Senior IT Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Senior IT Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior IT Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £42,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 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
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 652 696 785
Rank change year-on-year +44 +89 -174
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior IT Engineer 99 72 72
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.14% 0.12% 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.13% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 86 55 69
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,100 £31,100
25th Percentile £35,250 £37,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - -5.56% +25.00%
75th Percentile £54,688 £47,500 £58,750
90th Percentile £63,750 £53,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% +11.76%

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 66,742 54,869 68,064
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.79% 89.26% 95.83%
Number of salaries quoted 47,250 31,160 43,040
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,508 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.49% - +9.09%

Senior IT Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Senior IT Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Senior IT Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior IT Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior IT Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Senior IT Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior IT Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior IT Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior IT Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior IT Engineer
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 Senior IT Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 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
South West -12 23 £50,000 +35.14% 3
Midlands +10 22 £36,000 -11.11% 9
North of England +64 19 £55,000 +10.00% 6
South East +13 19 £43,750 -7.89% 7
East Midlands 0 16 £35,000 0.00% 3
Yorkshire +88 11 £55,000 -8.33% 2
North West +12 8 £62,500 +38.89% 4
East of England +22 7 £42,500 +11.84% 3
West Midlands +8 6 £39,250 -3.09% 6
Scotland -67 5 £42,500 +6.25% 1
Wales - 3 £40,000 -
Northern Ireland +29 1 £32,500 -
Senior IT Engineer
UK

Senior IT Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 3 May 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 UK excluding London region featuring Senior IT Engineer in the job title.

1 58 (58.59%) Windows
2 42 (42.42%) Azure
3 38 (38.38%) Microsoft 365
4 35 (35.35%) Windows Server
4 35 (35.35%) Active Directory
5 34 (34.34%) VMware
6 33 (33.33%) Firewall
7 30 (30.30%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 28 (28.28%) Microsoft
9 26 (26.26%) DNS
10 25 (25.25%) DHCP
11 22 (22.22%) Hyper-V
12 19 (19.19%) VMware Infrastructure
13 17 (17.17%) Degree
14 16 (16.16%) ITIL
14 16 (16.16%) Cybersecurity
15 15 (15.15%) Entra ID
15 15 (15.15%) Driving Licence
16 14 (14.14%) Linux
16 14 (14.14%) Cisco
17 12 (12.12%) Finance
17 12 (12.12%) PowerShell
17 12 (12.12%) Microsoft Intune
17 12 (12.12%) Social Skills
18 11 (11.11%) Windows 10
18 11 (11.11%) TCP/IP
18 11 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
19 10 (10.10%) Disaster Recovery
20 9 (9.09%) VPN
20 9 (9.09%) Windows Server 2012

Senior IT Engineer 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 11 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (6.06%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.02%) WordPress
4 1 (1.01%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (3.03%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.01%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.01%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 42 (42.42%) Azure
2 38 (38.38%) Microsoft 365
3 15 (15.15%) Entra ID
4 9 (9.09%) AWS
5 5 (5.05%) OneDrive
6 3 (3.03%) IaaS
6 3 (3.03%) PaaS
6 3 (3.03%) SaaS
7 2 (2.02%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (2.02%) Mimecast
8 1 (1.01%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.01%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 33 (33.33%) Firewall
2 26 (26.26%) DNS
3 25 (25.25%) DHCP
4 11 (11.11%) TCP/IP
5 9 (9.09%) VPN
6 8 (8.08%) LAN
6 8 (8.08%) SAN
6 8 (8.08%) VLAN
6 8 (8.08%) VoIP
7 5 (5.05%) Internet
7 5 (5.05%) WAN
8 4 (4.04%) NAS
8 4 (4.04%) Wireless
8 4 (4.04%) WLAN
9 3 (3.03%) HTTP
9 3 (3.03%) Network Security
9 3 (3.03%) Remote Desktop
10 2 (2.02%) iSCSI
10 2 (2.02%) PBX
10 2 (2.02%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.01%) SQL Server
General
1 12 (12.12%) Finance
1 12 (12.12%) Social Skills
2 6 (6.06%) Aerospace
2 6 (6.06%) Telecoms
3 5 (5.05%) Automotive
4 3 (3.03%) Advertising
4 3 (3.03%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.02%) CSS
1 2 (2.02%) HTML
2 1 (1.01%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 15 (15.15%) Driving Licence
2 6 (6.06%) Data Centre
3 5 (5.05%) Public Cloud
4 3 (3.03%) CCTV
5 2 (2.02%) Handset
6 1 (1.01%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 1 (1.01%) Cybercrime
6 1 (1.01%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.01%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.01%) Replication
6 1 (1.01%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (1.01%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 58 (58.59%) Windows
2 35 (35.35%) Windows Server
3 14 (14.14%) Linux
4 11 (11.11%) Windows 10
5 9 (9.09%) Windows Server 2012
6 8 (8.08%) Windows Server 2019
7 6 (6.06%) Windows Server 2016
8 5 (5.05%) Windows 7
9 4 (4.04%) Windows Server 2003
10 3 (3.03%) Mac OS
11 2 (2.02%) Mac OS X
11 2 (2.02%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (1.01%) AIX
12 1 (1.01%) Apple iOS
12 1 (1.01%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (30.30%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 16 (16.16%) Cybersecurity
2 16 (16.16%) ITIL
3 10 (10.10%) Disaster Recovery
4 7 (7.07%) Customer Service
4 7 (7.07%) Migration
5 5 (5.05%) Creative Thinking
5 5 (5.05%) Incident Management
5 5 (5.05%) Infrastructure Maintenance
5 5 (5.05%) Service Management
6 4 (4.04%) High Availability
6 4 (4.04%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (4.04%) Project Delivery
7 3 (3.03%) Business Continuity
7 3 (3.03%) Customer Requirements
7 3 (3.03%) Load Balancing
7 3 (3.03%) Mobile Device Management
7 3 (3.03%) Storage Management
7 3 (3.03%) Time Management
7 3 (3.03%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (12.12%) PowerShell
2 2 (2.02%) SQL
3 1 (1.01%) Bash
3 1 (1.01%) Shell Script
3 1 (1.01%) VB
Qualifications
1 17 (17.17%) Degree
2 3 (3.03%) SC Cleared
2 3 (3.03%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.02%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (2.02%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 1 (1.01%) CCAA
4 1 (1.01%) CCNA
4 1 (1.01%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.01%) Citrix Certification
4 1 (1.01%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.01%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (1.01%) MCP
4 1 (1.01%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.04%) GDPR
2 3 (3.03%) SLA
3 2 (2.02%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.01%) COBIT
4 1 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.01%) NIST
System Software
1 35 (35.35%) Active Directory
2 22 (22.22%) Hyper-V
3 19 (19.19%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (7.07%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (5.05%) vSphere
6 3 (3.03%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (3.03%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (2.02%) Terminal Services
7 2 (2.02%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (1.01%) Firmware
8 1 (1.01%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (1.01%) Samba
8 1 (1.01%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 12 (12.12%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (3.03%) NetCrunch
2 3 (3.03%) SCCM
2 3 (3.03%) vCenter Server
3 2 (2.02%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (1.01%) WSUS
Vendors
1 34 (34.34%) VMware
2 28 (28.28%) Microsoft
3 14 (14.14%) Cisco
4 7 (7.07%) WatchGuard
5 6 (6.06%) Aruba
5 6 (6.06%) Fortinet
6 5 (5.05%) Meraki
7 4 (4.04%) Citrix
7 4 (4.04%) Extreme Networks
8 3 (3.03%) Apple
8 3 (3.03%) Dell
8 3 (3.03%) HP
8 3 (3.03%) Ivanti
8 3 (3.03%) Palo Alto
8 3 (3.03%) Splunk
9 2 (2.02%) Acronis
9 2 (2.02%) ConnectWise
9 2 (2.02%) Sage
9 2 (2.02%) Veeam
10 1 (1.01%) CheckPoint