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 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 243 192 232
Rank change year-on-year -51 +40 -79
Permanent jobs requiring an Applications Support 39 23 34
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.57% 0.54% 0.54%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.59% 0.60% 0.56%
Number of salaries quoted 24 18 24
10th Percentile £28,000 £32,350 £29,575
25th Percentile £30,938 £37,750 £32,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £45,000 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +20.00% +15.38%
75th Percentile £48,750 £49,375 £44,063
90th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £50,409
UK median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +17.65% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 6,634 3,842 6,038
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 97.00% 89.72% 95.28%
Number of salaries quoted 2,931 2,088 3,091
10th Percentile £27,750 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% - +15.79%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,313 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £84,056 £82,500
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 12 June 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 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
Glasgow -93 18 £35,000 -22.22% 7
Edinburgh +33 10 £62,500 +56.25% 3
Perthshire - 5 - -
Aberdeen -11 4 - - 2
Lanarkshire - 2 £28,000 - 4
Applications Support
UK

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

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 Scotland region featuring Applications Support in the job title.

1 15 (38.46%) JIRA
2 13 (33.33%) Finance
2 13 (33.33%) SQL
3 12 (30.77%) ITIL
4 10 (25.64%) CRM
4 10 (25.64%) Service Management
5 9 (23.08%) Dynamics CRM
6 8 (20.51%) Microsoft
6 8 (20.51%) Oracle
6 8 (20.51%) Driving Licence
7 7 (17.95%) Incident Management
8 6 (15.38%) SQL Server
8 6 (15.38%) SharePoint
8 6 (15.38%) Social Skills
8 6 (15.38%) Customer Service
9 5 (12.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (12.82%) Collaborative Working
9 5 (12.82%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (12.82%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 5 (12.82%) Grafana
9 5 (12.82%) FNZ
9 5 (12.82%) PlanetPress Connect
9 5 (12.82%) Kafka
9 5 (12.82%) Bitbucket
9 5 (12.82%) Analytics
9 5 (12.82%) ITRS Geneos
9 5 (12.82%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 5 (12.82%) DevOps
9 5 (12.82%) AppDynamics
9 5 (12.82%) Data Warehouse

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 6 (15.38%) SharePoint
2 5 (12.82%) Tomcat
2 5 (12.82%) WebSphere
3 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 9 (23.08%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (12.82%) Maximo
2 5 (12.82%) PlanetPress Connect
3 4 (10.26%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 4 (10.26%) Dynamics 365
2 3 (7.69%) Azure
2 3 (7.69%) Entra ID
3 2 (5.13%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (2.56%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.13%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (2.56%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (15.38%) SQL Server
2 5 (12.82%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (12.82%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 15 (38.46%) JIRA
2 5 (12.82%) Bitbucket
2 5 (12.82%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 13 (33.33%) Finance
2 6 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 5 (12.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 5 (12.82%) Law
3 5 (12.82%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (12.82%) Kafka
2 2 (5.13%) JSON
2 2 (5.13%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (20.51%) Driving Licence
2 5 (12.82%) Reference Data
3 2 (5.13%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 5 (12.82%) Linux
1 5 (12.82%) Unix
2 1 (2.56%) Windows
2 1 (2.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (30.77%) ITIL
2 10 (25.64%) CRM
2 10 (25.64%) Service Management
3 7 (17.95%) Incident Management
4 6 (15.38%) Customer Service
5 5 (12.82%) Agile
5 5 (12.82%) Analytics
5 5 (12.82%) Collaborative Working
5 5 (12.82%) DevOps
5 5 (12.82%) Document Management
5 5 (12.82%) ETL
5 5 (12.82%) ITSM
5 5 (12.82%) Problem Management
5 5 (12.82%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (12.82%) Release Management
5 5 (12.82%) Risk Management
5 5 (12.82%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 5 (12.82%) Software Engineering
6 4 (10.26%) Business Intelligence
6 4 (10.26%) Supplier Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (33.33%) SQL
2 5 (12.82%) Java
2 5 (12.82%) Python
2 5 (12.82%) Shell Script
3 1 (2.56%) Bash
3 1 (2.56%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (5.13%) A+ Certification
1 2 (5.13%) Degree
1 2 (5.13%) MCDST
1 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.13%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (7.69%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (12.82%) Grafana
1 5 (12.82%) ITRS Geneos
2 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 8 (20.51%) Microsoft
1 8 (20.51%) Oracle
2 5 (12.82%) AppDynamics
2 5 (12.82%) CA
2 5 (12.82%) FNZ
2 5 (12.82%) Splunk
2 5 (12.82%) Sybase