Applications Support Job Trends in London

Application Support
England > London

The median Application Support salary in London is £68,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 November 2025.

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

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 215 271 248
Rank change year-on-year +56 -23 +112
Permanent jobs requiring an Applications Support 167 174 243
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.38% 1.01% 1.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.52% 1.06% 1.31%
Number of salaries quoted 124 135 227
10th Percentile £42,464 £35,300 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,938 £41,250 £48,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,750 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -15.38% +22.64%
75th Percentile £83,125 £83,125 £77,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £90,000 £88,500
England median annual salary £42,000 £40,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% -15.79% +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 11,006 16,397 18,538
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.15% 95.05% 95.10%
Number of salaries quoted 7,176 10,057 15,156
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £53,750 £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 £120,000 £118,750 £115,000
England median annual salary £53,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.83% -4.17% -

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 3 November 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 3 November 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 +30 33 £72,500 +11.54% 8
West London +17 11 £42,000 -16.00%
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 3 November 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 79 (47.31%) SQL
2 60 (35.93%) ITIL
3 53 (31.74%) Problem-Solving
4 37 (22.16%) Microsoft
4 37 (22.16%) Service Management
4 37 (22.16%) SQL Server
5 36 (21.56%) Python
6 34 (20.36%) AWS
6 34 (20.36%) Azure
7 33 (19.76%) Unix
8 31 (18.56%) Linux
9 25 (14.97%) Continuous Improvement
9 25 (14.97%) Degree
9 25 (14.97%) Windows
10 24 (14.37%) Change Management
10 24 (14.37%) Release Management
11 22 (13.17%) User Acceptance Testing
12 21 (12.57%) IBM
12 21 (12.57%) Power BI
12 21 (12.57%) Power Platform
12 21 (12.57%) WebSphere
13 20 (11.98%) PostgreSQL
14 19 (11.38%) Red Hat
14 19 (11.38%) SaaS
14 19 (11.38%) SSL
15 18 (10.78%) Agile
15 18 (10.78%) Business Intelligence
15 18 (10.78%) ITIL Certification
15 18 (10.78%) ITSM
15 18 (10.78%) SLA

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 (12.57%) WebSphere
2 17 (10.18%) Tomcat
3 16 (9.58%) WebSphere Application Server
4 8 (4.79%) Confluence
5 4 (2.40%) SharePoint
6 3 (1.80%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (1.20%) IIS
8 1 (0.60%) Apache
Applications
1 14 (8.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (3.59%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.80%) MS Visio
3 3 (1.80%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.60%) Notion
Business Applications
1 7 (4.19%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (3.59%) Elite 3E
3 5 (2.99%) Endur
4 1 (0.60%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.60%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.60%) ION MarketView
4 1 (0.60%) SAP Business One
4 1 (0.60%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.60%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.60%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.60%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.60%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 34 (20.36%) AWS
1 34 (20.36%) Azure
2 21 (12.57%) Power Platform
3 19 (11.38%) SaaS
4 11 (6.59%) Amazon EC2
5 10 (5.99%) AWS Lambda
5 10 (5.99%) Serverless
6 9 (5.39%) Amazon EKS
7 8 (4.79%) Amazon S3
8 7 (4.19%) Route 53
9 6 (3.59%) Amazon ECR
9 6 (3.59%) AWS CloudFormation
9 6 (3.59%) Dynamics 365
9 6 (3.59%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 5 (2.99%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (2.99%) BlazeMeter
10 5 (2.99%) Power Automate
10 5 (2.99%) PowerApps
11 4 (2.40%) Azure Monitor
11 4 (2.40%) Intacct
Communications & Networking
1 19 (11.38%) SSL
2 2 (1.20%) Extranet
2 2 (1.20%) Intranet
3 1 (0.60%) Firewall
3 1 (0.60%) FTP
3 1 (0.60%) Internet
3 1 (0.60%) Multicast
3 1 (0.60%) SAN
3 1 (0.60%) SSH
3 1 (0.60%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (22.16%) SQL Server
2 21 (12.57%) Power BI
3 20 (11.98%) PostgreSQL
4 17 (10.18%) DB2
5 9 (5.39%) MySQL
5 9 (5.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 8 (4.79%) Amazon RDS
6 8 (4.79%) Relational Database
7 3 (1.80%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (1.80%) Oracle Database
7 3 (1.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (1.20%) BusinessObjects
9 1 (0.60%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.60%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 13 (7.78%) JIRA
2 7 (4.19%) Git
3 6 (3.59%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.20%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.60%) Visual Studio
General
1 75 (44.91%) Social Skills
2 45 (26.95%) Finance
3 25 (14.97%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (13.17%) Banking
5 14 (8.38%) Back Office
5 14 (8.38%) Front Office
6 13 (7.78%) Investment Banking
7 7 (4.19%) Law
7 7 (4.19%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.80%) Legal
9 2 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.60%) Local Government
10 1 (0.60%) Marketing
10 1 (0.60%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (10.78%) WebSphere MQ
2 16 (9.58%) LAPP Stack
2 16 (9.58%) LDAP
3 9 (5.39%) .NET
4 6 (3.59%) .NET Framework
4 6 (3.59%) FIX Protocol
5 5 (2.99%) Middleware
6 2 (1.20%) .NET Core
6 2 (1.20%) CSS
6 2 (1.20%) EDI
6 2 (1.20%) HTML
6 2 (1.20%) React
6 2 (1.20%) Web Services
7 1 (0.60%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (0.60%) Kafka
7 1 (0.60%) LAMP
7 1 (0.60%) Node.js
7 1 (0.60%) REST
7 1 (0.60%) RESTful
7 1 (0.60%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 17 (10.18%) Linux Command Line
1 17 (10.18%) Management Information System
2 5 (2.99%) Data Protection Act
2 5 (2.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 4 (2.40%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (1.80%) Reference Data
5 2 (1.20%) Derivative
5 2 (1.20%) Equities
6 1 (0.60%) Equity Derivative
6 1 (0.60%) Fixed Income
6 1 (0.60%) FPGA
6 1 (0.60%) Hedge funds
6 1 (0.60%) IoT
6 1 (0.60%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.60%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 33 (19.76%) Unix
2 31 (18.56%) Linux
3 25 (14.97%) Windows
4 17 (10.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (2.99%) Windows Server
6 2 (1.20%) Solaris
7 1 (0.60%) Debian
7 1 (0.60%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.60%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (35.93%) ITIL
2 53 (31.74%) Problem-Solving
3 37 (22.16%) Service Management
4 25 (14.97%) Continuous Improvement
5 24 (14.37%) Change Management
5 24 (14.37%) Release Management
6 22 (13.17%) User Acceptance Testing
7 18 (10.78%) Agile
7 18 (10.78%) Business Intelligence
7 18 (10.78%) ITSM
8 16 (9.58%) Roadmaps
9 15 (8.98%) CI/CD
10 13 (7.78%) Batch Processing
10 13 (7.78%) Data Analysis
11 12 (7.19%) DevOps
11 12 (7.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 11 (6.59%) High Availability
12 11 (6.59%) Problem Management
12 11 (6.59%) Root Cause Analysis
12 11 (6.59%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 79 (47.31%) SQL
2 36 (21.56%) Python
3 12 (7.19%) PowerShell
4 7 (4.19%) Shell Script
5 6 (3.59%) C#
5 6 (3.59%) Java
6 5 (2.99%) Bash
6 5 (2.99%) PL/SQL
7 3 (1.80%) Kusto Query Language
7 3 (1.80%) T-SQL
8 2 (1.20%) VB.NET
9 1 (0.60%) Go
9 1 (0.60%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.60%) Perl
9 1 (0.60%) PHP
9 1 (0.60%) Scala
9 1 (0.60%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.60%) VBA
Qualifications
1 25 (14.97%) Degree
2 18 (10.78%) ITIL Certification
3 17 (10.18%) AWS Certification
4 3 (1.80%) CISSP
4 3 (1.80%) PMI Certification
4 3 (1.80%) PMP
5 2 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.60%) ACCA
6 1 (0.60%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.60%) CIMA
6 1 (0.60%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.60%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.60%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (10.78%) SLA
2 10 (5.99%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.99%) QA
4 1 (0.60%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (2.40%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (5.99%) Grafana
2 5 (2.99%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.99%) Progress Chef
3 1 (0.60%) Ansible
3 1 (0.60%) Docker Swarm
3 1 (0.60%) Kibana
3 1 (0.60%) Opsgenie
3 1 (0.60%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 37 (22.16%) Microsoft
2 21 (12.57%) IBM
3 19 (11.38%) Red Hat
4 17 (10.18%) ServiceNow
5 13 (7.78%) Guidewire
6 10 (5.99%) Intapp
7 9 (5.39%) Oracle
8 7 (4.19%) Databricks
9 6 (3.59%) Dynatrace
9 6 (3.59%) Siebel
10 5 (2.99%) Splunk
11 4 (2.40%) Concur
11 4 (2.40%) Sage
11 4 (2.40%) Trayport
12 3 (1.80%) Atlassian
13 2 (1.20%) Bloomberg
13 2 (1.20%) SAP
14 1 (0.60%) NEC
14 1 (0.60%) Reuters
14 1 (0.60%) TOWER Software