Applications Support Jobs in the Thames Valley

Application Support
South East > Thames Valley

The median Application Support salary in the Thames Valley is £42,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 June 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
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 135 193 220
Rank change year-on-year +58 +27 -26
Permanent jobs requiring an Applications Support 117 59 70
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.64% 1.03% 0.96%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.74% 1.15% 1.00%
Number of salaries quoted 76 36 53
10th Percentile £25,000 £26,224 £27,850
25th Percentile £30,000 £37,500 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +9.32%
75th Percentile £47,500 £55,000 £50,000
90th Percentile £56,250 £67,500 £58,500
South East median annual salary £42,500 £41,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year +3.66% +17.14% -7.59%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Thames Valley

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley. 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 Thames Valley with a recognized job title 6,742 5,115 7,021
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.66% 89.64% 95.89%
Number of salaries quoted 4,606 3,071 4,135
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,500 £38,750 £40,853
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £64,750 £72,500 £70,750
90th Percentile £78,080 £87,500 £81,250
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%

Applications Support
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Applications Support in the Thames Valley

Applications Support
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Applications Support in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for Applications Support in the Thames Valley

Applications Support
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Applications Support in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Applications Support in the Thames Valley

Applications Support
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Applications Support within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 2 June 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
Berkshire +40 57 £42,500 -22.73% 2
Buckinghamshire -2 32 £40,000 -23.81% 3
Oxfordshire +21 28 £42,500 - 2
Applications Support
South East

Applications Support Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley

For the 6 months to 2 June 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 Thames Valley region featuring Applications Support in the job title.

1 48 (41.03%) SQL
2 46 (39.32%) Social Skills
3 44 (37.61%) Analytical Skills
3 44 (37.61%) Security Cleared
4 43 (36.75%) SC Cleared
5 40 (34.19%) Problem-Solving
6 39 (33.33%) Unix
7 38 (32.48%) Oracle
8 37 (31.62%) SLA
9 36 (30.77%) WebLogic
9 36 (30.77%) Remedy
9 36 (30.77%) Incident Management
9 36 (30.77%) Actionable Insight
10 34 (29.06%) ITIL
11 33 (28.21%) Linux
12 29 (24.79%) Degree
13 25 (21.37%) Java
14 24 (20.51%) PL/SQL
14 24 (20.51%) Spring
15 22 (18.80%) Information Management
15 22 (18.80%) Enterprise Architecture
15 22 (18.80%) Java EE
15 22 (18.80%) J2EE
15 22 (18.80%) Shell Script
15 22 (18.80%) Service Management
15 22 (18.80%) OpenSSO
15 22 (18.80%) Elasticsearch
15 22 (18.80%) Police
15 22 (18.80%) Impact Assessments
15 22 (18.80%) Containerisation

Applications Support Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (30.77%) WebLogic
2 14 (11.97%) Oracle Service Bus
3 3 (2.56%) Confluence
Applications
1 16 (13.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (11.97%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (11.97%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 14 (11.97%) Remedy ITSM
2 8 (6.84%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (4.27%) Dynamics GP
4 3 (2.56%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.85%) Pegasus Opera
5 1 (0.85%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 12 (10.26%) AWS
2 9 (7.69%) Azure
3 5 (4.27%) Dynamics 365
4 4 (3.42%) Power Platform
4 4 (3.42%) WhatsApp
5 3 (2.56%) PowerApps
6 1 (0.85%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (0.85%) Intacct
6 1 (0.85%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.42%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (18.80%) Elasticsearch
2 14 (11.97%) Oracle Database
2 14 (11.97%) Oracle Database 10g
2 14 (11.97%) Oracle Database 11g
2 14 (11.97%) VLDB
3 10 (8.55%) MySQL
4 5 (4.27%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.85%) DB2
5 1 (0.85%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 6 (5.13%) JIRA
2 2 (1.71%) Git
2 2 (1.71%) IntelliJ
3 1 (0.85%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.85%) Eclipse
3 1 (0.85%) Gradle
3 1 (0.85%) JUnit
General
1 46 (39.32%) Social Skills
2 44 (37.61%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (18.80%) Police
4 21 (17.95%) Finance
5 9 (7.69%) Manufacturing
6 5 (4.27%) Automotive
6 5 (4.27%) Banking
6 5 (4.27%) Investment Banking
6 5 (4.27%) Legal
6 5 (4.27%) Private Banking
7 1 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.85%) Wearables
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (20.51%) Spring
2 22 (18.80%) J2EE
2 22 (18.80%) Java EE
3 5 (4.27%) .NET
3 5 (4.27%) Middleware
4 4 (3.42%) HTML
5 1 (0.85%) CSS
5 1 (0.85%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
2 8 (6.84%) Linux Command Line
3 7 (5.98%) CMDB
4 6 (5.13%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (1.71%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 39 (33.33%) Unix
2 33 (28.21%) Linux
3 14 (11.97%) Solaris
4 7 (5.98%) Windows
5 4 (3.42%) Windows Server
6 2 (1.71%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (34.19%) Problem-Solving
2 36 (30.77%) Actionable Insight
2 36 (30.77%) Incident Management
3 34 (29.06%) ITIL
4 22 (18.80%) Containerisation
4 22 (18.80%) Enterprise Architecture
4 22 (18.80%) Enterprise Search
4 22 (18.80%) Impact Assessments
4 22 (18.80%) Information Management
4 22 (18.80%) Service Management
5 19 (16.24%) Performance Tuning
6 15 (12.82%) Performance Monitoring
7 14 (11.97%) Artificial Intelligence
7 14 (11.97%) Capacity Planning
7 14 (11.97%) ERP
7 14 (11.97%) ITSM
8 13 (11.11%) Capacity Management
8 13 (11.11%) Release Management
9 11 (9.40%) Service Delivery
10 9 (7.69%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 48 (41.03%) SQL
2 25 (21.37%) Java
3 24 (20.51%) PL/SQL
4 22 (18.80%) Shell Script
5 8 (6.84%) JavaScript
6 6 (5.13%) C#
7 3 (2.56%) COBOL
7 3 (2.56%) Python
8 1 (0.85%) Bash
8 1 (0.85%) C
Qualifications
1 44 (37.61%) Security Cleared
2 43 (36.75%) SC Cleared
3 29 (24.79%) Degree
4 1 (0.85%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.85%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (31.62%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (11.97%) Oracle RAC
2 4 (3.42%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 22 (18.80%) OpenSSO
1 22 (18.80%) Single Sign-On
2 14 (11.97%) Data Guard
2 14 (11.97%) Oracle RMAN
3 4 (3.42%) SCOM
4 1 (0.85%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 38 (32.48%) Oracle
2 36 (30.77%) Remedy
3 14 (11.97%) Sun
4 10 (8.55%) Microsoft
5 7 (5.98%) ServiceNow
6 4 (3.42%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.71%) Murex
8 1 (0.85%) Civica
8 1 (0.85%) IBM
8 1 (0.85%) Pegasus
8 1 (0.85%) Sage
8 1 (0.85%) Xero