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 6 February 2026.

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

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 233 284 220
Rank change year-on-year +51 -64 +108
Permanent jobs requiring an Applications Support 153 141 306
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.01% 0.92% 1.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.11% 1.01% 1.53%
Number of salaries quoted 106 116 278
10th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £47,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% - +13.64%
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £86,875 £90,000 £90,000
England median annual salary £42,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% - -

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 13,788 13,984 20,016
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.35% 91.72% 94.65%
Number of salaries quoted 9,174 8,055 16,173
10th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £39,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +3.45% -2.03%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £111,250 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%

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 6 February 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 6 February 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 +10 34 £72,500 +11.54% 3
East London - 7 £85,000 -
West London -1 6 £42,000 -16.00%
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 6 February 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 87 (56.86%) SQL
2 59 (38.56%) ITIL
3 45 (29.41%) Problem-Solving
4 44 (28.76%) Windows
5 39 (25.49%) Azure
5 39 (25.49%) Linux
6 38 (24.84%) AWS
7 33 (21.57%) Change Management
7 33 (21.57%) Microsoft
8 29 (18.95%) SQL Server
9 26 (16.99%) Python
10 25 (16.34%) Runbook
11 24 (15.69%) Continuous Improvement
11 24 (15.69%) Release Management
12 22 (14.38%) DevOps
12 22 (14.38%) Unix
13 21 (13.73%) CI/CD
13 21 (13.73%) Power BI
13 21 (13.73%) Power Platform
13 21 (13.73%) Service Management
14 20 (13.07%) IBM
14 20 (13.07%) ServiceNow
15 19 (12.42%) Business Intelligence
15 19 (12.42%) Degree
16 18 (11.76%) .NET
16 18 (11.76%) SLA
16 18 (11.76%) User Acceptance Testing
16 18 (11.76%) WebSphere
17 17 (11.11%) DB2
18 16 (10.46%) PostgreSQL

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 18 (11.76%) WebSphere
2 15 (9.80%) Tomcat
3 14 (9.15%) WebSphere Application Server
4 4 (2.61%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.96%) Confluence
6 1 (0.65%) Apache
6 1 (0.65%) IIS
6 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 14 (9.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.61%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (1.96%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.96%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 14 (9.15%) Endur
2 6 (3.92%) Elite 3E
3 3 (1.96%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.65%) SAP Business One
4 1 (0.65%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.65%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.65%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.65%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 39 (25.49%) Azure
2 38 (24.84%) AWS
3 21 (13.73%) Power Platform
4 15 (9.80%) Serverless
5 13 (8.50%) Entra ID
6 12 (7.84%) SaaS
7 10 (6.54%) Azure Monitor
8 9 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
9 8 (5.23%) Amazon EKS
9 8 (5.23%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (4.58%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (4.58%) Azure Event Grid
10 7 (4.58%) Azure Functions
10 7 (4.58%) Azure Storage
10 7 (4.58%) Power Automate
11 6 (3.92%) Amazon S3
11 6 (3.92%) Route 53
12 5 (3.27%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (3.27%) PowerApps
12 5 (3.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 16 (10.46%) SSL
2 12 (7.84%) WinSCP
3 2 (1.31%) Extranet
3 2 (1.31%) Intranet
4 1 (0.65%) DNS
4 1 (0.65%) FTP
4 1 (0.65%) Internet
4 1 (0.65%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.65%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (18.95%) SQL Server
2 21 (13.73%) Power BI
3 17 (11.11%) DB2
4 16 (10.46%) PostgreSQL
5 15 (9.80%) Relational Database
6 12 (7.84%) Azure SQL Database
7 11 (7.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 10 (6.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 8 (5.23%) MySQL
10 6 (3.92%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (1.96%) Oracle Database
12 2 (1.31%) BusinessObjects
13 1 (0.65%) Elasticsearch
13 1 (0.65%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 11 (7.19%) Git
2 5 (3.27%) JIRA
3 1 (0.65%) Rational Rhapsody
3 1 (0.65%) Visual Studio
General
1 67 (43.79%) Social Skills
2 51 (33.33%) Finance
3 26 (16.99%) Banking
4 24 (15.69%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (8.50%) Investment Banking
6 8 (5.23%) Legal
7 7 (4.58%) Law
8 6 (3.92%) Front Office
9 5 (3.27%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (2.61%) Back Office
11 1 (0.65%) Billing
11 1 (0.65%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.65%) Portuguese Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (11.76%) .NET
2 16 (10.46%) WebSphere MQ
3 14 (9.15%) LAPP Stack
3 14 (9.15%) LDAP
4 7 (4.58%) WPF
5 6 (3.92%) Middleware
6 4 (2.61%) FIX Protocol
7 2 (1.31%) CSS
7 2 (1.31%) HTML
7 2 (1.31%) React
8 1 (0.65%) .NET Core
8 1 (0.65%) Elastic Stack
8 1 (0.65%) Kafka
8 1 (0.65%) LAMP
8 1 (0.65%) Node.js
8 1 (0.65%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 15 (9.80%) Linux Command Line
2 11 (7.19%) Management Information System
3 6 (3.92%) Reference Data
4 4 (2.61%) Derivative
4 4 (2.61%) Equities
4 4 (2.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (1.96%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.31%) AS400
6 2 (1.31%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.31%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.31%) iSeries
6 2 (1.31%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (1.31%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.65%) Equity Derivative
7 1 (0.65%) FMCG
7 1 (0.65%) NHS
7 1 (0.65%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.65%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 44 (28.76%) Windows
2 39 (25.49%) Linux
3 22 (14.38%) Unix
4 16 (10.46%) Windows Server
5 15 (9.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.31%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (38.56%) ITIL
2 45 (29.41%) Problem-Solving
3 33 (21.57%) Change Management
4 25 (16.34%) Runbook
5 24 (15.69%) Continuous Improvement
5 24 (15.69%) Release Management
6 22 (14.38%) DevOps
7 21 (13.73%) CI/CD
7 21 (13.73%) Service Management
8 19 (12.42%) Business Intelligence
9 18 (11.76%) User Acceptance Testing
10 14 (9.15%) Incident Management
10 14 (9.15%) Task Automation
11 13 (8.50%) Problem Management
12 12 (7.84%) Migration
13 11 (7.19%) ITSM
14 10 (6.54%) Analytics
14 10 (6.54%) Log Analytics
14 10 (6.54%) Mentoring
14 10 (6.54%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 87 (56.86%) SQL
2 26 (16.99%) Python
3 14 (9.15%) PowerShell
4 12 (7.84%) C#
5 11 (7.19%) VB.NET
6 7 (4.58%) PL/SQL
7 4 (2.61%) T-SQL
8 3 (1.96%) Java
8 3 (1.96%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (1.31%) Bash
9 2 (1.31%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.65%) Go
10 1 (0.65%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.65%) Perl
10 1 (0.65%) PHP
10 1 (0.65%) Scala
10 1 (0.65%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.65%) VBA
Qualifications
1 19 (12.42%) Degree
2 15 (9.80%) AWS Certification
2 15 (9.80%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (1.31%) CISSP
3 2 (1.31%) PMI Certification
3 2 (1.31%) PMP
4 1 (0.65%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.65%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.65%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (0.65%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.65%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (11.76%) SLA
2 8 (5.23%) QA
3 5 (3.27%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (1.31%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (6.54%) Grafana
2 8 (5.23%) Kibana
3 1 (0.65%) Docker Swarm
3 1 (0.65%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.65%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 33 (21.57%) Microsoft
2 20 (13.07%) IBM
2 20 (13.07%) ServiceNow
3 16 (10.46%) Red Hat
4 9 (5.88%) Guidewire
4 9 (5.88%) Intapp
5 3 (1.96%) Concur
5 3 (1.96%) Oracle
5 3 (1.96%) Sage
6 2 (1.31%) Aderant
6 2 (1.31%) SAP
7 1 (0.65%) Ariba
7 1 (0.65%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.65%) Bloomberg
7 1 (0.65%) Databricks
7 1 (0.65%) iManage
7 1 (0.65%) InterSystems
7 1 (0.65%) NEC
7 1 (0.65%) Reuters
7 1 (0.65%) Sitecore