Applications Support Jobs in the UK excluding London

Application Support
UK > UK excluding London

The median Application Support salary in the UK excluding London is £40,000 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 290 305 372
Rank change year-on-year +15 +67 -61
Permanent jobs requiring an Applications Support 529 496 704
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.81% 1.03% 0.90%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.85% 1.15% 0.95%
Number of salaries quoted 361 346 603
10th Percentile £26,750 £27,250 £26,800
25th Percentile £32,000 £31,813 £30,288
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £40,750 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.84% +8.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £46,250
90th Percentile £55,000 £67,500 £52,500
UK median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +17.65% +6.25%

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 Support
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Applications Support in the UK excluding London

Applications Support
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Applications Support in the UK excluding London

Applications Support
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Applications Support in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Applications Support in the UK excluding London

Applications Support
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 Support 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 +25 158 £38,000 -9.52% 32
Midlands +45 112 £34,000 -3.74% 14
North of England -33 111 £41,000 -3.53% 29
North West -35 70 £45,000 - 16
East Midlands +23 61 £34,000 -11.11% 7
West Midlands +17 51 £40,000 +14.29% 7
East of England +9 47 £47,500 +6.66% 15
Yorkshire +43 39 £35,000 -6.67% 12
Scotland -36 38 £37,500 -16.67% 9
South West -3 32 £35,000 +7.69% 7
Wales +4 29 £31,000 +31.91% 1
Northern Ireland +18 2 £21,500 -46.25% 4
North East -20 2 £39,375 -17.11% 3
Applications Support
UK

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

For the 6 months to 26 July 2024, Applications Support 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 Support in the job title.

1 223 (42.16%) SQL
2 141 (26.65%) Problem-Solving
3 128 (24.20%) Social Skills
4 114 (21.55%) Microsoft
5 101 (19.09%) Degree
6 92 (17.39%) Analytical Skills
7 87 (16.45%) Finance
8 84 (15.88%) ITIL
9 83 (15.69%) Oracle
10 82 (15.50%) SLA
11 80 (15.12%) Security Cleared
11 80 (15.12%) Customer Service
12 79 (14.93%) Linux
13 72 (13.61%) Windows
14 66 (12.48%) Unix
15 59 (11.15%) Incident Management
16 53 (10.02%) ERP
17 52 (9.83%) SC Cleared
18 49 (9.26%) SQL Server
19 48 (9.07%) Azure
20 46 (8.70%) Oracle Database
21 44 (8.32%) Business Intelligence
22 43 (8.13%) Solaris
23 41 (7.75%) Microsoft Office
24 40 (7.56%) Remedy
24 40 (7.56%) Release Management
25 39 (7.37%) Power Platform
25 39 (7.37%) WebLogic
26 38 (7.18%) Microsoft Excel
26 38 (7.18%) Dynamics 365

Applications Support 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 39 (7.37%) WebLogic
2 27 (5.10%) IIS
2 27 (5.10%) Oracle Service Bus
3 24 (4.54%) SharePoint
4 21 (3.97%) Tomcat
5 19 (3.59%) Apache
6 8 (1.51%) WebSphere
7 5 (0.95%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.57%) Confluence
8 3 (0.57%) WebSphere Application Server
9 1 (0.19%) Exchange Server 2013
9 1 (0.19%) nginx
9 1 (0.19%) SharePoint Server
9 1 (0.19%) WordPress
Applications
1 41 (7.75%) Microsoft Office
2 38 (7.18%) Microsoft Excel
3 32 (6.05%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 27 (5.10%) Remedy ITSM
2 16 (3.02%) NEC Housing
3 15 (2.84%) Dynamics CRM
4 9 (1.70%) Dynamics NAV
5 6 (1.13%) Oracle Applications
6 5 (0.95%) Magento
6 5 (0.95%) Maximo
6 5 (0.95%) SAP S/4HANA
7 4 (0.76%) Dynamics AX
7 4 (0.76%) Dynamics GP
7 4 (0.76%) NetSuite
8 3 (0.57%) Infor SunSystems
8 3 (0.57%) iTrent
8 3 (0.57%) SAP Business One
9 2 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
9 2 (0.38%) Pegasus Opera
9 2 (0.38%) Sage 50
9 2 (0.38%) SAP HCM
9 2 (0.38%) SAP MM
10 1 (0.19%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 48 (9.07%) Azure
2 39 (7.37%) Power Platform
3 38 (7.18%) Dynamics 365
4 31 (5.86%) AWS
5 25 (4.73%) Microsoft 365
6 24 (4.54%) SaaS
7 18 (3.40%) PowerApps
8 16 (3.02%) Power Automate
9 15 (2.84%) Entra ID
10 9 (1.70%) Serverless
11 6 (1.13%) Azure Logic Apps
12 5 (0.95%) Google Sheets
12 5 (0.95%) IaaS
12 5 (0.95%) PaaS
12 5 (0.95%) WhatsApp
13 3 (0.57%) Azure DevOps
14 2 (0.38%) Intacct
Communications & Networking
1 15 (2.84%) Firewall
2 10 (1.89%) VPN
3 7 (1.32%) SAN
4 4 (0.76%) FTP
5 3 (0.57%) Broadband
5 3 (0.57%) DHCP
5 3 (0.57%) DNS
5 3 (0.57%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 3 (0.57%) Internet
5 3 (0.57%) NetScaler
5 3 (0.57%) Remote Desktop
5 3 (0.57%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.57%) Wireshark
6 2 (0.38%) LAN
6 2 (0.38%) WAN
7 1 (0.19%) HTTP
7 1 (0.19%) Intranet
7 1 (0.19%) Modbus
7 1 (0.19%) Skype
7 1 (0.19%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (9.26%) SQL Server
2 46 (8.70%) Oracle Database
3 27 (5.10%) Oracle Database 10g
3 27 (5.10%) Oracle Database 11g
3 27 (5.10%) Power BI
3 27 (5.10%) VLDB
4 14 (2.65%) Relational Database
5 12 (2.27%) Elasticsearch
5 12 (2.27%) MySQL
6 8 (1.51%) Crystal Reports
6 8 (1.51%) Geospatial Data
6 8 (1.51%) GIS
6 8 (1.51%) MS Access
7 7 (1.32%) Azure SQL Database
7 7 (1.32%) BusinessObjects
8 5 (0.95%) Pentaho
9 4 (0.76%) QlikView
9 4 (0.76%) SAP HANA
10 3 (0.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (0.38%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 19 (3.59%) JIRA
2 8 (1.51%) Oracle Forms
3 7 (1.32%) Eclipse
4 6 (1.13%) Bitbucket
5 4 (0.76%) Git
6 3 (0.57%) Fiddler
7 2 (0.38%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.19%) Gradle
8 1 (0.19%) JUnit
General
1 128 (24.20%) Social Skills
2 92 (17.39%) Analytical Skills
3 87 (16.45%) Finance
4 37 (6.99%) Law
5 28 (5.29%) Police
6 24 (4.54%) Public Sector
7 21 (3.97%) Legal
7 21 (3.97%) Local Government
8 18 (3.40%) Manufacturing
9 15 (2.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (1.70%) Retail
11 8 (1.51%) Marketing
12 5 (0.95%) Aerospace
12 5 (0.95%) Automotive
13 4 (0.76%) Back Office
14 3 (0.57%) Billing
14 3 (0.57%) Pharmaceutical
15 2 (0.38%) Electronics
15 2 (0.38%) Investment Banking
15 2 (0.38%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (3.40%) .NET
2 17 (3.21%) HTML
2 17 (3.21%) Web Services
3 14 (2.65%) Spring
4 13 (2.46%) CSS
5 12 (2.27%) J2EE
5 12 (2.27%) Java EE
6 6 (1.13%) EDI
7 5 (0.95%) Kafka
7 5 (0.95%) Node.js
8 3 (0.57%) JSON
8 3 (0.57%) OLE
9 2 (0.38%) Middleware
9 2 (0.38%) XML
10 1 (0.19%) ASP.NET
10 1 (0.19%) Oracle Fusion
10 1 (0.19%) REST
10 1 (0.19%) SailPoint
10 1 (0.19%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 20 (3.78%) Enterprise Software
2 16 (3.02%) Public Cloud
3 13 (2.46%) Management Information System
4 12 (2.27%) Driving Licence
5 11 (2.08%) Product Ownership
6 8 (1.51%) Self-Motivation
7 7 (1.32%) Clustering
7 7 (1.32%) CMDB
8 6 (1.13%) Mobile App
9 5 (0.95%) Analytical Mindset
9 5 (0.95%) Legacy Code
9 5 (0.95%) Linux Command Line
9 5 (0.95%) Reference Data
10 3 (0.57%) Distributed Computing
11 2 (0.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 2 (0.38%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (0.38%) NHS
12 1 (0.19%) Data Centre
12 1 (0.19%) Onboarding
12 1 (0.19%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 79 (14.93%) Linux
2 72 (13.61%) Windows
3 66 (12.48%) Unix
4 43 (8.13%) Solaris
5 26 (4.91%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.38%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.19%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.19%) Windows 7
7 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (26.65%) Problem-Solving
2 84 (15.88%) ITIL
3 80 (15.12%) Customer Service
4 59 (11.15%) Incident Management
5 53 (10.02%) ERP
6 44 (8.32%) Business Intelligence
7 40 (7.56%) Release Management
8 38 (7.18%) Actionable Insight
9 37 (6.99%) ITSM
9 37 (6.99%) Service Management
10 34 (6.43%) CRM
11 33 (6.24%) Performance Tuning
12 32 (6.05%) Performance Monitoring
13 31 (5.86%) Collaborative Working
14 29 (5.48%) Project Management
15 27 (5.10%) Artificial Intelligence
15 27 (5.10%) Capacity Planning
16 26 (4.91%) Capacity Management
16 26 (4.91%) Continuous Improvement
17 25 (4.73%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 223 (42.16%) SQL
2 35 (6.62%) PL/SQL
3 33 (6.24%) Shell Script
4 29 (5.48%) C#
5 27 (5.10%) Java
6 24 (4.54%) T-SQL
7 15 (2.84%) Python
8 14 (2.65%) PowerShell
9 12 (2.27%) Bash
10 9 (1.70%) JavaScript
11 8 (1.51%) VB
12 5 (0.95%) VBA
13 3 (0.57%) C
13 3 (0.57%) C++
14 2 (0.38%) COBOL
14 2 (0.38%) Perl
15 1 (0.19%) PHP
15 1 (0.19%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 101 (19.09%) Degree
2 80 (15.12%) Security Cleared
3 52 (9.83%) SC Cleared
4 12 (2.27%) ITIL Certification
5 10 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (1.70%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.38%) A+ Certification
7 2 (0.38%) MCDST
8 1 (0.19%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.19%) HNC
8 1 (0.19%) HND
8 1 (0.19%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.19%) MCITP
8 1 (0.19%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (15.50%) SLA
2 16 (3.02%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.38%) GDPR
4 1 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 27 (5.10%) Oracle RAC
2 23 (4.35%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.51%) Docker
4 2 (0.38%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.19%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 27 (5.10%) Data Guard
1 27 (5.10%) Oracle RMAN
2 13 (2.46%) Kubernetes
3 12 (2.27%) OpenSSO
3 12 (2.27%) Single Sign-On
4 7 (1.32%) Microsoft Clustering
5 6 (1.13%) Grafana
6 5 (0.95%) ITRS Geneos
7 4 (0.76%) SCOM
8 3 (0.57%) CA Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.38%) Terraform
10 1 (0.19%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 114 (21.55%) Microsoft
2 83 (15.69%) Oracle
3 40 (7.56%) Remedy
4 28 (5.29%) Sun
5 23 (4.35%) ServiceNow
6 20 (3.78%) SAP
7 16 (3.02%) NEC
8 14 (2.65%) Civica
9 7 (1.32%) Epicor
10 6 (1.13%) Guidewire
10 6 (1.13%) Salesforce
11 5 (0.95%) AppDynamics
11 5 (0.95%) CA
11 5 (0.95%) Google
11 5 (0.95%) Infor
11 5 (0.95%) Sage
11 5 (0.95%) Splunk
11 5 (0.95%) Sybase
12 4 (0.76%) Cognos
12 4 (0.76%) F5