Applications Support Jobs in the South East

Application Support
England > South East

The median Application Support salary in the South East is £42,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 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
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 235 261 307
Rank change year-on-year +26 +46 -64
Permanent jobs requiring an Applications Support 176 117 211
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.94% 0.88% 0.99%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.00% 0.98% 1.03%
Number of salaries quoted 120 76 188
10th Percentile £24,000 £28,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £40,500 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.94% +15.71% -6.67%
75th Percentile £50,500 £54,063 £47,500
90th Percentile £57,500 £55,791 £52,500
England median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +17.65% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 17,582 11,899 20,479
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.31% 89.64% 96.02%
Number of salaries quoted 12,383 7,812 12,372
10th Percentile £27,750 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,713 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.53% +1.19% +9.09%

Applications Support
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Applications Support in the South East

Applications Support
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Applications Support in the South East.

Salary trend for Applications Support in the South East

Applications Support
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Applications Support in the South East over the 6 months to 13 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Applications Support in the South East

Applications Support
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Applications Support within the South East region over the 6 months to 13 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
Thames Valley +50 119 £42,500 -5.56% 6
Berkshire +20 54 £42,500 -22.73% 3
Buckinghamshire +11 34 £37,417 -28.73% 1
Oxfordshire +14 31 £42,500 - 2
Surrey -1 25 £36,000 +5.88%
Kent -6 16 £45,000 - 2
Hampshire -42 14 £20,000 -38.46% 10
West Sussex +20 1 £30,000 - 1
East Sussex -3 1 £48,500 +38.57%
Applications Support
England

Applications Support Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 13 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 South East region featuring Applications Support in the job title.

1 70 (39.77%) SQL
2 61 (34.66%) Social Skills
3 54 (30.68%) Analytical Skills
4 53 (30.11%) Problem-Solving
5 43 (24.43%) SLA
6 40 (22.73%) Security Cleared
7 39 (22.16%) SC Cleared
7 39 (22.16%) ITIL
8 36 (20.45%) Linux
9 35 (19.89%) Unix
9 35 (19.89%) Oracle
10 34 (19.32%) Finance
10 34 (19.32%) Degree
11 33 (18.75%) Incident Management
12 32 (18.18%) Actionable Insight
12 32 (18.18%) WebLogic
12 32 (18.18%) Remedy
13 27 (15.34%) ERP
14 26 (14.77%) Java
15 23 (13.07%) Customer Service
16 22 (12.50%) Spring
17 21 (11.93%) PL/SQL
17 21 (11.93%) AWS
18 20 (11.36%) OpenSSO
18 20 (11.36%) Enterprise Architecture
18 20 (11.36%) Java EE
18 20 (11.36%) Containerisation
18 20 (11.36%) Impact Assessments
18 20 (11.36%) Single Sign-On
18 20 (11.36%) Police

Applications Support Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (18.18%) WebLogic
2 12 (6.82%) Oracle Service Bus
3 3 (1.70%) Confluence
4 1 (0.57%) SharePoint
Applications
1 20 (11.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (7.95%) MS Visio
3 13 (7.39%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 12 (6.82%) Remedy ITSM
2 10 (5.68%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (3.41%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (2.84%) Dynamics GP
5 4 (2.27%) NetSuite
6 3 (1.70%) Dynamics NAV
7 2 (1.14%) Pegasus Opera
7 2 (1.14%) Sage 50
8 1 (0.57%) Infor M3
8 1 (0.57%) JDE OneWorld
8 1 (0.57%) JDE World
Cloud Services
1 21 (11.93%) AWS
2 14 (7.95%) Azure
3 10 (5.68%) Power Platform
4 7 (3.98%) PowerApps
5 6 (3.41%) WhatsApp
6 5 (2.84%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (1.70%) SaaS
8 2 (1.14%) Intacct
8 2 (1.14%) Power Automate
9 1 (0.57%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.57%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.27%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (11.36%) Elasticsearch
2 13 (7.39%) SQL Server
3 12 (6.82%) MySQL
3 12 (6.82%) Oracle Database
3 12 (6.82%) Oracle Database 10g
3 12 (6.82%) Oracle Database 11g
3 12 (6.82%) VLDB
4 5 (2.84%) Power BI
5 2 (1.14%) Crystal Reports
5 2 (1.14%) RDBMS
5 2 (1.14%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.57%) DB2
Development Applications
1 7 (3.98%) JIRA
2 2 (1.14%) Git
2 2 (1.14%) IntelliJ
3 1 (0.57%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.57%) Eclipse
3 1 (0.57%) Gradle
3 1 (0.57%) JUnit
General
1 61 (34.66%) Social Skills
2 54 (30.68%) Analytical Skills
3 34 (19.32%) Finance
4 20 (11.36%) Police
5 12 (6.82%) Manufacturing
6 6 (3.41%) Legal
7 5 (2.84%) Automotive
8 4 (2.27%) Banking
8 4 (2.27%) Investment Banking
8 4 (2.27%) Private Banking
9 1 (0.57%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.57%) Law
9 1 (0.57%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.57%) Wearables
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (12.50%) Spring
2 20 (11.36%) J2EE
2 20 (11.36%) Java EE
3 17 (9.66%) .NET
3 17 (9.66%) HTML
4 13 (7.39%) CSS
5 4 (2.27%) Middleware
6 2 (1.14%) EDI
7 1 (0.57%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.68%) Enterprise Software
2 9 (5.11%) Analytical Mindset
3 8 (4.55%) Linux Command Line
4 7 (3.98%) CMDB
5 4 (2.27%) NHS
6 2 (1.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.14%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.57%) Driving Licence
7 1 (0.57%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 36 (20.45%) Linux
2 35 (19.89%) Unix
3 12 (6.82%) Solaris
3 12 (6.82%) Windows
4 4 (2.27%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.14%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.57%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (30.11%) Problem-Solving
2 39 (22.16%) ITIL
3 33 (18.75%) Incident Management
4 32 (18.18%) Actionable Insight
5 27 (15.34%) ERP
6 23 (13.07%) Customer Service
7 20 (11.36%) Containerisation
7 20 (11.36%) Enterprise Architecture
7 20 (11.36%) Enterprise Search
7 20 (11.36%) Impact Assessments
7 20 (11.36%) Information Management
7 20 (11.36%) Service Management
8 19 (10.80%) Agile
9 17 (9.66%) Project Management
10 16 (9.09%) Performance Tuning
11 13 (7.39%) Performance Monitoring
12 12 (6.82%) Artificial Intelligence
12 12 (6.82%) Capacity Planning
12 12 (6.82%) ITSM
13 11 (6.25%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 70 (39.77%) SQL
2 26 (14.77%) Java
3 21 (11.93%) PL/SQL
4 20 (11.36%) Shell Script
5 19 (10.80%) C#
6 12 (6.82%) JavaScript
7 9 (5.11%) T-SQL
8 4 (2.27%) Python
8 4 (2.27%) VBA
9 3 (1.70%) COBOL
10 2 (1.14%) Bash
10 2 (1.14%) C
Qualifications
1 40 (22.73%) Security Cleared
2 39 (22.16%) SC Cleared
3 34 (19.32%) Degree
4 5 (2.84%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (0.57%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.57%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (24.43%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (6.82%) Oracle RAC
2 6 (3.41%) Docker
3 5 (2.84%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.57%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 20 (11.36%) OpenSSO
1 20 (11.36%) Single Sign-On
2 12 (6.82%) Data Guard
2 12 (6.82%) Oracle RMAN
3 4 (2.27%) Kubernetes
3 4 (2.27%) SCOM
4 2 (1.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 35 (19.89%) Oracle
2 32 (18.18%) Remedy
3 18 (10.23%) Microsoft
4 12 (6.82%) Sun
5 11 (6.25%) SAP
6 7 (3.98%) ServiceNow
7 6 (3.41%) Sage
8 4 (2.27%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.14%) Civica
9 2 (1.14%) Murex
9 2 (1.14%) Pegasus
9 2 (1.14%) Xero
10 1 (0.57%) Cisco
10 1 (0.57%) Epicor
10 1 (0.57%) IBM
10 1 (0.57%) IFS
10 1 (0.57%) Infor
10 1 (0.57%) JD Edwards
10 1 (0.57%) VMware