Senior Applications Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Senior Applications Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior Applications Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £42,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 20 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
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 582 707 741
Rank change year-on-year +125 +34 +87
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Applications Engineer 9 50 14
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.023% 0.070% 0.024%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.025% 0.074% 0.027%
Number of salaries quoted 8 38 6
10th Percentile - £38,890 -
25th Percentile £39,750 £40,000 £40,834
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,000 £51,250 £44,799
Median % change year-on-year -18.05% +14.40% -0.45%
75th Percentile - £58,750 £55,313
90th Percentile £45,150 £68,750 £62,500
UK median annual salary £42,000 £55,000 £56,250
% change year-on-year -23.64% -2.22% -16.67%

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 36,162 67,952 52,783
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.75% 94.86% 89.22%
Number of salaries quoted 18,671 47,990 30,170
10th Percentile £26,968 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,564 £50,000 £53,059
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% -5.76% +6.12%
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% -

Senior Applications Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Applications Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior Applications Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Senior Applications Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior 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 Senior Applications Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 20 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
East of England +37 7 £42,000 -16.00% 1
South East +68 1 £50,000 -13.04% 7
West Midlands +58 1 - - 2
Midlands +57 1 - - 3
Senior Applications Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 20 May 2025, Senior 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 Senior Applications Engineer in the job title.

1 8 (88.89%) Problem-Solving
1 8 (88.89%) SQL
1 8 (88.89%) Degree
1 8 (88.89%) IIS
1 8 (88.89%) ITIL
2 7 (77.78%) Windows
2 7 (77.78%) SharePoint
2 7 (77.78%) FTP
2 7 (77.78%) Business Intelligence
2 7 (77.78%) Microsoft
2 7 (77.78%) T-SQL
2 7 (77.78%) SQL Server
2 7 (77.78%) Local Government
2 7 (77.78%) High Availability
2 7 (77.78%) PowerShell
2 7 (77.78%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (77.78%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 7 (77.78%) Windows 10
2 7 (77.78%) Power BI
2 7 (77.78%) Power Platform
2 7 (77.78%) Social Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
3 1 (11.11%) Functional Safety
3 1 (11.11%) Systems Engineering
3 1 (11.11%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (11.11%) FMEA
3 1 (11.11%) C
3 1 (11.11%) Algorithms
3 1 (11.11%) Product Management
3 1 (11.11%) Process Improvement

Senior 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 (88.89%) IIS
2 7 (77.78%) SharePoint
3 1 (11.11%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 7 (77.78%) Microsoft 365
1 7 (77.78%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 7 (77.78%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (77.78%) Power BI
1 7 (77.78%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (77.78%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 7 (77.78%) Local Government
1 7 (77.78%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Manufacturing
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Algorithms
1 1 (11.11%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 7 (77.78%) Windows
1 7 (77.78%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) ITIL
1 8 (88.89%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (77.78%) Business Intelligence
2 7 (77.78%) High Availability
3 1 (11.11%) FMEA
3 1 (11.11%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
3 1 (11.11%) Incident Management
3 1 (11.11%) Integration Testing
3 1 (11.11%) Process Improvement
3 1 (11.11%) Product Management
3 1 (11.11%) Regression Testing
3 1 (11.11%) Requirements Analysis
3 1 (11.11%) Six Sigma
3 1 (11.11%) Systems Engineering
3 1 (11.11%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 8 (88.89%) SQL
2 7 (77.78%) PowerShell
2 7 (77.78%) T-SQL
3 1 (11.11%) C
3 1 (11.11%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 8 (88.89%) Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 7 (77.78%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) MathWorks