IT Engineer Job Trends in England

IT Engineer
UK > England

The median IT Engineer salary in England is £32,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 25 December 2025.

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

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 177 175 162
Rank change year-on-year -2 -13 +125
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 730 858 894
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.39% 1.70% 2.02%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.54% 1.83% 2.12%
Number of salaries quoted 627 510 817
10th Percentile £25,750 £25,750 £25,750
25th Percentile £28,000 £29,813 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £36,000 £35,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.72% +1.41% +7.58%
75th Percentile £40,375 £47,500 £48,250
90th Percentile £50,000 £57,500 £60,000
UK median annual salary £32,500 £36,000 £35,500
% change year-on-year -9.72% +1.41% +7.58%

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 47,494 46,967 42,139
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.60% 93.27% 95.04%
Number of salaries quoted 29,848 25,203 32,963
10th Percentile £28,500 £33,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £98,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £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 25 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 25 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 -33 177 £31,500 -10.00% 25
South East +23 167 £32,500 -13.33% 59
London +52 121 £40,000 -19.19% 40
East Midlands +5 120 £30,000 -1.64% 11
North of England +3 117 £32,500 -7.14% 65
South West +21 80 £35,000 -4.11% 42
East of England +35 73 £30,000 -7.69% 15
North West +8 58 £30,000 -20.53% 31
West Midlands -57 57 £37,500 +7.14% 14
Yorkshire +1 56 £35,750 +9.16% 31
North East +3 3 £47,500 +31.94% 8
IT Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 25 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.

1 411 (56.30%) Windows
2 407 (55.75%) Microsoft
3 404 (55.34%) Microsoft 365
4 333 (45.62%) Active Directory
5 296 (40.55%) Azure
6 255 (34.93%) Problem-Solving
7 239 (32.74%) Windows Server
8 180 (24.66%) Firewall
9 176 (24.11%) DNS
10 159 (21.78%) DHCP
11 158 (21.64%) Customer Service
12 150 (20.55%) Microsoft Intune
13 143 (19.59%) Entra ID
14 120 (16.44%) SharePoint
15 115 (15.75%) ITIL
15 115 (15.75%) VPN
16 104 (14.25%) VMware
17 96 (13.15%) Microsoft Exchange
18 95 (13.01%) Windows 10
19 91 (12.47%) Hyper-V
19 91 (12.47%) TCP/IP
20 88 (12.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
21 87 (11.92%) VLAN
22 84 (11.51%) Cybersecurity
23 81 (11.10%) Degree
24 71 (9.73%) VMware Infrastructure
25 69 (9.45%) Wi-Fi
26 65 (8.90%) Microsoft Certification
27 63 (8.63%) Microsoft Office
28 60 (8.22%) PowerShell

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
1 120 (16.44%) SharePoint
2 96 (13.15%) Microsoft Exchange
3 21 (2.88%) IIS
4 6 (0.82%) Confluence
5 3 (0.41%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.27%) Exchange Server 2007
6 2 (0.27%) Exchange Server 2010
6 2 (0.27%) Exchange Server 2013
7 1 (0.14%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 63 (8.63%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (1.92%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.41%) CINEMA 4D
5 2 (0.27%) Acrobat
6 1 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.14%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.14%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 9 (1.23%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.55%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.27%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.14%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 404 (55.34%) Microsoft 365
2 296 (40.55%) Azure
3 143 (19.59%) Entra ID
4 58 (7.95%) AWS
5 38 (5.21%) Google Workspace
6 29 (3.97%) OneDrive
6 29 (3.97%) SaaS
7 24 (3.29%) GCP
7 24 (3.29%) Power Platform
8 16 (2.19%) Azure DevOps
9 13 (1.78%) Power Automate
10 12 (1.64%) IaaS
11 11 (1.51%) PaaS
12 10 (1.37%) Datadog
13 8 (1.10%) Cloud Computing
14 6 (0.82%) iPaaS
14 6 (0.82%) Microsoft Copilot
14 6 (0.82%) Nutanix
15 5 (0.68%) Azure AI
15 5 (0.68%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 180 (24.66%) Firewall
2 176 (24.11%) DNS
3 159 (21.78%) DHCP
4 115 (15.75%) VPN
5 91 (12.47%) TCP/IP
6 87 (11.92%) VLAN
7 69 (9.45%) Wi-Fi
8 60 (8.22%) WAN
9 55 (7.53%) LAN
10 40 (5.48%) Wireless
11 35 (4.79%) VoIP
12 34 (4.66%) SAN
13 22 (3.01%) Network Security
14 11 (1.51%) IP Telephony
14 11 (1.51%) IPsec
14 11 (1.51%) SD-WAN
15 10 (1.37%) Remote Desktop
16 8 (1.10%) Internet
16 8 (1.10%) WLAN
17 6 (0.82%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (5.07%) SQL Server
2 19 (2.60%) Power BI
3 14 (1.92%) Amazon RDS
4 12 (1.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 7 (0.96%) Relational Database
6 4 (0.55%) NoSQL
7 3 (0.41%) DynamoDB
7 3 (0.41%) Mixpanel
7 3 (0.41%) MongoDB
7 3 (0.41%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (0.27%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.14%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 18 (2.47%) JIRA
2 5 (0.68%) Git
3 4 (0.55%) Chocolatey
4 3 (0.41%) Browser DevTools
4 3 (0.41%) Charles Proxy
4 3 (0.41%) Fiddler
4 3 (0.41%) Maven
4 3 (0.41%) Postman
4 3 (0.41%) Selenium
4 3 (0.41%) TestNG
4 3 (0.41%) WebDriver
4 3 (0.41%) Zephyr
5 2 (0.27%) Burp Suite
5 2 (0.27%) JMeter
5 2 (0.27%) LoadRunner
5 2 (0.27%) NeoLoad
5 2 (0.27%) Snyk
6 1 (0.14%) Bitbucket
General
1 261 (35.75%) Social Skills
2 61 (8.36%) Finance
3 51 (6.99%) Law
4 47 (6.44%) Manufacturing
5 46 (6.30%) Analytical Skills
6 44 (6.03%) Organisational Skills
7 28 (3.84%) Legal
8 26 (3.56%) Telecoms
9 24 (3.29%) Public Sector
10 18 (2.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 16 (2.19%) Electronics
12 15 (2.05%) Retail
13 10 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
14 8 (1.10%) Advertising
14 8 (1.10%) Marketing
15 5 (0.68%) Billing
15 5 (0.68%) Games
16 4 (0.55%) Banking
16 4 (0.55%) Dutch Language
16 4 (0.55%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (2.88%) .NET
2 15 (2.05%) .NET Framework
3 12 (1.64%) Entity Framework
3 12 (1.64%) WinForms
4 9 (1.23%) REST
5 7 (0.96%) ASP.NET
6 6 (0.82%) GraphQL
7 5 (0.68%) React
8 4 (0.55%) AngularJS
9 3 (0.41%) 802.1X
9 3 (0.41%) EDI
9 3 (0.41%) OAuth
10 2 (0.27%) OAuth2
11 1 (0.14%) AVA JavaScript Test Runner
11 1 (0.14%) Django
11 1 (0.14%) Flask
11 1 (0.14%) LAMP
11 1 (0.14%) Spring
11 1 (0.14%) Spring Boot
11 1 (0.14%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 112 (15.34%) Driving Licence
2 49 (6.71%) Onboarding
3 31 (4.25%) Self-Motivation
4 16 (2.19%) CCTV
4 16 (2.19%) Data Centre
5 15 (2.05%) Clustering
6 14 (1.92%) Analytical Mindset
6 14 (1.92%) Product Ownership
7 12 (1.64%) iPad
8 9 (1.23%) Smartphone
9 8 (1.10%) FMCG
9 8 (1.10%) Security Posture
10 7 (0.96%) CMDB
10 7 (0.96%) Enterprise Software
10 7 (0.96%) Hybrid Cloud
10 7 (0.96%) Virtual Team
11 6 (0.82%) iPhone
11 6 (0.82%) Management Information System
11 6 (0.82%) PMI
11 6 (0.82%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 411 (56.30%) Windows
2 239 (32.74%) Windows Server
3 95 (13.01%) Windows 10
4 51 (6.99%) Linux
5 49 (6.71%) Mac OS
6 34 (4.66%) Windows Server 2019
7 27 (3.70%) Windows Server 2016
8 19 (2.60%) Apple iOS
9 18 (2.47%) Android
10 11 (1.51%) Windows Server 2012
11 8 (1.10%) Mac OS X
12 6 (0.82%) VMS
12 6 (0.82%) Windows 7
13 5 (0.68%) Rocky
14 4 (0.55%) Windows 8
15 3 (0.41%) Debian
16 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 1 (0.14%) Solaris
16 1 (0.14%) Ubuntu
16 1 (0.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 255 (34.93%) Problem-Solving
2 158 (21.64%) Customer Service
3 115 (15.75%) ITIL
4 88 (12.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 84 (11.51%) Cybersecurity
6 57 (7.81%) Disaster Recovery
7 44 (6.03%) ITSM
8 41 (5.62%) Mentoring
9 39 (5.34%) Migration
10 38 (5.21%) Incident Management
11 37 (5.07%) Computer Science
11 37 (5.07%) Project Delivery
12 35 (4.79%) Continuous Improvement
13 32 (4.38%) Remote Monitoring and Management
14 31 (4.25%) Service Delivery
15 29 (3.97%) Process Improvement
16 28 (3.84%) Agile
16 28 (3.84%) Asset Management
16 28 (3.84%) Business Intelligence
16 28 (3.84%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 60 (8.22%) PowerShell
2 40 (5.48%) SQL
3 19 (2.60%) Python
4 18 (2.47%) C#
5 12 (1.64%) T-SQL
6 10 (1.37%) JavaScript
7 7 (0.96%) PL/SQL
7 7 (0.96%) VBScript
8 5 (0.68%) Java
9 4 (0.55%) Bash
10 2 (0.27%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.14%) Perl
11 1 (0.14%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.14%) VBA
Qualifications
1 81 (11.10%) Degree
2 65 (8.90%) Microsoft Certification
3 36 (4.93%) DBS Check
4 30 (4.11%) Cisco Certification
5 29 (3.97%) Computer Science Degree
6 27 (3.70%) CCNA
7 26 (3.56%) A+ Certification
8 21 (2.88%) MCP
8 21 (2.88%) Security Cleared
9 19 (2.60%) Azure Certification
10 17 (2.33%) MCSE
10 17 (2.33%) Network+ Certification
10 17 (2.33%) SC Cleared
11 15 (2.05%) BPSS Clearance
12 12 (1.64%) MCSA
13 9 (1.23%) CCNP
14 8 (1.10%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 8 (1.10%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 7 (0.96%) CISSP
15 7 (0.96%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (5.75%) Cyber Essentials
2 40 (5.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 38 (5.21%) SLA
4 27 (3.70%) GDPR
5 10 (1.37%) QA
6 6 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 6 (0.82%) NIST
7 5 (0.68%) Accessibility
8 3 (0.41%) Data Quality
8 3 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.27%) GxP
10 1 (0.14%) HIPAA
System Software
1 333 (45.62%) Active Directory
2 91 (12.47%) Hyper-V
3 71 (9.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (1.64%) Firmware
4 12 (1.64%) Virtual Desktop
5 11 (1.51%) Docker
6 6 (0.82%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.55%) VMware Workstation
9 2 (0.27%) BitLocker
9 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 2 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.27%) vSphere
9 2 (0.27%) XenDesktop
10 1 (0.14%) VMware Server
10 1 (0.14%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 150 (20.55%) Microsoft Intune
2 18 (2.47%) Kubernetes
3 17 (2.33%) SCCM
4 15 (2.05%) Autotask
5 13 (1.78%) Jamf Pro
6 8 (1.10%) vCenter Server
7 7 (0.96%) Failover Clustering
7 7 (0.96%) SmoothWall
8 6 (0.82%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 6 (0.82%) Ansible
8 6 (0.82%) WSUS
9 3 (0.41%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Clustering
10 2 (0.27%) NetBackup
10 2 (0.27%) Podman
10 2 (0.27%) Puppet
10 2 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.27%) WhatsUp Gold
11 1 (0.14%) QRadar
11 1 (0.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 407 (55.75%) Microsoft
2 104 (14.25%) VMware
3 50 (6.85%) Google
4 43 (5.89%) Apple
5 41 (5.62%) Cisco
6 40 (5.48%) Veeam
7 24 (3.29%) ServiceNow
8 22 (3.01%) Meraki
9 15 (2.05%) Adobe
9 15 (2.05%) Dell
10 13 (1.78%) Sophos
10 13 (1.78%) Zoho
11 12 (1.64%) Datto
11 12 (1.64%) Sage
11 12 (1.64%) Xamarin
12 11 (1.51%) Oracle
13 10 (1.37%) Draytek
13 10 (1.37%) SAP
13 10 (1.37%) WatchGuard
14 9 (1.23%) HP