Applications Support Engineer Jobs

Application Support Engineer
UK

The median Application Support Engineer salary in the UK is £40,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 May 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
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 780 813 920
Rank change year-on-year +33 +107 -246
Permanent jobs requiring an Applications Support Engineer 131 186 297
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.18% 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.20% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 115 130 263
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £29,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £35,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +5.88% -5.56%
75th Percentile £61,250 £57,500 £54,375
90th Percentile £70,000 £66,250 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,500 £35,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% -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 93,212 94,769 150,357
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.51% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 66,814 59,630 85,382
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,225
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +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 4 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Applications Support Engineer in the UK

Applications Support Engineer
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 Support Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 4 May 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 +58 117 £42,500 - 36
UK excluding London -31 87 £37,500 +7.14% 28
Work from Home +32 53 £42,500 -5.56% 23
London +106 43 £60,000 +14.83% 10
South East +30 34 £42,500 +6.25% 5
Midlands +24 24 £28,500 -18.57% 7
East Midlands +1 22 £28,500 -18.57% 3
Scotland -55 13 £31,250 -37.50% 3
South West -25 7 £35,000 +7.69% 5
North of England +2 6 £35,500 -5.33% 6
Yorkshire +62 5 £40,000 +5.26% 2
East of England +22 2 £36,750 -41.20% 3
West Midlands +10 2 £30,250 -13.57% 4
North West +6 1 £31,000 +3.33% 4
Wales - 1 £47,500 -

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

For the 6 months to 4 May 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 85 (64.89%) SQL
2 41 (31.30%) Problem-Solving
3 35 (26.72%) Windows
4 34 (25.95%) Microsoft
4 34 (25.95%) Azure
5 32 (24.43%) Linux
6 30 (22.90%) Finance
6 30 (22.90%) Analytical Skills
7 28 (21.37%) ITIL
8 27 (20.61%) Degree
9 25 (19.08%) Law
10 23 (17.56%) SQL Server
10 23 (17.56%) Java
10 23 (17.56%) Active Directory
11 21 (16.03%) Social Skills
12 19 (14.50%) Service Management
13 18 (13.74%) Python
14 17 (12.98%) SLA
14 17 (12.98%) Customer Requirements
14 17 (12.98%) Microsoft 365
15 15 (11.45%) AWS
15 15 (11.45%) User Experience
15 15 (11.45%) User Acceptance Testing
15 15 (11.45%) PL/SQL
15 15 (11.45%) C#
16 14 (10.69%) MySQL
16 14 (10.69%) JIRA
16 14 (10.69%) Fintech
17 13 (9.92%) Customer Service
18 12 (9.16%) Windows Server

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 (7.63%) IIS
1 10 (7.63%) Tomcat
2 8 (6.11%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (4.58%) SharePoint
4 5 (3.82%) WebSphere
5 3 (2.29%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (5.34%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.53%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.53%) Eikon
2 1 (0.76%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.76%) Endur
2 1 (0.76%) Findur
Cloud Services
1 34 (25.95%) Azure
2 17 (12.98%) Microsoft 365
3 15 (11.45%) AWS
4 11 (8.40%) Entra ID
5 8 (6.11%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 8 (6.11%) Azure Monitor
5 8 (6.11%) WhatsApp
6 6 (4.58%) Power Automate
7 5 (3.82%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (3.05%) Azure Logic Apps
8 4 (3.05%) Power Platform
8 4 (3.05%) PowerApps
8 4 (3.05%) SaaS
9 2 (1.53%) Slack
10 1 (0.76%) Azure Stack
10 1 (0.76%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 10 (7.63%) Firewall
2 9 (6.87%) VPN
3 5 (3.82%) DNS
3 5 (3.82%) SAN
3 5 (3.82%) SSL
4 4 (3.05%) Intranet
4 4 (3.05%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (0.76%) Internet
5 1 (0.76%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (17.56%) SQL Server
2 14 (10.69%) MySQL
3 5 (3.82%) Pentaho
4 4 (3.05%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (3.05%) Power BI
5 2 (1.53%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 2 (1.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (1.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.76%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.76%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 14 (10.69%) JIRA
2 6 (4.58%) Bitbucket
3 3 (2.29%) Git
4 2 (1.53%) IntelliJ
5 1 (0.76%) Eclipse
5 1 (0.76%) GitLab
5 1 (0.76%) Gradle
5 1 (0.76%) JUnit
General
1 30 (22.90%) Analytical Skills
1 30 (22.90%) Finance
2 25 (19.08%) Law
3 21 (16.03%) Social Skills
4 7 (5.34%) Legal
5 6 (4.58%) Banking
6 5 (3.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (3.05%) Front Office
7 4 (3.05%) Marketing
8 2 (1.53%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.53%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.76%) Advertising
9 1 (0.76%) Agriculture
9 1 (0.76%) Back Office
9 1 (0.76%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.58%) Kafka
2 4 (3.05%) HTML
3 3 (2.29%) .NET
3 3 (2.29%) Spring Boot
4 2 (1.53%) FIX Protocol
4 2 (1.53%) Spring
5 1 (0.76%) CSS
5 1 (0.76%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.76%) JSON
5 1 (0.76%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.87%) Linux Command Line
2 8 (6.11%) Greenfield Project
3 7 (5.34%) Driving Licence
3 7 (5.34%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (3.82%) Clustering
4 5 (3.82%) Data Centre
4 5 (3.82%) Reference Data
5 4 (3.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 4 (3.05%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (1.53%) iPhone
6 2 (1.53%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.76%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.76%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.76%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.76%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 35 (26.72%) Windows
2 32 (24.43%) Linux
3 12 (9.16%) Windows Server
4 9 (6.87%) Unix
5 7 (5.34%) Windows 10
6 4 (3.05%) Apple iOS
7 2 (1.53%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.76%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.76%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.76%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (31.30%) Problem-Solving
2 28 (21.37%) ITIL
3 19 (14.50%) Service Management
4 17 (12.98%) Customer Requirements
5 15 (11.45%) User Acceptance Testing
5 15 (11.45%) User Experience
6 14 (10.69%) Fintech
7 13 (9.92%) Customer Service
8 12 (9.16%) Software Engineering
9 10 (7.63%) High Availability
10 9 (6.87%) Agile
10 9 (6.87%) Migration
11 8 (6.11%) Computer Science
12 7 (5.34%) Business Intelligence
12 7 (5.34%) Infrastructure as Code
13 6 (4.58%) Collaborative Working
14 5 (3.82%) Continuous Improvement
14 5 (3.82%) Database Tuning
14 5 (3.82%) Server Monitoring
14 5 (3.82%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 85 (64.89%) SQL
2 23 (17.56%) Java
3 18 (13.74%) Python
4 15 (11.45%) C#
4 15 (11.45%) PL/SQL
5 6 (4.58%) PowerShell
6 5 (3.82%) Shell Script
7 4 (3.05%) C++
7 4 (3.05%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 27 (20.61%) Degree
2 8 (6.11%) Microsoft Certification
3 7 (5.34%) Azure Certification
3 7 (5.34%) Master's Degree
4 5 (3.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (3.05%) A+ Certification
5 4 (3.05%) AWS Certification
5 4 (3.05%) MCDST
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (12.98%) SLA
2 2 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.76%) QA
System Software
1 23 (17.56%) Active Directory
2 4 (3.05%) Docker
3 2 (1.53%) vSphere
4 1 (0.76%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 8 (6.11%) Terraform
2 7 (5.34%) ITRS Geneos
3 5 (3.82%) Grafana
3 5 (3.82%) Microsoft Clustering
3 5 (3.82%) Pingdom
4 4 (3.05%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.76%) Kibana
5 1 (0.76%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.76%) logstash
Vendors
1 34 (25.95%) Microsoft
2 10 (7.63%) Murex
3 9 (6.87%) Oracle
4 5 (3.82%) AppDynamics
4 5 (3.82%) CA
4 5 (3.82%) SolarWinds
4 5 (3.82%) Splunk
4 5 (3.82%) Sybase
5 4 (3.05%) Bloomberg
6 3 (2.29%) Trayport
7 2 (1.53%) Apple
7 2 (1.53%) Ivanti
7 2 (1.53%) MarketAxess
7 2 (1.53%) Okta
7 2 (1.53%) PagerDuty
7 2 (1.53%) Tradeweb
8 1 (0.76%) Civica
8 1 (0.76%) OpenLink
8 1 (0.76%) Sage
8 1 (0.76%) VMware