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 18 September 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 612 695 730
Rank change year-on-year +83 +35 +336
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Applications Engineer 39 65 12
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.090% 0.094% 0.022%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.100% 0.099% 0.024%
Number of salaries quoted 38 38 11
10th Percentile £41,723 £40,000 £40,834
25th Percentile £42,780 £45,000 £54,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -23.08% -7.14%
75th Percentile £62,500 £55,000 £80,625
90th Percentile £84,000 £85,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £50,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +20.00% -23.08% -

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 39,065 65,689 50,712
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.39% 95.18% 94.03%
Number of salaries quoted 23,443 39,893 39,224
10th Percentile £28,260 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £93,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

Senior Applications Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Applications Engineer 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 18 September 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 18 September 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 +48 17 £60,000 +9.09% 1
East of England -5 11 £42,000 -16.00% 2
North of England +12 5 £72,500 +61.11% 2
London +60 4 £88,750 +22.41% 2
North West +8 3 £72,500 +61.11%
Yorkshire +18 2 £51,788 +15.08% 2
Midlands +37 1 - -
West Midlands +32 1 - -
Senior Applications Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 18 September 2025, Senior Applications 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 Senior Applications Engineer in the job title.

1 34 (87.18%) SQL
2 32 (82.05%) Social Skills
3 31 (79.49%) PowerShell
4 26 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
4 26 (66.67%) Microsoft
5 19 (48.72%) Azure
6 18 (46.15%) Security Cleared
6 18 (46.15%) C#
6 18 (46.15%) Task Automation
6 18 (46.15%) Root Cause Analysis
7 17 (43.59%) REST
7 17 (43.59%) Cloud Operations
7 17 (43.59%) SOAP
7 17 (43.59%) SOA
7 17 (43.59%) Data Analysis
8 13 (33.33%) Degree
8 13 (33.33%) SQL Server
9 12 (30.77%) Windows
10 11 (28.21%) Local Government
11 9 (23.08%) Business Intelligence
12 8 (20.51%) ITIL
12 8 (20.51%) T-SQL
12 8 (20.51%) Power Platform
12 8 (20.51%) Power BI
13 7 (17.95%) Windows 10
13 7 (17.95%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 7 (17.95%) High Availability
13 7 (17.95%) Microsoft 365
13 7 (17.95%) IIS
13 7 (17.95%) FTP

Senior Applications 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 7 (17.95%) IIS
1 7 (17.95%) SharePoint
2 4 (10.26%) Oracle Workflow
Business Applications
1 4 (10.26%) NEC Housing
2 3 (7.69%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 19 (48.72%) Azure
2 8 (20.51%) Power Platform
3 7 (17.95%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (5.13%) SaaS
5 1 (2.56%) Azure Functions
5 1 (2.56%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (2.56%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (2.56%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (2.56%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (2.56%) GitHub
5 1 (2.56%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (17.95%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 8 (20.51%) Power BI
3 4 (10.26%) BusinessObjects
3 4 (10.26%) MS Access
3 4 (10.26%) SAP Data Services
4 1 (2.56%) RDBMS
4 1 (2.56%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 7 (17.95%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 4 (10.26%) Toad
3 1 (2.56%) JIRA
General
1 32 (82.05%) Social Skills
2 11 (28.21%) Local Government
3 4 (10.26%) Finance
3 4 (10.26%) Public Sector
4 3 (7.69%) Banking
4 3 (7.69%) Legal
4 3 (7.69%) Marketing
5 1 (2.56%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.56%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (43.59%) REST
1 17 (43.59%) SOAP
2 3 (7.69%) .NET
3 1 (2.56%) Ajax
3 1 (2.56%) AngularJS
3 1 (2.56%) CSS
3 1 (2.56%) Entity Framework
3 1 (2.56%) HTML
3 1 (2.56%) jQuery
3 1 (2.56%) KnockoutJS
3 1 (2.56%) Razor View Engine
3 1 (2.56%) WCF
3 1 (2.56%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.13%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (2.56%) Marketing Technology
2 1 (2.56%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 12 (30.77%) Windows
2 7 (17.95%) Windows 10
3 4 (10.26%) Unix
3 4 (10.26%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 18 (46.15%) Root Cause Analysis
2 18 (46.15%) Task Automation
3 17 (43.59%) Cloud Operations
3 17 (43.59%) Data Analysis
3 17 (43.59%) SOA
4 9 (23.08%) Business Intelligence
5 8 (20.51%) ITIL
6 7 (17.95%) High Availability
7 6 (15.38%) Cybersecurity
8 5 (12.82%) Migration
9 4 (10.26%) Agile
9 4 (10.26%) Application Security
9 4 (10.26%) Continuous Improvement
9 4 (10.26%) Data-Driven Decision Making
9 4 (10.26%) Decision-Making
9 4 (10.26%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
9 4 (10.26%) Static Application Security Testing
9 4 (10.26%) Threat Modelling
9 4 (10.26%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 34 (87.18%) SQL
2 31 (79.49%) PowerShell
3 18 (46.15%) C#
4 8 (20.51%) T-SQL
5 4 (10.26%) Java
5 4 (10.26%) JavaScript
5 4 (10.26%) Shell Script
5 4 (10.26%) VB
6 3 (7.69%) Python
7 1 (2.56%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (46.15%) Security Cleared
2 13 (33.33%) Degree
3 1 (2.56%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.56%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 2 (5.13%) GDPR
1 2 (5.13%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 1 (2.56%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 26 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 5 (12.82%) Oracle
3 4 (10.26%) NEC
3 4 (10.26%) SAP
4 3 (7.69%) LexisNexis
4 3 (7.69%) Sitecore