Applications Engineer Jobs in Manchester

Applications Engineer
North West > Manchester

The median Applications Engineer salary in Manchester is £51,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 May 2025.

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

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 138 221 227
Rank change year-on-year +83 +6 -19
Permanent jobs requiring an Applications Engineer 6 1 10
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 0.28% 0.020% 0.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.31% 0.021% 0.22%
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 10
10th Percentile £44,625 - £32,300
25th Percentile £45,938 £30,000 £33,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,250 £31,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +65.32% -31.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £55,938 £32,000 £56,250
90th Percentile £56,875 - £72,750
North West median annual salary £50,890 £50,000 £42,098
% change year-on-year +1.78% +18.77% +5.24%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Manchester

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Manchester. 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 Manchester with a recognized job title 1,928 4,846 4,542
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.09% 94.61% 91.57%
Number of salaries quoted 1,288 3,745 2,665
10th Percentile £32,500 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,988 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £54,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.26% -6.09% +4.55%
75th Percentile £77,500 £68,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £92,000 £81,250 £82,500
North West median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £54,882
% change year-on-year +0.11% -8.90% +4.54%

Applications Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Applications Engineer in Manchester

Applications Engineer
Salary Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Applications Engineer in Manchester.

Salary trend for Applications Engineer in Manchester

Applications Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester

For the 6 months to 3 May 2025, Applications Engineer 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 Manchester region featuring Applications Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (50.00%) SQL
1 3 (50.00%) Adobe
1 3 (50.00%) AWS
1 3 (50.00%) Relational Database
1 3 (50.00%) iManage
1 3 (50.00%) Intapp
1 3 (50.00%) DocuSign
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Observability
2 2 (33.33%) Agile
2 2 (33.33%) DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) GCP
2 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 2 (33.33%) Customer Experience
3 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
3 1 (16.67%) API Development
3 1 (16.67%) API Design
3 1 (16.67%) Front End Development
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
3 1 (16.67%) Node.js
3 1 (16.67%) AngularJS
3 1 (16.67%) TypeScript
3 1 (16.67%) Finance
3 1 (16.67%) OOD
3 1 (16.67%) Software Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) RESTful
3 1 (16.67%) Serverless
3 1 (16.67%) Java
3 1 (16.67%) NestJS

Applications Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) GCP
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Step Functions
3 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) Relational Database
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) AngularJS
1 1 (16.67%) NestJS
1 1 (16.67%) NgRx
1 1 (16.67%) Node.js
1 1 (16.67%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Agile
1 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
1 2 (33.33%) Customer Experience
1 2 (33.33%) DevOps
1 2 (33.33%) Observability
2 1 (16.67%) API Design
2 1 (16.67%) API Development
2 1 (16.67%) Front End Development
2 1 (16.67%) GitOps
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (16.67%) Monorepo
2 1 (16.67%) OOD
2 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (16.67%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (16.67%) Java
2 1 (16.67%) TypeScript
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Adobe
1 3 (50.00%) DocuSign
1 3 (50.00%) iManage
1 3 (50.00%) Intapp