Applications Support Engineer Jobs

Application Support Engineer
UK

The median Application Support Engineer salary in the UK is £42,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 16 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
16 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 758 797 902
Rank change year-on-year +39 +105 -223
Permanent jobs requiring an Applications Support Engineer 133 208 300
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.19% 0.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.21% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 117 143 263
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,500 £29,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,000 £35,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +5.88% -5.56%
75th Percentile £64,000 £56,625 £52,500
90th Percentile £67,984 £65,000 £72,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £35,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% -12.50% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 91,973 98,868 146,086
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.65% 91.69% 96.03%
Number of salaries quoted 66,504 61,753 85,740
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,308 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.15% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

Applications Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Applications Support Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Applications Support Engineer in the UK

Applications Support Engineer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Applications Support Engineer.

Salary trend for Applications Support Engineer in the UK

Applications Support Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Applications Support Engineer over the 6 months to 16 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Applications Support Engineer in the UK

Applications Support Engineer
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 Support Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 16 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
England +85 118 £42,500 +2.41% 28
UK excluding London -14 87 £40,000 +14.29% 21
Work from Home +31 53 £48,750 +8.33% 12
London +125 45 £60,000 +20.00% 12
South East +44 36 £42,500 +21.43%
Midlands +22 21 £28,500 -18.57% 5
East Midlands -5 19 £28,500 -18.57% 3
Scotland -44 12 £29,000 -42.00% 5
South West -11 7 £37,500 +15.38% 8
North of England +21 6 £35,500 -5.33% 2
Yorkshire +62 5 £40,000 -0.62% 1
West Midlands +37 2 £30,250 -5.47% 2
East of England +29 2 £36,750 -41.20% 1
Northern Ireland +4 2 £50,000 +38.89%
North West +11 1 £31,000 -7.46% 1
Wales - 1 £47,500 -

Applications Support Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 16 April 2024, Applications Support 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 featuring Applications Support Engineer in the job title.

1 83 (62.41%) SQL
2 38 (28.57%) Microsoft
3 37 (27.82%) Windows
3 37 (27.82%) Problem-Solving
4 36 (27.07%) Linux
5 35 (26.32%) Azure
6 30 (22.56%) Finance
7 28 (21.05%) Degree
8 27 (20.30%) ITIL
9 26 (19.55%) Active Directory
10 25 (18.80%) Analytical Skills
11 24 (18.05%) SQL Server
12 22 (16.54%) Java
12 22 (16.54%) Law
13 20 (15.04%) Microsoft 365
14 19 (14.29%) Social Skills
15 18 (13.53%) PL/SQL
16 17 (12.78%) MySQL
16 17 (12.78%) Python
16 17 (12.78%) Service Management
17 15 (11.28%) SLA
18 14 (10.53%) Windows Server
18 14 (10.53%) Customer Requirements
18 14 (10.53%) Fintech
19 13 (9.77%) User Experience
19 13 (9.77%) User Acceptance Testing
20 12 (9.02%) Software Engineering
20 12 (9.02%) C#
20 12 (9.02%) AWS
20 12 (9.02%) Entra ID

Applications Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 10 (7.52%) Tomcat
2 9 (6.77%) IIS
2 9 (6.77%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (6.02%) SharePoint
4 5 (3.76%) WebSphere
5 2 (1.50%) Confluence
Applications
1 8 (6.02%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.50%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.50%) Eikon
2 1 (0.75%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 35 (26.32%) Azure
2 20 (15.04%) Microsoft 365
3 12 (9.02%) AWS
3 12 (9.02%) Entra ID
4 10 (7.52%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 10 (7.52%) Azure Monitor
5 7 (5.26%) WhatsApp
6 6 (4.51%) Power Automate
7 5 (3.76%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (3.01%) Azure Logic Apps
8 4 (3.01%) Power Platform
8 4 (3.01%) PowerApps
8 4 (3.01%) SaaS
9 2 (1.50%) Slack
10 1 (0.75%) Azure Stack
10 1 (0.75%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 11 (8.27%) Firewall
2 8 (6.02%) VPN
3 5 (3.76%) DNS
3 5 (3.76%) Remote Desktop
3 5 (3.76%) SAN
3 5 (3.76%) SSL
4 4 (3.01%) Intranet
5 1 (0.75%) Internet
5 1 (0.75%) NAS
5 1 (0.75%) Skype
5 1 (0.75%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (18.05%) SQL Server
2 17 (12.78%) MySQL
3 5 (3.76%) Pentaho
4 4 (3.01%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (3.01%) Power BI
5 2 (1.50%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.50%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 2 (1.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (1.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.75%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.75%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (7.52%) JIRA
2 6 (4.51%) Bitbucket
3 2 (1.50%) Git
4 1 (0.75%) Eclipse
4 1 (0.75%) GitLab
4 1 (0.75%) Gradle
4 1 (0.75%) IntelliJ
4 1 (0.75%) JUnit
General
1 30 (22.56%) Finance
2 25 (18.80%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (16.54%) Law
4 19 (14.29%) Social Skills
5 7 (5.26%) Legal
6 6 (4.51%) Banking
7 5 (3.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (3.01%) Front Office
8 4 (3.01%) Marketing
9 3 (2.26%) Military
10 2 (1.50%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.75%) Advertising
11 1 (0.75%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.75%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.51%) Kafka
2 3 (2.26%) Spring Boot
3 2 (1.50%) .NET
3 2 (1.50%) FIX Protocol
3 2 (1.50%) HTML
4 1 (0.75%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (0.75%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.77%) Linux Command Line
2 8 (6.02%) Greenfield Project
3 6 (4.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 6 (4.51%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (3.76%) Clustering
4 5 (3.76%) Data Centre
4 5 (3.76%) Driving Licence
4 5 (3.76%) Reference Data
5 4 (3.01%) Legacy Applications
6 3 (2.26%) PKI
7 2 (1.50%) iPhone
7 2 (1.50%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.75%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.75%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.75%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.75%) Fat Client
8 1 (0.75%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (0.75%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 37 (27.82%) Windows
2 36 (27.07%) Linux
3 14 (10.53%) Windows Server
4 11 (8.27%) Unix
5 10 (7.52%) Windows 10
6 4 (3.01%) Apple iOS
7 3 (2.26%) Windows Server 2012
7 3 (2.26%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (1.50%) Solaris
9 1 (0.75%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.75%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.75%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.75%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (27.82%) Problem-Solving
2 27 (20.30%) ITIL
3 17 (12.78%) Service Management
4 14 (10.53%) Customer Requirements
4 14 (10.53%) Fintech
5 13 (9.77%) User Acceptance Testing
5 13 (9.77%) User Experience
6 12 (9.02%) Customer Service
6 12 (9.02%) Software Engineering
7 9 (6.77%) Agile
7 9 (6.77%) High Availability
7 9 (6.77%) Incident Management
7 9 (6.77%) Infrastructure as Code
8 8 (6.02%) Computer Science
8 8 (6.02%) Migration
9 6 (4.51%) Continuous Improvement
10 5 (3.76%) Business Intelligence
10 5 (3.76%) ERP
10 5 (3.76%) ETL
10 5 (3.76%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 83 (62.41%) SQL
2 22 (16.54%) Java
3 18 (13.53%) PL/SQL
4 17 (12.78%) Python
5 12 (9.02%) C#
6 9 (6.77%) PowerShell
7 5 (3.76%) Shell Script
8 4 (3.01%) C++
9 3 (2.26%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 28 (21.05%) Degree
2 9 (6.77%) Azure Certification
2 9 (6.77%) Microsoft Certification
3 7 (5.26%) Master's Degree
4 5 (3.76%) A+ Certification
4 5 (3.76%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (3.76%) MCDST
5 4 (3.01%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.50%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.50%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (11.28%) SLA
2 2 (1.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 26 (19.55%) Active Directory
2 4 (3.01%) Hyper-V
3 3 (2.26%) Docker
3 3 (2.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (2.26%) vSphere
4 1 (0.75%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 10 (7.52%) Terraform
2 7 (5.26%) ITRS Geneos
3 5 (3.76%) Grafana
3 5 (3.76%) Microsoft Clustering
3 5 (3.76%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (3.76%) Pingdom
4 1 (0.75%) Failover Clustering
4 1 (0.75%) Kibana
4 1 (0.75%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.75%) logstash
4 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
4 1 (0.75%) SCCM
Vendors
1 38 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 10 (7.52%) Murex
2 10 (7.52%) Oracle
3 5 (3.76%) AppDynamics
3 5 (3.76%) CA
3 5 (3.76%) SolarWinds
3 5 (3.76%) Splunk
3 5 (3.76%) Sybase
4 4 (3.01%) Bloomberg
4 4 (3.01%) VMware
5 2 (1.50%) Apple
5 2 (1.50%) Ivanti
5 2 (1.50%) MarketAxess
5 2 (1.50%) Okta
5 2 (1.50%) PagerDuty
5 2 (1.50%) Red Hat
5 2 (1.50%) Tradeweb
5 2 (1.50%) Trayport
6 1 (0.75%) Sage
6 1 (0.75%) SAP