Applications Engineer Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Applications Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Applications Engineer salary for remote or hybrid work is £52,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 343 493 502
Rank change year-on-year +150 +9 +86
Permanent jobs requiring an Applications Engineer 54 99 174
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.36% 0.29% 0.41%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.40% 0.30% 0.42%
Number of salaries quoted 44 81 150
10th Percentile £35,000 £33,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £39,375 £39,000 £40,834
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £65,938
90th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £86,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £42,500 £53,500
% change year-on-year +17.65% -20.56% +12.63%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 13,554 32,482 41,080
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.64% 95.99% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 9,860 24,960 29,208
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,000 £36,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £47,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -10.40% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,777 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.95% -12.04% -

Applications Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Applications Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Applications Engineer trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Applications Engineer
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Applications Engineer.

Applications Engineer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Applications Engineer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Applications Engineer over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Applications Engineer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Applications Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Applications 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 jobs with hybrid or remote work options featuring Applications Engineer in the job title.

1 31 (57.41%) SQL
2 26 (48.15%) Problem-Solving
3 19 (35.19%) Social Skills
4 15 (27.78%) Incident Management
5 13 (24.07%) Azure
6 12 (22.22%) Software Engineering
7 11 (20.37%) Mentoring
8 10 (18.52%) DevOps
8 10 (18.52%) Collaborative Working
9 9 (16.67%) ServiceNow
9 9 (16.67%) Finance
9 9 (16.67%) Python
10 8 (14.81%) Windows
10 8 (14.81%) Oracle
10 8 (14.81%) Stakeholder Management
10 8 (14.81%) Oracle Applications
10 8 (14.81%) Oracle EBS
10 8 (14.81%) Middleware
10 8 (14.81%) Project Management
10 8 (14.81%) Microsoft
10 8 (14.81%) Oracle Fusion
10 8 (14.81%) Cost Reduction
10 8 (14.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 7 (12.96%) Microsoft 365
11 7 (12.96%) Analytical Skills
11 7 (12.96%) PowerShell
11 7 (12.96%) SaaS
11 7 (12.96%) Agile
11 7 (12.96%) Linux
12 6 (11.11%) Degree

Applications Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 2 (3.70%) Apache
1 2 (3.70%) IIS
1 2 (3.70%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.85%) Confluence
2 1 (1.85%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (3.70%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (14.81%) Oracle Applications
1 8 (14.81%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.85%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 13 (24.07%) Azure
2 7 (12.96%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (12.96%) SaaS
3 4 (7.41%) Power Platform
4 3 (5.56%) AWS
5 2 (3.70%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (3.70%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.85%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (1.85%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.85%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (1.85%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.85%) Azure API Management
6 1 (1.85%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (1.85%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (1.85%) GCP
6 1 (1.85%) PaaS
6 1 (1.85%) PowerApps
6 1 (1.85%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.85%) Firewall
1 1 (1.85%) HTTP
1 1 (1.85%) Internet
1 1 (1.85%) Intranet
1 1 (1.85%) SAN
1 1 (1.85%) Software-Defined Networking
1 1 (1.85%) SSL
1 1 (1.85%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (9.26%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (7.41%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (7.41%) Power BI
2 4 (7.41%) Redis
3 3 (5.56%) Relational Database
3 3 (5.56%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.85%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.85%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.85%) MySQL
4 1 (1.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (5.56%) JIRA
2 2 (3.70%) Git
3 1 (1.85%) Appium
3 1 (1.85%) JUnit
3 1 (1.85%) Visual Studio
General
1 19 (35.19%) Social Skills
2 9 (16.67%) Finance
3 8 (14.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 7 (12.96%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (11.11%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (7.41%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (7.41%) Legal
7 3 (5.56%) Back Office
8 2 (3.70%) French Language
8 2 (3.70%) German Language
8 2 (3.70%) Local Government
8 2 (3.70%) Public Sector
8 2 (3.70%) Retail
9 1 (1.85%) Advertising
9 1 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.85%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.85%) Health Technology
9 1 (1.85%) Marketing
9 1 (1.85%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (14.81%) Middleware
1 8 (14.81%) Oracle Fusion
2 5 (9.26%) REST
3 4 (7.41%) Android Jetpack
3 4 (7.41%) Jetpack Compose
3 4 (7.41%) Node.js
3 4 (7.41%) SwiftUI
3 4 (7.41%) XML
4 3 (5.56%) HTML
5 2 (3.70%) SOAP
6 1 (1.85%) CSS
6 1 (1.85%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (1.85%) Gherkin
6 1 (1.85%) JSON
6 1 (1.85%) Spring
6 1 (1.85%) Web Services
6 1 (1.85%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 5 (9.26%) Mobile App
2 1 (1.85%) Client/Server
2 1 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (1.85%) Housing Association
2 1 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (1.85%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 8 (14.81%) Windows
2 7 (12.96%) Linux
3 4 (7.41%) Android
3 4 (7.41%) Apple iOS
4 3 (5.56%) Unix
4 3 (5.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (48.15%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (27.78%) Incident Management
3 12 (22.22%) Software Engineering
4 11 (20.37%) Mentoring
5 10 (18.52%) Collaborative Working
5 10 (18.52%) DevOps
6 8 (14.81%) Cost Reduction
6 8 (14.81%) Project Management
6 8 (14.81%) Stakeholder Management
7 7 (12.96%) Agile
8 6 (11.11%) Computer Science
8 6 (11.11%) Customer-Centric Approach
8 6 (11.11%) Customer-Centricity
9 5 (9.26%) CI/CD
9 5 (9.26%) Customer Service
9 5 (9.26%) ITIL
9 5 (9.26%) Mathematics
9 5 (9.26%) People Management
9 5 (9.26%) SDLC
10 4 (7.41%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 31 (57.41%) SQL
2 9 (16.67%) Python
3 7 (12.96%) PowerShell
4 5 (9.26%) Java
5 4 (7.41%) Swift
6 3 (5.56%) C#
7 2 (3.70%) Bash
7 2 (3.70%) T-SQL
7 2 (3.70%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.85%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.85%) Perl
8 1 (1.85%) Progress 4GL
8 1 (1.85%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (11.11%) Degree
2 1 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (1.85%) DV Cleared
2 1 (1.85%) HND
2 1 (1.85%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.41%) Accessibility
1 4 (7.41%) QA
2 3 (5.56%) FINRA
3 2 (3.70%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (3.70%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 2 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (3.70%) SLA
4 1 (1.85%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.85%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (7.41%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (3.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 2 (3.70%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (1.85%) Ansible
2 1 (1.85%) Kibana
2 1 (1.85%) logstash
2 1 (1.85%) SCCM
2 1 (1.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (16.67%) ServiceNow
2 8 (14.81%) Microsoft
2 8 (14.81%) Oracle
3 5 (9.26%) iManage
3 5 (9.26%) Intapp
4 3 (5.56%) Adobe
4 3 (5.56%) DocuSign
5 2 (3.70%) Aderant
6 1 (1.85%) Capita
6 1 (1.85%) Cisco
6 1 (1.85%) Databricks
6 1 (1.85%) Freshdesk
6 1 (1.85%) Meraki
6 1 (1.85%) Progress