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 to 2 June 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
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 312 355 350
Rank change year-on-year +43 -5 -44
Permanent jobs requiring an Applications Support 605 479 718
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.79% 0.85% 0.97%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.84% 0.95% 1.01%
Number of salaries quoted 419 334 580
10th Percentile £25,000 £26,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £29,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £39,500 £36,943
Median % change year-on-year +1.27% +6.92% +5.55%
75th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £45,000
90th Percentile £55,000 £64,500 £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

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 72,397 50,271 70,852
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.99% 88.93% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 50,949 29,577 42,673
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £50,238
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +6.49% +5.76%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £67,000
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 2 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 2 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 +40 173 £42,500 +3.66% 19
North of England -13 134 £40,000 +1.27% 27
Midlands +52 123 £32,500 -7.14% 14
North West -22 83 £45,000 +4.05% 13
East Midlands +29 68 £33,793 -0.61% 11
East of England +18 55 £47,500 +6.66% 18
West Midlands +9 55 £32,121 -19.34% 3
Yorkshire +31 42 £35,579 -5.75% 13
Wales +14 42 £45,000 +91.49%
South West -23 41 £37,500 +15.38% 16
Scotland -53 33 £35,000 -22.22% 16
North East -21 9 £37,500 +11.11% 2
Northern Ireland +17 3 £43,250 +0.58% 1
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 2 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.

1 260 (42.98%) SQL
2 186 (30.74%) Problem-Solving
3 147 (24.30%) Analytical Skills
4 144 (23.80%) Social Skills
5 125 (20.66%) Microsoft
6 120 (19.83%) Oracle
7 118 (19.50%) Finance
7 118 (19.50%) Degree
8 113 (18.68%) SLA
9 104 (17.19%) ITIL
10 100 (16.53%) Unix
11 98 (16.20%) Linux
12 97 (16.03%) Security Cleared
13 84 (13.88%) Incident Management
14 79 (13.06%) SC Cleared
15 78 (12.89%) Customer Service
16 70 (11.57%) WebLogic
16 70 (11.57%) Remedy
17 69 (11.40%) Actionable Insight
18 66 (10.91%) ERP
19 63 (10.41%) Service Management
19 63 (10.41%) Release Management
20 61 (10.08%) Oracle Database
21 60 (9.92%) Solaris
22 57 (9.42%) PL/SQL
22 57 (9.42%) ITSM
23 56 (9.26%) Microsoft Office
24 53 (8.76%) Windows
24 53 (8.76%) Performance Tuning
25 52 (8.60%) SQL Server

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 70 (11.57%) WebLogic
2 44 (7.27%) Oracle Service Bus
3 35 (5.79%) SharePoint
4 27 (4.46%) IIS
5 21 (3.47%) Tomcat
6 16 (2.64%) Apache
7 8 (1.32%) Confluence
8 5 (0.83%) Microsoft Exchange
8 5 (0.83%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.17%) WordPress
Applications
1 56 (9.26%) Microsoft Office
2 51 (8.43%) Microsoft Excel
3 47 (7.77%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 44 (7.27%) Remedy ITSM
2 26 (4.30%) Dynamics CRM
3 16 (2.64%) NEC Housing
4 11 (1.82%) Dynamics GP
5 10 (1.65%) SAP S/4HANA
6 9 (1.49%) Dynamics NAV
7 6 (0.99%) Oracle Applications
7 6 (0.99%) PlanetPress Connect
8 5 (0.83%) Magento
8 5 (0.83%) NetSuite
9 3 (0.50%) Infor SunSystems
9 3 (0.50%) iTrent
9 3 (0.50%) Maximo
10 2 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
10 2 (0.33%) SAP HCM
10 2 (0.33%) SAP MM
11 1 (0.17%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
11 1 (0.17%) JDE OneWorld
11 1 (0.17%) Pegasus Opera
11 1 (0.17%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 47 (7.77%) Power Platform
2 46 (7.60%) Dynamics 365
3 44 (7.27%) Azure
4 30 (4.96%) Microsoft 365
5 26 (4.30%) AWS
6 20 (3.31%) SaaS
7 18 (2.98%) Power Automate
8 15 (2.48%) PowerApps
9 10 (1.65%) Entra ID
10 6 (0.99%) WhatsApp
11 5 (0.83%) Azure Logic Apps
11 5 (0.83%) Google Sheets
12 3 (0.50%) IaaS
13 2 (0.33%) PaaS
14 1 (0.17%) Azure DevOps
14 1 (0.17%) Intacct
14 1 (0.17%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.82%) Firewall
1 11 (1.82%) VPN
2 7 (1.16%) SAN
3 6 (0.99%) Broadband
4 4 (0.66%) FTP
4 4 (0.66%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (0.17%) Internet
5 1 (0.17%) LAN
5 1 (0.17%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (0.17%) VLAN
5 1 (0.17%) WAN
5 1 (0.17%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (10.08%) Oracle Database
2 52 (8.60%) SQL Server
3 44 (7.27%) Oracle Database 10g
3 44 (7.27%) Oracle Database 11g
3 44 (7.27%) VLDB
4 30 (4.96%) Power BI
5 26 (4.30%) Elasticsearch
6 17 (2.81%) MySQL
7 13 (2.15%) Relational Database
8 9 (1.49%) Geospatial Data
8 9 (1.49%) GIS
8 9 (1.49%) MS Access
9 7 (1.16%) BusinessObjects
10 6 (0.99%) Data Warehouse
11 5 (0.83%) Azure SQL Database
11 5 (0.83%) Pentaho
11 5 (0.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 4 (0.66%) Crystal Reports
12 4 (0.66%) QlikView
13 3 (0.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 35 (5.79%) JIRA
2 9 (1.49%) Oracle Forms
3 7 (1.16%) Eclipse
3 7 (1.16%) GitLab
4 6 (0.99%) Bitbucket
4 6 (0.99%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 2 (0.33%) Git
5 2 (0.33%) IntelliJ
6 1 (0.17%) Gradle
6 1 (0.17%) JUnit
General
1 147 (24.30%) Analytical Skills
2 144 (23.80%) Social Skills
3 118 (19.50%) Finance
4 40 (6.61%) Law
5 38 (6.28%) Police
6 29 (4.79%) Manufacturing
7 25 (4.13%) Marketing
8 21 (3.47%) Legal
8 21 (3.47%) Public Sector
9 20 (3.31%) Local Government
10 15 (2.48%) Retail
11 12 (1.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 10 (1.65%) Automotive
13 5 (0.83%) Banking
13 5 (0.83%) Investment Banking
13 5 (0.83%) Private Banking
14 4 (0.66%) Documentation Skills
15 3 (0.50%) Back Office
15 3 (0.50%) Environmental Health
15 3 (0.50%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (4.63%) Spring
2 26 (4.30%) J2EE
2 26 (4.30%) Java EE
3 19 (3.14%) .NET
4 16 (2.64%) HTML
4 16 (2.64%) Web Services
5 13 (2.15%) CSS
6 6 (0.99%) EDI
6 6 (0.99%) OLE
7 5 (0.83%) Kafka
7 5 (0.83%) Middleware
7 5 (0.83%) Node.js
8 3 (0.50%) JSON
9 2 (0.33%) XML
10 1 (0.17%) Oracle Fusion
10 1 (0.17%) Spring Boot
10 1 (0.17%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 21 (3.47%) Enterprise Software
2 19 (3.14%) Driving Licence
3 16 (2.64%) Public Cloud
4 12 (1.98%) Management Information System
5 11 (1.82%) Analytical Mindset
6 10 (1.65%) Self-Motivation
7 8 (1.32%) Linux Command Line
7 8 (1.32%) Mobile App
8 7 (1.16%) Clustering
8 7 (1.16%) CMDB
9 5 (0.83%) Legacy Code
9 5 (0.83%) Reference Data
10 2 (0.33%) Cloud Native
10 2 (0.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (0.33%) IoT
10 2 (0.33%) iPhone
10 2 (0.33%) NHS
10 2 (0.33%) Product Ownership
11 1 (0.17%) Data Protection Act
11 1 (0.17%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 100 (16.53%) Unix
2 98 (16.20%) Linux
3 60 (9.92%) Solaris
4 53 (8.76%) Windows
5 17 (2.81%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.33%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.33%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.33%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.33%) Windows 7
7 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.17%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 186 (30.74%) Problem-Solving
2 104 (17.19%) ITIL
3 84 (13.88%) Incident Management
4 78 (12.89%) Customer Service
5 69 (11.40%) Actionable Insight
6 66 (10.91%) ERP
7 63 (10.41%) Release Management
7 63 (10.41%) Service Management
8 57 (9.42%) ITSM
9 53 (8.76%) Performance Tuning
10 50 (8.26%) Performance Monitoring
11 49 (8.10%) CRM
12 46 (7.60%) Artificial Intelligence
13 44 (7.27%) Capacity Planning
14 43 (7.11%) Capacity Management
15 42 (6.94%) Business Intelligence
16 37 (6.12%) User Acceptance Testing
17 32 (5.29%) Project Management
18 30 (4.96%) Agile
19 26 (4.30%) Information Management
Programming Languages
1 260 (42.98%) SQL
2 57 (9.42%) PL/SQL
3 47 (7.77%) Shell Script
4 40 (6.61%) Java
5 27 (4.46%) T-SQL
6 26 (4.30%) C#
7 15 (2.48%) JavaScript
8 11 (1.82%) Python
9 6 (0.99%) VB
10 5 (0.83%) C++
10 5 (0.83%) VBA
11 4 (0.66%) COBOL
12 3 (0.50%) C
12 3 (0.50%) PowerShell
13 2 (0.33%) Bash
14 1 (0.17%) PHP
Qualifications
1 118 (19.50%) Degree
2 97 (16.03%) Security Cleared
3 79 (13.06%) SC Cleared
4 11 (1.82%) Microsoft Certification
5 9 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (0.99%) ITIL Certification
7 3 (0.50%) A+ Certification
7 3 (0.50%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.50%) MCDST
8 2 (0.33%) ECDL
8 2 (0.33%) MCP
9 1 (0.17%) CTC Cleared
9 1 (0.17%) HNC
9 1 (0.17%) HND
9 1 (0.17%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.17%) MCITP
9 1 (0.17%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 113 (18.68%) SLA
2 16 (2.64%) Accessibility
3 7 (1.16%) GDPR
4 3 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.33%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 44 (7.27%) Oracle RAC
2 22 (3.64%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.83%) Docker
4 1 (0.17%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 44 (7.27%) Data Guard
1 44 (7.27%) Oracle RMAN
2 26 (4.30%) OpenSSO
2 26 (4.30%) Single Sign-On
3 7 (1.16%) Microsoft Clustering
4 5 (0.83%) Grafana
4 5 (0.83%) ITRS Geneos
5 4 (0.66%) SCOM
5 4 (0.66%) WhatsUp Gold
6 3 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 125 (20.66%) Microsoft
2 120 (19.83%) Oracle
3 70 (11.57%) Remedy
4 45 (7.44%) Sun
5 21 (3.47%) SAP
6 18 (2.98%) Civica
6 18 (2.98%) ServiceNow
7 16 (2.64%) NEC
8 9 (1.49%) Salesforce
9 7 (1.16%) Sage
10 6 (0.99%) Epicor
10 6 (0.99%) FNZ
10 6 (0.99%) Guidewire
11 5 (0.83%) AppDynamics
11 5 (0.83%) CA
11 5 (0.83%) Google
11 5 (0.83%) Splunk
11 5 (0.83%) Sybase
12 4 (0.66%) Cognos
12 4 (0.66%) Infor