Applications Specialist Jobs with Work from Home Options

Application Specialist
UK > Work from Home

The median Application Specialist salary in Work from Home is £47,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 564 602 739
Rank change year-on-year +38 +137 -210
Permanent jobs requiring an Applications Specialist 26 73 92
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.077% 0.17% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.080% 0.18% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 22 66 64
10th Percentile £31,500 £36,375 £37,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,471 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -13.04% +53.33%
75th Percentile £53,750 £57,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £66,750 £81,250 £82,500
UK median annual salary £47,750 £47,500 £56,000
% change year-on-year +0.53% -15.18% +21.08%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 32,462 41,558 65,000
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.99% 96.10% 97.40%
Number of salaries quoted 24,940 29,452 41,851
10th Percentile £33,000 £36,503 £36,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,447 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.40% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £79,600
90th Percentile £92,500 £99,750 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,686 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.19% - +9.09%

Applications Specialist
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Applications Specialist in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Applications Specialist trend for jobs with a WFH option

Applications Specialist
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Applications Specialist.

Applications Specialist salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Applications Specialist
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Applications Specialist over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Applications Specialist salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, Applications Specialist 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 remote work options featuring Applications Specialist in the job title.

1 13 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 10 (38.46%) SQL
3 7 (26.92%) SQL Server
4 6 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (19.23%) Microsoft
5 5 (19.23%) Power Platform
6 4 (15.38%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (15.38%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (15.38%) Roadmaps
6 4 (15.38%) Business Strategy
6 4 (15.38%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (15.38%) Performance Tuning
6 4 (15.38%) Power BI
6 4 (15.38%) ETL
6 4 (15.38%) Business Intelligence
6 4 (15.38%) Azure
6 4 (15.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 4 (15.38%) Retail
6 4 (15.38%) Business Analysis
7 3 (11.54%) .NET
7 3 (11.54%) Degree
7 3 (11.54%) Process Improvement
7 3 (11.54%) Windows
7 3 (11.54%) Linux
7 3 (11.54%) Customer Service
8 2 (7.69%) Product Ownership
8 2 (7.69%) Onboarding
8 2 (7.69%) Budget Management
8 2 (7.69%) Data Interpretation

Applications Specialist 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 1 (3.85%) Apache
1 1 (3.85%) IIS
1 1 (3.85%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 5 (19.23%) Power Platform
2 4 (15.38%) Azure
3 2 (7.69%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (3.85%) Dynamics 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (26.92%) SQL Server
2 4 (15.38%) Power BI
3 2 (7.69%) DataStage
3 2 (7.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (3.85%) Redis
General
1 10 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 6 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (15.38%) Influencing Skills
3 4 (15.38%) Organisational Skills
3 4 (15.38%) Retail
4 2 (7.69%) Legal
4 2 (7.69%) Local Government
5 1 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.85%) Finance
5 1 (3.85%) Front Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (11.54%) .NET
2 1 (3.85%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (15.38%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (7.69%) Algorithms
2 2 (7.69%) Data Structures
2 2 (7.69%) Management Information System
2 2 (7.69%) Onboarding
2 2 (7.69%) Product Ownership
2 2 (7.69%) SystemC
Operating Systems
1 3 (11.54%) Linux
1 3 (11.54%) Windows
2 2 (7.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (15.38%) Business Analysis
2 4 (15.38%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (15.38%) Business Strategy
2 4 (15.38%) ETL
2 4 (15.38%) Performance Tuning
2 4 (15.38%) Roadmaps
2 4 (15.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 3 (11.54%) Customer Service
3 3 (11.54%) Process Improvement
4 2 (7.69%) Analytical Thinking
4 2 (7.69%) Budget Management
4 2 (7.69%) Commercial Awareness
4 2 (7.69%) Data Interpretation
4 2 (7.69%) Data Strategy
4 2 (7.69%) Digital Strategy
4 2 (7.69%) Emotional Intelligence
4 2 (7.69%) IT Strategy
4 2 (7.69%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 2 (7.69%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 10 (38.46%) SQL
2 2 (7.69%) Bash
2 2 (7.69%) C
2 2 (7.69%) PowerShell
3 1 (3.85%) C#
3 1 (3.85%) JavaScript
3 1 (3.85%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (11.54%) Degree
2 2 (7.69%) Master's Degree
2 2 (7.69%) Numerate Degree
System Software
1 1 (3.85%) Shibboleth
1 1 (3.85%) Varnish
Vendors
1 5 (19.23%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.85%) Murex