Applications Support Job Trends in London

Application Support
England > London

The median Application Support salary in London is £57,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 March 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 252 266 187
Rank change year-on-year +14 -79 +133
Permanent jobs requiring an Applications Support 137 147 349
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.82% 1.08% 1.59%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.89% 1.19% 1.69%
Number of salaries quoted 100 131 309
10th Percentile £34,900 £41,250 £39,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £47,619
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £68,125 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £92,500
England median annual salary £42,000 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -11.58% - +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 15,355 12,380 20,605
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.55% 90.94% 94.16%
Number of salaries quoted 10,252 7,613 16,413
10th Percentile £36,750 £42,000 £39,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% +3.45% -0.20%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £108,750 £121,250 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -9.69%

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 12 March 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 12 March 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 -3 34 £65,000 - 3
East London - 3 £85,000 -
West London -10 2 £42,000 -16.00% 1
Applications Support
England

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

For the 6 months to 12 March 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 79 (57.66%) SQL
2 53 (38.69%) ITIL
3 48 (35.04%) Azure
4 47 (34.31%) Problem-Solving
5 42 (30.66%) Windows
6 32 (23.36%) Microsoft
7 30 (21.90%) AWS
8 29 (21.17%) Change Management
9 27 (19.71%) DevOps
9 27 (19.71%) Runbook
10 26 (18.98%) Linux
11 25 (18.25%) .NET
11 25 (18.25%) SQL Server
12 23 (16.79%) CI/CD
13 21 (15.33%) ServiceNow
14 20 (14.60%) Release Management
15 19 (13.87%) Continuous Improvement
16 18 (13.14%) DB2
16 18 (13.14%) Service Management
16 18 (13.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 18 (13.14%) VB.NET
17 17 (12.41%) C#
18 16 (11.68%) Endur
18 16 (11.68%) ITSM
19 15 (10.95%) Degree
19 15 (10.95%) Incident Management
19 15 (10.95%) Mentoring
19 15 (10.95%) Python
20 14 (10.22%) PL/SQL
21 13 (9.49%) Entra ID

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 9 (6.57%) Tomcat
1 9 (6.57%) WebSphere
2 8 (5.84%) WebSphere Application Server
3 4 (2.92%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.73%) Confluence
4 1 (0.73%) IIS
4 1 (0.73%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 10 (7.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.92%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.73%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 16 (11.68%) Endur
2 3 (2.19%) Fidessa
3 2 (1.46%) Elite 3E
4 1 (0.73%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 48 (35.04%) Azure
2 30 (21.90%) AWS
3 13 (9.49%) Entra ID
4 12 (8.76%) SaaS
5 11 (8.03%) Power Platform
6 10 (7.30%) Azure Monitor
6 10 (7.30%) Serverless
7 7 (5.11%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (5.11%) Azure Event Grid
7 7 (5.11%) Azure Functions
7 7 (5.11%) Azure Storage
7 7 (5.11%) Power Automate
8 5 (3.65%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (3.65%) PowerApps
9 4 (2.92%) ClickUp
10 3 (2.19%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (2.19%) Amazon S3
10 3 (2.19%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (2.19%) Datadog
10 3 (2.19%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 12 (8.76%) WinSCP
2 9 (6.57%) SSL
3 2 (1.46%) Extranet
3 2 (1.46%) Intranet
4 1 (0.73%) DNS
4 1 (0.73%) Internet
4 1 (0.73%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.73%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (18.25%) SQL Server
2 18 (13.14%) DB2
2 18 (13.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 13 (9.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 12 (8.76%) Azure SQL Database
5 11 (8.03%) Power BI
5 11 (8.03%) Relational Database
6 9 (6.57%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (3.65%) MySQL
8 3 (2.19%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (2.19%) Oracle Database
9 2 (1.46%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 11 (8.03%) Git
2 4 (2.92%) JIRA
3 1 (0.73%) Rational Rhapsody
3 1 (0.73%) Visual Studio
General
1 64 (46.72%) Social Skills
2 49 (35.77%) Finance
3 25 (18.25%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (16.06%) Banking
5 10 (7.30%) Investment Banking
5 10 (7.30%) Legal
6 6 (4.38%) Law
7 4 (2.92%) Back Office
7 4 (2.92%) Front Office
8 2 (1.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.73%) Billing
9 1 (0.73%) Marketing
9 1 (0.73%) Portuguese Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (18.25%) .NET
2 8 (5.84%) LAPP Stack
2 8 (5.84%) LDAP
2 8 (5.84%) WebSphere MQ
3 7 (5.11%) WPF
4 4 (2.92%) FIX Protocol
5 2 (1.46%) Middleware
6 1 (0.73%) .NET Core
6 1 (0.73%) React
6 1 (0.73%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.57%) Legacy Applications
2 8 (5.84%) Linux Command Line
2 8 (5.84%) Management Information System
3 6 (4.38%) Reference Data
4 3 (2.19%) Derivative
4 3 (2.19%) Equities
4 3 (2.19%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.46%) AS400
5 2 (1.46%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (1.46%) iSeries
5 2 (1.46%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.73%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.73%) FMCG
6 1 (0.73%) NHS
6 1 (0.73%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.73%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 42 (30.66%) Windows
2 26 (18.98%) Linux
3 13 (9.49%) Windows Server
4 11 (8.03%) Unix
5 9 (6.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (38.69%) ITIL
2 47 (34.31%) Problem-Solving
3 29 (21.17%) Change Management
4 27 (19.71%) DevOps
4 27 (19.71%) Runbook
5 23 (16.79%) CI/CD
6 20 (14.60%) Release Management
7 19 (13.87%) Continuous Improvement
8 18 (13.14%) Service Management
9 16 (11.68%) ITSM
10 15 (10.95%) Incident Management
10 15 (10.95%) Mentoring
11 13 (9.49%) Problem Management
12 12 (8.76%) Migration
13 11 (8.03%) Business Intelligence
13 11 (8.03%) Observability
13 11 (8.03%) Task Automation
14 10 (7.30%) Analytics
14 10 (7.30%) Log Analytics
14 10 (7.30%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 79 (57.66%) SQL
2 18 (13.14%) VB.NET
3 17 (12.41%) C#
4 15 (10.95%) Python
5 14 (10.22%) PL/SQL
6 13 (9.49%) PowerShell
7 3 (2.19%) Java
7 3 (2.19%) Kusto Query Language
7 3 (2.19%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.73%) Bash
8 1 (0.73%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.73%) VBA
Qualifications
1 15 (10.95%) Degree
2 9 (6.57%) AWS Certification
3 8 (5.84%) ITIL Certification
4 4 (2.92%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.46%) PMI Certification
5 2 (1.46%) PMP
6 1 (0.73%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (8.76%) SLA
2 5 (3.65%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.92%) QA
4 3 (2.19%) GRC
5 2 (1.46%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (0.73%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (5.84%) Grafana
2 7 (5.11%) Kibana
3 1 (0.73%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 32 (23.36%) Microsoft
2 21 (15.33%) ServiceNow
3 11 (8.03%) IBM
4 8 (5.84%) Red Hat
5 5 (3.65%) Intapp
6 4 (2.92%) Guidewire
7 3 (2.19%) Oracle
8 2 (1.46%) Aderant
9 1 (0.73%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.73%) Bloomberg
9 1 (0.73%) CA Agile Central
9 1 (0.73%) iManage
9 1 (0.73%) InterSystems
9 1 (0.73%) NEC
9 1 (0.73%) Reuters
9 1 (0.73%) SAP
9 1 (0.73%) Sitecore