Applications Specialist Jobs in the UK excluding London

Application Specialist
UK > UK excluding London

The median Application Specialist salary in the UK excluding London is £35,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 November 2024.

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

6 months to
14 Nov 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 551 557 720
Rank change year-on-year +6 +163 +7
Permanent jobs requiring an Applications Specialist 98 34 85
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.18% 0.10% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.11% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 52 28 73
10th Percentile £24,000 £36,250 £33,950
25th Percentile £30,000 £41,111 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £44,767 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% -12.22% +35.58%
75th Percentile £45,000 £53,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £54,750 £66,250 £63,000
UK median annual salary £43,750 £47,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.89% -13.64% +15.79%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 51,389 32,173 64,386
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.43% 95.94% 95.38%
Number of salaries quoted 25,354 22,021 38,524
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £66,000 £67,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +4.35%

Applications Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Applications Specialist in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Applications Specialist in the UK excluding London

Applications Specialist
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Applications Specialist in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Applications Specialist in the UK excluding London

Applications Specialist
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Applications Specialist in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 14 November 2024.

Salary histogram for Applications Specialist in the UK excluding London

Applications Specialist
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 Specialist within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 14 November 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 +3 29 £33,500 -27.57% 13
East of England -33 28 £45,000 -28.00% 3
North of England -11 16 £52,500 +14.75% 7
Midlands -22 13 £29,500 - 1
West Midlands -24 13 £29,500 -
Yorkshire - 9 £55,000 - 1
South West +16 8 £35,000 -9.96% 1
North West -40 7 £50,000 -4.76% 2
Scotland -3 4 £39,459 -0.73% 3
Applications Specialist
UK

Applications Specialist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 14 November 2024, Applications Specialist 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 Specialist in the job title.

1 18 (18.37%) ERP
2 16 (16.33%) Microsoft
3 15 (15.31%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (11.22%) Degree
5 10 (10.20%) SQL
5 10 (10.20%) SQL Server
5 10 (10.20%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (9.18%) Social Skills
6 9 (9.18%) Python
7 8 (8.16%) .NET
7 8 (8.16%) C#
7 8 (8.16%) Software Engineering
7 8 (8.16%) Django
7 8 (8.16%) Customer Service
7 8 (8.16%) Decision-Making
7 8 (8.16%) Collaborative Working
8 7 (7.14%) Dynamics 365
8 7 (7.14%) SharePoint
9 6 (6.12%) ITIL
9 6 (6.12%) Windows
9 6 (6.12%) Linux
9 6 (6.12%) Finance
9 6 (6.12%) Continuous Improvement
10 5 (5.10%) MariaDB
10 5 (5.10%) Ansible
10 5 (5.10%) SSL
10 5 (5.10%) Azure
10 5 (5.10%) Service Management
10 5 (5.10%) Law
10 5 (5.10%) Legal

Applications Specialist 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 7 (7.14%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.04%) nginx
3 1 (1.02%) Apache
3 1 (1.02%) Exchange Server 2013
3 1 (1.02%) IIS
3 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.02%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (3.06%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (2.04%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (2.04%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (1.02%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.02%) Infor LN
Cloud Services
1 7 (7.14%) Dynamics 365
2 5 (5.10%) Azure
3 4 (4.08%) Power Platform
4 3 (3.06%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.02%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.10%) SSL
2 1 (1.02%) HTTP
2 1 (1.02%) Modbus
2 1 (1.02%) Skype
2 1 (1.02%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (10.20%) SQL Server
2 5 (5.10%) MariaDB
3 4 (4.08%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (3.06%) Big Data
5 1 (1.02%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (1.02%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (1.02%) DTS
5 1 (1.02%) Electronic Patient Records
5 1 (1.02%) MySQL
5 1 (1.02%) Power BI
5 1 (1.02%) QlikView
5 1 (1.02%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (1.02%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (1.02%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 15 (15.31%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (9.18%) Social Skills
3 6 (6.12%) Finance
4 5 (5.10%) Law
4 5 (5.10%) Legal
5 3 (3.06%) Aerospace
6 2 (2.04%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.02%) Automotive
7 1 (1.02%) Billing
7 1 (1.02%) Military
7 1 (1.02%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (8.16%) .NET
1 8 (8.16%) Django
2 4 (4.08%) XML
2 4 (4.08%) XML Messaging
3 3 (3.06%) EDI
4 1 (1.02%) React
4 1 (1.02%) Spring
4 1 (1.02%) Spring Boot
4 1 (1.02%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (3.06%) Cloud Native
2 1 (1.02%) Data Centre
2 1 (1.02%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (1.02%) Freedom of Information
2 1 (1.02%) Management Information System
2 1 (1.02%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.12%) Linux
1 6 (6.12%) Windows
2 4 (4.08%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.02%) Debian
3 1 (1.02%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (18.37%) ERP
2 10 (10.20%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (8.16%) Collaborative Working
3 8 (8.16%) Customer Service
3 8 (8.16%) Decision-Making
3 8 (8.16%) Software Engineering
4 6 (6.12%) Continuous Improvement
4 6 (6.12%) ITIL
5 5 (5.10%) Business Intelligence
5 5 (5.10%) Incident Response
5 5 (5.10%) Service Management
6 4 (4.08%) Analytical Thinking
6 4 (4.08%) B2B
6 4 (4.08%) Change Management
6 4 (4.08%) High Availability
6 4 (4.08%) Line Management
6 4 (4.08%) Network Management
6 4 (4.08%) Project Delivery
6 4 (4.08%) SIEM
7 3 (3.06%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 10 (10.20%) SQL
2 9 (9.18%) Python
3 8 (8.16%) C#
4 2 (2.04%) Java
4 2 (2.04%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.02%) Bash
Qualifications
1 11 (11.22%) Degree
2 2 (2.04%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 1 (1.02%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.02%) DBS Check
3 1 (1.02%) DV Cleared
3 1 (1.02%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.02%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.08%) QA
2 3 (3.06%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.02%) NCSC
3 1 (1.02%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (5.10%) Virtual Servers
2 1 (1.02%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.02%) Docker
2 1 (1.02%) Hyper-V
2 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Virtual Server
2 1 (1.02%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.02%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (5.10%) Ansible
2 1 (1.02%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 16 (16.33%) Microsoft
2 3 (3.06%) Databricks
2 3 (3.06%) SAP
3 2 (2.04%) VMware
4 1 (1.02%) Cognos
4 1 (1.02%) Infor
4 1 (1.02%) Sage