IT Engineer Job Trends 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 4 July 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 100 51
Rank change year-on-year +44 -49 +44
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 134 44 207
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 2.66% 2.05% 3.95%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.79% 2.18% 4.20%
Number of salaries quoted 101 42 163
10th Percentile £25,000 £23,500 £24,050
25th Percentile £26,750 £25,156 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £32,500 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year - -13.33% +33.93%
75th Percentile £38,750 £39,250 £43,750
90th Percentile £50,000 £42,500 £48,750
England median annual salary £35,000 £37,250 £33,500
% change year-on-year -6.04% +11.19% -1.47%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 4,808 2,021 4,930
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.42% 94.13% 94.16%
Number of salaries quoted 3,055 1,111 3,459
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,000 £25,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £30,000 £31,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £42,500 £44,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -4.49% -15.24%
75th Percentile £60,000 £58,250 £56,250
90th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £70,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £57,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +0.88% +8.57% -12.50%

IT Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'IT Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

IT Engineer job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

IT Engineer
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

Salary distribution trend for IT Engineer job vacancies in the East Midlands.

Salary distribution trend for IT Engineer job vacancies 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 4 July 2026.

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 4 July 2026. 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
Nottinghamshire +6 37 £30,000 -22.08% 5
Derbyshire +8 33 £25,500 -21.54% 1
Leicestershire -7 29 £35,000 -6.67% 1
Lincolnshire -7 17 £27,500 +11.06% 5
Northamptonshire +16 12 £40,000 +14.29% 6
Rutland - 4 £35,000 -
IT Engineer
England

IT Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands

For the 6 months to 4 July 2026, IT Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the East Midlands region featuring IT Engineer in the job title.

1 65 (48.51%) Windows
2 58 (43.28%) Microsoft 365
3 48 (35.82%) Active Directory
4 41 (30.60%) Microsoft
5 37 (27.61%) Customer Service
6 30 (22.39%) Problem-Solving
7 27 (20.15%) Windows 10
8 24 (17.91%) Windows Server
9 23 (17.16%) Firewall
10 21 (15.67%) ITSM
10 21 (15.67%) PowerShell
11 18 (13.43%) DNS
12 17 (12.69%) DBS Check
13 16 (11.94%) Azure
14 15 (11.19%) Entra ID
14 15 (11.19%) SQL
15 14 (10.45%) DHCP
15 14 (10.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 14 (10.45%) ITIL
16 12 (8.96%) Degree
16 12 (8.96%) Mimecast
16 12 (8.96%) SLA
17 11 (8.21%) Root Cause Analysis
17 11 (8.21%) Time Management
17 11 (8.21%) Wireless
18 10 (7.46%) Android
18 10 (7.46%) Apple iOS
18 10 (7.46%) Incident Management
18 10 (7.46%) LAN
18 10 (7.46%) Logitech

IT Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 9 (6.72%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (5.97%) Confluence
3 5 (3.73%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (5.97%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 58 (43.28%) Microsoft 365
2 16 (11.94%) Azure
3 15 (11.19%) Entra ID
4 12 (8.96%) Mimecast
5 6 (4.48%) Google Workspace
6 1 (0.75%) Azure AKS
6 1 (0.75%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (0.75%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (0.75%) GitHub
6 1 (0.75%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (0.75%) IaaS
6 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (0.75%) PaaS
6 1 (0.75%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 23 (17.16%) Firewall
2 18 (13.43%) DNS
3 14 (10.45%) DHCP
4 11 (8.21%) Wireless
5 10 (7.46%) LAN
5 10 (7.46%) WAN
6 9 (6.72%) VPN
7 5 (3.73%) Internet
7 5 (3.73%) TCP/IP
7 5 (3.73%) VoIP
8 4 (2.99%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (2.24%) VLAN
10 2 (1.49%) Network Security
10 2 (1.49%) SAN
10 2 (1.49%) TETRA
11 1 (0.75%) Ethernet
11 1 (0.75%) Remote Desktop
11 1 (0.75%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.49%) KNIME
Development Applications
1 9 (6.72%) JIRA
2 1 (0.75%) LabVIEW
General
1 20 (14.93%) Social Skills
2 19 (14.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 10 (7.46%) Law
4 5 (3.73%) Multimedia
5 4 (2.99%) Dutch Language
5 4 (2.99%) Manufacturing
5 4 (2.99%) Portuguese Language
5 4 (2.99%) Spanish Language
6 3 (2.24%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.49%) French Language
7 2 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.75%) Finance
8 1 (0.75%) Military
Miscellaneous
1 22 (16.42%) Driving Licence
2 9 (6.72%) CCTV
3 5 (3.73%) Onboarding
4 3 (2.24%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.49%) Clustering
5 2 (1.49%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (1.49%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.49%) Private Cloud
5 2 (1.49%) Social Media
6 1 (0.75%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.75%) Industry 4.0
Operating Systems
1 65 (48.51%) Windows
2 27 (20.15%) Windows 10
3 24 (17.91%) Windows Server
4 10 (7.46%) Android
4 10 (7.46%) Apple iOS
5 8 (5.97%) Linux
6 3 (2.24%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (27.61%) Customer Service
2 30 (22.39%) Problem-Solving
3 21 (15.67%) ITSM
4 14 (10.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 14 (10.45%) ITIL
5 11 (8.21%) Root Cause Analysis
5 11 (8.21%) Time Management
6 10 (7.46%) Incident Management
6 10 (7.46%) Proactive Monitoring
6 10 (7.46%) Service Catalogue
7 9 (6.72%) Agile
8 8 (5.97%) Case Management
8 8 (5.97%) Mentoring
9 7 (5.22%) Project Delivery
10 6 (4.48%) Line Management
10 6 (4.48%) Service Management
11 5 (3.73%) Analytics
11 5 (3.73%) Asset Management
11 5 (3.73%) Business Continuity
11 5 (3.73%) IT Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 21 (15.67%) PowerShell
2 15 (11.19%) SQL
3 3 (2.24%) Bicep
4 1 (0.75%) Python
Qualifications
1 17 (12.69%) DBS Check
2 12 (8.96%) Degree
3 10 (7.46%) SC Cleared
3 10 (7.46%) Security Cleared
4 3 (2.24%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.75%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (8.96%) SLA
2 8 (5.97%) Cyber Essentials
3 6 (4.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (3.73%) PCI DSS
5 3 (2.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (1.49%) GDPR
7 1 (0.75%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.75%) NCSC
System Software
1 48 (35.82%) Active Directory
2 5 (3.73%) Hyper-V
3 3 (2.24%) Docker
4 2 (1.49%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (6.72%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (2.24%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.49%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (0.75%) Ansible
4 1 (0.75%) Argo
4 1 (0.75%) Nessus
4 1 (0.75%) Terraform
Vendors
1 41 (30.60%) Microsoft
2 10 (7.46%) Logitech
2 10 (7.46%) Sophos
2 10 (7.46%) TOWER Software
3 6 (4.48%) Google
4 5 (3.73%) Fortinet
4 5 (3.73%) Fujitsu
4 5 (3.73%) Virgin Media
5 4 (2.99%) Freshdesk
5 4 (2.99%) ServiceNow
5 4 (2.99%) Veeam
6 3 (2.24%) Apple
6 3 (2.24%) HP
6 3 (2.24%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.49%) Cisco
7 2 (1.49%) Meraki
7 2 (1.49%) SonicWALL
7 2 (1.49%) VMware
8 1 (0.75%) Qualys