Applications Engineer
UK

The median Applications Engineer salary in the UK is £42,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 15 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
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 595 618 616
Rank change year-on-year +23 -2 -73
Permanent jobs requiring an Applications Engineer 315 382 790
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.32% 0.38% 0.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.34% 0.42% 0.51%
Number of salaries quoted 218 271 448
10th Percentile £26,750 £32,000 £30,850
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,834 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £58,750 £68,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £97,500 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £42,098 £45,000
% change year-on-year +0.96% -6.45% +12.50%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 93,908 91,208 153,609
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.68% 91.47% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 67,161 57,434 84,375
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,521
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £80,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,950
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,173
% change year-on-year -5.66% +5.64% +5.63%

Applications Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Applications Engineer in the UK

Applications Engineer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Applications Engineer.

Salary trend for Applications Engineer in the UK

Applications Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Applications Engineer over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Applications Engineer in the UK

Applications Engineer
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Applications Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 15 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
England +33 280 £42,500 -22.73% 159
UK excluding London +39 254 £42,500 +0.96% 132
South East +69 102 £42,500 - 35
Work from Home -3 99 £47,500 -13.64% 69
London +3 55 £75,000 +15.38% 28
Midlands +22 52 £32,500 -13.33% 32
North of England +26 46 £41,235 -2.05% 28
East Midlands +4 33 £28,500 -21.38% 12
Yorkshire +77 25 £37,500 -8.54% 10
West Midlands +24 19 £40,000 -23.81% 20
North West +1 18 £50,000 +18.77% 14
Scotland -50 17 £37,500 -25.00% 6
Wales +24 15 £50,000 - 3
South West -27 12 £37,500 +15.38% 18
East of England -1 10 £50,000 -9.09% 19
North East -3 3 £60,000 +27.66% 4

Applications Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 15 May 2024, Applications Engineer 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 featuring Applications Engineer in the job title.

1 101 (32.06%) SQL
2 82 (26.03%) Windows
3 80 (25.40%) Problem-Solving
4 74 (23.49%) Linux
5 68 (21.59%) Degree
6 65 (20.63%) Microsoft
7 64 (20.32%) Agile
8 63 (20.00%) Software Engineering
9 59 (18.73%) C#
9 59 (18.73%) Social Skills
10 55 (17.46%) Azure
11 49 (15.56%) Analytical Skills
12 42 (13.33%) Finance
12 42 (13.33%) ITIL
13 41 (13.02%) Customer Requirements
14 32 (10.16%) DevOps
14 32 (10.16%) C
15 30 (9.52%) C++
15 30 (9.52%) .NET
15 30 (9.52%) Python
15 30 (9.52%) Collaborative Working
16 29 (9.21%) SQL Server
16 29 (9.21%) Java
17 28 (8.89%) Active Directory
17 28 (8.89%) Scrum
18 27 (8.57%) Law
18 27 (8.57%) Windows Server
19 26 (8.25%) Service Management
20 25 (7.94%) Power Platform
21 24 (7.62%) Microsoft 365

Applications Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 11 (3.49%) IIS
1 11 (3.49%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (3.17%) Tomcat
3 7 (2.22%) Confluence
3 7 (2.22%) SharePoint
4 5 (1.59%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.32%) Apache
5 1 (0.32%) nginx
Applications
1 14 (4.44%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (4.13%) SOLIDWORKS
3 10 (3.17%) AutoCAD
4 9 (2.86%) Solid Edge
5 7 (2.22%) Fusion 360
6 5 (1.59%) Autodesk Inventor
7 3 (0.95%) Microsoft Excel
8 1 (0.32%) Revit
Business Applications
1 5 (1.59%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.27%) Elite 3E
3 2 (0.63%) DELMIA
3 2 (0.63%) Eikon
4 1 (0.32%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.32%) Endur
4 1 (0.32%) Findur
Cloud Services
1 55 (17.46%) Azure
2 25 (7.94%) Power Platform
3 24 (7.62%) Microsoft 365
4 23 (7.30%) AWS
5 17 (5.40%) Dynamics 365
5 17 (5.40%) Entra ID
6 14 (4.44%) PowerApps
7 11 (3.49%) Power Automate
8 9 (2.86%) SaaS
9 8 (2.54%) WhatsApp
10 5 (1.59%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 5 (1.59%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (1.59%) Azure Monitor
10 5 (1.59%) GCP
11 4 (1.27%) Azure Logic Apps
12 2 (0.63%) Datadog
12 2 (0.63%) Serverless
12 2 (0.63%) Slack
13 1 (0.32%) AWS Fargate
13 1 (0.32%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.81%) Firewall
2 10 (3.17%) VPN
3 7 (2.22%) Remote Desktop
4 6 (1.90%) SAN
4 6 (1.90%) SSL
5 5 (1.59%) DNS
6 4 (1.27%) Intranet
7 3 (0.95%) GPRS
8 2 (0.63%) Network Security
9 1 (0.32%) HTTP
9 1 (0.32%) HTTPS
9 1 (0.32%) Internet
9 1 (0.32%) LTE
9 1 (0.32%) Reverse Proxy
9 1 (0.32%) VLAN
9 1 (0.32%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (9.21%) SQL Server
2 15 (4.76%) MySQL
3 14 (4.44%) Power BI
4 6 (1.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 5 (1.59%) Pentaho
6 4 (1.27%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (1.27%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (0.95%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (0.95%) MongoDB
7 3 (0.95%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.63%) Redis
8 2 (0.63%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 2 (0.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.32%) Metadata
9 1 (0.32%) Metadata Repository
9 1 (0.32%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 20 (6.35%) Git
2 19 (6.03%) JIRA
3 12 (3.81%) Visual Studio
4 11 (3.49%) Subversion
5 8 (2.54%) Bitbucket
6 5 (1.59%) MSI
7 2 (0.63%) GitLab
7 2 (0.63%) IntelliJ
7 2 (0.63%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.63%) NUnit
8 1 (0.32%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.32%) fastlane
8 1 (0.32%) Gradle
8 1 (0.32%) JUnit
8 1 (0.32%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 59 (18.73%) Social Skills
2 49 (15.56%) Analytical Skills
3 42 (13.33%) Finance
4 27 (8.57%) Law
5 19 (6.03%) Manufacturing
6 17 (5.40%) Legal
7 16 (5.08%) Electronics
8 14 (4.44%) Aerospace
8 14 (4.44%) Marketing
9 9 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (1.59%) Banking
10 5 (1.59%) General Ledger
10 5 (1.59%) Pharmaceutical
11 4 (1.27%) Back Office
11 4 (1.27%) Front Office
12 3 (0.95%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (0.95%) Public Sector
12 3 (0.95%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.63%) Influencing Skills
14 1 (0.32%) German Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (9.52%) .NET
2 19 (6.03%) WPF
3 17 (5.40%) .NET Framework
4 12 (3.81%) HTML
4 12 (3.81%) WinForms
5 11 (3.49%) Qt
6 8 (2.54%) .NET Core
7 7 (2.22%) CSS
7 7 (2.22%) REST
8 5 (1.59%) Kafka
9 4 (1.27%) ADO
9 4 (1.27%) AngularJS
10 3 (0.95%) Software Packaging
11 2 (0.63%) FastAPI
11 2 (0.63%) Flask
11 2 (0.63%) Node.js
11 2 (0.63%) OAuth2
11 2 (0.63%) OpenID
11 2 (0.63%) React
11 2 (0.63%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 17 (5.40%) Self-Motivation
2 14 (4.44%) Client/Server
2 14 (4.44%) IoT
3 12 (3.81%) Robotics
4 11 (3.49%) Algorithms
4 11 (3.49%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (3.49%) Driving Licence
5 9 (2.86%) Linux Command Line
5 9 (2.86%) Mobile App
6 8 (2.54%) Greenfield Project
6 8 (2.54%) Management Information System
7 6 (1.90%) Clustering
7 6 (1.90%) Data Structures
7 6 (1.90%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (1.90%) Product Ownership
8 5 (1.59%) CMDB
8 5 (1.59%) Data Centre
8 5 (1.59%) Reference Data
9 4 (1.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (0.63%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 82 (26.03%) Windows
2 74 (23.49%) Linux
3 27 (8.57%) Windows Server
4 20 (6.35%) Windows 10
5 13 (4.13%) Apple iOS
6 11 (3.49%) Ubuntu
7 10 (3.17%) Unix
8 7 (2.22%) Mac OS
9 6 (1.90%) Android
10 1 (0.32%) Windows 7
10 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.32%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (25.40%) Problem-Solving
2 64 (20.32%) Agile
3 63 (20.00%) Software Engineering
4 42 (13.33%) ITIL
5 41 (13.02%) Customer Requirements
6 32 (10.16%) DevOps
7 30 (9.52%) Collaborative Working
8 28 (8.89%) Scrum
9 26 (8.25%) Service Management
10 23 (7.30%) Computer Science
10 23 (7.30%) Customer Service
11 22 (6.98%) Application Packaging
11 22 (6.98%) Mentoring
11 22 (6.98%) SDLC
12 21 (6.67%) User Experience
13 20 (6.35%) Business Intelligence
14 18 (5.71%) High Availability
14 18 (5.71%) Release Management
15 17 (5.40%) Fintech
16 16 (5.08%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 101 (32.06%) SQL
2 59 (18.73%) C#
3 32 (10.16%) C
4 30 (9.52%) C++
4 30 (9.52%) Python
5 29 (9.21%) Java
6 13 (4.13%) PL/SQL
7 9 (2.86%) JavaScript
7 9 (2.86%) PowerShell
7 9 (2.86%) T-SQL
7 9 (2.86%) XAML
8 5 (1.59%) Shell Script
8 5 (1.59%) Swift
9 4 (1.27%) Kotlin
9 4 (1.27%) MATLAB
10 3 (0.95%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.63%) VB
12 1 (0.32%) Bash
12 1 (0.32%) Go
Qualifications
1 68 (21.59%) Degree
2 14 (4.44%) DV Cleared
2 14 (4.44%) Master's Degree
2 14 (4.44%) SC Cleared
2 14 (4.44%) Security Cleared
3 10 (3.17%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (2.86%) HND
5 8 (2.54%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (1.90%) Numerate Degree
7 5 (1.59%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.27%) AWS Certification
8 4 (1.27%) HNC
9 3 (0.95%) A+ Certification
9 3 (0.95%) MCDST
10 2 (0.63%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.32%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.32%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (6.35%) SLA
2 7 (2.22%) QA
3 4 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.95%) GDPR
5 2 (0.63%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 28 (8.89%) Active Directory
2 11 (3.49%) Docker
3 3 (0.95%) Microsoft App-V
4 2 (0.63%) vSphere
5 1 (0.32%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.32%) Firmware
5 1 (0.32%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (2.54%) Kubernetes
1 8 (2.54%) SCCM
1 8 (2.54%) Terraform
2 7 (2.22%) ITRS Geneos
3 6 (1.90%) Microsoft Clustering
4 5 (1.59%) Grafana
4 5 (1.59%) Pingdom
5 3 (0.95%) Jamf Pro
5 3 (0.95%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.32%) Kibana
6 1 (0.32%) logstash
Vendors
1 65 (20.63%) Microsoft
2 15 (4.76%) VMware
3 10 (3.17%) Murex
3 10 (3.17%) Oracle
4 6 (1.90%) Autodesk
5 5 (1.59%) AppDynamics
5 5 (1.59%) CA
5 5 (1.59%) SolarWinds
5 5 (1.59%) Splunk
5 5 (1.59%) Sybase
6 4 (1.27%) Bloomberg
6 4 (1.27%) Google
6 4 (1.27%) iManage
6 4 (1.27%) Intapp
6 4 (1.27%) LexisNexis
6 4 (1.27%) Salesforce
6 4 (1.27%) ServiceNow
7 3 (0.95%) Apple
7 3 (0.95%) QinetiQ
7 3 (0.95%) SAP