Applications Support Engineer Jobs

Application Support Engineer
UK

The median Application Support Engineer salary in the UK is £40,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 14 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
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 770 802 949
Rank change year-on-year +32 +147 -241
Permanent jobs requiring an Applications Support Engineer 126 173 289
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.17% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.19% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 110 123 264
10th Percentile £26,750 £30,100 £29,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £35,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +5.88% -
75th Percentile £57,438 £57,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £66,250 £73,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,500 £35,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% -12.50% +1.91%

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 93,739 91,836 153,630
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.65% 91.52% 96.11%
Number of salaries quoted 67,104 57,926 84,939
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,604
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £80,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

Applications Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Applications Support Engineer in the UK

Applications Support Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Applications Support Engineer in the UK

Applications Support Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Applications Support Engineer over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Applications Support Engineer in the UK

Applications Support Engineer
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Applications Support Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 14 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 +47 111 £41,250 -8.33% 41
UK excluding London -27 87 £37,500 +7.14% 30
Work from Home +34 52 £42,500 -15.00% 23
London +110 38 £60,000 +9.09% 11
South East +19 32 £42,500 +6.25% 9
Midlands +16 26 £28,500 -18.57% 9
East Midlands -2 24 £28,500 -18.57% 6
Scotland -42 14 £35,000 -30.00% 2
North of England +1 7 £40,000 +6.67% 5
South West -29 6 £36,250 +11.54% 4
Yorkshire +60 5 £40,000 -3.61% 2
West Midlands +2 2 £30,250 -13.57% 3
North West -1 2 £43,750 +41.13% 3
East of England +3 1 £42,500 -32.00% 2
Wales - 1 £47,500 -

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

For the 6 months to 14 May 2024, Applications Support 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 Support Engineer in the job title.

1 87 (69.05%) SQL
2 46 (36.51%) Problem-Solving
3 34 (26.98%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (26.19%) Azure
5 32 (25.40%) Windows
6 31 (24.60%) ITIL
7 30 (23.81%) Finance
8 29 (23.02%) Linux
9 28 (22.22%) Microsoft
10 27 (21.43%) Law
11 26 (20.63%) Degree
12 24 (19.05%) Social Skills
13 22 (17.46%) SQL Server
14 21 (16.67%) Java
15 20 (15.87%) Active Directory
15 20 (15.87%) Service Management
15 20 (15.87%) SLA
16 18 (14.29%) Python
16 18 (14.29%) Customer Requirements
17 16 (12.70%) Fintech
17 16 (12.70%) AWS
17 16 (12.70%) User Experience
17 16 (12.70%) JIRA
17 16 (12.70%) User Acceptance Testing
17 16 (12.70%) Customer Service
18 15 (11.90%) C#
19 14 (11.11%) MySQL
20 13 (10.32%) PL/SQL
20 13 (10.32%) Microsoft 365
20 13 (10.32%) Windows Server

Applications Support 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 (8.73%) IIS
2 10 (7.94%) Tomcat
3 7 (5.56%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (3.97%) SharePoint
4 5 (3.97%) WebSphere
5 3 (2.38%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (3.17%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.59%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.59%) Eikon
2 1 (0.79%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.79%) Endur
2 1 (0.79%) Findur
Cloud Services
1 33 (26.19%) Azure
2 16 (12.70%) AWS
3 13 (10.32%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (7.94%) Entra ID
5 8 (6.35%) WhatsApp
6 6 (4.76%) Dynamics 365
6 6 (4.76%) Power Automate
7 5 (3.97%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 5 (3.97%) Azure Monitor
8 4 (3.17%) Azure Logic Apps
8 4 (3.17%) Power Platform
8 4 (3.17%) PowerApps
8 4 (3.17%) SaaS
9 2 (1.59%) Datadog
9 2 (1.59%) Slack
10 1 (0.79%) Azure Stack
10 1 (0.79%) GCP
10 1 (0.79%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 11 (8.73%) Firewall
2 10 (7.94%) VPN
3 6 (4.76%) SAN
4 5 (3.97%) DNS
4 5 (3.97%) SSL
5 4 (3.17%) Intranet
6 3 (2.38%) Remote Desktop
7 1 (0.79%) Internet
7 1 (0.79%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (17.46%) SQL Server
2 14 (11.11%) MySQL
3 5 (3.97%) Pentaho
4 4 (3.17%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (3.17%) Power BI
5 2 (1.59%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 2 (1.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (1.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.79%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.79%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 16 (12.70%) JIRA
2 6 (4.76%) Bitbucket
3 3 (2.38%) Git
4 2 (1.59%) IntelliJ
5 1 (0.79%) Eclipse
5 1 (0.79%) GitLab
5 1 (0.79%) Gradle
5 1 (0.79%) JUnit
General
1 34 (26.98%) Analytical Skills
2 30 (23.81%) Finance
3 27 (21.43%) Law
4 24 (19.05%) Social Skills
5 7 (5.56%) Legal
6 5 (3.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (3.17%) Banking
7 4 (3.17%) Front Office
7 4 (3.17%) Marketing
8 2 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.59%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.79%) Advertising
9 1 (0.79%) Agriculture
9 1 (0.79%) Back Office
9 1 (0.79%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.56%) HTML
2 6 (4.76%) .NET
3 5 (3.97%) Kafka
4 4 (3.17%) CSS
5 2 (1.59%) FIX Protocol
5 2 (1.59%) JSON
5 2 (1.59%) Spring
5 2 (1.59%) Spring Boot
5 2 (1.59%) XML
6 1 (0.79%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.14%) Driving Licence
1 9 (7.14%) Linux Command Line
2 8 (6.35%) Greenfield Project
3 7 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (4.76%) Clustering
5 5 (3.97%) Data Centre
5 5 (3.97%) Reference Data
6 4 (3.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (1.59%) iPhone
7 2 (1.59%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (1.59%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.79%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.79%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.79%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.79%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 32 (25.40%) Windows
2 29 (23.02%) Linux
3 13 (10.32%) Windows Server
4 9 (7.14%) Unix
5 5 (3.97%) Windows 10
6 4 (3.17%) Apple iOS
7 2 (1.59%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.79%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.79%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.79%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (36.51%) Problem-Solving
2 31 (24.60%) ITIL
3 20 (15.87%) Service Management
4 18 (14.29%) Customer Requirements
5 16 (12.70%) Customer Service
5 16 (12.70%) Fintech
5 16 (12.70%) User Acceptance Testing
5 16 (12.70%) User Experience
6 12 (9.52%) Software Engineering
7 11 (8.73%) High Availability
8 10 (7.94%) Computer Science
9 9 (7.14%) Business Intelligence
9 9 (7.14%) Collaborative Working
9 9 (7.14%) Migration
10 8 (6.35%) Agile
11 6 (4.76%) Incident Management
11 6 (4.76%) Patch Management
12 5 (3.97%) Analytics
12 5 (3.97%) Infrastructure as Code
12 5 (3.97%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 87 (69.05%) SQL
2 21 (16.67%) Java
3 18 (14.29%) Python
4 15 (11.90%) C#
5 13 (10.32%) PL/SQL
6 6 (4.76%) PowerShell
7 5 (3.97%) Shell Script
7 5 (3.97%) T-SQL
8 4 (3.17%) C++
9 2 (1.59%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 26 (20.63%) Degree
2 7 (5.56%) Master's Degree
2 7 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (3.97%) Azure Certification
3 5 (3.97%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (3.17%) AWS Certification
5 3 (2.38%) A+ Certification
5 3 (2.38%) MCDST
6 2 (1.59%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (15.87%) SLA
2 3 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.79%) ISO 9001
3 1 (0.79%) QA
System Software
1 20 (15.87%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.38%) Docker
3 2 (1.59%) vSphere
4 1 (0.79%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 7 (5.56%) ITRS Geneos
2 6 (4.76%) Microsoft Clustering
2 6 (4.76%) Terraform
3 5 (3.97%) Grafana
3 5 (3.97%) Pingdom
4 3 (2.38%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.79%) Kibana
5 1 (0.79%) logstash
Vendors
1 28 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 10 (7.94%) Murex
2 10 (7.94%) Oracle
3 5 (3.97%) AppDynamics
3 5 (3.97%) CA
3 5 (3.97%) SolarWinds
3 5 (3.97%) Splunk
3 5 (3.97%) Sybase
4 4 (3.17%) Bloomberg
5 3 (2.38%) Trayport
6 2 (1.59%) Apple
6 2 (1.59%) Ivanti
6 2 (1.59%) MarketAxess
6 2 (1.59%) Okta
6 2 (1.59%) PagerDuty
6 2 (1.59%) Tradeweb
7 1 (0.79%) Citrix
7 1 (0.79%) Sage
7 1 (0.79%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.79%) SAP