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 £40,000 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 306 338 356
Rank change year-on-year +32 +18 -56
Permanent jobs requiring an Applications Support 633 489 712
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.80% 0.88% 0.94%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.84% 0.99% 0.98%
Number of salaries quoted 434 339 577
10th Percentile £25,000 £26,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £29,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £40,000 £36,943
Median % change year-on-year - +8.28% +5.55%
75th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £45,000
90th Percentile £55,000 £66,000 £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 74,927 49,444 72,458
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.84% 88.83% 95.55%
Number of salaries quoted 52,326 29,284 42,904
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £50,296
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +6.37% +5.89%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £67,500
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 9 June 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 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
South East +41 177 £42,500 +3.66% 24
North of England -18 142 £40,000 +1.27% 30
Midlands +42 130 £33,147 -7.93% 10
North West -12 88 £45,000 - 15
East Midlands +17 71 £33,897 -3.15% 9
West Midlands +15 59 £32,310 -18.86% 1
East of England +13 57 £47,500 +6.66% 24
Yorkshire +36 45 £35,579 -6.37% 12
Wales +18 42 £45,000 +91.49% 3
South West -21 41 £37,500 +14.50% 20
Scotland -45 40 £37,500 -16.67% 9
North East -25 9 £37,500 +11.11% 3
Northern Ireland +15 3 £43,250 +8.13% 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 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 UK excluding London region featuring Applications Support in the job title.

1 263 (41.55%) SQL
2 187 (29.54%) Problem-Solving
3 148 (23.38%) Social Skills
4 145 (22.91%) Analytical Skills
5 130 (20.54%) Microsoft
6 123 (19.43%) Finance
7 118 (18.64%) Oracle
8 116 (18.33%) Degree
9 111 (17.54%) SLA
10 103 (16.27%) ITIL
11 98 (15.48%) Unix
11 98 (15.48%) Linux
12 97 (15.32%) Security Cleared
13 82 (12.95%) Incident Management
14 81 (12.80%) Customer Service
15 78 (12.32%) SC Cleared
16 68 (10.74%) ERP
16 68 (10.74%) WebLogic
16 68 (10.74%) Remedy
17 67 (10.58%) Actionable Insight
18 61 (9.64%) Service Management
18 61 (9.64%) Release Management
19 60 (9.48%) Oracle Database
20 59 (9.32%) Solaris
21 56 (8.85%) Microsoft Office
21 56 (8.85%) ITSM
22 55 (8.69%) Windows
22 55 (8.69%) PL/SQL
23 52 (8.21%) Microsoft Excel
23 52 (8.21%) Performance Tuning

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 68 (10.74%) WebLogic
2 43 (6.79%) Oracle Service Bus
3 35 (5.53%) SharePoint
4 27 (4.27%) IIS
5 21 (3.32%) Tomcat
6 16 (2.53%) Apache
7 8 (1.26%) Confluence
8 6 (0.95%) Microsoft Exchange
9 5 (0.79%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.16%) WordPress
Applications
1 56 (8.85%) Microsoft Office
2 52 (8.21%) Microsoft Excel
3 46 (7.27%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 43 (6.79%) Remedy ITSM
2 26 (4.11%) Dynamics CRM
3 16 (2.53%) NEC Housing
4 11 (1.74%) Dynamics GP
5 10 (1.58%) SAP S/4HANA
6 9 (1.42%) Dynamics NAV
7 6 (0.95%) Oracle Applications
8 5 (0.79%) Magento
8 5 (0.79%) Maximo
8 5 (0.79%) NetSuite
8 5 (0.79%) PlanetPress Connect
9 3 (0.47%) Infor SunSystems
9 3 (0.47%) iTrent
10 2 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
10 2 (0.32%) Pegasus Opera
10 2 (0.32%) Sage 50
10 2 (0.32%) SAP Business One
10 2 (0.32%) SAP HCM
10 2 (0.32%) SAP MM
11 1 (0.16%) JDE OneWorld
Cloud Services
1 50 (7.90%) Azure
2 48 (7.58%) Power Platform
3 47 (7.42%) Dynamics 365
4 31 (4.90%) Microsoft 365
5 30 (4.74%) AWS
6 22 (3.48%) SaaS
7 18 (2.84%) Power Automate
8 17 (2.69%) PowerApps
9 11 (1.74%) Entra ID
10 6 (0.95%) WhatsApp
11 5 (0.79%) Azure Logic Apps
11 5 (0.79%) Google Sheets
12 3 (0.47%) IaaS
13 2 (0.32%) Azure DevOps
13 2 (0.32%) Intacct
13 2 (0.32%) PaaS
13 2 (0.32%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.74%) Firewall
1 11 (1.74%) VPN
2 7 (1.11%) SAN
3 6 (0.95%) Broadband
4 4 (0.63%) FTP
4 4 (0.63%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (0.16%) Internet
5 1 (0.16%) LAN
5 1 (0.16%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (0.16%) VLAN
5 1 (0.16%) WAN
5 1 (0.16%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (9.48%) Oracle Database
2 51 (8.06%) SQL Server
3 43 (6.79%) Oracle Database 10g
3 43 (6.79%) Oracle Database 11g
3 43 (6.79%) VLDB
4 29 (4.58%) Power BI
5 25 (3.95%) Elasticsearch
6 16 (2.53%) MySQL
7 15 (2.37%) Relational Database
8 9 (1.42%) Geospatial Data
8 9 (1.42%) GIS
8 9 (1.42%) MS Access
9 7 (1.11%) BusinessObjects
9 7 (1.11%) Crystal Reports
10 5 (0.79%) Azure SQL Database
10 5 (0.79%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (0.79%) Pentaho
10 5 (0.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 5 (0.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 4 (0.63%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 35 (5.53%) JIRA
2 9 (1.42%) Oracle Forms
3 7 (1.11%) Eclipse
3 7 (1.11%) GitLab
4 6 (0.95%) Bitbucket
5 5 (0.79%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 3 (0.47%) Git
7 2 (0.32%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.16%) Gradle
8 1 (0.16%) JUnit
General
1 148 (23.38%) Social Skills
2 145 (22.91%) Analytical Skills
3 123 (19.43%) Finance
4 42 (6.64%) Law
5 37 (5.85%) Police
6 30 (4.74%) Manufacturing
7 26 (4.11%) Marketing
8 22 (3.48%) Legal
9 21 (3.32%) Public Sector
10 20 (3.16%) Local Government
11 15 (2.37%) Retail
12 12 (1.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 10 (1.58%) Automotive
14 5 (0.79%) Banking
14 5 (0.79%) Investment Banking
14 5 (0.79%) Private Banking
15 4 (0.63%) Documentation Skills
16 3 (0.47%) Aerospace
16 3 (0.47%) Environmental Health
16 3 (0.47%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (4.27%) Spring
2 25 (3.95%) J2EE
2 25 (3.95%) Java EE
3 20 (3.16%) .NET
4 18 (2.84%) HTML
5 16 (2.53%) Web Services
6 14 (2.21%) CSS
7 8 (1.26%) EDI
8 6 (0.95%) OLE
9 5 (0.79%) Kafka
9 5 (0.79%) Middleware
9 5 (0.79%) Node.js
10 3 (0.47%) JSON
11 2 (0.32%) XML
12 1 (0.16%) Oracle Fusion
12 1 (0.16%) SailPoint
12 1 (0.16%) Spring Boot
12 1 (0.16%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 21 (3.32%) Enterprise Software
2 19 (3.00%) Driving Licence
3 16 (2.53%) Public Cloud
4 11 (1.74%) Management Information System
5 10 (1.58%) Analytical Mindset
5 10 (1.58%) Self-Motivation
6 8 (1.26%) Linux Command Line
6 8 (1.26%) Mobile App
7 7 (1.11%) Clustering
7 7 (1.11%) CMDB
8 5 (0.79%) Legacy Code
8 5 (0.79%) Reference Data
9 3 (0.47%) NHS
10 2 (0.32%) Cloud Native
10 2 (0.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (0.32%) IoT
10 2 (0.32%) iPhone
10 2 (0.32%) Product Ownership
11 1 (0.16%) Data Protection Act
11 1 (0.16%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 98 (15.48%) Linux
1 98 (15.48%) Unix
2 59 (9.32%) Solaris
3 55 (8.69%) Windows
4 17 (2.69%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.32%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.32%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.32%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.16%) Windows 7
6 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 187 (29.54%) Problem-Solving
2 103 (16.27%) ITIL
3 82 (12.95%) Incident Management
4 81 (12.80%) Customer Service
5 68 (10.74%) ERP
6 67 (10.58%) Actionable Insight
7 61 (9.64%) Release Management
7 61 (9.64%) Service Management
8 56 (8.85%) ITSM
9 52 (8.21%) Performance Tuning
10 51 (8.06%) CRM
11 49 (7.74%) Performance Monitoring
12 45 (7.11%) Artificial Intelligence
13 43 (6.79%) Business Intelligence
13 43 (6.79%) Capacity Planning
14 42 (6.64%) Capacity Management
15 38 (6.00%) User Acceptance Testing
16 32 (5.06%) Project Management
17 30 (4.74%) Agile
18 26 (4.11%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 263 (41.55%) SQL
2 55 (8.69%) PL/SQL
3 46 (7.27%) Shell Script
4 39 (6.16%) Java
5 29 (4.58%) C#
6 28 (4.42%) T-SQL
7 16 (2.53%) JavaScript
8 13 (2.05%) Python
9 6 (0.95%) PowerShell
9 6 (0.95%) VB
10 5 (0.79%) C++
10 5 (0.79%) VBA
11 4 (0.63%) Bash
11 4 (0.63%) COBOL
12 3 (0.47%) C
13 1 (0.16%) PHP
Qualifications
1 116 (18.33%) Degree
2 97 (15.32%) Security Cleared
3 78 (12.32%) SC Cleared
4 11 (1.74%) Microsoft Certification
5 10 (1.58%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (0.95%) ITIL Certification
7 3 (0.47%) A+ Certification
7 3 (0.47%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.47%) MCDST
8 2 (0.32%) ECDL
8 2 (0.32%) MCP
9 1 (0.16%) CTC Cleared
9 1 (0.16%) HNC
9 1 (0.16%) HND
9 1 (0.16%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.16%) MCITP
9 1 (0.16%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 111 (17.54%) SLA
2 16 (2.53%) Accessibility
3 7 (1.11%) GDPR
4 3 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.32%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 43 (6.79%) Oracle RAC
2 23 (3.63%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.11%) Docker
4 1 (0.16%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 43 (6.79%) Data Guard
1 43 (6.79%) Oracle RMAN
2 25 (3.95%) OpenSSO
2 25 (3.95%) Single Sign-On
3 7 (1.11%) Microsoft Clustering
4 6 (0.95%) Grafana
5 5 (0.79%) ITRS Geneos
5 5 (0.79%) Kubernetes
6 4 (0.63%) SCOM
6 4 (0.63%) WhatsUp Gold
7 3 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.16%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.16%) Terraform
Vendors
1 130 (20.54%) Microsoft
2 118 (18.64%) Oracle
3 68 (10.74%) Remedy
4 44 (6.95%) Sun
5 22 (3.48%) SAP
6 19 (3.00%) Civica
6 19 (3.00%) ServiceNow
7 16 (2.53%) NEC
8 9 (1.42%) Salesforce
9 7 (1.11%) Sage
10 6 (0.95%) Epicor
10 6 (0.95%) Guidewire
11 5 (0.79%) AppDynamics
11 5 (0.79%) CA
11 5 (0.79%) FNZ
11 5 (0.79%) Google
11 5 (0.79%) Splunk
11 5 (0.79%) Sybase
12 4 (0.63%) Cognos
12 4 (0.63%) Infor