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 28 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
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 483 503 596
Rank change year-on-year +20 +93 -104
Permanent jobs requiring an Applications Engineer 88 284 163
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.23% 0.39% 0.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.41% 0.31%
Number of salaries quoted 77 189 99
10th Percentile £31,250 £27,750 £30,700
25th Percentile £35,349 £34,834 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £41,235 £42,098
Median % change year-on-year +3.07% -2.05% -6.45%
75th Percentile £53,440 £50,000 £54,000
90th Percentile £63,750 £60,250 £60,000
UK median annual salary £48,000 £42,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +12.94% -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 35,130 69,905 52,029
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.34% 94.92% 89.13%
Number of salaries quoted 17,680 49,398 29,909
10th Percentile £26,500 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,438 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,399 £50,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% -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 28 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 28 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 +6 28 £50,000 +17.65% 177
East of England +51 18 £42,000 -16.00% 111
North of England +10 17 £35,698 -13.43% 142
Midlands +9 17 £52,500 +31.25% 131
West Midlands +47 14 £52,500 +31.25% 68
North West -10 9 £51,585 +3.17% 64
Yorkshire +45 8 £35,000 -7.51% 62
Scotland +111 4 £80,000 +113.33% 34
South West +107 3 £70,000 +100.00% 90
East Midlands +5 3 £32,500 +3.17% 54
Wales +33 1 £45,000 -10.00% 25
Applications Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 28 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 57 (64.77%) SQL
2 40 (45.45%) Problem-Solving
3 34 (38.64%) Social Skills
4 23 (26.14%) Microsoft
5 21 (23.86%) Java
5 21 (23.86%) Python
6 20 (22.73%) Azure
7 19 (21.59%) Linux
8 18 (20.45%) AWS
9 16 (18.18%) PowerShell
9 16 (18.18%) ITIL
9 16 (18.18%) Degree
10 15 (17.05%) Windows
11 14 (15.91%) Microsoft 365
12 13 (14.77%) Incident Management
13 12 (13.64%) SQL Server
14 11 (12.50%) PL/SQL
14 11 (12.50%) MySQL
14 11 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
14 11 (12.50%) Finance
14 11 (12.50%) Power BI
14 11 (12.50%) Collaborative Working
14 11 (12.50%) Power Platform
15 10 (11.36%) Root Cause Analysis
15 10 (11.36%) Continuous Improvement
15 10 (11.36%) Retail
15 10 (11.36%) .NET
16 9 (10.23%) Oracle
16 9 (10.23%) Oracle EBS
16 9 (10.23%) 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 (9.09%) SharePoint
2 7 (7.95%) IIS
3 2 (2.27%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (3.41%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.27%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 9 (10.23%) Oracle Applications
1 9 (10.23%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (2.27%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 20 (22.73%) Azure
2 18 (20.45%) AWS
3 14 (15.91%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (12.50%) Power Platform
5 9 (10.23%) AWS Lambda
5 9 (10.23%) Serverless
6 8 (9.09%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (4.55%) SaaS
8 3 (3.41%) Azure Logic Apps
8 3 (3.41%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (3.41%) Entra ID
8 3 (3.41%) Power Automate
8 3 (3.41%) PowerApps
9 1 (1.14%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (1.14%) Amazon S3
9 1 (1.14%) GCP
9 1 (1.14%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.95%) FTP
2 1 (1.14%) Firewall
2 1 (1.14%) SAN
2 1 (1.14%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (13.64%) SQL Server
2 11 (12.50%) MySQL
2 11 (12.50%) Power BI
3 5 (5.68%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (5.68%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (5.68%) Redis
4 3 (3.41%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (3.41%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.14%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 7 (7.95%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 3 (3.41%) Git
2 3 (3.41%) JUnit
3 2 (2.27%) JIRA
4 1 (1.14%) Gatling
4 1 (1.14%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.14%) LabVIEW
4 1 (1.14%) Mockito
4 1 (1.14%) Visual Studio
General
1 34 (38.64%) Social Skills
2 11 (12.50%) Finance
3 10 (11.36%) Retail
4 9 (10.23%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (7.95%) Local Government
6 6 (6.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.27%) Law
7 2 (2.27%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.27%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.14%) Advertising
8 1 (1.14%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.14%) Banking
8 1 (1.14%) Electronics
8 1 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.14%) Legal
8 1 (1.14%) Marketing
8 1 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.14%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (11.36%) .NET
2 9 (10.23%) Middleware
2 9 (10.23%) Oracle Fusion
3 5 (5.68%) Node.js
4 3 (3.41%) Spring
5 2 (2.27%) .NET Framework
5 2 (2.27%) EDI
5 2 (2.27%) XML
6 1 (1.14%) Android Jetpack
6 1 (1.14%) ASP.NET
6 1 (1.14%) ASP.NET MVC
6 1 (1.14%) Java EE
6 1 (1.14%) Java SE
6 1 (1.14%) Jetpack Compose
6 1 (1.14%) Kafka
6 1 (1.14%) REST
6 1 (1.14%) RESTful
6 1 (1.14%) SAP Basis
6 1 (1.14%) Spring Boot
6 1 (1.14%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 3 (3.41%) Data Protection Act
1 3 (3.41%) Mobile App
2 2 (2.27%) Management Information System
2 2 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.14%) Algorithms
3 1 (1.14%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (1.14%) FPGA
3 1 (1.14%) Housing Association
3 1 (1.14%) Public Cloud
3 1 (1.14%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (1.14%) Verilog
Operating Systems
1 19 (21.59%) Linux
2 15 (17.05%) Windows
3 7 (7.95%) Windows 10
4 3 (3.41%) Android
4 3 (3.41%) Windows Server
5 2 (2.27%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (2.27%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (1.14%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (45.45%) Problem-Solving
2 16 (18.18%) ITIL
3 13 (14.77%) Incident Management
4 11 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
4 11 (12.50%) Collaborative Working
5 10 (11.36%) Continuous Improvement
5 10 (11.36%) Root Cause Analysis
6 9 (10.23%) Computer Science
6 9 (10.23%) High Availability
6 9 (10.23%) SDLC
7 8 (9.09%) Customer Service
7 8 (9.09%) ERP
7 8 (9.09%) Logistics
7 8 (9.09%) Mathematics
7 8 (9.09%) Mentoring
8 7 (7.95%) Customer-Centric Approach
8 7 (7.95%) Customer-Centricity
8 7 (7.95%) Software Engineering
9 6 (6.82%) Application Security
9 6 (6.82%) Cost Reduction
Programming Languages
1 57 (64.77%) SQL
2 21 (23.86%) Java
2 21 (23.86%) Python
3 16 (18.18%) PowerShell
4 11 (12.50%) PL/SQL
5 8 (9.09%) T-SQL
6 2 (2.27%) C
6 2 (2.27%) C#
6 2 (2.27%) MATLAB
7 1 (1.14%) C++
7 1 (1.14%) Progress 4GL
7 1 (1.14%) Swift
7 1 (1.14%) XAML
Qualifications
1 16 (18.18%) Degree
2 4 (4.55%) CISSP
2 4 (4.55%) CREST Certified
2 4 (4.55%) SANS
3 3 (3.41%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (3.41%) Security Cleared
4 2 (2.27%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.14%) HND
5 1 (1.14%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.09%) PCI DSS
1 8 (9.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 5 (5.68%) Accessibility
3 3 (3.41%) SLA
4 2 (2.27%) QA
5 1 (1.14%) GDPR
5 1 (1.14%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 6 (6.82%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (3.41%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.27%) SCCM
3 1 (1.14%) Ansible
3 1 (1.14%) Functional Safety
3 1 (1.14%) SCOM
3 1 (1.14%) Terraform
3 1 (1.14%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 23 (26.14%) Microsoft
2 9 (10.23%) Oracle
3 7 (7.95%) SAP
3 7 (7.95%) ServiceNow
4 3 (3.41%) Adobe
4 3 (3.41%) DocuSign
4 3 (3.41%) iManage
4 3 (3.41%) Intapp
5 2 (2.27%) Zoho
6 1 (1.14%) Cadence
6 1 (1.14%) Capita
6 1 (1.14%) Cisco
6 1 (1.14%) Freshdesk
6 1 (1.14%) MathWorks
6 1 (1.14%) Meraki
6 1 (1.14%) Progress
6 1 (1.14%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.14%) SolarWinds
6 1 (1.14%) VMware