Applications Manager Job Trends

Application Manager
UK

The median Application Manager salary in the UK is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 9 September 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 552 557 597
Rank change year-on-year +5 +40 +61
Permanent jobs requiring an Applications Manager 252 113 203
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.22% 0.23% 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% 0.25% 0.27%
Number of salaries quoted 211 75 150
10th Percentile £35,000 £46,250 £49,950
25th Percentile £48,453 £50,275 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +12.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £75,000 £97,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £106,250 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £58,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% -5.98% -13.33%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 105,368 44,470 74,632
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.69% 89.68% 95.24%
Number of salaries quoted 72,550 26,183 45,719
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,424 £75,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -4.76%

Applications Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Applications Manager' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Applications Manager job vacancy trend in the UK

Applications Manager
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for Applications Manager job vacancies in the UK.

Salary distribution trend for Applications Manager job vacancies in the UK

Applications Manager
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Applications Manager over the 6 months to 9 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Applications Manager in the UK

Applications Manager
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Applications Manager within the UK over the 6 months to 9 September 2026. 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
England -4 226 £55,000 -20.00% 77
UK excluding London -28 152 £50,000 -9.09% 50
London -13 85 £75,000 -21.05% 48
Work from Home +3 80 £60,000 - 48
Midlands -2 57 £50,000 -13.04% 4
North of England -31 54 £57,500 +15.00% 13
West Midlands +6 50 £35,000 -39.13%
North West -6 27 £57,500 +21.05% 9
South East -33 24 £50,001 +5.26% 12
Yorkshire -30 22 £57,500 -28.13% 3
Wales - 9 £45,000 -
East Midlands - 7 £51,524 - 4
Scotland +13 6 £100,000 -4.76% 9
North East - 5 - - 1
South West -71 2 £53,000 -30.27% 4

Applications Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 9 September 2026, Applications Manager job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Applications Manager in the job title.

1 69 (27.38%) Continuous Improvement
2 58 (23.02%) Stakeholder Management
3 51 (20.24%) ITIL
4 49 (19.44%) Service Management
5 44 (17.46%) Azure
5 44 (17.46%) Problem-Solving
6 42 (16.67%) Microsoft
7 39 (15.48%) Power Platform
8 32 (12.70%) Agile
8 32 (12.70%) Service Delivery
9 30 (11.90%) Project Delivery
10 25 (9.92%) Power BI
11 24 (9.52%) Root Cause Analysis
12 23 (9.13%) Incident Management
12 23 (9.13%) Project Management
13 22 (8.73%) AI
14 21 (8.33%) Change Management
14 21 (8.33%) Degree
15 19 (7.54%) CRM
16 18 (7.14%) ERP
16 18 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
17 17 (6.75%) Dynamics 365
17 17 (6.75%) Mentoring
17 17 (6.75%) SQL
18 16 (6.35%) Roadmaps
19 15 (5.95%) Business Continuity
19 15 (5.95%) SDLC
20 14 (5.56%) Business Intelligence
20 14 (5.56%) Power Automate
20 14 (5.56%) PRINCE2

Applications Manager Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 12 (4.76%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.59%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.40%) Apache
3 1 (0.40%) JBoss
3 1 (0.40%) nginx
Applications
1 7 (2.78%) Microsoft Project
2 5 (1.98%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (1.59%) Oracle EBS
1 4 (1.59%) Primavera
2 3 (1.19%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.40%) Elite 3E
3 1 (0.40%) Misys Equation
3 1 (0.40%) Misys Midas
Cloud Services
1 44 (17.46%) Azure
2 39 (15.48%) Power Platform
3 18 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
4 17 (6.75%) Dynamics 365
5 14 (5.56%) Power Automate
6 13 (5.16%) SaaS
7 9 (3.57%) AWS
7 9 (3.57%) PowerApps
8 5 (1.98%) Microsoft Purview
9 4 (1.59%) Entra ID
10 3 (1.19%) Asana
10 3 (1.19%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (1.19%) Figma
10 3 (1.19%) GCP
10 3 (1.19%) OneDrive
11 2 (0.79%) Snowflake
12 1 (0.40%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.98%) DHCP
1 5 (1.98%) DNS
1 5 (1.98%) Firewall
1 5 (1.98%) SSH
1 5 (1.98%) VLAN
1 5 (1.98%) VPN
2 1 (0.40%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (9.92%) Power BI
2 7 (2.78%) Relational Database
3 2 (0.79%) Data Hub
3 2 (0.79%) Data Lake
3 2 (0.79%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (3.97%) JIRA
2 1 (0.40%) Bitbucket
2 1 (0.40%) Git
2 1 (0.40%) Subversion
General
1 49 (19.44%) Finance
2 48 (19.05%) Social Skills
3 25 (9.92%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (8.33%) Banking
5 15 (5.95%) Law
5 15 (5.95%) Marketing
6 8 (3.17%) Financial Institution
6 8 (3.17%) Manufacturing
7 7 (2.78%) Games
7 7 (2.78%) Public Sector
8 6 (2.38%) Legal
8 6 (2.38%) Tech for Good
9 4 (1.59%) Local Government
10 3 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.79%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.40%) French Language
12 1 (0.40%) Health Technology
12 1 (0.40%) Legal Technology
12 1 (0.40%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.40%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.59%) Oracle Fusion
1 4 (1.59%) Spring
2 2 (0.79%) AngularJS
2 2 (0.79%) JSON
2 2 (0.79%) Kafka
2 2 (0.79%) RESTful
2 2 (0.79%) Spring Boot
3 1 (0.40%) .NET
3 1 (0.40%) CSS
3 1 (0.40%) CSS3
3 1 (0.40%) HTML
3 1 (0.40%) HTML5
3 1 (0.40%) Keycloak
3 1 (0.40%) OAuth
3 1 (0.40%) OAuth2
3 1 (0.40%) OpenID
3 1 (0.40%) React
Miscellaneous
1 31 (12.30%) Enterprise Software
2 26 (10.32%) Housing Association
3 13 (5.16%) Management Information System
4 10 (3.97%) AS400
4 10 (3.97%) Product Ownership
5 9 (3.57%) Cloud Native
6 6 (2.38%) Mobile App
7 5 (1.98%) IoT
8 4 (1.59%) Low-Code
9 2 (0.79%) Credit Risk
9 2 (0.79%) iSeries
9 2 (0.79%) SystemC
10 1 (0.40%) Data Centre
10 1 (0.40%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.40%) LPAR
10 1 (0.40%) NHS
10 1 (0.40%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.40%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.59%) Windows
1 4 (1.59%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (27.38%) Continuous Improvement
2 58 (23.02%) Stakeholder Management
3 51 (20.24%) ITIL
4 49 (19.44%) Service Management
5 44 (17.46%) Problem-Solving
6 32 (12.70%) Agile
6 32 (12.70%) Service Delivery
7 30 (11.90%) Project Delivery
8 24 (9.52%) Root Cause Analysis
9 23 (9.13%) Incident Management
9 23 (9.13%) Project Management
10 22 (8.73%) AI
11 21 (8.33%) Change Management
12 19 (7.54%) CRM
13 18 (7.14%) ERP
14 17 (6.75%) Mentoring
15 16 (6.35%) Roadmaps
16 15 (5.95%) Business Continuity
16 15 (5.95%) SDLC
17 14 (5.56%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 17 (6.75%) SQL
2 10 (3.97%) RPG
3 9 (3.57%) COBOL
4 5 (1.98%) Java
4 5 (1.98%) Python
5 2 (0.79%) PHP
5 2 (0.79%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.40%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 21 (8.33%) Degree
2 8 (3.17%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (2.38%) ITIL Certification
4 4 (1.59%) PMI Certification
4 4 (1.59%) PMP
5 2 (0.79%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.40%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.37%) GDPR
2 8 (3.17%) SLA
3 6 (2.38%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.98%) PMO
5 4 (1.59%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.59%) GRC
5 4 (1.59%) QA
6 1 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (1.59%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.19%) IAG
3 1 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 2 (0.79%) AppManager
2 1 (0.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (0.40%) Nagios
2 1 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 42 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 12 (4.76%) IBM
3 7 (2.78%) Oracle
4 4 (1.59%) Adaptive Insights
4 4 (1.59%) Autodesk
4 4 (1.59%) Kronos
4 4 (1.59%) SAP
4 4 (1.59%) Workday
5 3 (1.19%) Ariba
5 3 (1.19%) Salesforce
6 2 (0.79%) Databricks
6 2 (0.79%) Google
6 2 (0.79%) Guidewire
6 2 (0.79%) Liquidlogic
6 2 (0.79%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.40%) Aderant
7 1 (0.40%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.40%) iManage
7 1 (0.40%) Intapp
7 1 (0.40%) New Relic