Application Support
UK

The median Application Support salary in the UK is £45,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 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
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 312 361 398
Rank change year-on-year +49 +37 -102
Permanent jobs requiring an Applications Support 922 920 1,433
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.93% 0.91% 0.91%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.98% 0.99% 0.95%
Number of salaries quoted 690 728 1,184
10th Percentile £27,500 £29,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,640 £33,750 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +17.65% -
75th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £73,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year +6.67% - +7.14%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 93,776 92,678 150,788
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.45% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 67,209 58,362 84,200
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

Applications Support
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Applications Support in the UK

Applications Support
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Applications Support in the UK

Applications Support
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Applications Support over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Applications Support in the UK

Applications Support
Top 18 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 9 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
England +72 822 £47,500 -5.00% 147
UK excluding London +67 557 £40,000 +6.67% 92
London +70 350 £62,500 - 56
Work from Home +26 342 £48,500 +5.43% 60
South East +63 166 £42,500 +6.25% 22
North of England +11 120 £40,000 +5.26% 18
Midlands +38 101 £32,121 -8.23% 18
North West +11 74 £45,000 +8.43% 13
East Midlands +23 61 £32,500 -7.14% 13
East of England +30 48 £47,500 +6.66% 15
Wales +24 44 £45,000 +42.86%
West Midlands +20 40 £32,121 -18.97% 5
Yorkshire +52 37 £35,579 -5.12% 3
Scotland -46 37 £37,500 -16.67% 5
South West -31 35 £43,500 +33.85% 15
North East -13 9 £37,500 +36.36% 2
Northern Ireland +19 5 £57,500 +33.72%
Channel Islands - 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 9 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 featuring Applications Support in the job title.

1 453 (49.13%) SQL
2 272 (29.50%) Finance
3 240 (26.03%) Social Skills
4 237 (25.70%) Problem-Solving
5 198 (21.48%) Microsoft
6 189 (20.50%) ITIL
7 175 (18.98%) Degree
8 171 (18.55%) Analytical Skills
9 161 (17.46%) Oracle
10 157 (17.03%) Linux
11 155 (16.81%) Unix
12 138 (14.97%) SQL Server
13 135 (14.64%) Windows
14 129 (13.99%) SLA
15 112 (12.15%) Incident Management
16 109 (11.82%) Azure
17 100 (10.85%) Security Cleared
18 97 (10.52%) Service Management
19 95 (10.30%) Customer Service
20 83 (9.00%) CRM
21 82 (8.89%) ERP
21 82 (8.89%) Actionable Insight
22 81 (8.79%) ITSM
22 81 (8.79%) Release Management
23 78 (8.46%) SC Cleared
24 76 (8.24%) Solaris
25 75 (8.13%) JIRA
26 74 (8.03%) Oracle Database
27 72 (7.81%) PL/SQL
28 71 (7.70%) WebLogic

Applications Support Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 71 (7.70%) WebLogic
2 51 (5.53%) SharePoint
3 44 (4.77%) Oracle Service Bus
4 40 (4.34%) IIS
5 33 (3.58%) Tomcat
6 27 (2.93%) Microsoft Exchange
7 21 (2.28%) Apache
8 13 (1.41%) Confluence
9 12 (1.30%) CMS
10 7 (0.76%) EPiServer
11 5 (0.54%) JBoss
11 5 (0.54%) WebSphere
Applications
1 62 (6.72%) Microsoft Office
2 56 (6.07%) Microsoft Excel
3 51 (5.53%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 59 (6.40%) Dynamics CRM
2 44 (4.77%) Remedy ITSM
3 30 (3.25%) NEC Housing
4 20 (2.17%) PlanetPress Connect
5 16 (1.74%) Fidessa
6 12 (1.30%) Dynamics NAV
7 11 (1.19%) Dynamics GP
8 10 (1.08%) SAP S/4HANA
8 10 (1.08%) thinkFolio
9 8 (0.87%) Endur
10 7 (0.76%) Dynamics AX
11 6 (0.65%) Infor SunSystems
11 6 (0.65%) ION Anvil
11 6 (0.65%) ION MarketView
11 6 (0.65%) NetSuite
11 6 (0.65%) Oracle Applications
11 6 (0.65%) Temenos T24
12 5 (0.54%) Aladdin
12 5 (0.54%) Magento
13 4 (0.43%) Oracle Cash Management
Cloud Services
1 109 (11.82%) Azure
2 57 (6.18%) Dynamics 365
3 56 (6.07%) Power Platform
4 48 (5.21%) AWS
5 41 (4.45%) Microsoft 365
6 31 (3.36%) SaaS
7 25 (2.71%) Power Automate
8 22 (2.39%) PowerApps
9 13 (1.41%) Entra ID
10 12 (1.30%) WhatsApp
11 11 (1.19%) Azure DevOps
12 8 (0.87%) IaaS
13 7 (0.76%) Azure Monitor
14 6 (0.65%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 6 (0.65%) PaaS
15 5 (0.54%) Google Sheets
16 4 (0.43%) Azure Logic Apps
16 4 (0.43%) SuccessFactors
17 2 (0.22%) GCP
17 2 (0.22%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 30 (3.25%) Firewall
2 25 (2.71%) DNS
3 18 (1.95%) TCP/IP
4 16 (1.74%) DHCP
4 16 (1.74%) FIX Connectivity
5 11 (1.19%) VPN
6 6 (0.65%) Broadband
6 6 (0.65%) Internet
7 5 (0.54%) Remote Desktop
7 5 (0.54%) SAN
7 5 (0.54%) SSL
8 4 (0.43%) 5G
8 4 (0.43%) FTP
8 4 (0.43%) Intranet
9 2 (0.22%) HTTP
9 2 (0.22%) HTTPS
9 2 (0.22%) Software-Defined Networking
10 1 (0.11%) LAN
10 1 (0.11%) VLAN
10 1 (0.11%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 138 (14.97%) SQL Server
2 74 (8.03%) Oracle Database
3 44 (4.77%) Oracle Database 10g
3 44 (4.77%) Oracle Database 11g
3 44 (4.77%) VLDB
4 34 (3.69%) Power BI
5 28 (3.04%) Elasticsearch
6 23 (2.49%) Data Warehouse
6 23 (2.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 17 (1.84%) MySQL
7 17 (1.84%) Relational Database
8 12 (1.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 9 (0.98%) Geospatial Data
9 9 (0.98%) GIS
9 9 (0.98%) MS Access
10 6 (0.65%) BusinessObjects
11 5 (0.54%) Crystal Reports
11 5 (0.54%) Pentaho
12 4 (0.43%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (0.43%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 75 (8.13%) JIRA
2 23 (2.49%) Eclipse
3 20 (2.17%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 9 (0.98%) Oracle Forms
5 8 (0.87%) GitLab
5 8 (0.87%) Visual Studio
6 7 (0.76%) Bitbucket
6 7 (0.76%) Git
7 2 (0.22%) Browser DevTools
7 2 (0.22%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.11%) Gradle
8 1 (0.11%) JUnit
General
1 272 (29.50%) Finance
2 240 (26.03%) Social Skills
3 171 (18.55%) Analytical Skills
4 67 (7.27%) Front Office
5 63 (6.83%) Banking
6 43 (4.66%) Police
7 37 (4.01%) Law
8 29 (3.15%) Marketing
9 27 (2.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 27 (2.93%) Local Government
9 27 (2.93%) Manufacturing
10 26 (2.82%) Public Sector
11 22 (2.39%) Back Office
11 22 (2.39%) Retail
12 20 (2.17%) Legal
13 13 (1.41%) Investment Banking
14 10 (1.08%) Automotive
15 6 (0.65%) Organisational Skills
15 6 (0.65%) Private Banking
16 4 (0.43%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (4.34%) .NET
2 36 (3.90%) Web Services
3 30 (3.25%) FIX Protocol
4 29 (3.15%) J2EE
4 29 (3.15%) Spring
5 27 (2.93%) Java EE
6 14 (1.52%) REST
7 12 (1.30%) HTML
7 12 (1.30%) JSON
7 12 (1.30%) XML
8 10 (1.08%) ASP.NET
9 9 (0.98%) EDI
9 9 (0.98%) SOAP
10 8 (0.87%) CSS
10 8 (0.87%) XSLT
11 6 (0.65%) Kafka
11 6 (0.65%) Middleware
11 6 (0.65%) OLE
12 4 (0.43%) .NET Framework
13 3 (0.33%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 23 (2.49%) Driving Licence
2 22 (2.39%) Enterprise Software
3 21 (2.28%) Public Cloud
4 19 (2.06%) Onboarding
4 19 (2.06%) Self-Motivation
5 18 (1.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 16 (1.74%) Eurex
6 16 (1.74%) Management Information System
6 16 (1.74%) Product Ownership
7 14 (1.52%) Derivative
8 13 (1.41%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 12 (1.30%) CCTV
9 12 (1.30%) Equities
9 12 (1.30%) Mobile App
10 11 (1.19%) Analytical Mindset
10 11 (1.19%) CMDB
10 11 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
11 10 (1.08%) Hedge funds
12 9 (0.98%) Linux Command Line
13 8 (0.87%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 157 (17.03%) Linux
2 155 (16.81%) Unix
3 135 (14.64%) Windows
4 76 (8.24%) Solaris
5 24 (2.60%) Windows Server
6 16 (1.74%) CentOS
7 11 (1.19%) Ubuntu
8 6 (0.65%) AIX
8 6 (0.65%) Windows 10
9 4 (0.43%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.22%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.22%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.11%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 237 (25.70%) Problem-Solving
2 189 (20.50%) ITIL
3 112 (12.15%) Incident Management
4 97 (10.52%) Service Management
5 95 (10.30%) Customer Service
6 83 (9.00%) CRM
7 82 (8.89%) Actionable Insight
7 82 (8.89%) ERP
8 81 (8.79%) ITSM
8 81 (8.79%) Release Management
9 56 (6.07%) Agile
10 55 (5.97%) Performance Tuning
11 52 (5.64%) Artificial Intelligence
12 50 (5.42%) Performance Monitoring
13 45 (4.88%) Capacity Planning
14 44 (4.77%) Capacity Management
15 43 (4.66%) Business Intelligence
16 42 (4.56%) Project Management
17 40 (4.34%) Service Delivery
17 40 (4.34%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 453 (49.13%) SQL
2 72 (7.81%) PL/SQL
3 61 (6.62%) Java
4 60 (6.51%) T-SQL
5 55 (5.97%) C#
6 54 (5.86%) Shell Script
7 48 (5.21%) Python
8 44 (4.77%) PowerShell
9 31 (3.36%) JavaScript
10 21 (2.28%) Bash
11 16 (1.74%) Perl
11 16 (1.74%) Ruby
12 10 (1.08%) VBA
13 9 (0.98%) C
14 7 (0.76%) C++
14 7 (0.76%) XPath
15 5 (0.54%) COBOL
16 3 (0.33%) VB
17 1 (0.11%) PHP
Qualifications
1 175 (18.98%) Degree
2 100 (10.85%) Security Cleared
3 78 (8.46%) SC Cleared
4 14 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (1.08%) Master's Degree
5 10 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
6 9 (0.98%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 6 (0.65%) Azure Certification
7 6 (0.65%) ITIL Certification
8 5 (0.54%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 4 (0.43%) A+ Certification
9 4 (0.43%) AWS Certification
9 4 (0.43%) CIPD
9 4 (0.43%) MCDST
10 2 (0.22%) ECDL
10 2 (0.22%) MCP
11 1 (0.11%) CTC Cleared
11 1 (0.11%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 129 (13.99%) SLA
2 21 (2.28%) Accessibility
3 8 (0.87%) Data Quality
4 7 (0.76%) GDPR
5 5 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.43%) SOC 1
7 2 (0.22%) ISO 9001
7 2 (0.22%) QA
8 1 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 44 (4.77%) Oracle RAC
2 43 (4.66%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.65%) Docker
4 2 (0.22%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.22%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 44 (4.77%) Data Guard
1 44 (4.77%) Oracle RMAN
2 27 (2.93%) OpenSSO
2 27 (2.93%) Single Sign-On
3 10 (1.08%) Grafana
4 8 (0.87%) Terraform
5 7 (0.76%) ITRS Geneos
6 6 (0.65%) Kubernetes
7 5 (0.54%) Control-M
7 5 (0.54%) Microsoft Clustering
7 5 (0.54%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (0.54%) Pingdom
8 4 (0.43%) SCOM
8 4 (0.43%) WhatsUp Gold
9 2 (0.22%) Kibana
10 1 (0.11%) logstash
10 1 (0.11%) Packer
10 1 (0.11%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 198 (21.48%) Microsoft
2 161 (17.46%) Oracle
3 71 (7.70%) Remedy
4 49 (5.31%) Sun
5 32 (3.47%) ION Trading
6 30 (3.25%) NEC
6 30 (3.25%) SAP
7 29 (3.15%) ServiceNow
8 24 (2.60%) Trayport
9 23 (2.49%) Bloomberg
10 22 (2.39%) Murex
11 21 (2.28%) Guidewire
12 20 (2.17%) FNZ
13 17 (1.84%) Civica
13 17 (1.84%) Red Hat
14 16 (1.74%) CQG
14 16 (1.74%) Patsystems
14 16 (1.74%) Reuters
15 14 (1.52%) Salesforce
16 11 (1.19%) Sage