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 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 299 349 355
Rank change year-on-year +50 +6 -60
Permanent jobs requiring an Applications Support 641 487 710
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.80% 0.88% 0.93%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.84% 0.99% 0.97%
Number of salaries quoted 440 338 577
10th Percentile £25,000 £26,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £29,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £40,000 £36,755
Median % change year-on-year - +8.83% +5.01%
75th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £45,000
90th Percentile £55,000 £66,000 £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

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 75,991 49,070 72,896
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.87% 88.81% 95.46%
Number of salaries quoted 53,059 29,227 42,783
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,519 £50,296
Median % change year-on-year -6.58% +6.41% +5.89%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £67,500
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 12 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 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
South East +26 176 £42,500 +4.94% 26
North of England -24 145 £40,000 +1.27% 27
Midlands +41 133 £33,147 -7.93% 12
North West -27 90 £45,000 - 13
East Midlands +23 72 £34,000 -2.86% 9
West Midlands +17 61 £32,121 -19.34% 3
East of England +17 59 £47,500 +6.66% 22
Yorkshire +39 46 £35,579 -6.37% 12
Wales +19 43 £45,000 +91.49% 2
South West -30 42 £37,500 +15.38% 14
Scotland -51 39 £37,500 -16.67% 13
North East -27 9 £37,500 +11.11% 2
Northern Ireland +17 3 £43,250 +8.13% 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 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 UK excluding London region featuring Applications Support in the job title.

1 262 (40.87%) SQL
2 188 (29.33%) Problem-Solving
3 150 (23.40%) Social Skills
4 144 (22.46%) Analytical Skills
5 134 (20.90%) Microsoft
6 123 (19.19%) Finance
7 116 (18.10%) Oracle
8 114 (17.78%) Degree
9 110 (17.16%) SLA
10 103 (16.07%) ITIL
11 97 (15.13%) Security Cleared
11 97 (15.13%) Linux
12 96 (14.98%) Unix
13 84 (13.10%) Customer Service
14 81 (12.64%) Incident Management
15 77 (12.01%) SC Cleared
16 69 (10.76%) ERP
17 66 (10.30%) WebLogic
17 66 (10.30%) Remedy
18 65 (10.14%) Actionable Insight
19 61 (9.52%) Service Management
19 61 (9.52%) Release Management
20 59 (9.20%) Oracle Database
21 58 (9.05%) Windows
21 58 (9.05%) Solaris
22 56 (8.74%) ITSM
23 55 (8.58%) Microsoft Office
24 53 (8.27%) PL/SQL
25 52 (8.11%) Microsoft Excel
26 51 (7.96%) CRM

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 66 (10.30%) WebLogic
2 42 (6.55%) Oracle Service Bus
3 32 (4.99%) SharePoint
4 27 (4.21%) IIS
5 21 (3.28%) Tomcat
6 16 (2.50%) Apache
7 8 (1.25%) Confluence
8 6 (0.94%) Microsoft Exchange
9 5 (0.78%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.16%) WordPress
Applications
1 55 (8.58%) Microsoft Office
2 52 (8.11%) Microsoft Excel
3 45 (7.02%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 42 (6.55%) Remedy ITSM
2 26 (4.06%) Dynamics CRM
3 16 (2.50%) NEC Housing
4 11 (1.72%) Dynamics GP
5 10 (1.56%) SAP S/4HANA
6 9 (1.40%) Dynamics NAV
7 6 (0.94%) Oracle Applications
8 5 (0.78%) Magento
8 5 (0.78%) Maximo
8 5 (0.78%) NetSuite
8 5 (0.78%) PlanetPress Connect
9 3 (0.47%) Infor SunSystems
9 3 (0.47%) iTrent
9 3 (0.47%) SAP Business One
10 2 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
10 2 (0.31%) Pegasus Opera
10 2 (0.31%) Sage 50
10 2 (0.31%) SAP HCM
10 2 (0.31%) SAP MM
11 1 (0.16%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 51 (7.96%) Azure
2 49 (7.64%) Dynamics 365
3 48 (7.49%) Power Platform
4 32 (4.99%) Microsoft 365
5 30 (4.68%) AWS
6 24 (3.74%) SaaS
7 19 (2.96%) Power Automate
8 18 (2.81%) PowerApps
9 11 (1.72%) Entra ID
10 6 (0.94%) Azure Logic Apps
10 6 (0.94%) WhatsApp
11 5 (0.78%) Google Sheets
12 3 (0.47%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (0.47%) IaaS
12 3 (0.47%) Serverless
13 2 (0.31%) Intacct
13 2 (0.31%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.72%) Firewall
1 11 (1.72%) VPN
2 7 (1.09%) SAN
3 6 (0.94%) Broadband
4 4 (0.62%) FTP
5 3 (0.47%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (0.16%) Internet
6 1 (0.16%) LAN
6 1 (0.16%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (0.16%) VLAN
6 1 (0.16%) WAN
6 1 (0.16%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (9.20%) Oracle Database
2 49 (7.64%) SQL Server
3 42 (6.55%) Oracle Database 10g
3 42 (6.55%) Oracle Database 11g
3 42 (6.55%) VLDB
4 30 (4.68%) Power BI
5 24 (3.74%) Elasticsearch
6 15 (2.34%) MySQL
6 15 (2.34%) Relational Database
7 9 (1.40%) Geospatial Data
7 9 (1.40%) GIS
7 9 (1.40%) MS Access
8 8 (1.25%) Crystal Reports
9 7 (1.09%) BusinessObjects
10 6 (0.94%) Azure SQL Database
11 5 (0.78%) Data Warehouse
11 5 (0.78%) Pentaho
11 5 (0.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 4 (0.62%) QlikView
12 4 (0.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 35 (5.46%) JIRA
2 9 (1.40%) Oracle Forms
3 7 (1.09%) Eclipse
3 7 (1.09%) GitLab
4 6 (0.94%) Bitbucket
5 5 (0.78%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 4 (0.62%) Git
7 2 (0.31%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.16%) Gradle
8 1 (0.16%) JUnit
General
1 150 (23.40%) Social Skills
2 144 (22.46%) Analytical Skills
3 123 (19.19%) Finance
4 43 (6.71%) Law
5 36 (5.62%) Police
6 31 (4.84%) Manufacturing
7 26 (4.06%) Marketing
8 23 (3.59%) Legal
9 22 (3.43%) Public Sector
10 20 (3.12%) Local Government
11 16 (2.50%) Retail
12 12 (1.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 11 (1.72%) Automotive
14 4 (0.62%) Aerospace
14 4 (0.62%) Banking
14 4 (0.62%) Documentation Skills
14 4 (0.62%) Investment Banking
14 4 (0.62%) Private Banking
15 3 (0.47%) Environmental Health
15 3 (0.47%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (4.06%) Spring
2 24 (3.74%) J2EE
2 24 (3.74%) Java EE
3 20 (3.12%) .NET
4 18 (2.81%) HTML
5 16 (2.50%) Web Services
6 14 (2.18%) CSS
7 8 (1.25%) EDI
8 6 (0.94%) OLE
9 5 (0.78%) Kafka
9 5 (0.78%) Node.js
10 4 (0.62%) Middleware
11 3 (0.47%) JSON
12 2 (0.31%) XML
13 1 (0.16%) Oracle Fusion
13 1 (0.16%) SailPoint
13 1 (0.16%) Spring Boot
13 1 (0.16%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 21 (3.28%) Enterprise Software
2 19 (2.96%) Driving Licence
3 16 (2.50%) Public Cloud
4 11 (1.72%) Management Information System
5 10 (1.56%) Analytical Mindset
5 10 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
6 8 (1.25%) Linux Command Line
6 8 (1.25%) Mobile App
7 7 (1.09%) Clustering
7 7 (1.09%) CMDB
8 5 (0.78%) Legacy Code
8 5 (0.78%) Reference Data
9 4 (0.62%) NHS
10 2 (0.31%) Cloud Native
10 2 (0.31%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (0.31%) IoT
10 2 (0.31%) iPhone
10 2 (0.31%) Product Ownership
11 1 (0.16%) Data Protection Act
11 1 (0.16%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 97 (15.13%) Linux
2 96 (14.98%) Unix
3 58 (9.05%) Solaris
3 58 (9.05%) Windows
4 17 (2.65%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.47%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.31%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.31%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.16%) Windows 7
7 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 188 (29.33%) Problem-Solving
2 103 (16.07%) ITIL
3 84 (13.10%) Customer Service
4 81 (12.64%) Incident Management
5 69 (10.76%) ERP
6 65 (10.14%) Actionable Insight
7 61 (9.52%) Release Management
7 61 (9.52%) Service Management
8 56 (8.74%) ITSM
9 51 (7.96%) CRM
10 50 (7.80%) Performance Tuning
11 48 (7.49%) Performance Monitoring
12 44 (6.86%) Artificial Intelligence
12 44 (6.86%) Business Intelligence
13 42 (6.55%) Capacity Planning
14 41 (6.40%) Capacity Management
15 40 (6.24%) User Acceptance Testing
16 34 (5.30%) Project Management
17 31 (4.84%) Agile
18 28 (4.37%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 262 (40.87%) SQL
2 53 (8.27%) PL/SQL
3 45 (7.02%) Shell Script
4 39 (6.08%) Java
5 31 (4.84%) C#
6 27 (4.21%) T-SQL
7 16 (2.50%) JavaScript
8 13 (2.03%) Python
9 6 (0.94%) C++
9 6 (0.94%) PowerShell
9 6 (0.94%) VB
10 5 (0.78%) VBA
11 4 (0.62%) Bash
11 4 (0.62%) COBOL
12 3 (0.47%) C
13 1 (0.16%) PHP
Qualifications
1 114 (17.78%) Degree
2 97 (15.13%) Security Cleared
3 77 (12.01%) SC Cleared
4 10 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
4 10 (1.56%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (1.09%) ITIL Certification
6 3 (0.47%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.31%) A+ Certification
7 2 (0.31%) MCDST
8 1 (0.16%) CTC Cleared
8 1 (0.16%) ECDL
8 1 (0.16%) HNC
8 1 (0.16%) HND
8 1 (0.16%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.16%) MCITP
8 1 (0.16%) MCP
8 1 (0.16%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 110 (17.16%) SLA
2 16 (2.50%) Accessibility
3 7 (1.09%) GDPR
4 3 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.16%) Data Quality
System Software
1 42 (6.55%) Oracle RAC
2 23 (3.59%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.25%) Docker
4 1 (0.16%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 42 (6.55%) Data Guard
1 42 (6.55%) Oracle RMAN
2 24 (3.74%) OpenSSO
2 24 (3.74%) Single Sign-On
3 7 (1.09%) Kubernetes
3 7 (1.09%) Microsoft Clustering
4 6 (0.94%) Grafana
5 5 (0.78%) ITRS Geneos
6 4 (0.62%) SCOM
6 4 (0.62%) WhatsUp Gold
7 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.31%) Terraform
8 1 (0.16%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 134 (20.90%) Microsoft
2 116 (18.10%) Oracle
3 66 (10.30%) Remedy
4 43 (6.71%) Sun
5 23 (3.59%) SAP
6 20 (3.12%) ServiceNow
7 19 (2.96%) Civica
8 16 (2.50%) NEC
9 9 (1.40%) Salesforce
10 7 (1.09%) Sage
11 6 (0.94%) Epicor
11 6 (0.94%) Guidewire
12 5 (0.78%) AppDynamics
12 5 (0.78%) CA
12 5 (0.78%) FNZ
12 5 (0.78%) Google
12 5 (0.78%) Infor
12 5 (0.78%) Splunk
12 5 (0.78%) Sybase
13 4 (0.62%) Cognos