Applications Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Applications Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Applications Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £43,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 29 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
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 493 502 594
Rank change year-on-year +9 +92 -101
Permanent jobs requiring an Applications Engineer 87 283 162
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.22% 0.38% 0.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.40% 0.31%
Number of salaries quoted 76 187 98
10th Percentile £31,250 £27,500 £30,675
25th Percentile £36,025 £34,417 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,250 £40,681 £42,098
Median % change year-on-year +6.31% -3.36% -6.45%
75th Percentile £53,517 £50,000 £54,000
90th Percentile £63,750 £60,500 £60,000
UK median annual salary £48,500 £42,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +14.12% -22.73% +10.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 35,218 70,245 51,745
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.32% 94.92% 89.08%
Number of salaries quoted 17,732 49,603 29,711
10th Percentile £26,500 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,000 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £50,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -6.54% +6.63%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Applications Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Applications Engineer in the UK excluding London

Applications Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Applications Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Applications Engineer in the UK excluding London

Applications Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Applications Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Applications Engineer in the UK excluding London

Applications Engineer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Applications Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 29 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
South East +14 27 £50,000 +17.65% 179
East of England +51 18 £42,000 -16.00% 117
North of England +13 17 £35,698 -13.43% 139
Midlands +9 17 £52,500 +31.25% 143
West Midlands +39 14 £52,500 +31.25% 77
North West -4 9 £51,585 +3.17% 61
Yorkshire +41 8 £35,000 -7.51% 62
Scotland +111 4 £80,000 +113.33% 37
South West +105 3 £70,000 +100.00% 89
East Midlands 0 3 £32,500 +3.17% 57
Wales +32 1 £45,000 -10.00% 24
Applications Engineer
UK

Applications Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 29 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 UK excluding London region featuring Applications Engineer in the job title.

1 56 (64.37%) SQL
2 39 (44.83%) Problem-Solving
3 33 (37.93%) Social Skills
4 23 (26.44%) Microsoft
5 20 (22.99%) Java
5 20 (22.99%) Python
5 20 (22.99%) Azure
6 18 (20.69%) AWS
6 18 (20.69%) Linux
7 16 (18.39%) Degree
8 15 (17.24%) ITIL
8 15 (17.24%) Windows
8 15 (17.24%) PowerShell
9 14 (16.09%) Microsoft 365
10 13 (14.94%) Incident Management
11 12 (13.79%) SQL Server
12 11 (12.64%) PL/SQL
12 11 (12.64%) MySQL
12 11 (12.64%) Business Intelligence
12 11 (12.64%) Finance
12 11 (12.64%) Power BI
12 11 (12.64%) Collaborative Working
12 11 (12.64%) Power Platform
13 10 (11.49%) Root Cause Analysis
13 10 (11.49%) Continuous Improvement
13 10 (11.49%) Retail
13 10 (11.49%) .NET
14 9 (10.34%) Oracle
14 9 (10.34%) Oracle EBS
14 9 (10.34%) Middleware

Applications Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 8 (9.20%) SharePoint
2 7 (8.05%) IIS
3 2 (2.30%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (3.45%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.30%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 9 (10.34%) Oracle Applications
1 9 (10.34%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (2.30%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 20 (22.99%) Azure
2 18 (20.69%) AWS
3 14 (16.09%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (12.64%) Power Platform
5 9 (10.34%) AWS Lambda
5 9 (10.34%) Serverless
6 8 (9.20%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (4.60%) SaaS
8 3 (3.45%) Azure Logic Apps
8 3 (3.45%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (3.45%) Entra ID
8 3 (3.45%) Power Automate
8 3 (3.45%) PowerApps
9 1 (1.15%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (1.15%) Amazon S3
9 1 (1.15%) GCP
9 1 (1.15%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 7 (8.05%) FTP
2 1 (1.15%) Firewall
2 1 (1.15%) SAN
2 1 (1.15%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (13.79%) SQL Server
2 11 (12.64%) MySQL
2 11 (12.64%) Power BI
3 5 (5.75%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (5.75%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (5.75%) Redis
4 3 (3.45%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (3.45%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.15%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 7 (8.05%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 3 (3.45%) Git
2 3 (3.45%) JUnit
3 2 (2.30%) JIRA
4 1 (1.15%) Gatling
4 1 (1.15%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.15%) LabVIEW
4 1 (1.15%) Mockito
4 1 (1.15%) Visual Studio
General
1 33 (37.93%) Social Skills
2 11 (12.64%) Finance
3 10 (11.49%) Retail
4 9 (10.34%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (8.05%) Local Government
6 6 (6.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.30%) Law
7 2 (2.30%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.30%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.15%) Advertising
8 1 (1.15%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.15%) Banking
8 1 (1.15%) Electronics
8 1 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.15%) Legal
8 1 (1.15%) Marketing
8 1 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.15%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (11.49%) .NET
2 9 (10.34%) Middleware
2 9 (10.34%) Oracle Fusion
3 5 (5.75%) Node.js
4 3 (3.45%) Spring
5 2 (2.30%) .NET Framework
5 2 (2.30%) EDI
5 2 (2.30%) XML
6 1 (1.15%) Android Jetpack
6 1 (1.15%) ASP.NET
6 1 (1.15%) ASP.NET MVC
6 1 (1.15%) Java EE
6 1 (1.15%) Java SE
6 1 (1.15%) Jetpack Compose
6 1 (1.15%) Kafka
6 1 (1.15%) REST
6 1 (1.15%) RESTful
6 1 (1.15%) SAP Basis
6 1 (1.15%) Spring Boot
6 1 (1.15%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 3 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
1 3 (3.45%) Mobile App
2 2 (2.30%) Management Information System
2 2 (2.30%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.15%) Algorithms
3 1 (1.15%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (1.15%) FPGA
3 1 (1.15%) Housing Association
3 1 (1.15%) Public Cloud
3 1 (1.15%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (1.15%) Verilog
Operating Systems
1 18 (20.69%) Linux
2 15 (17.24%) Windows
3 7 (8.05%) Windows 10
4 3 (3.45%) Android
4 3 (3.45%) Windows Server
5 2 (2.30%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (2.30%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (1.15%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (44.83%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (17.24%) ITIL
3 13 (14.94%) Incident Management
4 11 (12.64%) Business Intelligence
4 11 (12.64%) Collaborative Working
5 10 (11.49%) Continuous Improvement
5 10 (11.49%) Root Cause Analysis
6 9 (10.34%) Computer Science
6 9 (10.34%) High Availability
6 9 (10.34%) SDLC
7 8 (9.20%) Customer Service
7 8 (9.20%) Mathematics
7 8 (9.20%) Mentoring
8 7 (8.05%) Customer-Centric Approach
8 7 (8.05%) Customer-Centricity
8 7 (8.05%) ERP
8 7 (8.05%) Logistics
8 7 (8.05%) Software Engineering
9 6 (6.90%) Application Security
9 6 (6.90%) Cost Reduction
Programming Languages
1 56 (64.37%) SQL
2 20 (22.99%) Java
2 20 (22.99%) Python
3 15 (17.24%) PowerShell
4 11 (12.64%) PL/SQL
5 8 (9.20%) T-SQL
6 2 (2.30%) C
6 2 (2.30%) C#
6 2 (2.30%) MATLAB
7 1 (1.15%) C++
7 1 (1.15%) Progress 4GL
7 1 (1.15%) Swift
7 1 (1.15%) XAML
Qualifications
1 16 (18.39%) Degree
2 4 (4.60%) CISSP
2 4 (4.60%) CREST Certified
2 4 (4.60%) SANS
3 3 (3.45%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (3.45%) Security Cleared
4 2 (2.30%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.15%) HND
5 1 (1.15%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.20%) PCI DSS
1 8 (9.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 5 (5.75%) Accessibility
3 3 (3.45%) SLA
4 2 (2.30%) QA
5 1 (1.15%) GDPR
5 1 (1.15%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 6 (6.90%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (3.45%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.30%) SCCM
3 1 (1.15%) Ansible
3 1 (1.15%) Functional Safety
3 1 (1.15%) SCOM
3 1 (1.15%) Terraform
3 1 (1.15%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 23 (26.44%) Microsoft
2 9 (10.34%) Oracle
3 7 (8.05%) ServiceNow
4 6 (6.90%) SAP
5 3 (3.45%) Adobe
5 3 (3.45%) DocuSign
5 3 (3.45%) iManage
5 3 (3.45%) Intapp
6 2 (2.30%) Zoho
7 1 (1.15%) Cadence
7 1 (1.15%) Capita
7 1 (1.15%) Cisco
7 1 (1.15%) Freshdesk
7 1 (1.15%) MathWorks
7 1 (1.15%) Meraki
7 1 (1.15%) Progress
7 1 (1.15%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.15%) SolarWinds
7 1 (1.15%) VMware