Applications Manager Job Trends

Application Manager
UK

The median Application Manager salary in the UK is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 January 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 472 572 602
Rank change year-on-year +100 +30 +89
Permanent jobs requiring an Applications Manager 180 139 112
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.30% 0.26% 0.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.33% 0.28% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 130 101 101
10th Percentile £51,875 £49,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% +3.70%
75th Percentile £71,750 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% - +12.07%

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 54,710 49,797 52,819
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.74% 92.91% 95.25%
Number of salaries quoted 33,899 25,819 40,678
10th Percentile £28,560 £33,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,250 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,325
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% -5.18%

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 15 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Applications Manager in the UK

Applications Manager
Top 16 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 15 January 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 +84 152 £70,000 +7.69% 18
UK excluding London +74 130 £70,000 +7.69% 18
Work from Home +47 48 £69,500 +6.92% 13
South East +41 41 £60,000 -11.11% 8
North of England +18 34 £70,000 +16.67% 1
London +65 30 £77,500 +19.23% 8
Midlands +36 29 £57,500 -25.81% 2
West Midlands +40 27 £60,000 -25.00% 1
North West +35 18 £70,000 +12.00%
Yorkshire -4 16 £70,000 +12.00% 1
South West +2 8 £62,500 -16.67% 2
Scotland +5 7 £70,000 +7.69% 1
East of England +26 4 - - 2
Northern Ireland -8 4 £70,000 -6.67%
Wales +8 3 £70,000 -6.67% 3
East Midlands -17 2 £40,000 -30.43% 1

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

For the 6 months to 15 January 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 61 (33.89%) Power Platform
2 58 (32.22%) Dynamics 365
3 23 (12.78%) Continuous Improvement
4 22 (12.22%) Microsoft
5 19 (10.56%) ITIL
6 18 (10.00%) Agile
6 18 (10.00%) Azure
7 17 (9.44%) DevOps
7 17 (9.44%) Service Delivery
8 15 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
8 15 (8.33%) ERP
8 15 (8.33%) SQL
9 14 (7.78%) Service Management
10 12 (6.67%) Problem-Solving
10 12 (6.67%) Project Management
10 12 (6.67%) SaaS
11 11 (6.11%) CRM
11 11 (6.11%) ServiceNow
12 10 (5.56%) Decision-Making
13 9 (5.00%) Customer Experience
13 9 (5.00%) Mentoring
13 9 (5.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 9 (5.00%) Workflow
14 8 (4.44%) Change Management
14 8 (4.44%) ITSM
14 8 (4.44%) Line Management
14 8 (4.44%) People Management
15 7 (3.89%) Coaching
15 7 (3.89%) Customer-Centricity
15 7 (3.89%) Degree

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 3 (1.67%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.11%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.56%) Confluence
3 1 (0.56%) IIS
Applications
1 5 (2.78%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (2.22%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (2.78%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.56%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 61 (33.89%) Power Platform
2 58 (32.22%) Dynamics 365
3 18 (10.00%) Azure
4 15 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
5 12 (6.67%) SaaS
6 6 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (2.22%) AWS
7 4 (2.22%) Smartsheet
8 3 (1.67%) PowerApps
9 2 (1.11%) Azure AKS
9 2 (1.11%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (1.11%) PaaS
9 2 (1.11%) Power Automate
10 1 (0.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (0.56%) Amazon EMR
10 1 (0.56%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (0.56%) AWS Step Functions
10 1 (0.56%) MailChimp
10 1 (0.56%) Serverless
10 1 (0.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.33%) SQL Server
2 5 (2.78%) Power BI
3 2 (1.11%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.56%) Big Data
4 1 (0.56%) DB2
4 1 (0.56%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.56%) Flink
4 1 (0.56%) MariaDB
4 1 (0.56%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (2.22%) JIRA
2 2 (1.11%) Eclipse
3 1 (0.56%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.56%) Gradle
3 1 (0.56%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.56%) MSI
General
1 52 (28.89%) Tech for Good
2 33 (18.33%) Finance
3 18 (10.00%) Social Skills
4 8 (4.44%) Law
5 6 (3.33%) Manufacturing
5 6 (3.33%) Retail
6 5 (2.78%) Legal
6 5 (2.78%) Marketing
7 3 (1.67%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.11%) Billing
8 2 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.11%) Social Housing
9 1 (0.56%) Advertising
9 1 (0.56%) Back Office
9 1 (0.56%) Electronics
9 1 (0.56%) Multimedia
9 1 (0.56%) Police
9 1 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.56%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.33%) .NET
2 4 (2.22%) Middleware
3 2 (1.11%) CSS
3 2 (1.11%) HTML
3 2 (1.11%) JSON
3 2 (1.11%) REST
3 2 (1.11%) RESTful
3 2 (1.11%) SOAP
3 2 (1.11%) Spring
3 2 (1.11%) Web Services
3 2 (1.11%) YAML
4 1 (0.56%) .NET Core
4 1 (0.56%) Drools
4 1 (0.56%) Kafka
4 1 (0.56%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (0.56%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 32 (17.78%) Enterprise Software
2 7 (3.89%) Educational Technology
3 6 (3.33%) Management Information System
4 4 (2.22%) Hedge funds
4 4 (2.22%) Low-Code
4 4 (2.22%) Onboarding
4 4 (2.22%) Product Ownership
5 3 (1.67%) Cloud Native
5 3 (1.67%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (1.67%) Mainframe
5 3 (1.67%) Reinsurance
6 2 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.11%) Housing Association
6 2 (1.11%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.56%) Driving Licence
7 1 (0.56%) e-Learning
7 1 (0.56%) Learning Management System
7 1 (0.56%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.56%) Android
1 1 (0.56%) Apple iOS
1 1 (0.56%) Linux
1 1 (0.56%) Mac OS
1 1 (0.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (12.78%) Continuous Improvement
2 19 (10.56%) ITIL
3 18 (10.00%) Agile
4 17 (9.44%) DevOps
4 17 (9.44%) Service Delivery
5 15 (8.33%) ERP
6 14 (7.78%) Service Management
7 12 (6.67%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (6.67%) Project Management
8 11 (6.11%) CRM
9 10 (5.56%) Decision-Making
10 9 (5.00%) Customer Experience
10 9 (5.00%) Mentoring
10 9 (5.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 9 (5.00%) Workflow
11 8 (4.44%) Change Management
11 8 (4.44%) ITSM
11 8 (4.44%) Line Management
11 8 (4.44%) People Management
12 7 (3.89%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 15 (8.33%) SQL
2 4 (2.22%) C#
2 4 (2.22%) Java
3 3 (1.67%) PowerShell
3 3 (1.67%) Python
4 2 (1.11%) COBOL
5 1 (0.56%) Bash
5 1 (0.56%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 7 (3.89%) Degree
2 3 (1.67%) DBS Check
3 2 (1.11%) CISSP
3 2 (1.11%) PMI Certification
3 2 (1.11%) PMP
4 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (0.56%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.56%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.78%) Accessibility
2 3 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (1.67%) QA
3 2 (1.11%) GDPR
3 2 (1.11%) NCSC
3 2 (1.11%) NIST
3 2 (1.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 3 (1.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (1.11%) Kubernetes
1 2 (1.11%) Prometheus
2 1 (0.56%) Ansible
2 1 (0.56%) Grafana
2 1 (0.56%) Jamf Pro
2 1 (0.56%) SCCM
2 1 (0.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 22 (12.22%) Microsoft
2 11 (6.11%) ServiceNow
3 6 (3.33%) Oracle
4 3 (1.67%) HubSpot
4 3 (1.67%) iManage
5 2 (1.11%) Dynatrace
5 2 (1.11%) Guidewire
5 2 (1.11%) SAP
5 2 (1.11%) Workday
6 1 (0.56%) IFS
6 1 (0.56%) Kronos
6 1 (0.56%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.56%) VMware