Applications Support Jobs in England

Application Support
UK > England

The median Application Support salary in England is £45,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 17 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
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 330 296 354
Rank change year-on-year -34 +58 +34
Permanent jobs requiring an Applications Support 436 823 816
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.88% 0.95% 0.92%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.97% 1.01% 1.01%
Number of salaries quoted 383 640 668
10th Percentile £30,600 £27,500 £29,425
25th Percentile £33,125 £35,938 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.26% -6.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £63,750 £63,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,000 £90,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - -10.00% +17.65%

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 45,023 81,588 81,077
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.06% 94.56% 91.50%
Number of salaries quoted 24,443 60,779 51,494
10th Percentile £29,913 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,800 £53,000 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +7.17% -12.83% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -12.50% -

Applications Support
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Applications Support in England

Applications Support
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Applications Support in England

Applications Support
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Applications Support in England over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Applications Support in England

Applications Support
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 within the England region over the 6 months to 17 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
London -24 159 £65,000 +4.00% 115
East of England +80 82 £36,250 -23.68% 12
South East -11 68 £36,500 -14.12% 55
North of England -13 64 £39,000 -2.50% 37
Midlands +11 53 £37,500 +15.38% 9
North West -38 38 £44,500 -1.11% 19
West Midlands +49 35 £42,500 +32.31% 7
Yorkshire +49 24 £38,000 +6.80% 15
East Midlands -23 18 £32,500 -1.95% 2
South West +81 5 £38,500 -11.49% 17
North East +34 2 £33,198 -11.47% 3
Applications Support
UK

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

For the 6 months to 17 May 2025, Applications Support 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 in the job title.

1 226 (51.83%) Social Skills
2 212 (48.62%) SQL
3 181 (41.51%) Problem-Solving
4 149 (34.17%) Microsoft
5 130 (29.82%) Finance
6 118 (27.06%) Azure
7 106 (24.31%) ITIL
8 97 (22.25%) Windows
9 92 (21.10%) Analytical Skills
10 88 (20.18%) ERP
11 84 (19.27%) SQL Server
12 64 (14.68%) Microsoft 365
13 63 (14.45%) Linux
14 62 (14.22%) CRM
14 62 (14.22%) Oracle
15 57 (13.07%) Python
16 54 (12.39%) Degree
17 48 (11.01%) Continuous Improvement
17 48 (11.01%) Change Management
18 46 (10.55%) PowerShell
19 45 (10.32%) Service Management
20 42 (9.63%) PL/SQL
21 40 (9.17%) .NET
22 39 (8.94%) Customer Service
23 36 (8.26%) Manufacturing
23 36 (8.26%) Incident Management
23 36 (8.26%) ITSM
24 34 (7.80%) Banking
25 33 (7.57%) Microsoft Office
25 33 (7.57%) SharePoint

Applications Support 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 33 (7.57%) SharePoint
2 19 (4.36%) IIS
2 19 (4.36%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (1.15%) Confluence
4 3 (0.69%) Alfresco
4 3 (0.69%) Documentum
4 3 (0.69%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.46%) WordPress
6 1 (0.23%) Apache
6 1 (0.23%) GemFire
Applications
1 33 (7.57%) Microsoft Office
2 23 (5.28%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 23 (5.28%) Dynamics CRM
2 19 (4.36%) Oracle Applications
2 19 (4.36%) Oracle EBS
3 10 (2.29%) Dynamics AX
4 9 (2.06%) SAP S/4HANA
5 7 (1.61%) Fidessa
6 6 (1.38%) NetSuite
7 5 (1.15%) Dynamics GP
7 5 (1.15%) Dynamics NAV
8 2 (0.46%) Magento
9 1 (0.23%) Oracle Financials
9 1 (0.23%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 118 (27.06%) Azure
2 64 (14.68%) Microsoft 365
3 30 (6.88%) Power Platform
4 29 (6.65%) AWS
5 24 (5.50%) Dynamics 365
6 14 (3.21%) SaaS
7 11 (2.52%) Entra ID
8 9 (2.06%) AWS Lambda
8 9 (2.06%) Azure Logic Apps
8 9 (2.06%) Serverless
9 8 (1.83%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (1.61%) Azure Monitor
10 7 (1.61%) PowerApps
11 6 (1.38%) Amazon ECS
11 6 (1.38%) Azure Data Factory
11 6 (1.38%) Power Automate
12 5 (1.15%) IaaS
12 5 (1.15%) PaaS
12 5 (1.15%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
12 5 (1.15%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 15 (3.44%) FTP
2 13 (2.98%) Firewall
3 8 (1.83%) DHCP
3 8 (1.83%) DNS
3 8 (1.83%) TCP/IP
4 7 (1.61%) FIX Connectivity
5 3 (0.69%) Internet
6 2 (0.46%) Unified Communications
6 2 (0.46%) VPN
6 2 (0.46%) WAN
6 2 (0.46%) Wireless
7 1 (0.23%) HTTP
7 1 (0.23%) SAN
7 1 (0.23%) SSL
7 1 (0.23%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (19.27%) SQL Server
2 29 (6.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 24 (5.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 22 (5.05%) DB2
5 21 (4.82%) Power BI
6 20 (4.59%) MySQL
7 12 (2.75%) Relational Database
8 8 (1.83%) GIS
9 6 (1.38%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (0.92%) Oracle Reports
11 3 (0.69%) Azure SQL Database
12 2 (0.46%) EDMS
12 2 (0.46%) Elasticsearch
12 2 (0.46%) MongoDB
12 2 (0.46%) PostgreSQL
13 1 (0.23%) Amazon RDS
13 1 (0.23%) Data Lake
13 1 (0.23%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 20 (4.59%) JIRA
2 9 (2.06%) Git
2 9 (2.06%) Visual Studio
3 7 (1.61%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 3 (0.69%) Log4j
5 2 (0.46%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.23%) Eclipse
6 1 (0.23%) JUnit
General
1 226 (51.83%) Social Skills
2 130 (29.82%) Finance
3 92 (21.10%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (8.26%) Manufacturing
5 34 (7.80%) Banking
6 26 (5.96%) Retail
7 24 (5.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 19 (4.36%) Law
9 13 (2.98%) Back Office
10 12 (2.75%) Front Office
11 10 (2.29%) Local Government
12 8 (1.83%) Advertising
12 8 (1.83%) Legal
13 7 (1.61%) Organisational Skills
14 6 (1.38%) German Language
15 5 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
16 4 (0.92%) Presentation Skills
17 3 (0.69%) Financial Institution
17 3 (0.69%) Spanish Language
18 2 (0.46%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (9.17%) .NET
2 15 (3.44%) Oracle Fusion
3 14 (3.21%) Middleware
4 13 (2.98%) HTML
5 12 (2.75%) REST
5 12 (2.75%) SOAP
6 11 (2.52%) .NET Framework
6 11 (2.52%) EDI
6 11 (2.52%) XML
7 9 (2.06%) ASP.NET
7 9 (2.06%) FIX Protocol
7 9 (2.06%) JSON
7 9 (2.06%) Web Services
8 5 (1.15%) Elastic Stack
9 4 (0.92%) Spring
10 3 (0.69%) Apache Camel
10 3 (0.69%) YAML
11 2 (0.46%) Kafka
12 1 (0.23%) ASP.NET MVC
12 1 (0.23%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 14 (3.21%) Legacy Applications
2 9 (2.06%) Data Protection Act
2 9 (2.06%) Management Information System
2 9 (2.06%) Manufacturing Execution System
3 8 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
4 7 (1.61%) Eurex
5 6 (1.38%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (1.15%) Derivative
6 5 (1.15%) Equities
7 4 (0.92%) Bitcoin
7 4 (0.92%) Client/Server
7 4 (0.92%) Fixed Income
7 4 (0.92%) Mobile App
8 3 (0.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (0.69%) Housing Association
8 3 (0.69%) Onboarding
8 3 (0.69%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 3 (0.69%) Video Conferencing
9 2 (0.46%) Driving Licence
9 2 (0.46%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 97 (22.25%) Windows
2 63 (14.45%) Linux
3 21 (4.82%) Unix
4 19 (4.36%) Windows Server
5 16 (3.67%) Windows 10
6 7 (1.61%) CentOS
7 5 (1.15%) Android
8 4 (0.92%) Rocky
9 3 (0.69%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.46%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.46%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.23%) Debian
11 1 (0.23%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.23%) Solaris
11 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 181 (41.51%) Problem-Solving
2 106 (24.31%) ITIL
3 88 (20.18%) ERP
4 62 (14.22%) CRM
5 48 (11.01%) Change Management
5 48 (11.01%) Continuous Improvement
6 45 (10.32%) Service Management
7 39 (8.94%) Customer Service
8 36 (8.26%) Incident Management
8 36 (8.26%) ITSM
9 30 (6.88%) Collaborative Working
9 30 (6.88%) Mentoring
10 28 (6.42%) Agile
10 28 (6.42%) Business Intelligence
10 28 (6.42%) Computer Science
11 26 (5.96%) Customer-Centricity
11 26 (5.96%) Problem Management
11 26 (5.96%) Root Cause Analysis
12 25 (5.73%) Service Delivery
12 25 (5.73%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 212 (48.62%) SQL
2 57 (13.07%) Python
3 46 (10.55%) PowerShell
4 42 (9.63%) PL/SQL
5 29 (6.65%) C#
6 25 (5.73%) Java
6 25 (5.73%) T-SQL
7 22 (5.05%) VB.NET
8 11 (2.52%) Shell Script
9 9 (2.06%) C-shell
9 9 (2.06%) Korn
10 7 (1.61%) Bash
10 7 (1.61%) JavaScript
10 7 (1.61%) Perl
11 3 (0.69%) Progress 4GL
12 2 (0.46%) VB
13 1 (0.23%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 54 (12.39%) Degree
2 13 (2.98%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (2.52%) Microsoft Certification
4 10 (2.29%) CISSP
5 9 (2.06%) PhD
5 9 (2.06%) PMI Certification
5 9 (2.06%) PMP
6 7 (1.61%) Security Cleared
7 6 (1.38%) SC Cleared
8 4 (0.92%) A+ Certification
8 4 (0.92%) ITIL Certification
9 3 (0.69%) DBS Check
9 3 (0.69%) MOS
10 2 (0.46%) MCITP
10 2 (0.46%) MCSE
11 1 (0.23%) CISA
11 1 (0.23%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.23%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.23%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (2.98%) QA
1 13 (2.98%) SLA
2 7 (1.61%) PCI DSS
3 6 (1.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 3 (0.69%) FINRA
5 2 (0.46%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.23%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.23%) DICOM
6 1 (0.23%) GDPR
6 1 (0.23%) HL7
System Software
1 18 (4.13%) Active Directory
2 4 (0.92%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (0.69%) Docker
4 1 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (3.21%) Grafana
2 13 (2.98%) Microsoft Intune
3 7 (1.61%) ITRS Geneos
3 7 (1.61%) Kubernetes
3 7 (1.61%) Nagios
3 7 (1.61%) Prometheus
3 7 (1.61%) SCCM
4 4 (0.92%) Terraform
5 3 (0.69%) Ansible
6 2 (0.46%) Kibana
6 2 (0.46%) logstash
6 2 (0.46%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.46%) Puppet
7 1 (0.23%) Graylog
Vendors
1 149 (34.17%) Microsoft
2 62 (14.22%) Oracle
3 28 (6.42%) ServiceNow
4 22 (5.05%) SAP
5 14 (3.21%) Trayport
6 12 (2.75%) SolarWinds
7 11 (2.52%) Facebook
8 8 (1.83%) Databricks
9 7 (1.61%) Bloomberg
9 7 (1.61%) CQG
9 7 (1.61%) ION Trading
9 7 (1.61%) Red Hat
9 7 (1.61%) Reuters
9 7 (1.61%) Splunk
10 6 (1.38%) Guidewire
10 6 (1.38%) Patsystems
10 6 (1.38%) Salesforce
11 5 (1.15%) Liquidlogic
11 5 (1.15%) VMware
11 5 (1.15%) Zoho