Applications Support Jobs in the UK excluding London

Application Support
UK > UK excluding London

The median Application Support salary in the UK excluding London is £40,341 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 319 381 345
Rank change year-on-year +62 -36 -48
Permanent jobs requiring an Applications Support 565 465 704
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.79% 0.79% 0.98%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.83% 0.88% 1.02%
Number of salaries quoted 386 324 562
10th Percentile £25,469 £26,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £30,500 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,341 £37,750 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.86% +0.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £48,625 £48,750 £46,250
90th Percentile £56,250 £58,750 £52,500
UK median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +17.65% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 67,946 52,777 68,977
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.85% 89.21% 95.73%
Number of salaries quoted 47,984 30,164 42,468
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,183 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% +6.37% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Applications Support
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Applications Support in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Applications Support in the UK excluding London

Applications Support
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Applications Support in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Applications Support in the UK excluding London

Applications Support
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Applications Support in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Applications Support in the UK excluding London

Applications Support
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Applications Support within the UK excluding London 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
South East +61 169 £42,500 +6.25% 39
North of England -6 125 £40,000 +1.27% 24
Midlands +52 107 £32,500 -7.14% 25
North West -4 79 £45,000 +3.45% 17
East Midlands +30 64 £33,147 -2.51% 12
East of England +11 46 £47,500 +6.66% 21
West Midlands +24 43 £32,121 -18.97% 13
Wales +20 43 £45,000 +42.86%
Yorkshire +44 37 £35,579 -5.12% 6
South West -15 35 £43,500 +33.85% 15
Scotland -50 35 £37,500 -16.67% 6
North East -11 9 £37,500 +36.36% 2
Northern Ireland +17 4 £43,250 +0.58% 2
Channel Islands - 1 - -
Applications Support
UK

Applications Support Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region featuring Applications Support in the job title.

1 262 (46.37%) SQL
2 184 (32.57%) Problem-Solving
3 146 (25.84%) Social Skills
4 144 (25.49%) Analytical Skills
5 126 (22.30%) Degree
6 120 (21.24%) Microsoft
7 118 (20.88%) Oracle
8 113 (20.00%) Finance
9 110 (19.47%) ITIL
10 106 (18.76%) SLA
11 104 (18.41%) Unix
12 100 (17.70%) Linux
13 94 (16.64%) Security Cleared
14 81 (14.34%) Incident Management
15 79 (13.98%) Actionable Insight
16 77 (13.63%) SC Cleared
17 73 (12.92%) Service Management
17 73 (12.92%) Customer Service
18 70 (12.39%) Remedy
18 70 (12.39%) WebLogic
19 64 (11.33%) ERP
19 64 (11.33%) Release Management
20 61 (10.80%) SQL Server
20 61 (10.80%) Oracle Database
21 60 (10.62%) Solaris
22 58 (10.27%) PL/SQL
23 57 (10.09%) ITSM
24 56 (9.91%) Microsoft Office
25 54 (9.56%) Performance Tuning
26 52 (9.20%) Azure

Applications Support Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 70 (12.39%) WebLogic
2 44 (7.79%) Oracle Service Bus
3 36 (6.37%) SharePoint
4 27 (4.78%) IIS
5 21 (3.72%) Tomcat
6 16 (2.83%) Apache
7 8 (1.42%) Confluence
8 5 (0.88%) Microsoft Exchange
8 5 (0.88%) WebSphere
Applications
1 56 (9.91%) Microsoft Office
2 51 (9.03%) Microsoft Excel
3 46 (8.14%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 44 (7.79%) Remedy ITSM
2 28 (4.96%) Dynamics CRM
3 16 (2.83%) NEC Housing
4 11 (1.95%) Dynamics GP
5 10 (1.77%) SAP S/4HANA
6 9 (1.59%) Dynamics NAV
7 8 (1.42%) PlanetPress Connect
8 6 (1.06%) Oracle Applications
9 5 (0.88%) Magento
9 5 (0.88%) NetSuite
10 3 (0.53%) Infor SunSystems
10 3 (0.53%) iTrent
11 2 (0.35%) Maximo
11 2 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
11 2 (0.35%) SAP HCM
11 2 (0.35%) SAP MM
12 1 (0.18%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
12 1 (0.18%) JDE OneWorld
12 1 (0.18%) Sage X3
12 1 (0.18%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 52 (9.20%) Azure
2 45 (7.96%) Power Platform
3 40 (7.08%) Dynamics 365
4 31 (5.49%) AWS
5 29 (5.13%) Microsoft 365
6 17 (3.01%) Power Automate
6 17 (3.01%) SaaS
7 14 (2.48%) PowerApps
8 10 (1.77%) Entra ID
9 6 (1.06%) WhatsApp
10 5 (0.88%) Google Sheets
11 4 (0.71%) Azure Logic Apps
12 3 (0.53%) IaaS
13 2 (0.35%) PaaS
14 1 (0.18%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.95%) Firewall
1 11 (1.95%) VPN
2 7 (1.24%) SAN
3 6 (1.06%) Broadband
4 4 (0.71%) FTP
4 4 (0.71%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (0.18%) Internet
5 1 (0.18%) LAN
5 1 (0.18%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (0.18%) VLAN
5 1 (0.18%) WAN
5 1 (0.18%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (10.80%) Oracle Database
1 61 (10.80%) SQL Server
2 44 (7.79%) Oracle Database 10g
2 44 (7.79%) Oracle Database 11g
2 44 (7.79%) VLDB
3 28 (4.96%) Power BI
4 26 (4.60%) Elasticsearch
5 16 (2.83%) MySQL
6 13 (2.30%) Relational Database
7 9 (1.59%) Geospatial Data
7 9 (1.59%) GIS
7 9 (1.59%) MS Access
8 8 (1.42%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (1.06%) BusinessObjects
9 6 (1.06%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 5 (0.88%) Pentaho
11 4 (0.71%) Azure SQL Database
11 4 (0.71%) Crystal Reports
12 3 (0.53%) QlikView
12 3 (0.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 37 (6.55%) JIRA
2 9 (1.59%) Oracle Forms
3 8 (1.42%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 7 (1.24%) Eclipse
4 7 (1.24%) GitLab
5 6 (1.06%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.35%) Git
6 2 (0.35%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.18%) Gradle
7 1 (0.18%) JUnit
General
1 146 (25.84%) Social Skills
2 144 (25.49%) Analytical Skills
3 113 (20.00%) Finance
4 38 (6.73%) Police
5 33 (5.84%) Law
6 27 (4.78%) Manufacturing
7 24 (4.25%) Marketing
8 21 (3.72%) Public Sector
9 20 (3.54%) Local Government
10 17 (3.01%) Legal
11 12 (2.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 12 (2.12%) Retail
12 10 (1.77%) Automotive
13 6 (1.06%) Banking
13 6 (1.06%) Investment Banking
13 6 (1.06%) Private Banking
14 4 (0.71%) Documentation Skills
15 3 (0.53%) Back Office
15 3 (0.53%) Environmental Health
15 3 (0.53%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (4.96%) Spring
2 26 (4.60%) J2EE
2 26 (4.60%) Java EE
3 16 (2.83%) Web Services
4 14 (2.48%) .NET
5 11 (1.95%) HTML
6 7 (1.24%) CSS
7 6 (1.06%) EDI
7 6 (1.06%) Middleware
7 6 (1.06%) OLE
8 5 (0.88%) Kafka
9 3 (0.53%) JSON
9 3 (0.53%) Node.js
10 2 (0.35%) Spring Boot
10 2 (0.35%) XML
11 1 (0.18%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 21 (3.72%) Enterprise Software
2 19 (3.36%) Driving Licence
3 16 (2.83%) Public Cloud
4 12 (2.12%) Management Information System
5 11 (1.95%) Analytical Mindset
6 10 (1.77%) CCTV
6 10 (1.77%) Self-Motivation
7 8 (1.42%) Linux Command Line
7 8 (1.42%) Mobile App
8 7 (1.24%) Clustering
8 7 (1.24%) CMDB
9 5 (0.88%) Reference Data
10 3 (0.53%) Legacy Code
11 2 (0.35%) Cloud Native
11 2 (0.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 2 (0.35%) IoT
11 2 (0.35%) iPhone
11 2 (0.35%) NHS
11 2 (0.35%) Product Ownership
12 1 (0.18%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 104 (18.41%) Unix
2 100 (17.70%) Linux
3 60 (10.62%) Solaris
4 49 (8.67%) Windows
5 18 (3.19%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.35%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.35%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.35%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.35%) Windows 7
7 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.18%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 184 (32.57%) Problem-Solving
2 110 (19.47%) ITIL
3 81 (14.34%) Incident Management
4 79 (13.98%) Actionable Insight
5 73 (12.92%) Customer Service
5 73 (12.92%) Service Management
6 64 (11.33%) ERP
6 64 (11.33%) Release Management
7 57 (10.09%) ITSM
8 54 (9.56%) Performance Tuning
9 50 (8.85%) CRM
9 50 (8.85%) Performance Monitoring
10 46 (8.14%) Artificial Intelligence
11 44 (7.79%) Capacity Planning
12 43 (7.61%) Capacity Management
13 39 (6.90%) Project Management
14 38 (6.73%) Business Intelligence
15 36 (6.37%) Service Delivery
16 34 (6.02%) User Acceptance Testing
17 28 (4.96%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 262 (46.37%) SQL
2 58 (10.27%) PL/SQL
3 47 (8.32%) Shell Script
4 38 (6.73%) Java
5 34 (6.02%) T-SQL
6 23 (4.07%) C#
7 11 (1.95%) JavaScript
8 10 (1.77%) Python
9 5 (0.88%) COBOL
9 5 (0.88%) VB
9 5 (0.88%) VBA
10 4 (0.71%) C
11 3 (0.53%) C++
11 3 (0.53%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.18%) Bash
12 1 (0.18%) PHP
Qualifications
1 126 (22.30%) Degree
2 94 (16.64%) Security Cleared
3 77 (13.63%) SC Cleared
4 9 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (1.59%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (0.71%) ITIL Certification
6 3 (0.53%) A+ Certification
6 3 (0.53%) Master's Degree
6 3 (0.53%) MCDST
7 2 (0.35%) ECDL
7 2 (0.35%) MCP
8 1 (0.18%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 106 (18.76%) SLA
2 16 (2.83%) Accessibility
3 7 (1.24%) GDPR
4 3 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.35%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 44 (7.79%) Oracle RAC
2 22 (3.89%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.71%) Docker
4 2 (0.35%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 44 (7.79%) Data Guard
1 44 (7.79%) Oracle RMAN
2 26 (4.60%) OpenSSO
2 26 (4.60%) Single Sign-On
3 7 (1.24%) Microsoft Clustering
4 5 (0.88%) Grafana
4 5 (0.88%) ITRS Geneos
5 4 (0.71%) SCOM
5 4 (0.71%) WhatsUp Gold
6 3 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 120 (21.24%) Microsoft
2 118 (20.88%) Oracle
3 70 (12.39%) Remedy
4 44 (7.79%) Sun
5 20 (3.54%) SAP
6 17 (3.01%) Civica
6 17 (3.01%) ServiceNow
7 16 (2.83%) NEC
8 8 (1.42%) FNZ
8 8 (1.42%) Salesforce
9 7 (1.24%) Epicor
10 6 (1.06%) Guidewire
10 6 (1.06%) Sage
11 5 (0.88%) AppDynamics
11 5 (0.88%) CA
11 5 (0.88%) Google
11 5 (0.88%) Splunk
11 5 (0.88%) Sybase
12 4 (0.71%) Infor
13 3 (0.53%) Cognos