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 20 December 2025.

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

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 225 296 230
Rank change year-on-year +71 -66 +110
Permanent jobs requiring an Applications Support 161 149 236
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.19% 0.93% 1.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.31% 0.99% 1.40%
Number of salaries quoted 112 119 215
10th Percentile £41,000 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -12.00% +17.92%
75th Percentile £81,563 £76,875 £75,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £90,000 £89,000
England median annual salary £42,000 £42,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -1.18% -10.53% +5.56%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 12,268 15,027 16,854
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.80% 93.51% 95.03%
Number of salaries quoted 8,140 8,910 13,617
10th Percentile £35,750 £42,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,434 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.42% - +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% - -

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 20 December 2025.

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 20 December 2025. 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 33 £72,500 +41.46% 2
West London +8 11 £42,000 -16.00% 1
East London - 8 £85,000 -
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 20 December 2025, 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 (54.66%) SQL
2 60 (37.27%) ITIL
3 47 (29.19%) Problem-Solving
4 39 (24.22%) AWS
4 39 (24.22%) SQL Server
5 38 (23.60%) Linux
5 38 (23.60%) Microsoft
6 33 (20.50%) Python
6 33 (20.50%) Windows
7 32 (19.88%) Change Management
8 29 (18.01%) Azure
9 28 (17.39%) Release Management
9 28 (17.39%) Service Management
10 27 (16.77%) Continuous Improvement
10 27 (16.77%) Unix
11 25 (15.53%) Degree
12 23 (14.29%) IBM
12 23 (14.29%) Power BI
12 23 (14.29%) Power Platform
13 21 (13.04%) User Acceptance Testing
13 21 (13.04%) WebSphere
14 20 (12.42%) Business Intelligence
14 20 (12.42%) ServiceNow
15 19 (11.80%) PostgreSQL
15 19 (11.80%) Red Hat
15 19 (11.80%) SLA
15 19 (11.80%) SSL
16 18 (11.18%) ITIL Certification
16 18 (11.18%) WebSphere MQ
17 17 (10.56%) 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 (13.04%) WebSphere
2 17 (10.56%) Tomcat
3 16 (9.94%) WebSphere Application Server
4 7 (4.35%) Confluence
5 3 (1.86%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (1.86%) SharePoint
6 2 (1.24%) IIS
7 1 (0.62%) Apache
Applications
1 15 (9.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (3.11%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (2.48%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (1.86%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 11 (6.83%) Endur
2 8 (4.97%) Elite 3E
3 3 (1.86%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.62%) SAP Business One
4 1 (0.62%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.62%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.62%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.62%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 39 (24.22%) AWS
2 29 (18.01%) Azure
3 23 (14.29%) Power Platform
4 11 (6.83%) Amazon EC2
4 11 (6.83%) Serverless
5 10 (6.21%) AWS Lambda
5 10 (6.21%) SaaS
6 9 (5.59%) Amazon EKS
7 8 (4.97%) Amazon S3
8 7 (4.35%) Entra ID
8 7 (4.35%) Route 53
9 6 (3.73%) Amazon ECR
9 6 (3.73%) AWS CloudFormation
9 6 (3.73%) Power Automate
9 6 (3.73%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 5 (3.11%) Azure Monitor
10 5 (3.11%) PowerApps
11 4 (2.48%) Intacct
11 4 (2.48%) Microsoft 365
12 3 (1.86%) Workato
Communications & Networking
1 19 (11.80%) SSL
2 7 (4.35%) WinSCP
3 2 (1.24%) Extranet
3 2 (1.24%) Intranet
4 1 (0.62%) FTP
4 1 (0.62%) Internet
4 1 (0.62%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (24.22%) SQL Server
2 23 (14.29%) Power BI
3 19 (11.80%) PostgreSQL
4 17 (10.56%) DB2
5 13 (8.07%) Relational Database
6 11 (6.83%) MySQL
7 10 (6.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 8 (4.97%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (3.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 4 (2.48%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (1.86%) Oracle Database
12 2 (1.24%) BusinessObjects
13 1 (0.62%) Elasticsearch
13 1 (0.62%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 11 (6.83%) JIRA
2 7 (4.35%) Git
3 1 (0.62%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.62%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.62%) Visual Studio
General
1 75 (46.58%) Social Skills
2 44 (27.33%) Finance
3 27 (16.77%) Banking
4 22 (13.66%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (9.32%) Investment Banking
6 11 (6.83%) Front Office
7 9 (5.59%) Law
8 7 (4.35%) Legal
9 6 (3.73%) Back Office
9 6 (3.73%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.24%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.62%) Billing
11 1 (0.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.62%) Portuguese Language
11 1 (0.62%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (11.18%) WebSphere MQ
2 16 (9.94%) LAPP Stack
2 16 (9.94%) LDAP
3 9 (5.59%) .NET
4 7 (4.35%) FIX Protocol
5 5 (3.11%) Middleware
6 2 (1.24%) .NET Core
6 2 (1.24%) CSS
6 2 (1.24%) HTML
6 2 (1.24%) React
7 1 (0.62%) .NET Framework
7 1 (0.62%) EDI
7 1 (0.62%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (0.62%) LAMP
7 1 (0.62%) Node.js
7 1 (0.62%) REST
7 1 (0.62%) RESTful
7 1 (0.62%) SOAP
7 1 (0.62%) Web Services
7 1 (0.62%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 17 (10.56%) Linux Command Line
1 17 (10.56%) Management Information System
2 5 (3.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 5 (3.11%) Reference Data
3 4 (2.48%) Derivative
3 4 (2.48%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (2.48%) Equities
4 3 (1.86%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (1.86%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.24%) AS400
5 2 (1.24%) iSeries
6 1 (0.62%) Equity Derivative
6 1 (0.62%) FMCG
6 1 (0.62%) FPGA
6 1 (0.62%) Hedge funds
6 1 (0.62%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.62%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.62%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 38 (23.60%) Linux
2 33 (20.50%) Windows
3 27 (16.77%) Unix
4 17 (10.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (6.83%) Windows Server
6 2 (1.24%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (37.27%) ITIL
2 47 (29.19%) Problem-Solving
3 32 (19.88%) Change Management
4 28 (17.39%) Release Management
4 28 (17.39%) Service Management
5 27 (16.77%) Continuous Improvement
6 21 (13.04%) User Acceptance Testing
7 20 (12.42%) Business Intelligence
8 14 (8.70%) Roadmaps
9 13 (8.07%) Batch Processing
9 13 (8.07%) DevOps
9 13 (8.07%) Problem Management
10 12 (7.45%) Runbook
11 11 (6.83%) CI/CD
11 11 (6.83%) Data Analysis
11 11 (6.83%) ITSM
11 11 (6.83%) Root Cause Analysis
11 11 (6.83%) Task Automation
12 10 (6.21%) Agile
13 9 (5.59%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 88 (54.66%) SQL
2 33 (20.50%) Python
3 10 (6.21%) PowerShell
4 7 (4.35%) C#
4 7 (4.35%) VB.NET
5 5 (3.11%) Bash
6 4 (2.48%) T-SQL
7 3 (1.86%) Java
7 3 (1.86%) Kusto Query Language
7 3 (1.86%) PL/SQL
8 2 (1.24%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.62%) Go
9 1 (0.62%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.62%) Perl
9 1 (0.62%) PHP
9 1 (0.62%) Scala
9 1 (0.62%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.62%) VBA
Qualifications
1 25 (15.53%) Degree
2 18 (11.18%) ITIL Certification
3 17 (10.56%) AWS Certification
4 3 (1.86%) CISSP
4 3 (1.86%) PMI Certification
4 3 (1.86%) PMP
5 1 (0.62%) ACCA
5 1 (0.62%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.62%) CIMA
5 1 (0.62%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.62%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.62%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.62%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (11.80%) SLA
2 10 (6.21%) Accessibility
3 8 (4.97%) QA
System Software
1 4 (2.48%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (3.73%) Grafana
2 2 (1.24%) Kibana
3 1 (0.62%) Ansible
3 1 (0.62%) Docker Swarm
3 1 (0.62%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.62%) Opsgenie
3 1 (0.62%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 38 (23.60%) Microsoft
2 23 (14.29%) IBM
3 20 (12.42%) ServiceNow
4 19 (11.80%) Red Hat
5 13 (8.07%) Guidewire
6 12 (7.45%) Intapp
7 4 (2.48%) Concur
7 4 (2.48%) Oracle
7 4 (2.48%) Sage
8 3 (1.86%) Atlassian
8 3 (1.86%) Databricks
9 2 (1.24%) Aderant
9 2 (1.24%) SAP
10 1 (0.62%) Ariba
10 1 (0.62%) Bloomberg
10 1 (0.62%) iManage
10 1 (0.62%) NEC
10 1 (0.62%) New Relic
10 1 (0.62%) PagerDuty
10 1 (0.62%) Reuters