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 5 August 2026.

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

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 99 269 154
Rank change year-on-year +170 -115 +55
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 1,678 499 1,265
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.81% 1.14% 1.73%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.92% 1.26% 1.83%
Number of salaries quoted 1,458 386 995
10th Percentile £27,250 £26,000 £25,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £30,500 £28,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -
75th Percentile £43,750 £48,938 £43,750
90th Percentile £56,625 £60,750 £54,500
UK median annual salary £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +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 87,174 39,531 69,172
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.21% 90.70% 94.80%
Number of salaries quoted 61,224 23,934 47,658
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 £76,019 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £96,250 £92,500
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 5 August 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 5 August 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 +127 424 £35,000 -12.50% 65
North of England +73 294 £32,500 -1.52% 39
East of England +110 259 £35,000 -2.78% 38
Midlands +70 253 £33,250 -11.33% 39
South West +55 227 £35,000 -6.67% 25
London +55 220 £36,000 -15.29% 60
North West +117 166 £35,000 +3.70% 21
East Midlands +48 133 £35,000 +6.87% 18
West Midlands +41 120 £33,250 -21.76% 21
Yorkshire -10 113 £30,000 -7.69% 14
North East -48 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 5 August 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.

1 852 (50.77%) Microsoft
2 790 (47.08%) Microsoft 365
3 729 (43.44%) Windows
4 580 (34.56%) Active Directory
5 471 (28.07%) Azure
6 406 (24.20%) Problem-Solving
7 368 (21.93%) Windows Server
8 359 (21.39%) Entra ID
9 343 (20.44%) Customer Service
10 282 (16.81%) Firewall
11 277 (16.51%) Microsoft Exchange
12 264 (15.73%) Microsoft Intune
13 231 (13.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 226 (13.47%) DNS
15 217 (12.93%) SharePoint
16 197 (11.74%) Hyper-V
17 191 (11.38%) Cybersecurity
17 191 (11.38%) VMware
18 188 (11.20%) DHCP
19 183 (10.91%) VPN
20 156 (9.30%) Wi-Fi
21 147 (8.76%) ITIL
22 145 (8.64%) VMware Infrastructure
23 140 (8.34%) Disaster Recovery
23 140 (8.34%) Windows 10
24 132 (7.87%) Continuous Improvement
25 124 (7.39%) Mac OS
26 123 (7.33%) PowerShell
26 123 (7.33%) TCP/IP
27 117 (6.97%) 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
1 277 (16.51%) Microsoft Exchange
2 217 (12.93%) SharePoint
3 17 (1.01%) IIS
4 13 (0.77%) Exchange Server 2013
5 11 (0.66%) Exchange Server 2007
5 11 (0.66%) Exchange Server 2010
6 9 (0.54%) Confluence
7 3 (0.18%) Apache
Applications
1 104 (6.20%) Microsoft Office
2 18 (1.07%) 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%) Dynamics NAV
2 3 (0.18%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.12%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 790 (47.08%) Microsoft 365
2 471 (28.07%) Azure
3 359 (21.39%) Entra ID
4 54 (3.22%) AWS
4 54 (3.22%) OneDrive
5 53 (3.16%) Google Workspace
6 52 (3.10%) SaaS
7 30 (1.79%) Mimecast
8 19 (1.13%) Power Platform
9 17 (1.01%) PaaS
10 14 (0.83%) IaaS
10 14 (0.83%) Nutanix
11 13 (0.77%) Power Automate
12 11 (0.66%) Azure DevOps
13 7 (0.42%) Microsoft Copilot
14 6 (0.36%) Cloudflare
14 6 (0.36%) GCP
14 6 (0.36%) PowerApps
15 5 (0.30%) Cloud Computing
15 5 (0.30%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 282 (16.81%) Firewall
2 226 (13.47%) DNS
3 188 (11.20%) DHCP
4 183 (10.91%) VPN
5 156 (9.30%) Wi-Fi
6 123 (7.33%) TCP/IP
7 116 (6.91%) LAN
8 109 (6.50%) WAN
9 91 (5.42%) VLAN
10 80 (4.77%) Wireless
11 79 (4.71%) VoIP
12 48 (2.86%) SAN
13 31 (1.85%) Network Security
14 22 (1.31%) Internet
15 17 (1.01%) Remote Desktop
16 16 (0.95%) SSL
16 16 (0.95%) WLAN
17 7 (0.42%) NAS
18 5 (0.30%) Broadband
18 5 (0.30%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (3.93%) SQL Server
2 10 (0.60%) Azure SQL Database
3 9 (0.54%) Power BI
4 6 (0.36%) MySQL
5 5 (0.30%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.12%) KNIME
Development Applications
1 42 (2.50%) JIRA
2 2 (0.12%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (0.060%) Burp Suite
3 1 (0.060%) Carbide.c++
3 1 (0.060%) GitLab
3 1 (0.060%) Metasploit
General
1 434 (25.86%) Social Skills
2 67 (3.99%) Analytical Skills
3 66 (3.93%) Legal
3 66 (3.93%) Manufacturing
4 63 (3.75%) Finance
5 54 (3.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 53 (3.16%) Organisational Skills
7 41 (2.44%) Retail
8 38 (2.26%) Law
9 32 (1.91%) Advertising
10 29 (1.73%) Telecoms
11 20 (1.19%) Documentation Skills
12 17 (1.01%) Automotive
13 8 (0.48%) Aerospace
13 8 (0.48%) Local Government
13 8 (0.48%) Public Sector
14 5 (0.30%) Banking
14 5 (0.30%) Games
14 5 (0.30%) Police
15 4 (0.24%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (0.54%) HTML
2 7 (0.42%) JSON
3 5 (0.30%) CSS
3 5 (0.30%) Web Services
4 2 (0.12%) EDI
5 1 (0.060%) LDAP
5 1 (0.060%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (0.060%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 204 (12.16%) Driving Licence
2 93 (5.54%) Onboarding
3 69 (4.11%) Self-Motivation
4 38 (2.26%) Data Centre
5 37 (2.21%) CCTV
6 17 (1.01%) Video Conferencing
7 15 (0.89%) Clustering
8 14 (0.83%) Hybrid Cloud
8 14 (0.83%) Security Posture
9 13 (0.77%) Analytical Mindset
9 13 (0.77%) Management Information System
9 13 (0.77%) Replication
10 11 (0.66%) Cloud Native
10 11 (0.66%) NHS
11 10 (0.60%) Operational Technology
12 8 (0.48%) Cyber Threat
12 8 (0.48%) FMCG
12 8 (0.48%) PKI
13 7 (0.42%) EPoS
14 6 (0.36%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 729 (43.44%) Windows
2 368 (21.93%) Windows Server
3 140 (8.34%) Windows 10
4 124 (7.39%) Mac OS
5 113 (6.73%) Linux
6 50 (2.98%) Windows Server 2019
7 47 (2.80%) Apple iOS
8 40 (2.38%) Windows Server 2016
9 39 (2.32%) Android
10 18 (1.07%) Windows Server 2012
11 13 (0.77%) Windows 7
12 10 (0.60%) Ubuntu
13 9 (0.54%) Mac OS X
14 8 (0.48%) Windows 8
15 5 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 4 (0.24%) Windows Server 2008
17 2 (0.12%) VMS
18 1 (0.060%) Kali Linux
18 1 (0.060%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 406 (24.20%) Problem-Solving
2 343 (20.44%) Customer Service
3 231 (13.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 191 (11.38%) Cybersecurity
5 147 (8.76%) ITIL
6 140 (8.34%) Disaster Recovery
7 132 (7.87%) Continuous Improvement
8 87 (5.18%) Project Delivery
9 84 (5.01%) ITSM
10 79 (4.71%) Service Delivery
11 63 (3.75%) Service Management
12 61 (3.64%) Remote Monitoring and Management
13 59 (3.52%) Mentoring
14 56 (3.34%) Change Management
15 49 (2.92%) Business Continuity
16 45 (2.68%) Root Cause Analysis
17 43 (2.56%) Collaborative Culture
18 41 (2.44%) User Experience
19 39 (2.32%) Process Improvement
20 38 (2.26%) Identity Management
Programming Languages
1 123 (7.33%) PowerShell
2 55 (3.28%) SQL
3 12 (0.72%) Python
4 10 (0.60%) R
5 8 (0.48%) 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%) VBA
8 2 (0.12%) T-SQL
8 2 (0.12%) VB
9 1 (0.060%) Bash
9 1 (0.060%) Java
Qualifications
1 117 (6.97%) Degree
2 114 (6.79%) Microsoft Certification
3 72 (4.29%) DBS Check
4 56 (3.34%) Security Cleared
5 49 (2.92%) Cisco Certification
6 47 (2.80%) CCNA
7 32 (1.91%) Azure Certification
7 32 (1.91%) SC Cleared
8 29 (1.73%) A+ Certification
9 26 (1.55%) Network+ Certification
10 18 (1.07%) CompTIA Security+
11 13 (0.77%) MCSE
12 12 (0.72%) DV Cleared
13 8 (0.48%) BPSS Clearance
14 7 (0.42%) AWS Certification
15 6 (0.36%) CCNP
15 6 (0.36%) Computer Science Degree
15 6 (0.36%) MCSA
16 4 (0.24%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 4 (0.24%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (5.96%) Cyber Essentials
2 54 (3.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 51 (3.04%) SLA
4 33 (1.97%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 26 (1.55%) GDPR
6 11 (0.66%) PCI DSS
7 6 (0.36%) NIST
8 4 (0.24%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.12%) QA
10 1 (0.060%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.060%) NCSC
10 1 (0.060%) TickIT
System Software
1 580 (34.56%) Active Directory
2 197 (11.74%) Hyper-V
3 145 (8.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (0.83%) VMware ESXi
5 13 (0.77%) Docker
5 13 (0.77%) Virtual Machines
6 12 (0.72%) Virtual Desktop
6 12 (0.72%) vSphere
7 8 (0.48%) BitLocker
8 6 (0.36%) Firmware
9 5 (0.30%) Terminal Services
10 4 (0.24%) VMware Workstation
11 1 (0.060%) Terminal Server
11 1 (0.060%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.060%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 264 (15.73%) Microsoft Intune
2 29 (1.73%) SCCM
3 27 (1.61%) Jamf Pro
4 24 (1.43%) Autotask
5 16 (0.95%) WSUS
6 10 (0.60%) Failover Clustering
7 8 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (0.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 7 (0.42%) FortiGate
9 5 (0.30%) Kubernetes
9 5 (0.30%) Terraform
10 4 (0.24%) Iperf
11 3 (0.18%) Ansible
12 2 (0.12%) Nessus
12 2 (0.12%) PaperCut
13 1 (0.060%) Argo
13 1 (0.060%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
13 1 (0.060%) Nmap
13 1 (0.060%) SCOM
13 1 (0.060%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 852 (50.77%) Microsoft
2 191 (11.38%) VMware
3 79 (4.71%) Cisco
4 61 (3.64%) Google
5 53 (3.16%) Veeam
6 43 (2.56%) SonicWALL
7 40 (2.38%) Apple
7 40 (2.38%) Meraki
8 37 (2.21%) Ubiquiti
9 35 (2.09%) HP
10 26 (1.55%) Sophos
11 25 (1.49%) Dell
12 24 (1.43%) Datto
13 20 (1.19%) Fortinet
14 17 (1.01%) Aruba
15 13 (0.77%) Logitech
15 13 (0.77%) Palo Alto
15 13 (0.77%) ServiceNow
15 13 (0.77%) TOWER Software
16 12 (0.72%) Draytek