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 4 January 2026.

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

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 224 292 220
Rank change year-on-year +68 -72 +112
Permanent jobs requiring an Applications Support 158 144 253
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.15% 0.92% 1.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.26% 1.00% 1.49%
Number of salaries quoted 110 115 230
10th Percentile £40,525 £37,500 £37,375
25th Percentile £45,188 £41,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -12.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £82,188 £74,375 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,625 £90,000 £90,000
England median annual salary £42,000 £42,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -1.18% -10.53% +5.56%

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 12,497 14,461 16,982
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.89% 92.76% 95.19%
Number of salaries quoted 8,279 8,384 13,705
10th Percentile £35,750 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -1.78%

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 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 4 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 +31 36 £76,250 +45.24% 2
East London - 8 £85,000 -
West London +3 7 £42,000 -16.00%
South London - 2 £37,500 - 1
Applications Support
England

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

For the 6 months to 4 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 90 (56.96%) SQL
2 57 (36.08%) ITIL
3 46 (29.11%) Problem-Solving
4 39 (24.68%) Linux
5 38 (24.05%) Windows
6 37 (23.42%) AWS
6 37 (23.42%) SQL Server
7 35 (22.15%) Microsoft
8 32 (20.25%) Azure
9 31 (19.62%) Change Management
10 30 (18.99%) Release Management
11 29 (18.35%) Python
12 28 (17.72%) Continuous Improvement
13 26 (16.46%) Service Management
14 25 (15.82%) Unix
15 23 (14.56%) IBM
15 23 (14.56%) Power BI
15 23 (14.56%) Power Platform
16 22 (13.92%) Degree
17 21 (13.29%) WebSphere
18 20 (12.66%) Business Intelligence
18 20 (12.66%) User Acceptance Testing
19 19 (12.03%) PostgreSQL
19 19 (12.03%) Red Hat
19 19 (12.03%) ServiceNow
19 19 (12.03%) SSL
20 18 (11.39%) ITIL Certification
20 18 (11.39%) SLA
20 18 (11.39%) WebSphere MQ
21 17 (10.76%) AWS Certification

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 (13.29%) WebSphere
2 17 (10.76%) Tomcat
3 16 (10.13%) WebSphere Application Server
4 7 (4.43%) Confluence
5 3 (1.90%) SharePoint
6 2 (1.27%) IIS
7 1 (0.63%) Apache
7 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 13 (8.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.53%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (1.90%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.90%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 11 (6.96%) Endur
2 8 (5.06%) Elite 3E
3 3 (1.90%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.63%) SAP Business One
4 1 (0.63%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.63%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.63%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.63%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 37 (23.42%) AWS
2 32 (20.25%) Azure
3 23 (14.56%) Power Platform
4 13 (8.23%) Serverless
5 10 (6.33%) Amazon EC2
5 10 (6.33%) SaaS
6 9 (5.70%) Amazon EKS
6 9 (5.70%) AWS Lambda
6 9 (5.70%) Entra ID
7 8 (5.06%) Azure Monitor
8 7 (4.43%) Amazon S3
8 7 (4.43%) Route 53
9 6 (3.80%) Amazon ECR
9 6 (3.80%) AWS CloudFormation
9 6 (3.80%) Power Automate
9 6 (3.80%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 5 (3.16%) PowerApps
11 4 (2.53%) Azure Event Grid
11 4 (2.53%) Azure Functions
11 4 (2.53%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 19 (12.03%) SSL
2 9 (5.70%) WinSCP
3 2 (1.27%) Extranet
3 2 (1.27%) Intranet
4 1 (0.63%) FTP
4 1 (0.63%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (23.42%) SQL Server
2 23 (14.56%) Power BI
3 19 (12.03%) PostgreSQL
4 17 (10.76%) DB2
5 13 (8.23%) MySQL
5 13 (8.23%) Relational Database
6 10 (6.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 8 (5.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 7 (4.43%) Amazon RDS
8 7 (4.43%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (1.90%) Oracle Database
10 2 (1.27%) BusinessObjects
11 1 (0.63%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (0.63%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 10 (6.33%) JIRA
2 8 (5.06%) Git
3 1 (0.63%) Visual Studio
General
1 70 (44.30%) Social Skills
2 47 (29.75%) Finance
3 27 (17.09%) Banking
4 18 (11.39%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (9.49%) Investment Banking
6 11 (6.96%) Front Office
7 9 (5.70%) Law
8 7 (4.43%) Legal
9 6 (3.80%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (3.16%) Back Office
11 2 (1.27%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.63%) Billing
12 1 (0.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.63%) Portuguese Language
12 1 (0.63%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (11.39%) WebSphere MQ
2 16 (10.13%) LAPP Stack
2 16 (10.13%) LDAP
3 13 (8.23%) .NET
4 5 (3.16%) Middleware
5 4 (2.53%) FIX Protocol
5 4 (2.53%) WPF
6 2 (1.27%) .NET Core
6 2 (1.27%) CSS
6 2 (1.27%) HTML
6 2 (1.27%) React
7 1 (0.63%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (0.63%) Kafka
7 1 (0.63%) LAMP
7 1 (0.63%) Node.js
7 1 (0.63%) REST
7 1 (0.63%) RESTful
7 1 (0.63%) SOAP
7 1 (0.63%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 17 (10.76%) Linux Command Line
1 17 (10.76%) Management Information System
2 5 (3.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 5 (3.16%) Reference Data
3 4 (2.53%) Derivative
3 4 (2.53%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (2.53%) Equities
4 3 (1.90%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (1.90%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.27%) AS400
5 2 (1.27%) iSeries
6 1 (0.63%) Equity Derivative
6 1 (0.63%) FMCG
6 1 (0.63%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.63%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.63%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 39 (24.68%) Linux
2 38 (24.05%) Windows
3 25 (15.82%) Unix
4 17 (10.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (8.23%) Windows Server
6 2 (1.27%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (36.08%) ITIL
2 46 (29.11%) Problem-Solving
3 31 (19.62%) Change Management
4 30 (18.99%) Release Management
5 28 (17.72%) Continuous Improvement
6 26 (16.46%) Service Management
7 20 (12.66%) Business Intelligence
7 20 (12.66%) User Acceptance Testing
8 16 (10.13%) Problem Management
9 15 (9.49%) DevOps
9 15 (9.49%) Runbook
10 14 (8.86%) CI/CD
11 12 (7.59%) Batch Processing
11 12 (7.59%) Task Automation
12 11 (6.96%) Roadmaps
12 11 (6.96%) Root Cause Analysis
13 10 (6.33%) Agile
13 10 (6.33%) Data Analysis
13 10 (6.33%) ITSM
14 8 (5.06%) AI
Programming Languages
1 90 (56.96%) SQL
2 29 (18.35%) Python
3 11 (6.96%) PowerShell
4 9 (5.70%) C#
4 9 (5.70%) VB.NET
5 5 (3.16%) PL/SQL
6 4 (2.53%) T-SQL
7 3 (1.90%) Java
7 3 (1.90%) Kusto Query Language
8 2 (1.27%) Bash
8 2 (1.27%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.63%) Go
9 1 (0.63%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.63%) Perl
9 1 (0.63%) PHP
9 1 (0.63%) Scala
9 1 (0.63%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.63%) VBA
Qualifications
1 22 (13.92%) Degree
2 18 (11.39%) ITIL Certification
3 17 (10.76%) AWS Certification
4 2 (1.27%) CISSP
4 2 (1.27%) PMI Certification
4 2 (1.27%) PMP
5 1 (0.63%) ACCA
5 1 (0.63%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.63%) CIMA
5 1 (0.63%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.63%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.63%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.63%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (11.39%) SLA
2 10 (6.33%) Accessibility
3 8 (5.06%) QA
System Software
1 3 (1.90%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (4.43%) Grafana
2 5 (3.16%) Kibana
3 1 (0.63%) Docker Swarm
3 1 (0.63%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.63%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 35 (22.15%) Microsoft
2 23 (14.56%) IBM
3 19 (12.03%) Red Hat
3 19 (12.03%) ServiceNow
4 12 (7.59%) Guidewire
4 12 (7.59%) Intapp
5 4 (2.53%) Concur
5 4 (2.53%) Sage
6 3 (1.90%) Oracle
7 2 (1.27%) Aderant
7 2 (1.27%) Databricks
7 2 (1.27%) SAP
8 1 (0.63%) Ariba
8 1 (0.63%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.63%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.63%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.63%) iManage
8 1 (0.63%) NEC
8 1 (0.63%) Reuters
8 1 (0.63%) Sitecore