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 £30,000 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 144 75 126
Rank change year-on-year -69 +51 +94
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 38 180 102
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 1.16% 2.84% 2.03%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.23% 3.03% 2.42%
Number of salaries quoted 35 180 95
10th Percentile - £24,000 £25,000
25th Percentile £21,250 £26,000 £26,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,000 £31,833 £31,750
Median % change year-on-year -5.76% +0.26% +5.83%
75th Percentile £36,125 £37,813 £37,500
90th Percentile £51,100 £46,750 £49,560
England median annual salary £35,000 £32,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% -

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 3,096 5,947 4,217
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.36% 93.98% 83.75%
Number of salaries quoted 1,473 4,551 2,157
10th Percentile £27,500 £25,809 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £36,356
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -13.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +6.67% -13.65% +1.33%

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 28 May 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 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
Essex -8 13 £22,500 -25.00% 13
Hertfordshire -27 8 £35,000 +18.64% 24
Norfolk +3 7 £32,533 +0.10% 3
Bedfordshire -4 6 £36,000 +10.77% 14
Cambridgeshire +5 3 £29,000 -17.14% 11
Suffolk -29 1 £36,000 +9.09% 12
IT Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 28 May 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 32 (84.21%) Microsoft
2 28 (73.68%) Active Directory
3 27 (71.05%) Microsoft 365
4 24 (63.16%) Windows
5 18 (47.37%) Azure
6 14 (36.84%) Driving Licence
7 13 (34.21%) Social Skills
8 12 (31.58%) Customer Service
9 10 (26.32%) ITIL
9 10 (26.32%) SharePoint
9 10 (26.32%) Windows Server
10 9 (23.68%) LAN
10 9 (23.68%) Entra ID
11 8 (21.05%) Microsoft Intune
11 8 (21.05%) Degree
11 8 (21.05%) Firewall
11 8 (21.05%) DBS Check
12 7 (18.42%) WAN
13 6 (15.79%) Microsoft Exchange
13 6 (15.79%) Microsoft Certification
13 6 (15.79%) Cisco
13 6 (15.79%) PowerShell
13 6 (15.79%) Network Management
13 6 (15.79%) Cybersecurity
13 6 (15.79%) Jamf Pro
14 5 (13.16%) Root Cause Analysis
14 5 (13.16%) Meraki
14 5 (13.16%) Social Media
14 5 (13.16%) Kalman Filter
14 5 (13.16%) VoIP

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 10 (26.32%) SharePoint
2 6 (15.79%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.63%) IIS
3 1 (2.63%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (7.89%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 27 (71.05%) Microsoft 365
2 18 (47.37%) Azure
3 9 (23.68%) Entra ID
4 3 (7.89%) OneDrive
5 2 (5.26%) AWS
5 2 (5.26%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.63%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (2.63%) GCP
6 1 (2.63%) IaaS
6 1 (2.63%) Mimecast
6 1 (2.63%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (23.68%) LAN
2 8 (21.05%) Firewall
3 7 (18.42%) WAN
4 5 (13.16%) VoIP
5 4 (10.53%) TCP/IP
6 3 (7.89%) DHCP
6 3 (7.89%) DNS
6 3 (7.89%) VPN
7 2 (5.26%) Internet
7 2 (5.26%) WLAN
8 1 (2.63%) Network Security
8 1 (2.63%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (2.63%) SAN
8 1 (2.63%) SD-WAN
8 1 (2.63%) VLAN
8 1 (2.63%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.63%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (2.63%) SQL Server
General
1 13 (34.21%) Social Skills
2 5 (13.16%) Organisational Skills
3 3 (7.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (5.26%) Law
5 1 (2.63%) Aviation
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.63%) .NET
1 1 (2.63%) .NET Framework
1 1 (2.63%) SAML
1 1 (2.63%) WSH
Miscellaneous
1 14 (36.84%) Driving Licence
2 5 (13.16%) Social Media
3 1 (2.63%) Clustering
3 1 (2.63%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.63%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.63%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.63%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.63%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 24 (63.16%) Windows
2 10 (26.32%) Windows Server
3 5 (13.16%) Linux
4 2 (5.26%) Mac OS
5 1 (2.63%) Android
5 1 (2.63%) Apple iOS
5 1 (2.63%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (31.58%) Customer Service
2 10 (26.32%) ITIL
3 6 (15.79%) Cybersecurity
3 6 (15.79%) Network Management
4 5 (13.16%) Kalman Filter
4 5 (13.16%) Root Cause Analysis
4 5 (13.16%) Web Filtering
5 3 (7.89%) Cost Reduction
5 3 (7.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (7.89%) ITSM
5 3 (7.89%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (7.89%) Project Management
5 3 (7.89%) Service Delivery
6 2 (5.26%) Asset Management
6 2 (5.26%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (5.26%) High Availability
6 2 (5.26%) Knowledge Management
6 2 (5.26%) Performance Monitoring
6 2 (5.26%) Remote Monitoring and Management
6 2 (5.26%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 6 (15.79%) PowerShell
2 1 (2.63%) Java
2 1 (2.63%) Shell Script
2 1 (2.63%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 8 (21.05%) DBS Check
1 8 (21.05%) Degree
2 6 (15.79%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (5.26%) A+ Certification
3 2 (5.26%) MCSA
3 2 (5.26%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.26%) Security Cleared
4 1 (2.63%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.63%) CCNA
4 1 (2.63%) CCNP
4 1 (2.63%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.63%) LPIC
4 1 (2.63%) MCITP
4 1 (2.63%) MCP
4 1 (2.63%) MCSE
4 1 (2.63%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.26%) SLA
System Software
1 28 (73.68%) Active Directory
2 3 (7.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (5.26%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (2.63%) Docker
4 1 (2.63%) Firmware
4 1 (2.63%) Hyper-V
4 1 (2.63%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 8 (21.05%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (15.79%) Jamf Pro
3 5 (13.16%) SmoothWall
4 2 (5.26%) SCCM
5 1 (2.63%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (2.63%) Kubernetes
5 1 (2.63%) SCOM
5 1 (2.63%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 32 (84.21%) Microsoft
2 6 (15.79%) Cisco
3 5 (13.16%) Meraki
4 4 (10.53%) VMware
5 2 (5.26%) Google
6 1 (2.63%) Apple
6 1 (2.63%) F5
6 1 (2.63%) Mitel
6 1 (2.63%) Nimble Storage
6 1 (2.63%) Okta
6 1 (2.63%) Oracle
6 1 (2.63%) Palo Alto
6 1 (2.63%) Remedy
6 1 (2.63%) ServiceNow