Applications Support Jobs in the South East

Application Support
England > South East

The median Application Support salary in the South East is £42,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 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
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 233 274 318
Rank change year-on-year +41 +44 -72
Permanent jobs requiring an Applications Support 177 118 210
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.96% 0.88% 0.99%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.02% 0.98% 1.03%
Number of salaries quoted 120 77 189
10th Percentile £24,000 £28,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £30,938 £31,250 £29,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £41,000 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.66% +17.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £50,500 £53,750 £47,500
90th Percentile £57,500 £55,749 £52,500
England median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +17.65% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 17,348 12,023 20,382
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.23% 89.71% 96.17%
Number of salaries quoted 12,223 7,828 12,399
10th Percentile £27,750 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,331 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.98% +0.55% +9.09%

Applications Support
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Applications Support in the South East

Applications Support
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Applications Support in the South East.

Salary trend for Applications Support in the South East

Applications Support
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Applications Support in the South East over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Applications Support in the South East

Applications Support
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Applications Support within the South East region over the 6 months to 9 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
Thames Valley +42 121 £42,500 -2.86% 6
Berkshire +32 56 £42,500 -22.73% 2
Buckinghamshire +5 34 £37,417 -28.73% 2
Oxfordshire +14 31 £42,500 - 2
Surrey -2 24 £36,000 +5.88%
Kent +3 16 £45,000 - 1
Hampshire -39 14 £20,000 -38.46% 8
West Sussex +26 1 £30,000 - 2
East Sussex +1 1 £48,500 +38.57%
Applications Support
England

Applications Support Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 9 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 South East region featuring Applications Support in the job title.

1 73 (41.24%) SQL
2 62 (35.03%) Social Skills
3 56 (31.64%) Analytical Skills
4 54 (30.51%) Problem-Solving
5 45 (25.42%) SLA
6 42 (23.73%) Security Cleared
7 41 (23.16%) SC Cleared
8 39 (22.03%) ITIL
9 37 (20.90%) Unix
9 37 (20.90%) Linux
9 37 (20.90%) Oracle
10 35 (19.77%) Finance
10 35 (19.77%) Degree
11 34 (19.21%) Incident Management
11 34 (19.21%) Actionable Insight
11 34 (19.21%) WebLogic
11 34 (19.21%) Remedy
12 27 (15.25%) ERP
12 27 (15.25%) Java
13 23 (12.99%) PL/SQL
13 23 (12.99%) Spring
13 23 (12.99%) Customer Service
14 22 (12.43%) AWS
15 21 (11.86%) Service Management
15 21 (11.86%) Information Management
15 21 (11.86%) J2EE
15 21 (11.86%) Microsoft Excel
15 21 (11.86%) Shell Script
15 21 (11.86%) OpenSSO
15 21 (11.86%) Enterprise Architecture

Applications Support Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 34 (19.21%) WebLogic
2 13 (7.34%) Oracle Service Bus
3 3 (1.69%) Confluence
4 1 (0.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 21 (11.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (8.47%) MS Visio
3 14 (7.91%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 13 (7.34%) Remedy ITSM
2 10 (5.65%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (3.39%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (2.82%) Dynamics GP
5 4 (2.26%) NetSuite
6 3 (1.69%) Dynamics NAV
7 2 (1.13%) Pegasus Opera
7 2 (1.13%) Sage 50
8 1 (0.56%) Infor M3
8 1 (0.56%) JDE OneWorld
8 1 (0.56%) JDE World
Cloud Services
1 22 (12.43%) AWS
2 14 (7.91%) Azure
3 10 (5.65%) Power Platform
4 7 (3.95%) PowerApps
5 6 (3.39%) WhatsApp
6 5 (2.82%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (1.13%) Intacct
7 2 (1.13%) Power Automate
7 2 (1.13%) SaaS
8 1 (0.56%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.56%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.26%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (11.86%) Elasticsearch
2 13 (7.34%) MySQL
2 13 (7.34%) Oracle Database
2 13 (7.34%) Oracle Database 10g
2 13 (7.34%) Oracle Database 11g
2 13 (7.34%) SQL Server
2 13 (7.34%) VLDB
3 5 (2.82%) Power BI
4 2 (1.13%) Crystal Reports
4 2 (1.13%) RDBMS
4 2 (1.13%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.56%) DB2
Development Applications
1 7 (3.95%) JIRA
2 2 (1.13%) Git
2 2 (1.13%) IntelliJ
3 1 (0.56%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.56%) Eclipse
3 1 (0.56%) Gradle
3 1 (0.56%) JUnit
General
1 62 (35.03%) Social Skills
2 56 (31.64%) Analytical Skills
3 35 (19.77%) Finance
4 21 (11.86%) Police
5 12 (6.78%) Manufacturing
6 5 (2.82%) Automotive
6 5 (2.82%) Banking
6 5 (2.82%) Investment Banking
6 5 (2.82%) Legal
6 5 (2.82%) Private Banking
7 1 (0.56%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.56%) Wearables
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (12.99%) Spring
2 21 (11.86%) J2EE
2 21 (11.86%) Java EE
3 18 (10.17%) .NET
4 17 (9.60%) HTML
5 13 (7.34%) CSS
6 5 (2.82%) Middleware
7 2 (1.13%) EDI
8 1 (0.56%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.65%) Enterprise Software
2 9 (5.08%) Analytical Mindset
3 8 (4.52%) Linux Command Line
4 7 (3.95%) CMDB
5 3 (1.69%) NHS
6 2 (1.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.13%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.56%) Driving Licence
7 1 (0.56%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 37 (20.90%) Linux
1 37 (20.90%) Unix
2 13 (7.34%) Solaris
3 11 (6.21%) Windows
4 4 (2.26%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.13%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (30.51%) Problem-Solving
2 39 (22.03%) ITIL
3 34 (19.21%) Actionable Insight
3 34 (19.21%) Incident Management
4 27 (15.25%) ERP
5 23 (12.99%) Customer Service
6 21 (11.86%) Containerisation
6 21 (11.86%) Enterprise Architecture
6 21 (11.86%) Enterprise Search
6 21 (11.86%) Impact Assessments
6 21 (11.86%) Information Management
6 21 (11.86%) Service Management
7 19 (10.73%) Agile
8 18 (10.17%) Performance Tuning
9 17 (9.60%) Project Management
10 14 (7.91%) Performance Monitoring
11 13 (7.34%) Artificial Intelligence
11 13 (7.34%) Capacity Planning
11 13 (7.34%) ITSM
12 12 (6.78%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 73 (41.24%) SQL
2 27 (15.25%) Java
3 23 (12.99%) PL/SQL
4 21 (11.86%) Shell Script
5 19 (10.73%) C#
6 12 (6.78%) JavaScript
7 9 (5.08%) T-SQL
8 4 (2.26%) Python
8 4 (2.26%) VBA
9 3 (1.69%) COBOL
10 2 (1.13%) Bash
10 2 (1.13%) C
Qualifications
1 42 (23.73%) Security Cleared
2 41 (23.16%) SC Cleared
3 35 (19.77%) Degree
4 4 (2.26%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (0.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.56%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (25.42%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (7.34%) Oracle RAC
2 5 (2.82%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.82%) Docker
3 1 (0.56%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 21 (11.86%) OpenSSO
1 21 (11.86%) Single Sign-On
2 13 (7.34%) Data Guard
2 13 (7.34%) Oracle RMAN
3 4 (2.26%) SCOM
4 3 (1.69%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 37 (20.90%) Oracle
2 34 (19.21%) Remedy
3 17 (9.60%) Microsoft
4 13 (7.34%) Sun
5 11 (6.21%) SAP
6 7 (3.95%) ServiceNow
7 6 (3.39%) Sage
8 4 (2.26%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.13%) Civica
9 2 (1.13%) Murex
9 2 (1.13%) Pegasus
9 2 (1.13%) Xero
10 1 (0.56%) Epicor
10 1 (0.56%) IBM
10 1 (0.56%) IFS
10 1 (0.56%) Infor
10 1 (0.56%) JD Edwards
10 1 (0.56%) VMware