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 4 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
4 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 311 352 344
Rank change year-on-year +41 -8 -51
Permanent jobs requiring an Applications Support 614 480 719
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.80% 0.86% 0.96%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.84% 0.96% 1.01%
Number of salaries quoted 423 335 581
10th Percentile £25,000 £26,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £29,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £39,500 £36,943
Median % change year-on-year +1.27% +6.92% +5.55%
75th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £45,000
90th Percentile £55,000 £64,800 £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 72,928 49,766 71,464
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.03% 88.84% 95.62%
Number of salaries quoted 51,148 29,359 42,952
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 £67,250
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 4 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 4 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 +45 174 £42,500 +3.66% 19
North of England -16 135 £40,000 +1.27% 29
Midlands +57 128 £32,500 -7.14% 13
North West -15 84 £45,000 +4.05% 14
East Midlands +23 70 £33,793 -0.61% 11
West Midlands +19 58 £32,121 -19.34% 2
East of England +11 55 £47,500 +6.66% 19
Yorkshire +36 42 £35,579 -6.37% 12
Wales +18 42 £45,000 +91.49% 2
South West -30 42 £37,500 +15.38% 17
Scotland -49 34 £35,000 -22.22% 14
North East -22 9 £37,500 +11.11% 3
Northern Ireland +21 3 £43,250 +0.58% 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 4 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.

1 261 (42.51%) SQL
2 188 (30.62%) Problem-Solving
3 147 (23.94%) Analytical Skills
4 146 (23.78%) Social Skills
5 129 (21.01%) Microsoft
6 121 (19.71%) Finance
7 120 (19.54%) Oracle
8 118 (19.22%) Degree
9 114 (18.57%) SLA
10 104 (16.94%) ITIL
11 100 (16.29%) Unix
12 98 (15.96%) Security Cleared
12 98 (15.96%) Linux
13 84 (13.68%) Incident Management
14 80 (13.03%) Customer Service
15 79 (12.87%) SC Cleared
16 70 (11.40%) WebLogic
16 70 (11.40%) Remedy
17 69 (11.24%) Actionable Insight
18 67 (10.91%) ERP
19 63 (10.26%) Service Management
19 63 (10.26%) Release Management
20 61 (9.93%) Oracle Database
21 60 (9.77%) Solaris
22 57 (9.28%) ITSM
23 56 (9.12%) Microsoft Office
23 56 (9.12%) PL/SQL
24 54 (8.79%) Windows
25 53 (8.63%) Performance Tuning
26 52 (8.47%) SQL Server

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 70 (11.40%) WebLogic
2 44 (7.17%) Oracle Service Bus
3 35 (5.70%) SharePoint
4 27 (4.40%) IIS
5 21 (3.42%) Tomcat
6 16 (2.61%) Apache
7 8 (1.30%) Confluence
8 5 (0.81%) Microsoft Exchange
8 5 (0.81%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.16%) WordPress
Applications
1 56 (9.12%) Microsoft Office
2 52 (8.47%) Microsoft Excel
3 47 (7.65%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 44 (7.17%) Remedy ITSM
2 26 (4.23%) Dynamics CRM
3 16 (2.61%) NEC Housing
4 11 (1.79%) Dynamics GP
5 10 (1.63%) SAP S/4HANA
6 9 (1.47%) Dynamics NAV
7 6 (0.98%) Oracle Applications
7 6 (0.98%) PlanetPress Connect
8 5 (0.81%) Magento
8 5 (0.81%) NetSuite
9 4 (0.65%) Maximo
10 3 (0.49%) Infor SunSystems
10 3 (0.49%) iTrent
11 2 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
11 2 (0.33%) SAP Business One
11 2 (0.33%) SAP HCM
11 2 (0.33%) SAP MM
12 1 (0.16%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
12 1 (0.16%) JDE OneWorld
12 1 (0.16%) Pegasus Opera
Cloud Services
1 48 (7.82%) Power Platform
2 47 (7.65%) Dynamics 365
3 46 (7.49%) Azure
4 30 (4.89%) Microsoft 365
5 28 (4.56%) AWS
6 22 (3.58%) SaaS
7 18 (2.93%) Power Automate
8 16 (2.61%) PowerApps
9 10 (1.63%) Entra ID
10 6 (0.98%) WhatsApp
11 5 (0.81%) Azure Logic Apps
11 5 (0.81%) Google Sheets
12 3 (0.49%) IaaS
13 2 (0.33%) Azure DevOps
13 2 (0.33%) PaaS
13 2 (0.33%) Serverless
14 1 (0.16%) Intacct
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.79%) Firewall
1 11 (1.79%) VPN
2 7 (1.14%) SAN
3 6 (0.98%) Broadband
4 4 (0.65%) FTP
4 4 (0.65%) 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 61 (9.93%) Oracle Database
2 52 (8.47%) SQL Server
3 44 (7.17%) Oracle Database 10g
3 44 (7.17%) Oracle Database 11g
3 44 (7.17%) VLDB
4 30 (4.89%) Power BI
5 26 (4.23%) Elasticsearch
6 16 (2.61%) MySQL
7 14 (2.28%) Relational Database
8 9 (1.47%) Geospatial Data
8 9 (1.47%) GIS
8 9 (1.47%) MS Access
9 7 (1.14%) BusinessObjects
10 6 (0.98%) Crystal Reports
10 6 (0.98%) Data Warehouse
11 5 (0.81%) Azure SQL Database
11 5 (0.81%) Pentaho
11 5 (0.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 4 (0.65%) QlikView
12 4 (0.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 35 (5.70%) JIRA
2 9 (1.47%) Oracle Forms
3 7 (1.14%) Eclipse
3 7 (1.14%) GitLab
4 6 (0.98%) Bitbucket
4 6 (0.98%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 3 (0.49%) Git
6 2 (0.33%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.16%) Gradle
7 1 (0.16%) JUnit
General
1 147 (23.94%) Analytical Skills
2 146 (23.78%) Social Skills
3 121 (19.71%) Finance
4 41 (6.68%) Law
5 38 (6.19%) Police
6 29 (4.72%) Manufacturing
7 26 (4.23%) Marketing
8 22 (3.58%) Legal
9 21 (3.42%) Public Sector
10 20 (3.26%) Local Government
11 16 (2.61%) Retail
12 12 (1.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 10 (1.63%) Automotive
14 5 (0.81%) Banking
14 5 (0.81%) Investment Banking
14 5 (0.81%) Private Banking
15 4 (0.65%) Documentation Skills
16 3 (0.49%) Back Office
16 3 (0.49%) Environmental Health
16 3 (0.49%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (4.56%) Spring
2 26 (4.23%) J2EE
2 26 (4.23%) Java EE
3 20 (3.26%) .NET
4 17 (2.77%) HTML
5 16 (2.61%) Web Services
6 14 (2.28%) CSS
7 7 (1.14%) EDI
8 6 (0.98%) OLE
9 5 (0.81%) Kafka
9 5 (0.81%) Middleware
9 5 (0.81%) Node.js
10 3 (0.49%) JSON
11 2 (0.33%) XML
12 1 (0.16%) Oracle Fusion
12 1 (0.16%) Spring Boot
12 1 (0.16%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 21 (3.42%) Enterprise Software
2 19 (3.09%) Driving Licence
3 16 (2.61%) Public Cloud
4 12 (1.95%) Management Information System
5 11 (1.79%) Analytical Mindset
6 10 (1.63%) Self-Motivation
7 8 (1.30%) Linux Command Line
7 8 (1.30%) Mobile App
8 7 (1.14%) Clustering
8 7 (1.14%) CMDB
9 5 (0.81%) Legacy Code
9 5 (0.81%) Reference Data
10 3 (0.49%) NHS
11 2 (0.33%) Cloud Native
11 2 (0.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 2 (0.33%) IoT
11 2 (0.33%) iPhone
11 2 (0.33%) Product Ownership
12 1 (0.16%) Greenfield Project
12 1 (0.16%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 100 (16.29%) Unix
2 98 (15.96%) Linux
3 60 (9.77%) Solaris
4 54 (8.79%) Windows
5 17 (2.77%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.33%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.33%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.33%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.33%) Windows 7
7 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.16%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 188 (30.62%) Problem-Solving
2 104 (16.94%) ITIL
3 84 (13.68%) Incident Management
4 80 (13.03%) Customer Service
5 69 (11.24%) Actionable Insight
6 67 (10.91%) ERP
7 63 (10.26%) Release Management
7 63 (10.26%) Service Management
8 57 (9.28%) ITSM
9 53 (8.63%) Performance Tuning
10 50 (8.14%) CRM
10 50 (8.14%) Performance Monitoring
11 46 (7.49%) Artificial Intelligence
12 44 (7.17%) Capacity Planning
13 43 (7.00%) Business Intelligence
13 43 (7.00%) Capacity Management
14 38 (6.19%) User Acceptance Testing
15 33 (5.37%) Project Management
16 30 (4.89%) Agile
17 26 (4.23%) Information Management
Programming Languages
1 261 (42.51%) SQL
2 56 (9.12%) PL/SQL
3 47 (7.65%) Shell Script
4 40 (6.51%) Java
5 28 (4.56%) C#
5 28 (4.56%) T-SQL
6 16 (2.61%) JavaScript
7 11 (1.79%) Python
8 6 (0.98%) VB
9 5 (0.81%) C++
9 5 (0.81%) VBA
10 4 (0.65%) COBOL
11 3 (0.49%) C
11 3 (0.49%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.33%) Bash
13 1 (0.16%) PHP
Qualifications
1 118 (19.22%) Degree
2 98 (15.96%) Security Cleared
3 79 (12.87%) SC Cleared
4 11 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
5 9 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (0.98%) ITIL Certification
7 3 (0.49%) A+ Certification
7 3 (0.49%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.49%) MCDST
8 2 (0.33%) ECDL
8 2 (0.33%) 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
1 114 (18.57%) SLA
2 16 (2.61%) Accessibility
3 7 (1.14%) GDPR
4 3 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.33%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 44 (7.17%) Oracle RAC
2 22 (3.58%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.98%) Docker
4 1 (0.16%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 44 (7.17%) Data Guard
1 44 (7.17%) Oracle RMAN
2 26 (4.23%) OpenSSO
2 26 (4.23%) Single Sign-On
3 7 (1.14%) Microsoft Clustering
4 5 (0.81%) Grafana
4 5 (0.81%) ITRS Geneos
5 4 (0.65%) Kubernetes
5 4 (0.65%) SCOM
5 4 (0.65%) WhatsUp Gold
6 3 (0.49%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.16%) Terraform
Vendors
1 129 (21.01%) Microsoft
2 120 (19.54%) Oracle
3 70 (11.40%) Remedy
4 45 (7.33%) Sun
5 22 (3.58%) SAP
6 18 (2.93%) Civica
6 18 (2.93%) ServiceNow
7 16 (2.61%) NEC
8 9 (1.47%) Salesforce
9 7 (1.14%) Sage
10 6 (0.98%) Epicor
10 6 (0.98%) FNZ
10 6 (0.98%) Guidewire
11 5 (0.81%) AppDynamics
11 5 (0.81%) CA
11 5 (0.81%) Google
11 5 (0.81%) Splunk
11 5 (0.81%) Sybase
12 4 (0.65%) Cognos
12 4 (0.65%) Infor