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 20 May 2026.

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

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 89 252 138
Rank change year-on-year +163 -114 +97
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 1,601 504 1,754
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.95% 1.28% 2.07%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.09% 1.42% 2.19%
Number of salaries quoted 1,370 395 1,566
10th Percentile £26,728 £25,750 £24,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £27,750 £26,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £35,000 £33,000
Median % change year-on-year - +6.06% -4.35%
75th Percentile £42,875 £43,750 £43,000
90th Percentile £57,500 £53,750 £50,000
UK median annual salary £35,000 £35,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year - +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 76,690 35,411 80,085
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.31% 89.88% 94.51%
Number of salaries quoted 51,901 20,912 60,748
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £38,086
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +7.48% -12.01%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £90,519
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 20 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 20 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 +104 369 £34,000 -2.86% 52
North of England +115 335 £32,940 +1.35% 32
Midlands +40 258 £32,500 -7.14% 31
East of England +88 225 £33,875 +12.92% 43
London +88 218 £40,000 -11.11% 24
South West +58 193 £35,000 +4.48% 30
North West +119 184 £32,940 -1.67% 16
Yorkshire +33 141 £33,500 +11.67% 15
East Midlands +38 129 £30,000 -7.69% 18
West Midlands +15 129 £32,500 -7.14% 13
North East -37 10 £30,000 -20.00% 3
IT Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 20 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.

1 664 (41.47%) Microsoft 365
2 660 (41.22%) Microsoft
3 596 (37.23%) Windows
4 501 (31.29%) Active Directory
5 423 (26.42%) Azure
6 388 (24.23%) Problem-Solving
7 315 (19.68%) Windows Server
8 300 (18.74%) Customer Service
9 265 (16.55%) Entra ID
10 260 (16.24%) Firewall
11 195 (12.18%) DNS
12 193 (12.05%) Microsoft Intune
13 182 (11.37%) VPN
14 176 (10.99%) DHCP
15 173 (10.81%) Microsoft Exchange
16 165 (10.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 165 (10.31%) SharePoint
17 159 (9.93%) VMware
18 153 (9.56%) Windows 10
19 144 (8.99%) Wi-Fi
20 143 (8.93%) ITIL
21 138 (8.62%) LAN
22 136 (8.49%) Cybersecurity
22 136 (8.49%) Hyper-V
22 136 (8.49%) WAN
23 121 (7.56%) Microsoft Office
24 114 (7.12%) Degree
25 102 (6.37%) Microsoft Certification
26 99 (6.18%) VMware Infrastructure
27 94 (5.87%) 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
1 173 (10.81%) Microsoft Exchange
2 165 (10.31%) SharePoint
3 15 (0.94%) Confluence
4 13 (0.81%) Exchange Server 2013
5 11 (0.69%) Exchange Server 2007
5 11 (0.69%) Exchange Server 2010
6 7 (0.44%) IIS
Applications
1 121 (7.56%) Microsoft Office
2 21 (1.31%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.19%) Photoshop
5 2 (0.12%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.062%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 6 (0.37%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.31%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.062%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 664 (41.47%) Microsoft 365
2 423 (26.42%) Azure
3 265 (16.55%) Entra ID
4 68 (4.25%) Google Workspace
5 55 (3.44%) AWS
6 45 (2.81%) OneDrive
7 41 (2.56%) SaaS
8 27 (1.69%) PaaS
9 23 (1.44%) IaaS
10 22 (1.37%) Power Platform
11 16 (1.00%) Mimecast
12 10 (0.62%) PowerApps
13 9 (0.56%) Azure DevOps
13 9 (0.56%) Azure Sentinel
14 8 (0.50%) Datadog
15 7 (0.44%) OCI
16 6 (0.37%) Microsoft Copilot
17 5 (0.31%) GCP
17 5 (0.31%) Intacct
18 4 (0.25%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 260 (16.24%) Firewall
2 195 (12.18%) DNS
3 182 (11.37%) VPN
4 176 (10.99%) DHCP
5 144 (8.99%) Wi-Fi
6 138 (8.62%) LAN
7 136 (8.49%) WAN
8 85 (5.31%) VLAN
9 69 (4.31%) VoIP
10 58 (3.62%) TCP/IP
11 55 (3.44%) SAN
12 33 (2.06%) Wireless
13 27 (1.69%) Network Security
14 21 (1.31%) SD-WAN
15 15 (0.94%) WLAN
16 11 (0.69%) Internet
17 10 (0.62%) Remote Desktop
18 7 (0.44%) NAS
18 7 (0.44%) SSL
19 5 (0.31%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (4.18%) SQL Server
2 17 (1.06%) Power BI
3 3 (0.19%) MySQL
4 2 (0.12%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.062%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 35 (2.19%) JIRA
2 8 (0.50%) Chocolatey
3 4 (0.25%) GitLab
4 1 (0.062%) Git
4 1 (0.062%) LabVIEW
General
1 353 (22.05%) Social Skills
2 83 (5.18%) Finance
3 64 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
4 61 (3.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 56 (3.50%) Organisational Skills
6 53 (3.31%) Manufacturing
7 47 (2.94%) Law
8 46 (2.87%) Legal
9 39 (2.44%) Multimedia
9 39 (2.44%) Retail
10 38 (2.37%) Telecoms
11 21 (1.31%) Public Sector
12 16 (1.00%) Advertising
13 14 (0.87%) Automotive
14 12 (0.75%) Banking
15 6 (0.37%) Games
16 5 (0.31%) Local Government
16 5 (0.31%) Social Housing
17 4 (0.25%) Dutch Language
17 4 (0.25%) Portuguese Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (0.44%) HTML
2 5 (0.31%) CSS
2 5 (0.31%) JSON
3 4 (0.25%) OpenTelemetry
4 3 (0.19%) .NET
4 3 (0.19%) Web Services
5 1 (0.062%) AVA JavaScript Test Runner
5 1 (0.062%) LangChain
5 1 (0.062%) LangGraph
5 1 (0.062%) OAuth
5 1 (0.062%) OpenID
5 1 (0.062%) React
5 1 (0.062%) SAML
5 1 (0.062%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 204 (12.74%) Driving Licence
2 67 (4.18%) Onboarding
3 45 (2.81%) Self-Motivation
4 28 (1.75%) Analytical Mindset
5 27 (1.69%) CCTV
5 27 (1.69%) Data Centre
6 11 (0.69%) FMCG
6 11 (0.69%) Management Information System
6 11 (0.69%) Security Posture
6 11 (0.69%) Social Media
7 10 (0.62%) NHS
8 9 (0.56%) iPhone
8 9 (0.56%) Replication
8 9 (0.56%) Smartphone
9 8 (0.50%) Cyber Threat
9 8 (0.50%) Linux Command Line
9 8 (0.50%) Video Conferencing
10 7 (0.44%) Hybrid Cloud
10 7 (0.44%) iPad
10 7 (0.44%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 596 (37.23%) Windows
2 315 (19.68%) Windows Server
3 153 (9.56%) Windows 10
4 94 (5.87%) Mac OS
5 71 (4.43%) Linux
6 57 (3.56%) Windows Server 2019
7 52 (3.25%) Windows Server 2016
8 37 (2.31%) Apple iOS
9 33 (2.06%) Android
10 23 (1.44%) Windows Server 2012
11 15 (0.94%) Windows 7
12 10 (0.62%) Windows 8
13 9 (0.56%) Mac OS X
14 4 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 4 (0.25%) Ubuntu
14 4 (0.25%) Windows Server 2008
15 1 (0.062%) Solaris
15 1 (0.062%) Unix
15 1 (0.062%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 388 (24.23%) Problem-Solving
2 300 (18.74%) Customer Service
3 165 (10.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 143 (8.93%) ITIL
5 136 (8.49%) Cybersecurity
6 89 (5.56%) Mentoring
7 88 (5.50%) ITSM
8 80 (5.00%) Disaster Recovery
9 70 (4.37%) Service Delivery
10 61 (3.81%) Continuous Improvement
10 61 (3.81%) Remote Monitoring and Management
11 50 (3.12%) Project Delivery
12 46 (2.87%) Service Management
13 45 (2.81%) Change Management
14 44 (2.75%) Migration
14 44 (2.75%) Time Management
15 40 (2.50%) Root Cause Analysis
16 37 (2.31%) Process Improvement
17 36 (2.25%) Business Continuity
18 35 (2.19%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 88 (5.50%) PowerShell
2 47 (2.94%) SQL
3 11 (0.69%) Bash
3 11 (0.69%) Python
4 5 (0.31%) VB
5 4 (0.25%) C#
5 4 (0.25%) PHP
5 4 (0.25%) R
6 3 (0.19%) JavaScript
6 3 (0.19%) Uniface
6 3 (0.19%) VBA
7 2 (0.12%) Google Apps Script
8 1 (0.062%) Java
8 1 (0.062%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.062%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 114 (7.12%) Degree
2 102 (6.37%) Microsoft Certification
3 73 (4.56%) Security Cleared
4 58 (3.62%) DBS Check
5 45 (2.81%) SC Cleared
6 43 (2.69%) Cisco Certification
7 42 (2.62%) CCNA
8 38 (2.37%) A+ Certification
9 31 (1.94%) Network+ Certification
10 28 (1.75%) Azure Certification
11 21 (1.31%) BPSS Clearance
12 18 (1.12%) MCSE
13 16 (1.00%) CompTIA Security+
13 16 (1.00%) DV Cleared
14 14 (0.87%) Computer Science Degree
15 7 (0.44%) CCNP
16 6 (0.37%) MCITP
17 5 (0.31%) MCSA
17 5 (0.31%) PMI Certification
18 3 (0.19%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (4.87%) SLA
2 67 (4.18%) Cyber Essentials
3 51 (3.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 27 (1.69%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 12 (0.75%) GDPR
6 9 (0.56%) NIST
7 7 (0.44%) QA
8 5 (0.31%) Accessibility
8 5 (0.31%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.062%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.062%) SOC 2
System Software
1 501 (31.29%) Active Directory
2 136 (8.49%) Hyper-V
3 99 (6.18%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (1.06%) Virtual Desktop
5 15 (0.94%) VMware ESXi
6 10 (0.62%) Docker
7 7 (0.44%) VMware Workstation
7 7 (0.44%) vSphere
8 6 (0.37%) Terminal Services
9 4 (0.25%) BitLocker
9 4 (0.25%) VMware NSX
10 3 (0.19%) Firmware
11 1 (0.062%) Virtual Machines
11 1 (0.062%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 193 (12.05%) Microsoft Intune
2 34 (2.12%) SCCM
3 21 (1.31%) Autotask
4 20 (1.25%) Jamf Pro
5 19 (1.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 19 (1.19%) WSUS
6 13 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
7 10 (0.62%) FortiGate
8 5 (0.31%) Ansible
8 5 (0.31%) Terraform
9 4 (0.25%) SmoothWall
10 3 (0.19%) Failover Clustering
11 1 (0.062%) Kubernetes
11 1 (0.062%) Podman
11 1 (0.062%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 660 (41.22%) Microsoft
2 159 (9.93%) VMware
3 73 (4.56%) Google
4 60 (3.75%) Fortinet
5 51 (3.19%) Apple
6 46 (2.87%) Cisco
7 41 (2.56%) Meraki
8 39 (2.44%) Fujitsu
8 39 (2.44%) Virgin Media
9 28 (1.75%) Veeam
10 24 (1.50%) Dell
11 20 (1.25%) Datto
11 20 (1.25%) HP
11 20 (1.25%) SonicWALL
12 19 (1.19%) Ubiquiti
13 18 (1.12%) Sophos
14 13 (0.81%) Epicor
15 11 (0.69%) ConnectWise
15 11 (0.69%) Draytek
16 10 (0.62%) Citrix