Applications Engineer Jobs in the South East

Applications Engineer
England > South East

The median Applications Engineer salary in the South East is £50,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 20 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
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 277 295 359
Rank change year-on-year +18 +64 -94
Permanent jobs requiring an Applications Engineer 35 106 37
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.36% 0.63% 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.42% 0.67% 0.29%
Number of salaries quoted 31 66 27
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £31,625 £38,750 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% - -5.56%
75th Percentile - £58,750 £54,500
90th Percentile £60,000 £65,625 £65,250
England median annual salary £50,000 £42,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +17.65% -22.73% +10.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 8,398 15,863 12,949
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 86.96% 94.01% 90.34%
Number of salaries quoted 4,556 11,342 8,189
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £56,000 £53,000 £60,800
% change year-on-year +5.66% -12.83% +1.33%

Applications Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Applications Engineer in the South East

Applications Engineer
Salary Trend in the South East

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

Salary trend for Applications Engineer in the South East

Applications Engineer
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Applications Engineer in the South East over the 6 months to 20 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Applications Engineer in the South East

Applications Engineer
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Applications Engineer within the South East region over the 6 months to 20 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
Thames Valley +25 18 £50,000 +17.65% 34
Berkshire +32 16 £50,000 +17.65% 11
Hampshire +48 12 £32,500 -18.75% 15
Surrey +44 3 £57,500 +69.12% 11
Buckinghamshire +32 2 £41,250 +3.13% 8
East Sussex - 2 £35,000 - 1
Applications Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 20 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 South East region featuring Applications Engineer in the job title.

1 27 (77.14%) SQL
2 17 (48.57%) Linux
3 16 (45.71%) Problem-Solving
3 16 (45.71%) Social Skills
4 11 (31.43%) PL/SQL
4 11 (31.43%) MySQL
5 10 (28.57%) Python
6 9 (25.71%) PowerShell
7 8 (22.86%) Java
7 8 (22.86%) ERP
7 8 (22.86%) Logistics
8 7 (20.00%) Agile
8 7 (20.00%) SAP
8 7 (20.00%) ITIL
8 7 (20.00%) AWS
9 6 (17.14%) Azure
10 4 (11.43%) Analytical Skills
10 4 (11.43%) Windows
10 4 (11.43%) Computer Science
10 4 (11.43%) Incident Management
11 3 (8.57%) Banking
11 3 (8.57%) JIRA
11 3 (8.57%) Data Integration
11 3 (8.57%) TDD
11 3 (8.57%) Finance
11 3 (8.57%) XML
11 3 (8.57%) Risk Management
11 3 (8.57%) Kubernetes
11 3 (8.57%) Jenkins
11 3 (8.57%) Performance Monitoring

Applications Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 1 (2.86%) Apache
1 1 (2.86%) Confluence
1 1 (2.86%) IIS
Business Applications
1 2 (5.71%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 7 (20.00%) AWS
2 6 (17.14%) Azure
3 3 (8.57%) SaaS
4 2 (5.71%) Amazon Kinesis
4 2 (5.71%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (5.71%) GitHub
5 1 (2.86%) Azure API Management
5 1 (2.86%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (2.86%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (2.86%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (2.86%) OpenShift
5 1 (2.86%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (31.43%) MySQL
2 2 (5.71%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.86%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (2.86%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (8.57%) Jenkins
1 3 (8.57%) JIRA
2 2 (5.71%) Artifactory
2 2 (5.71%) Cucumber
2 2 (5.71%) Git
2 2 (5.71%) git-flow
2 2 (5.71%) Gradle
2 2 (5.71%) JUnit
3 1 (2.86%) Gatling
3 1 (2.86%) Mockito
3 1 (2.86%) Visual Studio
General
1 16 (45.71%) Social Skills
2 4 (11.43%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (8.57%) Banking
3 3 (8.57%) Finance
4 2 (5.71%) Retail
5 1 (2.86%) Aerospace
5 1 (2.86%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.86%) Local Government
5 1 (2.86%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.57%) Kafka
1 3 (8.57%) XML
2 2 (5.71%) Drools
2 2 (5.71%) EDI
2 2 (5.71%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (5.71%) REST
2 2 (5.71%) Spring Boot
3 1 (2.86%) Android Jetpack
3 1 (2.86%) HTML
3 1 (2.86%) Java SE
3 1 (2.86%) Jetpack Compose
3 1 (2.86%) JSON
3 1 (2.86%) RESTful
3 1 (2.86%) SAP Basis
3 1 (2.86%) SOAP
3 1 (2.86%) Spring
3 1 (2.86%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.71%) Driving Licence
1 2 (5.71%) Management Information System
2 1 (2.86%) Mobile App
2 1 (2.86%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 17 (48.57%) Linux
2 4 (11.43%) Windows
3 1 (2.86%) Android
3 1 (2.86%) Apple iOS
3 1 (2.86%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (45.71%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (22.86%) ERP
2 8 (22.86%) Logistics
3 7 (20.00%) Agile
3 7 (20.00%) ITIL
4 4 (11.43%) Computer Science
4 4 (11.43%) Incident Management
5 3 (8.57%) CI/CD
5 3 (8.57%) Collaborative Culture
5 3 (8.57%) Data Integration
5 3 (8.57%) DevOps
5 3 (8.57%) Digital Banking
5 3 (8.57%) High Availability
5 3 (8.57%) Performance Monitoring
5 3 (8.57%) Risk Management
5 3 (8.57%) TDD
5 3 (8.57%) Test Automation
6 2 (5.71%) Design Patterns
6 2 (5.71%) Thought Leadership
6 2 (5.71%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 27 (77.14%) SQL
2 11 (31.43%) PL/SQL
3 10 (28.57%) Python
4 9 (25.71%) PowerShell
5 8 (22.86%) Java
6 1 (2.86%) Swift
Qualifications
1 2 (5.71%) AWS Certification
1 2 (5.71%) OCP
1 2 (5.71%) Oracle Certification
2 1 (2.86%) Degree
2 1 (2.86%) DV Cleared
2 1 (2.86%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.86%) Accessibility
1 1 (2.86%) Data Quality
1 1 (2.86%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (2.86%) Active Directory
1 1 (2.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (8.57%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.71%) Ansible
2 2 (5.71%) Terraform
3 1 (2.86%) SCCM
3 1 (2.86%) SCOM
3 1 (2.86%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 7 (20.00%) SAP
2 1 (2.86%) Freshdesk
2 1 (2.86%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.86%) SolarWinds
2 1 (2.86%) VMware