Applications Support Job Trends in London

Application Support
England > London

The median Application Support salary in London is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 4 August 2026.

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

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 315 230 233
Rank change year-on-year -85 +3 +20
Permanent jobs requiring an Applications Support 118 169 246
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.51% 1.38% 1.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.54% 1.51% 1.32%
Number of salaries quoted 112 142 197
10th Percentile £35,125 £42,464 £37,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - -3.45% +13.73%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £94,875 £100,000
England median annual salary £42,500 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year - -5.56% -10.00%

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 21,671 11,225 18,692
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.89% 91.75% 94.92%
Number of salaries quoted 14,843 7,298 13,009
10th Percentile £40,000 £39,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +3.57% -3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £118,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%

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 4 August 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 4 August 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 35 £70,000 -1.75% 3
West London -33 2 £35,000 -24.73%
South London - 2 £100,000 - 1
Applications Support
England

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

For the 6 months to 4 August 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 45 (38.14%) ITIL
2 43 (36.44%) Microsoft
3 37 (31.36%) SQL
4 36 (30.51%) Problem-Solving
5 35 (29.66%) Azure
6 32 (27.12%) Incident Management
7 31 (26.27%) Service Management
8 29 (24.58%) SQL Server
8 29 (24.58%) Windows
9 27 (22.88%) Continuous Improvement
10 26 (22.03%) Stakeholder Management
11 22 (18.64%) Root Cause Analysis
12 21 (17.80%) Change Management
13 20 (16.95%) DevOps
14 17 (14.41%) iManage
15 15 (12.71%) Agile
15 15 (12.71%) Disaster Recovery
15 15 (12.71%) Mentoring
15 15 (12.71%) Project Delivery
16 13 (11.02%) Case Management
16 13 (11.02%) Degree
16 13 (11.02%) Document Management
16 13 (11.02%) SDLC
16 13 (11.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 13 (11.02%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 12 (10.17%) Business Continuity
17 12 (10.17%) IBM
17 12 (10.17%) Service Delivery
17 12 (10.17%) Unix
18 11 (9.32%) .NET

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 6 (5.08%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.69%) IIS
Applications
1 8 (6.78%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (2.54%) NEC Housing
2 2 (1.69%) Endur
2 2 (1.69%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.85%) Bloomberg TOMS
3 1 (0.85%) Misys Equation
3 1 (0.85%) Misys Midas
Cloud Services
1 35 (29.66%) Azure
2 11 (9.32%) AWS
3 10 (8.47%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (5.93%) Entra ID
5 5 (4.24%) Microsoft Copilot
5 5 (4.24%) SaaS
6 4 (3.39%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (3.39%) Amazon S3
6 4 (3.39%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (3.39%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (3.39%) ClickUp
6 4 (3.39%) Power Platform
6 4 (3.39%) Serverless
6 4 (3.39%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (1.69%) Datadog
8 1 (0.85%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.85%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (0.85%) GCP
8 1 (0.85%) Google Workspace
8 1 (0.85%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.54%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (24.58%) SQL Server
2 13 (11.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 13 (11.02%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 9 (7.63%) Db2
4 4 (3.39%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (3.39%) Relational Database
5 3 (2.54%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.85%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.85%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.85%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 4 (3.39%) Eclipse
2 3 (2.54%) JIRA
3 2 (1.69%) Git
4 1 (0.85%) Selenium
General
1 59 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 55 (46.61%) Finance
3 29 (24.58%) Banking
4 22 (18.64%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (14.41%) Law
6 8 (6.78%) Financial Institution
7 6 (5.08%) Legal
8 5 (4.24%) Front Office
9 4 (3.39%) Japanese Language
10 3 (2.54%) Back Office
10 3 (2.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.85%) General Ledger
12 1 (0.85%) Marketing
12 1 (0.85%) Private Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (9.32%) .NET
2 10 (8.47%) FIX Protocol
3 2 (1.69%) CSS
3 2 (1.69%) HTML
4 1 (0.85%) JMS
4 1 (0.85%) Kafka
4 1 (0.85%) Middleware
4 1 (0.85%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 10 (8.47%) AS400
1 10 (8.47%) Enterprise Software
2 9 (7.63%) Legacy Applications
3 8 (6.78%) Management Information System
4 5 (4.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 4 (3.39%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (2.54%) Equities
6 3 (2.54%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.69%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.69%) iSeries
8 1 (0.85%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.85%) Derivative
8 1 (0.85%) Fixed Income
8 1 (0.85%) Housing Association
8 1 (0.85%) LPAR
8 1 (0.85%) Market Risk
8 1 (0.85%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 29 (24.58%) Windows
2 12 (10.17%) Unix
3 10 (8.47%) Linux
4 9 (7.63%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.69%) Windows 10
5 2 (1.69%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (38.14%) ITIL
2 36 (30.51%) Problem-Solving
3 32 (27.12%) Incident Management
4 31 (26.27%) Service Management
5 27 (22.88%) Continuous Improvement
6 26 (22.03%) Stakeholder Management
7 22 (18.64%) Root Cause Analysis
8 21 (17.80%) Change Management
9 20 (16.95%) DevOps
10 15 (12.71%) Agile
10 15 (12.71%) Disaster Recovery
10 15 (12.71%) Mentoring
10 15 (12.71%) Project Delivery
11 13 (11.02%) Case Management
11 13 (11.02%) Document Management
11 13 (11.02%) SDLC
12 12 (10.17%) Business Continuity
12 12 (10.17%) Service Delivery
13 11 (9.32%) Computer Science
13 11 (9.32%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 37 (31.36%) SQL
2 10 (8.47%) RPG
2 10 (8.47%) VB.NET
3 9 (7.63%) C#
3 9 (7.63%) COBOL
3 9 (7.63%) PL/SQL
4 6 (5.08%) Python
5 5 (4.24%) PowerShell
6 4 (3.39%) T-SQL
7 3 (2.54%) Java
8 2 (1.69%) Tcl
8 2 (1.69%) VBA
8 2 (1.69%) VBScript
9 1 (0.85%) Bash
9 1 (0.85%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.85%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 13 (11.02%) Degree
2 11 (9.32%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (5.08%) PMI Certification
3 6 (5.08%) PMP
4 1 (0.85%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (0.85%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.93%) SLA
2 6 (5.08%) PMO
3 5 (4.24%) GRC
4 4 (3.39%) GDPR
5 3 (2.54%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.69%) QA
7 1 (0.85%) Accessibility
System Software
1 6 (5.08%) Active Directory
2 4 (3.39%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (4.24%) Prometheus
2 4 (3.39%) Grafana
2 4 (3.39%) Kubernetes
2 4 (3.39%) Terraform
3 1 (0.85%) Ansible
3 1 (0.85%) Control-M
3 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.85%) SCCM
Vendors
1 43 (36.44%) Microsoft
2 17 (14.41%) iManage
3 12 (10.17%) IBM
4 6 (5.08%) ServiceNow
5 3 (2.54%) NEC
5 3 (2.54%) Oracle
6 2 (1.69%) Google
6 2 (1.69%) Sybase
6 2 (1.69%) TIBCO
7 1 (0.85%) Bloomberg
7 1 (0.85%) CA Agile Central
7 1 (0.85%) FXall
7 1 (0.85%) Intapp
7 1 (0.85%) MarketAxess
7 1 (0.85%) Misys
7 1 (0.85%) Moogsoft
7 1 (0.85%) OpenText
7 1 (0.85%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.85%) Splunk
7 1 (0.85%) Tradeweb