Applications Engineer Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Applications Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Applications Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £45,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 August 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 447 438 399
Rank change year-on-year -9 -39 +67
Permanent jobs requiring an Applications Engineer 208 121 294
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.27% 0.35% 0.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.28% 0.39% 0.52%
Number of salaries quoted 142 109 206
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £34,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £41,355 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.81% -2.69% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £50,000 £55,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £63,750 £64,375
UK median annual salary £55,000 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +29.41% -5.56% -14.29%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 73,108 31,009 56,528
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.40% 89.45% 95.00%
Number of salaries quoted 50,512 17,790 37,230
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £39,191 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £48,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.38% -4.00% -6.54%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £56,076 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.96% - -8.33%

Applications Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Applications Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Applications Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Applications Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for Applications Engineer job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Salary distribution trend for Applications Engineer job vacancies 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 15 August 2026.

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 15 August 2026. 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
North of England -4 62 £67,500 +82.43% 44
South East -15 54 £45,000 +9.09% 39
North West +13 39 £75,000 +102.70% 35
Midlands -20 35 £45,000 +5.88% 25
Scotland +21 23 £28,500 -64.38% 17
West Midlands -24 22 £45,000 - 11
South West -57 22 £42,500 +2.77% 14
Yorkshire -17 19 £42,410 +21.17% 5
East Midlands -15 13 £45,000 +28.57% 14
East of England -26 11 £42,500 +1.19% 17
North East - 4 £65,000 - 4
Wales - 1 - - 2
Applications Engineer
UK

Applications Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 15 August 2026, Applications Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of 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 47 (22.60%) SQL
2 37 (17.79%) Problem-Solving
3 35 (16.83%) Azure
3 35 (16.83%) Degree
4 30 (14.42%) CI/CD
4 30 (14.42%) Continuous Improvement
5 25 (12.02%) AWS
5 25 (12.02%) ITIL
6 24 (11.54%) Microsoft
6 24 (11.54%) Python
6 24 (11.54%) SaaS
7 22 (10.58%) DevOps
7 22 (10.58%) Test Automation
8 21 (10.10%) Agile
8 21 (10.10%) Java
9 20 (9.62%) Active Directory
9 20 (9.62%) AI
9 20 (9.62%) Windows
10 19 (9.13%) Application Security
10 19 (9.13%) SDLC
10 19 (9.13%) Software Engineering
11 16 (7.69%) JavaScript
12 15 (7.21%) Azure SQL Database
12 15 (7.21%) Change Management
12 15 (7.21%) JIRA
13 14 (6.73%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
13 14 (6.73%) Information Security
13 14 (6.73%) Linux
13 14 (6.73%) Static Application Security Testing
14 13 (6.25%) Cloud Security

Applications Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 5 (2.40%) Confluence
1 5 (2.40%) IIS
2 2 (0.96%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (0.96%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.48%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.48%) Appian
Applications
1 9 (4.33%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.44%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.96%) Simulink
4 1 (0.48%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 1 (0.48%) iTrent
1 1 (0.48%) Sage X3
1 1 (0.48%) SAP Oil and Gas
1 1 (0.48%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 35 (16.83%) Azure
2 25 (12.02%) AWS
3 24 (11.54%) SaaS
4 13 (6.25%) Entra ID
5 11 (5.29%) GitHub
6 6 (2.88%) AWS CloudFormation
6 6 (2.88%) GCP
6 6 (2.88%) Power Platform
6 6 (2.88%) Pulumi
7 5 (2.40%) Amazon ECS
7 5 (2.40%) Amazon S3
7 5 (2.40%) AWS Fargate
7 5 (2.40%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (2.40%) Serverless
8 3 (1.44%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (0.96%) OneDrive
10 1 (0.48%) IaaS
10 1 (0.48%) npm
10 1 (0.48%) PaaS
10 1 (0.48%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.33%) Firewall
2 8 (3.85%) DNS
3 4 (1.92%) MQTT
3 4 (1.92%) VPN
3 4 (1.92%) Wireshark
4 3 (1.44%) 3GPP
4 3 (1.44%) Intrusion Detection
4 3 (1.44%) TETRA
5 2 (0.96%) Broadband
5 2 (0.96%) NAS
5 2 (0.96%) NetScaler
5 2 (0.96%) SAN
6 1 (0.48%) Ethernet
6 1 (0.48%) Modbus
6 1 (0.48%) Profibus
6 1 (0.48%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.48%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (7.21%) Azure SQL Database
2 13 (6.25%) SQL Server
3 5 (2.40%) DynamoDB
3 5 (2.40%) MySQL
4 4 (1.92%) MongoDB
4 4 (1.92%) Power BI
5 2 (0.96%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.48%) Crystal Reports
6 1 (0.48%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.48%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 15 (7.21%) JIRA
2 10 (4.81%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 5 (2.40%) Bitbucket
3 5 (2.40%) fastlane
4 2 (0.96%) Eclipse
4 2 (0.96%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.48%) Browser DevTools
5 1 (0.48%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.48%) Maven
5 1 (0.48%) Postman
5 1 (0.48%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.48%) Storybook
General
1 41 (19.71%) Social Skills
2 26 (12.50%) Finance
3 21 (10.10%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (7.21%) Aviation
5 14 (6.73%) Electronics
6 10 (4.81%) Manufacturing
7 9 (4.33%) Automotive
8 6 (2.88%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (2.88%) Public Sector
9 5 (2.40%) Banking
9 5 (2.40%) Marketing
10 4 (1.92%) Aerospace
10 4 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.44%) Local Government
11 3 (1.44%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.96%) Games
12 2 (0.96%) Law
12 2 (0.96%) Legal
13 1 (0.48%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (5.77%) OAuth
2 11 (5.29%) CSS
2 11 (5.29%) HTML
2 11 (5.29%) JSON
2 11 (5.29%) XML
3 10 (4.81%) OpenID
4 8 (3.85%) .NET
4 8 (3.85%) OAuth2
4 8 (3.85%) Spring
4 8 (3.85%) Spring Boot
5 7 (3.37%) AngularJS
5 7 (3.37%) SAML
6 6 (2.88%) JWT
6 6 (2.88%) Node.js
7 4 (1.92%) Playwright
8 3 (1.44%) GraphQL
9 2 (0.96%) Android SDK
9 2 (0.96%) JSON Schema
9 2 (0.96%) LDAP
9 2 (0.96%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 11 (5.29%) Client/Server
1 11 (5.29%) Mobile App
2 9 (4.33%) Cloud Native
2 9 (4.33%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (3.37%) Robotics
4 6 (2.88%) SCADA
5 5 (2.40%) Security Posture
6 4 (1.92%) IoT
7 3 (1.44%) Analogue Electronics
7 3 (1.44%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.44%) Driving Licence
7 3 (1.44%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.44%) PKI
8 2 (0.96%) Credit Risk
8 2 (0.96%) Life Science
8 2 (0.96%) Product Ownership
8 2 (0.96%) Renewable Energy
8 2 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (0.96%) Smartphone
8 2 (0.96%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 20 (9.62%) Windows
2 14 (6.73%) Linux
3 13 (6.25%) Windows Server
4 5 (2.40%) Apple iOS
5 4 (1.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.92%) VMS
6 2 (0.96%) Android
7 1 (0.48%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (17.79%) Problem-Solving
2 30 (14.42%) CI/CD
2 30 (14.42%) Continuous Improvement
3 25 (12.02%) ITIL
4 22 (10.58%) DevOps
4 22 (10.58%) Test Automation
5 21 (10.10%) Agile
6 20 (9.62%) AI
7 19 (9.13%) Application Security
7 19 (9.13%) SDLC
7 19 (9.13%) Software Engineering
8 15 (7.21%) Change Management
9 14 (6.73%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
9 14 (6.73%) Information Security
9 14 (6.73%) Static Application Security Testing
10 13 (6.25%) Cloud Security
10 13 (6.25%) Computer Science
10 13 (6.25%) Fintech
11 11 (5.29%) Collaborative Culture
11 11 (5.29%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 47 (22.60%) SQL
2 24 (11.54%) Python
3 21 (10.10%) Java
4 16 (7.69%) JavaScript
5 11 (5.29%) C#
6 7 (3.37%) C++
7 6 (2.88%) PowerShell
8 5 (2.40%) Swift
9 4 (1.92%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.96%) C
10 2 (0.96%) Embedded C
10 2 (0.96%) MATLAB
10 2 (0.96%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.96%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.96%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.48%) Bash
11 1 (0.48%) Julia
11 1 (0.48%) RPG
11 1 (0.48%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.48%) VBA
Qualifications
1 35 (16.83%) Degree
2 11 (5.29%) Security Cleared
3 8 (3.85%) AWS Certification
3 8 (3.85%) DV Cleared
4 7 (3.37%) PhD
5 6 (2.88%) Master's Degree
5 6 (2.88%) SC Cleared
6 5 (2.40%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 4 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (1.92%) ITIL Certification
8 3 (1.44%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.81%) Accessibility
2 5 (2.40%) QA
2 5 (2.40%) SLA
3 3 (1.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.44%) NIST
4 1 (0.48%) WCAG
System Software
1 20 (9.62%) Active Directory
2 9 (4.33%) Firmware
3 4 (1.92%) vSphere
4 2 (0.96%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 6 (2.88%) Terraform
2 1 (0.48%) Cisco CUCM
2 1 (0.48%) MOM
2 1 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 24 (11.54%) Microsoft
2 8 (3.85%) Oracle
3 6 (2.88%) Splunk
4 4 (1.92%) VMware
5 3 (1.44%) Atlassian
6 2 (0.96%) Citrix
6 2 (0.96%) Databricks
6 2 (0.96%) NetApp
7 1 (0.48%) Adobe
7 1 (0.48%) Alteryx
7 1 (0.48%) Avaya
7 1 (0.48%) Cisco
7 1 (0.48%) Genesys
7 1 (0.48%) IBM
7 1 (0.48%) Sage
7 1 (0.48%) SAP
7 1 (0.48%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.48%) Tenable
7 1 (0.48%) Wonderware