Senior IT Engineer Jobs in the East Midlands

Senior IT Engineer
England > East Midlands

The median Senior IT Engineer salary in the East Midlands is £48,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 28 May 2025.

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

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 152 176 165
Rank change year-on-year +24 -11 +21
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior IT Engineer 4 19 12
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.15% 0.40% 0.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.42% 0.49%
Number of salaries quoted 4 13 2
10th Percentile £37,525 - £37,126
25th Percentile £39,438 £31,250 £40,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £35,000 £46,251
Median % change year-on-year +37.14% -24.33% +2.78%
75th Percentile £57,500 £50,000 £52,813
90th Percentile - £66,000 £56,375
England median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% +11.11% -5.26%

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 2,520 4,475 2,463
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.70% 94.67% 88.66%
Number of salaries quoted 981 3,211 1,294
10th Percentile £26,250 £25,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -15.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £57,500 £56,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £76,250
England median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +6.67% -13.65% +1.33%

Senior IT Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior IT Engineer in the East Midlands

Senior IT Engineer
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

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

Salary trend for Senior IT Engineer in the East Midlands

Senior IT Engineer
Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior IT Engineer in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior IT Engineer in the East Midlands

Senior 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 Senior IT Engineer within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 28 May 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
Nottinghamshire - 2 £55,000 -
Lincolnshire +11 1 £41,000 +17.14%
Derbyshire +9 1 £37,500 -46.43% 1
Senior IT Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 28 May 2025, Senior 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 Senior IT Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (75.00%) ITIL
2 2 (50.00%) Security Management
2 2 (50.00%) Windows
2 2 (50.00%) Retail
2 2 (50.00%) Intrusion Detection
2 2 (50.00%) Degree
2 2 (50.00%) Network Security
2 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (50.00%) Windows Server
2 2 (50.00%) Virtual Servers
2 2 (50.00%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (50.00%) Proactive Maintenance
2 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Customer Service
3 1 (25.00%) Task Automation
3 1 (25.00%) MCP
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (25.00%) Coaching
3 1 (25.00%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (25.00%) Driving Licence
3 1 (25.00%) SaaS
3 1 (25.00%) PaaS
3 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (25.00%) Veeam
3 1 (25.00%) Linux

Senior 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (25.00%) PaaS
2 1 (25.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Intrusion Detection
1 2 (50.00%) Network Security
General
1 2 (50.00%) Retail
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Law
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (25.00%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
1 2 (50.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) ITIL
2 2 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
2 2 (50.00%) Customer Service
2 2 (50.00%) Proactive Maintenance
2 2 (50.00%) Security Management
3 1 (25.00%) Coaching
3 1 (25.00%) ITSM
3 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (25.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (25.00%) CCNA
2 1 (25.00%) CCNP
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (25.00%) MCP
2 1 (25.00%) MCSA
2 1 (25.00%) MCSE
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Virtual Servers
2 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Jamf Pro
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Veeam
1 1 (25.00%) VMware