Applications Engineer Job Trends in Hertfordshire

Applications Engineer
East of England > Hertfordshire

The median Applications Engineer salary in Hertfordshire is £43,085 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 7 December 2025.

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

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 79 102 -
Rank change year-on-year +23 - -
Permanent jobs requiring an Applications Engineer 8 1 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Hertfordshire 0.58% 0.074% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.64% 0.085% -
Number of salaries quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £42,780 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,085 - -
75th Percentile £85,847 - -
90th Percentile £100,000 - -
East of England median annual salary £43,085 £50,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -13.83% +17.65% -10.53%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 1,245 1,173 625
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.96% 86.50% 95.13%
Number of salaries quoted 728 541 462
10th Percentile £27,750 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £39,363
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £56,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.50% +2.73% +4.76%
75th Percentile £62,500 £71,250 £66,250
90th Percentile £75,000 £89,500 £79,400
East of England median annual salary £47,500 £54,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.04% -1.82% +4.76%

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
Salary Histogram in Hertfordshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Applications Engineer in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 7 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Applications Engineer 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 7 December 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
Stevenage - 4 £43,085 - 1
Hemel Hempstead - 2 £100,000 - 2
Hoddesdon - 2 - - 2
Applications Engineer
East of England

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

For the 6 months to 7 December 2025, 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 5 (62.50%) Continuous Improvement
1 5 (62.50%) PowerShell
1 5 (62.50%) SAP
1 5 (62.50%) SQL
1 5 (62.50%) Windows
1 5 (62.50%) Windows Server
1 5 (62.50%) Workflow
2 4 (50.00%) Agile
2 4 (50.00%) BusinessObjects
2 4 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (50.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
2 4 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 4 (50.00%) Degree
2 4 (50.00%) Digital Strategy
2 4 (50.00%) Migration
2 4 (50.00%) MS Access
2 4 (50.00%) NEC
2 4 (50.00%) NEC Housing
2 4 (50.00%) Oracle
2 4 (50.00%) Oracle Workflow
2 4 (50.00%) SAP Data Services
2 4 (50.00%) Shell Script
2 4 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (50.00%) Toad
2 4 (50.00%) Unix
2 4 (50.00%) VB
3 2 (25.00%) AI
3 2 (25.00%) Amazon Bedrock
3 2 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (25.00%) Amazon EventBridge

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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (50.00%) Oracle Workflow
Business Applications
1 4 (50.00%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) Amazon Bedrock
1 2 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
1 2 (25.00%) Amazon EventBridge
1 2 (25.00%) Amazon Kinesis
1 2 (25.00%) Amazon SQS
1 2 (25.00%) AWS
1 2 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (25.00%) AWS Step Functions
1 2 (25.00%) Azure AKS
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (25.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) BusinessObjects
1 4 (50.00%) MS Access
1 4 (50.00%) SAP Data Services
1 4 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (25.00%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Toad
General
1 4 (50.00%) Local Government
1 4 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) AngularJS
1 2 (25.00%) Hugging Face
1 2 (25.00%) Kafka
1 2 (25.00%) Node.js
1 2 (25.00%) Nuxt
1 2 (25.00%) RabbitMQ
1 2 (25.00%) React
1 2 (25.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 5 (62.50%) Windows
1 5 (62.50%) Windows Server
2 4 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Continuous Improvement
1 5 (62.50%) Workflow
2 4 (50.00%) Agile
2 4 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (50.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
2 4 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 4 (50.00%) Digital Strategy
2 4 (50.00%) Migration
3 2 (25.00%) API Integration
3 2 (25.00%) Architectural Patterns
3 2 (25.00%) Batch Processing
3 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (25.00%) Data Analytics
3 2 (25.00%) Data Science
3 2 (25.00%) Event-Driven
3 2 (25.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 2 (25.00%) LLM
3 2 (25.00%) Microservices
3 2 (25.00%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) PowerShell
1 5 (62.50%) SQL
2 4 (50.00%) Shell Script
2 4 (50.00%) VB
3 2 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) Degree
2 2 (25.00%) AWS Certification
2 2 (25.00%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) GDPR
1 2 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (25.00%) PCI DSS
1 2 (25.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) SAP
2 4 (50.00%) NEC
2 4 (50.00%) Oracle
3 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (25.00%) OpenAI