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 £42,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 July 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 431 532 475
Rank change year-on-year +101 -57 +38
Permanent jobs requiring an Applications Engineer 293 148 475
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.45% 0.31% 0.61%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.47% 0.34% 0.64%
Number of salaries quoted 198 102 236
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,575 £28,625
25th Percentile £35,000 £32,625 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £42,500 £43,286
Median % change year-on-year - -1.82% +8.22%
75th Percentile £55,000 £49,925 £60,000
90th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £75,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% +5.26%

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 61,941 43,162 74,370
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.90% 89.65% 94.97%
Number of salaries quoted 41,460 27,696 44,286
10th Percentile £28,000 £29,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +1.92% +9.47%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,500 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%

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 26 July 2024.

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 26 July 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
South East +42 105 £42,500 - 18
Midlands +40 79 £40,000 -19.19% 17
North of England +19 47 £50,000 +27.39% 18
West Midlands +25 41 £40,000 -23.81% 7
East Midlands +5 38 £34,000 -15.00% 10
Yorkshire +64 24 £40,681 +8.48% 11
North West -6 21 £50,000 +18.77% 6
South West +7 17 £35,000 +7.69% 12
Wales +42 15 £50,000 - 1
East of England +5 15 £50,000 -9.09% 6
Scotland -35 15 £37,500 -6.25% 2
North East - 2 £60,232 - 3
Applications Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 26 July 2024, 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 84 (28.67%) SQL
2 68 (23.21%) Software Engineering
3 63 (21.50%) Windows
3 63 (21.50%) Linux
4 58 (19.80%) Microsoft
4 58 (19.80%) Problem-Solving
5 57 (19.45%) Social Skills
6 52 (17.75%) Agile
7 44 (15.02%) C#
7 44 (15.02%) Degree
8 35 (11.95%) Customer Requirements
9 34 (11.60%) Collaborative Working
9 34 (11.60%) Security Cleared
10 32 (10.92%) .NET
11 30 (10.24%) Analytical Skills
12 28 (9.56%) Azure
12 28 (9.56%) C++
12 28 (9.56%) C
13 27 (9.22%) Windows Server
14 26 (8.87%) Customer Service
14 26 (8.87%) ITIL
14 26 (8.87%) Electronics
14 26 (8.87%) Aerospace
15 24 (8.19%) Law
15 24 (8.19%) AWS
15 24 (8.19%) SC Cleared
16 22 (7.51%) Release Management
16 22 (7.51%) Scrum
17 21 (7.17%) SQL Server
17 21 (7.17%) Application Packaging

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 10 (3.41%) IIS
2 8 (2.73%) WebSphere
3 6 (2.05%) Confluence
3 6 (2.05%) SharePoint
4 5 (1.71%) Tomcat
5 4 (1.37%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (1.02%) Apache
6 3 (1.02%) WebSphere Application Server
7 2 (0.68%) Exchange Server 2013
7 2 (0.68%) nginx
8 1 (0.34%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 8 (2.73%) AutoCAD
1 8 (2.73%) Fusion 360
2 7 (2.39%) Autodesk Inventor
3 3 (1.02%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.68%) SOLIDWORKS
5 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.34%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.34%) Revit
5 1 (0.34%) Solid Edge
5 1 (0.34%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 3 (1.02%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.68%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.34%) DELMIA
3 1 (0.34%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 28 (9.56%) Azure
2 24 (8.19%) AWS
3 14 (4.78%) Dynamics 365
4 11 (3.75%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (3.75%) Power Platform
5 10 (3.41%) SaaS
5 10 (3.41%) Serverless
6 8 (2.73%) PowerApps
7 6 (2.05%) Entra ID
8 4 (1.37%) Azure Logic Apps
8 4 (1.37%) Power Automate
9 3 (1.02%) IaaS
9 3 (1.02%) PaaS
9 3 (1.02%) WhatsApp
10 1 (0.34%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (0.34%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (0.34%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.73%) Firewall
1 8 (2.73%) VPN
2 7 (2.39%) SAN
3 3 (1.02%) DHCP
3 3 (1.02%) DNS
3 3 (1.02%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 3 (1.02%) GPRS
3 3 (1.02%) NetScaler
3 3 (1.02%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.02%) Wireshark
4 2 (0.68%) Remote Desktop
4 2 (0.68%) Skype
5 1 (0.34%) HTTP
5 1 (0.34%) Internet
5 1 (0.34%) LAN
5 1 (0.34%) Network Security
5 1 (0.34%) SNMP
5 1 (0.34%) VLAN
5 1 (0.34%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (7.17%) SQL Server
2 11 (3.75%) MySQL
3 6 (2.05%) Power BI
4 5 (1.71%) Pentaho
5 4 (1.37%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (1.37%) NoSQL
6 3 (1.02%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.68%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (0.68%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (0.68%) Redis
8 1 (0.34%) DTS
8 1 (0.34%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 19 (6.48%) Git
2 17 (5.80%) JIRA
3 13 (4.44%) Subversion
4 12 (4.10%) Visual Studio
5 6 (2.05%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.02%) Fiddler
7 2 (0.68%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.34%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.34%) Gradle
8 1 (0.34%) JUnit
General
1 57 (19.45%) Social Skills
2 30 (10.24%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (8.87%) Aerospace
3 26 (8.87%) Electronics
4 24 (8.19%) Law
5 17 (5.80%) Finance
6 13 (4.44%) Marketing
7 12 (4.10%) Manufacturing
8 6 (2.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (1.71%) Legal
10 4 (1.37%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (1.02%) Automotive
11 3 (1.02%) Back Office
12 1 (0.34%) German Language
12 1 (0.34%) Military
12 1 (0.34%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (10.92%) .NET
2 17 (5.80%) .NET Framework
3 15 (5.12%) HTML
4 13 (4.44%) WinForms
5 12 (4.10%) CSS
5 12 (4.10%) Qt
5 12 (4.10%) WPF
6 7 (2.39%) .NET Core
7 5 (1.71%) Kafka
7 5 (1.71%) REST
8 4 (1.37%) AngularJS
9 3 (1.02%) Node.js
9 3 (1.02%) Software Packaging
9 3 (1.02%) Spring
10 2 (0.68%) JSON
10 2 (0.68%) XML
11 1 (0.34%) React
11 1 (0.34%) Spring Boot
11 1 (0.34%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 18 (6.14%) Client/Server
2 16 (5.46%) Robotics
3 15 (5.12%) IoT
4 12 (4.10%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (2.39%) Clustering
6 6 (2.05%) Algorithms
6 6 (2.05%) Driving Licence
7 5 (1.71%) Linux Command Line
7 5 (1.71%) Reference Data
8 4 (1.37%) Analogue Electronics
8 4 (1.37%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.02%) Distributed Computing
9 3 (1.02%) Mobile App
10 2 (0.68%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (0.34%) Analytical Mindset
11 1 (0.34%) Hackathon
11 1 (0.34%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 63 (21.50%) Linux
1 63 (21.50%) Windows
2 27 (9.22%) Windows Server
3 12 (4.10%) Ubuntu
3 12 (4.10%) Windows 10
4 5 (1.71%) Apple iOS
4 5 (1.71%) Unix
5 2 (0.68%) Android
5 2 (0.68%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (23.21%) Software Engineering
2 58 (19.80%) Problem-Solving
3 52 (17.75%) Agile
4 35 (11.95%) Customer Requirements
5 34 (11.60%) Collaborative Working
6 26 (8.87%) Customer Service
6 26 (8.87%) ITIL
7 22 (7.51%) Release Management
7 22 (7.51%) Scrum
8 21 (7.17%) Application Packaging
9 18 (6.14%) DevOps
9 18 (6.14%) Technical Analysis
10 16 (5.46%) SDLC
11 15 (5.12%) Actionable Insight
12 14 (4.78%) Service Management
13 13 (4.44%) Time Management
13 13 (4.44%) User Acceptance Testing
14 12 (4.10%) Software Architecture
14 12 (4.10%) Test Strategy
14 12 (4.10%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 84 (28.67%) SQL
2 44 (15.02%) C#
3 28 (9.56%) C
3 28 (9.56%) C++
4 16 (5.46%) Java
4 16 (5.46%) Python
5 7 (2.39%) JavaScript
6 6 (2.05%) PL/SQL
7 5 (1.71%) Shell Script
7 5 (1.71%) T-SQL
8 4 (1.37%) MATLAB
8 4 (1.37%) PowerShell
8 4 (1.37%) TypeScript
8 4 (1.37%) XAML
9 2 (0.68%) Swift
10 1 (0.34%) Embedded C
10 1 (0.34%) Embedded C++
10 1 (0.34%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.34%) Perl
10 1 (0.34%) VB
Qualifications
1 44 (15.02%) Degree
2 34 (11.60%) Security Cleared
3 24 (8.19%) SC Cleared
4 19 (6.48%) DV Cleared
5 6 (2.05%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (2.05%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (1.37%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (0.68%) A+ Certification
7 2 (0.68%) MCDST
8 1 (0.34%) CISSP
8 1 (0.34%) CREST Certified
8 1 (0.34%) HND
8 1 (0.34%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (6.83%) SLA
2 2 (0.68%) QA
3 1 (0.34%) GDPR
System Software
1 7 (2.39%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.71%) Docker
3 4 (1.37%) Embedded Firmware
3 4 (1.37%) Firmware
4 3 (1.02%) Microsoft App-V
5 2 (0.68%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.68%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 14 (4.78%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.39%) Microsoft Clustering
3 5 (1.71%) Grafana
3 5 (1.71%) ITRS Geneos
4 3 (1.02%) CA Single Sign-On
4 3 (1.02%) Jamf Pro
4 3 (1.02%) SCCM
5 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.34%) Ansible
6 1 (0.34%) Terraform
Vendors
1 58 (19.80%) Microsoft
2 20 (6.83%) VMware
3 9 (3.07%) Oracle
4 8 (2.73%) Autodesk
5 6 (2.05%) Salesforce
6 5 (1.71%) AppDynamics
6 5 (1.71%) CA
6 5 (1.71%) Splunk
6 5 (1.71%) Sybase
7 3 (1.02%) Dynatrace
7 3 (1.02%) F5
7 3 (1.02%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.34%) Civica
8 1 (0.34%) Parasoft
8 1 (0.34%) Siemens