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 17 September 2025.

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

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 88 66 89
Rank change year-on-year -22 +23 +22
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 56 123 36
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 2.42% 3.10% 2.07%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.58% 3.27% 2.19%
Number of salaries quoted 54 82 34
10th Percentile £23,725 £29,000 £24,325
25th Percentile £25,094 £31,250 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £35,000 £30,750
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +13.82% -12.14%
75th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £37,037
90th Percentile £46,375 £48,750 £56,125
England median annual salary £39,000 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +7.14% -

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 2,172 3,764 1,643
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.74% 94.76% 94.43%
Number of salaries quoted 1,264 2,018 1,142
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,500 £45,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.78% -14.29% +5.00%
75th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £72,250 £73,750 £77,375
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

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

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 17 September 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 17 September 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 -8 26 £26,500 -26.90% 14
Nottinghamshire +20 12 £25,750 -37.95% 3
Lincolnshire -20 9 £40,000 +14.29% 7
Northamptonshire -7 5 £29,000 -10.77% 5
Leicestershire +19 4 £45,000 +5.88% 4
IT Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 17 September 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 47 (83.93%) Active Directory
1 47 (83.93%) Microsoft 365
2 37 (66.07%) Windows
3 35 (62.50%) Windows Server
4 33 (58.93%) Azure
5 32 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
5 32 (57.14%) Microsoft
6 31 (55.36%) DNS
7 26 (46.43%) DHCP
8 22 (39.29%) Social Skills
9 21 (37.50%) Driving Licence
10 19 (33.93%) SharePoint
11 17 (30.36%) Firewall
11 17 (30.36%) Entra ID
11 17 (30.36%) Microsoft Intune
12 15 (26.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 15 (26.79%) Cisco
12 15 (26.79%) Customer Service
13 14 (25.00%) Incident Management
13 14 (25.00%) VLAN
14 12 (21.43%) Law
14 12 (21.43%) SCCM
15 11 (19.64%) PowerShell
15 11 (19.64%) TCP/IP
16 10 (17.86%) Microsoft Exchange
16 10 (17.86%) GDPR
17 9 (16.07%) Hyper-V
17 9 (16.07%) SAN
18 8 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
19 7 (12.50%) Firmware

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 19 (33.93%) SharePoint
2 10 (17.86%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 4 (7.14%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 47 (83.93%) Microsoft 365
2 33 (58.93%) Azure
3 17 (30.36%) Entra ID
4 7 (12.50%) Nutanix
5 5 (8.93%) Cloud Computing
5 5 (8.93%) Mimecast
5 5 (8.93%) OneDrive
5 5 (8.93%) SaaS
6 4 (7.14%) iPaaS
7 2 (3.57%) AWS
7 2 (3.57%) IaaS
8 1 (1.79%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 31 (55.36%) DNS
2 26 (46.43%) DHCP
3 17 (30.36%) Firewall
4 14 (25.00%) VLAN
5 11 (19.64%) TCP/IP
6 9 (16.07%) SAN
7 5 (8.93%) iSCSI
7 5 (8.93%) SD-WAN
7 5 (8.93%) WAN
7 5 (8.93%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (3.57%) VPN
9 1 (1.79%) 3G
9 1 (1.79%) 4G
9 1 (1.79%) ADSL
9 1 (1.79%) Remote Desktop
9 1 (1.79%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.57%) SQL Server
General
1 22 (39.29%) Social Skills
2 12 (21.43%) Law
3 5 (8.93%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (8.93%) Billing
4 4 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (3.57%) Legal
5 2 (3.57%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.79%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 21 (37.50%) Driving Licence
2 5 (8.93%) Analytical Mindset
2 5 (8.93%) Cyber Security Posture
2 5 (8.93%) Onboarding
3 4 (7.14%) Clustering
3 4 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 37 (66.07%) Windows
2 35 (62.50%) Windows Server
3 6 (10.71%) Windows Server 2016
3 6 (10.71%) Windows Server 2019
4 2 (3.57%) Linux
5 1 (1.79%) Mac OS
5 1 (1.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (26.79%) Customer Service
2 15 (26.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 14 (25.00%) Incident Management
4 8 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
5 7 (12.50%) ITIL
6 6 (10.71%) Mentoring
6 6 (10.71%) Project Delivery
6 6 (10.71%) Vulnerability Management
7 5 (8.93%) Data Protection
7 5 (8.93%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 5 (8.93%) Disaster Recovery
7 5 (8.93%) IT Strategy
7 5 (8.93%) Migration
7 5 (8.93%) Network Management
7 5 (8.93%) Preventative Maintenance
7 5 (8.93%) Service Delivery
7 5 (8.93%) Strategic Roadmap
7 5 (8.93%) Tech Ops
7 5 (8.93%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 11 (19.64%) PowerShell
2 5 (8.93%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (10.71%) CCNA
1 6 (10.71%) Cisco Certification
1 6 (10.71%) Degree
1 6 (10.71%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (8.93%) DBS Check
3 1 (1.79%) CCNP
3 1 (1.79%) MCP
3 1 (1.79%) MCSA
3 1 (1.79%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (17.86%) GDPR
2 6 (10.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.79%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 47 (83.93%) Active Directory
2 9 (16.07%) Hyper-V
3 7 (12.50%) Firmware
4 3 (5.36%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 17 (30.36%) Microsoft Intune
2 12 (21.43%) SCCM
3 5 (8.93%) Autotask
4 4 (7.14%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (1.79%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (1.79%) WSUS
Vendors
1 32 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 15 (26.79%) Cisco
3 7 (12.50%) HP
4 6 (10.71%) Meraki
5 5 (8.93%) Aruba
5 5 (8.93%) Datto
5 5 (8.93%) Nasuni
5 5 (8.93%) Progress
5 5 (8.93%) Rapid7
5 5 (8.93%) Veeam
6 4 (7.14%) HubSpot
6 4 (7.14%) Salesforce
6 4 (7.14%) VMware
6 4 (7.14%) Zoho
7 2 (3.57%) Apple
8 1 (1.79%) Fortinet
8 1 (1.79%) Red Hat