IT Engineer Job Trends in England

IT Engineer
UK > England

The median IT Engineer salary in England is £32,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 24 March 2026.

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

6 months to
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 98 167 133
Rank change year-on-year +69 -34 +125
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 1,320 702 1,676
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.94% 1.90% 2.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.11% 2.10% 2.32%
Number of salaries quoted 1,136 462 1,507
10th Percentile £26,000 £25,645 £24,000
25th Percentile £28,500 £27,500 £26,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £35,000 £33,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +6.06% -1.49%
75th Percentile £41,250 £44,188 £43,000
90th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £50,250
UK median annual salary £32,500 £35,000 £33,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +6.06% -1.49%

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 62,550 33,359 72,252
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.03% 90.12% 94.40%
Number of salaries quoted 40,855 20,991 56,654
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -9.19%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -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 24 March 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 24 March 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 +59 347 £33,250 -5.00% 73
North of England +59 274 £32,175 -4.57% 51
Midlands -21 231 £32,000 -8.57% 40
London +70 183 £40,000 -11.11% 25
East of England +48 149 £30,000 +9.09% 26
North West +56 139 £30,000 -14.29% 35
South West +50 134 £35,000 +0.72% 37
East Midlands -9 134 £30,000 - 19
Yorkshire +19 125 £34,250 +14.17% 15
West Midlands -52 97 £32,500 -7.14% 21
North East -23 10 £30,000 -16.67% 3
IT Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 24 March 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.

1 600 (45.45%) Windows
2 599 (45.38%) Microsoft
2 599 (45.38%) Microsoft 365
3 482 (36.52%) Active Directory
4 403 (30.53%) Azure
5 375 (28.41%) Problem-Solving
6 309 (23.41%) Windows Server
7 265 (20.08%) Customer Service
8 237 (17.95%) Firewall
9 212 (16.06%) DNS
9 212 (16.06%) Entra ID
10 196 (14.85%) DHCP
11 191 (14.47%) Microsoft Intune
12 175 (13.26%) VPN
13 166 (12.58%) Windows 10
14 163 (12.35%) ITIL
15 148 (11.21%) SharePoint
16 144 (10.91%) Microsoft Exchange
17 141 (10.68%) VMware
18 130 (9.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 122 (9.24%) Microsoft Office
19 122 (9.24%) WAN
20 121 (9.17%) Hyper-V
21 120 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
22 119 (9.02%) LAN
23 112 (8.48%) Wi-Fi
24 95 (7.20%) Google
25 92 (6.97%) Degree
26 90 (6.82%) TCP/IP
26 90 (6.82%) VLAN

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
1 148 (11.21%) SharePoint
2 144 (10.91%) Microsoft Exchange
3 15 (1.14%) Confluence
4 12 (0.91%) IIS
5 8 (0.61%) Exchange Server 2007
5 8 (0.61%) Exchange Server 2010
5 8 (0.61%) Exchange Server 2013
6 1 (0.076%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 122 (9.24%) Microsoft Office
2 23 (1.74%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.15%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.076%) Acrobat
5 1 (0.076%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 7 (0.53%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.38%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.076%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 599 (45.38%) Microsoft 365
2 403 (30.53%) Azure
3 212 (16.06%) Entra ID
4 83 (6.29%) Google Workspace
5 78 (5.91%) AWS
6 47 (3.56%) OneDrive
7 40 (3.03%) SaaS
8 24 (1.82%) Power Platform
9 23 (1.74%) IaaS
10 22 (1.67%) GCP
10 22 (1.67%) PaaS
11 15 (1.14%) Azure DevOps
12 12 (0.91%) Power Automate
13 11 (0.83%) Datadog
14 10 (0.76%) Azure Sentinel
14 10 (0.76%) PowerApps
15 8 (0.61%) Microsoft Copilot
16 7 (0.53%) OCI
17 6 (0.45%) Mimecast
18 5 (0.38%) Intacct
Communications & Networking
1 237 (17.95%) Firewall
2 212 (16.06%) DNS
3 196 (14.85%) DHCP
4 175 (13.26%) VPN
5 122 (9.24%) WAN
6 119 (9.02%) LAN
7 112 (8.48%) Wi-Fi
8 90 (6.82%) TCP/IP
8 90 (6.82%) VLAN
9 61 (4.62%) VoIP
10 32 (2.42%) Wireless
11 31 (2.35%) SAN
12 24 (1.82%) SD-WAN
13 23 (1.74%) Network Security
14 14 (1.06%) Remote Desktop
15 10 (0.76%) IP Telephony
16 9 (0.68%) Internet
16 9 (0.68%) WLAN
17 5 (0.38%) SSL
17 5 (0.38%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (4.02%) SQL Server
2 24 (1.82%) Power BI
3 10 (0.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 8 (0.61%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (0.38%) Relational Database
6 3 (0.23%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (0.15%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.076%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.076%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.076%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 33 (2.50%) JIRA
2 8 (0.61%) Chocolatey
3 4 (0.30%) GitLab
4 2 (0.15%) Git
4 2 (0.15%) Snyk
5 1 (0.076%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.076%) Burp Suite
5 1 (0.076%) JMeter
5 1 (0.076%) LabVIEW
5 1 (0.076%) LoadRunner
5 1 (0.076%) NeoLoad
General
1 346 (26.21%) Social Skills
2 82 (6.21%) Finance
3 76 (5.76%) Organisational Skills
4 55 (4.17%) Law
5 51 (3.86%) Analytical Skills
6 45 (3.41%) Retail
7 41 (3.11%) Manufacturing
8 39 (2.95%) Multimedia
9 36 (2.73%) Legal
10 35 (2.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 33 (2.50%) Telecoms
12 24 (1.82%) Public Sector
13 10 (0.76%) Advertising
14 9 (0.68%) Banking
14 9 (0.68%) Games
15 7 (0.53%) Documentation Skills
15 7 (0.53%) Electronics
16 5 (0.38%) Financial Institution
16 5 (0.38%) Social Housing
16 5 (0.38%) Spanish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (1.14%) .NET
2 11 (0.83%) .NET Framework
3 10 (0.76%) Entity Framework
3 10 (0.76%) WinForms
4 6 (0.45%) ASP.NET
5 4 (0.30%) OpenTelemetry
6 3 (0.23%) OAuth
7 2 (0.15%) OAuth2
7 2 (0.15%) React
7 2 (0.15%) REST
8 1 (0.076%) AngularJS
8 1 (0.076%) AVA JavaScript Test Runner
8 1 (0.076%) GraphQL
8 1 (0.076%) LangChain
8 1 (0.076%) LangGraph
8 1 (0.076%) Microsoft Graph
8 1 (0.076%) OpenID
8 1 (0.076%) SAML
8 1 (0.076%) Software Packaging
8 1 (0.076%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 209 (15.83%) Driving Licence
2 60 (4.55%) Onboarding
3 39 (2.95%) Self-Motivation
4 23 (1.74%) CCTV
5 18 (1.36%) Analytical Mindset
6 13 (0.98%) Data Centre
6 13 (0.98%) Security Posture
7 11 (0.83%) iPhone
7 11 (0.83%) Smartphone
8 9 (0.68%) Enterprise Software
8 9 (0.68%) Fat Client
8 9 (0.68%) iPad
8 9 (0.68%) Social Media
8 9 (0.68%) Thin Client
9 8 (0.61%) Cyber Threat
9 8 (0.61%) FMCG
9 8 (0.61%) Linux Command Line
10 7 (0.53%) Management Information System
11 6 (0.45%) PMI
12 5 (0.38%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 600 (45.45%) Windows
2 309 (23.41%) Windows Server
3 166 (12.58%) Windows 10
4 84 (6.36%) Mac OS
5 55 (4.17%) Windows Server 2019
6 53 (4.02%) Linux
7 51 (3.86%) Windows Server 2016
8 27 (2.05%) Apple iOS
9 26 (1.97%) Windows Server 2012
10 25 (1.89%) Android
11 17 (1.29%) Windows 7
12 14 (1.06%) Mac OS X
13 11 (0.83%) Windows 8
14 3 (0.23%) Debian
14 3 (0.23%) Windows Server 2008
15 1 (0.076%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 1 (0.076%) Solaris
15 1 (0.076%) Ubuntu
15 1 (0.076%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 375 (28.41%) Problem-Solving
2 265 (20.08%) Customer Service
3 163 (12.35%) ITIL
4 130 (9.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 120 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
6 88 (6.67%) Mentoring
7 84 (6.36%) ITSM
8 64 (4.85%) Service Delivery
9 55 (4.17%) Disaster Recovery
10 49 (3.71%) Remote Monitoring and Management
11 48 (3.64%) Migration
12 47 (3.56%) Continuous Improvement
13 46 (3.48%) Process Improvement
14 42 (3.18%) Asset Management
15 40 (3.03%) Computer Science
16 38 (2.88%) Service Management
17 37 (2.80%) Incident Management
18 36 (2.73%) Change Management
18 36 (2.73%) Root Cause Analysis
19 35 (2.65%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 69 (5.23%) PowerShell
2 47 (3.56%) SQL
3 13 (0.98%) C#
4 11 (0.83%) Python
5 10 (0.76%) Bash
5 10 (0.76%) T-SQL
6 6 (0.45%) PL/SQL
6 6 (0.45%) VBScript
7 5 (0.38%) VB
8 3 (0.23%) Uniface
9 2 (0.15%) Google Apps Script
9 2 (0.15%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.15%) R
10 1 (0.076%) Java
10 1 (0.076%) PHP
10 1 (0.076%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 92 (6.97%) Degree
2 86 (6.52%) Microsoft Certification
3 56 (4.24%) Security Cleared
4 49 (3.71%) DBS Check
5 38 (2.88%) Cisco Certification
6 37 (2.80%) SC Cleared
7 36 (2.73%) CCNA
8 35 (2.65%) A+ Certification
9 28 (2.12%) Computer Science Degree
10 23 (1.74%) Network+ Certification
11 21 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
12 20 (1.52%) Azure Certification
13 18 (1.36%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 17 (1.29%) MCSE
15 15 (1.14%) DV Cleared
16 14 (1.06%) CCNP
17 13 (0.98%) MCSA
18 9 (0.68%) CompTIA Security+
19 6 (0.45%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
19 6 (0.45%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (6.14%) SLA
2 60 (4.55%) Cyber Essentials
3 42 (3.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 20 (1.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 11 (0.83%) GDPR
6 8 (0.61%) QA
7 7 (0.53%) NIST
8 4 (0.30%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.076%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.076%) SOC 2
System Software
1 482 (36.52%) Active Directory
2 121 (9.17%) Hyper-V
3 83 (6.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (1.29%) Virtual Desktop
5 11 (0.83%) VMware Workstation
6 7 (0.53%) VMware ESXi
6 7 (0.53%) vSphere
7 6 (0.45%) Firmware
8 5 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
9 4 (0.30%) Docker
9 4 (0.30%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.15%) Terminal Services
11 1 (0.076%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.076%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 191 (14.47%) Microsoft Intune
2 29 (2.20%) SCCM
3 22 (1.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 16 (1.21%) Autotask
4 16 (1.21%) Jamf Pro
4 16 (1.21%) WSUS
5 10 (0.76%) FortiGate
5 10 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
6 8 (0.61%) Ansible
7 7 (0.53%) SmoothWall
8 4 (0.30%) Kubernetes
9 3 (0.23%) Terraform
10 2 (0.15%) Failover Clustering
11 1 (0.076%) Podman
11 1 (0.076%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 599 (45.38%) Microsoft
2 141 (10.68%) VMware
3 95 (7.20%) Google
4 53 (4.02%) Fortinet
5 49 (3.71%) Apple
6 39 (2.95%) Fujitsu
6 39 (2.95%) Virgin Media
7 36 (2.73%) Cisco
8 34 (2.58%) Meraki
9 29 (2.20%) Veeam
10 20 (1.52%) Dell
11 15 (1.14%) Sage
12 14 (1.06%) ServiceNow
12 14 (1.06%) WatchGuard
13 12 (0.91%) ConnectWise
13 12 (0.91%) Datto
14 11 (0.83%) Citrix
14 11 (0.83%) ESET
14 11 (0.83%) Ubiquiti
15 10 (0.76%) Epicor