Senior Applications Engineer Job Trends in England

Senior Applications Engineer
UK > England

The median Senior Applications Engineer salary in England is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 5 December 2025.

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

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 560 677 656
Rank change year-on-year +117 -21 +310
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Applications Engineer 50 36 13
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.10% 0.063% 0.029%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.068% 0.031%
Number of salaries quoted 45 18 13
10th Percentile £43,657 £45,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £44,972 £48,125 £46,015
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £59,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -7.56% -0.83%
75th Percentile £66,250 £58,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £79,800 £83,250 £74,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -

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 43,785 53,252 42,527
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.38% 93.91% 95.10%
Number of salaries quoted 28,019 29,611 33,199
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,703 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £96,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,836 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.90% -3.61% -

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 5 December 2025.

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 5 December 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 +46 17 £60,000 +9.09% 1
North of England +48 15 £45,497 +1.10%
London +73 10 £73,500 +13.08% 1
North West +48 7 £45,497 +1.10%
North East - 6 £45,497 -
East of England - 5 £43,085 -
Yorkshire -7 2 £51,788 -
Midlands +43 1 - - 1
East Midlands +8 1 - -
Senior Applications Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 5 December 2025, 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 27 (54.00%) Problem-Solving
1 27 (54.00%) SQL
2 25 (50.00%) PowerShell
3 20 (40.00%) Microsoft
3 20 (40.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 19 (38.00%) Azure
5 18 (36.00%) C#
5 18 (36.00%) Security Cleared
5 18 (36.00%) Task Automation
6 17 (34.00%) Cloud Operations
6 17 (34.00%) Data Analysis
6 17 (34.00%) REST
6 17 (34.00%) SOA
6 17 (34.00%) SOAP
7 15 (30.00%) Agile
7 15 (30.00%) Windows
8 14 (28.00%) Windows Server
9 10 (20.00%) Mentoring
10 9 (18.00%) ITIL
11 8 (16.00%) Degree
11 8 (16.00%) Service Management
12 7 (14.00%) Application Security
12 7 (14.00%) Coaching
12 7 (14.00%) Continuous Improvement
12 7 (14.00%) Cybersecurity
12 7 (14.00%) Linux
12 7 (14.00%) Systems Thinking
13 6 (12.00%) SQL Server
14 5 (10.00%) Migration
14 5 (10.00%) Oracle

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 4 (8.00%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (2.00%) IIS
Business Applications
1 4 (8.00%) NEC Housing
2 2 (4.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 19 (38.00%) Azure
2 2 (4.00%) SaaS
3 1 (2.00%) Azure AKS
3 1 (2.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.00%) DHCP
1 2 (4.00%) DNS
2 1 (2.00%) Internet
2 1 (2.00%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (12.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (8.00%) BusinessObjects
2 4 (8.00%) MS Access
2 4 (8.00%) SAP Data Services
3 1 (2.00%) RDBMS
3 1 (2.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (8.00%) Toad
2 1 (2.00%) JIRA
2 1 (2.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 27 (54.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (8.00%) Finance
2 4 (8.00%) Local Government
2 4 (8.00%) Marketing
2 4 (8.00%) Public Sector
3 3 (6.00%) Banking
3 3 (6.00%) Law
3 3 (6.00%) Legal
4 2 (4.00%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (4.00%) Police
5 1 (2.00%) Automotive
5 1 (2.00%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (34.00%) REST
1 17 (34.00%) SOAP
2 1 (2.00%) .NET
2 1 (2.00%) .NET Core
2 1 (2.00%) JSON
2 1 (2.00%) React
2 1 (2.00%) RESTful
2 1 (2.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.00%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (4.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (2.00%) Marketing Technology
2 1 (2.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (2.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 15 (30.00%) Windows
2 14 (28.00%) Windows Server
3 7 (14.00%) Linux
4 4 (8.00%) Unix
5 2 (4.00%) Windows 10
5 2 (4.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (54.00%) Problem-Solving
2 20 (40.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 18 (36.00%) Task Automation
4 17 (34.00%) Cloud Operations
4 17 (34.00%) Data Analysis
4 17 (34.00%) SOA
5 15 (30.00%) Agile
6 10 (20.00%) Mentoring
7 9 (18.00%) ITIL
8 8 (16.00%) Service Management
9 7 (14.00%) Application Security
9 7 (14.00%) Coaching
9 7 (14.00%) Continuous Improvement
9 7 (14.00%) Cybersecurity
9 7 (14.00%) Systems Thinking
10 5 (10.00%) Migration
10 5 (10.00%) SDLC
11 4 (8.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
11 4 (8.00%) Decision-Making
11 4 (8.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 27 (54.00%) SQL
2 25 (50.00%) PowerShell
3 18 (36.00%) C#
4 4 (8.00%) Shell Script
4 4 (8.00%) VB
5 3 (6.00%) JavaScript
5 3 (6.00%) Python
6 2 (4.00%) Java
7 1 (2.00%) PL/SQL
7 1 (2.00%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 18 (36.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (16.00%) Degree
3 1 (2.00%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (2.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (2.00%) NCSC
1 1 (2.00%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (4.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (4.00%) Hyper-V
1 2 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 20 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (10.00%) Oracle
3 4 (8.00%) NEC
3 4 (8.00%) SAP
4 3 (6.00%) LexisNexis
4 3 (6.00%) Sitecore
5 2 (4.00%) VMware