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 28 March 2026.

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

6 months to
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 264 253 194
Rank change year-on-year -11 -59 +125
Permanent jobs requiring an Applications Support 134 151 357
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.75% 1.17% 1.61%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.82% 1.29% 1.71%
Number of salaries quoted 101 137 313
10th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £39,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £94,900
England median annual salary £42,338 £47,250 £47,500
% change year-on-year -10.40% -0.53% +3.26%

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 16,321 11,675 20,887
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.77% 90.76% 94.12%
Number of salaries quoted 10,917 7,531 16,431
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,000 £39,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £107,500 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -9.19%

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 28 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 28 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 -14 32 £65,000 - 1
East London - 3 £85,000 -
West London -22 1 £35,000 -30.00% 2
Applications Support
England

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

For the 6 months to 28 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 78 (58.21%) SQL
2 52 (38.81%) Azure
3 51 (38.06%) ITIL
4 48 (35.82%) Problem-Solving
5 43 (32.09%) Windows
6 34 (25.37%) Microsoft
7 30 (22.39%) Change Management
8 29 (21.64%) AWS
8 29 (21.64%) DevOps
9 27 (20.15%) .NET
9 27 (20.15%) Runbook
10 25 (18.66%) Linux
11 23 (17.16%) CI/CD
11 23 (17.16%) SQL Server
12 21 (15.67%) Continuous Improvement
13 20 (14.93%) Release Management
13 20 (14.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 20 (14.93%) VB.NET
14 19 (14.18%) C#
14 19 (14.18%) Incident Management
14 19 (14.18%) ServiceNow
15 18 (13.43%) DB2
16 17 (12.69%) ITSM
16 17 (12.69%) Mentoring
16 17 (12.69%) Service Management
17 16 (11.94%) Degree
17 16 (11.94%) Endur
17 16 (11.94%) PL/SQL
18 15 (11.19%) Problem Management
18 15 (11.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services

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 7 (5.22%) Tomcat
1 7 (5.22%) WebSphere
2 6 (4.48%) WebSphere Application Server
3 4 (2.99%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.75%) Confluence
4 1 (0.75%) IIS
4 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 10 (7.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.99%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 16 (11.94%) Endur
2 3 (2.24%) Fidessa
3 2 (1.49%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 52 (38.81%) Azure
2 29 (21.64%) AWS
3 13 (9.70%) Entra ID
4 10 (7.46%) Power Platform
4 10 (7.46%) Serverless
5 9 (6.72%) Azure Monitor
5 9 (6.72%) SaaS
6 7 (5.22%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (5.22%) Azure Event Grid
6 7 (5.22%) Azure Functions
6 7 (5.22%) Azure Storage
6 7 (5.22%) Power Automate
7 5 (3.73%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (3.73%) PowerApps
8 4 (2.99%) ClickUp
9 3 (2.24%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (2.24%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (2.24%) Amazon S3
9 3 (2.24%) Datadog
9 3 (2.24%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 12 (8.96%) WinSCP
2 7 (5.22%) SSL
3 2 (1.49%) Extranet
3 2 (1.49%) Intranet
4 1 (0.75%) DNS
4 1 (0.75%) Internet
4 1 (0.75%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.75%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (17.16%) SQL Server
2 20 (14.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 18 (13.43%) DB2
4 15 (11.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 12 (8.96%) Relational Database
6 11 (8.21%) Azure SQL Database
7 10 (7.46%) Power BI
8 7 (5.22%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (3.73%) MySQL
10 4 (2.99%) Oracle Database
11 3 (2.24%) Amazon RDS
12 2 (1.49%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 11 (8.21%) Git
2 4 (2.99%) JIRA
3 1 (0.75%) Rational Rhapsody
3 1 (0.75%) Visual Studio
General
1 67 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 55 (41.04%) Finance
3 26 (19.40%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (17.91%) Banking
5 10 (7.46%) Legal
6 7 (5.22%) Investment Banking
7 5 (3.73%) Front Office
7 5 (3.73%) Law
8 3 (2.24%) Back Office
8 3 (2.24%) Japanese Language
9 1 (0.75%) Billing
9 1 (0.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.75%) Marketing
9 1 (0.75%) Portuguese Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (20.15%) .NET
2 7 (5.22%) WPF
3 6 (4.48%) LAPP Stack
3 6 (4.48%) LDAP
3 6 (4.48%) WebSphere MQ
4 5 (3.73%) FIX Protocol
5 2 (1.49%) Middleware
6 1 (0.75%) .NET Core
6 1 (0.75%) JMS
6 1 (0.75%) React
6 1 (0.75%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 11 (8.21%) Legacy Applications
2 8 (5.97%) Management Information System
3 6 (4.48%) Linux Command Line
3 6 (4.48%) Reference Data
4 3 (2.24%) Derivative
4 3 (2.24%) Equities
4 3 (2.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (2.24%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.49%) AS400
5 2 (1.49%) iSeries
5 2 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.75%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.75%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.75%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.75%) FMCG
6 1 (0.75%) NHS
6 1 (0.75%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.75%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 43 (32.09%) Windows
2 25 (18.66%) Linux
3 13 (9.70%) Windows Server
4 12 (8.96%) Unix
5 7 (5.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (38.06%) ITIL
2 48 (35.82%) Problem-Solving
3 30 (22.39%) Change Management
4 29 (21.64%) DevOps
5 27 (20.15%) Runbook
6 23 (17.16%) CI/CD
7 21 (15.67%) Continuous Improvement
8 20 (14.93%) Release Management
9 19 (14.18%) Incident Management
10 17 (12.69%) ITSM
10 17 (12.69%) Mentoring
10 17 (12.69%) Service Management
11 15 (11.19%) Problem Management
12 12 (8.96%) Migration
13 11 (8.21%) Customer-Centric Approach
13 11 (8.21%) Customer-Centricity
13 11 (8.21%) Task Automation
14 10 (7.46%) Business Intelligence
14 10 (7.46%) Disaster Recovery
14 10 (7.46%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 78 (58.21%) SQL
2 20 (14.93%) VB.NET
3 19 (14.18%) C#
4 16 (11.94%) PL/SQL
5 13 (9.70%) PowerShell
5 13 (9.70%) Python
6 3 (2.24%) Java
6 3 (2.24%) T-SQL
7 2 (1.49%) Bash
7 2 (1.49%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.75%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.75%) VBA
Qualifications
1 16 (11.94%) Degree
2 7 (5.22%) AWS Certification
2 7 (5.22%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (4.48%) ITIL Certification
4 4 (2.99%) PMI Certification
4 4 (2.99%) PMP
5 1 (0.75%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.75%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.46%) SLA
2 5 (3.73%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.99%) PMO
3 4 (2.99%) QA
4 3 (2.24%) GRC
5 1 (0.75%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (0.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (5.97%) Grafana
2 7 (5.22%) Kibana
3 1 (0.75%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 34 (25.37%) Microsoft
2 19 (14.18%) ServiceNow
3 9 (6.72%) IBM
4 6 (4.48%) Red Hat
5 4 (2.99%) Intapp
5 4 (2.99%) Oracle
6 2 (1.49%) Aderant
6 2 (1.49%) Guidewire
7 1 (0.75%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.75%) Bloomberg
7 1 (0.75%) CA Agile Central
7 1 (0.75%) iManage
7 1 (0.75%) InterSystems
7 1 (0.75%) NEC
7 1 (0.75%) Reuters
7 1 (0.75%) Sitecore