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 31 May 2026.

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

6 months to
31 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 254 137
Rank change year-on-year +166 -117 +96
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 1,646 521 1,797
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.98% 1.34% 2.04%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.12% 1.49% 2.16%
Number of salaries quoted 1,416 374 1,591
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% -5.71%
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% -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 77,705 35,001 83,327
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.44% 89.71% 94.63%
Number of salaries quoted 52,976 20,178 62,800
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,500 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.61% +9.52% -13.32%
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 31 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 31 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 +106 372 £34,750 -6.08% 64
North of England +95 349 £32,940 +1.35% 38
Midlands +49 254 £32,500 -7.14% 29
East of England +94 238 £35,000 +16.67% 29
London +88 230 £40,000 -11.11% 30
South West +67 200 £35,000 +3.70% 26
North West +123 192 £33,970 +0.65% 22
Yorkshire +3 146 £33,500 +11.67% 12
West Midlands +23 128 £32,500 -7.14% 10
East Midlands +37 126 £30,000 -9.09% 19
North East -44 11 £30,000 -25.00% 6
IT Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 31 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.

1 709 (43.07%) Microsoft
2 708 (43.01%) Microsoft 365
3 637 (38.70%) Windows
4 526 (31.96%) Active Directory
5 453 (27.52%) Azure
6 410 (24.91%) Problem-Solving
7 336 (20.41%) Windows Server
8 318 (19.32%) Customer Service
9 291 (17.68%) Entra ID
10 277 (16.83%) Firewall
11 212 (12.88%) Microsoft Intune
12 206 (12.52%) DNS
13 195 (11.85%) Microsoft Exchange
14 192 (11.66%) VPN
15 186 (11.30%) SharePoint
16 183 (11.12%) DHCP
17 172 (10.45%) VMware
18 167 (10.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 160 (9.72%) Windows 10
20 152 (9.23%) Hyper-V
21 151 (9.17%) Wi-Fi
22 150 (9.11%) Cybersecurity
23 147 (8.93%) ITIL
24 141 (8.57%) LAN
25 140 (8.51%) WAN
26 120 (7.29%) Degree
27 118 (7.17%) Microsoft Office
28 110 (6.68%) VMware Infrastructure
29 106 (6.44%) Microsoft Certification
30 105 (6.38%) 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
1 195 (11.85%) Microsoft Exchange
2 186 (11.30%) 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
1 118 (7.17%) Microsoft Office
2 22 (1.34%) 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
1 708 (43.01%) Microsoft 365
2 453 (27.52%) Azure
3 291 (17.68%) Entra ID
4 72 (4.37%) Google Workspace
5 59 (3.58%) AWS
6 51 (3.10%) OneDrive
7 45 (2.73%) SaaS
8 26 (1.58%) PaaS
9 23 (1.40%) IaaS
10 20 (1.22%) 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 (0.43%) Datadog
13 7 (0.43%) OCI
14 6 (0.36%) Microsoft Copilot
15 5 (0.30%) GCP
15 5 (0.30%) Intacct
16 4 (0.24%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 277 (16.83%) Firewall
2 206 (12.52%) DNS
3 192 (11.66%) VPN
4 183 (11.12%) DHCP
5 151 (9.17%) Wi-Fi
6 141 (8.57%) LAN
7 140 (8.51%) WAN
8 89 (5.41%) VLAN
9 74 (4.50%) VoIP
10 65 (3.95%) TCP/IP
11 54 (3.28%) SAN
12 33 (2.00%) Wireless
13 25 (1.52%) Network Security
14 20 (1.22%) SD-WAN
15 16 (0.97%) WLAN
16 12 (0.73%) Remote Desktop
17 10 (0.61%) Internet
18 9 (0.55%) SSL
19 7 (0.43%) NAS
20 5 (0.30%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (4.07%) 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 (2.37%) JIRA
2 7 (0.43%) 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 (23.21%) Social Skills
2 77 (4.68%) Finance
3 63 (3.83%) Analytical Skills
4 59 (3.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 59 (3.58%) Organisational Skills
5 52 (3.16%) Manufacturing
6 45 (2.73%) Law
7 43 (2.61%) Legal
8 39 (2.37%) Multimedia
8 39 (2.37%) Telecoms
9 38 (2.31%) Retail
10 19 (1.15%) Public Sector
11 18 (1.09%) Advertising
12 14 (0.85%) Automotive
13 12 (0.73%) Banking
14 6 (0.36%) Games
15 5 (0.30%) Aerospace
15 5 (0.30%) Documentation Skills
15 5 (0.30%) Local Government
15 5 (0.30%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (0.55%) HTML
2 7 (0.43%) 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
1 218 (13.24%) Driving Licence
2 73 (4.43%) Onboarding
3 49 (2.98%) Self-Motivation
4 28 (1.70%) CCTV
5 27 (1.64%) Data Centre
6 25 (1.52%) 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 (0.49%) Hybrid Cloud
12 8 (0.49%) Linux Command Line
13 7 (0.43%) Cyber Threat
13 7 (0.43%) Enterprise Software
13 7 (0.43%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 637 (38.70%) Windows
2 336 (20.41%) Windows Server
3 160 (9.72%) Windows 10
4 105 (6.38%) Mac OS
5 85 (5.16%) Linux
6 65 (3.95%) Windows Server 2019
7 57 (3.46%) Windows Server 2016
8 37 (2.25%) Apple iOS
9 35 (2.13%) 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
1 410 (24.91%) Problem-Solving
2 318 (19.32%) Customer Service
3 167 (10.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 150 (9.11%) Cybersecurity
5 147 (8.93%) ITIL
6 93 (5.65%) ITSM
6 93 (5.65%) Mentoring
7 91 (5.53%) Disaster Recovery
8 82 (4.98%) Service Delivery
9 72 (4.37%) Continuous Improvement
10 66 (4.01%) Remote Monitoring and Management
11 56 (3.40%) Project Delivery
12 50 (3.04%) Service Management
13 48 (2.92%) Change Management
14 46 (2.79%) Migration
15 44 (2.67%) Root Cause Analysis
16 43 (2.61%) Time Management
17 39 (2.37%) Business Continuity
18 38 (2.31%) Process Improvement
19 34 (2.07%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 101 (6.14%) PowerShell
2 48 (2.92%) SQL
3 10 (0.61%) Bash
4 7 (0.43%) 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
8 2 (0.12%) Google Apps Script
8 2 (0.12%) VBScript
9 1 (0.061%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 120 (7.29%) Degree
2 106 (6.44%) Microsoft Certification
3 72 (4.37%) Security Cleared
4 67 (4.07%) DBS Check
5 44 (2.67%) SC Cleared
6 40 (2.43%) Cisco Certification
7 39 (2.37%) CCNA
8 35 (2.13%) 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 (0.43%) 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 77 (4.68%) Cyber Essentials
2 75 (4.56%) SLA
3 54 (3.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 31 (1.88%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 15 (0.91%) GDPR
6 9 (0.55%) NIST
7 7 (0.43%) QA
8 6 (0.36%) PCI DSS
9 5 (0.30%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.061%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.061%) SOC 2
System Software
1 526 (31.96%) Active Directory
2 152 (9.23%) Hyper-V
3 110 (6.68%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (1.15%) Virtual Desktop
5 15 (0.91%) VMware ESXi
6 10 (0.61%) Docker
7 8 (0.49%) vSphere
8 7 (0.43%) VMware Workstation
9 6 (0.36%) Terminal Services
10 5 (0.30%) BitLocker
11 4 (0.24%) Firmware
11 4 (0.24%) VMware NSX
12 2 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
13 1 (0.061%) Terminal Server
13 1 (0.061%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 212 (12.88%) Microsoft Intune
2 35 (2.13%) SCCM
3 24 (1.46%) Autotask
4 23 (1.40%) 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 (43.07%) Microsoft
2 172 (10.45%) VMware
3 78 (4.74%) Google
4 60 (3.65%) Fortinet
5 52 (3.16%) Cisco
6 50 (3.04%) Apple
7 46 (2.79%) Meraki
8 39 (2.37%) Fujitsu
8 39 (2.37%) Virgin Media
9 37 (2.25%) Veeam
10 24 (1.46%) Datto
10 24 (1.46%) SonicWALL
11 23 (1.40%) Ubiquiti
12 22 (1.34%) HP
13 21 (1.28%) Dell
14 20 (1.22%) Sophos
15 13 (0.79%) Epicor
16 12 (0.73%) ConnectWise
17 11 (0.67%) Draytek
18 10 (0.61%) Aruba