Senior Applications Engineer Job Trends in England

Senior Applications Engineer
UK > England

The median Senior Applications Engineer salary in England is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 17 June 2026.

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

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 633 619 758
Rank change year-on-year -14 +139 +116
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Applications Engineer 67 12 80
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.081% 0.030% 0.084%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.086% 0.034% 0.089%
Number of salaries quoted 56 10 58
10th Percentile £43,705 £39,750 £38,890
25th Percentile £50,000 £40,313 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £42,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +54.76% -20.00% +5.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £82,688 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £96,375 £85,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £42,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +54.76% -20.00% -4.55%

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 78,266 35,581 89,728
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.06% 89.96% 94.61%
Number of salaries quoted 55,070 20,653 66,430
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,239 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.45% +9.52% -12.86%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%

Senior Applications Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Senior Applications Engineer job vacancy trend in England

Senior Applications Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary distribution trend for Senior Applications Engineer job vacancies in England

Senior Applications Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Applications Engineer in England over the 6 months to 17 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Senior Applications Engineer in England

Senior 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 Senior Applications Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 17 June 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
North of England - 42 £65,000 - 7
North West - 29 £70,000 - 5
Midlands -11 11 £45,000 -
Yorkshire - 11 £65,000 - 2
East Midlands - 10 £45,000 -
East of England -14 6 £50,000 +19.05%
London -31 6 £67,500 -23.94% 3
South East - 2 - -
North East - 2 £65,000 -
West Midlands -18 1 - -
Senior Applications Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 17 June 2026, Senior 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 Senior Applications Engineer in the job title.

1 16 (23.88%) Continuous Improvement
1 16 (23.88%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (20.90%) Java
3 13 (19.40%) AWS
4 10 (14.93%) Azure
4 10 (14.93%) Investment Management
4 10 (14.93%) Microsoft
4 10 (14.93%) Test Automation
4 10 (14.93%) Thought Leadership
5 9 (13.43%) CI/CD
5 9 (13.43%) E-Commerce
5 9 (13.43%) Full-Stack Development
6 8 (11.94%) OAuth
6 8 (11.94%) OAuth2
6 8 (11.94%) Oracle
6 8 (11.94%) SDLC
6 8 (11.94%) SQL
7 7 (10.45%) AI
7 7 (10.45%) API Design
7 7 (10.45%) High Availability
7 7 (10.45%) Microservices
7 7 (10.45%) SaaS
7 7 (10.45%) Spring
7 7 (10.45%) Spring Boot
8 6 (8.96%) BDD
8 6 (8.96%) DevOps
8 6 (8.96%) Event-Driven
8 6 (8.96%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 6 (8.96%) GCP
8 6 (8.96%) Incident Management

Senior 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 1 (1.49%) Appian
Business Applications
1 1 (1.49%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 13 (19.40%) AWS
2 10 (14.93%) Azure
3 7 (10.45%) SaaS
4 6 (8.96%) GCP
5 2 (2.99%) GitHub
5 2 (2.99%) IaaS
5 2 (2.99%) PaaS
5 2 (2.99%) Pulumi
6 1 (1.49%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.97%) DNS
1 4 (5.97%) Firewall
1 4 (5.97%) MQTT
1 4 (5.97%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.46%) SQL Server
2 4 (5.97%) Azure SQL Database
2 4 (5.97%) MongoDB
3 2 (2.99%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.49%) MySQL
4 1 (1.49%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (1.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (4.48%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 3 (4.48%) fastlane
2 2 (2.99%) JIRA
3 1 (1.49%) Cucumber
General
1 6 (8.96%) Analytical Skills
1 6 (8.96%) Social Skills
2 4 (5.97%) Finance
2 4 (5.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (4.48%) Banking
4 1 (1.49%) Manufacturing
4 1 (1.49%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (11.94%) OAuth
1 8 (11.94%) OAuth2
2 7 (10.45%) Spring
2 7 (10.45%) Spring Boot
3 5 (7.46%) .NET
4 3 (4.48%) AngularJS
4 3 (4.48%) CSS
4 3 (4.48%) HTML
4 3 (4.48%) HTML5
4 3 (4.48%) jQuery
5 2 (2.99%) JWT
5 2 (2.99%) OpenID
5 2 (2.99%) SAML
6 1 (1.49%) Classic ASP
6 1 (1.49%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.96%) Cloud Native
1 6 (8.96%) Mobile App
2 4 (5.97%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (5.97%) IoT
3 3 (4.48%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (4.48%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.49%) Low-Code
4 1 (1.49%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.97%) Linux
1 4 (5.97%) VMS
1 4 (5.97%) Windows
1 4 (5.97%) Windows Server
2 3 (4.48%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (23.88%) Continuous Improvement
1 16 (23.88%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (14.93%) Investment Management
2 10 (14.93%) Test Automation
2 10 (14.93%) Thought Leadership
3 9 (13.43%) CI/CD
3 9 (13.43%) E-Commerce
3 9 (13.43%) Full-Stack Development
4 8 (11.94%) SDLC
5 7 (10.45%) AI
5 7 (10.45%) API Design
5 7 (10.45%) High Availability
5 7 (10.45%) Microservices
6 6 (8.96%) BDD
6 6 (8.96%) DevOps
6 6 (8.96%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 6 (8.96%) Incident Management
6 6 (8.96%) Mentoring
6 6 (8.96%) TDD
6 6 (8.96%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 14 (20.90%) Java
2 8 (11.94%) SQL
3 6 (8.96%) Kotlin
4 4 (5.97%) JavaScript
4 4 (5.97%) PowerShell
4 4 (5.97%) Python
5 3 (4.48%) Swift
6 2 (2.99%) C#
7 1 (1.49%) VBA
Qualifications
1 4 (5.97%) SC Cleared
1 4 (5.97%) Security Cleared
2 3 (4.48%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.48%) Data Quality
1 3 (4.48%) GDPR
1 3 (4.48%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 2 (2.99%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (14.93%) Microsoft
2 8 (11.94%) Oracle
3 4 (5.97%) CrowdStrike
3 4 (5.97%) Fortinet
3 4 (5.97%) Palo Alto
4 1 (1.49%) Anaplan
4 1 (1.49%) Hyperion
4 1 (1.49%) SAP