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 22 May 2026.

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

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 249 138
Rank change year-on-year +161 -111 +97
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 1,613 505 1,752
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.96% 1.32% 2.07%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.10% 1.47% 2.19%
Number of salaries quoted 1,379 380 1,565
10th Percentile £26,750 £25,750 £24,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £27,688 £26,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £35,000 £32,500
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £42,750 £43,750 £43,000
90th Percentile £56,250 £53,825 £50,000
UK median annual salary £35,000 £35,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year - +7.69% -7.14%

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 76,887 34,400 80,103
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.34% 89.62% 94.50%
Number of salaries quoted 52,095 19,824 60,724
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £38,084
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,250 £57,560 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.01% +7.59% -12.01%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,063 £71,250
90th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £90,519
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 22 May 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 22 May 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 +92 368 £34,000 -2.86% 55
North of England +104 339 £32,940 +1.35% 33
Midlands +44 256 £32,500 -7.14% 25
East of England +91 229 £34,750 +15.83% 40
London +74 222 £40,000 -11.11% 22
South West +59 196 £35,000 +4.48% 33
North West +111 187 £32,940 -5.89% 15
Yorkshire +16 142 £33,500 +11.67% 17
East Midlands +34 128 £30,000 -7.69% 13
West Midlands +21 128 £32,500 -7.14% 12
North East -33 10 £30,000 -20.00% 3
IT Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 22 May 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.

1 667 (41.35%) Microsoft 365
2 664 (41.17%) Microsoft
3 602 (37.32%) Windows
4 505 (31.31%) Active Directory
5 429 (26.60%) Azure
6 394 (24.43%) Problem-Solving
7 316 (19.59%) Windows Server
8 306 (18.97%) Customer Service
9 269 (16.68%) Entra ID
10 262 (16.24%) Firewall
11 198 (12.28%) Microsoft Intune
12 196 (12.15%) DNS
13 184 (11.41%) VPN
14 176 (10.91%) DHCP
14 176 (10.91%) Microsoft Exchange
15 168 (10.42%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 167 (10.35%) SharePoint
17 159 (9.86%) VMware
18 155 (9.61%) Windows 10
19 146 (9.05%) Wi-Fi
20 143 (8.87%) ITIL
21 137 (8.49%) LAN
22 136 (8.43%) Hyper-V
23 135 (8.37%) Cybersecurity
23 135 (8.37%) WAN
24 120 (7.44%) Microsoft Office
25 116 (7.19%) Degree
26 104 (6.45%) Microsoft Certification
27 98 (6.08%) VMware Infrastructure
28 96 (5.95%) 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
1 176 (10.91%) Microsoft Exchange
2 167 (10.35%) SharePoint
3 15 (0.93%) Confluence
4 13 (0.81%) Exchange Server 2013
5 11 (0.68%) Exchange Server 2007
5 11 (0.68%) Exchange Server 2010
6 7 (0.43%) IIS
Applications
1 120 (7.44%) Microsoft Office
2 21 (1.30%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.19%) Photoshop
5 2 (0.12%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.062%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 6 (0.37%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.31%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.062%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 667 (41.35%) Microsoft 365
2 429 (26.60%) Azure
3 269 (16.68%) Entra ID
4 69 (4.28%) Google Workspace
5 56 (3.47%) AWS
6 45 (2.79%) OneDrive
7 42 (2.60%) SaaS
8 27 (1.67%) PaaS
9 23 (1.43%) IaaS
10 22 (1.36%) Power Platform
11 17 (1.05%) Mimecast
12 10 (0.62%) PowerApps
13 9 (0.56%) Azure DevOps
13 9 (0.56%) Azure Sentinel
14 8 (0.50%) Datadog
15 7 (0.43%) OCI
16 6 (0.37%) Microsoft Copilot
17 5 (0.31%) Intacct
18 4 (0.25%) GCP
18 4 (0.25%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 262 (16.24%) Firewall
2 196 (12.15%) DNS
3 184 (11.41%) VPN
4 176 (10.91%) DHCP
5 146 (9.05%) Wi-Fi
6 137 (8.49%) LAN
7 135 (8.37%) WAN
8 85 (5.27%) VLAN
9 70 (4.34%) VoIP
10 58 (3.60%) TCP/IP
11 57 (3.53%) SAN
12 34 (2.11%) Wireless
13 25 (1.55%) Network Security
14 20 (1.24%) SD-WAN
15 15 (0.93%) WLAN
16 10 (0.62%) Internet
16 10 (0.62%) Remote Desktop
17 8 (0.50%) SSL
18 7 (0.43%) NAS
19 5 (0.31%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (4.15%) SQL Server
2 16 (0.99%) Power BI
3 3 (0.19%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (0.19%) MySQL
4 1 (0.062%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 36 (2.23%) JIRA
2 8 (0.50%) Chocolatey
3 4 (0.25%) GitLab
4 1 (0.062%) Git
4 1 (0.062%) LabVIEW
General
1 354 (21.95%) Social Skills
2 82 (5.08%) Finance
3 66 (4.09%) Analytical Skills
4 61 (3.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 56 (3.47%) Organisational Skills
6 51 (3.16%) Manufacturing
7 46 (2.85%) Law
8 45 (2.79%) Legal
9 39 (2.42%) Multimedia
9 39 (2.42%) Telecoms
10 38 (2.36%) Retail
11 22 (1.36%) Public Sector
12 15 (0.93%) Advertising
13 14 (0.87%) Automotive
14 12 (0.74%) Banking
15 6 (0.37%) Games
16 5 (0.31%) Local Government
16 5 (0.31%) Social Housing
17 4 (0.25%) Dutch Language
17 4 (0.25%) Portuguese Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (0.43%) HTML
2 5 (0.31%) CSS
2 5 (0.31%) JSON
3 4 (0.25%) OpenTelemetry
4 3 (0.19%) .NET
4 3 (0.19%) Web Services
5 1 (0.062%) AVA JavaScript Test Runner
5 1 (0.062%) LangChain
5 1 (0.062%) LangGraph
5 1 (0.062%) OAuth
5 1 (0.062%) OpenID
5 1 (0.062%) React
5 1 (0.062%) SAML
5 1 (0.062%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 209 (12.96%) Driving Licence
2 68 (4.22%) Onboarding
3 44 (2.73%) Self-Motivation
4 29 (1.80%) Analytical Mindset
5 28 (1.74%) Data Centre
6 27 (1.67%) CCTV
7 12 (0.74%) Management Information System
8 11 (0.68%) FMCG
8 11 (0.68%) Security Posture
8 11 (0.68%) Social Media
9 10 (0.62%) NHS
10 9 (0.56%) iPhone
10 9 (0.56%) Replication
10 9 (0.56%) Smartphone
10 9 (0.56%) Video Conferencing
11 8 (0.50%) Cyber Threat
11 8 (0.50%) Linux Command Line
12 7 (0.43%) Clustering
12 7 (0.43%) Enterprise Software
12 7 (0.43%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 602 (37.32%) Windows
2 316 (19.59%) Windows Server
3 155 (9.61%) Windows 10
4 96 (5.95%) Mac OS
5 72 (4.46%) Linux
6 59 (3.66%) Windows Server 2019
7 53 (3.29%) Windows Server 2016
8 37 (2.29%) Apple iOS
9 34 (2.11%) Android
10 23 (1.43%) Windows Server 2012
11 15 (0.93%) Windows 7
12 10 (0.62%) Windows 8
13 9 (0.56%) Mac OS X
14 4 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 4 (0.25%) Ubuntu
14 4 (0.25%) Windows Server 2008
15 1 (0.062%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 394 (24.43%) Problem-Solving
2 306 (18.97%) Customer Service
3 168 (10.42%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 143 (8.87%) ITIL
5 135 (8.37%) Cybersecurity
6 91 (5.64%) Mentoring
7 90 (5.58%) ITSM
8 81 (5.02%) Disaster Recovery
9 74 (4.59%) Service Delivery
10 62 (3.84%) Continuous Improvement
10 62 (3.84%) Remote Monitoring and Management
11 53 (3.29%) Project Delivery
12 46 (2.85%) Change Management
12 46 (2.85%) Service Management
13 45 (2.79%) Migration
14 44 (2.73%) Time Management
15 40 (2.48%) Root Cause Analysis
16 37 (2.29%) Process Improvement
17 35 (2.17%) Business Continuity
17 35 (2.17%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 91 (5.64%) PowerShell
2 47 (2.91%) SQL
3 10 (0.62%) Bash
3 10 (0.62%) Python
4 5 (0.31%) VB
5 4 (0.25%) C#
5 4 (0.25%) PHP
5 4 (0.25%) R
6 3 (0.19%) JavaScript
6 3 (0.19%) Uniface
6 3 (0.19%) VBA
7 2 (0.12%) Google Apps Script
7 2 (0.12%) VBScript
8 1 (0.062%) Java
8 1 (0.062%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 116 (7.19%) Degree
2 104 (6.45%) Microsoft Certification
3 73 (4.53%) Security Cleared
4 59 (3.66%) DBS Check
5 45 (2.79%) SC Cleared
6 44 (2.73%) Cisco Certification
7 43 (2.67%) CCNA
8 38 (2.36%) A+ Certification
9 33 (2.05%) Network+ Certification
10 28 (1.74%) Azure Certification
11 22 (1.36%) BPSS Clearance
12 19 (1.18%) MCSE
13 17 (1.05%) CompTIA Security+
14 16 (0.99%) DV Cleared
15 14 (0.87%) Computer Science Degree
16 7 (0.43%) CCNP
17 5 (0.31%) MCITP
17 5 (0.31%) MCSA
18 4 (0.25%) PMI Certification
19 3 (0.19%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (4.84%) SLA
2 68 (4.22%) Cyber Essentials
3 51 (3.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 28 (1.74%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 12 (0.74%) GDPR
6 9 (0.56%) NIST
7 7 (0.43%) QA
8 5 (0.31%) Accessibility
8 5 (0.31%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.062%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.062%) SOC 2
System Software
1 505 (31.31%) Active Directory
2 136 (8.43%) Hyper-V
3 98 (6.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (1.12%) Virtual Desktop
5 15 (0.93%) VMware ESXi
6 9 (0.56%) Docker
7 7 (0.43%) VMware Workstation
7 7 (0.43%) vSphere
8 6 (0.37%) Terminal Services
9 5 (0.31%) BitLocker
10 4 (0.25%) VMware NSX
11 3 (0.19%) Firmware
12 1 (0.062%) Virtual Machines
12 1 (0.062%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 198 (12.28%) Microsoft Intune
2 35 (2.17%) SCCM
3 21 (1.30%) Autotask
3 21 (1.30%) Jamf Pro
4 19 (1.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 18 (1.12%) WSUS
6 13 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
7 10 (0.62%) FortiGate
8 5 (0.31%) Terraform
9 4 (0.25%) Ansible
9 4 (0.25%) SmoothWall
10 3 (0.19%) Failover Clustering
11 1 (0.062%) Kubernetes
11 1 (0.062%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 664 (41.17%) Microsoft
2 159 (9.86%) VMware
3 74 (4.59%) Google
4 60 (3.72%) Fortinet
5 51 (3.16%) Apple
6 48 (2.98%) Cisco
7 43 (2.67%) Meraki
8 39 (2.42%) Fujitsu
8 39 (2.42%) Virgin Media
9 30 (1.86%) Veeam
10 25 (1.55%) Dell
11 21 (1.30%) Datto
11 21 (1.30%) SonicWALL
12 20 (1.24%) HP
12 20 (1.24%) Ubiquiti
13 19 (1.18%) Sophos
14 13 (0.81%) Epicor
15 11 (0.68%) ConnectWise
15 11 (0.68%) Draytek
16 10 (0.62%) Citrix