Applications Engineer Jobs in the Midlands

Applications Engineer
England > Midlands

The median Applications Engineer salary in the Midlands is £52,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 4 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
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 228 263 299
Rank change year-on-year +35 +36 +38
Permanent jobs requiring an Applications Engineer 23 48 27
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.33% 0.41% 0.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.36% 0.43% 0.32%
Number of salaries quoted 21 31 25
10th Percentile £29,750 - £29,600
25th Percentile £37,500 £26,750 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £32,500 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year +61.54% -13.33% -11.76%
75th Percentile £57,500 £42,500 £53,750
90th Percentile £63,750 £43,750 £62,500
England median annual salary £50,000 £42,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year +17.65% -21.30% +8.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the Midlands. 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 the Midlands with a recognized job title 6,427 11,047 8,539
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.74% 94.29% 89.54%
Number of salaries quoted 2,858 8,256 4,765
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,250 £28,750
25th Percentile £33,750 £33,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £60,741 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%

Applications Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Applications Engineer in the Midlands

Applications Engineer
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for Applications Engineer in the Midlands

Applications Engineer
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Applications Engineer in the Midlands over the 6 months to 4 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Applications Engineer in the Midlands

Applications Engineer
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Applications Engineer within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 4 May 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
West Midlands +50 13 £55,000 +37.50% 27
East Midlands +19 10 £32,500 +14.04% 28
Applications Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 4 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 Midlands region featuring Applications Engineer in the job title.

1 15 (65.22%) SQL
2 14 (60.87%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (39.13%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (39.13%) Oracle
3 9 (39.13%) Middleware
3 9 (39.13%) Oracle EBS
3 9 (39.13%) Oracle Applications
3 9 (39.13%) Incident Management
3 9 (39.13%) Oracle Fusion
4 7 (30.43%) Customer-Centric Approach
4 7 (30.43%) Customer-Centricity
4 7 (30.43%) Collaborative Working
5 6 (26.09%) Cost Reduction
5 6 (26.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (26.09%) ServiceNow
5 6 (26.09%) Law
6 5 (21.74%) Service Management
6 5 (21.74%) SLA
6 5 (21.74%) Azure
6 5 (21.74%) User Experience
6 5 (21.74%) Customer Requirements
7 4 (17.39%) Social Skills
7 4 (17.39%) Mentoring
7 4 (17.39%) Microsoft
8 3 (13.04%) Stakeholder Management
8 3 (13.04%) Finance
8 3 (13.04%) Data Protection
8 3 (13.04%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (13.04%) SaaS
8 3 (13.04%) Root Cause Analysis

Applications Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 2 (8.70%) IIS
2 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (4.35%) SharePoint
2 1 (4.35%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 9 (39.13%) Oracle Applications
1 9 (39.13%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 5 (21.74%) Azure
2 3 (13.04%) SaaS
3 1 (4.35%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (4.35%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (4.35%) IaaS
3 1 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (4.35%) OneDrive
3 1 (4.35%) PaaS
3 1 (4.35%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.35%) Firewall
1 1 (4.35%) SAN
1 1 (4.35%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.35%) Data Lake
1 1 (4.35%) Power BI
1 1 (4.35%) SQL Server
General
1 9 (39.13%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (26.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 6 (26.09%) Law
3 4 (17.39%) Social Skills
4 3 (13.04%) Finance
4 3 (13.04%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (4.35%) Manufacturing
5 1 (4.35%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (39.13%) Middleware
1 9 (39.13%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (4.35%) ODBC
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.04%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (4.35%) Algorithms
2 1 (4.35%) Clustering
2 1 (4.35%) Data Centre
2 1 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (4.35%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.35%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.70%) Windows
1 2 (8.70%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (60.87%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (39.13%) Incident Management
3 7 (30.43%) Collaborative Working
3 7 (30.43%) Customer-Centric Approach
3 7 (30.43%) Customer-Centricity
4 6 (26.09%) Cost Reduction
5 5 (21.74%) Customer Requirements
5 5 (21.74%) Service Management
5 5 (21.74%) User Experience
6 4 (17.39%) Mentoring
7 3 (13.04%) Customer Service
7 3 (13.04%) Data Protection
7 3 (13.04%) Performance Monitoring
7 3 (13.04%) Root Cause Analysis
7 3 (13.04%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (13.04%) Technology Transformation
8 2 (8.70%) Digital Transformation Programme
9 1 (4.35%) Availability Management
9 1 (4.35%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 1 (4.35%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 15 (65.22%) SQL
2 2 (8.70%) PowerShell
2 2 (8.70%) T-SQL
3 1 (4.35%) C
3 1 (4.35%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 1 (4.35%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (21.74%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (4.35%) Active Directory
1 1 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (4.35%) Functional Safety
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 9 (39.13%) Oracle
2 6 (26.09%) ServiceNow
3 4 (17.39%) Microsoft
4 1 (4.35%) Databricks
4 1 (4.35%) MathWorks
4 1 (4.35%) VMware