Applications Support Jobs in the Thames Valley

Application Support
South East > Thames Valley

The median Application Support salary in the Thames Valley is £42,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 136 186 221
Rank change year-on-year +50 +35 -27
Permanent jobs requiring an Applications Support 119 62 69
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.61% 1.11% 0.91%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.70% 1.24% 0.96%
Number of salaries quoted 76 35 52
10th Percentile £24,000 £26,224 £27,675
25th Percentile £28,500 £37,500 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +5.88% +9.68%
75th Percentile £47,500 £55,000 £50,313
90th Percentile £56,250 £67,500 £58,625
South East median annual salary £42,500 £40,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year +4.94% +15.71% -6.67%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Thames Valley

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the Thames Valley. 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 Thames Valley with a recognized job title 7,014 4,983 7,202
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.72% 89.46% 95.23%
Number of salaries quoted 4,713 3,046 4,156
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £39,000 £41,132
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £64,750 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,750 £87,500 £81,250
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%

Applications Support
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Applications Support in the Thames Valley

Applications Support
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Applications Support in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for Applications Support in the Thames Valley

Applications Support
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Applications Support in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Applications Support in the Thames Valley

Applications Support
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Applications Support within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 12 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
Berkshire +20 54 £42,500 -22.73% 3
Buckinghamshire +11 34 £37,417 -28.73% 1
Oxfordshire +14 31 £42,500 - 2
Applications Support
South East

Applications Support Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley

For the 6 months to 12 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 Thames Valley region featuring Applications Support in the job title.

1 45 (37.82%) SQL
1 45 (37.82%) Social Skills
2 40 (33.61%) Analytical Skills
2 40 (33.61%) Security Cleared
3 39 (32.77%) SC Cleared
4 38 (31.93%) Problem-Solving
5 35 (29.41%) Unix
6 34 (28.57%) Oracle
7 33 (27.73%) SLA
8 32 (26.89%) Remedy
8 32 (26.89%) Linux
8 32 (26.89%) WebLogic
8 32 (26.89%) ITIL
8 32 (26.89%) Incident Management
8 32 (26.89%) Actionable Insight
9 27 (22.69%) Degree
10 23 (19.33%) Java
11 22 (18.49%) Spring
12 21 (17.65%) Finance
13 20 (16.81%) Information Management
13 20 (16.81%) Enterprise Architecture
13 20 (16.81%) Java EE
13 20 (16.81%) J2EE
13 20 (16.81%) PL/SQL
13 20 (16.81%) Service Management
13 20 (16.81%) Shell Script
13 20 (16.81%) Police
13 20 (16.81%) Impact Assessments
13 20 (16.81%) Containerisation
13 20 (16.81%) Enterprise Search

Applications Support Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 32 (26.89%) WebLogic
2 12 (10.08%) Oracle Service Bus
3 3 (2.52%) Confluence
Applications
1 16 (13.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (10.08%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (10.08%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 12 (10.08%) Remedy ITSM
2 8 (6.72%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (4.20%) Dynamics GP
4 3 (2.52%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (1.68%) Pegasus Opera
5 2 (1.68%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 13 (10.92%) AWS
1 13 (10.92%) Azure
2 6 (5.04%) Power Platform
3 5 (4.20%) Dynamics 365
3 5 (4.20%) PowerApps
3 5 (4.20%) WhatsApp
4 3 (2.52%) SaaS
5 2 (1.68%) Intacct
6 1 (0.84%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.36%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (16.81%) Elasticsearch
2 12 (10.08%) Oracle Database
2 12 (10.08%) Oracle Database 10g
2 12 (10.08%) Oracle Database 11g
2 12 (10.08%) VLDB
3 8 (6.72%) MySQL
4 5 (4.20%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.68%) Crystal Reports
5 2 (1.68%) RDBMS
5 2 (1.68%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.84%) DB2
6 1 (0.84%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 7 (5.88%) JIRA
2 2 (1.68%) Git
2 2 (1.68%) IntelliJ
3 1 (0.84%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.84%) Eclipse
3 1 (0.84%) Gradle
3 1 (0.84%) JUnit
General
1 45 (37.82%) Social Skills
2 40 (33.61%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (17.65%) Finance
4 20 (16.81%) Police
5 9 (7.56%) Manufacturing
6 5 (4.20%) Automotive
6 5 (4.20%) Legal
7 4 (3.36%) Banking
7 4 (3.36%) Investment Banking
7 4 (3.36%) Private Banking
8 1 (0.84%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.84%) Wearables
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (18.49%) Spring
2 20 (16.81%) J2EE
2 20 (16.81%) Java EE
3 5 (4.20%) HTML
4 4 (3.36%) .NET
4 4 (3.36%) Middleware
5 2 (1.68%) EDI
6 1 (0.84%) CSS
6 1 (0.84%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.56%) Enterprise Software
2 8 (6.72%) Linux Command Line
3 7 (5.88%) CMDB
4 6 (5.04%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (3.36%) NHS
6 2 (1.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 35 (29.41%) Unix
2 32 (26.89%) Linux
3 12 (10.08%) Solaris
4 7 (5.88%) Windows
5 4 (3.36%) Windows Server
6 2 (1.68%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (31.93%) Problem-Solving
2 32 (26.89%) Actionable Insight
2 32 (26.89%) Incident Management
2 32 (26.89%) ITIL
3 20 (16.81%) Containerisation
3 20 (16.81%) Enterprise Architecture
3 20 (16.81%) Enterprise Search
3 20 (16.81%) Impact Assessments
3 20 (16.81%) Information Management
3 20 (16.81%) Service Management
4 16 (13.45%) Performance Tuning
5 15 (12.61%) ERP
6 13 (10.92%) Performance Monitoring
7 12 (10.08%) Artificial Intelligence
7 12 (10.08%) Capacity Planning
7 12 (10.08%) ITSM
8 11 (9.24%) Capacity Management
8 11 (9.24%) Release Management
9 10 (8.40%) Service Delivery
10 9 (7.56%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 45 (37.82%) SQL
2 23 (19.33%) Java
3 20 (16.81%) PL/SQL
3 20 (16.81%) Shell Script
4 8 (6.72%) JavaScript
5 7 (5.88%) C#
6 4 (3.36%) Python
7 3 (2.52%) COBOL
8 2 (1.68%) Bash
9 1 (0.84%) C
Qualifications
1 40 (33.61%) Security Cleared
2 39 (32.77%) SC Cleared
3 27 (22.69%) Degree
4 1 (0.84%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.84%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (27.73%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (10.08%) Oracle RAC
2 6 (5.04%) Docker
3 4 (3.36%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 20 (16.81%) OpenSSO
1 20 (16.81%) Single Sign-On
2 12 (10.08%) Data Guard
2 12 (10.08%) Oracle RMAN
3 4 (3.36%) Kubernetes
3 4 (3.36%) SCOM
4 2 (1.68%) Terraform
Vendors
1 34 (28.57%) Oracle
2 32 (26.89%) Remedy
3 12 (10.08%) Sun
4 10 (8.40%) Microsoft
5 7 (5.88%) ServiceNow
6 4 (3.36%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.68%) Civica
7 2 (1.68%) Murex
7 2 (1.68%) Pegasus
7 2 (1.68%) Sage
7 2 (1.68%) Xero
8 1 (0.84%) IBM