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 25 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
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 410 644 832
Rank change year-on-year +234 +188 -167
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Engineer 618 369 378
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.63% 0.35% 0.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.67% 0.38% 0.26%
Number of salaries quoted 519 214 270
10th Percentile £25,000 £29,312 £23,750
25th Percentile £29,175 £32,750 £27,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £45,000 £34,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +32.35% -5.56%
75th Percentile £47,500 £58,750 £46,250
90th Percentile £65,000 £85,525 £65,250
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 92,894 96,310 147,847
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.63% 91.58% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 66,756 60,420 85,018
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,923 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.80% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

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 25 April 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 25 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
England +268 566 £35,000 -22.22% 172
UK excluding London +163 533 £35,000 -6.67% 163
South East +92 163 £35,000 -17.65% 40
Midlands +117 124 £35,000 -26.32% 30
Work from Home +83 100 £42,500 -5.56% 55
North of England +60 88 £32,500 -1.52% 42
London +108 74 £60,000 +4.35% 22
West Midlands +80 72 £35,000 -17.65% 11
South West +12 72 £36,000 +1.41% 17
East Midlands +36 52 £27,500 -50.00% 19
Yorkshire +93 42 £32,500 -7.14% 14
East of England +47 41 £34,750 -7.33% 16
North West +22 41 £30,000 -2.25% 27
Scotland -69 16 £26,500 -44.21% 6
Wales +13 12 £32,640 -6.74% 9
Northern Ireland +10 9 £34,500 +2.22% 7
Isle of Man - 8 £45,000 -
North East +3 5 £32,500 -41.18% 2

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

For the 6 months to 25 April 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.

1 174 (28.16%) Windows
1 174 (28.16%) Microsoft
2 145 (23.46%) Customer Service
3 143 (23.14%) Social Skills
4 109 (17.64%) Problem-Solving
5 105 (16.99%) Active Directory
6 91 (14.72%) Microsoft 365
7 83 (13.43%) Azure
8 82 (13.27%) Windows Server
9 79 (12.78%) Degree
10 67 (10.84%) Finance
11 65 (10.52%) SQL
12 63 (10.19%) Manufacturing
13 62 (10.03%) Security Cleared
14 60 (9.71%) SharePoint
15 59 (9.55%) Python
15 59 (9.55%) Firewall
16 53 (8.58%) Telecoms
16 53 (8.58%) SLA
16 53 (8.58%) Mentoring
17 51 (8.25%) Asset Management
18 50 (8.09%) Linux
19 49 (7.93%) Driving Licence
20 48 (7.77%) VMware
21 46 (7.44%) TCP/IP
21 46 (7.44%) Entra ID
22 42 (6.80%) Hyper-V
22 42 (6.80%) HNC
23 40 (6.47%) Microsoft Exchange
24 38 (6.15%) ITIL

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 60 (9.71%) SharePoint
2 40 (6.47%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.32%) IIS
3 2 (0.32%) WordPress
Applications
1 14 (2.27%) Microsoft Excel
1 14 (2.27%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (1.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (0.97%) Revit
4 4 (0.65%) AutoCAD
5 3 (0.49%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.32%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.16%) JDE EnterpriseOne
2 1 (0.16%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 91 (14.72%) Microsoft 365
2 83 (13.43%) Azure
3 46 (7.44%) Entra ID
4 33 (5.34%) OneDrive
5 18 (2.91%) AWS
6 13 (2.10%) IBM Cloud
7 10 (1.62%) SaaS
8 8 (1.29%) Cloud Computing
9 6 (0.97%) Azure Monitor
9 6 (0.97%) Dynamics 365
9 6 (0.97%) Mimecast
10 5 (0.81%) GCP
10 5 (0.81%) Power Platform
11 3 (0.49%) PaaS
12 2 (0.32%) Amazon Kinesis
12 2 (0.32%) Oracle CX
13 1 (0.16%) Azure AKS
13 1 (0.16%) Azure DevOps
13 1 (0.16%) Azure Table
13 1 (0.16%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 59 (9.55%) Firewall
2 46 (7.44%) TCP/IP
3 35 (5.66%) DNS
4 34 (5.50%) Wireless
5 27 (4.37%) LAN
6 25 (4.05%) WAN
7 24 (3.88%) DHCP
7 24 (3.88%) SAN
7 24 (3.88%) VoIP
8 21 (3.40%) Wi-Fi
9 20 (3.24%) LTE
10 19 (3.07%) SNMP
11 16 (2.59%) 3G
11 16 (2.59%) Ethernet
12 14 (2.27%) 4G
13 13 (2.10%) SSH
14 10 (1.62%) GPRS
14 10 (1.62%) VLAN
14 10 (1.62%) VSAT
15 9 (1.46%) SDH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (4.85%) MySQL
2 23 (3.72%) SQL Server
3 16 (2.59%) Relational Database
4 3 (0.49%) GIS
4 3 (0.49%) Power BI
5 2 (0.32%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (0.32%) Crystal Reports
5 2 (0.32%) DynamoDB
5 2 (0.32%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.32%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.32%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (0.32%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (0.32%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.16%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.16%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.16%) Big Data
6 1 (0.16%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 1 (0.16%) Power Query
6 1 (0.16%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 13 (2.10%) Eclipse
1 13 (2.10%) 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
1 143 (23.14%) Social Skills
2 67 (10.84%) Finance
3 63 (10.19%) Manufacturing
4 53 (8.58%) Telecoms
5 29 (4.69%) Military
6 27 (4.37%) Electronics
7 26 (4.21%) Analytical Skills
8 24 (3.88%) Banking
8 24 (3.88%) Organisational Skills
9 22 (3.56%) Back Office
9 22 (3.56%) Front Office
10 19 (3.07%) Marketing
10 19 (3.07%) Retail
11 16 (2.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 15 (2.43%) Public Sector
13 14 (2.27%) Police
14 13 (2.10%) Documentation Skills
15 10 (1.62%) Local Government
16 7 (1.13%) Games
16 7 (1.13%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (3.56%) CSS
2 18 (2.91%) REST
3 16 (2.59%) HTML
3 16 (2.59%) XML
4 15 (2.43%) Web Services
5 13 (2.10%) Ajax
5 13 (2.10%) AngularJS
5 13 (2.10%) JDBC
5 13 (2.10%) ODBC
5 13 (2.10%) SOAP
5 13 (2.10%) XHTML
6 3 (0.49%) EDI
6 3 (0.49%) Fluent Bit
6 3 (0.49%) JSON
6 3 (0.49%) Lightning Web Components
7 2 (0.32%) .NET
7 2 (0.32%) GraphQL
7 2 (0.32%) http4s
7 2 (0.32%) Middleware
7 2 (0.32%) React
Miscellaneous
1 49 (7.93%) Driving Licence
2 22 (3.56%) Derivative
2 22 (3.56%) Hedge funds
3 16 (2.59%) Self-Motivation
4 15 (2.43%) CCTV
5 14 (2.27%) Hybrid Cloud
6 13 (2.10%) Blockchain
6 13 (2.10%) CMDB
7 12 (1.94%) Data Centre
8 9 (1.46%) Management Information System
9 8 (1.29%) Linux Command Line
10 7 (1.13%) Fibre Optics
11 6 (0.97%) Fat Client
11 6 (0.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 6 (0.97%) Smartphone
11 6 (0.97%) Thin Client
12 5 (0.81%) Data Protection Act
12 5 (0.81%) Robotics
13 4 (0.65%) EPoS
13 4 (0.65%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 174 (28.16%) Windows
2 82 (13.27%) Windows Server
3 50 (8.09%) Linux
4 23 (3.72%) Windows 10
5 18 (2.91%) Unix
6 17 (2.75%) Mac OS
7 10 (1.62%) Windows Server 2012
8 6 (0.97%) Android
9 5 (0.81%) VMS
10 3 (0.49%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.49%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.32%) Solaris
11 2 (0.32%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.16%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 145 (23.46%) Customer Service
2 109 (17.64%) Problem-Solving
3 53 (8.58%) Mentoring
4 51 (8.25%) Asset Management
5 38 (6.15%) ITIL
6 37 (5.99%) Project Management
7 36 (5.83%) Continuous Improvement
8 33 (5.34%) Customer Experience
9 32 (5.18%) Coaching
10 24 (3.88%) Cybersecurity
11 23 (3.72%) Commercial Awareness
11 23 (3.72%) Investment Management
12 22 (3.56%) Business Intelligence
13 20 (3.24%) CRM
13 20 (3.24%) DevOps
14 17 (2.75%) Proactive Maintenance
14 17 (2.75%) Time Management
15 16 (2.59%) ITSM
15 16 (2.59%) Network Management
15 16 (2.59%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 65 (10.52%) SQL
2 59 (9.55%) Python
3 37 (5.99%) C#
4 33 (5.34%) Java
5 28 (4.53%) PowerShell
6 20 (3.24%) JavaScript
7 15 (2.43%) PL/SQL
8 13 (2.10%) Perl
9 6 (0.97%) Bash
10 4 (0.65%) C++
10 4 (0.65%) T-SQL
10 4 (0.65%) VBA
10 4 (0.65%) VBScript
11 3 (0.49%) Apex Code
11 3 (0.49%) Scala
12 2 (0.32%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.32%) Rust
13 1 (0.16%) Go
13 1 (0.16%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 79 (12.78%) Degree
2 62 (10.03%) Security Cleared
3 42 (6.80%) HNC
4 31 (5.02%) Microsoft Certification
5 24 (3.88%) SC Cleared
6 23 (3.72%) Cisco Certification
7 22 (3.56%) CCNA
8 18 (2.91%) A+ Certification
8 18 (2.91%) DV Cleared
9 14 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
9 14 (2.27%) HND
10 13 (2.10%) MCP
11 9 (1.46%) Computer Science Degree
12 8 (1.29%) GCSC
13 7 (1.13%) Network+ Certification
14 6 (0.97%) ITIL Certification
15 5 (0.81%) CompTIA Security+
15 5 (0.81%) MCSE
16 4 (0.65%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
17 3 (0.49%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (8.58%) SLA
2 14 (2.27%) PCI DSS
3 7 (1.13%) GDPR
4 4 (0.65%) QA
5 3 (0.49%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.32%) GRC
6 2 (0.32%) ISO 14001
6 2 (0.32%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 15288
7 1 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 105 (16.99%) Active Directory
2 42 (6.80%) Hyper-V
3 34 (5.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (2.27%) KVM
5 5 (0.81%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.65%) NFS
6 4 (0.65%) Terminal Services
7 2 (0.32%) Docker
7 2 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.32%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.16%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 34 (5.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 26 (4.21%) SCCM
3 13 (2.10%) WMI
4 11 (1.78%) SCOM
5 3 (0.49%) Cisco Prime
5 3 (0.49%) Failover Clustering
5 3 (0.49%) Fluentd
5 3 (0.49%) Functional Safety
5 3 (0.49%) Kubernetes
5 3 (0.49%) logstash
5 3 (0.49%) McAfee ePO
6 2 (0.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.16%) Autotask
7 1 (0.16%) Istio
7 1 (0.16%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 174 (28.16%) Microsoft
2 48 (7.77%) VMware
3 31 (5.02%) Cisco
4 19 (3.07%) Oracle
5 16 (2.59%) Splunk
6 15 (2.43%) Dell
7 14 (2.27%) HP
7 14 (2.27%) Salesforce
8 13 (2.10%) IBM
9 12 (1.94%) Citrix
10 11 (1.78%) SAP
11 6 (0.97%) Acronis
11 6 (0.97%) Siemens
12 5 (0.81%) Bloomberg
12 5 (0.81%) NetApp
13 4 (0.65%) ConnectWise
14 3 (0.49%) Apple
14 3 (0.49%) Aruba
14 3 (0.49%) McAfee
14 3 (0.49%) SolarWinds