IT Engineer Job Trends in the East Midlands

IT Engineer
England > East Midlands

The median IT Engineer salary in the East Midlands is £30,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 22 December 2025.

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

6 months to
22 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 51 85
Rank change year-on-year +8 +34 +32
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 120 86 25
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 4.71% 3.66% 1.74%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.09% 3.81% 1.82%
Number of salaries quoted 105 41 23
10th Percentile £25,375 £26,250 £23,750
25th Percentile £25,750 £28,000 £28,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,000 £30,500 £36,120
Median % change year-on-year -1.64% -15.56% +3.94%
75th Percentile £38,750 £42,500 £46,250
90th Percentile £41,250 £48,750 £60,500
England median annual salary £32,500 £36,500 £35,500
% change year-on-year -10.96% +2.82% +7.58%

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 2,358 2,258 1,377
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.54% 96.09% 95.96%
Number of salaries quoted 1,574 1,020 1,075
10th Percentile £26,250 £29,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -
75th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £63,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

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 22 December 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 22 December 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 0 56 £27,500 -19.12% 2
Lincolnshire +7 31 £37,500 -25.00% 4
Northamptonshire +6 15 £28,750 -0.86% 2
Nottinghamshire +21 10 £25,750 -42.13% 2
Leicestershire -20 8 £45,000 +47.54%
IT Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 22 December 2025, 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 93 (77.50%) Microsoft 365
2 74 (61.67%) Windows
3 67 (55.83%) Active Directory
4 63 (52.50%) Problem-Solving
5 58 (48.33%) Windows Server
6 50 (41.67%) DHCP
6 50 (41.67%) DNS
7 49 (40.83%) Azure
8 47 (39.17%) Customer Service
9 42 (35.00%) Microsoft
10 35 (29.17%) Entra ID
11 30 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
12 28 (23.33%) Incident Management
13 27 (22.50%) SharePoint
14 22 (18.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 21 (17.50%) Hyper-V
16 18 (15.00%) ITIL
16 18 (15.00%) VMware
17 17 (14.17%) Firewall
17 17 (14.17%) Microsoft Exchange
18 16 (13.33%) Microsoft Certification
19 15 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
20 14 (11.67%) ITSM
21 12 (10.00%) Degree
21 12 (10.00%) Linux
22 11 (9.17%) GDPR
22 11 (9.17%) Project Delivery
22 11 (9.17%) TCP/IP
22 11 (9.17%) VMware Infrastructure
23 10 (8.33%) Mentoring

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 27 (22.50%) SharePoint
2 17 (14.17%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 6 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (3.33%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 93 (77.50%) Microsoft 365
2 49 (40.83%) Azure
3 35 (29.17%) Entra ID
4 7 (5.83%) AWS
5 6 (5.00%) iPaaS
5 6 (5.00%) SaaS
6 5 (4.17%) Cloud Computing
6 5 (4.17%) OneDrive
7 3 (2.50%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 50 (41.67%) DHCP
1 50 (41.67%) DNS
2 17 (14.17%) Firewall
3 11 (9.17%) TCP/IP
4 8 (6.67%) Network Security
4 8 (6.67%) VLAN
5 7 (5.83%) IP Telephony
6 6 (5.00%) Internet
6 6 (5.00%) SAN
7 4 (3.33%) LAN
7 4 (3.33%) WAN
7 4 (3.33%) WLAN
8 1 (0.83%) TETRA
8 1 (0.83%) VPN
8 1 (0.83%) Wireless
General
1 45 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 13 (10.83%) Law
3 8 (6.67%) Telecoms
4 6 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (1.67%) Legal
7 1 (0.83%) Electronics
7 1 (0.83%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 49 (40.83%) Driving Licence
2 7 (5.83%) CCTV
2 7 (5.83%) Onboarding
3 6 (5.00%) Clustering
3 6 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (5.00%) iPad
3 6 (5.00%) PMI
4 5 (4.17%) Analytical Mindset
4 5 (4.17%) Cyber Security Posture
5 3 (2.50%) Smartphone
6 1 (0.83%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.83%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 74 (61.67%) Windows
2 58 (48.33%) Windows Server
3 12 (10.00%) Linux
4 5 (4.17%) Windows Server 2019
5 4 (3.33%) Mac OS
6 3 (2.50%) Windows 10
7 2 (1.67%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.83%) Android
8 1 (0.83%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.83%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (52.50%) Problem-Solving
2 47 (39.17%) Customer Service
3 28 (23.33%) Incident Management
4 22 (18.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 18 (15.00%) ITIL
6 15 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
7 14 (11.67%) ITSM
8 11 (9.17%) Project Delivery
9 10 (8.33%) Mentoring
10 9 (7.50%) Data Protection
11 8 (6.67%) Network Management
12 7 (5.83%) Proactive Monitoring
13 6 (5.00%) Disaster Recovery
13 6 (5.00%) Preventative Maintenance
13 6 (5.00%) Process Improvement
13 6 (5.00%) Risk Management
13 6 (5.00%) Server Management
14 5 (4.17%) Data Security
14 5 (4.17%) People Management
14 5 (4.17%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 5 (4.17%) PowerShell
1 5 (4.17%) SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (13.33%) Microsoft Certification
2 12 (10.00%) Degree
3 7 (5.83%) CCNA
3 7 (5.83%) CCNP
3 7 (5.83%) Cisco Certification
3 7 (5.83%) MCP
3 7 (5.83%) MCSA
3 7 (5.83%) MCSE
4 6 (5.00%) PMI Certification
5 5 (4.17%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.83%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (9.17%) GDPR
2 8 (6.67%) Cyber Essentials
3 5 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 67 (55.83%) Active Directory
2 21 (17.50%) Hyper-V
3 11 (9.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (4.17%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 30 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (5.00%) Failover Clustering
2 6 (5.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 42 (35.00%) Microsoft
2 18 (15.00%) VMware
3 8 (6.67%) WatchGuard
4 7 (5.83%) Cisco
4 7 (5.83%) Draytek
4 7 (5.83%) Mitel
5 6 (5.00%) Apple
5 6 (5.00%) ServiceNow
5 6 (5.00%) Veeam
6 5 (4.17%) Progress
7 4 (3.33%) HubSpot
7 4 (3.33%) Meraki
7 4 (3.33%) Salesforce
7 4 (3.33%) Zoho
8 3 (2.50%) Freshdesk
9 2 (1.67%) Darktrace
10 1 (0.83%) Fortinet