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 27 July 2026.

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

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 94 271 151
Rank change year-on-year +177 -120 +54
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 1,688 508 1,385
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.88% 1.17% 1.80%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.99% 1.29% 1.90%
Number of salaries quoted 1,473 397 1,114
10th Percentile £27,000 £25,750 £25,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £28,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% +1.45%
75th Percentile £43,750 £48,750 £43,750
90th Percentile £56,250 £60,650 £53,750
UK median annual salary £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% +1.45%

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 84,820 39,470 72,880
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.41% 90.64% 94.64%
Number of salaries quoted 59,552 23,920 51,567
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £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 £76,000 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £91,500
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 27 July 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 27 July 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 +129 434 £35,000 -12.50% 70
North of England +76 303 £32,500 -1.52% 49
Midlands +75 257 £32,500 -13.33% 26
East of England +110 256 £35,000 -0.71% 42
South West +54 224 £35,000 -9.68% 25
London +86 213 £36,000 -15.79% 43
North West +108 170 £35,000 +8.53% 23
East Midlands +43 132 £35,000 +7.69% 15
West Midlands +51 125 £32,500 -23.53% 11
Yorkshire -11 117 £30,000 -7.69% 23
North East -44 16 £40,000 -17.95% 6
IT Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 27 July 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.

1 840 (49.76%) Microsoft
2 797 (47.22%) Microsoft 365
3 724 (42.89%) Windows
4 584 (34.60%) Active Directory
5 471 (27.90%) Azure
6 408 (24.17%) Problem-Solving
7 365 (21.62%) Windows Server
8 357 (21.15%) Entra ID
9 341 (20.20%) Customer Service
10 286 (16.94%) Firewall
11 271 (16.05%) Microsoft Exchange
12 263 (15.58%) Microsoft Intune
13 226 (13.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 225 (13.33%) DNS
15 215 (12.74%) SharePoint
16 188 (11.14%) DHCP
16 188 (11.14%) Hyper-V
16 188 (11.14%) VMware
17 187 (11.08%) Cybersecurity
18 184 (10.90%) VPN
19 158 (9.36%) Wi-Fi
20 149 (8.83%) ITIL
21 143 (8.47%) Windows 10
22 138 (8.18%) VMware Infrastructure
23 134 (7.94%) Disaster Recovery
24 125 (7.41%) Mac OS
25 124 (7.35%) Continuous Improvement
26 123 (7.29%) PowerShell
27 122 (7.23%) LAN
28 117 (6.93%) TCP/IP

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
1 271 (16.05%) Microsoft Exchange
2 215 (12.74%) SharePoint
3 16 (0.95%) IIS
4 14 (0.83%) Exchange Server 2013
5 12 (0.71%) Exchange Server 2007
5 12 (0.71%) Exchange Server 2010
6 9 (0.53%) Confluence
7 3 (0.18%) Apache
Applications
1 112 (6.64%) 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 5 (0.30%) NetSuite
3 4 (0.24%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.12%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.059%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 797 (47.22%) Microsoft 365
2 471 (27.90%) Azure
3 357 (21.15%) Entra ID
4 56 (3.32%) Google Workspace
5 55 (3.26%) AWS
5 55 (3.26%) SaaS
6 53 (3.14%) OneDrive
7 29 (1.72%) Mimecast
8 21 (1.24%) Power Platform
9 19 (1.13%) PaaS
10 15 (0.89%) IaaS
11 12 (0.71%) Nutanix
11 12 (0.71%) Power Automate
12 11 (0.65%) Azure DevOps
13 7 (0.41%) Microsoft Copilot
13 7 (0.41%) PowerApps
14 6 (0.36%) Cloudflare
14 6 (0.36%) GCP
15 5 (0.30%) Cloud Computing
16 4 (0.24%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 286 (16.94%) Firewall
2 225 (13.33%) DNS
3 188 (11.14%) DHCP
4 184 (10.90%) VPN
5 158 (9.36%) Wi-Fi
6 122 (7.23%) LAN
7 117 (6.93%) TCP/IP
8 115 (6.81%) WAN
9 89 (5.27%) VLAN
10 81 (4.80%) VoIP
11 73 (4.32%) Wireless
12 49 (2.90%) SAN
13 30 (1.78%) Network Security
14 22 (1.30%) Internet
15 17 (1.01%) Remote Desktop
16 16 (0.95%) WLAN
17 14 (0.83%) SSL
18 7 (0.41%) NAS
18 7 (0.41%) SD-WAN
19 5 (0.30%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (4.03%) SQL Server
2 11 (0.65%) Power BI
3 10 (0.59%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (0.36%) MySQL
5 5 (0.30%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.12%) KNIME
Development Applications
1 43 (2.55%) JIRA
2 2 (0.12%) GitLab
2 2 (0.12%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (0.059%) Carbide.c++
3 1 (0.059%) Chocolatey
General
1 438 (25.95%) Social Skills
2 65 (3.85%) Finance
2 65 (3.85%) Manufacturing
3 64 (3.79%) Legal
4 60 (3.55%) Analytical Skills
5 56 (3.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 56 (3.32%) Organisational Skills
6 41 (2.43%) Law
6 41 (2.43%) Retail
7 30 (1.78%) Advertising
8 29 (1.72%) Telecoms
9 20 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
10 17 (1.01%) Automotive
11 9 (0.53%) Public Sector
12 8 (0.47%) Aerospace
13 7 (0.41%) Local Government
14 6 (0.36%) Banking
15 5 (0.30%) Games
16 4 (0.24%) Dutch Language
16 4 (0.24%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (0.53%) HTML
2 7 (0.41%) JSON
3 5 (0.30%) CSS
3 5 (0.30%) Web Services
4 2 (0.12%) EDI
4 2 (0.12%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (0.059%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 206 (12.20%) Driving Licence
2 92 (5.45%) Onboarding
3 67 (3.97%) Self-Motivation
4 38 (2.25%) Data Centre
5 37 (2.19%) CCTV
6 16 (0.95%) Security Posture
6 16 (0.95%) Video Conferencing
7 15 (0.89%) Clustering
8 14 (0.83%) Hybrid Cloud
9 13 (0.77%) Analytical Mindset
10 11 (0.65%) Cloud Native
10 11 (0.65%) Management Information System
10 11 (0.65%) NHS
10 11 (0.65%) Replication
11 9 (0.53%) Operational Technology
11 9 (0.53%) PKI
12 8 (0.47%) FMCG
13 7 (0.41%) Cyber Threat
13 7 (0.41%) iPhone
13 7 (0.41%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 724 (42.89%) Windows
2 365 (21.62%) Windows Server
3 143 (8.47%) Windows 10
4 125 (7.41%) Mac OS
5 108 (6.40%) Linux
6 51 (3.02%) Windows Server 2019
7 47 (2.78%) Apple iOS
8 43 (2.55%) Windows Server 2016
9 39 (2.31%) Android
10 19 (1.13%) Windows Server 2012
11 15 (0.89%) Windows 7
12 9 (0.53%) Mac OS X
12 9 (0.53%) Windows 8
13 8 (0.47%) Ubuntu
14 4 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 4 (0.24%) Windows Server 2008
15 2 (0.12%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 408 (24.17%) Problem-Solving
2 341 (20.20%) Customer Service
3 226 (13.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 187 (11.08%) Cybersecurity
5 149 (8.83%) ITIL
6 134 (7.94%) Disaster Recovery
7 124 (7.35%) Continuous Improvement
8 87 (5.15%) ITSM
8 87 (5.15%) Service Delivery
9 83 (4.92%) Project Delivery
10 63 (3.73%) Service Management
11 62 (3.67%) Remote Monitoring and Management
12 59 (3.50%) Change Management
13 57 (3.38%) Mentoring
14 49 (2.90%) Root Cause Analysis
15 48 (2.84%) Business Continuity
16 41 (2.43%) Collaborative Culture
16 41 (2.43%) Migration
16 41 (2.43%) Process Improvement
16 41 (2.43%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 123 (7.29%) PowerShell
2 57 (3.38%) SQL
3 12 (0.71%) Python
4 10 (0.59%) R
5 7 (0.41%) Ruby
6 4 (0.24%) PHP
6 4 (0.24%) VBScript
7 3 (0.18%) Bicep
7 3 (0.18%) C#
7 3 (0.18%) JavaScript
7 3 (0.18%) VB
7 3 (0.18%) VBA
8 2 (0.12%) Bash
8 2 (0.12%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.059%) Uniface
Qualifications
1 111 (6.58%) Microsoft Certification
2 109 (6.46%) Degree
3 71 (4.21%) DBS Check
4 61 (3.61%) Security Cleared
5 46 (2.73%) Cisco Certification
6 45 (2.67%) CCNA
7 35 (2.07%) SC Cleared
8 31 (1.84%) A+ Certification
9 30 (1.78%) Azure Certification
10 24 (1.42%) Network+ Certification
11 16 (0.95%) CompTIA Security+
12 14 (0.83%) DV Cleared
13 13 (0.77%) MCSE
14 9 (0.53%) BPSS Clearance
15 7 (0.41%) AWS Certification
16 6 (0.36%) CCNP
17 5 (0.30%) MCITP
17 5 (0.30%) MCSA
18 4 (0.24%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
18 4 (0.24%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (5.81%) Cyber Essentials
2 56 (3.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 56 (3.32%) SLA
3 32 (1.90%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 26 (1.54%) GDPR
5 11 (0.65%) PCI DSS
6 5 (0.30%) NIST
7 4 (0.24%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.12%) QA
9 1 (0.059%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.059%) NCSC
9 1 (0.059%) TickIT
System Software
1 584 (34.60%) Active Directory
2 188 (11.14%) Hyper-V
3 138 (8.18%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (0.89%) VMware ESXi
5 13 (0.77%) Docker
5 13 (0.77%) Virtual Desktop
5 13 (0.77%) Virtual Machines
6 12 (0.71%) vSphere
7 8 (0.47%) BitLocker
8 5 (0.30%) Terminal Services
8 5 (0.30%) VMware Workstation
9 4 (0.24%) Firmware
10 2 (0.12%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.059%) Terminal Server
11 1 (0.059%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 263 (15.58%) Microsoft Intune
2 30 (1.78%) SCCM
3 27 (1.60%) Jamf Pro
4 25 (1.48%) Autotask
5 14 (0.83%) WSUS
6 10 (0.59%) Failover Clustering
7 8 (0.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 8 (0.47%) FortiGate
8 6 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (0.30%) Terraform
10 4 (0.24%) Ansible
10 4 (0.24%) Iperf
10 4 (0.24%) Kubernetes
11 2 (0.12%) PaperCut
12 1 (0.059%) Argo
12 1 (0.059%) Nessus
12 1 (0.059%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 840 (49.76%) Microsoft
2 188 (11.14%) VMware
3 72 (4.27%) Cisco
4 63 (3.73%) Google
5 49 (2.90%) Veeam
6 42 (2.49%) Meraki
7 38 (2.25%) Apple
8 37 (2.19%) SonicWALL
9 35 (2.07%) Ubiquiti
10 34 (2.01%) HP
11 25 (1.48%) Dell
12 24 (1.42%) Sophos
13 22 (1.30%) Datto
14 18 (1.07%) Fortinet
15 17 (1.01%) Aruba
16 13 (0.77%) ServiceNow
17 12 (0.71%) Draytek
17 12 (0.71%) Logitech
17 12 (0.71%) TOWER Software
18 11 (0.65%) CrowdStrike