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 £41,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 334 387 330
Rank change year-on-year +53 -57 -46
Permanent jobs requiring an Applications Support 548 468 725
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.78% 0.75% 1.03%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.82% 0.84% 1.07%
Number of salaries quoted 383 327 563
10th Percentile £25,500 £26,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,000 £37,500 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.33% - +7.14%
75th Percentile £48,750 £47,500 £46,250
90th Percentile £56,250 £57,500 £50,000
UK median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year - +11.76% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 66,438 55,416 67,544
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.80% 89.30% 95.80%
Number of salaries quoted 47,143 31,373 42,828
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,368
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,725 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,923 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.80% - +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 25 April 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 25 April 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 +76 164 £42,500 +9.69% 13
North of England 0 117 £40,000 +6.67% 17
Midlands +41 92 £32,121 -10.78% 13
North West +10 71 £45,000 +17.98% 11
East Midlands +22 57 £32,500 -7.14% 8
East of England +37 48 £47,500 +15.80% 14
Wales +28 46 £45,000 +42.86%
Yorkshire +57 38 £35,579 -5.12% 4
South West -32 37 £43,500 +33.85% 11
Scotland -41 36 £47,500 +5.56% 6
West Midlands +16 35 £32,121 -19.70% 5
North East -11 8 £37,500 +15.38% 2
Northern Ireland +9 7 £57,500 +33.72%
Channel Islands - 1 - -
Applications Support
UK

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

For the 6 months to 25 April 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.

1 253 (46.17%) SQL
2 175 (31.93%) Problem-Solving
3 141 (25.73%) Social Skills
3 141 (25.73%) Analytical Skills
4 117 (21.35%) Degree
5 113 (20.62%) Microsoft
6 111 (20.26%) ITIL
7 109 (19.89%) Oracle
8 103 (18.80%) Finance
9 101 (18.43%) SLA
10 99 (18.07%) Unix
11 96 (17.52%) Linux
12 87 (15.88%) Incident Management
13 86 (15.69%) Security Cleared
14 83 (15.15%) Actionable Insight
15 81 (14.78%) SC Cleared
16 76 (13.87%) Service Management
17 74 (13.50%) Remedy
17 74 (13.50%) WebLogic
18 73 (13.32%) Customer Service
19 71 (12.96%) Release Management
20 66 (12.04%) ERP
21 64 (11.68%) SQL Server
22 63 (11.50%) PL/SQL
23 62 (11.31%) ITSM
24 59 (10.77%) Microsoft Office
25 56 (10.22%) Performance Tuning
26 55 (10.04%) CRM
27 53 (9.67%) Microsoft Excel
27 53 (9.67%) Azure

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 74 (13.50%) WebLogic
2 45 (8.21%) Oracle Service Bus
3 41 (7.48%) SharePoint
4 12 (2.19%) IIS
5 9 (1.64%) Tomcat
6 8 (1.46%) Confluence
7 7 (1.28%) Microsoft Exchange
8 5 (0.91%) WebSphere
9 4 (0.73%) Apache
Applications
1 59 (10.77%) Microsoft Office
2 53 (9.67%) Microsoft Excel
3 46 (8.39%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 45 (8.21%) Remedy ITSM
2 32 (5.84%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (2.19%) PlanetPress Connect
4 11 (2.01%) Dynamics GP
5 10 (1.82%) SAP S/4HANA
6 9 (1.64%) Dynamics NAV
7 6 (1.09%) Oracle Applications
8 5 (0.91%) Magento
8 5 (0.91%) NEC Housing
9 4 (0.73%) NetSuite
10 3 (0.55%) Infor SunSystems
10 3 (0.55%) iTrent
11 2 (0.36%) Epicor Tropos
11 2 (0.36%) Oracle EBS
11 2 (0.36%) SAP HCM
11 2 (0.36%) SAP MM
11 2 (0.36%) Visualfiles
12 1 (0.18%) Infor M3
12 1 (0.18%) JDE OneWorld
12 1 (0.18%) Odoo
Cloud Services
1 53 (9.67%) Azure
2 46 (8.39%) Power Platform
3 40 (7.30%) Dynamics 365
4 34 (6.20%) Microsoft 365
5 29 (5.29%) AWS
6 17 (3.10%) Power Automate
7 16 (2.92%) SaaS
8 14 (2.55%) PowerApps
9 13 (2.37%) Entra ID
10 6 (1.09%) WhatsApp
11 5 (0.91%) Google Sheets
11 5 (0.91%) IaaS
12 4 (0.73%) Azure Logic Apps
13 2 (0.36%) PaaS
14 1 (0.18%) Azure DevOps
14 1 (0.18%) Boomi
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.46%) Firewall
1 8 (1.46%) VPN
2 6 (1.09%) Broadband
2 6 (1.09%) Remote Desktop
3 4 (0.73%) FTP
3 4 (0.73%) SAN
4 3 (0.55%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (0.18%) Internet
5 1 (0.18%) LAN
5 1 (0.18%) VLAN
5 1 (0.18%) WAN
5 1 (0.18%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (11.68%) SQL Server
2 51 (9.31%) Oracle Database
3 45 (8.21%) Oracle Database 10g
3 45 (8.21%) Oracle Database 11g
3 45 (8.21%) VLDB
4 29 (5.29%) Elasticsearch
4 29 (5.29%) Power BI
5 18 (3.28%) MySQL
6 13 (2.37%) Relational Database
7 12 (2.19%) Data Warehouse
8 9 (1.64%) Geospatial Data
8 9 (1.64%) GIS
8 9 (1.64%) MS Access
9 7 (1.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 6 (1.09%) BusinessObjects
11 5 (0.91%) Pentaho
12 4 (0.73%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (0.73%) Crystal Reports
13 3 (0.55%) QlikView
13 3 (0.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 37 (6.75%) JIRA
2 12 (2.19%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 10 (1.82%) Oracle Forms
4 7 (1.28%) Eclipse
4 7 (1.28%) GitLab
5 6 (1.09%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.36%) Git
6 2 (0.36%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.18%) Gradle
7 1 (0.18%) JUnit
General
1 141 (25.73%) Analytical Skills
1 141 (25.73%) Social Skills
2 103 (18.80%) Finance
3 27 (4.93%) Law
4 26 (4.74%) Manufacturing
4 26 (4.74%) Police
5 24 (4.38%) Marketing
6 19 (3.47%) Legal
7 13 (2.37%) Retail
8 12 (2.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 10 (1.82%) Automotive
10 9 (1.64%) Public Sector
11 8 (1.46%) Local Government
12 7 (1.28%) Banking
12 7 (1.28%) Investment Banking
12 7 (1.28%) Private Banking
13 4 (0.73%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.55%) Back Office
14 3 (0.55%) Environmental Health
14 3 (0.55%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (5.66%) Spring
2 29 (5.29%) J2EE
2 29 (5.29%) Java EE
3 10 (1.82%) .NET
4 7 (1.28%) Middleware
5 6 (1.09%) EDI
5 6 (1.09%) HTML
5 6 (1.09%) Kafka
5 6 (1.09%) OLE
6 4 (0.73%) Web Services
7 3 (0.55%) Spring Boot
8 2 (0.36%) Node.js
9 1 (0.18%) CSS
9 1 (0.18%) FIX Protocol
9 1 (0.18%) jQuery
9 1 (0.18%) JSON
9 1 (0.18%) React
9 1 (0.18%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 20 (3.65%) Enterprise Software
2 15 (2.74%) Driving Licence
3 13 (2.37%) Management Information System
4 11 (2.01%) Analytical Mindset
5 10 (1.82%) CCTV
6 9 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
7 8 (1.46%) Linux Command Line
7 8 (1.46%) Mobile App
8 7 (1.28%) CMDB
9 5 (0.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 5 (0.91%) Reference Data
10 4 (0.73%) Clustering
10 4 (0.73%) Public Cloud
11 2 (0.36%) Cloud Native
11 2 (0.36%) IoT
11 2 (0.36%) iPhone
11 2 (0.36%) Legacy Code
11 2 (0.36%) NHS
11 2 (0.36%) Product Ownership
12 1 (0.18%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 99 (18.07%) Unix
2 96 (17.52%) Linux
3 49 (8.94%) Solaris
4 40 (7.30%) Windows
5 16 (2.92%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.36%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.36%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.36%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.36%) Windows 7
7 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.18%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 175 (31.93%) Problem-Solving
2 111 (20.26%) ITIL
3 87 (15.88%) Incident Management
4 83 (15.15%) Actionable Insight
5 76 (13.87%) Service Management
6 73 (13.32%) Customer Service
7 71 (12.96%) Release Management
8 66 (12.04%) ERP
9 62 (11.31%) ITSM
10 56 (10.22%) Performance Tuning
11 55 (10.04%) CRM
12 51 (9.31%) Performance Monitoring
13 47 (8.58%) Artificial Intelligence
14 45 (8.21%) Capacity Planning
15 44 (8.03%) Capacity Management
16 39 (7.12%) Service Delivery
17 36 (6.57%) Project Management
18 34 (6.20%) Business Intelligence
19 30 (5.47%) User Acceptance Testing
20 29 (5.29%) Information Management
Programming Languages
1 253 (46.17%) SQL
2 63 (11.50%) PL/SQL
3 46 (8.39%) Java
4 38 (6.93%) Shell Script
5 31 (5.66%) T-SQL
6 19 (3.47%) C#
7 10 (1.82%) JavaScript
7 10 (1.82%) Python
8 5 (0.91%) COBOL
8 5 (0.91%) VBA
9 4 (0.73%) C
10 3 (0.55%) C++
10 3 (0.55%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.36%) PHP
11 2 (0.36%) VB
12 1 (0.18%) Bash
Qualifications
1 117 (21.35%) Degree
2 86 (15.69%) Security Cleared
3 81 (14.78%) SC Cleared
4 11 (2.01%) Microsoft Certification
5 9 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (0.91%) A+ Certification
6 5 (0.91%) MCDST
7 3 (0.55%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.36%) ECDL
8 2 (0.36%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (0.36%) MCP
9 1 (0.18%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.18%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (18.43%) SLA
2 8 (1.46%) GDPR
3 6 (1.09%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.36%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 45 (8.21%) Oracle RAC
2 25 (4.56%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.91%) Docker
4 2 (0.36%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 45 (8.21%) Data Guard
1 45 (8.21%) Oracle RMAN
2 29 (5.29%) OpenSSO
2 29 (5.29%) Single Sign-On
3 7 (1.28%) Grafana
4 5 (0.91%) ITRS Geneos
4 5 (0.91%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (0.73%) Microsoft Clustering
5 4 (0.73%) SCOM
5 4 (0.73%) WhatsUp Gold
6 2 (0.36%) Kibana
6 2 (0.36%) Kubernetes
6 2 (0.36%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 113 (20.62%) Microsoft
2 109 (19.89%) Oracle
3 74 (13.50%) Remedy
4 45 (8.21%) Sun
5 19 (3.47%) SAP
6 18 (3.28%) Civica
7 17 (3.10%) ServiceNow
8 12 (2.19%) FNZ
9 7 (1.28%) Epicor
9 7 (1.28%) Salesforce
10 6 (1.09%) Guidewire
11 5 (0.91%) AppDynamics
11 5 (0.91%) CA
11 5 (0.91%) Google
11 5 (0.91%) NEC
11 5 (0.91%) Sage
11 5 (0.91%) Splunk
11 5 (0.91%) Sybase
12 4 (0.73%) Infor
13 3 (0.55%) Cognos