Applications Support Jobs in the South East

Application Support
England > South East

The median Application Support salary in the South East is £42,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 234 306 286
Rank change year-on-year +72 -20 -49
Permanent jobs requiring an Applications Support 165 97 214
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.99% 0.65% 1.08%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.05% 0.72% 1.12%
Number of salaries quoted 117 74 190
10th Percentile £25,000 £28,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £33,250 £30,750 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £40,000 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +6.67% -3.54%
75th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
90th Percentile £57,500 £55,407 £51,375
England median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% +17.65% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 15,681 13,534 19,157
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.90% 90.52% 96.45%
Number of salaries quoted 11,335 8,483 12,615
10th Percentile £27,500 £29,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%

Applications Support
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Applications Support in the South East

Applications Support
Salary Trend in the South East

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

Salary trend for Applications Support in the South East

Applications Support
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Applications Support in the South East over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Applications Support in the South East

Applications Support
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 Support within the South East region over the 6 months to 3 May 2024. 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 +104 126 £42,500 - 6
Berkshire +72 64 £42,500 - 2
Buckinghamshire +13 34 £40,000 -23.81% 3
Oxfordshire +32 28 £42,500 +3.03% 1
Surrey +7 17 £36,000 -0.69% 5
Hampshire -30 11 £33,000 +1.54% 2
Kent -1 9 £45,000 +3.45% 4
West Sussex +45 1 £30,000 -
East Sussex -1 1 £48,500 +38.57%
Applications Support
England

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

For the 6 months to 3 May 2024, 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 South East region featuring Applications Support in the job title.

1 73 (44.24%) SQL
2 56 (33.94%) Social Skills
3 55 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
4 49 (29.70%) Problem-Solving
5 45 (27.27%) Security Cleared
6 44 (26.67%) SC Cleared
6 44 (26.67%) Linux
7 42 (25.45%) Unix
8 40 (24.24%) Oracle
9 38 (23.03%) ITIL
9 38 (23.03%) SLA
9 38 (23.03%) Actionable Insight
10 37 (22.42%) Remedy
10 37 (22.42%) WebLogic
10 37 (22.42%) Incident Management
11 36 (21.82%) Degree
12 31 (18.79%) Java
13 30 (18.18%) PL/SQL
13 30 (18.18%) Finance
14 26 (15.76%) ERP
15 24 (14.55%) Spring
16 23 (13.94%) Service Management
17 22 (13.33%) Information Management
17 22 (13.33%) Java EE
17 22 (13.33%) Enterprise Architecture
17 22 (13.33%) Shell Script
17 22 (13.33%) J2EE
17 22 (13.33%) Impact Assessments
17 22 (13.33%) Containerisation
17 22 (13.33%) Police

Applications Support 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 37 (22.42%) WebLogic
2 15 (9.09%) Oracle Service Bus
3 3 (1.82%) Confluence
4 1 (0.61%) SharePoint
Applications
1 21 (12.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (9.70%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (9.70%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 15 (9.09%) Remedy ITSM
2 9 (5.45%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (3.64%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (3.03%) Dynamics GP
5 4 (2.42%) NetSuite
6 3 (1.82%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.61%) Infor M3
7 1 (0.61%) JDE OneWorld
7 1 (0.61%) JDE World
Cloud Services
1 17 (10.30%) AWS
2 10 (6.06%) Azure
3 7 (4.24%) Power Platform
4 6 (3.64%) WhatsApp
5 5 (3.03%) Dynamics 365
5 5 (3.03%) PowerApps
6 2 (1.21%) Power Automate
7 1 (0.61%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.61%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (0.61%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.42%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (13.33%) Elasticsearch
2 15 (9.09%) Oracle Database
2 15 (9.09%) Oracle Database 10g
2 15 (9.09%) Oracle Database 11g
2 15 (9.09%) VLDB
3 14 (8.48%) MySQL
4 11 (6.67%) SQL Server
5 4 (2.42%) Power BI
6 1 (0.61%) DB2
6 1 (0.61%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (3.64%) JIRA
2 2 (1.21%) Git
2 2 (1.21%) IntelliJ
3 1 (0.61%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.61%) Eclipse
3 1 (0.61%) Gradle
3 1 (0.61%) JUnit
General
1 56 (33.94%) Social Skills
2 55 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 30 (18.18%) Finance
4 22 (13.33%) Police
5 12 (7.27%) Manufacturing
6 7 (4.24%) Banking
6 7 (4.24%) Investment Banking
6 7 (4.24%) Private Banking
7 5 (3.03%) Automotive
7 5 (3.03%) Legal
8 1 (0.61%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.61%) Wearables
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (14.55%) Spring
2 22 (13.33%) J2EE
2 22 (13.33%) Java EE
3 9 (5.45%) .NET
4 7 (4.24%) Middleware
5 5 (3.03%) HTML
6 3 (1.82%) Spring Boot
7 2 (1.21%) CSS
8 1 (0.61%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 12 (7.27%) Enterprise Software
2 10 (6.06%) Analytical Mindset
3 8 (4.85%) Linux Command Line
4 7 (4.24%) CMDB
5 3 (1.82%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.21%) NHS
7 1 (0.61%) CCTV
7 1 (0.61%) Driving Licence
7 1 (0.61%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.61%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 44 (26.67%) Linux
2 42 (25.45%) Unix
3 15 (9.09%) Solaris
4 12 (7.27%) Windows
5 4 (2.42%) Windows Server
6 2 (1.21%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (29.70%) Problem-Solving
2 38 (23.03%) Actionable Insight
2 38 (23.03%) ITIL
3 37 (22.42%) Incident Management
4 26 (15.76%) ERP
5 23 (13.94%) Service Management
6 22 (13.33%) Containerisation
6 22 (13.33%) Enterprise Architecture
6 22 (13.33%) Enterprise Search
6 22 (13.33%) Impact Assessments
6 22 (13.33%) Information Management
6 22 (13.33%) Performance Tuning
7 19 (11.52%) Customer Service
8 16 (9.70%) Performance Monitoring
9 15 (9.09%) Artificial Intelligence
9 15 (9.09%) Capacity Planning
9 15 (9.09%) ITSM
9 15 (9.09%) Service Delivery
10 14 (8.48%) Capacity Management
10 14 (8.48%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 73 (44.24%) SQL
2 31 (18.79%) Java
3 30 (18.18%) PL/SQL
4 22 (13.33%) Shell Script
5 9 (5.45%) C#
6 8 (4.85%) JavaScript
7 4 (2.42%) COBOL
7 4 (2.42%) VBA
8 3 (1.82%) C
8 3 (1.82%) Python
8 3 (1.82%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 45 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 44 (26.67%) SC Cleared
3 36 (21.82%) Degree
4 1 (0.61%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.61%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (23.03%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (9.09%) Oracle RAC
2 5 (3.03%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.82%) Docker
4 1 (0.61%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 22 (13.33%) OpenSSO
1 22 (13.33%) Single Sign-On
2 15 (9.09%) Data Guard
2 15 (9.09%) Oracle RMAN
3 4 (2.42%) SCOM
4 1 (0.61%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 40 (24.24%) Oracle
2 37 (22.42%) Remedy
3 15 (9.09%) Microsoft
3 15 (9.09%) Sun
4 11 (6.67%) SAP
5 7 (4.24%) ServiceNow
6 5 (3.03%) Sage
7 4 (2.42%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.21%) Murex
9 1 (0.61%) Epicor
9 1 (0.61%) IBM
9 1 (0.61%) IFS
9 1 (0.61%) Infor
9 1 (0.61%) JD Edwards
9 1 (0.61%) VMware