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 16 February 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 241 282 205
Rank change year-on-year +41 -77 +130
Permanent jobs requiring an Applications Support 148 139 320
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.96% 0.93% 1.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.05% 1.02% 1.59%
Number of salaries quoted 104 115 290
10th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £36,250
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 £73,750 £71,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £85,875 £90,000 £90,250
England median annual salary £42,000 £46,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +2.22% -

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 14,124 13,657 20,124
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.34% 91.54% 94.48%
Number of salaries quoted 9,397 7,854 16,262
10th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £39,420
25th Percentile £50,000 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +3.45% -1.36%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £111,250 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.29%

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 16 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 16 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 +19 36 £72,500 +11.54% 1
West London 0 6 £42,000 -16.00%
East London - 5 £85,000 - 1
South London - 2 £37,500 -
Applications Support
England

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

For the 6 months to 16 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 87 (58.78%) SQL
2 59 (39.86%) ITIL
3 43 (29.05%) Problem-Solving
3 43 (29.05%) Windows
4 42 (28.38%) Azure
5 35 (23.65%) AWS
6 34 (22.97%) Microsoft
7 33 (22.30%) Change Management
8 32 (21.62%) Linux
9 29 (19.59%) SQL Server
10 27 (18.24%) Runbook
11 23 (15.54%) CI/CD
11 23 (15.54%) Continuous Improvement
11 23 (15.54%) DevOps
12 22 (14.86%) Release Management
13 21 (14.19%) Python
14 20 (13.51%) .NET
14 20 (13.51%) Power BI
14 20 (13.51%) Power Platform
14 20 (13.51%) Service Management
14 20 (13.51%) ServiceNow
15 18 (12.16%) Business Intelligence
16 17 (11.49%) DB2
16 17 (11.49%) Unix
17 16 (10.81%) Degree
17 16 (10.81%) Endur
17 16 (10.81%) SLA
17 16 (10.81%) User Acceptance Testing
18 15 (10.14%) IBM
18 15 (10.14%) Windows Server

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 13 (8.78%) Tomcat
1 13 (8.78%) WebSphere
2 12 (8.11%) WebSphere Application Server
3 4 (2.70%) SharePoint
4 3 (2.03%) Confluence
5 1 (0.68%) Apache
5 1 (0.68%) IIS
5 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 14 (9.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.70%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (2.03%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (2.03%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 16 (10.81%) Endur
2 5 (3.38%) Elite 3E
3 3 (2.03%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.68%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 42 (28.38%) Azure
2 35 (23.65%) AWS
3 20 (13.51%) Power Platform
4 13 (8.78%) Entra ID
5 12 (8.11%) SaaS
5 12 (8.11%) Serverless
6 10 (6.76%) Azure Monitor
7 7 (4.73%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (4.73%) Azure Event Grid
7 7 (4.73%) Azure Functions
7 7 (4.73%) Azure Storage
7 7 (4.73%) Power Automate
8 6 (4.05%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (3.38%) Amazon EKS
9 5 (3.38%) Amazon S3
9 5 (3.38%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (3.38%) Microsoft 365
9 5 (3.38%) PowerApps
9 5 (3.38%) Route 53
10 4 (2.70%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 13 (8.78%) SSL
2 12 (8.11%) WinSCP
3 2 (1.35%) Extranet
3 2 (1.35%) Intranet
4 1 (0.68%) DNS
4 1 (0.68%) FTP
4 1 (0.68%) Internet
4 1 (0.68%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.68%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (19.59%) SQL Server
2 20 (13.51%) Power BI
3 17 (11.49%) DB2
4 13 (8.78%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (8.78%) Relational Database
4 13 (8.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 12 (8.11%) Azure SQL Database
6 11 (7.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 8 (5.41%) MySQL
8 5 (3.38%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (2.03%) Oracle Database
10 2 (1.35%) BusinessObjects
11 1 (0.68%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 11 (7.43%) Git
2 5 (3.38%) JIRA
3 1 (0.68%) Rational Rhapsody
3 1 (0.68%) Visual Studio
General
1 69 (46.62%) Social Skills
2 49 (33.11%) Finance
3 25 (16.89%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (14.86%) Banking
5 12 (8.11%) Investment Banking
6 9 (6.08%) Legal
7 6 (4.05%) Front Office
7 6 (4.05%) Law
8 4 (2.70%) Back Office
8 4 (2.70%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.68%) Billing
9 1 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.68%) Portuguese Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (13.51%) .NET
2 12 (8.11%) LAPP Stack
2 12 (8.11%) LDAP
2 12 (8.11%) WebSphere MQ
3 7 (4.73%) WPF
4 4 (2.70%) FIX Protocol
4 4 (2.70%) Middleware
5 2 (1.35%) CSS
5 2 (1.35%) HTML
6 1 (0.68%) .NET Core
6 1 (0.68%) Kafka
6 1 (0.68%) LAMP
6 1 (0.68%) React
6 1 (0.68%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 12 (8.11%) Linux Command Line
2 10 (6.76%) Management Information System
3 6 (4.05%) Reference Data
4 4 (2.70%) Legacy Applications
5 3 (2.03%) Derivative
5 3 (2.03%) Equities
5 3 (2.03%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.35%) AS400
6 2 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.35%) iSeries
6 2 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.68%) FMCG
7 1 (0.68%) NHS
7 1 (0.68%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.68%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 43 (29.05%) Windows
2 32 (21.62%) Linux
3 17 (11.49%) Unix
4 15 (10.14%) Windows Server
5 13 (8.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.35%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (39.86%) ITIL
2 43 (29.05%) Problem-Solving
3 33 (22.30%) Change Management
4 27 (18.24%) Runbook
5 23 (15.54%) CI/CD
5 23 (15.54%) Continuous Improvement
5 23 (15.54%) DevOps
6 22 (14.86%) Release Management
7 20 (13.51%) Service Management
8 18 (12.16%) Business Intelligence
9 16 (10.81%) User Acceptance Testing
10 13 (8.78%) Incident Management
10 13 (8.78%) Problem Management
10 13 (8.78%) Task Automation
11 12 (8.11%) ITSM
11 12 (8.11%) Migration
12 11 (7.43%) Mentoring
13 10 (6.76%) Analytics
13 10 (6.76%) Log Analytics
13 10 (6.76%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 87 (58.78%) SQL
2 21 (14.19%) Python
3 14 (9.46%) C#
4 13 (8.78%) PowerShell
4 13 (8.78%) VB.NET
5 9 (6.08%) PL/SQL
6 4 (2.70%) T-SQL
7 3 (2.03%) Java
7 3 (2.03%) Kusto Query Language
8 2 (1.35%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.68%) Bash
9 1 (0.68%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.68%) Perl
9 1 (0.68%) PHP
9 1 (0.68%) Scala
9 1 (0.68%) VBA
Qualifications
1 16 (10.81%) Degree
2 13 (8.78%) AWS Certification
3 12 (8.11%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (1.35%) CISSP
4 2 (1.35%) PMI Certification
4 2 (1.35%) PMP
5 1 (0.68%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.68%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (10.81%) SLA
2 8 (5.41%) QA
3 5 (3.38%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (0.68%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (6.76%) Grafana
2 8 (5.41%) Kibana
3 1 (0.68%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.68%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 34 (22.97%) Microsoft
2 20 (13.51%) ServiceNow
3 15 (10.14%) IBM
4 12 (8.11%) Red Hat
5 9 (6.08%) Guidewire
6 8 (5.41%) Intapp
7 3 (2.03%) Concur
7 3 (2.03%) Oracle
7 3 (2.03%) Sage
8 2 (1.35%) Aderant
9 1 (0.68%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.68%) Bloomberg
9 1 (0.68%) iManage
9 1 (0.68%) InterSystems
9 1 (0.68%) NEC
9 1 (0.68%) Reuters
9 1 (0.68%) SAP
9 1 (0.68%) Sitecore