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 £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 22 August 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 572 636 629
Rank change year-on-year +64 -7 +199
DemandTrendPermanent jobs requiring a Senior Applications Engineer 26 64 5
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.058% 0.10% 0.012%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.066% 0.11% 0.013%
Number of salaries quoted 24 35 5
10th Percentile £40,148 £39,334 -
25th Percentile £42,000 £40,000 £40,834
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £45,000 £59,500
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -24.37% +61.06%
75th Percentile £62,500 £55,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £85,000 £66,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £50,000 £62,182
% change year-on-year +20.00% -19.59% -7.88%

All DemandTrendPermanent 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.

DemandTrendPermanent vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 39,422 59,584 38,867
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 88.45% 95.21% 90.11%
Number of salaries quoted 21,326 37,085 25,742
10th Percentile £25,480 £28,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £52,750
Median % change year-on-year - -5.21% +0.48%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

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

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

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

Senior Applications Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Applications Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 22 August 2025.

Salary histogram 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 22 August 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
DemandTrendPermanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +5 10 £60,000 +9.09% 6
East of England -8 9 £42,000 -16.00% 4
North of England -15 5 £72,500 +61.11% 5
North West -22 3 £72,500 +61.11% 3
Midlands +40 2 - - 2
West Midlands +26 2 - - 2
Yorkshire -1 2 £51,788 +27.30% 2
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 22 August 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 25 (96.15%) SQL
2 23 (88.46%) Social Skills
3 22 (84.62%) PowerShell
4 19 (73.08%) Problem-Solving
4 19 (73.08%) Microsoft
5 12 (46.15%) Azure
5 12 (46.15%) Degree
6 11 (42.31%) Security Cleared
6 11 (42.31%) C#
6 11 (42.31%) SQL Server
6 11 (42.31%) Task Automation
6 11 (42.31%) Root Cause Analysis
7 10 (38.46%) REST
7 10 (38.46%) Cloud Operations
7 10 (38.46%) SOAP
7 10 (38.46%) Windows
7 10 (38.46%) SOA
7 10 (38.46%) Data Analysis
8 9 (34.62%) Business Intelligence
8 9 (34.62%) Local Government
9 8 (30.77%) ITIL
9 8 (30.77%) T-SQL
9 8 (30.77%) Power BI
9 8 (30.77%) Power Platform
10 7 (26.92%) Windows 10
10 7 (26.92%) High Availability
10 7 (26.92%) Microsoft 365
10 7 (26.92%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 7 (26.92%) IIS
10 7 (26.92%) FTP

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 7 (26.92%) IIS
1 7 (26.92%) SharePoint
2 2 (7.69%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 3 (11.54%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (7.69%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 12 (46.15%) Azure
2 8 (30.77%) Power Platform
3 7 (26.92%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (7.69%) SaaS
5 1 (3.85%) Azure Functions
5 1 (3.85%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (3.85%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (3.85%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (3.85%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (3.85%) GitHub
5 1 (3.85%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (26.92%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (42.31%) SQL Server
2 8 (30.77%) Power BI
3 2 (7.69%) BusinessObjects
3 2 (7.69%) MS Access
3 2 (7.69%) SAP Data Services
4 1 (3.85%) RDBMS
4 1 (3.85%) Relational Database
4 1 (3.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 7 (26.92%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 2 (7.69%) Toad
3 1 (3.85%) JIRA
General
1 23 (88.46%) Social Skills
2 9 (34.62%) Local Government
3 4 (15.38%) Finance
4 3 (11.54%) Banking
4 3 (11.54%) Legal
4 3 (11.54%) Marketing
5 2 (7.69%) Public Sector
6 1 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (3.85%) Back Office
6 1 (3.85%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (38.46%) REST
1 10 (38.46%) SOAP
2 1 (3.85%) .NET
2 1 (3.85%) Ajax
2 1 (3.85%) AngularJS
2 1 (3.85%) CSS
2 1 (3.85%) Entity Framework
2 1 (3.85%) HTML
2 1 (3.85%) jQuery
2 1 (3.85%) KnockoutJS
2 1 (3.85%) Razor View Engine
2 1 (3.85%) WCF
2 1 (3.85%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.85%) Algorithms
1 1 (3.85%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (3.85%) Marketing Technology
1 1 (3.85%) Product Ownership
1 1 (3.85%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 10 (38.46%) Windows
2 7 (26.92%) Windows 10
3 2 (7.69%) Unix
3 2 (7.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (73.08%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (42.31%) Root Cause Analysis
2 11 (42.31%) Task Automation
3 10 (38.46%) Cloud Operations
3 10 (38.46%) Data Analysis
3 10 (38.46%) SOA
4 9 (34.62%) Business Intelligence
5 8 (30.77%) ITIL
6 7 (26.92%) High Availability
7 3 (11.54%) CRM
7 3 (11.54%) Migration
8 2 (7.69%) Agile
8 2 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
8 2 (7.69%) Customer Engagement
8 2 (7.69%) Cybersecurity
8 2 (7.69%) Data-Driven Decision Making
8 2 (7.69%) Incident Management
8 2 (7.69%) Systems Engineering
8 2 (7.69%) Validation
8 2 (7.69%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 25 (96.15%) SQL
2 22 (84.62%) PowerShell
3 11 (42.31%) C#
4 8 (30.77%) T-SQL
5 2 (7.69%) JavaScript
5 2 (7.69%) Shell Script
5 2 (7.69%) VB
6 1 (3.85%) C
6 1 (3.85%) MATLAB
6 1 (3.85%) PL/SQL
6 1 (3.85%) Python
Qualifications
1 12 (46.15%) Degree
2 11 (42.31%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.85%) Azure Certification
3 1 (3.85%) SC Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (3.85%) Functional Safety
1 1 (3.85%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 19 (73.08%) Microsoft
2 3 (11.54%) LexisNexis
2 3 (11.54%) Oracle
2 3 (11.54%) Sitecore
3 2 (7.69%) NEC
3 2 (7.69%) SAP
4 1 (3.85%) MathWorks