IT Engineer Jobs in the East Midlands

IT Engineer
England > East Midlands

The median IT Engineer salary in the East Midlands is £32,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 July 2025.

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

6 months to
16 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 118 50 119
Rank change year-on-year -68 +69 0
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 44 191 49
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 1.61% 3.69% 1.91%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.70% 3.90% 2.13%
Number of salaries quoted 41 148 36
10th Percentile £23,500 £24,175 £25,938
25th Percentile £25,000 £30,000 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £37,500 £28,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +31.58% -12.31%
75th Percentile £39,250 £43,750 £34,063
90th Percentile £42,500 £48,750 £42,500
England median annual salary £37,500 £33,500 £34,500
% change year-on-year +11.94% -2.90% -1.43%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
East Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the East Midlands. 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 East Midlands with a recognized job title 2,587 4,895 2,299
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.42% 94.44% 89.80%
Number of salaries quoted 1,236 3,248 1,232
10th Percentile £26,125 £25,750 £26,685
25th Percentile £30,000 £32,000 £37,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £44,941 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.43% -14.40% +10.53%
75th Percentile £58,000 £56,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £70,125 £70,000 £76,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £52,900 £60,000
% change year-on-year +3.97% -11.83% -

IT Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Engineer in the East Midlands

IT Engineer
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

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

Salary trend for IT Engineer in the East Midlands

IT Engineer
Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing IT Engineer in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 16 July 2025.

Salary histogram for IT Engineer in the East Midlands

IT Engineer
Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IT Engineer within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 16 July 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
Derbyshire -6 25 £32,500 -7.14% 14
Nottinghamshire +23 8 £38,500 -7.23% 8
Lincolnshire -30 8 £24,763 -33.97% 8
Leicestershire +16 2 £33,000 -22.35% 1
Northamptonshire -23 1 £35,000 +7.69% 4
IT Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 16 July 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 East Midlands region featuring IT Engineer in the job title.

1 33 (75.00%) Windows
2 29 (65.91%) Active Directory
2 29 (65.91%) Microsoft 365
3 26 (59.09%) Windows Server
4 24 (54.55%) Microsoft
5 20 (45.45%) Azure
5 20 (45.45%) Driving Licence
6 19 (43.18%) DNS
7 14 (31.82%) DHCP
7 14 (31.82%) Social Skills
8 13 (29.55%) Problem-Solving
9 12 (27.27%) Customer Service
9 12 (27.27%) Firewall
9 12 (27.27%) SCCM
10 11 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 11 (25.00%) Cisco
11 10 (22.73%) VLAN
12 8 (18.18%) VMware
12 8 (18.18%) Wi-Fi
13 7 (15.91%) TCP/IP
13 7 (15.91%) HP
13 7 (15.91%) PowerShell
13 7 (15.91%) Microsoft Intune
14 6 (13.64%) VMware Infrastructure
14 6 (13.64%) Cisco Certification
14 6 (13.64%) CCNA
14 6 (13.64%) SQL Server
14 6 (13.64%) SharePoint
14 6 (13.64%) Migration
14 6 (13.64%) Incident Management

IT Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 6 (13.64%) SharePoint
2 3 (6.82%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (6.82%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 29 (65.91%) Microsoft 365
2 20 (45.45%) Azure
3 6 (13.64%) Nutanix
4 5 (11.36%) IaaS
4 5 (11.36%) Mimecast
5 4 (9.09%) Entra ID
6 2 (4.55%) AWS
7 1 (2.27%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (2.27%) OneDrive
7 1 (2.27%) PaaS
7 1 (2.27%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (43.18%) DNS
2 14 (31.82%) DHCP
3 12 (27.27%) Firewall
4 10 (22.73%) VLAN
5 8 (18.18%) Wi-Fi
6 7 (15.91%) TCP/IP
7 5 (11.36%) iSCSI
7 5 (11.36%) SAN
7 5 (11.36%) SD-WAN
7 5 (11.36%) WAN
8 2 (4.55%) Intrusion Detection
8 2 (4.55%) VPN
9 1 (2.27%) 3G
9 1 (2.27%) 4G
9 1 (2.27%) ADSL
9 1 (2.27%) Network Security
9 1 (2.27%) Remote Desktop
9 1 (2.27%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (13.64%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.27%) MySQL
General
1 14 (31.82%) Social Skills
2 5 (11.36%) Billing
3 3 (6.82%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (6.82%) Law
3 3 (6.82%) Organisational Skills
3 3 (6.82%) Public Sector
4 2 (4.55%) Legal
4 2 (4.55%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.27%) Retail
5 1 (2.27%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.27%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 20 (45.45%) Driving Licence
2 3 (6.82%) EPoS
2 3 (6.82%) Social Media
3 1 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 33 (75.00%) Windows
2 26 (59.09%) Windows Server
3 6 (13.64%) Windows Server 2016
3 6 (13.64%) Windows Server 2019
4 4 (9.09%) Windows 10
5 3 (6.82%) Windows 7
6 2 (4.55%) Linux
7 1 (2.27%) Android
7 1 (2.27%) Apple iOS
7 1 (2.27%) Mac OS
7 1 (2.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (29.55%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (27.27%) Customer Service
3 11 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 6 (13.64%) Incident Management
4 6 (13.64%) Migration
5 5 (11.36%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (11.36%) Preventative Maintenance
5 5 (11.36%) PRINCE2
5 5 (11.36%) Project Management
5 5 (11.36%) Remote Monitoring and Management
5 5 (11.36%) Service Delivery
5 5 (11.36%) Tech Ops
5 5 (11.36%) Virtual Environments
6 3 (6.82%) Customer Experience
6 3 (6.82%) Cybersecurity
6 3 (6.82%) Decision-Making
6 3 (6.82%) ITIL
6 3 (6.82%) Mathematics
7 2 (4.55%) Capacity Planning
7 2 (4.55%) Requirements Workshops
Programming Languages
1 7 (15.91%) PowerShell
2 1 (2.27%) Python
2 1 (2.27%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (13.64%) CCNA
1 6 (13.64%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (6.82%) DBS Check
3 2 (4.55%) Degree
4 1 (2.27%) A+ Certification
4 1 (2.27%) CCNP
4 1 (2.27%) MCP
4 1 (2.27%) MCSA
4 1 (2.27%) MCSE
4 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.27%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.27%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (2.27%) GDPR
1 1 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 29 (65.91%) Active Directory
2 6 (13.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (11.36%) Hyper-V
4 2 (4.55%) Firmware
5 1 (2.27%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 12 (27.27%) SCCM
2 7 (15.91%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (11.36%) Autotask
4 1 (2.27%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (2.27%) WSUS
Vendors
1 24 (54.55%) Microsoft
2 11 (25.00%) Cisco
3 8 (18.18%) VMware
4 7 (15.91%) HP
5 5 (11.36%) Aruba
5 5 (11.36%) Datto
5 5 (11.36%) Meraki
5 5 (11.36%) Nasuni
5 5 (11.36%) Rapid7
6 2 (4.55%) Apple
7 1 (2.27%) Red Hat
7 1 (2.27%) Veeam