Technical Engineer Job Trends in the East of England

Technical Engineer
England > East of England

The median Technical Engineer salary in the East of England is £35,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 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
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 95 132 152
Rank change year-on-year +37 +20 +114
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Engineer 86 42 2
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 2.55% 0.95% 0.077%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.75% 1.00% 0.085%
Number of salaries quoted 68 39 2
10th Percentile £25,750 £29,500 £32,700
25th Percentile £31,250 £34,125 £34,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £38,000 £39,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% -3.80% +21.54%
75th Percentile £43,750 £50,000 £43,875
90th Percentile £48,875 £55,000 £45,900
England median annual salary £36,500 £37,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year -2.67% -11.76% +13.33%

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 3,130 4,185 2,351
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.63% 94.41% 90.46%
Number of salaries quoted 1,751 2,499 1,496
10th Percentile £27,000 £27,223 £25,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £34,126
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

Technical Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Engineer in the East of England

Technical Engineer
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for Technical Engineer job vacancies in the East of England.

Salary distribution trend for Technical Engineer job vacancies in the East of England

Technical Engineer
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Technical Engineer in the East of England over the 6 months to 16 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Technical Engineer in the East of England

Technical 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 Technical Engineer within the East of England region over the 6 months to 16 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
Bedfordshire - 32 £35,000 - 3
Suffolk -12 19 £57,000 +137.50%
Cambridgeshire +20 18 £32,500 -14.47% 1
Hertfordshire +11 9 £42,500 -15.00% 3
Essex -4 8 £26,500 -41.11%
Technical Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 16 September 2025, Technical 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 Technical Engineer in the job title.

1 26 (30.23%) Problem-Solving
2 25 (29.07%) Social Skills
3 20 (23.26%) Manufacturing
4 13 (15.12%) Driving Licence
5 12 (13.95%) Windows
5 12 (13.95%) Microsoft
6 10 (11.63%) CRM
6 10 (11.63%) Business Enablement
7 9 (10.47%) Microsoft 365
8 8 (9.30%) Line Management
8 8 (9.30%) Degree
8 8 (9.30%) Customer Service
9 7 (8.14%) Business Strategy
9 7 (8.14%) NIST
9 7 (8.14%) Technology Enablement
9 7 (8.14%) Wiki
9 7 (8.14%) Incident Management
9 7 (8.14%) SQL
9 7 (8.14%) CCNP
9 7 (8.14%) CCNA
9 7 (8.14%) Active Directory
9 7 (8.14%) Cisco Certification
9 7 (8.14%) Cybersecurity
9 7 (8.14%) Presales
9 7 (8.14%) Security Operations
9 7 (8.14%) GDPR
9 7 (8.14%) Cyber Essentials
9 7 (8.14%) Vulnerability Management
10 6 (6.98%) SLA
10 6 (6.98%) Azure

Technical 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 5 (5.81%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (3.49%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 9 (10.47%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (6.98%) Azure
3 5 (5.81%) Entra ID
4 1 (1.16%) AWS
4 1 (1.16%) Nutanix
4 1 (1.16%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.81%) DHCP
1 5 (5.81%) DNS
1 5 (5.81%) Firewall
1 5 (5.81%) VPN
2 3 (3.49%) Remote Desktop
General
1 25 (29.07%) Social Skills
2 20 (23.26%) Manufacturing
3 5 (5.81%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (3.49%) Electronics
Miscellaneous
1 13 (15.12%) Driving Licence
2 7 (8.14%) Wiki
3 5 (5.81%) FMCG
4 3 (3.49%) CCTV
4 3 (3.49%) Home Automation
4 3 (3.49%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 12 (13.95%) Windows
2 5 (5.81%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.16%) Linux
3 1 (1.16%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (30.23%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (11.63%) Business Enablement
2 10 (11.63%) CRM
3 8 (9.30%) Customer Service
3 8 (9.30%) Line Management
4 7 (8.14%) Business Strategy
4 7 (8.14%) Cybersecurity
4 7 (8.14%) Incident Management
4 7 (8.14%) Presales
4 7 (8.14%) Security Operations
4 7 (8.14%) Technology Enablement
4 7 (8.14%) Vulnerability Management
5 5 (5.81%) Computer Science
5 5 (5.81%) Customer-Centricity
5 5 (5.81%) Physics
5 5 (5.81%) Proactive Maintenance
5 5 (5.81%) Proactive Monitoring
5 5 (5.81%) Service Delivery
5 5 (5.81%) User Experience
6 3 (3.49%) Desktop Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 7 (8.14%) SQL
2 1 (1.16%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (9.30%) Degree
2 7 (8.14%) CCNA
2 7 (8.14%) CCNP
2 7 (8.14%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (3.49%) NVQ Level 4
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.14%) Cyber Essentials
1 7 (8.14%) GDPR
1 7 (8.14%) NIST
2 6 (6.98%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (8.14%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.49%) Citrix Hypervisor
3 1 (1.16%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.16%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (1.16%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 12 (13.95%) Microsoft
2 5 (5.81%) Siemens
3 3 (3.49%) Citrix
3 3 (3.49%) HP
3 3 (3.49%) YouTube
4 2 (2.33%) Google
5 1 (1.16%) Commvault
5 1 (1.16%) VMware
5 1 (1.16%) Zerto