IT Engineer Job Trends in England

IT Engineer
UK > England

The median IT Engineer salary in England is £35,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 June 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 254 134
Rank change year-on-year +166 -120 +97
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 1,650 522 1,809
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.98% 1.33% 2.04%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.12% 1.49% 2.16%
Number of salaries quoted 1,422 375 1,599
10th Percentile £26,750 £25,750 £24,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £28,000 £26,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £35,000 £33,000
Median % change year-on-year - +6.06% -4.35%
75th Percentile £43,750 £43,750 £43,000
90th Percentile £56,250 £55,000 £50,000
UK median annual salary £35,000 £35,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year - +7.69% -5.80%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 77,858 35,114 83,911
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.46% 89.72% 94.67%
Number of salaries quoted 53,086 20,250 63,132
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,875 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.83% +9.52% -13.22%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%

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 1 June 2026.

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 1 June 2026. 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
South East +107 374 £34,750 -6.08% 80
North of England +95 351 £33,500 +3.08% 41
Midlands +56 256 £32,500 -7.14% 34
East of England +94 238 £35,000 +16.67% 31
London +92 228 £40,000 -11.11% 30
South West +61 200 £35,000 +2.94% 29
North West +127 194 £35,000 +3.70% 26
Yorkshire -5 145 £33,500 +11.67% 11
East Midlands +28 128 £30,000 -9.09% 23
West Midlands +27 128 £32,500 -7.14% 11
North East -40 12 £31,000 -22.50% 6
IT Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 2026, 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.

1 709 (42.97%) Microsoft
2 707 (42.85%) Microsoft 365
3 638 (38.67%) Windows
4 527 (31.94%) Active Directory
5 453 (27.45%) Azure
6 411 (24.91%) Problem-Solving
7 335 (20.30%) Windows Server
8 320 (19.39%) Customer Service
9 292 (17.70%) Entra ID
10 275 (16.67%) Firewall
11 214 (12.97%) Microsoft Intune
12 205 (12.42%) DNS
13 196 (11.88%) Microsoft Exchange
14 190 (11.52%) VPN
15 186 (11.27%) SharePoint
16 182 (11.03%) DHCP
17 171 (10.36%) VMware
18 169 (10.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 161 (9.76%) Windows 10
20 152 (9.21%) Hyper-V
21 150 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
21 150 (9.09%) Wi-Fi
22 148 (8.97%) ITIL
23 141 (8.55%) LAN
24 140 (8.48%) WAN
25 120 (7.27%) Degree
26 119 (7.21%) Microsoft Office
27 110 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
28 106 (6.42%) Microsoft Certification
29 104 (6.30%) Mac OS

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
1 196 (11.88%) Microsoft Exchange
2 186 (11.27%) SharePoint
3 15 (0.91%) Confluence
4 14 (0.85%) Exchange Server 2013
5 12 (0.73%) Exchange Server 2007
5 12 (0.73%) Exchange Server 2010
6 9 (0.55%) IIS
Applications
1 119 (7.21%) Microsoft Office
2 22 (1.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.18%) Photoshop
5 2 (0.12%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 6 (0.36%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.30%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.061%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.061%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 707 (42.85%) Microsoft 365
2 453 (27.45%) Azure
3 292 (17.70%) Entra ID
4 72 (4.36%) Google Workspace
5 59 (3.58%) AWS
6 52 (3.15%) OneDrive
7 45 (2.73%) SaaS
8 26 (1.58%) PaaS
9 23 (1.39%) IaaS
10 20 (1.21%) Power Platform
11 18 (1.09%) Mimecast
12 9 (0.55%) Azure DevOps
12 9 (0.55%) Azure Sentinel
12 9 (0.55%) PowerApps
13 7 (0.42%) Datadog
13 7 (0.42%) OCI
14 6 (0.36%) Microsoft Copilot
15 5 (0.30%) GCP
15 5 (0.30%) Intacct
16 4 (0.24%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 275 (16.67%) Firewall
2 205 (12.42%) DNS
3 190 (11.52%) VPN
4 182 (11.03%) DHCP
5 150 (9.09%) Wi-Fi
6 141 (8.55%) LAN
7 140 (8.48%) WAN
8 86 (5.21%) VLAN
9 75 (4.55%) VoIP
10 65 (3.94%) TCP/IP
11 53 (3.21%) SAN
12 34 (2.06%) Wireless
13 25 (1.52%) Network Security
14 20 (1.21%) SD-WAN
15 16 (0.97%) WLAN
16 12 (0.73%) Remote Desktop
17 11 (0.67%) Internet
18 9 (0.55%) SSL
19 7 (0.42%) NAS
20 5 (0.30%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (4.00%) SQL Server
2 13 (0.79%) Power BI
3 5 (0.30%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (0.18%) MySQL
5 2 (0.12%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.061%) KNIME
Development Applications
1 39 (2.36%) JIRA
2 7 (0.42%) Chocolatey
3 4 (0.24%) GitLab
4 1 (0.061%) Carbide.c++
4 1 (0.061%) Git
4 1 (0.061%) LabVIEW
General
1 382 (23.15%) Social Skills
2 76 (4.61%) Finance
3 62 (3.76%) Analytical Skills
4 59 (3.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 58 (3.52%) Organisational Skills
6 52 (3.15%) Manufacturing
7 45 (2.73%) Law
8 43 (2.61%) Legal
9 39 (2.36%) Multimedia
9 39 (2.36%) Telecoms
10 37 (2.24%) Retail
11 19 (1.15%) Public Sector
12 17 (1.03%) Advertising
13 14 (0.85%) Automotive
14 12 (0.73%) Banking
15 6 (0.36%) Games
16 5 (0.30%) Aerospace
16 5 (0.30%) Documentation Skills
16 5 (0.30%) Local Government
16 5 (0.30%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (0.55%) HTML
2 7 (0.42%) JSON
3 5 (0.30%) CSS
3 5 (0.30%) Web Services
4 4 (0.24%) OpenTelemetry
5 2 (0.12%) .NET
6 1 (0.061%) OpenID
6 1 (0.061%) SAML
6 1 (0.061%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 219 (13.27%) Driving Licence
2 72 (4.36%) Onboarding
3 49 (2.97%) Self-Motivation
4 28 (1.70%) CCTV
5 27 (1.64%) Data Centre
6 24 (1.45%) Analytical Mindset
7 13 (0.79%) Management Information System
8 12 (0.73%) Security Posture
8 12 (0.73%) Video Conferencing
9 11 (0.67%) NHS
9 11 (0.67%) Social Media
10 10 (0.61%) Clustering
10 10 (0.61%) FMCG
10 10 (0.61%) Replication
11 9 (0.55%) iPhone
12 8 (0.48%) Hybrid Cloud
12 8 (0.48%) Linux Command Line
13 7 (0.42%) Cyber Threat
13 7 (0.42%) Enterprise Software
13 7 (0.42%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 638 (38.67%) Windows
2 335 (20.30%) Windows Server
3 161 (9.76%) Windows 10
4 104 (6.30%) Mac OS
5 85 (5.15%) Linux
6 64 (3.88%) Windows Server 2019
7 56 (3.39%) Windows Server 2016
8 37 (2.24%) Apple iOS
9 35 (2.12%) Android
10 25 (1.52%) Windows Server 2012
11 17 (1.03%) Windows 7
12 11 (0.67%) Windows 8
13 9 (0.55%) Mac OS X
14 4 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 4 (0.24%) Ubuntu
14 4 (0.24%) Windows Server 2008
15 1 (0.061%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 411 (24.91%) Problem-Solving
2 320 (19.39%) Customer Service
3 169 (10.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 150 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
5 148 (8.97%) ITIL
6 94 (5.70%) Mentoring
7 93 (5.64%) ITSM
8 92 (5.58%) Disaster Recovery
9 83 (5.03%) Service Delivery
10 73 (4.42%) Continuous Improvement
11 65 (3.94%) Remote Monitoring and Management
12 57 (3.45%) Project Delivery
13 50 (3.03%) Service Management
14 48 (2.91%) Change Management
15 45 (2.73%) Migration
16 44 (2.67%) Root Cause Analysis
17 42 (2.55%) Time Management
18 39 (2.36%) Business Continuity
19 38 (2.30%) Process Improvement
20 35 (2.12%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 103 (6.24%) PowerShell
2 49 (2.97%) SQL
3 10 (0.61%) Bash
4 7 (0.42%) Python
5 5 (0.30%) C#
5 5 (0.30%) VB
6 4 (0.24%) PHP
6 4 (0.24%) R
7 3 (0.18%) JavaScript
7 3 (0.18%) Uniface
7 3 (0.18%) VBA
7 3 (0.18%) VBScript
8 2 (0.12%) Google Apps Script
9 1 (0.061%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 120 (7.27%) Degree
2 106 (6.42%) Microsoft Certification
3 73 (4.42%) Security Cleared
4 69 (4.18%) DBS Check
5 45 (2.73%) SC Cleared
6 40 (2.42%) Cisco Certification
7 39 (2.36%) CCNA
8 35 (2.12%) A+ Certification
9 31 (1.88%) Azure Certification
10 30 (1.82%) Network+ Certification
11 18 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
11 18 (1.09%) CompTIA Security+
12 16 (0.97%) DV Cleared
13 15 (0.91%) MCSE
14 12 (0.73%) Computer Science Degree
15 7 (0.42%) CCNP
16 5 (0.30%) MCITP
17 4 (0.24%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 4 (0.24%) MCSA
18 3 (0.18%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (4.73%) Cyber Essentials
2 75 (4.55%) SLA
3 55 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 31 (1.88%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 15 (0.91%) GDPR
6 9 (0.55%) NIST
7 7 (0.42%) PCI DSS
7 7 (0.42%) QA
8 5 (0.30%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.061%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.061%) SOC 2
System Software
1 527 (31.94%) Active Directory
2 152 (9.21%) Hyper-V
3 110 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (1.15%) Virtual Desktop
5 15 (0.91%) VMware ESXi
6 10 (0.61%) Docker
7 8 (0.48%) vSphere
8 7 (0.42%) VMware Workstation
9 6 (0.36%) BitLocker
9 6 (0.36%) Terminal Services
10 4 (0.24%) Firmware
10 4 (0.24%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
12 1 (0.061%) Terminal Server
12 1 (0.061%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 214 (12.97%) Microsoft Intune
2 36 (2.18%) SCCM
3 24 (1.45%) Autotask
4 23 (1.39%) Jamf Pro
5 19 (1.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 17 (1.03%) WSUS
7 13 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
8 11 (0.67%) FortiGate
9 6 (0.36%) Failover Clustering
10 5 (0.30%) Terraform
11 4 (0.24%) Ansible
11 4 (0.24%) SmoothWall
12 2 (0.12%) Kubernetes
13 1 (0.061%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 709 (42.97%) Microsoft
2 171 (10.36%) VMware
3 78 (4.73%) Google
4 60 (3.64%) Fortinet
5 52 (3.15%) Cisco
6 50 (3.03%) Apple
7 47 (2.85%) Meraki
8 39 (2.36%) Fujitsu
8 39 (2.36%) Virgin Media
9 37 (2.24%) Veeam
10 24 (1.45%) Datto
10 24 (1.45%) SonicWALL
10 24 (1.45%) Ubiquiti
11 22 (1.33%) HP
12 21 (1.27%) Dell
13 20 (1.21%) Sophos
14 13 (0.79%) Epicor
15 12 (0.73%) ConnectWise
16 11 (0.67%) Draytek
16 11 (0.67%) ServiceNow