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 18 September 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 232 273 252
Rank change year-on-year +41 -21 +157
Permanent jobs requiring an Applications Support 171 197 277
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 1.43% 1.02% 1.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.57% 1.07% 1.33%
Number of salaries quoted 134 150 257
10th Percentile £41,475 £35,750 £38,100
25th Percentile £46,250 £40,313 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £61,250 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -5.77% +22.64%
75th Percentile £85,938 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £97,750 £87,500
England median annual salary £42,000 £41,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.44% -18.00% +11.11%

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 10,896 18,397 20,897
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.17% 95.40% 95.22%
Number of salaries quoted 7,112 11,621 17,265
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £41,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £54,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £73,000
Median % change year-on-year - -0.68% +4.29%
75th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

Applications Support
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Applications Support in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Applications Support 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 18 September 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 18 September 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 +33 46 £72,500 -3.33% 3
West London +50 11 £44,000 -20.00% 3
East London - 5 £85,000 -
South London - 2 £37,500 -
Applications Support
England

Applications Support Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 18 September 2025, Applications Support job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the London region featuring Applications Support in the job title.

1 85 (49.71%) Social Skills
2 82 (47.95%) SQL
3 64 (37.43%) Problem-Solving
4 49 (28.65%) ITIL
4 49 (28.65%) Finance
5 42 (24.56%) Microsoft
6 39 (22.81%) Service Management
7 36 (21.05%) Azure
8 35 (20.47%) SQL Server
9 34 (19.88%) Python
10 33 (19.30%) Analytical Skills
11 27 (15.79%) Linux
11 27 (15.79%) Unix
12 21 (12.28%) Windows
13 20 (11.70%) Agile
13 20 (11.70%) Banking
13 20 (11.70%) AWS
14 19 (11.11%) Degree
15 18 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
16 17 (9.94%) ITSM
16 17 (9.94%) Front Office
16 17 (9.94%) Back Office
17 16 (9.36%) PowerShell
18 15 (8.77%) User Acceptance Testing
18 15 (8.77%) JIRA
18 15 (8.77%) Release Management
19 14 (8.19%) Change Management
19 14 (8.19%) High Availability
19 14 (8.19%) SaaS
19 14 (8.19%) Guidewire

Applications Support Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 13 (7.60%) WebSphere
2 9 (5.26%) Tomcat
2 9 (5.26%) WebSphere Application Server
3 8 (4.68%) Confluence
4 5 (2.92%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (1.17%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.58%) Apache
6 1 (0.58%) GemFire
6 1 (0.58%) IIS
Applications
1 10 (5.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (4.09%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.75%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.58%) Notion
Business Applications
1 9 (5.26%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (3.51%) Elite 3E
3 1 (0.58%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.58%) Endur
3 1 (0.58%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.58%) ION MarketView
3 1 (0.58%) Magento
3 1 (0.58%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.58%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.58%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (0.58%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.58%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 36 (21.05%) Azure
2 20 (11.70%) AWS
3 14 (8.19%) Power Platform
3 14 (8.19%) SaaS
4 10 (5.85%) Amazon EC2
5 9 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
5 9 (5.26%) Serverless
6 8 (4.68%) Dynamics 365
7 7 (4.09%) Amazon S3
7 7 (4.09%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (3.51%) Amazon EKS
8 6 (3.51%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (2.92%) BlazeMeter
10 4 (2.34%) Amazon ECR
10 4 (2.34%) Intacct
10 4 (2.34%) Microsoft 365
10 4 (2.34%) Route 53
10 4 (2.34%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 3 (1.75%) Workato
12 1 (0.58%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 11 (6.43%) SSL
2 2 (1.17%) DHCP
2 2 (1.17%) DNS
2 2 (1.17%) Firewall
2 2 (1.17%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.58%) FIX Connectivity
3 1 (0.58%) FTP
3 1 (0.58%) Multicast
3 1 (0.58%) SAN
3 1 (0.58%) SSH
3 1 (0.58%) VoIP
3 1 (0.58%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (20.47%) SQL Server
2 14 (8.19%) Power BI
3 12 (7.02%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (5.26%) DB2
4 9 (5.26%) MySQL
5 8 (4.68%) Relational Database
6 6 (3.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 5 (2.92%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (2.92%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (1.75%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.58%) Power Query
9 1 (0.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 15 (8.77%) JIRA
2 10 (5.85%) Git
3 6 (3.51%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.17%) Bitbucket
General
1 85 (49.71%) Social Skills
2 49 (28.65%) Finance
3 33 (19.30%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (11.70%) Banking
5 17 (9.94%) Back Office
5 17 (9.94%) Front Office
6 8 (4.68%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (3.51%) Investment Banking
7 6 (3.51%) Law
8 4 (2.34%) Legal
9 3 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.17%) Advertising
10 2 (1.17%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.58%) Local Government
11 1 (0.58%) Marketing
11 1 (0.58%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (7.02%) .NET
2 11 (6.43%) WebSphere MQ
3 9 (5.26%) LAPP Stack
3 9 (5.26%) LDAP
4 8 (4.68%) .NET Framework
5 6 (3.51%) FIX Protocol
6 5 (2.92%) Middleware
7 4 (2.34%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (1.17%) CSS
8 2 (1.17%) EDI
8 2 (1.17%) HTML
8 2 (1.17%) Kafka
8 2 (1.17%) Web Services
9 1 (0.58%) .NET Core
9 1 (0.58%) LAMP
9 1 (0.58%) Node.js
9 1 (0.58%) React
9 1 (0.58%) REST
9 1 (0.58%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 12 (7.02%) Management Information System
2 10 (5.85%) Linux Command Line
3 7 (4.09%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (2.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (1.17%) Derivative
5 2 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.17%) Equities
5 2 (1.17%) Fixed Income
6 1 (0.58%) Bitcoin
6 1 (0.58%) Equity Derivative
6 1 (0.58%) Eurex
6 1 (0.58%) FPGA
6 1 (0.58%) Hedge funds
6 1 (0.58%) IoT
6 1 (0.58%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.58%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.58%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 27 (15.79%) Linux
1 27 (15.79%) Unix
2 21 (12.28%) Windows
3 9 (5.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (2.34%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.17%) Solaris
6 1 (0.58%) CentOS
6 1 (0.58%) Debian
6 1 (0.58%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.58%) Rocky
6 1 (0.58%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (37.43%) Problem-Solving
2 49 (28.65%) ITIL
3 39 (22.81%) Service Management
4 20 (11.70%) Agile
5 18 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
6 17 (9.94%) ITSM
7 15 (8.77%) Release Management
7 15 (8.77%) User Acceptance Testing
8 14 (8.19%) Batch Processing
8 14 (8.19%) Change Management
8 14 (8.19%) High Availability
8 14 (8.19%) Roadmaps
9 13 (7.60%) CI/CD
9 13 (7.60%) CRM
9 13 (7.60%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 13 (7.60%) Scrum
10 11 (6.43%) Business Intelligence
10 11 (6.43%) Data Analysis
11 10 (5.85%) Data Pipeline
11 10 (5.85%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 82 (47.95%) SQL
2 34 (19.88%) Python
3 16 (9.36%) PowerShell
4 7 (4.09%) Shell Script
5 6 (3.51%) Bash
5 6 (3.51%) C#
5 6 (3.51%) Java
6 5 (2.92%) PL/SQL
7 2 (1.17%) Perl
7 2 (1.17%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.58%) Go
8 1 (0.58%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.58%) PHP
8 1 (0.58%) Scala
8 1 (0.58%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.58%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 19 (11.11%) Degree
2 11 (6.43%) ITIL Certification
3 9 (5.26%) AWS Certification
4 5 (2.92%) CISSP
4 5 (2.92%) PMI Certification
4 5 (2.92%) PMP
5 2 (1.17%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.58%) ACCA
6 1 (0.58%) CIMA
6 1 (0.58%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.58%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.58%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (7.60%) SLA
2 7 (4.09%) QA
3 6 (3.51%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.58%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (2.92%) Docker
2 1 (0.58%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 12 (7.02%) Grafana
2 9 (5.26%) Kubernetes
3 5 (2.92%) Progress Chef
4 3 (1.75%) Kibana
5 2 (1.17%) logstash
6 1 (0.58%) Ansible
6 1 (0.58%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.58%) Opsgenie
6 1 (0.58%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.58%) SCCM
6 1 (0.58%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 42 (24.56%) Microsoft
2 14 (8.19%) Guidewire
3 13 (7.60%) IBM
3 13 (7.60%) Red Hat
4 10 (5.85%) Databricks
4 10 (5.85%) Trayport
5 9 (5.26%) Intapp
6 8 (4.68%) Oracle
6 8 (4.68%) Siebel
7 7 (4.09%) ServiceNow
8 6 (3.51%) Dynatrace
8 6 (3.51%) Splunk
9 4 (2.34%) Atlassian
9 4 (2.34%) Concur
9 4 (2.34%) Sage
10 2 (1.17%) Bloomberg
10 2 (1.17%) ION Trading
10 2 (1.17%) LogicMonitor
10 2 (1.17%) RedGate
10 2 (1.17%) Yardi