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 6 September 2026.

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

6 months to
6 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 322 212 255
Rank change year-on-year -110 +43 -9
Permanent jobs requiring an Applications Support 119 171 210
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.49% 1.43% 1.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.52% 1.57% 1.15%
Number of salaries quoted 115 134 163
10th Percentile £40,200 £41,250 £35,850
25th Percentile £52,500 £46,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £84,375 £85,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £93,750 £100,000
England median annual salary £42,500 £42,000 £41,605
% change year-on-year +1.19% +0.95% -16.79%

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 22,747 10,881 18,263
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.96% 91.26% 95.38%
Number of salaries quoted 15,701 7,078 11,941
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £52,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% - -
75th Percentile £97,500 £96,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £118,750
England median annual salary £58,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.45% - -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 6 September 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 6 September 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 -18 28 £70,000 -3.45% 2
South London +2 7 £57,500 +53.33%
West London -28 2 £35,000 -22.22% 1
Applications Support
England

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

For the 6 months to 6 September 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 51 (42.86%) ITIL
2 40 (33.61%) Microsoft
3 37 (31.09%) Stakeholder Management
4 36 (30.25%) Incident Management
4 36 (30.25%) Service Management
5 34 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
6 32 (26.89%) Continuous Improvement
7 31 (26.05%) SQL
8 27 (22.69%) Azure
9 26 (21.85%) Root Cause Analysis
10 25 (21.01%) Change Management
11 24 (20.17%) SQL Server
11 24 (20.17%) Windows
12 20 (16.81%) Service Delivery
13 19 (15.97%) Disaster Recovery
14 17 (14.29%) DevOps
14 17 (14.29%) iManage
15 15 (12.61%) Process Improvement
16 14 (11.76%) Agile
16 14 (11.76%) Project Delivery
17 13 (10.92%) Case Management
17 13 (10.92%) Document Management
18 12 (10.08%) Degree
18 12 (10.08%) IBM
18 12 (10.08%) Microsoft 365
18 12 (10.08%) SDLC
18 12 (10.08%) Unix
19 11 (9.24%) Mentoring
20 10 (8.40%) Business Continuity
20 10 (8.40%) Computer Science

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 (5.04%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (2.52%) IIS
3 1 (0.84%) Tomcat
Applications
1 8 (6.72%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (3.36%) NEC Housing
2 2 (1.68%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.84%) Bloomberg TOMS
3 1 (0.84%) Misys Equation
3 1 (0.84%) Misys Midas
Cloud Services
1 27 (22.69%) Azure
2 12 (10.08%) Microsoft 365
3 9 (7.56%) AWS
4 7 (5.88%) Entra ID
5 6 (5.04%) SaaS
6 5 (4.20%) Microsoft Copilot
7 4 (3.36%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (3.36%) Amazon S3
7 4 (3.36%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (3.36%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (3.36%) Power Platform
7 4 (3.36%) Serverless
7 4 (3.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 2 (1.68%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.68%) Datadog
8 2 (1.68%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (0.84%) GCP
9 1 (0.84%) Google Workspace
9 1 (0.84%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.04%) DNS
1 6 (5.04%) VPN
2 5 (4.20%) DHCP
2 5 (4.20%) Firewall
2 5 (4.20%) SSH
2 5 (4.20%) VLAN
3 3 (2.52%) WinSCP
4 1 (0.84%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (20.17%) SQL Server
2 7 (5.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 7 (5.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 4 (3.36%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (3.36%) Relational Database
4 3 (2.52%) Db2
4 3 (2.52%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.84%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.84%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.84%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 7 (5.88%) JIRA
2 4 (3.36%) Eclipse
3 2 (1.68%) Git
4 1 (0.84%) Selenium
General
1 49 (41.18%) Social Skills
2 45 (37.82%) Finance
3 27 (22.69%) Banking
4 26 (21.85%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (14.29%) Law
6 8 (6.72%) Financial Institution
7 5 (4.20%) Front Office
8 4 (3.36%) Japanese Language
9 3 (2.52%) Back Office
9 3 (2.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.52%) Legal
10 2 (1.68%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.84%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.84%) Local Government
11 1 (0.84%) Private Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (8.40%) FIX Protocol
2 5 (4.20%) .NET
3 4 (3.36%) Terraform
4 2 (1.68%) CSS
4 2 (1.68%) HTML
5 1 (0.84%) JMS
5 1 (0.84%) JSON
5 1 (0.84%) Kafka
5 1 (0.84%) Middleware
5 1 (0.84%) Web Services
5 1 (0.84%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (8.40%) AS400
1 10 (8.40%) Enterprise Software
2 9 (7.56%) Onboarding
3 7 (5.88%) Management Information System
4 5 (4.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 5 (4.20%) IoT
5 4 (3.36%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (2.52%) Equities
6 3 (2.52%) Legacy Applications
6 3 (2.52%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.68%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.68%) Housing Association
7 2 (1.68%) iSeries
8 1 (0.84%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.84%) Derivative
8 1 (0.84%) Fixed Income
8 1 (0.84%) LPAR
8 1 (0.84%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 24 (20.17%) Windows
2 12 (10.08%) Unix
3 10 (8.40%) Linux
3 10 (8.40%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.68%) Windows 10
4 2 (1.68%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.84%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (42.86%) ITIL
2 37 (31.09%) Stakeholder Management
3 36 (30.25%) Incident Management
3 36 (30.25%) Service Management
4 34 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
5 32 (26.89%) Continuous Improvement
6 26 (21.85%) Root Cause Analysis
7 25 (21.01%) Change Management
8 20 (16.81%) Service Delivery
9 19 (15.97%) Disaster Recovery
10 17 (14.29%) DevOps
11 15 (12.61%) Process Improvement
12 14 (11.76%) Agile
12 14 (11.76%) Project Delivery
13 13 (10.92%) Case Management
13 13 (10.92%) Document Management
14 12 (10.08%) SDLC
15 11 (9.24%) Mentoring
16 10 (8.40%) Business Continuity
16 10 (8.40%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 31 (26.05%) SQL
2 10 (8.40%) RPG
3 9 (7.56%) COBOL
4 5 (4.20%) PowerShell
4 5 (4.20%) Python
5 4 (3.36%) Java
5 4 (3.36%) T-SQL
5 4 (3.36%) VB.NET
6 3 (2.52%) C#
6 3 (2.52%) PL/SQL
7 2 (1.68%) Tcl
7 2 (1.68%) VBA
7 2 (1.68%) VBScript
8 1 (0.84%) Bash
8 1 (0.84%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 12 (10.08%) Degree
2 9 (7.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (5.04%) ITIL Certification
4 5 (4.20%) PMI Certification
4 5 (4.20%) PMP
5 1 (0.84%) A+ Certification
5 1 (0.84%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.84%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.72%) SLA
2 5 (4.20%) PMO
3 4 (3.36%) GDPR
3 4 (3.36%) GRC
4 3 (2.52%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.68%) QA
6 1 (0.84%) Accessibility
System Software
1 6 (5.04%) Active Directory
2 4 (3.36%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (4.20%) Prometheus
2 4 (3.36%) Grafana
2 4 (3.36%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.84%) Ansible
3 1 (0.84%) Control-M
3 1 (0.84%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.84%) SCCM
Vendors
1 40 (33.61%) Microsoft
2 17 (14.29%) iManage
3 12 (10.08%) IBM
4 9 (7.56%) ServiceNow
5 4 (3.36%) NEC
6 3 (2.52%) Oracle
7 2 (1.68%) Google
7 2 (1.68%) Sybase
7 2 (1.68%) TIBCO
8 1 (0.84%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.84%) CA Agile Central
8 1 (0.84%) FXall
8 1 (0.84%) Intapp
8 1 (0.84%) MarketAxess
8 1 (0.84%) Misys
8 1 (0.84%) OpenText
8 1 (0.84%) SGI
8 1 (0.84%) Sitecore
8 1 (0.84%) Splunk
8 1 (0.84%) Tradeweb