IT Engineer Job Trends in England

IT Engineer
UK > England

The median IT Engineer salary in England is £33,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 5 December 2025.

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

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 195 156 167
Rank change year-on-year -39 +11 +128
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 652 1,015 910
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.35% 1.79% 2.04%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.49% 1.91% 2.14%
Number of salaries quoted 565 591 819
10th Percentile £25,750 £25,750 £25,750
25th Percentile £28,000 £30,000 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,000 £37,000 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.81% +5.71% +4.48%
75th Percentile £42,000 £47,500 £47,500
90th Percentile £53,750 £57,500 £60,000
UK median annual salary £32,500 £36,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year -10.96% +4.29% +4.48%

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 43,785 53,252 42,527
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.38% 93.91% 95.10%
Number of salaries quoted 28,019 29,611 33,199
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,703 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £96,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,836 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.90% -3.61% -

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 5 December 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 5 December 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
Midlands -28 170 £31,500 -10.00% 39
South East 0 144 £32,500 -13.33% 81
East Midlands +12 118 £30,000 -11.76% 16
London +45 106 £40,000 -11.11% 49
North of England -20 102 £32,500 -7.14% 85
South West 0 73 £35,000 -6.67% 30
East of England +20 64 £31,000 -4.62% 30
West Midlands -72 52 £37,500 +7.14% 23
North West -1 51 £30,000 -20.53% 32
Yorkshire -17 47 £38,250 +20.47% 50
North East -2 4 £48,125 +34.62% 8
IT Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 5 December 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.

1 393 (60.28%) Windows
2 385 (59.05%) Microsoft
3 378 (57.98%) Microsoft 365
4 317 (48.62%) Active Directory
5 279 (42.79%) Azure
6 234 (35.89%) Problem-Solving
7 232 (35.58%) Windows Server
8 176 (26.99%) Firewall
9 166 (25.46%) DNS
10 149 (22.85%) DHCP
11 144 (22.09%) Customer Service
12 139 (21.32%) Microsoft Intune
13 136 (20.86%) Entra ID
14 110 (16.87%) SharePoint
15 104 (15.95%) ITIL
16 100 (15.34%) VMware
17 96 (14.72%) Microsoft Exchange
17 96 (14.72%) VPN
18 95 (14.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 93 (14.26%) Hyper-V
20 91 (13.96%) TCP/IP
21 89 (13.65%) Windows 10
22 83 (12.73%) Cybersecurity
23 82 (12.58%) VLAN
24 73 (11.20%) VMware Infrastructure
25 67 (10.28%) Degree
26 65 (9.97%) PowerShell
27 63 (9.66%) Wi-Fi
28 58 (8.90%) Microsoft Office
29 56 (8.59%) Linux

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
1 110 (16.87%) SharePoint
2 96 (14.72%) Microsoft Exchange
3 21 (3.22%) IIS
4 4 (0.61%) Confluence
5 3 (0.46%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.31%) Exchange Server 2007
6 2 (0.31%) Exchange Server 2010
6 2 (0.31%) Exchange Server 2013
7 1 (0.15%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 58 (8.90%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (1.84%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.46%) CINEMA 4D
5 2 (0.31%) Acrobat
6 1 (0.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.15%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 8 (1.23%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.61%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.15%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.15%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 378 (57.98%) Microsoft 365
2 279 (42.79%) Azure
3 136 (20.86%) Entra ID
4 55 (8.44%) AWS
5 27 (4.14%) Google Workspace
6 26 (3.99%) Power Platform
6 26 (3.99%) SaaS
7 24 (3.68%) GCP
7 24 (3.68%) OneDrive
8 18 (2.76%) Azure DevOps
9 13 (1.99%) Power Automate
10 12 (1.84%) IaaS
11 10 (1.53%) PaaS
12 9 (1.38%) Cloud Computing
13 8 (1.23%) Nutanix
14 7 (1.07%) Azure Stack
14 7 (1.07%) Datadog
14 7 (1.07%) Serverless
15 6 (0.92%) iPaaS
15 6 (0.92%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 176 (26.99%) Firewall
2 166 (25.46%) DNS
3 149 (22.85%) DHCP
4 96 (14.72%) VPN
5 91 (13.96%) TCP/IP
6 82 (12.58%) VLAN
7 63 (9.66%) Wi-Fi
8 50 (7.67%) WAN
9 41 (6.29%) LAN
9 41 (6.29%) Wireless
10 33 (5.06%) SAN
11 31 (4.75%) VoIP
12 24 (3.68%) Network Security
13 17 (2.61%) SD-WAN
14 11 (1.69%) IP Telephony
14 11 (1.69%) IPsec
15 8 (1.23%) Remote Desktop
16 7 (1.07%) WLAN
17 6 (0.92%) Cisco IOS
17 6 (0.92%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (5.83%) SQL Server
2 19 (2.91%) Power BI
3 13 (1.99%) Amazon RDS
4 12 (1.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 7 (1.07%) Relational Database
6 4 (0.61%) NoSQL
7 3 (0.46%) DynamoDB
7 3 (0.46%) Mixpanel
7 3 (0.46%) MongoDB
7 3 (0.46%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (0.31%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.15%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 15 (2.30%) JIRA
2 5 (0.77%) Git
3 3 (0.46%) Browser DevTools
3 3 (0.46%) Charles Proxy
3 3 (0.46%) Fiddler
3 3 (0.46%) Maven
3 3 (0.46%) Postman
3 3 (0.46%) Selenium
3 3 (0.46%) TestNG
3 3 (0.46%) WebDriver
3 3 (0.46%) Zephyr
4 2 (0.31%) Burp Suite
4 2 (0.31%) JMeter
4 2 (0.31%) LoadRunner
4 2 (0.31%) NeoLoad
4 2 (0.31%) Snyk
5 1 (0.15%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.15%) Chocolatey
General
1 251 (38.50%) Social Skills
2 50 (7.67%) Law
3 47 (7.21%) Finance
4 45 (6.90%) Manufacturing
5 35 (5.37%) Analytical Skills
5 35 (5.37%) Organisational Skills
6 28 (4.29%) Legal
7 23 (3.53%) Public Sector
8 22 (3.37%) Telecoms
9 16 (2.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 15 (2.30%) Electronics
11 14 (2.15%) Retail
12 10 (1.53%) Documentation Skills
13 7 (1.07%) Advertising
13 7 (1.07%) Billing
13 7 (1.07%) Marketing
14 5 (0.77%) Games
14 5 (0.77%) Pharmaceutical
15 4 (0.61%) Dutch Language
15 4 (0.61%) French Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (2.91%) .NET
2 15 (2.30%) .NET Framework
3 12 (1.84%) Entity Framework
3 12 (1.84%) WinForms
4 9 (1.38%) REST
5 7 (1.07%) ASP.NET
6 6 (0.92%) GraphQL
7 5 (0.77%) 802.1X
7 5 (0.77%) React
8 4 (0.61%) AngularJS
9 3 (0.46%) EDI
9 3 (0.46%) OAuth
10 2 (0.31%) OAuth2
11 1 (0.15%) AVA JavaScript Test Runner
11 1 (0.15%) Django
11 1 (0.15%) Flask
11 1 (0.15%) LAMP
11 1 (0.15%) Spring
11 1 (0.15%) Spring Boot
11 1 (0.15%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 109 (16.72%) Driving Licence
2 49 (7.52%) Onboarding
3 28 (4.29%) Self-Motivation
4 21 (3.22%) Data Centre
5 16 (2.45%) CCTV
6 15 (2.30%) Clustering
7 14 (2.15%) Product Ownership
8 10 (1.53%) Analytical Mindset
8 10 (1.53%) iPad
9 9 (1.38%) FMCG
9 9 (1.38%) Hybrid Cloud
10 8 (1.23%) iPhone
10 8 (1.23%) Security Posture
10 8 (1.23%) Smartphone
11 7 (1.07%) BYOD
11 7 (1.07%) CMDB
11 7 (1.07%) Enterprise Software
12 5 (0.77%) Fat Client
12 5 (0.77%) Life Science
12 5 (0.77%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 393 (60.28%) Windows
2 232 (35.58%) Windows Server
3 89 (13.65%) Windows 10
4 56 (8.59%) Linux
5 49 (7.52%) Mac OS
6 35 (5.37%) Windows Server 2019
7 23 (3.53%) Windows Server 2016
8 22 (3.37%) Apple iOS
9 16 (2.45%) Android
10 8 (1.23%) Mac OS X
10 8 (1.23%) Windows Server 2012
11 7 (1.07%) Rocky
12 6 (0.92%) VMS
12 6 (0.92%) Windows 7
13 4 (0.61%) Windows 8
14 3 (0.46%) Debian
14 3 (0.46%) Unix
15 1 (0.15%) Solaris
15 1 (0.15%) Ubuntu
15 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 234 (35.89%) Problem-Solving
2 144 (22.09%) Customer Service
3 104 (15.95%) ITIL
4 95 (14.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 83 (12.73%) Cybersecurity
6 54 (8.28%) Disaster Recovery
7 40 (6.13%) Mentoring
7 40 (6.13%) Project Delivery
8 37 (5.67%) Incident Management
9 36 (5.52%) Continuous Improvement
9 36 (5.52%) ITSM
10 34 (5.21%) Migration
11 30 (4.60%) Agile
11 30 (4.60%) Computer Science
11 30 (4.60%) Software Engineering
12 28 (4.29%) Service Delivery
13 27 (4.14%) Business Intelligence
14 26 (3.99%) Asset Management
14 26 (3.99%) Process Improvement
15 25 (3.83%) Remote Monitoring and Management
Programming Languages
1 65 (9.97%) PowerShell
2 41 (6.29%) SQL
3 21 (3.22%) Python
4 16 (2.45%) C#
5 12 (1.84%) T-SQL
6 10 (1.53%) JavaScript
7 7 (1.07%) PL/SQL
7 7 (1.07%) VBScript
8 5 (0.77%) Java
9 3 (0.46%) Bash
9 3 (0.46%) Uniface
10 2 (0.31%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (0.31%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.15%) Perl
11 1 (0.15%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.15%) VBA
Qualifications
1 67 (10.28%) Degree
2 56 (8.59%) Microsoft Certification
3 30 (4.60%) Cisco Certification
4 28 (4.29%) DBS Check
5 27 (4.14%) CCNA
6 23 (3.53%) Computer Science Degree
7 21 (3.22%) MCP
8 20 (3.07%) A+ Certification
9 19 (2.91%) Azure Certification
10 16 (2.45%) MCSE
11 15 (2.30%) Security Cleared
12 13 (1.99%) BPSS Clearance
12 13 (1.99%) Network+ Certification
13 12 (1.84%) SC Cleared
14 11 (1.69%) MCSA
15 9 (1.38%) CCNP
16 8 (1.23%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 8 (1.23%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
17 7 (1.07%) CISSP
17 7 (1.07%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (5.83%) Cyber Essentials
1 38 (5.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 33 (5.06%) SLA
3 29 (4.45%) GDPR
4 7 (1.07%) QA
5 6 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 5 (0.77%) Accessibility
7 4 (0.61%) NIST
8 3 (0.46%) Data Quality
8 3 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.31%) GxP
10 1 (0.15%) HIPAA
System Software
1 317 (48.62%) Active Directory
2 93 (14.26%) Hyper-V
3 73 (11.20%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (1.69%) Docker
4 11 (1.69%) Firmware
5 9 (1.38%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (1.07%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (0.77%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.61%) VMware Workstation
8 4 (0.61%) vSphere
9 3 (0.46%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.31%) BitLocker
10 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 2 (0.31%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.31%) XenDesktop
11 1 (0.15%) VMware Server
11 1 (0.15%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 139 (21.32%) Microsoft Intune
2 23 (3.53%) SCCM
3 20 (3.07%) Kubernetes
4 17 (2.61%) Autotask
5 10 (1.53%) Jamf Pro
6 9 (1.38%) vCenter Server
7 8 (1.23%) Ansible
8 7 (1.07%) Failover Clustering
9 5 (0.77%) FortiGate
10 4 (0.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 4 (0.61%) SmoothWall
10 4 (0.61%) WSUS
11 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Clustering
11 2 (0.31%) NetBackup
11 2 (0.31%) Podman
11 2 (0.31%) Puppet
11 2 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.31%) WhatsUp Gold
12 1 (0.15%) Nessus
12 1 (0.15%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 385 (59.05%) Microsoft
2 100 (15.34%) VMware
3 44 (6.75%) Cisco
4 41 (6.29%) Veeam
5 39 (5.98%) Google
6 35 (5.37%) Apple
7 23 (3.53%) ServiceNow
8 18 (2.76%) Meraki
9 17 (2.61%) Dell
9 17 (2.61%) Sophos
10 16 (2.45%) Datto
11 15 (2.30%) Adobe
12 13 (1.99%) Aruba
12 13 (1.99%) HP
13 12 (1.84%) Sage
13 12 (1.84%) Xamarin
13 12 (1.84%) Zoho
14 11 (1.69%) Oracle
15 9 (1.38%) Citrix
15 9 (1.38%) SAP