Applications Support Job Trends in London

Application Support
England > London

The median Application Support salary in London is £57,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 February 2026.

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

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 252 282 205
Rank change year-on-year +30 -77 +108
Permanent jobs requiring an Applications Support 137 149 325
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.86% 1.02% 1.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.94% 1.11% 1.64%
Number of salaries quoted 97 127 295
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £36,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £70,000 £74,375 £77,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £90,000 £92,500
England median annual salary £42,000 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -11.58% - +5.56%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 14,619 13,373 19,859
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.37% 91.28% 94.43%
Number of salaries quoted 9,729 7,832 15,977
10th Percentile £36,750 £42,500 £39,750
25th Percentile £50,813 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.67% +3.45% -0.20%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -10.57%

Applications Support
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Applications Support job vacancy trend in London

Applications Support
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for Applications Support job vacancies in London.

Salary distribution trend for Applications Support job vacancies in London

Applications Support
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Applications Support in London over the 6 months to 26 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Applications Support in London

Applications Support
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Applications Support within the London region over the 6 months to 26 February 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
Central London +11 34 £72,500 +11.54% 1
East London - 5 £85,000 - 1
West London -6 4 £42,000 -16.00% 1
South London - 1 £37,500 - 1
Applications Support
England

Applications Support Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 26 February 2026, Applications Support 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 London region featuring Applications Support in the job title.

1 83 (60.58%) SQL
2 56 (40.88%) ITIL
3 42 (30.66%) Windows
4 41 (29.93%) Azure
5 40 (29.20%) Problem-Solving
6 34 (24.82%) AWS
7 31 (22.63%) Change Management
7 31 (22.63%) Linux
7 31 (22.63%) Microsoft
8 27 (19.71%) Runbook
8 27 (19.71%) SQL Server
9 23 (16.79%) CI/CD
9 23 (16.79%) DevOps
10 22 (16.06%) .NET
11 21 (15.33%) Release Management
12 20 (14.60%) ServiceNow
13 18 (13.14%) DB2
13 18 (13.14%) Python
14 17 (12.41%) Continuous Improvement
14 17 (12.41%) Service Management
15 16 (11.68%) Endur
16 15 (10.95%) Business Intelligence
16 15 (10.95%) Degree
16 15 (10.95%) Power BI
16 15 (10.95%) Power Platform
16 15 (10.95%) SLA
16 15 (10.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 15 (10.95%) VB.NET
17 14 (10.22%) C#
17 14 (10.22%) IBM

Applications Support Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 12 (8.76%) Tomcat
1 12 (8.76%) WebSphere
2 11 (8.03%) WebSphere Application Server
3 4 (2.92%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.73%) Apache
4 1 (0.73%) Confluence
4 1 (0.73%) IIS
4 1 (0.73%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 11 (8.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.92%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (1.46%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.73%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 16 (11.68%) Endur
2 3 (2.19%) Elite 3E
2 3 (2.19%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.73%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 41 (29.93%) Azure
2 34 (24.82%) AWS
3 15 (10.95%) Power Platform
4 13 (9.49%) Entra ID
5 12 (8.76%) SaaS
5 12 (8.76%) Serverless
6 10 (7.30%) Azure Monitor
7 7 (5.11%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (5.11%) Azure Event Grid
7 7 (5.11%) Azure Functions
7 7 (5.11%) Azure Storage
7 7 (5.11%) Power Automate
8 6 (4.38%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (3.65%) Amazon EKS
9 5 (3.65%) Amazon S3
9 5 (3.65%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (3.65%) PowerApps
9 5 (3.65%) Route 53
10 4 (2.92%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (2.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 12 (8.76%) SSL
1 12 (8.76%) WinSCP
2 2 (1.46%) Extranet
2 2 (1.46%) Intranet
3 1 (0.73%) DNS
3 1 (0.73%) FTP
3 1 (0.73%) Internet
3 1 (0.73%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.73%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (19.71%) SQL Server
2 18 (13.14%) DB2
3 15 (10.95%) Power BI
3 15 (10.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 12 (8.76%) Azure SQL Database
4 12 (8.76%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (8.03%) Relational Database
5 11 (8.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 6 (4.38%) MySQL
7 5 (3.65%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (2.19%) Oracle Database
9 2 (1.46%) BusinessObjects
10 1 (0.73%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 11 (8.03%) Git
2 3 (2.19%) JIRA
3 1 (0.73%) Rational Rhapsody
3 1 (0.73%) Visual Studio
General
1 64 (46.72%) Social Skills
2 47 (34.31%) Finance
3 24 (17.52%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (15.33%) Banking
5 11 (8.03%) Investment Banking
6 10 (7.30%) Legal
7 6 (4.38%) Law
8 4 (2.92%) Back Office
8 4 (2.92%) Front Office
9 1 (0.73%) Billing
9 1 (0.73%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.73%) Portuguese Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (16.06%) .NET
2 11 (8.03%) LAPP Stack
2 11 (8.03%) LDAP
2 11 (8.03%) WebSphere MQ
3 7 (5.11%) WPF
4 4 (2.92%) FIX Protocol
5 2 (1.46%) Middleware
6 1 (0.73%) .NET Core
6 1 (0.73%) Kafka
6 1 (0.73%) LAMP
6 1 (0.73%) React
6 1 (0.73%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 11 (8.03%) Linux Command Line
2 7 (5.11%) Management Information System
3 6 (4.38%) Legacy Applications
3 6 (4.38%) Reference Data
4 3 (2.19%) Derivative
4 3 (2.19%) Equities
4 3 (2.19%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.46%) AS400
5 2 (1.46%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.46%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (1.46%) iSeries
5 2 (1.46%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.73%) FMCG
6 1 (0.73%) NHS
6 1 (0.73%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.73%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 42 (30.66%) Windows
2 31 (22.63%) Linux
3 14 (10.22%) Unix
4 13 (9.49%) Windows Server
5 12 (8.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (40.88%) ITIL
2 40 (29.20%) Problem-Solving
3 31 (22.63%) Change Management
4 27 (19.71%) Runbook
5 23 (16.79%) CI/CD
5 23 (16.79%) DevOps
6 21 (15.33%) Release Management
7 17 (12.41%) Continuous Improvement
7 17 (12.41%) Service Management
8 15 (10.95%) Business Intelligence
9 14 (10.22%) User Acceptance Testing
10 13 (9.49%) Incident Management
11 12 (8.76%) ITSM
11 12 (8.76%) Mentoring
11 12 (8.76%) Migration
12 11 (8.03%) Problem Management
12 11 (8.03%) Task Automation
13 10 (7.30%) Analytics
13 10 (7.30%) Log Analytics
13 10 (7.30%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 83 (60.58%) SQL
2 18 (13.14%) Python
3 15 (10.95%) VB.NET
4 14 (10.22%) C#
5 13 (9.49%) PowerShell
6 11 (8.03%) PL/SQL
7 3 (2.19%) Java
7 3 (2.19%) Kusto Query Language
7 3 (2.19%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.73%) Bash
8 1 (0.73%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.73%) Perl
8 1 (0.73%) PHP
8 1 (0.73%) Scala
8 1 (0.73%) VBA
Qualifications
1 15 (10.95%) Degree
2 12 (8.76%) AWS Certification
3 11 (8.03%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (0.73%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.73%) CISSP
4 1 (0.73%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (0.73%) PMI Certification
4 1 (0.73%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (10.95%) SLA
2 5 (3.65%) Accessibility
2 5 (3.65%) QA
System Software
1 1 (0.73%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (7.30%) Grafana
2 8 (5.84%) Kibana
3 1 (0.73%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.73%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 31 (22.63%) Microsoft
2 20 (14.60%) ServiceNow
3 14 (10.22%) IBM
4 11 (8.03%) Red Hat
5 7 (5.11%) Guidewire
6 6 (4.38%) Intapp
7 3 (2.19%) Oracle
8 2 (1.46%) Aderant
9 1 (0.73%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.73%) Bloomberg
9 1 (0.73%) iManage
9 1 (0.73%) InterSystems
9 1 (0.73%) NEC
9 1 (0.73%) Reuters
9 1 (0.73%) SAP
9 1 (0.73%) Sitecore