Senior Applications Support Jobs

Senior Application Support
UK

The median Senior Application Support salary in the UK is £55,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 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
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 847 833 1151
Rank change year-on-year -14 +318 -293
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Applications Support 60 127 78
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.060% 0.13% 0.048%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.063% 0.14% 0.050%
Number of salaries quoted 22 90 75
10th Percentile £40,500 £45,000 £36,115
25th Percentile £45,000 £52,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -24.14% +11.54% +23.81%
75th Percentile £79,375 £90,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £113,000 £107,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £65,000 £37,221
% change year-on-year -30.77% +74.63% -17.29%

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 94,634 91,081 154,945
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.69% 91.52% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 67,599 57,631 84,466
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 £70,974 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,183 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.98% +6.37% +5.26%

Senior Applications Support
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Applications Support in the UK

Senior Applications Support
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Senior Applications Support in the UK

Senior Applications Support
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Applications Support over the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Applications Support in the UK

Senior Applications Support
Top 10 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Applications Support within the UK over the 6 months to 19 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 +44 56 £55,000 -35.29% 21
UK excluding London -22 37 £45,000 -30.77% 13
South East +21 31 £45,000 -30.77% 3
London +65 23 £72,500 -14.71% 8
Work from Home +20 17 £58,750 -9.62% 7
Wales -13 4 - -
North of England +32 1 £56,500 -13.08% 4
West Midlands +10 1 £40,000 -3.03% 3
Midlands -3 1 £40,000 -3.03% 3
North West -9 1 £56,500 -13.08% 3

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

For the 6 months to 19 May 2024, Senior 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 Senior Applications Support in the job title.

1 39 (65.00%) Social Skills
2 31 (51.67%) ITIL
3 30 (50.00%) Unix
3 30 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 30 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
4 29 (48.33%) Java
5 28 (46.67%) Service Management
5 28 (46.67%) Spring
6 27 (45.00%) Oracle
7 26 (43.33%) J2EE
7 26 (43.33%) WebLogic
7 26 (43.33%) SLA
7 26 (43.33%) Shell Script
7 26 (43.33%) Remedy
7 26 (43.33%) Information Management
7 26 (43.33%) Incident Management
7 26 (43.33%) Enterprise Architecture
7 26 (43.33%) Java EE
7 26 (43.33%) SC Cleared
7 26 (43.33%) Security Cleared
7 26 (43.33%) OpenSSO
7 26 (43.33%) Impact Assessments
7 26 (43.33%) Containerisation
7 26 (43.33%) Enterprise Search
7 26 (43.33%) Single Sign-On
7 26 (43.33%) Elasticsearch
7 26 (43.33%) Actionable Insight
8 25 (41.67%) SQL
9 22 (36.67%) Police
10 13 (21.67%) Finance

Senior 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 26 (43.33%) WebLogic
2 2 (3.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.67%) Dynamics GP
1 1 (1.67%) iTrent
1 1 (1.67%) Raiser’s Edge
1 1 (1.67%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 7 (11.67%) AWS
2 4 (6.67%) Azure
3 1 (1.67%) Azure Stack
3 1 (1.67%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (1.67%) Google Workspace
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (43.33%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (6.67%) SQL Server
3 3 (5.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (3.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (5.00%) JIRA
2 2 (3.33%) Eclipse
2 2 (3.33%) Git
2 2 (3.33%) IntelliJ
3 1 (1.67%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.67%) Gradle
3 1 (1.67%) JUnit
General
1 39 (65.00%) Social Skills
2 30 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (36.67%) Police
4 13 (21.67%) Finance
5 12 (20.00%) Front Office
6 4 (6.67%) Back Office
7 1 (1.67%) Banking
7 1 (1.67%) International Banking
7 1 (1.67%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.67%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (46.67%) Spring
2 26 (43.33%) J2EE
2 26 (43.33%) Java EE
3 4 (6.67%) .NET
4 1 (1.67%) CSS
4 1 (1.67%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (3.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 2 (3.33%) Hedge funds
1 2 (3.33%) Onboarding
2 1 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 30 (50.00%) Unix
2 4 (6.67%) Windows
3 2 (3.33%) Linux
3 2 (3.33%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (51.67%) ITIL
2 30 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 28 (46.67%) Service Management
4 26 (43.33%) Actionable Insight
4 26 (43.33%) Containerisation
4 26 (43.33%) Enterprise Architecture
4 26 (43.33%) Enterprise Search
4 26 (43.33%) Impact Assessments
4 26 (43.33%) Incident Management
4 26 (43.33%) Information Management
5 5 (8.33%) Change Management
6 4 (6.67%) Analytics
6 4 (6.67%) Business Analysis
6 4 (6.67%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (6.67%) Data Analysis
6 4 (6.67%) Data Analytics
6 4 (6.67%) ETRM
6 4 (6.67%) Project Delivery
6 4 (6.67%) Project Management
7 2 (3.33%) Performance Metrics
Programming Languages
1 29 (48.33%) Java
2 26 (43.33%) Shell Script
3 25 (41.67%) SQL
4 5 (8.33%) C#
5 4 (6.67%) C
5 4 (6.67%) Python
5 4 (6.67%) VBA
6 3 (5.00%) PowerShell
7 2 (3.33%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.67%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 26 (43.33%) SC Cleared
1 26 (43.33%) Security Cleared
2 3 (5.00%) Degree
3 2 (3.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.67%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (1.67%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.67%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (43.33%) SLA
2 4 (6.67%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.67%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (3.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 26 (43.33%) OpenSSO
1 26 (43.33%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (3.33%) Control-M
3 1 (1.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 27 (45.00%) Oracle
2 26 (43.33%) Remedy
3 7 (11.67%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.67%) Bloomberg
4 1 (1.67%) Google
4 1 (1.67%) Murex