IT Engineer Jobs in the East of England

IT Engineer
England > East of England

The median IT Engineer salary in the East of England is £32,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 June 2025.

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

6 months to
15 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 152 74 118
Rank change year-on-year -78 +44 +106
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 35 188 101
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 1.03% 2.73% 2.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.09% 2.90% 2.64%
Number of salaries quoted 33 182 95
10th Percentile - £24,000 £25,200
25th Percentile £21,250 £26,000 £26,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £31,833 £32,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.10% -0.52% +6.67%
75th Percentile £38,750 £37,500 £37,500
90th Percentile £54,350 £44,875 £49,560
England median annual salary £35,000 £33,000 £34,500
% change year-on-year +6.06% -4.35% -1.43%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
East of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the East of England. 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 of England with a recognized job title 3,207 6,478 3,827
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.02% 94.09% 82.69%
Number of salaries quoted 1,574 4,903 2,043
10th Percentile £27,325 £26,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £32,750 £31,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,683 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.39% -13.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,392 £67,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £75,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,259
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.88% +0.43%

IT Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Engineer in the East of England

IT Engineer
Salary Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing IT Engineer in the East of England.

Salary trend for IT Engineer in the East of England

IT Engineer
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing IT Engineer in the East of England over the 6 months to 15 June 2025.

Salary histogram for IT Engineer in the East of England

IT Engineer
Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 15 June 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
Essex -16 12 £22,500 -25.00% 9
Norfolk +7 7 £32,533 +0.10% 4
Hertfordshire -20 7 £32,500 +10.17% 11
Bedfordshire -3 6 £36,000 +10.77% 5
Cambridgeshire +8 2 £47,500 +35.71% 1
Suffolk -32 1 £36,000 +18.03% 9
IT Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 15 June 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 of England region featuring IT Engineer in the job title.

1 29 (82.86%) Microsoft
2 25 (71.43%) Active Directory
2 25 (71.43%) Microsoft 365
3 22 (62.86%) Windows
4 18 (51.43%) Azure
5 13 (37.14%) Social Skills
6 12 (34.29%) Driving Licence
7 11 (31.43%) Customer Service
8 10 (28.57%) ITIL
9 9 (25.71%) SharePoint
9 9 (25.71%) LAN
9 9 (25.71%) Firewall
9 9 (25.71%) Entra ID
9 9 (25.71%) Windows Server
10 8 (22.86%) DBS Check
11 7 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
11 7 (20.00%) Degree
11 7 (20.00%) PowerShell
11 7 (20.00%) WAN
12 6 (17.14%) Microsoft Certification
12 6 (17.14%) Jamf Pro
12 6 (17.14%) Root Cause Analysis
13 5 (14.29%) Meraki
13 5 (14.29%) Kalman Filter
13 5 (14.29%) SmoothWall
13 5 (14.29%) Social Media
13 5 (14.29%) Network Management
13 5 (14.29%) VoIP
13 5 (14.29%) Cisco
13 5 (14.29%) Web Filtering

IT Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 9 (25.71%) SharePoint
2 4 (11.43%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.86%) IIS
3 1 (2.86%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (11.43%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 25 (71.43%) Microsoft 365
2 18 (51.43%) Azure
3 9 (25.71%) Entra ID
4 3 (8.57%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (5.71%) AWS
6 1 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.86%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (2.86%) GCP
6 1 (2.86%) IaaS
6 1 (2.86%) Mimecast
6 1 (2.86%) OneDrive
6 1 (2.86%) Power Platform
6 1 (2.86%) PowerApps
6 1 (2.86%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (25.71%) Firewall
1 9 (25.71%) LAN
2 7 (20.00%) WAN
3 5 (14.29%) VoIP
4 4 (11.43%) DHCP
4 4 (11.43%) DNS
4 4 (11.43%) TCP/IP
5 3 (8.57%) VPN
6 1 (2.86%) Internet
6 1 (2.86%) SAN
6 1 (2.86%) SD-WAN
6 1 (2.86%) VLAN
6 1 (2.86%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (2.86%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.86%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (2.86%) SQL Server
General
1 13 (37.14%) Social Skills
2 5 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
3 3 (8.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (5.71%) Law
5 1 (2.86%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.86%) Aviation
5 1 (2.86%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.86%) .NET
1 1 (2.86%) .NET Framework
1 1 (2.86%) SAML
1 1 (2.86%) WSH
Miscellaneous
1 12 (34.29%) Driving Licence
2 5 (14.29%) Social Media
3 1 (2.86%) Clustering
3 1 (2.86%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.86%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.86%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 22 (62.86%) Windows
2 9 (25.71%) Windows Server
3 4 (11.43%) Linux
4 2 (5.71%) Mac OS
5 1 (2.86%) Android
5 1 (2.86%) Apple iOS
5 1 (2.86%) Windows 10
5 1 (2.86%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (31.43%) Customer Service
2 10 (28.57%) ITIL
3 6 (17.14%) Root Cause Analysis
4 5 (14.29%) Kalman Filter
4 5 (14.29%) Network Management
4 5 (14.29%) Web Filtering
5 4 (11.43%) Cybersecurity
5 4 (11.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 4 (11.43%) Project Management
6 3 (8.57%) Disaster Recovery
6 3 (8.57%) ITSM
6 3 (8.57%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (5.71%) Decision-Making
7 2 (5.71%) High Availability
7 2 (5.71%) Knowledge Management
7 2 (5.71%) Mentoring
7 2 (5.71%) Performance Monitoring
7 2 (5.71%) Project Delivery
7 2 (5.71%) Service Delivery
7 2 (5.71%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 7 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (2.86%) Java
2 1 (2.86%) Shell Script
2 1 (2.86%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 8 (22.86%) DBS Check
2 7 (20.00%) Degree
3 6 (17.14%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (5.71%) A+ Certification
4 2 (5.71%) Azure Certification
4 2 (5.71%) MCSA
4 2 (5.71%) SC Cleared
4 2 (5.71%) Security Cleared
5 1 (2.86%) MCITP
5 1 (2.86%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.71%) SLA
System Software
1 25 (71.43%) Active Directory
2 3 (8.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (5.71%) Hyper-V
3 2 (5.71%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (2.86%) Docker
4 1 (2.86%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 7 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (17.14%) Jamf Pro
3 5 (14.29%) SmoothWall
4 2 (5.71%) SCCM
5 1 (2.86%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (2.86%) Kubernetes
5 1 (2.86%) SCOM
5 1 (2.86%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 29 (82.86%) Microsoft
2 5 (14.29%) Cisco
2 5 (14.29%) Meraki
3 4 (11.43%) VMware
4 2 (5.71%) Google
5 1 (2.86%) Apple
5 1 (2.86%) Dell
5 1 (2.86%) F5
5 1 (2.86%) Mitel
5 1 (2.86%) Nimble Storage
5 1 (2.86%) Okta
5 1 (2.86%) Oracle
5 1 (2.86%) Palo Alto
5 1 (2.86%) Remedy
5 1 (2.86%) ServiceNow