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 £45,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 18 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
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 489 511 581
Rank change year-on-year +22 +70 -98
Permanent jobs requiring an Applications Engineer 99 263 169
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.25% 0.37% 0.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% 0.39% 0.32%
Number of salaries quoted 81 175 100
10th Percentile £31,250 £26,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,349 £33,750 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £41,235 £42,049
Median % change year-on-year +9.13% -1.94% -6.56%
75th Percentile £53,750 £50,625 £54,000
90th Percentile £63,750 £61,250 £60,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £42,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +17.65% -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 36,224 67,834 52,633
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.86% 94.85% 89.18%
Number of salaries quoted 18,759 47,939 30,034
10th Percentile £27,000 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% -5.66% +6.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -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 18 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 18 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 +21 36 £50,000 +17.65% 89
Midlands +26 19 £52,500 +31.25% 59
North of England +16 18 £37,500 -9.06% 51
East of England +45 16 £42,000 -16.00% 47
West Midlands +40 14 £52,500 +31.25% 29
North West -9 10 £51,585 +3.17% 21
Yorkshire +48 8 £35,000 -12.50% 27
Scotland +100 5 £80,000 +113.33% 7
East Midlands -7 5 £32,500 +14.04% 28
South West +101 4 £58,750 +56.67% 26
Wales +22 1 £45,000 -10.00% 12
Applications Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 18 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 62 (62.63%) SQL
2 46 (46.46%) Problem-Solving
3 37 (37.37%) Social Skills
4 24 (24.24%) Azure
5 21 (21.21%) Python
5 21 (21.21%) Microsoft
6 20 (20.20%) Java
7 19 (19.19%) Linux
8 18 (18.18%) ITIL
8 18 (18.18%) AWS
8 18 (18.18%) PowerShell
9 16 (16.16%) Microsoft 365
9 16 (16.16%) Windows
9 16 (16.16%) Degree
10 14 (14.14%) Incident Management
10 14 (14.14%) Agile
11 13 (13.13%) Finance
11 13 (13.13%) Power BI
11 13 (13.13%) Power Platform
12 12 (12.12%) DevOps
12 12 (12.12%) Business Intelligence
12 12 (12.12%) SQL Server
13 11 (11.11%) MySQL
13 11 (11.11%) PL/SQL
13 11 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
13 11 (11.11%) High Availability
13 11 (11.11%) Collaborative Working
14 10 (10.10%) Continuous Improvement
14 10 (10.10%) Computer Science
14 10 (10.10%) Software Engineering

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 (8.08%) IIS
1 8 (8.08%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.02%) Confluence
3 1 (1.01%) Apache
Applications
1 3 (3.03%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.02%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 9 (9.09%) Oracle Applications
1 9 (9.09%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (2.02%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 24 (24.24%) Azure
2 18 (18.18%) AWS
3 16 (16.16%) Microsoft 365
4 13 (13.13%) Power Platform
5 7 (7.07%) AWS Lambda
5 7 (7.07%) Serverless
6 6 (6.06%) Amazon ECS
7 5 (5.05%) SaaS
8 4 (4.04%) Azure Logic Apps
8 4 (4.04%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (3.03%) Entra ID
9 3 (3.03%) GCP
9 3 (3.03%) Power Automate
9 3 (3.03%) PowerApps
10 2 (2.02%) Amazon Kinesis
10 2 (2.02%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (2.02%) GitHub
11 1 (1.01%) Amazon EC2
11 1 (1.01%) Amazon S3
11 1 (1.01%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.07%) FTP
2 1 (1.01%) Firewall
2 1 (1.01%) SAN
2 1 (1.01%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (13.13%) Power BI
2 12 (12.12%) SQL Server
3 11 (11.11%) MySQL
4 5 (5.05%) Relational Database
5 4 (4.04%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (4.04%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (4.04%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (4.04%) Redis
6 2 (2.02%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (1.01%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (7.07%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 4 (4.04%) JIRA
3 3 (3.03%) Git
3 3 (3.03%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.03%) JUnit
4 2 (2.02%) Artifactory
4 2 (2.02%) Cucumber
4 2 (2.02%) git-flow
4 2 (2.02%) Gradle
5 1 (1.01%) Gatling
5 1 (1.01%) LabVIEW
5 1 (1.01%) Mockito
5 1 (1.01%) Visual Studio
General
1 37 (37.37%) Social Skills
2 13 (13.13%) Finance
3 11 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (9.09%) Local Government
5 8 (8.08%) Retail
6 6 (6.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (4.04%) Law
8 3 (3.03%) Banking
9 2 (2.02%) Manufacturing
9 2 (2.02%) Public Sector
10 1 (1.01%) Advertising
10 1 (1.01%) Aerospace
10 1 (1.01%) Electronics
10 1 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.01%) Legal
10 1 (1.01%) Marketing
10 1 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (9.09%) Middleware
1 9 (9.09%) Oracle Fusion
2 8 (8.08%) .NET
3 4 (4.04%) Node.js
4 3 (3.03%) Kafka
4 3 (3.03%) Spring
4 3 (3.03%) Spring Boot
4 3 (3.03%) XML
5 2 (2.02%) .NET Framework
5 2 (2.02%) Drools
5 2 (2.02%) EDI
5 2 (2.02%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (2.02%) REST
6 1 (1.01%) ASP.NET
6 1 (1.01%) ASP.NET MVC
6 1 (1.01%) HTML
6 1 (1.01%) Java SE
6 1 (1.01%) JSON
6 1 (1.01%) RESTful
6 1 (1.01%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (4.04%) Management Information System
2 3 (3.03%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (2.02%) Driving Licence
4 1 (1.01%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.01%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.01%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.01%) FPGA
4 1 (1.01%) Housing Association
4 1 (1.01%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.01%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.01%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (1.01%) Verilog
Operating Systems
1 19 (19.19%) Linux
2 16 (16.16%) Windows
3 7 (7.07%) Windows 10
4 4 (4.04%) Windows Server
5 3 (3.03%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (2.02%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (1.01%) Android
7 1 (1.01%) Apple iOS
7 1 (1.01%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (46.46%) Problem-Solving
2 18 (18.18%) ITIL
3 14 (14.14%) Agile
3 14 (14.14%) Incident Management
4 12 (12.12%) Business Intelligence
4 12 (12.12%) DevOps
5 11 (11.11%) Collaborative Working
5 11 (11.11%) High Availability
6 10 (10.10%) Computer Science
6 10 (10.10%) Continuous Improvement
6 10 (10.10%) Software Engineering
7 9 (9.09%) Root Cause Analysis
7 9 (9.09%) SDLC
8 8 (8.08%) ERP
8 8 (8.08%) Logistics
8 8 (8.08%) Mentoring
9 7 (7.07%) CI/CD
9 7 (7.07%) Customer-Centric Approach
9 7 (7.07%) Customer-Centricity
10 6 (6.06%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 62 (62.63%) SQL
2 21 (21.21%) Python
3 20 (20.20%) Java
4 18 (18.18%) PowerShell
5 11 (11.11%) PL/SQL
6 8 (8.08%) T-SQL
7 2 (2.02%) C
7 2 (2.02%) C#
7 2 (2.02%) MATLAB
8 1 (1.01%) C++
8 1 (1.01%) Progress 4GL
8 1 (1.01%) Swift
8 1 (1.01%) XAML
Qualifications
1 16 (16.16%) Degree
2 4 (4.04%) CISSP
2 4 (4.04%) CREST Certified
2 4 (4.04%) SANS
3 3 (3.03%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (3.03%) Security Cleared
4 2 (2.02%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.02%) DV Cleared
4 2 (2.02%) OCP
4 2 (2.02%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (1.01%) HND
5 1 (1.01%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.06%) PCI DSS
1 6 (6.06%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 5 (5.05%) Accessibility
2 5 (5.05%) SLA
3 2 (2.02%) QA
4 1 (1.01%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.01%) GDPR
4 1 (1.01%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 6 (6.06%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.03%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (5.05%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.03%) Ansible
2 3 (3.03%) Terraform
3 2 (2.02%) SCCM
4 1 (1.01%) Functional Safety
4 1 (1.01%) SCOM
4 1 (1.01%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 21 (21.21%) Microsoft
2 9 (9.09%) Oracle
2 9 (9.09%) ServiceNow
3 7 (7.07%) SAP
4 4 (4.04%) Intapp
5 3 (3.03%) Adobe
5 3 (3.03%) DocuSign
5 3 (3.03%) iManage
6 1 (1.01%) Cadence
6 1 (1.01%) Capita
6 1 (1.01%) Cisco
6 1 (1.01%) Freshdesk
6 1 (1.01%) MathWorks
6 1 (1.01%) Meraki
6 1 (1.01%) Progress
6 1 (1.01%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.01%) SolarWinds
6 1 (1.01%) VMware