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 5 April 2026.

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

 6 months to
5 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 592 601 766
Rank change year-on-year +9 +165 +150
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Applications Engineer 63 10 44
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.088% 0.027% 0.055%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.095% 0.030% 0.059%
Number of salaries quoted 49 8 37
10th Percentile £44,972 £39,750 £38,890
25th Percentile £50,000 £41,438 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £46,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +41.30% -16.36% -8.33%
75th Percentile £70,000 £85,938 £58,750
90th Percentile £76,000 £96,250 £73,250
UK median annual salary £65,000 £46,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +41.30% -16.36% -6.38%

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 66,408 32,846 74,851
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.27% 89.81% 94.39%
Number of salaries quoted 43,805 21,228 58,232
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,591
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -9.19%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £91,363
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £54,650
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.79% -8.92%

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 April 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 5 April 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 - 40 £65,000 - 3
North West - 22 £65,000 - 2
London -6 11 £70,000 -13.85% 1
Yorkshire - 10 £65,000 - 1
North East - 8 £45,497 -
East of England -20 7 £50,000 +21.21%
South East -28 2 - -
Midlands -40 1 - -
East Midlands -43 1 - -
Senior Applications Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 5 April 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 19 (30.16%) Problem-Solving
2 16 (25.40%) Mentoring
3 15 (23.81%) Agile
4 12 (19.05%) Java
5 11 (17.46%) AWS
6 10 (15.87%) Investment Management
6 10 (15.87%) ITIL
6 10 (15.87%) Service Management
6 10 (15.87%) Thought Leadership
6 10 (15.87%) Windows
6 10 (15.87%) Windows Server
7 9 (14.29%) Test Automation
8 8 (12.70%) Continuous Improvement
8 8 (12.70%) Cybersecurity
8 8 (12.70%) Full-Stack Development
8 8 (12.70%) Oracle
9 7 (11.11%) API Design
9 7 (11.11%) Coaching
9 7 (11.11%) Linux
9 7 (11.11%) Microservices
9 7 (11.11%) SDLC
9 7 (11.11%) Spring
9 7 (11.11%) Spring Boot
9 7 (11.11%) Systems Thinking
10 6 (9.52%) BDD
10 6 (9.52%) CI/CD
10 6 (9.52%) DevOps
10 6 (9.52%) E-Commerce
10 6 (9.52%) Event-Driven
10 6 (9.52%) Event-Driven Architecture

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 (1.59%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 11 (17.46%) AWS
2 5 (7.94%) Azure
2 5 (7.94%) SaaS
3 4 (6.35%) GCP
4 2 (3.17%) GitHub
4 2 (3.17%) IaaS
4 2 (3.17%) PaaS
5 1 (1.59%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (1.59%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.17%) DHCP
1 2 (3.17%) DNS
2 1 (1.59%) Internet
2 1 (1.59%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.17%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.59%) MySQL
2 1 (1.59%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (3.17%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 2 (3.17%) fastlane
1 2 (3.17%) JIRA
2 1 (1.59%) Cucumber
2 1 (1.59%) Visual Studio
General
1 4 (6.35%) Finance
1 4 (6.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (3.17%) Banking
2 2 (3.17%) Law
2 2 (3.17%) Police
2 2 (3.17%) Social Skills
3 1 (1.59%) Automotive
3 1 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (1.59%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (11.11%) Spring
1 7 (11.11%) Spring Boot
2 6 (9.52%) OAuth
2 6 (9.52%) OAuth2
3 4 (6.35%) .NET
4 3 (4.76%) AngularJS
4 3 (4.76%) CSS
4 3 (4.76%) HTML
4 3 (4.76%) HTML5
4 3 (4.76%) jQuery
5 1 (1.59%) .NET Core
5 1 (1.59%) Playwright
5 1 (1.59%) React
5 1 (1.59%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.52%) Mobile App
2 4 (6.35%) Cloud Native
2 4 (6.35%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (4.76%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.17%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 10 (15.87%) Windows
1 10 (15.87%) Windows Server
2 7 (11.11%) Linux
3 2 (3.17%) Apple iOS
3 2 (3.17%) Windows 10
3 2 (3.17%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (30.16%) Problem-Solving
2 16 (25.40%) Mentoring
3 15 (23.81%) Agile
4 10 (15.87%) Investment Management
4 10 (15.87%) ITIL
4 10 (15.87%) Service Management
4 10 (15.87%) Thought Leadership
5 9 (14.29%) Test Automation
6 8 (12.70%) Continuous Improvement
6 8 (12.70%) Cybersecurity
6 8 (12.70%) Full-Stack Development
7 7 (11.11%) API Design
7 7 (11.11%) Coaching
7 7 (11.11%) Microservices
7 7 (11.11%) SDLC
7 7 (11.11%) Systems Thinking
8 6 (9.52%) BDD
8 6 (9.52%) DevOps
8 6 (9.52%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 6 (9.52%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 12 (19.05%) Java
2 6 (9.52%) Kotlin
3 3 (4.76%) JavaScript
3 3 (4.76%) SQL
4 2 (3.17%) Swift
5 1 (1.59%) C#
5 1 (1.59%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 5 (7.94%) Degree
2 3 (4.76%) SC Cleared
2 3 (4.76%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.59%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.76%) Data Quality
1 3 (4.76%) GDPR
1 3 (4.76%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (3.17%) Active Directory
1 2 (3.17%) Hyper-V
1 2 (3.17%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.59%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.59%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (12.70%) Oracle
2 6 (9.52%) Microsoft
3 4 (6.35%) CrowdStrike
3 4 (6.35%) Fortinet
3 4 (6.35%) Palo Alto
4 2 (3.17%) VMware
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