IT Engineer Job Trends in England

IT Engineer
UK > England

The median IT Engineer salary in England is £38,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 October 2025.

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

6 months to
3 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 275 168 184
Rank change year-on-year -107 +16 +156
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 466 1,057 956
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.08% 1.59% 1.84%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.19% 1.67% 1.93%
Number of salaries quoted 352 737 853
10th Percentile £26,000 £26,000 £25,500
25th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,500 £37,000 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.05% +5.71% -
75th Percentile £48,750 £46,750 £47,500
90th Percentile £63,500 £56,600 £61,250
UK median annual salary £37,500 £36,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% +2.86% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in 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 England with a recognized job title 39,109 63,370 49,471
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.49% 95.22% 95.43%
Number of salaries quoted 23,039 36,766 38,260
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

IT Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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 England.

IT Engineer job vacancy trend in England

IT Engineer
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for IT Engineer job vacancies in England.

Salary distribution trend for IT Engineer job vacancies in England

IT Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing IT Engineer in England over the 6 months to 3 October 2025.

Salary histogram for IT Engineer in England

IT Engineer
Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 3 October 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
North of England -46 115 £35,000 - 66
Midlands -48 94 £37,000 +5.71% 44
London +13 93 £43,750 +9.38% 44
South East -70 82 £40,000 +5.26% 109
Yorkshire +29 75 £33,000 -17.34% 33
East Midlands -9 61 £30,000 -14.29% 31
South West -13 58 £35,000 -6.67% 46
North West -70 35 £35,000 - 24
West Midlands -43 33 £47,500 +35.71% 13
East of England -29 32 £36,250 +11.54% 23
North East +2 5 £48,750 +39.29% 15
IT Engineer
UK

IT Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 3 October 2025, 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 England region featuring IT Engineer in the job title.

1 310 (66.52%) Windows
2 267 (57.30%) Microsoft
3 263 (56.44%) Active Directory
4 246 (52.79%) Microsoft 365
5 208 (44.64%) Azure
6 179 (38.41%) Social Skills
7 171 (36.70%) Firewall
8 157 (33.69%) Windows Server
9 137 (29.40%) Problem-Solving
10 118 (25.32%) Microsoft Intune
11 109 (23.39%) Entra ID
12 105 (22.53%) Cybersecurity
13 101 (21.67%) DNS
14 95 (20.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 94 (20.17%) VMware
16 90 (19.31%) Customer Service
17 88 (18.88%) DHCP
17 88 (18.88%) Degree
18 77 (16.52%) PowerShell
19 75 (16.09%) VMware Infrastructure
20 71 (15.24%) Microsoft Exchange
21 69 (14.81%) SharePoint
22 68 (14.59%) Hyper-V
23 65 (13.95%) VLAN
23 65 (13.95%) VPN
24 64 (13.73%) Cisco
24 64 (13.73%) ITIL
25 59 (12.66%) Network Management
26 58 (12.45%) Driving Licence
27 57 (12.23%) Disaster Recovery

IT Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 71 (15.24%) Microsoft Exchange
2 69 (14.81%) SharePoint
3 12 (2.58%) IIS
4 3 (0.64%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.21%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 18 (3.86%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.64%) CINEMA 4D
3 2 (0.43%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.21%) Acrobat
4 1 (0.21%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (1.29%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (0.86%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.43%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (0.43%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.21%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 246 (52.79%) Microsoft 365
2 208 (44.64%) Azure
3 109 (23.39%) Entra ID
4 47 (10.09%) AWS
5 22 (4.72%) SaaS
6 14 (3.00%) GCP
7 12 (2.58%) Cloud Computing
7 12 (2.58%) OneDrive
7 12 (2.58%) Power Platform
8 11 (2.36%) Azure DevOps
8 11 (2.36%) IaaS
9 8 (1.72%) Azure Stack
9 8 (1.72%) Nutanix
10 7 (1.50%) Microsoft Purview
10 7 (1.50%) Mimecast
10 7 (1.50%) PaaS
10 7 (1.50%) Serverless
11 6 (1.29%) Google Workspace
11 6 (1.29%) iPaaS
12 5 (1.07%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 171 (36.70%) Firewall
2 101 (21.67%) DNS
3 88 (18.88%) DHCP
4 65 (13.95%) VLAN
4 65 (13.95%) VPN
5 48 (10.30%) TCP/IP
5 48 (10.30%) Wi-Fi
6 43 (9.23%) SAN
7 42 (9.01%) WAN
8 26 (5.58%) LAN
9 25 (5.36%) VoIP
9 25 (5.36%) Wireless
10 22 (4.72%) Network Security
11 21 (4.51%) SD-WAN
12 15 (3.22%) NAS
13 11 (2.36%) Intrusion Detection
14 10 (2.15%) Cisco IOS
15 9 (1.93%) IP Telephony
15 9 (1.93%) IPsec
15 9 (1.93%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (12.02%) SQL Server
2 8 (1.72%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (1.07%) Power BI
4 4 (0.86%) NoSQL
4 4 (0.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 3 (0.64%) DynamoDB
5 3 (0.64%) Mixpanel
5 3 (0.64%) MongoDB
5 3 (0.64%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.43%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (0.86%) Git
1 4 (0.86%) JIRA
2 3 (0.64%) Browser DevTools
2 3 (0.64%) Charles Proxy
2 3 (0.64%) Fiddler
2 3 (0.64%) Maven
2 3 (0.64%) Postman
2 3 (0.64%) Selenium
2 3 (0.64%) TestNG
2 3 (0.64%) WebDriver
2 3 (0.64%) Zephyr
3 2 (0.43%) Burp Suite
3 2 (0.43%) JMeter
3 2 (0.43%) LoadRunner
3 2 (0.43%) NeoLoad
3 2 (0.43%) Snyk
General
1 179 (38.41%) Social Skills
2 43 (9.23%) Law
3 41 (8.80%) Finance
4 36 (7.73%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (7.73%) Manufacturing
5 25 (5.36%) Organisational Skills
6 16 (3.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 16 (3.43%) Legal
6 16 (3.43%) Public Sector
7 15 (3.22%) Marketing
8 13 (2.79%) Telecoms
9 10 (2.15%) Electronics
10 8 (1.72%) Pharmaceutical
11 6 (1.29%) Automotive
11 6 (1.29%) Billing
11 6 (1.29%) Documentation Skills
11 6 (1.29%) Retail
12 3 (0.64%) Back Office
12 3 (0.64%) Banking
12 3 (0.64%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (1.93%) .NET
1 9 (1.93%) REST
2 7 (1.50%) .NET Framework
3 6 (1.29%) GraphQL
4 5 (1.07%) 802.1X
5 4 (0.86%) AngularJS
5 4 (0.86%) Entity Framework
5 4 (0.86%) React
5 4 (0.86%) WinForms
6 3 (0.64%) EDI
7 2 (0.43%) ASP.NET
7 2 (0.43%) LangChain
7 2 (0.43%) OAuth
7 2 (0.43%) OAuth2
8 1 (0.21%) Django
8 1 (0.21%) Flask
8 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Graph
8 1 (0.21%) ModSecurity
8 1 (0.21%) Spring Boot
8 1 (0.21%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 58 (12.45%) Driving Licence
2 42 (9.01%) Operational Technology
3 38 (8.15%) Onboarding
4 25 (5.36%) Self-Motivation
5 24 (5.15%) Data Centre
6 16 (3.43%) Clustering
7 12 (2.58%) Product Ownership
7 12 (2.58%) Social Media
8 11 (2.36%) Security Posture
9 10 (2.15%) Hybrid Cloud
10 9 (1.93%) FMCG
10 9 (1.93%) Management Information System
10 9 (1.93%) Mobile App
11 8 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
11 8 (1.72%) Virtual Team
12 7 (1.50%) BYOD
12 7 (1.50%) Enterprise Software
12 7 (1.50%) iPhone
13 6 (1.29%) Cloud Native
13 6 (1.29%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 310 (66.52%) Windows
2 157 (33.69%) Windows Server
3 54 (11.59%) Linux
4 39 (8.37%) Windows 10
5 38 (8.15%) Mac OS
6 29 (6.22%) Android
7 23 (4.94%) Windows Server 2019
8 22 (4.72%) Apple iOS
9 19 (4.08%) Windows Server 2016
10 8 (1.72%) Rocky
11 6 (1.29%) VMS
12 5 (1.07%) Unix
13 1 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 1 (0.21%) Ubuntu
13 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (29.40%) Problem-Solving
2 105 (22.53%) Cybersecurity
3 95 (20.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 90 (19.31%) Customer Service
5 64 (13.73%) ITIL
6 59 (12.66%) Network Management
7 57 (12.23%) Disaster Recovery
8 43 (9.23%) Network Design
9 40 (8.58%) Migration
10 35 (7.51%) Root Cause Analysis
11 34 (7.30%) Continuous Improvement
12 32 (6.87%) Agile
12 32 (6.87%) Mentoring
13 27 (5.79%) Computer Science
13 27 (5.79%) Kalman Filter
14 26 (5.58%) Incident Management
15 25 (5.36%) IT Strategy
16 24 (5.15%) Project Delivery
17 23 (4.94%) ITSM
18 21 (4.51%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 77 (16.52%) PowerShell
2 28 (6.01%) SQL
3 17 (3.65%) Python
4 10 (2.15%) JavaScript
5 7 (1.50%) C#
6 6 (1.29%) Java
7 5 (1.07%) T-SQL
8 4 (0.86%) Uniface
9 2 (0.43%) Bash
9 2 (0.43%) C
9 2 (0.43%) C++
9 2 (0.43%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (0.43%) PL/SQL
9 2 (0.43%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.43%) VBScript
10 1 (0.21%) Perl
10 1 (0.21%) VBA
Qualifications
1 88 (18.88%) Degree
2 32 (6.87%) DBS Check
3 31 (6.65%) Microsoft Certification
4 25 (5.36%) Cisco Certification
4 25 (5.36%) Security Cleared
5 20 (4.29%) CCNA
6 19 (4.08%) SC Cleared
7 17 (3.65%) Azure Certification
7 17 (3.65%) Computer Science Degree
8 12 (2.58%) DV Cleared
9 10 (2.15%) CISSP
9 10 (2.15%) HND
10 9 (1.93%) Network+ Certification
11 8 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
11 8 (1.72%) MCP
11 8 (1.72%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 6 (1.29%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 6 (1.29%) A+ Certification
12 6 (1.29%) CCSP
12 6 (1.29%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (7.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 34 (7.30%) GDPR
3 25 (5.36%) Cyber Essentials
4 7 (1.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 7 (1.50%) NIST
5 6 (1.29%) QA
6 5 (1.07%) SLA
7 4 (0.86%) Accessibility
8 3 (0.64%) Data Quality
8 3 (0.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.43%) GxP
9 2 (0.43%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.43%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 263 (56.44%) Active Directory
2 75 (16.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 68 (14.59%) Hyper-V
4 44 (9.44%) Virtual Servers
5 11 (2.36%) VMware ESXi
6 10 (2.15%) Docker
7 7 (1.50%) Firmware
8 4 (0.86%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 4 (0.86%) vSphere
9 2 (0.43%) BitLocker
9 2 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (0.43%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.21%) VMware Server
10 1 (0.21%) XenApp
10 1 (0.21%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 118 (25.32%) Microsoft Intune
2 29 (6.22%) SCCM
3 24 (5.15%) Kubernetes
4 16 (3.43%) Jamf Pro
5 12 (2.58%) Autotask
6 11 (2.36%) vCenter Server
7 8 (1.72%) Failover Clustering
7 8 (1.72%) SmoothWall
8 7 (1.50%) Ansible
9 6 (1.29%) Terraform
10 5 (1.07%) FortiGate
11 4 (0.86%) CASB
11 4 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (0.86%) WSUS
12 3 (0.64%) Puppet
13 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Clustering
13 2 (0.43%) NetBackup
13 2 (0.43%) SCOM
13 2 (0.43%) WhatsUp Gold
14 1 (0.21%) QRadar
Vendors
1 267 (57.30%) Microsoft
2 94 (20.17%) VMware
3 64 (13.73%) Cisco
4 42 (9.01%) Veeam
5 31 (6.65%) Apple
6 30 (6.44%) Meraki
7 23 (4.94%) Sophos
8 18 (3.86%) Aruba
9 17 (3.65%) HP
10 15 (3.22%) Datto
10 15 (3.22%) ServiceNow
10 15 (3.22%) Zoho
11 14 (3.00%) Dell
11 14 (3.00%) Google
12 11 (2.36%) Citrix
13 9 (1.93%) Oracle
13 9 (1.93%) SAP
14 7 (1.50%) Adobe
14 7 (1.50%) Fortinet
14 7 (1.50%) Palo Alto