Applications Engineer Job Trends in Hertfordshire

Applications Engineer
East of England > Hertfordshire

The median Applications Engineer salary in Hertfordshire is £100,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 5 March 2026.

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

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 95 90 111
Rank change year-on-year -5 +21 +28
Permanent jobs requiring an Applications Engineer 4 1 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Hertfordshire 0.20% 0.10% 0.062%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.13% 0.067%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 - £42,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -32.00%
75th Percentile - - £43,750
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median annual salary £47,500 £39,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year +20.25% -7.06% -22.73%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Hertfordshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Hertfordshire. 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 Hertfordshire with a recognized job title 1,845 793 1,492
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.57% 82.43% 92.56%
Number of salaries quoted 1,109 446 1,204
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £26,075
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £36,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,320 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.58% +5.37% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £75,000
East of England median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%

Applications Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Applications Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire.

Applications Engineer job vacancy trend in Hertfordshire

Applications Engineer
Salary Trend in Hertfordshire

Salary distribution trend for Applications Engineer job vacancies in Hertfordshire.

Salary distribution trend for Applications Engineer job vacancies in Hertfordshire

Applications Engineer
Job Locations in Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Applications Engineer within the Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 5 March 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
Hoddesdon - 3 - -
Hemel Hempstead - 1 £100,000 -
Applications Engineer
East of England

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

For the 6 months to 5 March 2026, 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 Hertfordshire region featuring Applications Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (75.00%) ERP
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (50.00%) CRM
2 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (50.00%) SAP
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) Windows
2 2 (50.00%) Windows Server
2 2 (50.00%) Workflow
3 1 (25.00%) AI
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon Bedrock
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon EventBridge
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon Kinesis
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (25.00%) Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) AngularJS
3 1 (25.00%) API Integration
3 1 (25.00%) Architectural Patterns
3 1 (25.00%) AWS
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Step Functions
3 1 (25.00%) Azure AKS
3 1 (25.00%) Batch Processing
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD

Applications Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon Bedrock
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon EventBridge
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon Kinesis
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon SQS
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Step Functions
2 1 (25.00%) Azure AKS
2 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) DynamoDB
General
1 2 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (25.00%) Hugging Face
1 1 (25.00%) Kafka
1 1 (25.00%) Node.js
1 1 (25.00%) Nuxt
1 1 (25.00%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (25.00%) React
1 1 (25.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
1 2 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) ERP
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (50.00%) CRM
2 2 (50.00%) Workflow
3 1 (25.00%) AI
3 1 (25.00%) Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) API Integration
3 1 (25.00%) Architectural Patterns
3 1 (25.00%) Batch Processing
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (25.00%) Customer Engagement
3 1 (25.00%) Data Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Data Science
3 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven
3 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) Machine Learning
3 1 (25.00%) Microservices
3 1 (25.00%) Observability
3 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) GDPR
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (25.00%) PCI DSS
1 1 (25.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (50.00%) SAP
3 1 (25.00%) OpenAI