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 30 July 2026.

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

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 94 263 156
Rank change year-on-year +169 -107 +50
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 1,695 497 1,344
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.87% 1.14% 1.77%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.98% 1.26% 1.87%
Number of salaries quoted 1,478 386 1,073
10th Percentile £27,000 £25,750 £25,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £30,313 £28,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% +1.45%
75th Percentile £43,750 £49,688 £43,750
90th Percentile £56,250 £61,250 £53,750
UK median annual salary £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% +0.10%

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 85,729 39,343 71,903
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.41% 90.58% 94.68%
Number of salaries quoted 60,153 23,812 50,509
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £76,000 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £92,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% 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 30 July 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 30 July 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 +125 433 £35,000 -12.50% 69
North of England +75 301 £32,500 -1.52% 44
Midlands +74 260 £32,500 -13.33% 29
East of England +101 259 £35,000 -2.78% 46
South West +52 225 £35,000 -6.67% 19
London +70 216 £36,000 -15.79% 44
North West +109 170 £35,000 +7.69% 21
East Midlands +47 136 £35,000 +7.69% 16
West Midlands +52 124 £32,500 -23.53% 13
Yorkshire -6 116 £30,000 -7.69% 20
North East -46 15 £40,000 -17.95% 5
IT Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 30 July 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.

1 846 (49.91%) Microsoft
2 798 (47.08%) Microsoft 365
3 733 (43.24%) Windows
4 588 (34.69%) Active Directory
5 476 (28.08%) Azure
6 412 (24.31%) Problem-Solving
7 366 (21.59%) Windows Server
8 361 (21.30%) Entra ID
9 344 (20.29%) Customer Service
10 283 (16.70%) Firewall
11 275 (16.22%) Microsoft Exchange
12 266 (15.69%) Microsoft Intune
13 229 (13.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 222 (13.10%) DNS
15 215 (12.68%) SharePoint
16 192 (11.33%) VMware
17 191 (11.27%) Hyper-V
18 189 (11.15%) Cybersecurity
19 185 (10.91%) DHCP
20 182 (10.74%) VPN
21 156 (9.20%) Wi-Fi
22 152 (8.97%) ITIL
23 144 (8.50%) VMware Infrastructure
24 140 (8.26%) Windows 10
25 135 (7.96%) Disaster Recovery
26 127 (7.49%) Continuous Improvement
27 125 (7.37%) Mac OS
28 121 (7.14%) PowerShell
29 119 (7.02%) LAN
30 118 (6.96%) TCP/IP

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
1 275 (16.22%) Microsoft Exchange
2 215 (12.68%) SharePoint
3 17 (1.00%) IIS
4 14 (0.83%) Exchange Server 2013
5 12 (0.71%) Exchange Server 2007
5 12 (0.71%) Exchange Server 2010
6 9 (0.53%) Confluence
7 3 (0.18%) Apache
Applications
1 109 (6.43%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (1.12%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.18%) Photoshop
5 2 (0.12%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (0.35%) Raiser’s Edge
2 5 (0.29%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.18%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.12%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 798 (47.08%) Microsoft 365
2 476 (28.08%) Azure
3 361 (21.30%) Entra ID
4 56 (3.30%) Google Workspace
5 54 (3.19%) OneDrive
6 53 (3.13%) AWS
6 53 (3.13%) SaaS
7 29 (1.71%) Mimecast
8 20 (1.18%) Power Platform
9 18 (1.06%) PaaS
10 14 (0.83%) IaaS
11 13 (0.77%) Nutanix
11 13 (0.77%) Power Automate
12 11 (0.65%) Azure DevOps
13 7 (0.41%) Microsoft Copilot
13 7 (0.41%) PowerApps
14 6 (0.35%) Cloudflare
14 6 (0.35%) GCP
15 5 (0.29%) Cloud Computing
16 4 (0.24%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 283 (16.70%) Firewall
2 222 (13.10%) DNS
3 185 (10.91%) DHCP
4 182 (10.74%) VPN
5 156 (9.20%) Wi-Fi
6 119 (7.02%) LAN
7 118 (6.96%) TCP/IP
8 113 (6.67%) WAN
9 86 (5.07%) VLAN
10 80 (4.72%) VoIP
11 74 (4.37%) Wireless
12 49 (2.89%) SAN
13 30 (1.77%) Network Security
14 22 (1.30%) Internet
15 18 (1.06%) Remote Desktop
16 16 (0.94%) WLAN
17 13 (0.77%) SSL
18 7 (0.41%) NAS
18 7 (0.41%) SD-WAN
19 5 (0.29%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (4.07%) SQL Server
2 10 (0.59%) Azure SQL Database
2 10 (0.59%) Power BI
3 6 (0.35%) MySQL
4 5 (0.29%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (0.12%) KNIME
Development Applications
1 43 (2.54%) JIRA
2 2 (0.12%) GitLab
2 2 (0.12%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (0.059%) Carbide.c++
General
1 442 (26.08%) Social Skills
2 66 (3.89%) Manufacturing
3 65 (3.83%) Legal
4 64 (3.78%) Finance
5 62 (3.66%) Analytical Skills
6 57 (3.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 55 (3.24%) Organisational Skills
8 40 (2.36%) Retail
9 39 (2.30%) Law
10 31 (1.83%) Advertising
11 29 (1.71%) Telecoms
12 20 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
13 17 (1.00%) Automotive
14 8 (0.47%) Aerospace
14 8 (0.47%) Local Government
14 8 (0.47%) Public Sector
15 5 (0.29%) Banking
15 5 (0.29%) Games
16 4 (0.24%) Financial Institution
16 4 (0.24%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (0.53%) HTML
2 7 (0.41%) JSON
3 5 (0.29%) CSS
3 5 (0.29%) Web Services
4 2 (0.12%) EDI
4 2 (0.12%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (0.059%) LDAP
5 1 (0.059%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 208 (12.27%) Driving Licence
2 91 (5.37%) Onboarding
3 69 (4.07%) Self-Motivation
4 38 (2.24%) Data Centre
5 37 (2.18%) CCTV
6 17 (1.00%) Video Conferencing
7 15 (0.88%) Clustering
8 14 (0.83%) Hybrid Cloud
8 14 (0.83%) Security Posture
9 13 (0.77%) Analytical Mindset
10 12 (0.71%) Management Information System
10 12 (0.71%) Replication
11 11 (0.65%) Cloud Native
11 11 (0.65%) NHS
12 9 (0.53%) Operational Technology
12 9 (0.53%) PKI
13 8 (0.47%) FMCG
14 7 (0.41%) Cyber Threat
14 7 (0.41%) iPhone
14 7 (0.41%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 733 (43.24%) Windows
2 366 (21.59%) Windows Server
3 140 (8.26%) Windows 10
4 125 (7.37%) Mac OS
5 112 (6.61%) Linux
6 51 (3.01%) Windows Server 2019
7 48 (2.83%) Apple iOS
8 41 (2.42%) Windows Server 2016
9 39 (2.30%) Android
10 18 (1.06%) Windows Server 2012
11 15 (0.88%) Windows 7
12 9 (0.53%) Mac OS X
12 9 (0.53%) Ubuntu
12 9 (0.53%) Windows 8
13 5 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 4 (0.24%) Windows Server 2008
15 2 (0.12%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 412 (24.31%) Problem-Solving
2 344 (20.29%) Customer Service
3 229 (13.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 189 (11.15%) Cybersecurity
5 152 (8.97%) ITIL
6 135 (7.96%) Disaster Recovery
7 127 (7.49%) Continuous Improvement
8 87 (5.13%) ITSM
9 86 (5.07%) Service Delivery
10 85 (5.01%) Project Delivery
11 66 (3.89%) Service Management
12 63 (3.72%) Remote Monitoring and Management
13 59 (3.48%) Change Management
14 57 (3.36%) Mentoring
15 50 (2.95%) Business Continuity
15 50 (2.95%) Root Cause Analysis
16 41 (2.42%) Collaborative Culture
16 41 (2.42%) Process Improvement
16 41 (2.42%) User Experience
17 40 (2.36%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 121 (7.14%) PowerShell
2 57 (3.36%) SQL
3 12 (0.71%) Python
4 10 (0.59%) R
5 8 (0.47%) Ruby
6 4 (0.24%) VBScript
7 3 (0.18%) Bicep
7 3 (0.18%) C#
7 3 (0.18%) JavaScript
7 3 (0.18%) PHP
7 3 (0.18%) VB
7 3 (0.18%) VBA
8 2 (0.12%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.059%) Bash
9 1 (0.059%) Java
9 1 (0.059%) Uniface
Qualifications
1 113 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 112 (6.61%) Degree
3 71 (4.19%) DBS Check
4 62 (3.66%) Security Cleared
5 48 (2.83%) Cisco Certification
6 46 (2.71%) CCNA
7 36 (2.12%) SC Cleared
8 32 (1.89%) Azure Certification
9 30 (1.77%) A+ Certification
10 24 (1.42%) Network+ Certification
11 16 (0.94%) CompTIA Security+
12 14 (0.83%) DV Cleared
13 13 (0.77%) MCSE
14 9 (0.53%) BPSS Clearance
15 7 (0.41%) AWS Certification
16 6 (0.35%) CCNP
16 6 (0.35%) MCSA
17 4 (0.24%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 4 (0.24%) MCITP
17 4 (0.24%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (5.96%) Cyber Essentials
2 55 (3.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 55 (3.24%) SLA
3 32 (1.89%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 25 (1.47%) GDPR
5 11 (0.65%) PCI DSS
6 6 (0.35%) NIST
7 4 (0.24%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.12%) QA
9 1 (0.059%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.059%) NCSC
9 1 (0.059%) TickIT
System Software
1 588 (34.69%) Active Directory
2 191 (11.27%) Hyper-V
3 144 (8.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (0.88%) VMware ESXi
5 13 (0.77%) Docker
5 13 (0.77%) Virtual Desktop
5 13 (0.77%) Virtual Machines
5 13 (0.77%) vSphere
6 8 (0.47%) BitLocker
7 5 (0.29%) Firmware
7 5 (0.29%) Terminal Services
7 5 (0.29%) VMware Workstation
8 2 (0.12%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.059%) Terminal Server
9 1 (0.059%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 266 (15.69%) Microsoft Intune
2 30 (1.77%) SCCM
3 27 (1.59%) Jamf Pro
4 25 (1.47%) Autotask
5 16 (0.94%) WSUS
6 10 (0.59%) Failover Clustering
7 8 (0.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 7 (0.41%) FortiGate
9 6 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
10 5 (0.29%) Terraform
11 4 (0.24%) Ansible
11 4 (0.24%) Iperf
11 4 (0.24%) Kubernetes
12 2 (0.12%) PaperCut
13 1 (0.059%) Argo
13 1 (0.059%) Nessus
13 1 (0.059%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 846 (49.91%) Microsoft
2 192 (11.33%) VMware
3 76 (4.48%) Cisco
4 63 (3.72%) Google
5 50 (2.95%) Veeam
6 43 (2.54%) Meraki
7 38 (2.24%) Apple
7 38 (2.24%) SonicWALL
8 36 (2.12%) Ubiquiti
9 35 (2.06%) HP
10 25 (1.47%) Dell
10 25 (1.47%) Sophos
11 22 (1.30%) Datto
12 19 (1.12%) Fortinet
13 17 (1.00%) Aruba
14 13 (0.77%) ServiceNow
15 12 (0.71%) Draytek
15 12 (0.71%) Logitech
15 12 (0.71%) TOWER Software
16 11 (0.65%) ConnectWise