Applications Support Jobs in Scotland

Application Support
UK > Scotland

The median Application Support salary in Scotland is £37,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 20 May 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 244 200 222
Rank change year-on-year -44 +22 -67
Permanent jobs requiring an Applications Support 35 15 34
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.52% 0.33% 0.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.54% 0.36% 0.60%
Number of salaries quoted 25 11 23
10th Percentile £28,000 £32,500 £27,150
25th Percentile £30,000 £35,125 £32,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £45,000 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +20.00% +14.50%
75th Percentile £63,750 £47,500 £43,750
90th Percentile - £50,000 £51,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +17.65% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Scotland. 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 Scotland with a recognized job title 6,501 4,130 5,710
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.93% 89.92% 95.74%
Number of salaries quoted 2,618 2,225 3,030
10th Percentile £27,750 £31,453 £28,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £39,810
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,043 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.62% +4.84% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Applications Support
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Applications Support in Scotland

Applications Support
Salary Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Applications Support in Scotland.

Salary trend for Applications Support in Scotland

Applications Support
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Applications Support in Scotland over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Applications Support in Scotland

Applications Support
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Applications Support within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 20 May 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
Glasgow -98 20 £35,000 -22.22% 1
Edinburgh +42 11 £62,500 +56.25%
Lanarkshire - 2 £28,000 - 1
Perthshire - 2 - - 2
Applications Support
UK

Applications Support Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland

For the 6 months to 20 May 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 Scotland region featuring Applications Support in the job title.

1 18 (51.43%) JIRA
2 16 (45.71%) ITIL
3 15 (42.86%) SQL
3 15 (42.86%) Service Management
4 13 (37.14%) CRM
4 13 (37.14%) Finance
5 12 (34.29%) Dynamics CRM
5 12 (34.29%) Microsoft
6 11 (31.43%) SQL Server
7 9 (25.71%) Social Skills
8 8 (22.86%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 8 (22.86%) Driving Licence
8 8 (22.86%) FNZ
8 8 (22.86%) PlanetPress Connect
8 8 (22.86%) Oracle
8 8 (22.86%) Data Warehouse
8 8 (22.86%) Incident Management
8 8 (22.86%) Release Management
8 8 (22.86%) ITSM
8 8 (22.86%) Document Management
9 7 (20.00%) SharePoint
9 7 (20.00%) Customer Service
9 7 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
10 5 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 5 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
10 5 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (14.29%) ITRS Geneos
10 5 (14.29%) Grafana
10 5 (14.29%) DevOps
10 5 (14.29%) AppDynamics

Applications Support Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 (20.00%) SharePoint
2 5 (14.29%) Tomcat
2 5 (14.29%) WebSphere
3 3 (8.57%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (8.57%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 12 (34.29%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (22.86%) PlanetPress Connect
3 4 (11.43%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (5.71%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 5 (14.29%) Azure
2 4 (11.43%) Dynamics 365
3 3 (8.57%) AWS
3 3 (8.57%) Entra ID
3 3 (8.57%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.57%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (2.86%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (31.43%) SQL Server
2 8 (22.86%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (14.29%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 18 (51.43%) JIRA
2 8 (22.86%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 5 (14.29%) Bitbucket
General
1 13 (37.14%) Finance
2 9 (25.71%) Social Skills
3 5 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 5 (14.29%) Law
3 5 (14.29%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (14.29%) Kafka
2 2 (5.71%) JSON
2 2 (5.71%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (22.86%) Driving Licence
2 5 (14.29%) Reference Data
3 2 (5.71%) CCTV
3 2 (5.71%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 5 (14.29%) Linux
1 5 (14.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (45.71%) ITIL
2 15 (42.86%) Service Management
3 13 (37.14%) CRM
4 8 (22.86%) Document Management
4 8 (22.86%) Incident Management
4 8 (22.86%) ITSM
4 8 (22.86%) Release Management
5 7 (20.00%) Customer Service
5 7 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (14.29%) Agile
6 5 (14.29%) Analytics
6 5 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
6 5 (14.29%) DevOps
6 5 (14.29%) ETL
6 5 (14.29%) Problem Management
6 5 (14.29%) Risk Management
6 5 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 5 (14.29%) Software Engineering
7 4 (11.43%) Business Intelligence
7 4 (11.43%) Supplier Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (42.86%) SQL
2 5 (14.29%) Java
2 5 (14.29%) Python
2 5 (14.29%) Shell Script
3 2 (5.71%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (14.29%) Degree
2 3 (8.57%) A+ Certification
2 3 (8.57%) MCDST
2 3 (8.57%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.71%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (8.57%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (14.29%) Grafana
1 5 (14.29%) ITRS Geneos
2 3 (8.57%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 12 (34.29%) Microsoft
2 8 (22.86%) FNZ
2 8 (22.86%) Oracle
3 5 (14.29%) AppDynamics
3 5 (14.29%) CA
3 5 (14.29%) Splunk
3 5 (14.29%) Sybase