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 3 May 2026.

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

6 months to
3 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 615 612 780
Rank change year-on-year -3 +168 +113
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Applications Engineer 59 13 48
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.073% 0.034% 0.057%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.079% 0.038% 0.061%
Number of salaries quoted 47 11 41
10th Percentile £43,947 £39,750 £38,890
25th Percentile £50,000 £40,875 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £42,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +54.76% -23.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £96,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £42,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +54.76% -23.64% -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 74,665 33,869 78,856
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.87% 89.15% 94.44%
Number of salaries quoted 49,095 21,316 60,150
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,000 £38,085
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% -11.18%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £71,991
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £91,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £59,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year -6.78% +11.32% -11.67%

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 3 May 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 3 May 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 - 35 £65,000 - 1
North West - 21 £70,000 - 1
London +1 10 £70,000 -13.85% 2
Yorkshire - 10 £65,000 -
East of England -20 6 £50,000 +19.05%
Midlands -30 6 £42,500 - 2
East Midlands -34 5 £42,500 - 2
North East - 4 £55,249 -
South East -24 2 - -
West Midlands -20 1 - -
Senior Applications Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 3 May 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 (27.12%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (22.03%) Java
3 11 (18.64%) AWS
4 10 (16.95%) Continuous Improvement
4 10 (16.95%) Investment Management
4 10 (16.95%) Thought Leadership
5 9 (15.25%) Mentoring
5 9 (15.25%) Test Automation
6 8 (13.56%) Full-Stack Development
6 8 (13.56%) Microsoft
6 8 (13.56%) Oracle
7 7 (11.86%) Agile
7 7 (11.86%) API Design
7 7 (11.86%) Azure
7 7 (11.86%) Cybersecurity
7 7 (11.86%) Microservices
7 7 (11.86%) Spring
7 7 (11.86%) Spring Boot
8 6 (10.17%) BDD
8 6 (10.17%) CI/CD
8 6 (10.17%) DevOps
8 6 (10.17%) E-Commerce
8 6 (10.17%) Event-Driven
8 6 (10.17%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 6 (10.17%) High Availability
8 6 (10.17%) Kotlin
8 6 (10.17%) OAuth
8 6 (10.17%) OAuth2
8 6 (10.17%) SDLC
8 6 (10.17%) TDD

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 (1.69%) Appian
Cloud Services
1 11 (18.64%) AWS
2 7 (11.86%) Azure
3 5 (8.47%) SaaS
4 4 (6.78%) GCP
5 2 (3.39%) GitHub
5 2 (3.39%) IaaS
5 2 (3.39%) PaaS
6 1 (1.69%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.08%) DNS
1 3 (5.08%) Firewall
1 3 (5.08%) MQTT
1 3 (5.08%) VPN
2 1 (1.69%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.78%) SQL Server
2 3 (5.08%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (5.08%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.69%) MySQL
3 1 (1.69%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (3.39%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 2 (3.39%) fastlane
1 2 (3.39%) JIRA
2 1 (1.69%) Cucumber
General
1 4 (6.78%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (6.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 4 (6.78%) Social Skills
2 3 (5.08%) Finance
3 2 (3.39%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (11.86%) Spring
1 7 (11.86%) Spring Boot
2 6 (10.17%) OAuth
2 6 (10.17%) OAuth2
3 4 (6.78%) .NET
4 3 (5.08%) AngularJS
4 3 (5.08%) CSS
4 3 (5.08%) HTML
4 3 (5.08%) HTML5
4 3 (5.08%) jQuery
5 1 (1.69%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.17%) Mobile App
2 4 (6.78%) Cloud Native
2 4 (6.78%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (5.08%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (5.08%) IoT
3 3 (5.08%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.69%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 5 (8.47%) Linux
1 5 (8.47%) Windows
1 5 (8.47%) Windows Server
2 3 (5.08%) VMS
3 2 (3.39%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (27.12%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (16.95%) Continuous Improvement
2 10 (16.95%) Investment Management
2 10 (16.95%) Thought Leadership
3 9 (15.25%) Mentoring
3 9 (15.25%) Test Automation
4 8 (13.56%) Full-Stack Development
5 7 (11.86%) Agile
5 7 (11.86%) API Design
5 7 (11.86%) Cybersecurity
5 7 (11.86%) Microservices
6 6 (10.17%) BDD
6 6 (10.17%) CI/CD
6 6 (10.17%) DevOps
6 6 (10.17%) E-Commerce
6 6 (10.17%) Event-Driven
6 6 (10.17%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 6 (10.17%) High Availability
6 6 (10.17%) SDLC
6 6 (10.17%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 13 (22.03%) Java
2 6 (10.17%) Kotlin
3 5 (8.47%) SQL
4 3 (5.08%) JavaScript
4 3 (5.08%) PowerShell
4 3 (5.08%) Python
5 2 (3.39%) Swift
6 1 (1.69%) C#
6 1 (1.69%) VBA
Qualifications
1 4 (6.78%) SC Cleared
1 4 (6.78%) Security Cleared
2 3 (5.08%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.08%) Data Quality
1 3 (5.08%) GDPR
1 3 (5.08%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 8 (13.56%) Microsoft
1 8 (13.56%) Oracle
2 4 (6.78%) CrowdStrike
2 4 (6.78%) Fortinet
2 4 (6.78%) Palo Alto