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 14 October 2026.

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

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 123 255 165
Rank change year-on-year +132 -90 +17
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 1,587 506 1,071
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.52% 1.18% 1.68%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.64% 1.30% 1.77%
Number of salaries quoted 1,336 394 684
10th Percentile £27,625 £25,750 £26,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £29,813 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £36,500 £37,169
Median % change year-on-year -4.11% -1.80% +6.20%
75th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £47,500
90th Percentile £57,500 £60,875 £57,500
UK median annual salary £35,000 £35,000 £37,000
% change year-on-year - -5.41% +5.71%

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 96,719 38,804 60,632
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.58% 90.53% 95.21%
Number of salaries quoted 67,535 23,177 34,658
10th Percentile £30,250 £28,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £35,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,500 £55,000 £56,525
Median % change year-on-year +8.18% -2.70% -5.79%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £58,500 £53,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.35% -2.73% -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 14 October 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 14 October 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 +112 374 £38,500 +2.67% 85
Midlands +54 289 £35,000 +3.70% 57
North of England +42 256 £35,000 - 72
South West +42 235 £35,000 - 44
East of England +88 222 £35,000 - 35
London +42 209 £36,000 -13.77% 155
West Midlands +56 157 £34,500 -27.37% 30
North West +66 143 £35,000 +7.69% 41
East Midlands +10 132 £35,000 +16.67% 27
Yorkshire -17 89 £30,000 -9.09% 25
North East -52 24 £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 14 October 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.

1 881 (55.51%) Microsoft
2 807 (50.85%) Microsoft 365
3 776 (48.90%) Windows
4 591 (37.24%) Active Directory
5 464 (29.24%) Azure
6 415 (26.15%) Problem-Solving
7 407 (25.65%) Entra ID
8 396 (24.95%) Windows Server
9 356 (22.43%) Customer Service
10 315 (19.85%) Firewall
11 306 (19.28%) Microsoft Intune
12 292 (18.40%) Microsoft Exchange
13 284 (17.90%) DNS
14 262 (16.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 255 (16.07%) Cybersecurity
16 244 (15.37%) DHCP
17 240 (15.12%) VPN
18 235 (14.81%) SharePoint
19 224 (14.11%) Hyper-V
20 211 (13.30%) VMware
21 183 (11.53%) TCP/IP
22 165 (10.40%) Wi-Fi
23 160 (10.08%) VMware Infrastructure
24 158 (9.96%) ITIL
25 149 (9.39%) Continuous Improvement
26 140 (8.82%) VLAN
27 136 (8.57%) Disaster Recovery
28 128 (8.07%) Windows 10
29 125 (7.88%) LAN
30 124 (7.81%) Degree

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
1 292 (18.40%) Microsoft Exchange
2 235 (14.81%) SharePoint
3 23 (1.45%) IIS
4 8 (0.50%) Apache
5 4 (0.25%) Exchange Server 2007
5 4 (0.25%) Exchange Server 2010
5 4 (0.25%) Exchange Server 2013
6 2 (0.13%) Confluence
Applications
1 75 (4.73%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (0.82%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.13%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.063%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 6 (0.38%) Raiser’s Edge
2 4 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.25%) NetSuite
2 4 (0.25%) Shopify
3 2 (0.13%) Sage 200
4 1 (0.063%) Eikon
Cloud Services
1 807 (50.85%) Microsoft 365
2 464 (29.24%) Azure
3 407 (25.65%) Entra ID
4 81 (5.10%) OneDrive
5 68 (4.28%) Google Workspace
6 51 (3.21%) AWS
7 36 (2.27%) Mimecast
7 36 (2.27%) SaaS
8 21 (1.32%) Power Platform
9 14 (0.88%) Power Automate
10 13 (0.82%) Dynamics 365
10 13 (0.82%) Nutanix
11 10 (0.63%) Cloud Computing
11 10 (0.63%) IaaS
12 7 (0.44%) Azure DevOps
12 7 (0.44%) PaaS
13 6 (0.38%) Cloudflare
14 4 (0.25%) Microsoft Copilot
14 4 (0.25%) Microsoft Purview
14 4 (0.25%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 315 (19.85%) Firewall
2 284 (17.90%) DNS
3 244 (15.37%) DHCP
4 240 (15.12%) VPN
5 183 (11.53%) TCP/IP
6 165 (10.40%) Wi-Fi
7 140 (8.82%) VLAN
8 125 (7.88%) LAN
9 116 (7.31%) WAN
10 105 (6.62%) Wireless
11 96 (6.05%) VoIP
12 46 (2.90%) SAN
13 33 (2.08%) Network Security
14 23 (1.45%) Internet
14 23 (1.45%) SSL
15 18 (1.13%) WLAN
16 15 (0.95%) Remote Desktop
17 9 (0.57%) Structured Cabling
18 8 (0.50%) PBX
19 6 (0.38%) IP Telephony
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (4.60%) SQL Server
2 10 (0.63%) Azure SQL Database
3 9 (0.57%) MySQL
4 5 (0.32%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (0.13%) KNIME
Development Applications
1 31 (1.95%) JIRA
2 3 (0.19%) Burp Suite
2 3 (0.19%) Metasploit
3 2 (0.13%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.063%) Carbide.c++
General
1 513 (32.33%) Social Skills
2 77 (4.85%) Analytical Skills
3 71 (4.47%) Legal
3 71 (4.47%) Manufacturing
4 59 (3.72%) Finance
4 59 (3.72%) Organisational Skills
5 44 (2.77%) Retail
6 35 (2.21%) Advertising
7 32 (2.02%) Telecoms
8 27 (1.70%) Public Sector
9 24 (1.51%) Documentation Skills
10 23 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 23 (1.45%) Law
11 13 (0.82%) Automotive
11 13 (0.82%) Games
12 10 (0.63%) Aviation
12 10 (0.63%) Military
13 8 (0.50%) Aerospace
14 6 (0.38%) Banking
14 6 (0.38%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (0.38%) HTML
2 5 (0.32%) JSON
3 4 (0.25%) .NET
3 4 (0.25%) ASP.NET Web Forms
3 4 (0.25%) Web Services
3 4 (0.25%) WinForms
4 3 (0.19%) LDAP
4 3 (0.19%) Terraform
5 2 (0.13%) 802.1X
5 2 (0.13%) CSS
5 2 (0.13%) EDI
5 2 (0.13%) SAML
6 1 (0.063%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 233 (14.68%) Driving Licence
2 101 (6.36%) Onboarding
3 72 (4.54%) Self-Motivation
4 38 (2.39%) CCTV
5 35 (2.21%) Data Centre
6 29 (1.83%) Operational Technology
7 19 (1.20%) Management Information System
7 19 (1.20%) Replication
7 19 (1.20%) Video Conferencing
8 17 (1.07%) Hybrid Cloud
9 15 (0.95%) Clustering
10 12 (0.76%) Analytical Mindset
10 12 (0.76%) Cyber Threat
11 11 (0.69%) Cloud Native
12 10 (0.63%) Security Posture
13 9 (0.57%) NHS
14 8 (0.50%) PKI
14 8 (0.50%) Smartphone
15 6 (0.38%) FMCG
15 6 (0.38%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 776 (48.90%) Windows
2 396 (24.95%) Windows Server
3 128 (8.07%) Windows 10
4 122 (7.69%) Linux
5 107 (6.74%) macOS
6 44 (2.77%) Windows Server 2019
7 42 (2.65%) Apple iOS
8 40 (2.52%) Android
9 36 (2.27%) Windows Server 2016
10 18 (1.13%) Ubuntu
11 12 (0.76%) Windows Server 2012
12 7 (0.44%) Rocky
13 6 (0.38%) Windows 7
14 5 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 4 (0.25%) Windows 8
16 3 (0.19%) Kali Linux
16 3 (0.19%) Unix
17 1 (0.063%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 415 (26.15%) Problem-Solving
2 356 (22.43%) Customer Service
3 262 (16.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 255 (16.07%) Cybersecurity
5 158 (9.96%) ITIL
6 149 (9.39%) Continuous Improvement
7 136 (8.57%) Disaster Recovery
8 93 (5.86%) Project Delivery
9 83 (5.23%) Service Delivery
10 75 (4.73%) ITSM
11 61 (3.84%) Mentoring
12 60 (3.78%) Remote Monitoring and Management
13 55 (3.47%) User Experience
14 54 (3.40%) Change Management
14 54 (3.40%) Service Management
15 51 (3.21%) Migration
16 50 (3.15%) Business Continuity
17 47 (2.96%) Root Cause Analysis
18 40 (2.52%) Collaborative Culture
19 39 (2.46%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 122 (7.69%) PowerShell
2 45 (2.84%) SQL
3 12 (0.76%) Ruby
4 10 (0.63%) Python
5 8 (0.50%) R
6 6 (0.38%) C#
7 4 (0.25%) Bicep
7 4 (0.25%) VBScript
8 3 (0.19%) VB
9 2 (0.13%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.063%) Bash
10 1 (0.063%) Java
10 1 (0.063%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.063%) PHP
10 1 (0.063%) VBA
Qualifications
1 124 (7.81%) Degree
2 114 (7.18%) Microsoft Certification
3 67 (4.22%) DBS Check
4 53 (3.34%) Cisco Certification
5 51 (3.21%) CCNA
6 37 (2.33%) Azure Certification
7 31 (1.95%) Security Cleared
8 30 (1.89%) Network+ Certification
9 26 (1.64%) A+ Certification
10 19 (1.20%) CompTIA Security+
10 19 (1.20%) MCSE
11 15 (0.95%) SC Cleared
12 14 (0.88%) Computer Science Degree
13 11 (0.69%) MCSA
13 11 (0.69%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 10 (0.63%) CCNP
15 8 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
16 7 (0.44%) AWS Certification
16 7 (0.44%) DV Cleared
16 7 (0.44%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 112 (7.06%) Cyber Essentials
2 50 (3.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 44 (2.77%) GDPR
4 33 (2.08%) SLA
5 25 (1.58%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 12 (0.76%) PCI DSS
7 6 (0.38%) NCSC
8 5 (0.32%) NIST
9 4 (0.25%) Accessibility
10 2 (0.13%) QA
11 1 (0.063%) Data Quality
11 1 (0.063%) GRC
11 1 (0.063%) TickIT
System Software
1 591 (37.24%) Active Directory
2 224 (14.11%) Hyper-V
3 160 (10.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (1.45%) Virtual Machines
5 17 (1.07%) VMware ESXi
6 15 (0.95%) vSphere
7 11 (0.69%) Virtual Desktop
8 10 (0.63%) Firmware
9 8 (0.50%) Docker
10 5 (0.32%) BitLocker
11 4 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
12 2 (0.13%) Terminal Services
12 2 (0.13%) XenApp
13 1 (0.063%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 306 (19.28%) Microsoft Intune
2 36 (2.27%) Jamf Pro
3 20 (1.26%) SCCM
4 16 (1.01%) Autotask
5 14 (0.88%) WSUS
6 12 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
7 10 (0.63%) Failover Clustering
8 8 (0.50%) FortiGate
9 6 (0.38%) Backup Exec
9 6 (0.38%) Kubernetes
10 5 (0.32%) SmoothWall
10 5 (0.32%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 4 (0.25%) Iperf
11 4 (0.25%) Nessus
12 3 (0.19%) Nmap
13 2 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 2 (0.13%) Ansible
13 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
13 2 (0.13%) PaperCut
13 2 (0.13%) SCOM
Vendors
1 881 (55.51%) Microsoft
2 211 (13.30%) VMware
3 107 (6.74%) Cisco
4 90 (5.67%) Veeam
5 71 (4.47%) Google
6 63 (3.97%) SonicWALL
7 59 (3.72%) Apple
8 51 (3.21%) Meraki
9 38 (2.39%) Sophos
10 37 (2.33%) Dell
11 34 (2.14%) Datto
11 34 (2.14%) Palo Alto
12 33 (2.08%) Fortinet
13 30 (1.89%) HP
14 28 (1.76%) Ubiquiti
15 25 (1.58%) TOWER Software
16 21 (1.32%) Aruba
17 20 (1.26%) Logitech
17 20 (1.26%) WatchGuard
18 19 (1.20%) Draytek