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 October 2026.

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

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 340 216 280
Rank change year-on-year -124 +64 -26
Permanent jobs requiring an Applications Support 111 175 186
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.43% 1.48% 0.99%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.46% 1.63% 1.04%
Number of salaries quoted 104 134 139
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,475 £35,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £46,250 £41,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +16.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £91,250 £94,625 £97,500
England median annual salary £42,500 £42,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year +1.19% +5.00% -16.67%

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 23,953 10,766 17,885
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.45% 90.99% 95.36%
Number of salaries quoted 16,119 6,981 10,990
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% - -3.33%
75th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
90th Percentile - £120,000 £120,000
England median annual salary £59,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.27% - -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 October 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 October 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 -13 25 £70,000 -3.45% 10
South London +7 7 £57,500 +53.33%
West London -26 1 £35,000 -16.67%
Applications Support
England

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

For the 6 months to 4 October 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 49 (44.14%) ITIL
2 38 (34.23%) Stakeholder Management
3 33 (29.73%) Microsoft
4 32 (28.83%) Service Management
5 31 (27.93%) Continuous Improvement
6 30 (27.03%) SQL
7 29 (26.13%) Incident Management
8 28 (25.23%) Problem-Solving
9 25 (22.52%) Change Management
9 25 (22.52%) Root Cause Analysis
10 21 (18.92%) SQL Server
11 20 (18.02%) Windows
12 18 (16.22%) Azure
13 17 (15.32%) iManage
14 16 (14.41%) Disaster Recovery
14 16 (14.41%) Process Improvement
14 16 (14.41%) Service Delivery
15 13 (11.71%) Case Management
15 13 (11.71%) DevOps
15 13 (11.71%) Document Management
16 12 (10.81%) IBM
16 12 (10.81%) Microsoft 365
16 12 (10.81%) Project Delivery
17 10 (9.01%) Problem Management
17 10 (9.01%) RPG
17 10 (9.01%) Windows Server
18 9 (8.11%) COBOL
18 9 (8.11%) FIX Protocol
18 9 (8.11%) ITIL Certification
18 9 (8.11%) ITSM

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 (5.41%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (2.70%) IIS
3 1 (0.90%) Tomcat
Applications
1 8 (7.21%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (3.60%) NEC Housing
2 2 (1.80%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.90%) Bloomberg TOMS
3 1 (0.90%) Misys Equation
3 1 (0.90%) Misys Midas
3 1 (0.90%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 18 (16.22%) Azure
2 12 (10.81%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (6.31%) AWS
3 7 (6.31%) Entra ID
4 5 (4.50%) Microsoft Copilot
4 5 (4.50%) Power Platform
4 5 (4.50%) SaaS
5 4 (3.60%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (3.60%) Amazon S3
5 4 (3.60%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (3.60%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (3.60%) Serverless
5 4 (3.60%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 2 (1.80%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (1.80%) Datadog
6 2 (1.80%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (0.90%) GCP
7 1 (0.90%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.41%) DNS
1 6 (5.41%) VPN
2 5 (4.50%) DHCP
2 5 (4.50%) Firewall
2 5 (4.50%) SSH
2 5 (4.50%) VLAN
3 3 (2.70%) WinSCP
4 1 (0.90%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (18.92%) SQL Server
2 4 (3.60%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (3.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 4 (3.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 3 (2.70%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.90%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.90%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.90%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.90%) Power BI
4 1 (0.90%) Power Query
4 1 (0.90%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 7 (6.31%) JIRA
2 4 (3.60%) Eclipse
3 2 (1.80%) Git
4 1 (0.90%) Selenium
General
1 39 (35.14%) Social Skills
2 37 (33.33%) Finance
3 24 (21.62%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (15.32%) Banking
5 16 (14.41%) Law
6 8 (7.21%) Financial Institution
7 6 (5.41%) Back Office
8 4 (3.60%) Front Office
9 3 (2.70%) Legal
10 2 (1.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.80%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.90%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.90%) Local Government
11 1 (0.90%) Private Banking
11 1 (0.90%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (8.11%) FIX Protocol
2 4 (3.60%) Terraform
3 2 (1.80%) .NET
3 2 (1.80%) CSS
3 2 (1.80%) HTML
4 1 (0.90%) JSON
4 1 (0.90%) Kafka
4 1 (0.90%) Middleware
4 1 (0.90%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (0.90%) Web Services
4 1 (0.90%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (9.01%) AS400
1 10 (9.01%) Enterprise Software
1 10 (9.01%) Onboarding
2 5 (4.50%) IoT
3 4 (3.60%) Analytical Mindset
3 4 (3.60%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.70%) Equities
4 3 (2.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (2.70%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.80%) Housing Association
5 2 (1.80%) iSeries
6 1 (0.90%) Client/Server
6 1 (0.90%) Derivative
6 1 (0.90%) Fixed Income
6 1 (0.90%) LPAR
6 1 (0.90%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 20 (18.02%) Windows
2 10 (9.01%) Windows Server
3 9 (8.11%) Linux
4 8 (7.21%) Unix
5 2 (1.80%) Windows 10
5 2 (1.80%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.90%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (44.14%) ITIL
2 38 (34.23%) Stakeholder Management
3 32 (28.83%) Service Management
4 31 (27.93%) Continuous Improvement
5 29 (26.13%) Incident Management
6 28 (25.23%) Problem-Solving
7 25 (22.52%) Change Management
7 25 (22.52%) Root Cause Analysis
8 16 (14.41%) Disaster Recovery
8 16 (14.41%) Process Improvement
8 16 (14.41%) Service Delivery
9 13 (11.71%) Case Management
9 13 (11.71%) DevOps
9 13 (11.71%) Document Management
10 12 (10.81%) Project Delivery
11 10 (9.01%) Problem Management
12 9 (8.11%) ITSM
12 9 (8.11%) SDLC
12 9 (8.11%) Tech Ops
13 8 (7.21%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 30 (27.03%) SQL
2 10 (9.01%) RPG
3 9 (8.11%) COBOL
4 5 (4.50%) PowerShell
5 4 (3.60%) Java
5 4 (3.60%) Python
5 4 (3.60%) T-SQL
6 2 (1.80%) Tcl
6 2 (1.80%) VBA
6 2 (1.80%) VBScript
7 1 (0.90%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.90%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 9 (8.11%) ITIL Certification
2 7 (6.31%) Degree
3 4 (3.60%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.80%) PMI Certification
4 2 (1.80%) PMP
5 1 (0.90%) A+ Certification
5 1 (0.90%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.90%) Network+ Certification
5 1 (0.90%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.21%) SLA
2 4 (3.60%) GDPR
3 2 (1.80%) GRC
3 2 (1.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.80%) PMO
3 2 (1.80%) QA
4 1 (0.90%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.90%) Data Quality
System Software
1 6 (5.41%) Active Directory
2 4 (3.60%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (4.50%) Prometheus
2 4 (3.60%) Grafana
2 4 (3.60%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.90%) Ansible
3 1 (0.90%) Control-M
3 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.90%) SCCM
Vendors
1 33 (29.73%) Microsoft
2 17 (15.32%) iManage
3 12 (10.81%) IBM
4 9 (8.11%) ServiceNow
5 4 (3.60%) NEC
6 2 (1.80%) Google
6 2 (1.80%) Oracle
6 2 (1.80%) Sybase
6 2 (1.80%) TIBCO
7 1 (0.90%) Bloomberg
7 1 (0.90%) FXall
7 1 (0.90%) Intapp
7 1 (0.90%) MarketAxess
7 1 (0.90%) Misys
7 1 (0.90%) Moogsoft
7 1 (0.90%) OpenText
7 1 (0.90%) SGI
7 1 (0.90%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.90%) Splunk
7 1 (0.90%) Tradeweb