Applications Support Jobs in the South East

Application Support
England > South East

The median Application Support salary in the South East is £42,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 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
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 236 297 289
Rank change year-on-year +61 -8 -52
Permanent jobs requiring an Applications Support 169 101 205
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 1.00% 0.70% 1.03%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.07% 0.78% 1.06%
Number of salaries quoted 119 72 186
10th Percentile £25,000 £28,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £33,000 £30,938 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £40,000 £36,628
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +9.21% -3.61%
75th Percentile £50,750 £50,313 £47,500
90th Percentile £57,500 £55,582 £51,875
England median annual salary £46,188 £50,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -7.62% +17.65% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 15,863 12,953 19,286
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.01% 90.32% 96.45%
Number of salaries quoted 11,342 8,193 12,383
10th Percentile £27,500 £29,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £53,000 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.83% +1.33% +9.09%

Applications Support
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Applications Support in the South East

Applications Support
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Applications Support in the South East.

Salary trend for Applications Support in the South East

Applications Support
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Applications Support in the South East over the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Applications Support in the South East

Applications Support
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Applications Support within the South East region over the 6 months to 19 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
Thames Valley +90 121 £42,500 - 13
Berkshire +55 60 £42,500 - 7
Buckinghamshire +8 34 £40,000 -23.81% 4
Oxfordshire +26 27 £42,500 +3.03% 2
Surrey +5 21 £36,000 -0.69% 3
Hampshire -29 13 £21,250 -34.62% 5
Kent +5 12 £45,000 - 4
West Sussex +30 1 £30,000 -
East Sussex 0 1 £48,500 +38.57%
Applications Support
England

Applications Support Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 19 May 2024, 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 job ads across the South East region featuring Applications Support in the job title.

1 73 (43.20%) SQL
2 60 (35.50%) Social Skills
3 56 (33.14%) Analytical Skills
4 53 (31.36%) Problem-Solving
5 44 (26.04%) Security Cleared
6 43 (25.44%) SC Cleared
7 42 (24.85%) SLA
8 41 (24.26%) Unix
9 40 (23.67%) ITIL
9 40 (23.67%) Linux
10 39 (23.08%) Oracle
11 37 (21.89%) Degree
11 37 (21.89%) Actionable Insight
12 36 (21.30%) Incident Management
12 36 (21.30%) WebLogic
12 36 (21.30%) Remedy
13 32 (18.93%) Finance
14 29 (17.16%) Java
15 27 (15.98%) PL/SQL
16 26 (15.38%) ERP
17 24 (14.20%) Spring
18 23 (13.61%) Service Management
19 22 (13.02%) Enterprise Architecture
19 22 (13.02%) Java EE
19 22 (13.02%) Information Management
19 22 (13.02%) Shell Script
19 22 (13.02%) J2EE
19 22 (13.02%) Single Sign-On
19 22 (13.02%) Police
19 22 (13.02%) Impact Assessments

Applications Support Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 36 (21.30%) WebLogic
2 14 (8.28%) Oracle Service Bus
3 3 (1.78%) Confluence
4 1 (0.59%) SharePoint
Applications
1 20 (11.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (8.88%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (8.88%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 14 (8.28%) Remedy ITSM
2 9 (5.33%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (3.55%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (2.96%) Dynamics GP
5 4 (2.37%) NetSuite
6 3 (1.78%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.59%) Infor M3
7 1 (0.59%) JDE OneWorld
7 1 (0.59%) JDE World
Cloud Services
1 18 (10.65%) AWS
2 10 (5.92%) Azure
3 7 (4.14%) Power Platform
4 6 (3.55%) WhatsApp
5 5 (2.96%) Dynamics 365
5 5 (2.96%) PowerApps
6 2 (1.18%) Power Automate
7 1 (0.59%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.59%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (0.59%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.37%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (13.02%) Elasticsearch
2 14 (8.28%) MySQL
2 14 (8.28%) Oracle Database
2 14 (8.28%) Oracle Database 10g
2 14 (8.28%) Oracle Database 11g
2 14 (8.28%) VLDB
3 12 (7.10%) SQL Server
4 4 (2.37%) Power BI
5 1 (0.59%) DB2
5 1 (0.59%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (3.55%) JIRA
2 2 (1.18%) Git
2 2 (1.18%) IntelliJ
3 1 (0.59%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.59%) Eclipse
3 1 (0.59%) Gradle
3 1 (0.59%) JUnit
General
1 60 (35.50%) Social Skills
2 56 (33.14%) Analytical Skills
3 32 (18.93%) Finance
4 22 (13.02%) Police
5 12 (7.10%) Manufacturing
6 6 (3.55%) Banking
6 6 (3.55%) Investment Banking
6 6 (3.55%) Private Banking
7 5 (2.96%) Automotive
7 5 (2.96%) Legal
8 1 (0.59%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.59%) Wearables
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (14.20%) Spring
2 22 (13.02%) J2EE
2 22 (13.02%) Java EE
3 13 (7.69%) .NET
4 10 (5.92%) HTML
5 7 (4.14%) CSS
6 6 (3.55%) Middleware
7 2 (1.18%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 12 (7.10%) Enterprise Software
2 10 (5.92%) Analytical Mindset
3 8 (4.73%) Linux Command Line
4 7 (4.14%) CMDB
5 3 (1.78%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.18%) NHS
7 1 (0.59%) CCTV
7 1 (0.59%) Driving Licence
7 1 (0.59%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.59%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 41 (24.26%) Unix
2 40 (23.67%) Linux
3 14 (8.28%) Solaris
4 11 (6.51%) Windows
5 4 (2.37%) Windows Server
6 2 (1.18%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (31.36%) Problem-Solving
2 40 (23.67%) ITIL
3 37 (21.89%) Actionable Insight
4 36 (21.30%) Incident Management
5 26 (15.38%) ERP
6 23 (13.61%) Service Management
7 22 (13.02%) Containerisation
7 22 (13.02%) Enterprise Architecture
7 22 (13.02%) Enterprise Search
7 22 (13.02%) Impact Assessments
7 22 (13.02%) Information Management
8 21 (12.43%) Customer Service
9 20 (11.83%) Performance Tuning
10 17 (10.06%) Agile
10 17 (10.06%) Project Management
11 15 (8.88%) Performance Monitoring
12 14 (8.28%) Artificial Intelligence
12 14 (8.28%) Capacity Planning
12 14 (8.28%) ITSM
12 14 (8.28%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 73 (43.20%) SQL
2 29 (17.16%) Java
3 27 (15.98%) PL/SQL
4 22 (13.02%) Shell Script
5 14 (8.28%) C#
6 10 (5.92%) JavaScript
7 6 (3.55%) T-SQL
8 4 (2.37%) COBOL
8 4 (2.37%) VBA
9 3 (1.78%) C
9 3 (1.78%) Python
Qualifications
1 44 (26.04%) Security Cleared
2 43 (25.44%) SC Cleared
3 37 (21.89%) Degree
4 2 (1.18%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (0.59%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.59%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (24.85%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (8.28%) Oracle RAC
2 5 (2.96%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.18%) Docker
4 1 (0.59%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 22 (13.02%) OpenSSO
1 22 (13.02%) Single Sign-On
2 14 (8.28%) Data Guard
2 14 (8.28%) Oracle RMAN
3 4 (2.37%) SCOM
Vendors
1 39 (23.08%) Oracle
2 36 (21.30%) Remedy
3 15 (8.88%) Microsoft
4 14 (8.28%) Sun
5 11 (6.51%) SAP
6 7 (4.14%) ServiceNow
7 5 (2.96%) Sage
8 4 (2.37%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.18%) Murex
10 1 (0.59%) Epicor
10 1 (0.59%) IBM
10 1 (0.59%) IFS
10 1 (0.59%) Infor
10 1 (0.59%) JD Edwards
10 1 (0.59%) VMware