82,750 £67,500
UK median annual salary £44,500 £40,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +11.25% -11.11% +5.88%

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 44,258 81,164 82,197
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.65% 94.49% 91.49%
Number of salaries quoted 24,638 60,585 52,246
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,650 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £91,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.57% -12.50% -

Applications Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Applications Support Engineer in England

Applications Support Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Applications Support Engineer in England

Applications Support Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

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

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 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
South East +90 27 £50,000 +17.65% 20
Midlands +61 17 £52,500 +84.21% 9
London +91 16 £65,000 +8.33% 33
West Midlands +70 11 £52,500 +73.55% 7
East of England +53 9 £42,000 +14.29% 5
North of England +63 8 £35,349 -11.63% 8
Yorkshire +72 7 £35,000 -12.50% 4
East Midlands +24 6 £32,500 +14.04% 2
South West +102 2 £46,250 +27.59% 4
North West +1 1 £35,698 -18.41% 4
Applications Support Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 12 May 2025, Applications Support 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 Support Engineer in the job title.

1 68 (85.00%) SQL
2 45 (56.25%) Problem-Solving
3 40 (50.00%) Social Skills
4 24 (30.00%) Linux
5 23 (28.75%) ITIL
6 22 (27.50%) Azure
7 21 (26.25%) Microsoft
8 19 (23.75%) Windows
9 18 (22.50%) Incident Management
10 17 (21.25%) PowerShell
10 17 (21.25%) Python
11 13 (16.25%) SQL Server
11 13 (16.25%) Microsoft 365
12 12 (15.00%) High Availability
12 12 (15.00%) Power BI
12 12 (15.00%) Collaborative Working
12 12 (15.00%) Power Platform
12 12 (15.00%) MySQL
12 12 (15.00%) Oracle
12 12 (15.00%) Business Intelligence
13 11 (13.75%) Middleware
13 11 (13.75%) PL/SQL
13 11 (13.75%) Oracle Fusion
13 11 (13.75%) Degree
13 11 (13.75%) Oracle EBS
13 11 (13.75%) Finance
13 11 (13.75%) Oracle Applications
13 11 (13.75%) AWS
14 10 (12.50%) ServiceNow
14 10 (12.50%) Analytical Skills

Applications Support 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 9 (11.25%) IIS
2 8 (10.00%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.25%) Apache
3 1 (1.25%) Confluence
3 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 11 (13.75%) Oracle Applications
1 11 (13.75%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (2.50%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.25%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.25%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 22 (27.50%) Azure
2 13 (16.25%) Microsoft 365
3 12 (15.00%) Power Platform
4 11 (13.75%) AWS
5 6 (7.50%) AWS Lambda
5 6 (7.50%) Serverless
6 4 (5.00%) Amazon ECS
6 4 (5.00%) Dynamics 365
6 4 (5.00%) SaaS
7 3 (3.75%) Azure Logic Apps
7 3 (3.75%) Entra ID
7 3 (3.75%) Power Automate
7 3 (3.75%) PowerApps
8 2 (2.50%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (2.50%) Amazon S3
8 2 (2.50%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (1.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (1.25%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (1.25%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 7 (8.75%) FTP
2 3 (3.75%) Firewall
3 1 (1.25%) DHCP
3 1 (1.25%) DNS
3 1 (1.25%) FIX Connectivity
3 1 (1.25%) SAN
3 1 (1.25%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.25%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (16.25%) SQL Server
2 12 (15.00%) MySQL
2 12 (15.00%) Power BI
3 3 (3.75%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (2.50%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 7 (8.75%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 5 (6.25%) JIRA
3 3 (3.75%) Git
4 1 (1.25%) JUnit
4 1 (1.25%) Visual Studio
General
1 40 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 11 (13.75%) Finance
3 10 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (8.75%) Local Government
6 6 (7.50%) Retail
7 5 (6.25%) Law
8 4 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (3.75%) Back Office
10 2 (2.50%) Advertising
10 2 (2.50%) French Language
10 2 (2.50%) German Language
10 2 (2.50%) Legal
11 1 (1.25%) Aerospace
11 1 (1.25%) Banking
11 1 (1.25%) Financial Institution
11 1 (1.25%) Manufacturing
11 1 (1.25%) Marketing
11 1 (1.25%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (13.75%) Middleware
1 11 (13.75%) Oracle Fusion
2 4 (5.00%) .NET
3 2 (2.50%) EDI
3 2 (2.50%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (2.50%) XML
4 1 (1.25%) CSS
4 1 (1.25%) FIX Protocol
4 1 (1.25%) HTML
4 1 (1.25%) SAP Basis
4 1 (1.25%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 3 (3.75%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (2.50%) Driving Licence
3 1 (1.25%) Client/Server
3 1 (1.25%) Clustering
3 1 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (1.25%) Eurex
3 1 (1.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (1.25%) Housing Association
3 1 (1.25%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.25%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 24 (30.00%) Linux
2 19 (23.75%) Windows
3 7 (8.75%) Windows 10
4 5 (6.25%) Windows Server
5 3 (3.75%) Unix
5 3 (3.75%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (2.50%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (1.25%) CentOS
7 1 (1.25%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (56.25%) Problem-Solving
2 23 (28.75%) ITIL
3 18 (22.50%) Incident Management
4 12 (15.00%) Business Intelligence
4 12 (15.00%) Collaborative Working
4 12 (15.00%) High Availability
5 9 (11.25%) Customer-Centric Approach
5 9 (11.25%) Customer-Centricity
5 9 (11.25%) ERP
6 8 (10.00%) Cost Reduction
6 8 (10.00%) Customer Service
6 8 (10.00%) Logistics
7 7 (8.75%) Mentoring
8 6 (7.50%) Continuous Improvement
8 6 (7.50%) DevOps
8 6 (7.50%) Project Management
8 6 (7.50%) Root Cause Analysis
9 5 (6.25%) Agile
9 5 (6.25%) Service Management
10 4 (5.00%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 68 (85.00%) SQL
2 17 (21.25%) PowerShell
2 17 (21.25%) Python
3 11 (13.75%) PL/SQL
4 10 (12.50%) Java
5 8 (10.00%) T-SQL
6 2 (2.50%) C#
7 1 (1.25%) Bash
7 1 (1.25%) Perl
7 1 (1.25%) Progress 4GL
Qualifications
1 11 (13.75%) Degree
2 3 (3.75%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.25%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.25%) HND
4 1 (1.25%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (1.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.75%) SLA
2 4 (5.00%) PCI DSS
2 4 (5.00%) QA
2 4 (5.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 3 (3.75%) FINRA
4 1 (1.25%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (5.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (2.50%) Ansible
1 2 (2.50%) Kibana
1 2 (2.50%) logstash
2 1 (1.25%) Grafana
2 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Clustering
2 1 (1.25%) Prometheus
2 1 (1.25%) Puppet
2 1 (1.25%) SCCM
2 1 (1.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 21 (26.25%) Microsoft
2 12 (15.00%) Oracle
3 10 (12.50%) ServiceNow
4 7 (8.75%) SAP
5 3 (3.75%) Databricks
6 1 (1.25%) Bloomberg
6 1 (1.25%) Capita
6 1 (1.25%) Cisco
6 1 (1.25%) CQG
6 1 (1.25%) Freshdesk
6 1 (1.25%) ION Trading
6 1 (1.25%) Meraki
6 1 (1.25%) Patsystems
6 1 (1.25%) Progress
6 1 (1.25%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.25%) Reuters
6 1 (1.25%) Splunk
6 1 (1.25%) Trayport