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 17 September 2026.

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

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 275 169
Rank change year-on-year +159 -106 +20
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 1,658 459 1,075
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.64% 1.06% 1.56%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.75% 1.18% 1.64%
Number of salaries quoted 1,435 344 780
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,000 £26,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £30,500 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £39,000 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.26% +4.00% +7.14%
75th Percentile £44,250 £49,000 £46,563
90th Percentile £57,500 £61,250 £55,325
UK median annual salary £35,000 £37,500 £36,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +4.17% +2.86%

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 94,661 39,021 65,407
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.38% 90.42% 95.19%
Number of salaries quoted 66,722 23,411 39,739
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,300 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,500 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,853 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.82% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £93,750
UK median annual salary £59,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.27% - -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 17 September 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 17 September 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 +128 390 £38,500 -3.75% 94
Midlands +71 288 £34,750 -7.33% 66
East of England +107 267 £35,000 -3.45% 37
North of England +45 259 £32,940 -5.89% 74
South West +45 234 £35,000 -12.50% 35
London +55 218 £36,000 -20.00% 131
North West +79 145 £33,500 -4.29% 48
West Midlands +52 144 £34,500 -27.37% 32
East Midlands +27 144 £35,000 +7.69% 34
Yorkshire -21 96 £30,000 -9.09% 18
North East -53 18 £40,000 -17.95% 8
IT Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 17 September 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.

1 887 (53.50%) Microsoft
2 810 (48.85%) Microsoft 365
3 765 (46.14%) Windows
4 599 (36.13%) Active Directory
5 473 (28.53%) Azure
6 413 (24.91%) Problem-Solving
7 393 (23.70%) Windows Server
8 390 (23.52%) Entra ID
9 358 (21.59%) Customer Service
10 304 (18.34%) Firewall
11 291 (17.55%) Microsoft Intune
12 287 (17.31%) Microsoft Exchange
13 266 (16.04%) DNS
14 250 (15.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 249 (15.02%) SharePoint
16 239 (14.41%) Cybersecurity
17 228 (13.75%) DHCP
18 213 (12.85%) Hyper-V
19 211 (12.73%) VPN
20 205 (12.36%) VMware
21 167 (10.07%) Wi-Fi
22 162 (9.77%) TCP/IP
23 156 (9.41%) VMware Infrastructure
24 154 (9.29%) Continuous Improvement
25 147 (8.87%) ITIL
26 141 (8.50%) Windows 10
27 140 (8.44%) Disaster Recovery
28 132 (7.96%) Degree
29 128 (7.72%) Linux
30 125 (7.54%) 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
1 287 (17.31%) Microsoft Exchange
2 249 (15.02%) SharePoint
3 23 (1.39%) IIS
4 9 (0.54%) Exchange Server 2013
5 7 (0.42%) Exchange Server 2007
5 7 (0.42%) Exchange Server 2010
6 6 (0.36%) Apache
7 4 (0.24%) Confluence
Applications
1 83 (5.01%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (0.97%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.18%) Photoshop
5 2 (0.12%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (0.36%) Raiser’s Edge
2 3 (0.18%) NetSuite
2 3 (0.18%) Shopify
3 2 (0.12%) Sage 200
4 1 (0.060%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.060%) Eikon
Cloud Services
1 810 (48.85%) Microsoft 365
2 473 (28.53%) Azure
3 390 (23.52%) Entra ID
4 75 (4.52%) OneDrive
5 52 (3.14%) AWS
6 50 (3.02%) Google Workspace
7 46 (2.77%) SaaS
8 33 (1.99%) Mimecast
9 28 (1.69%) Power Platform
10 17 (1.03%) Power Automate
11 14 (0.84%) Nutanix
12 13 (0.78%) Dynamics 365
12 13 (0.78%) PaaS
13 10 (0.60%) Azure DevOps
13 10 (0.60%) IaaS
14 7 (0.42%) PowerApps
15 6 (0.36%) Cloud Computing
15 6 (0.36%) Cloudflare
16 5 (0.30%) Microsoft Purview
17 4 (0.24%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 304 (18.34%) Firewall
2 266 (16.04%) DNS
3 228 (13.75%) DHCP
4 211 (12.73%) VPN
5 167 (10.07%) Wi-Fi
6 162 (9.77%) TCP/IP
7 117 (7.06%) VLAN
8 104 (6.27%) Wireless
9 100 (6.03%) LAN
10 93 (5.61%) WAN
11 91 (5.49%) VoIP
12 48 (2.90%) SAN
13 34 (2.05%) Network Security
14 23 (1.39%) Internet
15 20 (1.21%) SSL
16 19 (1.15%) WLAN
17 14 (0.84%) Remote Desktop
18 8 (0.48%) PBX
18 8 (0.48%) Structured Cabling
19 7 (0.42%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (4.22%) SQL Server
2 10 (0.60%) Azure SQL Database
3 9 (0.54%) MySQL
4 7 (0.42%) Power BI
5 4 (0.24%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.12%) KNIME
Development Applications
1 36 (2.17%) JIRA
2 3 (0.18%) Burp Suite
2 3 (0.18%) Metasploit
3 2 (0.12%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.060%) Carbide.c++
General
1 489 (29.49%) Social Skills
2 75 (4.52%) Analytical Skills
3 74 (4.46%) Manufacturing
4 73 (4.40%) Legal
5 56 (3.38%) Finance
6 53 (3.20%) Organisational Skills
7 42 (2.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 38 (2.29%) Retail
9 37 (2.23%) Advertising
10 32 (1.93%) Telecoms
11 25 (1.51%) Law
12 24 (1.45%) Documentation Skills
13 20 (1.21%) Public Sector
14 17 (1.03%) Automotive
15 13 (0.78%) Games
16 9 (0.54%) Aerospace
17 7 (0.42%) Local Government
18 6 (0.36%) Banking
18 6 (0.36%) Police
19 4 (0.24%) Aviation
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (0.54%) HTML
2 7 (0.42%) JSON
3 5 (0.30%) CSS
4 4 (0.24%) .NET
4 4 (0.24%) ASP.NET Web Forms
4 4 (0.24%) Terraform
4 4 (0.24%) Web Services
4 4 (0.24%) WinForms
5 2 (0.12%) EDI
5 2 (0.12%) LDAP
5 2 (0.12%) SAML
6 1 (0.060%) 802.1X
6 1 (0.060%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 219 (13.21%) Driving Licence
2 98 (5.91%) Onboarding
3 76 (4.58%) Self-Motivation
4 42 (2.53%) CCTV
5 39 (2.35%) Data Centre
6 27 (1.63%) Operational Technology
7 19 (1.15%) Replication
7 19 (1.15%) Video Conferencing
8 18 (1.09%) Hybrid Cloud
9 16 (0.97%) Management Information System
10 15 (0.90%) Analytical Mindset
10 15 (0.90%) Clustering
11 12 (0.72%) Cyber Threat
12 11 (0.66%) Cloud Native
13 10 (0.60%) Security Posture
14 8 (0.48%) PKI
15 7 (0.42%) EPoS
15 7 (0.42%) FMCG
15 7 (0.42%) NHS
16 6 (0.36%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 765 (46.14%) Windows
2 393 (23.70%) Windows Server
3 141 (8.50%) Windows 10
4 128 (7.72%) Linux
5 108 (6.51%) Mac OS
6 48 (2.90%) Apple iOS
7 46 (2.77%) Windows Server 2019
8 43 (2.59%) Android
9 35 (2.11%) Windows Server 2016
10 17 (1.03%) Ubuntu
11 14 (0.84%) Windows Server 2012
12 6 (0.36%) Windows 7
13 5 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 5 (0.30%) Rocky
14 4 (0.24%) Mac OS X
14 4 (0.24%) Windows 8
15 3 (0.18%) Kali Linux
15 3 (0.18%) Unix
15 3 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
16 2 (0.12%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 413 (24.91%) Problem-Solving
2 358 (21.59%) Customer Service
3 250 (15.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 239 (14.41%) Cybersecurity
5 154 (9.29%) Continuous Improvement
6 147 (8.87%) ITIL
7 140 (8.44%) Disaster Recovery
8 96 (5.79%) Project Delivery
9 81 (4.89%) Service Delivery
10 79 (4.76%) ITSM
11 65 (3.92%) Mentoring
12 59 (3.56%) Remote Monitoring and Management
12 59 (3.56%) Service Management
13 51 (3.08%) Business Continuity
14 50 (3.02%) Change Management
15 48 (2.90%) User Experience
16 47 (2.83%) Migration
17 42 (2.53%) Collaborative Culture
18 40 (2.41%) Identity Management
19 39 (2.35%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 125 (7.54%) PowerShell
2 53 (3.20%) SQL
3 12 (0.72%) Python
4 10 (0.60%) R
4 10 (0.60%) Ruby
5 7 (0.42%) C#
6 4 (0.24%) Bicep
6 4 (0.24%) VBScript
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 (0.060%) Bash
9 1 (0.060%) Java
Qualifications
1 132 (7.96%) Degree
2 114 (6.88%) Microsoft Certification
3 76 (4.58%) DBS Check
4 52 (3.14%) Cisco Certification
5 49 (2.96%) CCNA
6 39 (2.35%) Security Cleared
7 33 (1.99%) Azure Certification
8 30 (1.81%) Network+ Certification
9 26 (1.57%) A+ Certification
10 20 (1.21%) SC Cleared
11 19 (1.15%) CompTIA Security+
11 19 (1.15%) MCSE
12 14 (0.84%) Computer Science Degree
13 11 (0.66%) CCNP
14 10 (0.60%) MCSA
15 8 (0.48%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 7 (0.42%) AWS Certification
16 7 (0.42%) BPSS Clearance
16 7 (0.42%) DV Cleared
17 5 (0.30%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 109 (6.57%) Cyber Essentials
2 52 (3.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 46 (2.77%) GDPR
4 37 (2.23%) SLA
5 27 (1.63%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 11 (0.66%) PCI DSS
7 6 (0.36%) NIST
8 5 (0.30%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.12%) QA
10 1 (0.060%) Data Quality
10 1 (0.060%) NCSC
10 1 (0.060%) TickIT
System Software
1 599 (36.13%) Active Directory
2 213 (12.85%) Hyper-V
3 156 (9.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (1.21%) Virtual Machines
5 17 (1.03%) VMware ESXi
6 13 (0.78%) vSphere
7 11 (0.66%) Docker
8 10 (0.60%) Virtual Desktop
9 8 (0.48%) BitLocker
9 8 (0.48%) Firmware
10 5 (0.30%) Terminal Services
11 2 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.060%) Terminal Server
12 1 (0.060%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 291 (17.55%) Microsoft Intune
2 26 (1.57%) Jamf Pro
3 23 (1.39%) SCCM
4 19 (1.15%) Autotask
5 16 (0.97%) WSUS
6 11 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
7 10 (0.60%) Failover Clustering
8 8 (0.48%) FortiGate
9 6 (0.36%) Kubernetes
10 4 (0.24%) Iperf
10 4 (0.24%) Nessus
11 3 (0.18%) Nmap
12 2 (0.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 2 (0.12%) Ansible
12 2 (0.12%) Backup Exec
12 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
12 2 (0.12%) PaperCut
12 2 (0.12%) SCOM
12 2 (0.12%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
13 1 (0.060%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 887 (53.50%) Microsoft
2 205 (12.36%) VMware
3 88 (5.31%) Cisco
4 73 (4.40%) Veeam
5 63 (3.80%) SonicWALL
6 53 (3.20%) Google
7 51 (3.08%) Apple
8 38 (2.29%) HP
9 33 (1.99%) Datto
10 32 (1.93%) Dell
10 32 (1.93%) Meraki
11 31 (1.87%) Ubiquiti
12 30 (1.81%) Fortinet
12 30 (1.81%) Sophos
13 23 (1.39%) Draytek
13 23 (1.39%) Palo Alto
14 22 (1.33%) Aruba
15 18 (1.09%) Logitech
16 17 (1.03%) ServiceNow
16 17 (1.03%) TOWER Software