Applications Support Analyst Job Trends in the North of England

Application Support Analyst
England > North of England

The median Application Support Analyst salary in the North of England is £35,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 January 2026.

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

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 238 249 251
Rank change year-on-year +11 +2 +104
Permanent jobs requiring an Applications Support Analyst 35 32 40
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.32% 0.35% 0.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.37% 0.37% 0.49%
Number of salaries quoted 33 16 34
10th Percentile - £33,625 £31,450
25th Percentile £24,500 £37,313 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £41,000 £42,750
Median % change year-on-year -14.63% -4.09% +4.27%
75th Percentile £43,000 £49,000 £48,750
90th Percentile £60,750 £52,500 £50,000
England median annual salary £40,000 £41,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -2.44% -8.89% -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the North of England. 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 North of England with a recognized job title 9,556 8,552 8,148
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 88.69% 94.06% 95.76%
Number of salaries quoted 5,571 4,030 6,496
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £33,000 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,309 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.61% +0.62% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £66,778
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £80,435
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -6.50%

Applications Support Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Applications Support Analyst' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Applications Support Analyst job vacancy trend in the North of England

Applications Support Analyst
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for Applications Support Analyst job vacancies in the North of England.

Salary distribution trend for Applications Support Analyst job vacancies in the North of England

Applications Support Analyst
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Applications Support Analyst in the North of England over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Applications Support Analyst in the North of England

Applications Support Analyst
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Applications Support Analyst within the North of England region over the 6 months to 14 January 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
North West +21 18 £40,000 -13.04% 6
Yorkshire -17 10 £25,000 -39.02%
North East - 7 £51,500 -
Applications Support Analyst
England

Applications Support Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 14 January 2026, Applications Support Analyst 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 North of England region featuring Applications Support Analyst in the job title.

1 20 (57.14%) Customer Service
2 18 (51.43%) ITIL
2 18 (51.43%) SQL
2 18 (51.43%) SQL Server
3 10 (28.57%) Housing Management
3 10 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 10 (28.57%) NEC Housing
3 10 (28.57%) Northgate
3 10 (28.57%) T-SQL
4 8 (22.86%) Azure
4 8 (22.86%) JIRA
5 7 (20.00%) Bitbucket
5 7 (20.00%) Business Continuity
5 7 (20.00%) Change Management
5 7 (20.00%) Computer Science
5 7 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (20.00%) Containerisation
5 7 (20.00%) Control-M
5 7 (20.00%) Degree
5 7 (20.00%) Git
5 7 (20.00%) Grafana
5 7 (20.00%) Kubernetes
5 7 (20.00%) Linux
5 7 (20.00%) Prometheus
5 7 (20.00%) Windows
6 6 (17.14%) Business Intelligence
6 6 (17.14%) ETL
6 6 (17.14%) ITIL Certification
6 6 (17.14%) Power BI
6 6 (17.14%) Power Platform

Applications Support Analyst Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Business Applications
1 10 (28.57%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 8 (22.86%) Azure
2 6 (17.14%) Power Platform
3 1 (2.86%) Oracle Service Cloud
3 1 (2.86%) PaaS
3 1 (2.86%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.86%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (51.43%) SQL Server
2 6 (17.14%) Power BI
3 1 (2.86%) MySQL
3 1 (2.86%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (22.86%) JIRA
2 7 (20.00%) Bitbucket
2 7 (20.00%) Git
General
1 18 (51.43%) Social Skills
2 10 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (20.00%) Finance
4 6 (17.14%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.86%) HTML
1 1 (2.86%) JSON
1 1 (2.86%) REST
1 1 (2.86%) SOAP
1 1 (2.86%) Web Services
1 1 (2.86%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (31.43%) Management Information System
2 1 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 7 (20.00%) Linux
1 7 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (57.14%) Customer Service
2 18 (51.43%) ITIL
3 10 (28.57%) Housing Management
3 10 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 7 (20.00%) Business Continuity
4 7 (20.00%) Change Management
4 7 (20.00%) Computer Science
4 7 (20.00%) Containerisation
5 6 (17.14%) Business Intelligence
5 6 (17.14%) ETL
6 2 (5.71%) Problem-Solving
7 1 (2.86%) Continuous Improvement
7 1 (2.86%) Creative Problem-Solving
7 1 (2.86%) Issue Tracking
Programming Languages
1 18 (51.43%) SQL
2 10 (28.57%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 7 (20.00%) Degree
2 6 (17.14%) ITIL Certification
Systems Management
1 7 (20.00%) Control-M
1 7 (20.00%) Grafana
1 7 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 7 (20.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (28.57%) Northgate
2 1 (2.86%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.86%) ServiceNow