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 10 September 2026.

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

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 685 598 675
Rank change year-on-year -87 +77 +55
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Applications Engineer 73 37 69
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.073% 0.085% 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.078% 0.094% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 57 36 41
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,538 -
25th Percentile £60,000 £42,780 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +20.00% -23.08%
75th Percentile £75,000 £62,500 £55,000
90th Percentile £77,000 £87,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% +20.00% -23.08%

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 93,357 39,308 65,680
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.60% 90.38% 95.19%
Number of salaries quoted 66,083 23,655 40,777
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,300 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,591 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.71% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £74,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £93,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%

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 10 September 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 10 September 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 -18 41 £65,000 -10.34% 1
North West +14 30 £75,000 +3.45% 1
Midlands -31 15 £45,000 - 2
South West - 12 £60,000 - 7
East Midlands - 10 £45,000 -
Yorkshire -38 9 £65,000 +25.51%
West Midlands -25 5 £63,076 - 2
East of England -36 3 £75,000 +78.57% 2
North East - 2 £64,038 -
London -64 1 £65,000 -26.76% 11
Senior Applications Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 10 September 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 20 (27.40%) Problem-Solving
2 16 (21.92%) Continuous Improvement
3 15 (20.55%) SQL
4 9 (12.33%) AI
4 9 (12.33%) Azure
4 9 (12.33%) CI/CD
4 9 (12.33%) Mentoring
5 8 (10.96%) Accounts Payable
5 8 (10.96%) Cash Management
5 8 (10.96%) Coaching
5 8 (10.96%) Oracle
5 8 (10.96%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 8 (10.96%) Oracle Cash Management
5 8 (10.96%) Oracle EBS
5 8 (10.96%) Oracle Payables
5 8 (10.96%) Oracle Reports
5 8 (10.96%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 8 (10.96%) Oracle Workflow
5 8 (10.96%) Performance Tuning
5 8 (10.96%) Personalization
5 8 (10.96%) PL/SQL
5 8 (10.96%) Root Cause Analysis
5 8 (10.96%) Systems Engineering
5 8 (10.96%) Web Services
5 8 (10.96%) Workflow
5 8 (10.96%) XML
6 7 (9.59%) AWS
6 7 (9.59%) High Availability
6 7 (9.59%) ITSM
6 7 (9.59%) JIRA

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 8 (10.96%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (1.37%) Appian
Business Applications
1 8 (10.96%) Oracle Cash Management
1 8 (10.96%) Oracle EBS
1 8 (10.96%) Oracle Payables
1 8 (10.96%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 1 (1.37%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 9 (12.33%) Azure
2 7 (9.59%) AWS
3 3 (4.11%) SaaS
4 2 (2.74%) GCP
5 1 (1.37%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (1.37%) GitHub
5 1 (1.37%) IaaS
5 1 (1.37%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.48%) DNS
1 4 (5.48%) Firewall
1 4 (5.48%) MQTT
1 4 (5.48%) VPN
2 3 (4.11%) 3GPP
2 3 (4.11%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (10.96%) Oracle BI Publisher
1 8 (10.96%) Oracle Reports
2 4 (5.48%) Azure SQL Database
2 4 (5.48%) MongoDB
2 4 (5.48%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.74%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.37%) EDRMS
4 1 (1.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (1.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 7 (9.59%) JIRA
2 3 (4.11%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 3 (4.11%) fastlane
3 1 (1.37%) Cucumber
General
1 16 (21.92%) Finance
2 11 (15.07%) Public Sector
2 11 (15.07%) Social Skills
3 8 (10.96%) General Ledger
4 6 (8.22%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (6.85%) Automotive
6 4 (5.48%) Aerospace
7 3 (4.11%) Banking
7 3 (4.11%) Telecoms
8 2 (2.74%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.37%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (10.96%) Web Services
1 8 (10.96%) XML
2 6 (8.22%) OAuth
3 5 (6.85%) OpenID
4 3 (4.11%) OAuth2
5 2 (2.74%) .NET
5 2 (2.74%) JWT
5 2 (2.74%) Pulumi
5 2 (2.74%) SAML
5 2 (2.74%) Spring
5 2 (2.74%) Spring Boot
5 2 (2.74%) Terraform
6 1 (1.37%) Classic ASP
6 1 (1.37%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 13 (17.81%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (6.85%) Cloud Native
2 5 (6.85%) Data Centre
3 4 (5.48%) IoT
4 2 (2.74%) Smartphone
5 1 (1.37%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.37%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.48%) Linux
1 4 (5.48%) VMS
1 4 (5.48%) Windows
1 4 (5.48%) Windows Server
2 3 (4.11%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (27.40%) Problem-Solving
2 16 (21.92%) Continuous Improvement
3 9 (12.33%) AI
3 9 (12.33%) CI/CD
3 9 (12.33%) Mentoring
4 8 (10.96%) Accounts Payable
4 8 (10.96%) Cash Management
4 8 (10.96%) Coaching
4 8 (10.96%) Performance Tuning
4 8 (10.96%) Personalization
4 8 (10.96%) Root Cause Analysis
4 8 (10.96%) Systems Engineering
4 8 (10.96%) Workflow
5 7 (9.59%) High Availability
5 7 (9.59%) ITSM
6 6 (8.22%) Application Security
7 5 (6.85%) Agile
7 5 (6.85%) E-Commerce
7 5 (6.85%) ITIL
7 5 (6.85%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (20.55%) SQL
2 8 (10.96%) PL/SQL
3 4 (5.48%) Java
3 4 (5.48%) PowerShell
3 4 (5.48%) Python
4 3 (4.11%) Swift
5 2 (2.74%) C#
6 1 (1.37%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.37%) Kotlin
6 1 (1.37%) VBA
Qualifications
1 7 (9.59%) Security Cleared
2 6 (8.22%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.48%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (5.48%) DV Cleared
4 3 (4.11%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.74%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.48%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (5.48%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (1.37%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (10.96%) Oracle
2 5 (6.85%) Microsoft
3 3 (4.11%) Atlassian
3 3 (4.11%) RedGate
4 1 (1.37%) Anaplan
4 1 (1.37%) Hyperion
4 1 (1.37%) SAP
4 1 (1.37%) Splunk
4 1 (1.37%) Tenable