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 1 July 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 95 50
Rank change year-on-year +42 -45 +48
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 135 44 207
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 2.70% 2.09% 3.95%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.83% 2.23% 4.19%
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 £36,500 £33,500
% change year-on-year -4.11% +8.96% -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 4,778 1,977 4,936
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.45% 94.05% 94.09%
Number of salaries quoted 3,032 1,088 3,482
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 £44,362
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -4.20% -14.69%
75th Percentile £60,000 £58,250 £56,238
90th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £70,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +9.52% -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 1 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 1 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 +9 39 £30,000 -22.08% 5
Derbyshire +10 32 £25,500 -21.54% 1
Leicestershire -9 29 £35,000 -6.67% 1
Lincolnshire -8 17 £27,500 +11.06% 5
Northamptonshire +14 12 £40,000 +14.29% 8
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 1 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 64 (47.41%) Windows
2 57 (42.22%) Microsoft 365
3 48 (35.56%) Active Directory
4 40 (29.63%) Microsoft
5 36 (26.67%) Customer Service
6 30 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
7 26 (19.26%) Windows 10
8 24 (17.78%) Windows Server
9 22 (16.30%) Firewall
10 21 (15.56%) ITSM
11 20 (14.81%) PowerShell
12 18 (13.33%) DNS
13 17 (12.59%) DBS Check
14 16 (11.85%) Azure
15 15 (11.11%) Entra ID
15 15 (11.11%) SQL
16 14 (10.37%) DHCP
16 14 (10.37%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 13 (9.63%) ITIL
18 12 (8.89%) Degree
18 12 (8.89%) SLA
19 11 (8.15%) Mimecast
19 11 (8.15%) Root Cause Analysis
19 11 (8.15%) Time Management
19 11 (8.15%) Wireless
20 10 (7.41%) Incident Management
20 10 (7.41%) SC Cleared
20 10 (7.41%) Security Cleared
21 9 (6.67%) Agile
21 9 (6.67%) Android

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 (6.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (5.93%) Confluence
3 5 (3.70%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (5.93%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 57 (42.22%) Microsoft 365
2 16 (11.85%) Azure
3 15 (11.11%) Entra ID
4 11 (8.15%) Mimecast
5 6 (4.44%) Google Workspace
6 1 (0.74%) Azure AKS
6 1 (0.74%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (0.74%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (0.74%) GitHub
6 1 (0.74%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (0.74%) IaaS
6 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (0.74%) PaaS
6 1 (0.74%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 22 (16.30%) Firewall
2 18 (13.33%) DNS
3 14 (10.37%) DHCP
4 11 (8.15%) Wireless
5 9 (6.67%) LAN
5 9 (6.67%) VPN
5 9 (6.67%) WAN
6 5 (3.70%) Internet
6 5 (3.70%) TCP/IP
6 5 (3.70%) VoIP
7 4 (2.96%) TETRA
7 4 (2.96%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (2.22%) VLAN
9 2 (1.48%) Network Security
9 2 (1.48%) SAN
10 1 (0.74%) Ethernet
10 1 (0.74%) Remote Desktop
10 1 (0.74%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.48%) KNIME
Development Applications
1 9 (6.67%) JIRA
2 1 (0.74%) LabVIEW
General
1 20 (14.81%) Social Skills
2 19 (14.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 10 (7.41%) Law
4 5 (3.70%) Multimedia
5 4 (2.96%) Dutch Language
5 4 (2.96%) Manufacturing
5 4 (2.96%) Portuguese Language
5 4 (2.96%) Spanish Language
6 3 (2.22%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.48%) French Language
7 2 (1.48%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.74%) Finance
8 1 (0.74%) Military
Miscellaneous
1 22 (16.30%) Driving Licence
2 9 (6.67%) CCTV
3 5 (3.70%) Onboarding
4 3 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.48%) Clustering
5 2 (1.48%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (1.48%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.48%) Private Cloud
5 2 (1.48%) Social Media
6 1 (0.74%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.74%) Industry 4.0
Operating Systems
1 64 (47.41%) Windows
2 26 (19.26%) Windows 10
3 24 (17.78%) Windows Server
4 9 (6.67%) Android
4 9 (6.67%) Apple iOS
5 8 (5.93%) Linux
6 3 (2.22%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (26.67%) Customer Service
2 30 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
3 21 (15.56%) ITSM
4 14 (10.37%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 13 (9.63%) ITIL
6 11 (8.15%) Root Cause Analysis
6 11 (8.15%) Time Management
7 10 (7.41%) Incident Management
8 9 (6.67%) Agile
8 9 (6.67%) Proactive Monitoring
8 9 (6.67%) Service Catalogue
9 8 (5.93%) Case Management
9 8 (5.93%) Mentoring
10 7 (5.19%) Project Delivery
11 6 (4.44%) Line Management
11 6 (4.44%) Service Management
12 5 (3.70%) Analytics
12 5 (3.70%) Asset Management
12 5 (3.70%) Business Continuity
12 5 (3.70%) IT Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (14.81%) PowerShell
2 15 (11.11%) SQL
3 3 (2.22%) Bicep
4 1 (0.74%) Python
Qualifications
1 17 (12.59%) DBS Check
2 12 (8.89%) Degree
3 10 (7.41%) SC Cleared
3 10 (7.41%) Security Cleared
4 3 (2.22%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.74%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (8.89%) SLA
2 8 (5.93%) Cyber Essentials
3 6 (4.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (3.70%) PCI DSS
5 3 (2.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (1.48%) GDPR
7 1 (0.74%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.74%) NCSC
System Software
1 48 (35.56%) Active Directory
2 5 (3.70%) Hyper-V
3 3 (2.22%) Docker
4 2 (1.48%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (6.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (2.22%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.48%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (0.74%) Ansible
4 1 (0.74%) Argo
4 1 (0.74%) Nessus
4 1 (0.74%) Terraform
Vendors
1 40 (29.63%) Microsoft
2 9 (6.67%) Logitech
2 9 (6.67%) Sophos
2 9 (6.67%) TOWER Software
3 6 (4.44%) Google
4 5 (3.70%) Fortinet
4 5 (3.70%) Fujitsu
4 5 (3.70%) Virgin Media
5 4 (2.96%) Freshdesk
5 4 (2.96%) ServiceNow
5 4 (2.96%) Veeam
6 3 (2.22%) Apple
6 3 (2.22%) HP
6 3 (2.22%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.48%) Cisco
7 2 (1.48%) Meraki
7 2 (1.48%) SonicWALL
7 2 (1.48%) VMware
8 1 (0.74%) Qualys