Applications Support Specialist Jobs in England

Application Support Specialist
UK > England

The median Application Support Specialist salary in England is £47,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 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
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 766 835 1098
Rank change year-on-year +69 +263 -256
Permanent jobs requiring an Applications Support Specialist 70 74 68
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.079% 0.085% 0.049%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.083% 0.093% 0.051%
Number of salaries quoted 59 70 50
10th Percentile £32,150 £32,500 £36,200
25th Percentile £35,579 £37,313 £47,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £46,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.26% -16.36% +50.68%
75th Percentile £65,500 £57,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £74,300 £65,625 £112,500
UK median annual salary £47,500 £46,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.26% -16.36% +53.71%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 84,097 79,150 134,411
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.64% 91.43% 96.02%
Number of salaries quoted 62,393 50,588 75,337
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.65% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Applications Support Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Applications Support Specialist in England

Applications Support Specialist
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Applications Support Specialist in England

Applications Support Specialist
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Applications Support Specialist in England over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Applications Support Specialist in England

Applications Support Specialist
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Applications Support Specialist within the England region over the 6 months to 28 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
London +137 33 £64,750 +40.00% 5
North of England +61 21 £35,579 -35.31% 1
Yorkshire +92 15 £35,579 +0.93% 1
West Midlands +11 7 £47,500 -5.00% 2
East of England -5 7 £50,000 +12.27% 6
Midlands -8 7 £47,500 -5.00% 2
North West +6 5 £31,500 -42.73%
South West -25 2 - -
North East -6 1 £40,000 - 1
Applications Support Specialist
UK

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

For the 6 months to 28 May 2024, Applications Support 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 job ads across the England region featuring Applications Support Specialist in the job title.

1 22 (31.43%) Problem-Solving
2 21 (30.00%) Power Platform
2 21 (30.00%) SQL
2 21 (30.00%) Microsoft
3 17 (24.29%) Windows
4 14 (20.00%) Finance
5 13 (18.57%) SharePoint
5 13 (18.57%) Microsoft 365
6 12 (17.14%) Linux
7 11 (15.71%) Business Intelligence
7 11 (15.71%) Social Skills
8 10 (14.29%) Asset Management
8 10 (14.29%) Driving Licence
8 10 (14.29%) Power BI
9 9 (12.86%) Root Cause Analysis
9 9 (12.86%) DevOps
9 9 (12.86%) Project Management
9 9 (12.86%) Banking
9 9 (12.86%) ERP
9 9 (12.86%) SQL Server
10 8 (11.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (11.43%) CRM
10 8 (11.43%) Unix
10 8 (11.43%) Law
10 8 (11.43%) Analytical Skills
10 8 (11.43%) Azure
11 7 (10.00%) SaaS
11 7 (10.00%) Software Asset Management
11 7 (10.00%) EDI
11 7 (10.00%) GDPR

Applications Support Specialist Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 13 (18.57%) SharePoint
2 5 (7.14%) JBoss
3 4 (5.71%) Confluence
4 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (7.14%) Temenos T24
2 4 (5.71%) Dynamics AX
2 4 (5.71%) Magento
3 1 (1.43%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.43%) iTrent
3 1 (1.43%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 21 (30.00%) Power Platform
2 13 (18.57%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (11.43%) Azure
4 7 (10.00%) SaaS
5 5 (7.14%) PowerApps
6 2 (2.86%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.43%) Azure AKS
7 1 (1.43%) Datadog
7 1 (1.43%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.43%) Google Workspace
7 1 (1.43%) IaaS
7 1 (1.43%) OneDrive
7 1 (1.43%) PaaS
7 1 (1.43%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.71%) 5G
1 4 (5.71%) FTP
2 1 (1.43%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (14.29%) Power BI
2 9 (12.86%) SQL Server
3 4 (5.71%) BusinessObjects
3 4 (5.71%) Crystal Reports
3 4 (5.71%) NoSQL
3 4 (5.71%) QlikView
3 4 (5.71%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.86%) DataStage
4 2 (2.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (1.43%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 4 (5.71%) JIRA
2 2 (2.86%) Eclipse
3 1 (1.43%) Bitbucket
General
1 14 (20.00%) Finance
2 11 (15.71%) Social Skills
3 9 (12.86%) Banking
4 8 (11.43%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (11.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 8 (11.43%) Law
5 5 (7.14%) Marketing
6 4 (5.71%) Investment Banking
6 4 (5.71%) Retail
7 3 (4.29%) Advertising
7 3 (4.29%) Legal
7 3 (4.29%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.43%) Front Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (10.00%) EDI
2 5 (7.14%) REST
2 5 (7.14%) Web Services
3 4 (5.71%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 10 (14.29%) Driving Licence
2 4 (5.71%) CMDB
2 4 (5.71%) EFT
2 4 (5.71%) Market Risk
2 4 (5.71%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (4.29%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.86%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 17 (24.29%) Windows
2 12 (17.14%) Linux
3 8 (11.43%) Unix
4 5 (7.14%) AIX
5 1 (1.43%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (31.43%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (15.71%) Business Intelligence
3 10 (14.29%) Asset Management
4 9 (12.86%) DevOps
4 9 (12.86%) ERP
4 9 (12.86%) Project Management
4 9 (12.86%) Root Cause Analysis
5 8 (11.43%) CRM
6 7 (10.00%) Software Asset Management
7 6 (8.57%) Decision-Making
7 6 (8.57%) Problem Management
8 5 (7.14%) API Development
8 5 (7.14%) BCP
8 5 (7.14%) Continuous Improvement
8 5 (7.14%) Customer Service
8 5 (7.14%) Data Conversion
8 5 (7.14%) ITIL
8 5 (7.14%) Knowledge Transfer
8 5 (7.14%) Robotic Automation
8 5 (7.14%) Trend Analysis
Programming Languages
1 21 (30.00%) SQL
2 4 (5.71%) Java
3 3 (4.29%) Bash
3 3 (4.29%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (7.14%) Degree
2 4 (5.71%) CIPD
3 1 (1.43%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (1.43%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (10.00%) GDPR
2 5 (7.14%) SLA
3 1 (1.43%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 4 (5.71%) Grafana
2 1 (1.43%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.43%) Packer
2 1 (1.43%) Terraform
Vendors
1 21 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (8.57%) ServiceNow
3 5 (7.14%) Oracle
3 5 (7.14%) Temenos
4 4 (5.71%) Cognos
4 4 (5.71%) Epicor
4 4 (5.71%) Splunk
5 3 (4.29%) Snow
6 2 (2.86%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.43%) Google
7 1 (1.43%) Guidewire
7 1 (1.43%) Murex