IT Engineer Jobs in the City of London

IT Engineer
Central London > City of London

The median IT Engineer salary in the City of London is £38,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 31 May 2025.

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

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 141 179
Rank change year-on-year +32 +38 +65
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 30 37 51
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 1.53% 1.11% 1.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.65% 1.15% 1.18%
Number of salaries quoted 28 36 49
10th Percentile - £26,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £27,500 £31,438 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,250 £37,500 £37,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% +1.35% -1.33%
75th Percentile £57,188 £44,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £57,625 £69,500
Central London median annual salary £41,500 £37,500 £37,000
% change year-on-year +10.67% +1.35% -10.30%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
City of London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the City of 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 City of London with a recognized job title 1,823 3,216 4,309
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.20% 96.11% 96.27%
Number of salaries quoted 1,381 2,519 3,594
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £42,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £53,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £73,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.68% -2.67% +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £112,500 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year - -3.33% +3.45%

IT Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Engineer in the City of London

IT Engineer
Salary Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing IT Engineer in the City of London.

Salary trend for IT Engineer in the City of London

IT Engineer
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing IT Engineer in the City of London over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for IT Engineer in the City of London

IT Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 31 May 2025, 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 City of London region featuring IT Engineer in the job title.

1 26 (86.67%) Azure
2 15 (50.00%) Active Directory
3 14 (46.67%) Windows
3 14 (46.67%) Customer Service
4 13 (43.33%) Microsoft
5 12 (40.00%) Wi-Fi
6 10 (33.33%) Internet
6 10 (33.33%) SaaS
6 10 (33.33%) Confluence
6 10 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
6 10 (33.33%) 802.1X
7 9 (30.00%) Microsoft 365
8 8 (26.67%) Social Skills
9 7 (23.33%) ITIL
9 7 (23.33%) Finance
9 7 (23.33%) VMware
10 5 (16.67%) VPN
10 5 (16.67%) Linux
10 5 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
10 5 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
10 5 (16.67%) PowerShell
10 5 (16.67%) SCCM
10 5 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 5 (16.67%) Windows Server
10 5 (16.67%) Entra ID
11 4 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
11 4 (13.33%) SCOM
11 4 (13.33%) AWS
11 4 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
11 4 (13.33%) Cybersecurity

IT Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 10 (33.33%) Confluence
2 5 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (3.33%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Fidessa
2 1 (3.33%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 26 (86.67%) Azure
2 10 (33.33%) SaaS
3 9 (30.00%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (16.67%) Entra ID
5 4 (13.33%) AWS
6 2 (6.67%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (6.67%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (3.33%) GitHub
7 1 (3.33%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 12 (40.00%) Wi-Fi
2 10 (33.33%) Internet
3 5 (16.67%) VPN
4 4 (13.33%) Firewall
5 2 (6.67%) NetScaler
5 2 (6.67%) Network Security
6 1 (3.33%) ADSL
6 1 (3.33%) SD-WAN
6 1 (3.33%) TCP/IP
6 1 (3.33%) VoIP
6 1 (3.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (6.67%) JIRA
2 1 (3.33%) Katalon Studio
2 1 (3.33%) Selenium
General
1 8 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 7 (23.33%) Finance
3 3 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (6.67%) Banking
5 1 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.33%) Games
5 1 (3.33%) Legal
5 1 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (3.33%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (33.33%) 802.1X
2 1 (3.33%) X-Windows
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.67%) Analytical Mindset
1 2 (6.67%) Video Conferencing
2 1 (3.33%) CMDB
2 1 (3.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (3.33%) iPhone
2 1 (3.33%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.33%) Onboarding
2 1 (3.33%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 14 (46.67%) Windows
2 5 (16.67%) Linux
2 5 (16.67%) Windows Server
3 3 (10.00%) Windows 10
3 3 (10.00%) Windows Server 2016
3 3 (10.00%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (3.33%) Android
4 1 (3.33%) Apple iOS
4 1 (3.33%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (46.67%) Customer Service
2 7 (23.33%) ITIL
3 5 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 4 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (13.33%) Cybersecurity
4 4 (13.33%) Disaster Recovery
4 4 (13.33%) ITSM
4 4 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (10.00%) Asset Management
5 3 (10.00%) Business Continuity
5 3 (10.00%) Mentoring
6 2 (6.67%) BCP
6 2 (6.67%) Business Continuity Planning
6 2 (6.67%) Capacity Planning
6 2 (6.67%) Change Control
6 2 (6.67%) High Availability
6 2 (6.67%) Performance Tuning
6 2 (6.67%) Service Management
6 2 (6.67%) Software Engineering
6 2 (6.67%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (16.67%) PowerShell
2 2 (6.67%) SQL
3 1 (3.33%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 4 (13.33%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (10.00%) Degree
3 2 (6.67%) AWS Certification
3 2 (6.67%) Azure Certification
3 2 (6.67%) MCSA
4 1 (3.33%) CEH
4 1 (3.33%) CISM
4 1 (3.33%) CISSP
4 1 (3.33%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.00%) SLA
2 1 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.33%) NIST
2 1 (3.33%) PCI DSS
2 1 (3.33%) QA
System Software
1 15 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 5 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (10.00%) Hyper-V
3 3 (10.00%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 1 (3.33%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 10 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (16.67%) SCCM
3 4 (13.33%) SCOM
4 3 (10.00%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (6.67%) vCenter Server
6 1 (3.33%) Plesk
6 1 (3.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (43.33%) Microsoft
2 7 (23.33%) VMware
3 3 (10.00%) Citrix
4 2 (6.67%) Bloomberg
4 2 (6.67%) Cisco
4 2 (6.67%) FactSet
4 2 (6.67%) Fortinet
4 2 (6.67%) Mitel
4 2 (6.67%) NetApp
4 2 (6.67%) Refinitiv
4 2 (6.67%) Veeam
5 1 (3.33%) Apple
5 1 (3.33%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (3.33%) Logitech
5 1 (3.33%) Meraki
5 1 (3.33%) Palo Alto
5 1 (3.33%) Rackspace
5 1 (3.33%) Salesforce
5 1 (3.33%) ServiceNow
5 1 (3.33%) Zscaler