Application Support: market
An Application Support Engineer supports business applications in production: handles incidents, finds causes in logs and data, applies fixes and works with development. We currently track 202 open positions for this role, 189 of them fresh. Postings usually require SQL, Linux, log reading and monitoring, ITIL processes, understanding of Java or .NET applications and the cloud. By co-occurrence in requirements, SQL, ITIL, AWS and Python appear most often. 39% of the postings allow fully remote work. Below is a live slice of the Application Support Engineer market: geography, seniority, adjacent stack and sources.
The Application Support market currently has 202 open roles, 189 of them freshly observed. Median salary $5,043/mo.
39% of Application Support Engineer postings allow fully remote work; the share counts only postings that state the format.
⚠ salary known for 14 of 202 jobs; remote share from 148 with a stated format; 189 counted as fresh observations; trend and hiring difficulty are not shown
Timeline: postings and sources
How many Application Support postings appeared each week since 4 May, and from how many sources. The second line separates market growth from coverage growth: a jump in the week new sources were connected means we started seeing more, not that the market grew.
New postings and active sources per week
Sources over the period: 94
New sources connected: 11 May +2 · 18 May +3 · 1 Jun +2 · 8 Jun +1 · 15 Jun +2 · 22 Jun +13 · 29 Jun +9 · 6 Jul +6 · 13 Jul +9 · 20 Jul +11 · 27 Jul +8 · 3 Aug +3 · 10 Aug +2 · 17 Aug +2 · 24 Aug +3 · 7 Sept +2 · 14 Sept +1 · 21 Sept +5 · 28 Sept +1 · 12 Oct +7
Week = posting first-seen date, all statuses; postings are selected by the same rule as this page's counter. Sources are distinct collection channels; their names are not published.
Remote work over time
Share of Application Support postings offering fully remote work, per week.
Remote postings, %
The share is among postings that state a format (remote, hybrid, office). Weeks with fewer than 10 such postings are left blank.
Technologies over time
How the share of Application Support postings mentioning each of the top technologies changed.
Postings mentioning the technology, %
Share among postings with a tagged stack; the series starts on 10 Aug: earlier stack tags were assigned differently. Weeks with fewer than 20 tagged postings are left blank.
Countries over time
How the share of Application Support postings in each of the top countries changed, per week.
Postings in the country, %
Share among postings with a known country; the chart shows the five countries with the most postings over six months. Weeks with fewer than 20 postings with a known country are left blank. A rising share can mean a newly connected source in that country rather than market growth.
Demand and observed supply: Application Support
| Open demand | 202 |
| Observed supply | — not published |
⚠ candidates matching a vacancy are not counted yet: demand and the observed pool are shown
Salary distribution: Application Support
One in ten earns under $657, one in ten over $7,668. Half the market falls between $697 and $6,829. Sample: 14.
The range histogram for Application Support Engineer uses only postings with an explicit compensation range; the median is computed over the same sample.
⚠ percentiles from 14 salaries out of 202 jobs — a guide on a small sample
Demand geography: Application Support
| country | jobs |
|---|---|
| PL | 53 |
| US | 18 |
| IN | 17 |
| TH | 13 |
| HK | 11 |
| GB | 9 |
| SG | 6 |
| CA | 5 |
| DE | 4 |
| PT | 4 |
The top country for Application Support Engineer demand is Poland (53 positions).
⚠ job counts only: salary by country is not published
Used together with
In Application Support Engineer requirements the most frequently named skills and technologies are SQL, ITIL, AWS and Python.
Demand by grade: Application Support
| grade | jobs |
|---|---|
| middle | 36 |
| senior | 29 |
| lead | 8 |
| junior | 6 |
| principal | 2 |
Senior-and-above is about 48% of 81 Application Support Engineer postings with an explicit grade.
⚠ demand side only: the grade of the observed pool is unknown for most of it
Employers: Application Support
Demand is spread across 142 employers. The largest accounts for 3.6%, the top ten for 21.3%; the remaining 78.6% is long tail.
| share | value |
|---|---|
| top-1 | 3.6% |
| top-3 | 9.4% |
| top-10 | 21.3% |
| long tail | 78.6% |
Application Support Engineer openings come from 142 distinct employers; the largest one accounts for only 3.6% of postings — the market is not tied to a single hirer.
⚠ names are not shown: staffing agencies and end employers are not yet told apart by the classifier
Where Zorky sees this market
Observed across 36 sources; the largest accounts for 17.3% — this market does not rest on a single channel.
Application Support Engineer postings arrive mostly from job boards & aggregators and ATS & career sites.
Recent openings: Application Support
- Technical Application Support Analyst · PL
- Application Support Analyst / L2 Technical Support Engineer (RSNT22102026) · PH
- Application Support Specialist III · ZA
- Java Developer (Application Support)
- Application Support with Observability · IN · $697
- Application Support · IN · $658
- Application Support / Managed Services Engineers (.NET) · PL
- Manager, ERP Application Support (Distribution) · CA
Adjacent markets
⚠ adjacent markets for comparison are not defined yet
How this is measured
- Vacancy
- an open job that cleared the quality gate and lists at least two technologies
- Observed candidate
- a candidate whose stack contains this technology; an aggregate — not a single record leaves the perimeter
- Matchable candidate
- not counted yet
- Window
- jobs open at the moment the snapshot was built
About the data
- Some breakdowns are hidden: their data coverage is not yet sufficient.
- Statistics are shown only where the sample clears a quality gate.
- A missing block does not mean a value of zero.
Breakdowns currently hidden: 8.
Data as of 2026-10-23
Frequently asked questions
Common questions about the Application Support Engineer role — short answers from the same data slice.
What does an Application Support Engineer do?
An Application Support Engineer supports business applications in production: handles incidents, finds causes in logs and data, applies fixes and works with development.
Which skills do Application Support Engineer postings require?
Postings usually require SQL, Linux, log reading and monitoring, ITIL processes, understanding of Java or .NET applications and the cloud. In the current slice, SQL, ITIL, AWS and Python appear in requirements most often.
How does Application Support differ from Technical Support?
Technical Support handles customer requests; Application Support handles the applications themselves in production: incidents, data, fixes.
How remote-friendly are Application Support Engineer jobs?
39% of postings with an explicit format allow fully remote work; the slice tracks 202 open positions.
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