Technical Engineer Jobs

Technical Engineer
UK

The median Technical Engineer salary in the UK is £34,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 April 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 493 397 664
Rank change year-on-year -96 +267 +177
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Engineer 198 594 374
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.39% 0.64% 0.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.44% 0.68% 0.37%
Number of salaries quoted 126 501 212
10th Percentile £27,000 £25,000 £29,285
25th Percentile £28,898 £29,035 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £34,750 £35,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.71% -17.65% +26.87%
75th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £52,963 £65,000 £70,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,500 £34,500 £36,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% -4.17% +10.77%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 45,395 87,903 100,964
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.80% 94.66% 91.85%
Number of salaries quoted 26,615 64,309 62,934
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,550 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £38,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £54,645 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.22% -8.93% -
75th Percentile £76,250 £72,433 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £91,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%

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 3 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Technical Engineer in the UK

Technical Engineer
Top 17 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 3 April 2025. 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 -100 170 £37,250 +6.43% 425
UK excluding London -63 150 £37,500 +8.70% 359
South East -1 39 £45,000 +21.62% 101
Work from Home +106 32 £34,500 -21.14% 172
London +42 32 £34,500 -42.50% 112
East of England +59 30 £37,500 +8.70% 47
South West +61 28 £34,750 -3.47% 44
North of England +32 25 £31,500 - 88
Midlands -36 16 £40,000 +14.29% 60
Yorkshire +52 14 £30,500 -6.15% 38
East Midlands +11 10 £40,000 +45.45% 27
North West +11 10 £37,500 +25.00% 38
Scotland +100 6 £30,000 +13.21% 8
West Midlands -28 6 - - 31
Northern Ireland +34 5 £29,000 -15.94% 5
North East +40 1 £45,000 +38.46% 15
Wales +31 1 £30,000 -8.09% 17

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

For the 6 months to 3 April 2025, 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 86 (43.43%) Problem-Solving
2 83 (41.92%) Social Skills
3 56 (28.28%) Degree
4 50 (25.25%) Windows
5 47 (23.74%) Linux
6 45 (22.73%) Microsoft
7 37 (18.69%) Microsoft 365
8 31 (15.66%) CRM
9 30 (15.15%) Firewall
10 29 (14.65%) Customer Service
11 26 (13.13%) Windows Server
11 26 (13.13%) SQL
11 26 (13.13%) B2B
11 26 (13.13%) Active Directory
12 25 (12.63%) Continuous Improvement
12 25 (12.63%) Analytical Skills
12 25 (12.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 23 (11.62%) JIRA
13 23 (11.62%) Test Automation
13 23 (11.62%) HND
13 23 (11.62%) VMware
14 21 (10.61%) VMware Infrastructure
15 20 (10.10%) Salesforce
15 20 (10.10%) Presentation Skills
15 20 (10.10%) Satnav
15 20 (10.10%) Scenario Testing
16 19 (9.60%) HNC
16 19 (9.60%) Azure
17 18 (9.09%) SharePoint
17 18 (9.09%) Project Management

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 18 (9.09%) SharePoint
2 8 (4.04%) Kinematics
3 7 (3.54%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.51%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.51%) Confluence
4 1 (0.51%) nginx
Applications
1 15 (7.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (5.56%) SOLIDWORKS
3 10 (5.05%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (1.01%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.51%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (2.02%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.51%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 37 (18.69%) Microsoft 365
2 19 (9.60%) Azure
3 8 (4.04%) AWS
3 8 (4.04%) OneDrive
4 6 (3.03%) SaaS
5 5 (2.53%) GCP
6 4 (2.02%) Nutanix
7 2 (1.01%) Entra ID
7 2 (1.01%) Rubrik
8 1 (0.51%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 30 (15.15%) Firewall
2 17 (8.59%) DNS
3 13 (6.57%) Wi-Fi
4 11 (5.56%) DHCP
4 11 (5.56%) VPN
5 10 (5.05%) LAN
5 10 (5.05%) WAN
6 7 (3.54%) Internet
6 7 (3.54%) NetScaler
7 6 (3.03%) Remote Desktop
8 5 (2.53%) Unified Communications
9 4 (2.02%) 4G
9 4 (2.02%) TCP/IP
9 4 (2.02%) VLAN
10 3 (1.52%) Network Security
11 2 (1.01%) 5G
11 2 (1.01%) Intrusion Detection
11 2 (1.01%) SAN
11 2 (1.01%) VoIP
12 1 (0.51%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (7.07%) MySQL
2 6 (3.03%) SQL Server
3 4 (2.02%) Metabase
4 2 (1.01%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.51%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 23 (11.62%) JIRA
General
1 83 (41.92%) Social Skills
2 25 (12.63%) Analytical Skills
2 25 (12.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 20 (10.10%) Presentation Skills
4 17 (8.59%) Manufacturing
5 14 (7.07%) Retail
6 12 (6.06%) Aerospace
7 11 (5.56%) Aviation
7 11 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
8 8 (4.04%) Aeronautics
8 8 (4.04%) Law
8 8 (4.04%) Pharmaceutical
8 8 (4.04%) Police
9 7 (3.54%) Electronics
9 7 (3.54%) Telecoms
10 6 (3.03%) Legal
11 5 (2.53%) Finance
11 5 (2.53%) French Language
11 5 (2.53%) German Language
12 3 (1.52%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.01%) Software Packaging
2 1 (0.51%) PySpark
2 1 (0.51%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (0.51%) ServiceStack
Miscellaneous
1 20 (10.10%) Satnav
2 16 (8.08%) Self-Motivation
3 11 (5.56%) CCTV
4 9 (4.55%) Public Cloud
5 8 (4.04%) Data Centre
6 7 (3.54%) Private Cloud
6 7 (3.54%) Tandem
7 6 (3.03%) Onboarding
8 4 (2.02%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (1.52%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.52%) IoT
10 2 (1.01%) Driving Licence
10 2 (1.01%) Fibre Optics
10 2 (1.01%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (1.01%) Life Science
10 2 (1.01%) Operational Technology
10 2 (1.01%) Reinsurance
10 2 (1.01%) Video Conferencing
10 2 (1.01%) Video\Live Streaming
11 1 (0.51%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 50 (25.25%) Windows
2 47 (23.74%) Linux
3 26 (13.13%) Windows Server
4 16 (8.08%) Windows 10
5 8 (4.04%) Mac OS
6 6 (3.03%) Windows Server 2019
7 5 (2.53%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (2.02%) VMS
9 3 (1.52%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (1.01%) Debian
10 2 (1.01%) Ubuntu
10 2 (1.01%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (43.43%) Problem-Solving
2 31 (15.66%) CRM
3 29 (14.65%) Customer Service
4 26 (13.13%) B2B
5 25 (12.63%) Continuous Improvement
6 23 (11.62%) Test Automation
7 20 (10.10%) Scenario Testing
8 18 (9.09%) Project Management
9 14 (7.07%) Tech Ops
10 12 (6.06%) ERP
10 12 (6.06%) ITIL
11 11 (5.56%) Agile
11 11 (5.56%) CAD
11 11 (5.56%) Presales
12 10 (5.05%) Artificial Intelligence
13 9 (4.55%) Time Management
14 8 (4.04%) E-Discovery
14 8 (4.04%) Lean Manufacturing
14 8 (4.04%) Proactive Monitoring
14 8 (4.04%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 26 (13.13%) SQL
2 13 (6.57%) PL/SQL
3 11 (5.56%) VB
4 7 (3.54%) Python
5 5 (2.53%) PowerShell
6 4 (2.02%) C++
7 2 (1.01%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.51%) Go
8 1 (0.51%) Java
8 1 (0.51%) PHP
8 1 (0.51%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 56 (28.28%) Degree
2 23 (11.62%) HND
3 19 (9.60%) HNC
4 12 (6.06%) SC Cleared
4 12 (6.06%) Security Cleared
5 8 (4.04%) DV Cleared
5 8 (4.04%) Master's Degree
6 6 (3.03%) Cisco Certification
6 6 (3.03%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (2.02%) A+ Certification
7 4 (2.02%) CCNA
7 4 (2.02%) Dell Certification
7 4 (2.02%) MCP
8 3 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (1.01%) Azure Certification
9 2 (1.01%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 2 (1.01%) JNCIA
10 1 (0.51%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.51%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.51%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (8.08%) SLA
2 5 (2.53%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 26 (13.13%) Active Directory
2 21 (10.61%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (8.08%) Hyper-V
4 7 (3.54%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (2.02%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 4 (2.02%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (1.52%) Docker
7 2 (1.01%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (1.01%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (3.54%) vCenter Server
2 6 (3.03%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.03%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (2.53%) Terraform
4 3 (1.52%) Autotask
5 2 (1.01%) NetBackup
6 1 (0.51%) Ansible
6 1 (0.51%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.51%) SCCM
6 1 (0.51%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 45 (22.73%) Microsoft
2 23 (11.62%) VMware
3 20 (10.10%) Salesforce
4 14 (7.07%) Cisco
4 14 (7.07%) Dell
5 13 (6.57%) SAP
6 11 (5.56%) Citrix
7 7 (3.54%) Juniper
8 6 (3.03%) McAfee
8 6 (3.03%) Sophos
8 6 (3.03%) Ubiquiti
9 5 (2.53%) Meraki
10 4 (2.02%) Veeam
10 4 (2.02%) YouTube
11 3 (1.52%) Twitter
11 3 (1.52%) Zerto
12 2 (1.01%) Datto
12 2 (1.01%) Google
12 2 (1.01%) TOWER Software
12 2 (1.01%) WatchGuard