Applications Support Job Trends in London

Application Support
England > London

The median Application Support salary in London is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 January 2026.

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

6 months to
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 232 290 219
Rank change year-on-year +58 -71 +107
Permanent jobs requiring an Applications Support 156 143 295
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.07% 0.92% 1.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.17% 1.00% 1.53%
Number of salaries quoted 108 116 267
10th Percentile £38,875 £37,125 £36,000
25th Percentile £43,625 £42,188 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £81,563 £72,813 £75,875
90th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £90,000
England median annual salary £42,000 £43,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -2.33% -4.44% -

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 13,343 14,229 19,318
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.32% 92.03% 94.85%
Number of salaries quoted 8,803 8,133 15,609
10th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £56,250 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +3.45% -2.03%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%

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 January 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 January 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 +26 36 £80,000 +23.08% 1
East London - 8 £85,000 -
West London +6 6 £42,000 -16.00%
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 26 January 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 88 (56.41%) SQL
2 59 (37.82%) ITIL
3 45 (28.85%) Problem-Solving
4 44 (28.21%) Windows
5 39 (25.00%) AWS
5 39 (25.00%) Linux
6 38 (24.36%) Azure
7 33 (21.15%) Change Management
7 33 (21.15%) Microsoft
8 32 (20.51%) SQL Server
9 29 (18.59%) Python
10 28 (17.95%) Release Management
11 25 (16.03%) Continuous Improvement
11 25 (16.03%) Unix
12 23 (14.74%) IBM
12 23 (14.74%) Service Management
13 22 (14.10%) Degree
13 22 (14.10%) Power BI
13 22 (14.10%) Power Platform
14 21 (13.46%) Runbook
14 21 (13.46%) WebSphere
15 20 (12.82%) DevOps
15 20 (12.82%) User Acceptance Testing
16 19 (12.18%) Business Intelligence
16 19 (12.18%) CI/CD
16 19 (12.18%) PostgreSQL
16 19 (12.18%) Red Hat
16 19 (12.18%) ServiceNow
16 19 (12.18%) SLA
16 19 (12.18%) SSL

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 21 (13.46%) WebSphere
2 17 (10.90%) Tomcat
3 16 (10.26%) WebSphere Application Server
4 4 (2.56%) Confluence
5 3 (1.92%) SharePoint
6 2 (1.28%) IIS
7 1 (0.64%) Apache
7 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 13 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.56%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (1.92%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.92%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 12 (7.69%) Endur
2 7 (4.49%) Elite 3E
3 3 (1.92%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.64%) SAP Business One
4 1 (0.64%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.64%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.64%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.64%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 39 (25.00%) AWS
2 38 (24.36%) Azure
3 22 (14.10%) Power Platform
4 16 (10.26%) Serverless
5 11 (7.05%) Azure Monitor
5 11 (7.05%) Entra ID
6 10 (6.41%) Amazon EC2
6 10 (6.41%) SaaS
7 9 (5.77%) Amazon EKS
7 9 (5.77%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (4.49%) Amazon S3
8 7 (4.49%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (4.49%) Azure Event Grid
8 7 (4.49%) Azure Functions
8 7 (4.49%) Azure Storage
8 7 (4.49%) Route 53
9 6 (3.85%) Amazon ECR
9 6 (3.85%) AWS CloudFormation
9 6 (3.85%) Power Automate
9 6 (3.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 19 (12.18%) SSL
2 11 (7.05%) WinSCP
3 2 (1.28%) Extranet
3 2 (1.28%) Intranet
4 1 (0.64%) FTP
4 1 (0.64%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (20.51%) SQL Server
2 22 (14.10%) Power BI
3 19 (12.18%) PostgreSQL
4 18 (11.54%) DB2
5 15 (9.62%) Relational Database
6 11 (7.05%) Azure SQL Database
7 10 (6.41%) MySQL
7 10 (6.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 10 (6.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 7 (4.49%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (1.92%) Oracle Database
10 2 (1.28%) BusinessObjects
11 1 (0.64%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (0.64%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 10 (6.41%) Git
2 7 (4.49%) JIRA
3 1 (0.64%) Visual Studio
General
1 66 (42.31%) Social Skills
2 54 (34.62%) Finance
3 28 (17.95%) Banking
4 20 (12.82%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (9.62%) Investment Banking
6 8 (5.13%) Front Office
7 7 (4.49%) Law
8 6 (3.85%) Legal
8 6 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (2.56%) Back Office
10 1 (0.64%) Billing
10 1 (0.64%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.64%) Portuguese Language
10 1 (0.64%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (11.54%) .NET
1 18 (11.54%) WebSphere MQ
2 16 (10.26%) LAPP Stack
2 16 (10.26%) LDAP
3 7 (4.49%) WPF
4 5 (3.21%) Middleware
5 4 (2.56%) FIX Protocol
6 2 (1.28%) .NET Core
6 2 (1.28%) CSS
6 2 (1.28%) HTML
6 2 (1.28%) React
7 1 (0.64%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (0.64%) Kafka
7 1 (0.64%) LAMP
7 1 (0.64%) Node.js
7 1 (0.64%) REST
7 1 (0.64%) RESTful
7 1 (0.64%) SOAP
7 1 (0.64%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 17 (10.90%) Linux Command Line
2 14 (8.97%) Management Information System
3 5 (3.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 5 (3.21%) Reference Data
4 4 (2.56%) Derivative
4 4 (2.56%) Equities
5 3 (1.92%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (1.92%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.28%) AS400
6 2 (1.28%) iSeries
7 1 (0.64%) Equity Derivative
7 1 (0.64%) FMCG
7 1 (0.64%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.64%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.64%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 44 (28.21%) Windows
2 39 (25.00%) Linux
3 25 (16.03%) Unix
4 17 (10.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 15 (9.62%) Windows Server
6 2 (1.28%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (37.82%) ITIL
2 45 (28.85%) Problem-Solving
3 33 (21.15%) Change Management
4 28 (17.95%) Release Management
5 25 (16.03%) Continuous Improvement
6 23 (14.74%) Service Management
7 21 (13.46%) Runbook
8 20 (12.82%) DevOps
8 20 (12.82%) User Acceptance Testing
9 19 (12.18%) Business Intelligence
9 19 (12.18%) CI/CD
10 16 (10.26%) Problem Management
11 14 (8.97%) Task Automation
12 13 (8.33%) Incident Management
13 11 (7.05%) Migration
14 10 (6.41%) Analytics
14 10 (6.41%) ITSM
14 10 (6.41%) Log Analytics
14 10 (6.41%) Observability
14 10 (6.41%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 88 (56.41%) SQL
2 29 (18.59%) Python
3 13 (8.33%) C#
3 13 (8.33%) PowerShell
4 11 (7.05%) VB.NET
5 6 (3.85%) PL/SQL
6 4 (2.56%) T-SQL
7 3 (1.92%) Java
7 3 (1.92%) Kusto Query Language
8 2 (1.28%) Bash
8 2 (1.28%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.64%) Go
9 1 (0.64%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.64%) Perl
9 1 (0.64%) PHP
9 1 (0.64%) Scala
9 1 (0.64%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.64%) VBA
Qualifications
1 22 (14.10%) Degree
2 18 (11.54%) ITIL Certification
3 17 (10.90%) AWS Certification
4 2 (1.28%) CISSP
4 2 (1.28%) PMI Certification
4 2 (1.28%) PMP
5 1 (0.64%) ACCA
5 1 (0.64%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.64%) CIMA
5 1 (0.64%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.64%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.64%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.64%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (12.18%) SLA
2 8 (5.13%) QA
3 7 (4.49%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (1.92%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (6.41%) Grafana
2 8 (5.13%) Kibana
3 1 (0.64%) Docker Swarm
3 1 (0.64%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.64%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 33 (21.15%) Microsoft
2 23 (14.74%) IBM
3 19 (12.18%) Red Hat
3 19 (12.18%) ServiceNow
4 10 (6.41%) Intapp
5 9 (5.77%) Guidewire
6 4 (2.56%) Concur
6 4 (2.56%) Sage
7 3 (1.92%) Oracle
8 2 (1.28%) Aderant
8 2 (1.28%) SAP
9 1 (0.64%) Ariba
9 1 (0.64%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.64%) Bloomberg
9 1 (0.64%) Databricks
9 1 (0.64%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.64%) iManage
9 1 (0.64%) NEC
9 1 (0.64%) Reuters
9 1 (0.64%) Sitecore