IT Engineer Job Trends in England

IT Engineer
UK > England

The median IT Engineer salary in England is £34,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 May 2026.

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

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 93 205 136
Rank change year-on-year +112 -69 +102
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 1,507 595 1,763
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.88% 1.57% 2.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.03% 1.77% 2.24%
Number of salaries quoted 1,289 418 1,584
10th Percentile £26,250 £25,750 £24,000
25th Percentile £29,000 £27,500 £26,713
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £34,500 £35,000 £33,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.43% +6.06% -4.35%
75th Percentile £42,500 £43,750 £43,125
90th Percentile £53,750 £53,975 £50,925
UK median annual salary £34,500 £35,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year -1.43% +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 74,248 33,643 78,805
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.86% 88.94% 94.42%
Number of salaries quoted 48,779 21,258 60,122
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,000 £38,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% -10.84%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £72,433
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £91,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £59,800 £53,000
% change year-on-year -8.03% +12.83% -11.67%

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 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 1 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 +78 355 £34,000 -2.86% 56
North of England +67 320 £32,500 -1.52% 52
Midlands -3 261 £32,500 -7.14% 34
East of England +61 201 £32,500 +10.17% 42
London +49 198 £40,000 -15.79% 24
North West +82 173 £32,500 -7.14% 26
South West +49 169 £35,000 +4.48% 33
East Midlands +9 140 £30,000 - 20
Yorkshire +9 138 £32,500 +11.11% 25
West Midlands -24 121 £32,500 -7.14% 14
North East -37 9 £30,000 -20.00% 4
IT Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 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.

1 652 (43.26%) Microsoft 365
2 650 (43.13%) Microsoft
3 596 (39.55%) Windows
4 507 (33.64%) Active Directory
5 402 (26.68%) Azure
6 383 (25.41%) Problem-Solving
7 318 (21.10%) Windows Server
8 288 (19.11%) Customer Service
9 249 (16.52%) Entra ID
10 244 (16.19%) Firewall
11 196 (13.01%) DNS
12 189 (12.54%) Microsoft Intune
13 178 (11.81%) DHCP
14 170 (11.28%) VPN
15 168 (11.15%) Windows 10
16 159 (10.55%) SharePoint
17 154 (10.22%) Microsoft Exchange
18 152 (10.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 151 (10.02%) ITIL
20 143 (9.49%) VMware
21 136 (9.02%) LAN
22 134 (8.89%) WAN
23 129 (8.56%) Wi-Fi
24 125 (8.29%) Microsoft Office
25 124 (8.23%) Cybersecurity
26 118 (7.83%) Hyper-V
27 100 (6.64%) Degree
28 96 (6.37%) Microsoft Certification
29 93 (6.17%) ITSM
30 90 (5.97%) Mentoring

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
1 159 (10.55%) SharePoint
2 154 (10.22%) Microsoft Exchange
3 14 (0.93%) Confluence
4 10 (0.66%) Exchange Server 2013
5 8 (0.53%) Exchange Server 2007
5 8 (0.53%) Exchange Server 2010
6 6 (0.40%) IIS
Applications
1 125 (8.29%) Microsoft Office
2 21 (1.39%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.20%) Photoshop
5 2 (0.13%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.066%) Acrobat
6 1 (0.066%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 7 (0.46%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.33%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.066%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 652 (43.26%) Microsoft 365
2 402 (26.68%) Azure
3 249 (16.52%) Entra ID
4 72 (4.78%) Google Workspace
5 57 (3.78%) AWS
6 44 (2.92%) OneDrive
7 41 (2.72%) SaaS
8 27 (1.79%) PaaS
9 24 (1.59%) IaaS
10 21 (1.39%) Power Platform
11 13 (0.86%) Mimecast
11 13 (0.86%) PowerApps
12 10 (0.66%) Azure DevOps
13 9 (0.60%) Azure Sentinel
13 9 (0.60%) Datadog
14 8 (0.53%) Power Automate
15 7 (0.46%) OCI
16 6 (0.40%) GCP
17 5 (0.33%) Intacct
17 5 (0.33%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 244 (16.19%) Firewall
2 196 (13.01%) DNS
3 178 (11.81%) DHCP
4 170 (11.28%) VPN
5 136 (9.02%) LAN
6 134 (8.89%) WAN
7 129 (8.56%) Wi-Fi
8 83 (5.51%) VLAN
9 69 (4.58%) VoIP
10 63 (4.18%) TCP/IP
11 45 (2.99%) SAN
12 34 (2.26%) Wireless
13 24 (1.59%) Network Security
14 22 (1.46%) SD-WAN
15 11 (0.73%) Internet
15 11 (0.73%) WLAN
16 10 (0.66%) Remote Desktop
17 7 (0.46%) NAS
18 6 (0.40%) IP Telephony
18 6 (0.40%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (4.25%) SQL Server
2 21 (1.39%) Power BI
3 3 (0.20%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (0.20%) MySQL
4 1 (0.066%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.066%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.066%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 36 (2.39%) JIRA
2 8 (0.53%) Chocolatey
3 4 (0.27%) GitLab
4 1 (0.066%) Git
4 1 (0.066%) LabVIEW
General
1 348 (23.09%) Social Skills
2 83 (5.51%) Finance
3 68 (4.51%) Organisational Skills
4 56 (3.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 55 (3.65%) Analytical Skills
6 52 (3.45%) Manufacturing
7 50 (3.32%) Law
8 40 (2.65%) Retail
9 39 (2.59%) Legal
9 39 (2.59%) Multimedia
10 38 (2.52%) Telecoms
11 22 (1.46%) Public Sector
12 13 (0.86%) Advertising
12 13 (0.86%) Automotive
13 9 (0.60%) Banking
14 8 (0.53%) Games
15 6 (0.40%) Electronics
16 5 (0.33%) Dutch Language
16 5 (0.33%) Social Housing
16 5 (0.33%) Spanish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (0.33%) CSS
1 5 (0.33%) HTML
2 4 (0.27%) .NET
2 4 (0.27%) OpenTelemetry
3 3 (0.20%) JSON
3 3 (0.20%) Web Services
4 1 (0.066%) .NET Framework
4 1 (0.066%) ASP.NET
4 1 (0.066%) AVA JavaScript Test Runner
4 1 (0.066%) Entity Framework
4 1 (0.066%) LangChain
4 1 (0.066%) LangGraph
4 1 (0.066%) OAuth
4 1 (0.066%) OpenID
4 1 (0.066%) React
4 1 (0.066%) SAML
4 1 (0.066%) Software Packaging
4 1 (0.066%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 206 (13.67%) Driving Licence
2 70 (4.64%) Onboarding
3 46 (3.05%) Self-Motivation
4 28 (1.86%) CCTV
5 25 (1.66%) Analytical Mindset
6 18 (1.19%) Data Centre
7 11 (0.73%) FMCG
7 11 (0.73%) Security Posture
7 11 (0.73%) Social Media
8 10 (0.66%) Smartphone
9 9 (0.60%) iPad
9 9 (0.60%) iPhone
10 8 (0.53%) Cyber Threat
10 8 (0.53%) Fat Client
10 8 (0.53%) Linux Command Line
10 8 (0.53%) Thin Client
11 7 (0.46%) Enterprise Software
11 7 (0.46%) Management Information System
11 7 (0.46%) Operational Technology
12 6 (0.40%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 596 (39.55%) Windows
2 318 (21.10%) Windows Server
3 168 (11.15%) Windows 10
4 83 (5.51%) Mac OS
5 56 (3.72%) Linux
6 49 (3.25%) Windows Server 2019
7 47 (3.12%) Windows Server 2016
8 39 (2.59%) Apple iOS
9 34 (2.26%) Android
10 23 (1.53%) Windows Server 2012
11 13 (0.86%) Windows 7
12 10 (0.66%) Mac OS X
13 8 (0.53%) Windows 8
14 4 (0.27%) Ubuntu
14 4 (0.27%) Windows Server 2008
15 2 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 1 (0.066%) Solaris
16 1 (0.066%) Unix
16 1 (0.066%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 383 (25.41%) Problem-Solving
2 288 (19.11%) Customer Service
3 152 (10.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 151 (10.02%) ITIL
5 124 (8.23%) Cybersecurity
6 93 (6.17%) ITSM
7 90 (5.97%) Mentoring
8 76 (5.04%) Disaster Recovery
9 64 (4.25%) Service Delivery
10 59 (3.92%) Remote Monitoring and Management
11 54 (3.58%) Continuous Improvement
12 48 (3.19%) Migration
13 46 (3.05%) Service Management
14 43 (2.85%) Time Management
15 42 (2.79%) Change Management
16 40 (2.65%) Process Improvement
16 40 (2.65%) Root Cause Analysis
17 39 (2.59%) Asset Management
17 39 (2.59%) Project Delivery
18 36 (2.39%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 76 (5.04%) PowerShell
2 43 (2.85%) SQL
3 10 (0.66%) Bash
3 10 (0.66%) Python
4 5 (0.33%) C#
4 5 (0.33%) VB
5 4 (0.27%) PHP
5 4 (0.27%) R
6 3 (0.20%) JavaScript
6 3 (0.20%) Uniface
6 3 (0.20%) VBA
7 2 (0.13%) Google Apps Script
8 1 (0.066%) Java
8 1 (0.066%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.066%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.066%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.066%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 100 (6.64%) Degree
2 96 (6.37%) Microsoft Certification
3 72 (4.78%) Security Cleared
4 57 (3.78%) DBS Check
5 45 (2.99%) SC Cleared
6 37 (2.46%) Cisco Certification
7 36 (2.39%) A+ Certification
7 36 (2.39%) CCNA
8 26 (1.73%) Network+ Certification
9 21 (1.39%) Azure Certification
10 20 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
11 16 (1.06%) Computer Science Degree
11 16 (1.06%) MCSE
12 15 (1.00%) DV Cleared
13 12 (0.80%) CompTIA Security+
14 9 (0.60%) CCNP
15 6 (0.40%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 6 (0.40%) MCITP
15 6 (0.40%) MCSA
15 6 (0.40%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 85 (5.64%) SLA
2 57 (3.78%) Cyber Essentials
3 47 (3.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 23 (1.53%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 12 (0.80%) GDPR
6 9 (0.60%) NIST
7 7 (0.46%) QA
8 3 (0.20%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.13%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.066%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.066%) SOC 2
System Software
1 507 (33.64%) Active Directory
2 118 (7.83%) Hyper-V
3 83 (5.51%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (1.19%) Virtual Desktop
5 13 (0.86%) VMware ESXi
6 10 (0.66%) Docker
7 8 (0.53%) VMware Workstation
8 7 (0.46%) vSphere
9 5 (0.33%) Terminal Services
10 4 (0.27%) VMware NSX
11 3 (0.20%) BitLocker
11 3 (0.20%) Firmware
12 2 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
13 1 (0.066%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 189 (12.54%) Microsoft Intune
2 33 (2.19%) SCCM
3 21 (1.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 20 (1.33%) Autotask
5 19 (1.26%) WSUS
6 17 (1.13%) Jamf Pro
7 12 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
8 10 (0.66%) FortiGate
9 5 (0.33%) Ansible
9 5 (0.33%) SmoothWall
10 3 (0.20%) Terraform
11 1 (0.066%) Kubernetes
11 1 (0.066%) Podman
11 1 (0.066%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 650 (43.13%) Microsoft
2 143 (9.49%) VMware
3 77 (5.11%) Google
4 60 (3.98%) Fortinet
5 52 (3.45%) Apple
6 43 (2.85%) Cisco
7 39 (2.59%) Fujitsu
7 39 (2.59%) Virgin Media
8 37 (2.46%) Meraki
9 22 (1.46%) Dell
10 20 (1.33%) Veeam
11 19 (1.26%) Datto
12 18 (1.19%) HP
12 18 (1.19%) Sophos
13 15 (1.00%) SonicWALL
14 13 (0.86%) Draytek
14 13 (0.86%) Epicor
14 13 (0.86%) Ubiquiti
15 12 (0.80%) ServiceNow
16 11 (0.73%) Citrix