Applications Support Jobs

Application Support
UK

The median Application Support salary in the UK is £45,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 18 May 2025.

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

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 348 312 360
Rank change year-on-year -36 +48 +58
Permanent jobs requiring an Applications Support 461 922 913
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.82% 0.92% 0.92%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.91% 0.98% 1.01%
Number of salaries quoted 406 687 718
10th Percentile £31,000 £27,500 £29,250
25th Percentile £33,750 £35,640 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £63,750 £63,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £76,250 £90,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £38,000 £40,341 £37,500
% change year-on-year -5.80% +7.57% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 50,837 94,491 90,806
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.77% 94.69% 91.50%
Number of salaries quoted 27,317 67,546 57,366
10th Percentile £29,500 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £73,886 £71,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,645 £50,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year +3.29% -5.66% +6.00%

Applications Support
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Applications Support in the UK

Applications Support
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Applications Support in the UK

Applications Support
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Applications Support over the 6 months to 18 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Applications Support in the UK

Applications Support
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 within the UK over the 6 months to 18 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -45 440 £45,000 -2.57% 251
UK excluding London -6 286 £38,000 -5.80% 142
London -26 161 £65,000 +4.00% 143
Work from Home -16 152 £50,000 +5.26% 93
East of England +72 82 £36,250 -23.68% 12
South East -4 69 £35,750 -15.88% 55
North of England -9 65 £40,000 - 44
Midlands +12 53 £37,500 +15.38% 9
North West -39 39 £44,500 -1.11% 22
West Midlands +41 35 £42,500 +32.31% 7
Yorkshire +53 24 £38,000 +6.80% 21
East Midlands -22 18 £32,500 -1.95% 2
Scotland +88 10 £43,250 +15.33% 4
South West +79 5 £38,500 -11.49% 21
North East +29 2 £33,198 -11.47% 1
Wales -4 2 £43,750 -2.78% 1

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

For the 6 months to 18 May 2025, 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 featuring Applications Support in the job title.

1 235 (50.98%) Social Skills
2 222 (48.16%) SQL
3 193 (41.87%) Problem-Solving
4 160 (34.71%) Microsoft
5 132 (28.63%) Finance
6 119 (25.81%) Azure
7 116 (25.16%) ITIL
8 100 (21.69%) Windows
9 98 (21.26%) Analytical Skills
10 92 (19.96%) SQL Server
11 89 (19.31%) ERP
12 69 (14.97%) CRM
13 66 (14.32%) Linux
14 65 (14.10%) Oracle
14 65 (14.10%) Microsoft 365
15 59 (12.80%) Python
16 55 (11.93%) Degree
17 51 (11.06%) Continuous Improvement
18 50 (10.85%) Change Management
19 48 (10.41%) PowerShell
20 46 (9.98%) Service Management
21 43 (9.33%) PL/SQL
22 40 (8.68%) .NET
22 40 (8.68%) Customer Service
23 37 (8.03%) ITSM
24 36 (7.81%) Manufacturing
24 36 (7.81%) Banking
24 36 (7.81%) Incident Management
25 34 (7.38%) Microsoft Office
25 34 (7.38%) SharePoint

Applications Support 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 34 (7.38%) SharePoint
2 21 (4.56%) Microsoft Exchange
3 19 (4.12%) IIS
4 6 (1.30%) Confluence
5 3 (0.65%) Alfresco
5 3 (0.65%) Documentum
5 3 (0.65%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.43%) WordPress
7 1 (0.22%) Apache
7 1 (0.22%) GemFire
Applications
1 34 (7.38%) Microsoft Office
2 26 (5.64%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 30 (6.51%) Dynamics CRM
2 19 (4.12%) Oracle Applications
2 19 (4.12%) Oracle EBS
3 10 (2.17%) Dynamics AX
4 9 (1.95%) Fidessa
4 9 (1.95%) SAP S/4HANA
5 6 (1.30%) NetSuite
6 5 (1.08%) Dynamics GP
6 5 (1.08%) Dynamics NAV
7 2 (0.43%) Magento
8 1 (0.22%) Oracle Financials
8 1 (0.22%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 119 (25.81%) Azure
2 65 (14.10%) Microsoft 365
3 34 (7.38%) Power Platform
4 31 (6.72%) AWS
5 27 (5.86%) Dynamics 365
6 15 (3.25%) SaaS
7 11 (2.39%) Entra ID
8 9 (1.95%) AWS Lambda
8 9 (1.95%) Azure Logic Apps
8 9 (1.95%) Serverless
9 8 (1.74%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (1.52%) Azure Monitor
10 7 (1.52%) PowerApps
11 6 (1.30%) Amazon ECS
11 6 (1.30%) Azure Data Factory
11 6 (1.30%) Power Automate
12 5 (1.08%) Boomi
12 5 (1.08%) IaaS
12 5 (1.08%) PaaS
12 5 (1.08%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 15 (3.25%) Firewall
1 15 (3.25%) FTP
2 12 (2.60%) TCP/IP
3 10 (2.17%) DHCP
3 10 (2.17%) DNS
4 9 (1.95%) FIX Connectivity
5 4 (0.87%) VPN
6 3 (0.65%) Internet
7 2 (0.43%) Unified Communications
7 2 (0.43%) WAN
7 2 (0.43%) Wireless
8 1 (0.22%) HTTP
8 1 (0.22%) SAN
8 1 (0.22%) SSL
8 1 (0.22%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 92 (19.96%) SQL Server
2 29 (6.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 25 (5.42%) Power BI
4 24 (5.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 22 (4.77%) DB2
6 20 (4.34%) MySQL
7 12 (2.60%) Relational Database
8 8 (1.74%) GIS
9 7 (1.52%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (0.87%) Oracle Reports
11 3 (0.65%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (0.65%) Tableau
12 2 (0.43%) EDMS
12 2 (0.43%) Elasticsearch
12 2 (0.43%) MongoDB
12 2 (0.43%) PostgreSQL
13 1 (0.22%) Amazon RDS
13 1 (0.22%) Data Lake
13 1 (0.22%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 23 (4.99%) JIRA
2 12 (2.60%) Git
3 9 (1.95%) Visual Studio
4 7 (1.52%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 3 (0.65%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.65%) Log4j
6 2 (0.43%) JUnit
7 1 (0.22%) Eclipse
General
1 235 (50.98%) Social Skills
2 132 (28.63%) Finance
3 98 (21.26%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (7.81%) Banking
4 36 (7.81%) Manufacturing
5 27 (5.86%) Retail
6 24 (5.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 19 (4.12%) Law
8 13 (2.82%) Back Office
9 12 (2.60%) Front Office
10 10 (2.17%) Local Government
11 8 (1.74%) Advertising
11 8 (1.74%) Legal
12 7 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
13 6 (1.30%) German Language
14 5 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
15 4 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
15 4 (0.87%) Spanish Language
16 3 (0.65%) Automotive
16 3 (0.65%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (8.68%) .NET
2 15 (3.25%) Oracle Fusion
3 14 (3.04%) Middleware
4 13 (2.82%) HTML
4 13 (2.82%) SOAP
5 12 (2.60%) REST
5 12 (2.60%) XML
6 11 (2.39%) .NET Framework
6 11 (2.39%) EDI
6 11 (2.39%) FIX Protocol
7 10 (2.17%) Web Services
8 9 (1.95%) ASP.NET
8 9 (1.95%) JSON
9 5 (1.08%) Elastic Stack
9 5 (1.08%) Spring
10 3 (0.65%) Apache Camel
10 3 (0.65%) YAML
11 2 (0.43%) Kafka
12 1 (0.22%) ASP.NET MVC
12 1 (0.22%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 14 (3.04%) Legacy Applications
2 9 (1.95%) Data Protection Act
2 9 (1.95%) Eurex
2 9 (1.95%) Management Information System
2 9 (1.95%) Manufacturing Execution System
3 8 (1.74%) Enterprise Software
3 8 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (1.30%) Derivative
4 6 (1.30%) Equities
5 5 (1.08%) Bitcoin
5 5 (1.08%) Fixed Income
5 5 (1.08%) Onboarding
6 4 (0.87%) Client/Server
6 4 (0.87%) Driving Licence
6 4 (0.87%) Mobile App
7 3 (0.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (0.65%) Housing Association
7 3 (0.65%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 3 (0.65%) Video Conferencing
8 2 (0.43%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 100 (21.69%) Windows
2 66 (14.32%) Linux
3 23 (4.99%) Unix
4 19 (4.12%) Windows Server
5 17 (3.69%) Windows 10
6 9 (1.95%) CentOS
7 5 (1.08%) Android
7 5 (1.08%) Rocky
8 3 (0.65%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.43%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.43%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.22%) Debian
10 1 (0.22%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.22%) Solaris
10 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.22%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 193 (41.87%) Problem-Solving
2 116 (25.16%) ITIL
3 89 (19.31%) ERP
4 69 (14.97%) CRM
5 51 (11.06%) Continuous Improvement
6 50 (10.85%) Change Management
7 46 (9.98%) Service Management
8 40 (8.68%) Customer Service
9 37 (8.03%) ITSM
10 36 (7.81%) Incident Management
11 32 (6.94%) Business Intelligence
11 32 (6.94%) Mentoring
12 31 (6.72%) Collaborative Working
13 29 (6.29%) Agile
13 29 (6.29%) Computer Science
14 27 (5.86%) Customer-Centricity
15 26 (5.64%) Problem Management
15 26 (5.64%) Root Cause Analysis
15 26 (5.64%) User Experience
16 25 (5.42%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 222 (48.16%) SQL
2 59 (12.80%) Python
3 48 (10.41%) PowerShell
4 43 (9.33%) PL/SQL
5 29 (6.29%) C#
6 27 (5.86%) Java
7 25 (5.42%) T-SQL
8 22 (4.77%) VB.NET
9 12 (2.60%) Shell Script
10 9 (1.95%) C-shell
10 9 (1.95%) Korn
11 8 (1.74%) Bash
11 8 (1.74%) Perl
12 7 (1.52%) JavaScript
13 3 (0.65%) Progress 4GL
14 2 (0.43%) VB
15 1 (0.22%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 55 (11.93%) Degree
2 13 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (2.39%) Microsoft Certification
4 10 (2.17%) CISSP
4 10 (2.17%) PMI Certification
5 9 (1.95%) PhD
5 9 (1.95%) PMP
6 7 (1.52%) Security Cleared
7 6 (1.30%) SC Cleared
8 4 (0.87%) A+ Certification
8 4 (0.87%) ITIL Certification
9 3 (0.65%) DBS Check
9 3 (0.65%) MOS
10 2 (0.43%) MCITP
10 2 (0.43%) MCSE
11 1 (0.22%) CISA
11 1 (0.22%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.22%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.22%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.04%) QA
2 13 (2.82%) SLA
3 7 (1.52%) PCI DSS
4 6 (1.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (0.65%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.65%) FINRA
6 1 (0.22%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.22%) DICOM
6 1 (0.22%) GDPR
6 1 (0.22%) HL7
System Software
1 18 (3.90%) Active Directory
2 4 (0.87%) Docker
2 4 (0.87%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (3.69%) Grafana
2 13 (2.82%) Microsoft Intune
3 9 (1.95%) SCCM
4 8 (1.74%) Prometheus
5 7 (1.52%) ITRS Geneos
5 7 (1.52%) Kubernetes
5 7 (1.52%) Nagios
6 4 (0.87%) Ansible
6 4 (0.87%) Terraform
7 3 (0.65%) Progress Chef
7 3 (0.65%) Puppet
8 2 (0.43%) Kibana
8 2 (0.43%) logstash
9 1 (0.22%) Graylog
Vendors
1 160 (34.71%) Microsoft
2 65 (14.10%) Oracle
3 29 (6.29%) ServiceNow
4 22 (4.77%) SAP
5 16 (3.47%) Trayport
6 12 (2.60%) Facebook
6 12 (2.60%) SolarWinds
7 9 (1.95%) Bloomberg
7 9 (1.95%) CQG
7 9 (1.95%) ION Trading
7 9 (1.95%) Red Hat
7 9 (1.95%) Reuters
7 9 (1.95%) Splunk
8 8 (1.74%) Databricks
8 8 (1.74%) Patsystems
9 6 (1.30%) Guidewire
9 6 (1.30%) Salesforce
10 5 (1.08%) Apple
10 5 (1.08%) Dell
10 5 (1.08%) VMware