Senior IT Engineer Jobs in the South East

Senior IT Engineer
England > South East

The median Senior IT Engineer salary in the South East is £43,750 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 April 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
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 377 398 465
Rank change year-on-year +21 +67 -96
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior IT Engineer 19 16 17
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.11% 0.11% 0.086%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.12% 0.090%
Number of salaries quoted 14 16 17
10th Percentile £35,750 £31,500 -
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,938 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,750 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £54,063 £50,938 £63,750
90th Percentile £67,625 £53,750 £81,250
England median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% +11.76%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 15,586 13,785 18,947
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.91% 90.64% 96.38%
Number of salaries quoted 11,307 8,641 12,626
10th Percentile £27,500 £29,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,750 £39,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £54,000 £60,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.74% +0.83% +9.09%

Senior IT Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior IT Engineer in the South East

Senior IT Engineer
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior IT Engineer in the South East.

Salary trend for Senior IT Engineer in the South East

Senior IT Engineer
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior IT Engineer in the South East over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior IT Engineer in the South East

Senior IT Engineer
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior IT Engineer within the South East region over the 6 months to 23 April 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
Thames Valley +9 8 £57,500 +15.00% 1
Hampshire -8 7 £40,000 -11.11% 3
Buckinghamshire -25 4 - -
Berkshire - 3 £58,750 - 1
East Sussex +24 2 £47,500 +11.76%
West Sussex +42 1 £65,000 +8.33%
Oxfordshire +13 1 £32,500 -
Kent -5 1 £55,000 +41.03%
Senior IT Engineer
England

Senior IT Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 23 April 2024, Senior IT 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 across the South East region featuring Senior IT Engineer in the job title.

1 10 (52.63%) Azure
2 8 (42.11%) Windows
2 8 (42.11%) Microsoft
2 8 (42.11%) Active Directory
2 8 (42.11%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (36.84%) Hyper-V
3 7 (36.84%) Windows Server
3 7 (36.84%) Firewall
3 7 (36.84%) PowerShell
4 6 (31.58%) VMware
5 5 (26.32%) ITIL
5 5 (26.32%) WatchGuard
5 5 (26.32%) Windows 10
6 4 (21.05%) Driving Licence
6 4 (21.05%) Windows 7
6 4 (21.05%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (21.05%) vSphere
6 4 (21.05%) VoIP
6 4 (21.05%) Cisco
7 3 (15.79%) Wireless
7 3 (15.79%) WAN
7 3 (15.79%) VPN
7 3 (15.79%) LAN
7 3 (15.79%) Degree
7 3 (15.79%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (15.79%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (15.79%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (15.79%) Creative Thinking
8 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 2 (10.53%) Social Skills

Senior IT Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 10 (52.63%) Azure
2 8 (42.11%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (10.53%) Entra ID
3 2 (10.53%) IaaS
3 2 (10.53%) OneDrive
3 2 (10.53%) PaaS
3 2 (10.53%) SaaS
4 1 (5.26%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (5.26%) Google Workspace
4 1 (5.26%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 7 (36.84%) Firewall
2 4 (21.05%) VoIP
3 3 (15.79%) LAN
3 3 (15.79%) VPN
3 3 (15.79%) WAN
3 3 (15.79%) Wireless
4 2 (10.53%) DHCP
4 2 (10.53%) DNS
4 2 (10.53%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (10.53%) Network Security
4 2 (10.53%) SAN
5 1 (5.26%) VLAN
General
1 2 (10.53%) Finance
1 2 (10.53%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) Driving Licence
2 1 (5.26%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 1 (5.26%) Cybercrime
2 1 (5.26%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.26%) Operational Technology
2 1 (5.26%) Public Cloud
2 1 (5.26%) Security Operations Centre
2 1 (5.26%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 8 (42.11%) Windows
2 7 (36.84%) Windows Server
3 5 (26.32%) Windows 10
4 4 (21.05%) Windows 7
5 3 (15.79%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (15.79%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (10.53%) Linux
6 2 (10.53%) Mac OS
6 2 (10.53%) Windows Server 2003
6 2 (10.53%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (10.53%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (5.26%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (26.32%) ITIL
2 3 (15.79%) Creative Thinking
3 2 (10.53%) Business Continuity
3 2 (10.53%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (10.53%) Incident Management
3 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure Maintenance
3 2 (10.53%) Load Balancing
3 2 (10.53%) Service Management
3 2 (10.53%) SIEM
3 2 (10.53%) Visualisation
4 1 (5.26%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (5.26%) Incident Response
4 1 (5.26%) Information Security
4 1 (5.26%) Penetration Testing
4 1 (5.26%) Risk Assessment
4 1 (5.26%) Security Architecture
4 1 (5.26%) Service Delivery
4 1 (5.26%) Software Distribution
4 1 (5.26%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (36.84%) PowerShell
2 1 (5.26%) Bash
Qualifications
1 3 (15.79%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) COBIT
1 1 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (5.26%) NIST
System Software
1 8 (42.11%) Active Directory
2 7 (36.84%) Hyper-V
3 4 (21.05%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (21.05%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (15.79%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (10.53%) NetCrunch
2 2 (10.53%) vCenter Server
3 1 (5.26%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 8 (42.11%) Microsoft
2 6 (31.58%) VMware
3 5 (26.32%) WatchGuard
4 4 (21.05%) Cisco
5 2 (10.53%) Apple
5 2 (10.53%) Dell
5 2 (10.53%) Fortinet
5 2 (10.53%) Ivanti
5 2 (10.53%) Meraki
5 2 (10.53%) Palo Alto
5 2 (10.53%) Splunk
6 1 (5.26%) Google
6 1 (5.26%) NETGEAR
6 1 (5.26%) Ubiquiti