Technical Engineer
UK

The median Technical Engineer salary in the UK is £35,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 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
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 403 634 861
Rank change year-on-year +231 +227 -191
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Engineer 639 342 392
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.62% 0.35% 0.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.66% 0.38% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 532 207 263
10th Percentile £25,025 £29,564 £23,800
25th Percentile £29,026 £34,250 £28,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £45,000 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +28.57% -2.78%
75th Percentile £47,500 £58,750 £47,500
90th Percentile £65,000 £85,500 £67,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £35,000 £37,500 £32,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +15.38% -4.41%

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 97,260 88,990 160,374
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.78% 91.41% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 69,382 56,369 85,188
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,663
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £50,173
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.63% +5.63%

Technical Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Engineer in the UK

Technical Engineer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Technical Engineer.

Salary trend for Technical Engineer in the UK

Technical Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Technical Engineer over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Technical Engineer in the UK

Technical Engineer
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 28 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 +236 589 £35,000 -22.22% 235
UK excluding London +188 552 £35,000 -6.67% 218
South East +83 159 £35,000 -17.65% 40
Midlands +108 129 £33,750 -28.95% 53
Work from Home +61 104 £42,500 -5.56% 60
North of England +85 102 £32,000 -3.03% 49
London +134 78 £60,000 +4.35% 24
West Midlands +76 75 £35,000 +1.45% 27
South West +8 75 £36,000 -20.00% 32
East Midlands +36 54 £27,500 -50.00% 26
Yorkshire +93 50 £32,000 -8.57% 14
North West +26 47 £30,000 -2.25% 29
East of England +22 44 £37,500 - 37
Scotland -64 14 £26,500 -41.11% 4
Wales +11 12 £32,640 -6.74% 10
Northern Ireland +19 9 £34,500 -13.75% 2
Isle of Man - 8 £45,000 -
North East -3 5 £37,500 -32.13% 6

Technical Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 28 May 2024, Technical Engineer 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 Technical Engineer in the job title.

1 172 (26.92%) Microsoft
2 166 (25.98%) Windows
3 144 (22.54%) Social Skills
4 140 (21.91%) Customer Service
5 105 (16.43%) Problem-Solving
6 99 (15.49%) Active Directory
7 87 (13.62%) Microsoft 365
7 87 (13.62%) Azure
8 79 (12.36%) Windows Server
9 75 (11.74%) Degree
10 68 (10.64%) Finance
11 64 (10.02%) Manufacturing
12 60 (9.39%) Security Cleared
13 59 (9.23%) Mentoring
14 58 (9.08%) SharePoint
14 58 (9.08%) SQL
15 57 (8.92%) Python
15 57 (8.92%) Firewall
16 55 (8.61%) Telecoms
17 54 (8.45%) SLA
18 51 (7.98%) Asset Management
19 49 (7.67%) VMware
19 49 (7.67%) Driving Licence
20 46 (7.20%) Entra ID
21 45 (7.04%) Hyper-V
21 45 (7.04%) TCP/IP
22 44 (6.89%) Linux
23 42 (6.57%) HNC
24 38 (5.95%) Project Management
24 38 (5.95%) Coaching

Technical Engineer 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 58 (9.08%) SharePoint
2 35 (5.48%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.31%) IIS
3 2 (0.31%) WordPress
Applications
1 14 (2.19%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (2.03%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (1.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.94%) Revit
5 3 (0.47%) AutoCAD
5 3 (0.47%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.31%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.16%) JDE EnterpriseOne
2 1 (0.16%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 87 (13.62%) Azure
1 87 (13.62%) Microsoft 365
2 46 (7.20%) Entra ID
3 32 (5.01%) OneDrive
4 24 (3.76%) AWS
5 13 (2.03%) IBM Cloud
6 10 (1.56%) SaaS
7 8 (1.25%) Amazon Kinesis
7 8 (1.25%) Cloud Computing
8 7 (1.10%) GCP
9 6 (0.94%) Azure Monitor
9 6 (0.94%) Dynamics 365
9 6 (0.94%) Mimecast
10 3 (0.47%) PaaS
10 3 (0.47%) Power Platform
11 2 (0.31%) IaaS
11 2 (0.31%) Oracle CX
12 1 (0.16%) Azure DevOps
12 1 (0.16%) Azure Sentinel
12 1 (0.16%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 57 (8.92%) Firewall
2 45 (7.04%) TCP/IP
3 35 (5.48%) DNS
4 30 (4.69%) Wireless
5 25 (3.91%) LAN
5 25 (3.91%) VoIP
5 25 (3.91%) WAN
6 23 (3.60%) DHCP
6 23 (3.60%) Wi-Fi
7 22 (3.44%) SAN
8 19 (2.97%) SNMP
9 18 (2.82%) LTE
10 16 (2.50%) 3G
10 16 (2.50%) Ethernet
11 15 (2.35%) 4G
12 13 (2.03%) SSH
13 10 (1.56%) GPRS
13 10 (1.56%) VLAN
13 10 (1.56%) VSAT
14 9 (1.41%) SDH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (3.91%) MySQL
2 23 (3.60%) SQL Server
3 16 (2.50%) Relational Database
4 8 (1.25%) Amazon Aurora
4 8 (1.25%) DynamoDB
4 8 (1.25%) NoSQL
4 8 (1.25%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (0.47%) GIS
6 2 (0.31%) Crystal Reports
6 2 (0.31%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (0.31%) Power BI
6 2 (0.31%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.16%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.16%) Big Data
7 1 (0.16%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 13 (2.03%) Eclipse
1 13 (2.03%) JIRA
2 1 (0.16%) Gatling
2 1 (0.16%) Git
2 1 (0.16%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.16%) JUnit
2 1 (0.16%) LoadRunner
2 1 (0.16%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 144 (22.54%) Social Skills
2 68 (10.64%) Finance
3 64 (10.02%) Manufacturing
4 55 (8.61%) Telecoms
5 32 (5.01%) Military
6 31 (4.85%) Electronics
7 24 (3.76%) Analytical Skills
8 23 (3.60%) Banking
9 22 (3.44%) Back Office
9 22 (3.44%) Front Office
9 22 (3.44%) Organisational Skills
10 19 (2.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 18 (2.82%) Marketing
12 17 (2.66%) Retail
13 15 (2.35%) Public Sector
14 14 (2.19%) Police
15 13 (2.03%) Documentation Skills
16 10 (1.56%) Local Government
17 7 (1.10%) Games
17 7 (1.10%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (3.76%) REST
2 22 (3.44%) CSS
3 21 (3.29%) Web Services
4 16 (2.50%) HTML
4 16 (2.50%) XML
5 13 (2.03%) Ajax
5 13 (2.03%) AngularJS
5 13 (2.03%) JDBC
5 13 (2.03%) ODBC
5 13 (2.03%) SOAP
5 13 (2.03%) XHTML
6 8 (1.25%) GraphQL
6 8 (1.25%) http4s
6 8 (1.25%) Scalaz
7 3 (0.47%) EDI
7 3 (0.47%) Fluent Bit
7 3 (0.47%) JSON
7 3 (0.47%) Lightning Web Components
8 2 (0.31%) .NET
8 2 (0.31%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 49 (7.67%) Driving Licence
2 22 (3.44%) Derivative
2 22 (3.44%) Hedge funds
3 21 (3.29%) Self-Motivation
4 16 (2.50%) CCTV
5 14 (2.19%) Hybrid Cloud
6 13 (2.03%) Blockchain
6 13 (2.03%) CMDB
7 12 (1.88%) Data Centre
8 10 (1.56%) Distributed Systems
9 8 (1.25%) Blog
9 8 (1.25%) Linux Command Line
9 8 (1.25%) Media Streaming
10 7 (1.10%) Fat Client
10 7 (1.10%) Fibre Optics
10 7 (1.10%) Management Information System
10 7 (1.10%) Thin Client
11 6 (0.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 5 (0.78%) Data Protection Act
12 5 (0.78%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 166 (25.98%) Windows
2 79 (12.36%) Windows Server
3 44 (6.89%) Linux
4 19 (2.97%) Windows 10
5 17 (2.66%) Mac OS
6 16 (2.50%) Unix
7 11 (1.72%) Windows Server 2012
8 6 (0.94%) Android
8 6 (0.94%) VMS
9 3 (0.47%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.47%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.31%) Solaris
10 2 (0.31%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.16%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 140 (21.91%) Customer Service
2 105 (16.43%) Problem-Solving
3 59 (9.23%) Mentoring
4 51 (7.98%) Asset Management
5 38 (5.95%) Coaching
5 38 (5.95%) Project Management
6 36 (5.63%) Continuous Improvement
7 35 (5.48%) ITIL
8 33 (5.16%) Customer Experience
9 28 (4.38%) Investment Management
10 26 (4.07%) Cybersecurity
11 24 (3.76%) DevOps
12 23 (3.60%) Commercial Awareness
13 21 (3.29%) Business Intelligence
14 20 (3.13%) CRM
15 17 (2.66%) Proactive Maintenance
15 17 (2.66%) Time Management
16 16 (2.50%) Creative Problem-Solving
16 16 (2.50%) Customer Requirements
16 16 (2.50%) Network Management
Programming Languages
1 58 (9.08%) SQL
2 57 (8.92%) Python
3 37 (5.79%) C#
4 33 (5.16%) Java
5 25 (3.91%) PowerShell
6 20 (3.13%) JavaScript
7 13 (2.03%) Perl
8 10 (1.56%) PL/SQL
9 9 (1.41%) Scala
10 4 (0.63%) Bash
10 4 (0.63%) C++
10 4 (0.63%) T-SQL
10 4 (0.63%) VBA
10 4 (0.63%) VBScript
11 3 (0.47%) Apex Code
12 2 (0.31%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.31%) Rust
13 1 (0.16%) Go
13 1 (0.16%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 75 (11.74%) Degree
2 60 (9.39%) Security Cleared
3 42 (6.57%) HNC
4 33 (5.16%) Microsoft Certification
5 22 (3.44%) SC Cleared
6 19 (2.97%) Cisco Certification
7 18 (2.82%) A+ Certification
7 18 (2.82%) CCNA
7 18 (2.82%) DV Cleared
8 14 (2.19%) BPSS Clearance
8 14 (2.19%) HND
9 13 (2.03%) MCP
10 8 (1.25%) Computer Science Degree
11 7 (1.10%) Network+ Certification
12 6 (0.94%) GCSC
12 6 (0.94%) ITIL Certification
13 5 (0.78%) Azure Certification
13 5 (0.78%) CompTIA Security+
14 4 (0.63%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 3 (0.47%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (8.45%) SLA
2 14 (2.19%) PCI DSS
3 7 (1.10%) GDPR
4 4 (0.63%) QA
5 3 (0.47%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.31%) GRC
6 2 (0.31%) ISO 14001
6 2 (0.31%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 15288
7 1 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 99 (15.49%) Active Directory
2 45 (7.04%) Hyper-V
3 35 (5.48%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (2.19%) KVM
5 7 (1.10%) XenApp
5 7 (1.10%) XenDesktop
6 4 (0.63%) NFS
6 4 (0.63%) Terminal Services
6 4 (0.63%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.31%) Docker
7 2 (0.31%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (0.31%) vSphere
8 1 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 31 (4.85%) Microsoft Intune
2 24 (3.76%) SCCM
3 13 (2.03%) WMI
4 9 (1.41%) SCOM
5 5 (0.78%) Terraform
6 3 (0.47%) Cisco Prime
6 3 (0.47%) Fluentd
6 3 (0.47%) Functional Safety
6 3 (0.47%) Kubernetes
6 3 (0.47%) logstash
6 3 (0.47%) McAfee ePO
7 2 (0.31%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.16%) Autotask
8 1 (0.16%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (0.16%) Istio
8 1 (0.16%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.16%) PaperCut
Vendors
1 172 (26.92%) Microsoft
2 49 (7.67%) VMware
3 29 (4.54%) Cisco
4 21 (3.29%) Citrix
5 19 (2.97%) Oracle
6 16 (2.50%) Dell
6 16 (2.50%) Splunk
7 15 (2.35%) HP
8 14 (2.19%) Salesforce
9 13 (2.03%) IBM
10 10 (1.56%) SAP
11 6 (0.94%) Acronis
11 6 (0.94%) Siemens
12 5 (0.78%) NetApp
13 4 (0.63%) ConnectWise
14 3 (0.47%) Apple
14 3 (0.47%) Aruba
14 3 (0.47%) Bloomberg
14 3 (0.47%) McAfee
14 3 (0.47%) SolarWinds