Applications Support Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Application Support
UK > Work from Home

The median Application Support salary for remote or hybrid work is £52,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 4 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
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 266 299 334
Rank change year-on-year +33 +35 +15
Permanent jobs requiring an Applications Support 158 333 405
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.03% 0.98% 0.95%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.14% 1.03% 0.99%
Number of salaries quoted 145 292 359
10th Percentile £31,250 £33,000 £28,700
25th Percentile £40,750 £39,000 £33,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £46,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +8.70% +8.24%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £92,500 £83,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - -10.00% +17.65%

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 13,910 32,483 40,831
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.78% 96.00% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 9,940 24,937 29,014
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,081 £36,541
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £47,393
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 £52,550 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.42% -12.42% -

Applications Support
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

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

Applications Support
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Applications Support salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Applications Support
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Applications Support over the 6 months to 4 May 2025.

Applications Support salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 4 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 jobs with hybrid or remote work options featuring Applications Support in the job title.

1 94 (59.49%) SQL
2 85 (53.80%) Social Skills
3 65 (41.14%) Problem-Solving
4 62 (39.24%) Finance
5 58 (36.71%) Windows
6 53 (33.54%) Microsoft
7 47 (29.75%) Azure
8 44 (27.85%) SQL Server
9 36 (22.78%) ITIL
9 36 (22.78%) Analytical Skills
10 33 (20.89%) PL/SQL
11 30 (18.99%) C#
11 30 (18.99%) .NET
12 27 (17.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 26 (16.46%) DB2
13 26 (16.46%) VB.NET
13 26 (16.46%) Oracle
13 26 (16.46%) ITSM
14 25 (15.82%) Linux
14 25 (15.82%) Customer-Centric Approach
14 25 (15.82%) ServiceNow
14 25 (15.82%) Customer-Centricity
15 23 (14.56%) Mentoring
16 22 (13.92%) Microsoft 365
16 22 (13.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 22 (13.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 19 (12.03%) Customer Service
17 19 (12.03%) Service Management
17 19 (12.03%) Change Management
17 19 (12.03%) Incident Management

Applications Support 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 9 (5.70%) IIS
1 9 (5.70%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (3.80%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.63%) Apache
3 1 (0.63%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (1.90%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (1.90%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 10 (6.33%) Dynamics CRM
1 10 (6.33%) Oracle Applications
1 10 (6.33%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (3.16%) NetSuite
3 2 (1.27%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.63%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.63%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.63%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 47 (29.75%) Azure
2 22 (13.92%) Microsoft 365
3 15 (9.49%) Dynamics 365
4 11 (6.96%) Power Platform
5 6 (3.80%) Azure Data Factory
5 6 (3.80%) Azure Logic Apps
5 6 (3.80%) Azure Monitor
5 6 (3.80%) Entra ID
6 5 (3.16%) AWS
7 4 (2.53%) SaaS
8 3 (1.90%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (1.90%) Amazon S3
8 3 (1.90%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (1.90%) Serverless
9 2 (1.27%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (1.27%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (1.27%) OneDrive
10 1 (0.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 1 (0.63%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.90%) Firewall
2 2 (1.27%) Internet
2 2 (1.27%) Unified Communications
2 2 (1.27%) WAN
2 2 (1.27%) Wireless
3 1 (0.63%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (27.85%) SQL Server
2 27 (17.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 26 (16.46%) DB2
4 22 (13.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 8 (5.06%) Relational Database
6 6 (3.80%) GIS
7 3 (1.90%) Power BI
8 2 (1.27%) EDMS
8 2 (1.27%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.63%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.63%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.63%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.63%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.63%) MySQL
9 1 (0.63%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (5.70%) Visual Studio
2 5 (3.16%) JIRA
3 3 (1.90%) Git
4 1 (0.63%) Eclipse
4 1 (0.63%) JUnit
General
1 85 (53.80%) Social Skills
2 62 (39.24%) Finance
3 36 (22.78%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (13.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 11 (6.96%) Banking
5 11 (6.96%) Manufacturing
5 11 (6.96%) Retail
6 8 (5.06%) Advertising
6 8 (5.06%) German Language
7 6 (3.80%) Front Office
7 6 (3.80%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (3.16%) Back Office
8 5 (3.16%) Law
8 5 (3.16%) Legal
9 3 (1.90%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.27%) French Language
10 2 (1.27%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.63%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.63%) Marketing
11 1 (0.63%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (18.99%) .NET
2 10 (6.33%) Middleware
2 10 (6.33%) Oracle Fusion
3 8 (5.06%) .NET Framework
3 8 (5.06%) ASP.NET
4 3 (1.90%) XML
5 2 (1.27%) EDI
5 2 (1.27%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.63%) CSS
6 1 (0.63%) FIX Protocol
6 1 (0.63%) HTML
6 1 (0.63%) SOAP
6 1 (0.63%) Spring
6 1 (0.63%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 18 (11.39%) Legacy Applications
2 9 (5.70%) Manufacturing Execution System
3 4 (2.53%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (2.53%) Video Conferencing
4 3 (1.90%) Housing Association
4 3 (1.90%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 2 (1.27%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.63%) Client/Server
6 1 (0.63%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.63%) Derivative
6 1 (0.63%) Educational Technology
6 1 (0.63%) e-Learning
6 1 (0.63%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.63%) Equity Derivative
6 1 (0.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (0.63%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.63%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.63%) PMI
6 1 (0.63%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 58 (36.71%) Windows
2 25 (15.82%) Linux
3 11 (6.96%) Windows Server
4 8 (5.06%) Unix
5 1 (0.63%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.63%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (41.14%) Problem-Solving
2 36 (22.78%) ITIL
3 26 (16.46%) ITSM
4 25 (15.82%) Customer-Centric Approach
4 25 (15.82%) Customer-Centricity
5 23 (14.56%) Mentoring
6 19 (12.03%) Change Management
6 19 (12.03%) Customer Service
6 19 (12.03%) Incident Management
6 19 (12.03%) Service Management
7 17 (10.76%) Computer Science
8 16 (10.13%) CRM
9 14 (8.86%) Cybersecurity
10 12 (7.59%) Continuous Improvement
11 10 (6.33%) Cost Reduction
11 10 (6.33%) ERP
11 10 (6.33%) Service Delivery
12 9 (5.70%) DevOps
12 9 (5.70%) Translating Business Requirements
12 9 (5.70%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 94 (59.49%) SQL
2 33 (20.89%) PL/SQL
3 30 (18.99%) C#
4 26 (16.46%) VB.NET
5 16 (10.13%) T-SQL
6 11 (6.96%) Python
7 9 (5.70%) C-shell
7 9 (5.70%) Korn
7 9 (5.70%) PowerShell
7 9 (5.70%) Shell Script
8 6 (3.80%) Java
9 3 (1.90%) Progress 4GL
10 2 (1.27%) VB
11 1 (0.63%) Bash
11 1 (0.63%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.63%) Perl
Qualifications
1 18 (11.39%) Degree
2 12 (7.59%) PMI Certification
3 11 (6.96%) CISSP
3 11 (6.96%) PMP
4 10 (6.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (5.70%) PhD
6 2 (1.27%) A+ Certification
6 2 (1.27%) DBS Check
6 2 (1.27%) MOS
7 1 (0.63%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.63%) HND
7 1 (0.63%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.63%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (8.86%) QA
2 5 (3.16%) SLA
3 3 (1.90%) FINRA
4 1 (0.63%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.63%) GDPR
System Software
1 9 (5.70%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.90%) Docker
3 1 (0.63%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 5 (3.16%) ITRS Geneos
1 5 (3.16%) Nagios
2 4 (2.53%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (2.53%) SCCM
3 2 (1.27%) Kibana
3 2 (1.27%) logstash
4 1 (0.63%) Ansible
4 1 (0.63%) Terraform
Vendors
1 53 (33.54%) Microsoft
2 26 (16.46%) Oracle
3 25 (15.82%) ServiceNow
4 10 (6.33%) SolarWinds
5 3 (1.90%) Capita
5 3 (1.90%) Progress
6 2 (1.27%) Aderant
6 2 (1.27%) iManage
6 2 (1.27%) Intapp
6 2 (1.27%) LogicMonitor
6 2 (1.27%) RedGate
6 2 (1.27%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.27%) SAP
6 2 (1.27%) Sun
7 1 (0.63%) Freshdesk
7 1 (0.63%) JDA
7 1 (0.63%) Meraki
7 1 (0.63%) RedPrairie
7 1 (0.63%) Splunk
7 1 (0.63%) Veeam