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 1 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 773 790 968
Rank change year-on-year +17 +178 -264
Permanent jobs requiring an Applications Support Engineer 134 158 295
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.17% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.18% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 116 117 271
10th Percentile £26,750 £30,950 £29,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £33,000 £35,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £47,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +11.76% -
75th Percentile £47,500 £63,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £66,750 £73,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -6.25% +5.96%

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 99,552 86,380 162,088
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.85% 91.27% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 70,786 55,655 84,889
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £50,244
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.48% +5.78%

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 1 June 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 1 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
England +17 119 £40,000 -11.11% 37
UK excluding London -25 99 £40,000 +6.67% 31
Work from Home +15 57 £40,000 -20.00% 23
Midlands +8 36 £32,500 -7.14% 6
London +97 35 £60,000 - 15
South East +3 32 £42,500 +1.19% 5
East Midlands +1 28 £30,000 -14.29% 6
Scotland -54 14 £35,000 -30.00% 7
North of England +4 9 £45,000 +19.21% 5
West Midlands -12 8 £40,000 +14.29%
South West -27 6 £36,250 +7.41% 4
North West -8 5 £45,000 +34.33% 3
Yorkshire +38 4 - - 2
East of England -2 1 £42,500 -32.00% 4
Wales - 1 £47,500 -

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 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 92 (68.66%) SQL
2 53 (39.55%) Problem-Solving
3 39 (29.10%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (26.12%) ITIL
5 33 (24.63%) Finance
6 32 (23.88%) Windows
6 32 (23.88%) Azure
7 30 (22.39%) Law
8 27 (20.15%) Linux
8 27 (20.15%) Microsoft
8 27 (20.15%) Social Skills
9 26 (19.40%) Degree
10 25 (18.66%) SLA
11 23 (17.16%) SQL Server
12 22 (16.42%) Service Management
13 20 (14.93%) Java
13 20 (14.93%) Customer Requirements
14 18 (13.43%) User Experience
14 18 (13.43%) AWS
14 18 (13.43%) User Acceptance Testing
14 18 (13.43%) Python
14 18 (13.43%) Active Directory
14 18 (13.43%) Customer Service
15 17 (12.69%) C#
15 17 (12.69%) Fintech
16 16 (11.94%) JIRA
17 14 (10.45%) MySQL
18 13 (9.70%) Windows Server
19 12 (8.96%) High Availability
19 12 (8.96%) Microsoft 365

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 12 (8.96%) IIS
2 10 (7.46%) Tomcat
3 7 (5.22%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (3.73%) SharePoint
4 5 (3.73%) WebSphere
5 3 (2.24%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (2.24%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.75%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.49%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.49%) Eikon
2 1 (0.75%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.75%) Endur
2 1 (0.75%) Findur
Cloud Services
1 32 (23.88%) Azure
2 18 (13.43%) AWS
3 12 (8.96%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (6.72%) Entra ID
5 8 (5.97%) WhatsApp
6 7 (5.22%) Dynamics 365
7 6 (4.48%) Power Automate
8 5 (3.73%) Power Platform
8 5 (3.73%) SaaS
9 4 (2.99%) Azure Logic Apps
9 4 (2.99%) PowerApps
10 3 (2.24%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 3 (2.24%) Azure Monitor
10 3 (2.24%) Datadog
11 2 (1.49%) Serverless
11 2 (1.49%) Slack
12 1 (0.75%) Azure Stack
12 1 (0.75%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 12 (8.96%) Firewall
2 11 (8.21%) VPN
3 7 (5.22%) SAN
4 5 (3.73%) DNS
4 5 (3.73%) SSL
5 4 (2.99%) Intranet
6 3 (2.24%) Remote Desktop
7 1 (0.75%) Internet
7 1 (0.75%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (17.16%) SQL Server
2 14 (10.45%) MySQL
3 5 (3.73%) Pentaho
3 5 (3.73%) Power BI
4 4 (2.99%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (1.49%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 2 (1.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (1.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.75%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 16 (11.94%) JIRA
2 6 (4.48%) Bitbucket
3 3 (2.24%) Git
4 2 (1.49%) IntelliJ
5 1 (0.75%) Eclipse
5 1 (0.75%) GitLab
5 1 (0.75%) Gradle
5 1 (0.75%) JUnit
General
1 39 (29.10%) Analytical Skills
2 33 (24.63%) Finance
3 30 (22.39%) Law
4 27 (20.15%) Social Skills
5 7 (5.22%) Legal
6 5 (3.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.99%) Front Office
7 4 (2.99%) Marketing
8 3 (2.24%) Banking
9 2 (1.49%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.49%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.75%) Advertising
10 1 (0.75%) Agriculture
10 1 (0.75%) Back Office
10 1 (0.75%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.75%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (8.21%) HTML
2 10 (7.46%) .NET
3 8 (5.97%) CSS
4 5 (3.73%) Kafka
5 2 (1.49%) FIX Protocol
5 2 (1.49%) JSON
5 2 (1.49%) Spring
5 2 (1.49%) XML
6 1 (0.75%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.75%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.72%) Driving Licence
1 9 (6.72%) Linux Command Line
2 8 (5.97%) Greenfield Project
3 7 (5.22%) Clustering
3 7 (5.22%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (3.73%) Data Centre
4 5 (3.73%) Reference Data
5 4 (2.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.49%) iPhone
6 2 (1.49%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.75%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.75%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.75%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.75%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 32 (23.88%) Windows
2 27 (20.15%) Linux
3 13 (9.70%) Windows Server
4 9 (6.72%) Unix
5 4 (2.99%) Apple iOS
5 4 (2.99%) Windows 10
6 2 (1.49%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.75%) Windows 7
7 1 (0.75%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (0.75%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (39.55%) Problem-Solving
2 35 (26.12%) ITIL
3 22 (16.42%) Service Management
4 20 (14.93%) Customer Requirements
5 18 (13.43%) Customer Service
5 18 (13.43%) User Acceptance Testing
5 18 (13.43%) User Experience
6 17 (12.69%) Fintech
7 12 (8.96%) Computer Science
7 12 (8.96%) High Availability
8 11 (8.21%) Software Engineering
9 10 (7.46%) Collaborative Working
10 9 (6.72%) Business Intelligence
11 8 (5.97%) Agile
11 8 (5.97%) Migration
12 7 (5.22%) Incident Management
12 7 (5.22%) Patch Management
13 5 (3.73%) Analytics
13 5 (3.73%) DevOps
13 5 (3.73%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 92 (68.66%) SQL
2 20 (14.93%) Java
3 18 (13.43%) Python
4 17 (12.69%) C#
5 11 (8.21%) PL/SQL
6 7 (5.22%) T-SQL
7 6 (4.48%) PowerShell
8 5 (3.73%) Shell Script
9 4 (2.99%) C++
9 4 (2.99%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.75%) C
Qualifications
1 26 (19.40%) Degree
2 7 (5.22%) Master's Degree
2 7 (5.22%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (3.73%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (2.99%) AWS Certification
4 4 (2.99%) ITIL Certification
5 3 (2.24%) A+ Certification
5 3 (2.24%) Azure Certification
5 3 (2.24%) MCDST
5 3 (2.24%) Security Cleared
6 2 (1.49%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (18.66%) SLA
2 3 (2.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.75%) ISO 9001
3 1 (0.75%) QA
System Software
1 18 (13.43%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.24%) Docker
3 2 (1.49%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (5.22%) ITRS Geneos
1 7 (5.22%) Microsoft Clustering
2 5 (3.73%) Grafana
2 5 (3.73%) Pingdom
3 4 (2.99%) Terraform
4 3 (2.24%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.75%) Kibana
5 1 (0.75%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.75%) logstash
Vendors
1 27 (20.15%) Microsoft
2 10 (7.46%) Murex
2 10 (7.46%) Oracle
3 5 (3.73%) AppDynamics
3 5 (3.73%) CA
3 5 (3.73%) SolarWinds
3 5 (3.73%) Splunk
3 5 (3.73%) Sybase
4 4 (2.99%) Bloomberg
5 3 (2.24%) Trayport
6 2 (1.49%) Apple
6 2 (1.49%) Ivanti
6 2 (1.49%) MarketAxess
6 2 (1.49%) Okta
6 2 (1.49%) PagerDuty
6 2 (1.49%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.49%) Tradeweb
7 1 (0.75%) Civica
7 1 (0.75%) Google
7 1 (0.75%) Sage