Senior Applications Engineer Jobs in England

Senior Applications Engineer
UK > England

The median Senior Applications Engineer salary in England is £42,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 July 2025.

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

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 681 791 862
Rank change year-on-year +110 +71 +256
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Applications Engineer 13 78 11
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.026% 0.083% 0.014%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.028% 0.088% 0.015%
Number of salaries quoted 11 55 10
10th Percentile £39,750 £39,334 -
25th Percentile £40,875 £45,000 £40,834
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,000 £52,500 £48,750
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +7.69% -30.36%
75th Percentile £72,125 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £85,000 £86,000
UK median annual salary £42,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -20.00% -4.55% -18.52%

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 46,001 89,053 72,349
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.54% 94.65% 91.17%
Number of salaries quoted 25,119 64,627 48,533
10th Percentile £27,750 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £39,000 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

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

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Applications Engineer in England.

Salary trend for Senior Applications Engineer in England

Senior Applications Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Applications Engineer in England over the 6 months to 1 July 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 1 July 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
East of England +41 7 £42,000 -16.00% 6
London +100 3 £82,500 +3.13% 38
Midlands +62 2 - - 7
West Midlands +54 2 - - 5
Senior Applications Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 July 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 8 (61.54%) SQL Server
1 8 (61.54%) SQL
1 8 (61.54%) T-SQL
1 8 (61.54%) Business Intelligence
1 8 (61.54%) Degree
1 8 (61.54%) Social Skills
1 8 (61.54%) Power BI
1 8 (61.54%) Problem-Solving
1 8 (61.54%) Power Platform
2 7 (53.85%) PowerShell
2 7 (53.85%) High Availability
2 7 (53.85%) Windows 10
2 7 (53.85%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (53.85%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 7 (53.85%) SharePoint
2 7 (53.85%) FTP
2 7 (53.85%) ITIL
2 7 (53.85%) Windows
2 7 (53.85%) IIS
2 7 (53.85%) Local Government
2 7 (53.85%) Microsoft
3 3 (23.08%) Java
3 3 (23.08%) .NET
3 3 (23.08%) Threat Modelling
3 3 (23.08%) Static Application Security Testing
3 3 (23.08%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
3 3 (23.08%) Application Security
3 3 (23.08%) CI/CD
4 2 (15.38%) PCI DSS
4 2 (15.38%) Cloud Security

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 (53.85%) IIS
1 7 (53.85%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 8 (61.54%) Power Platform
2 7 (53.85%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (7.69%) Azure
3 1 (7.69%) Azure Functions
3 1 (7.69%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (7.69%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (7.69%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (7.69%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (7.69%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (53.85%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (61.54%) Power BI
1 8 (61.54%) SQL Server
2 1 (7.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 7 (53.85%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 8 (61.54%) Social Skills
2 7 (53.85%) Local Government
3 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Finance
3 1 (7.69%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (23.08%) .NET
2 1 (7.69%) Ajax
2 1 (7.69%) AngularJS
2 1 (7.69%) CSS
2 1 (7.69%) Entity Framework
2 1 (7.69%) HTML
2 1 (7.69%) jQuery
2 1 (7.69%) KnockoutJS
2 1 (7.69%) Razor View Engine
2 1 (7.69%) WCF
2 1 (7.69%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Algorithms
1 1 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 7 (53.85%) Windows
1 7 (53.85%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) Business Intelligence
1 8 (61.54%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (53.85%) High Availability
2 7 (53.85%) ITIL
3 3 (23.08%) Application Security
3 3 (23.08%) CI/CD
3 3 (23.08%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
3 3 (23.08%) Static Application Security Testing
3 3 (23.08%) Threat Modelling
4 2 (15.38%) Cloud Security
4 2 (15.38%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (15.38%) Design Patterns
4 2 (15.38%) Open Source
4 2 (15.38%) Security Architecture
4 2 (15.38%) Software Engineering
4 2 (15.38%) Systems Engineering
5 1 (7.69%) MVC
5 1 (7.69%) Regression Testing
5 1 (7.69%) Six Sigma
5 1 (7.69%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 8 (61.54%) SQL
1 8 (61.54%) T-SQL
2 7 (53.85%) PowerShell
3 3 (23.08%) Java
4 2 (15.38%) JavaScript
5 1 (7.69%) C
5 1 (7.69%) C#
5 1 (7.69%) MATLAB
5 1 (7.69%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (61.54%) Degree
2 1 (7.69%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 2 (15.38%) GDPR
1 2 (15.38%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Functional Safety
1 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (53.85%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.69%) MathWorks