Applications Support Jobs in the North of England

Application Support
England > North of England

The median Application Support salary in the North of England is £39,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 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
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 275 270 266
Rank change year-on-year -5 -4 +7
Permanent jobs requiring an Applications Support 64 122 171
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.55% 0.70% 1.01%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.60% 0.73% 1.12%
Number of salaries quoted 48 82 130
10th Percentile £31,880 £30,075 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £35,125 £31,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,000 £40,000 £38,894
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +2.84% +3.72%
75th Percentile £48,250 £47,500 £51,313
90th Percentile £52,500 £49,250 £67,500
England median annual salary £45,000 £47,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.26% -6.00% +17.65%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 10,709 16,656 15,224
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.10% 94.98% 89.50%
Number of salaries quoted 5,748 12,889 8,062
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £36,250 £39,544
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -6.54% +7.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £69,649
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £81,250
England median annual salary £57,000 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +6.54% -12.01% +1.33%

Applications Support
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings that featured Applications Support in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Applications Support in the North of England

Applications Support
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Applications Support in the North of England.

Salary trend for Applications Support in the North of England

Applications Support
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Applications Support in the North of England over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Applications Support in the North of England

Applications Support
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 within the North of England region over the 6 months to 16 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
North West -32 38 £44,500 -1.11% 19
Yorkshire +55 24 £38,000 +6.80% 12
North East +38 2 £33,198 -11.47% 2
Applications Support
England

Applications Support Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 16 May 2025, Applications Support 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 North of England region featuring Applications Support in the job title.

1 45 (70.31%) Social Skills
2 36 (56.25%) Microsoft
3 34 (53.13%) Problem-Solving
4 27 (42.19%) SQL
5 25 (39.06%) Finance
6 22 (34.38%) Microsoft 365
7 21 (32.81%) ITIL
8 20 (31.25%) ERP
8 20 (31.25%) Azure
8 20 (31.25%) Analytical Skills
9 19 (29.69%) Continuous Improvement
10 17 (26.56%) Degree
11 15 (23.44%) Retail
12 13 (20.31%) Agile
12 13 (20.31%) Business Intelligence
12 13 (20.31%) CRM
12 13 (20.31%) Change Management
13 12 (18.75%) Manufacturing
13 12 (18.75%) Oracle
14 11 (17.19%) Windows
14 11 (17.19%) Stakeholder Management
14 11 (17.19%) Computer Science
14 11 (17.19%) Facebook
14 11 (17.19%) Power Platform
15 10 (15.63%) Power BI
15 10 (15.63%) Customer Service
15 10 (15.63%) Roadmaps
15 10 (15.63%) Process Improvement
15 10 (15.63%) PRINCE2
16 9 (14.06%) PhD

Applications Support Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 3 (4.69%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.13%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 9 (14.06%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (3.13%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (7.81%) Dynamics AX
1 5 (7.81%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (3.13%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 22 (34.38%) Microsoft 365
2 20 (31.25%) Azure
3 11 (17.19%) Power Platform
4 7 (10.94%) Dynamics 365
5 5 (7.81%) Boomi
5 5 (7.81%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
5 5 (7.81%) SAP Commerce Cloud
6 4 (6.25%) Power Automate
6 4 (6.25%) PowerApps
7 3 (4.69%) Azure Logic Apps
7 3 (4.69%) Entra ID
8 2 (3.13%) AWS
9 1 (1.56%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.69%) Firewall
2 2 (3.13%) Internet
2 2 (3.13%) Unified Communications
2 2 (3.13%) WAN
2 2 (3.13%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (15.63%) Power BI
2 8 (12.50%) SQL Server
3 7 (10.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 5 (7.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (4.69%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (3.13%) EDMS
7 1 (1.56%) Data Lake
General
1 45 (70.31%) Social Skills
2 25 (39.06%) Finance
3 20 (31.25%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (23.44%) Retail
5 12 (18.75%) Manufacturing
6 9 (14.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (7.81%) Banking
7 5 (7.81%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (3.13%) Law
8 2 (3.13%) Marketing
9 1 (1.56%) Legal
9 1 (1.56%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.81%) EDI
2 1 (1.56%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 9 (14.06%) Manufacturing Execution System
2 3 (4.69%) Client/Server
2 3 (4.69%) Housing Association
2 3 (4.69%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (1.56%) Distributed Applications
3 1 (1.56%) Educational Technology
3 1 (1.56%) e-Learning
3 1 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (1.56%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 11 (17.19%) Windows
2 9 (14.06%) Windows Server
3 7 (10.94%) Linux
4 3 (4.69%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (3.13%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (1.56%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (53.13%) Problem-Solving
2 21 (32.81%) ITIL
3 20 (31.25%) ERP
4 19 (29.69%) Continuous Improvement
5 13 (20.31%) Agile
5 13 (20.31%) Business Intelligence
5 13 (20.31%) Change Management
5 13 (20.31%) CRM
6 11 (17.19%) Computer Science
6 11 (17.19%) Stakeholder Management
7 10 (15.63%) Customer Service
7 10 (15.63%) PRINCE2
7 10 (15.63%) Process Improvement
7 10 (15.63%) Roadmaps
8 9 (14.06%) Problem Management
8 9 (14.06%) Project Management
8 9 (14.06%) Translating Business Requirements
8 9 (14.06%) Validation
9 8 (12.50%) User Experience
10 7 (10.94%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 27 (42.19%) SQL
2 9 (14.06%) C-shell
2 9 (14.06%) Korn
2 9 (14.06%) Shell Script
3 7 (10.94%) PL/SQL
4 3 (4.69%) PowerShell
4 3 (4.69%) Progress 4GL
5 1 (1.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (26.56%) Degree
2 9 (14.06%) Computer Science Degree
2 9 (14.06%) PhD
3 5 (7.81%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (3.13%) A+ Certification
4 2 (3.13%) DBS Check
4 2 (3.13%) MCITP
4 2 (3.13%) MCSE
4 2 (3.13%) MOS
5 1 (1.56%) HND
5 1 (1.56%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.13%) QA
1 2 (3.13%) SLA
2 1 (1.56%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.56%) GDPR
System Software
1 6 (9.38%) Active Directory
2 4 (6.25%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 5 (7.81%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (1.56%) Ansible
2 1 (1.56%) Grafana
2 1 (1.56%) SCCM
2 1 (1.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 36 (56.25%) Microsoft
2 12 (18.75%) Oracle
3 11 (17.19%) Facebook
4 9 (14.06%) SAP
5 5 (7.81%) Dell
5 5 (7.81%) Liquidlogic
6 4 (6.25%) Veeam
6 4 (6.25%) VMware
7 3 (4.69%) Capita
7 3 (4.69%) Progress
7 3 (4.69%) ServiceNow
8 2 (3.13%) Sun
9 1 (1.56%) Blue Prism
9 1 (1.56%) Cisco
9 1 (1.56%) Databricks
9 1 (1.56%) HubSpot
9 1 (1.56%) Intapp
9 1 (1.56%) Meraki
9 1 (1.56%) UiPath