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 26 May 2026.

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

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 260 137
Rank change year-on-year +172 -123 +94
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 1,619 494 1,775
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.96% 1.30% 2.06%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.09% 1.45% 2.18%
Number of salaries quoted 1,386 369 1,580
10th Percentile £26,750 £25,750 £24,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £26,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £35,000 £32,500
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £42,500 £43,750 £43,000
90th Percentile £56,250 £54,600 £50,000
UK median annual salary £35,000 £35,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year - +7.69% -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 77,304 34,069 81,580
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.38% 89.63% 94.60%
Number of salaries quoted 52,550 19,547 61,826
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,000 £38,066
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,777
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +8.95% -13.20%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £90,000
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 26 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 26 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 +101 365 £34,250 -2.14% 60
North of England +113 344 £32,940 +2.94% 31
Midlands +44 259 £32,500 -7.14% 30
East of England +92 233 £34,875 +16.25% 36
London +80 220 £40,000 -11.11% 19
South West +57 195 £35,000 +4.48% 24
North West +116 189 £32,940 +1.35% 16
Yorkshire +14 144 £33,500 +21.82% 14
East Midlands +36 132 £30,000 -7.69% 16
West Midlands +9 127 £32,500 -7.14% 14
North East -37 11 £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 26 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.

1 677 (41.82%) Microsoft 365
2 674 (41.63%) Microsoft
3 611 (37.74%) Windows
4 505 (31.19%) Active Directory
5 430 (26.56%) Azure
6 395 (24.40%) Problem-Solving
7 321 (19.83%) Windows Server
8 305 (18.84%) Customer Service
9 270 (16.68%) Entra ID
10 267 (16.49%) Firewall
11 199 (12.29%) DNS
11 199 (12.29%) Microsoft Intune
12 187 (11.55%) VPN
13 181 (11.18%) Microsoft Exchange
14 178 (10.99%) DHCP
15 169 (10.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 169 (10.44%) SharePoint
16 161 (9.94%) VMware
17 154 (9.51%) Windows 10
18 146 (9.02%) Wi-Fi
19 142 (8.77%) ITIL
20 139 (8.59%) Hyper-V
21 137 (8.46%) LAN
22 136 (8.40%) WAN
23 135 (8.34%) Cybersecurity
24 118 (7.29%) Microsoft Office
25 117 (7.23%) Degree
26 100 (6.18%) VMware Infrastructure
27 99 (6.11%) Microsoft Certification
28 96 (5.93%) 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
1 181 (11.18%) Microsoft Exchange
2 169 (10.44%) SharePoint
3 15 (0.93%) Confluence
4 14 (0.86%) Exchange Server 2013
5 12 (0.74%) Exchange Server 2007
5 12 (0.74%) Exchange Server 2010
6 8 (0.49%) IIS
Applications
1 118 (7.29%) Microsoft Office
2 21 (1.30%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.19%) Photoshop
5 2 (0.12%) AutoCAD
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
1 677 (41.82%) Microsoft 365
2 430 (26.56%) Azure
3 270 (16.68%) Entra ID
4 69 (4.26%) Google Workspace
5 55 (3.40%) AWS
6 46 (2.84%) OneDrive
7 43 (2.66%) SaaS
8 27 (1.67%) PaaS
9 23 (1.42%) IaaS
10 21 (1.30%) Power Platform
11 17 (1.05%) Mimecast
12 9 (0.56%) Azure DevOps
12 9 (0.56%) Azure Sentinel
12 9 (0.56%) PowerApps
13 8 (0.49%) Datadog
14 7 (0.43%) OCI
15 6 (0.37%) Microsoft Copilot
16 5 (0.31%) Intacct
17 4 (0.25%) GCP
17 4 (0.25%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 267 (16.49%) Firewall
2 199 (12.29%) DNS
3 187 (11.55%) VPN
4 178 (10.99%) DHCP
5 146 (9.02%) Wi-Fi
6 137 (8.46%) LAN
7 136 (8.40%) WAN
8 87 (5.37%) VLAN
9 71 (4.39%) VoIP
10 60 (3.71%) TCP/IP
11 53 (3.27%) SAN
12 34 (2.10%) Wireless
13 25 (1.54%) Network Security
14 20 (1.24%) SD-WAN
15 17 (1.05%) WLAN
16 10 (0.62%) Internet
16 10 (0.62%) Remote Desktop
17 8 (0.49%) SSL
18 7 (0.43%) NAS
19 5 (0.31%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (4.14%) SQL Server
2 15 (0.93%) Power BI
3 4 (0.25%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (0.19%) MySQL
5 1 (0.062%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.062%) KNIME
Development Applications
1 37 (2.29%) JIRA
2 8 (0.49%) Chocolatey
3 4 (0.25%) GitLab
4 1 (0.062%) Git
4 1 (0.062%) LabVIEW
General
1 355 (21.93%) Social Skills
2 79 (4.88%) Finance
3 62 (3.83%) Analytical Skills
4 59 (3.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 55 (3.40%) Organisational Skills
6 52 (3.21%) Manufacturing
7 46 (2.84%) Law
8 41 (2.53%) Legal
9 39 (2.41%) Multimedia
9 39 (2.41%) Retail
9 39 (2.41%) Telecoms
10 17 (1.05%) Public Sector
11 15 (0.93%) Advertising
12 14 (0.86%) Automotive
13 13 (0.80%) Banking
14 5 (0.31%) Games
14 5 (0.31%) Local Government
14 5 (0.31%) Social Housing
15 4 (0.25%) Dutch Language
15 4 (0.25%) Portuguese Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (0.43%) HTML
2 5 (0.31%) CSS
2 5 (0.31%) JSON
3 4 (0.25%) OpenTelemetry
3 4 (0.25%) Web Services
4 2 (0.12%) .NET
5 1 (0.062%) OpenID
5 1 (0.062%) SAML
5 1 (0.062%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 211 (13.03%) Driving Licence
2 68 (4.20%) Onboarding
3 46 (2.84%) Self-Motivation
4 27 (1.67%) CCTV
5 25 (1.54%) Analytical Mindset
5 25 (1.54%) Data Centre
6 12 (0.74%) Management Information System
7 11 (0.68%) FMCG
7 11 (0.68%) Security Posture
7 11 (0.68%) Social Media
8 10 (0.62%) NHS
9 9 (0.56%) iPhone
9 9 (0.56%) Replication
9 9 (0.56%) Video Conferencing
10 8 (0.49%) Clustering
10 8 (0.49%) Cyber Threat
10 8 (0.49%) Linux Command Line
11 7 (0.43%) Enterprise Software
11 7 (0.43%) Hybrid Cloud
11 7 (0.43%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 611 (37.74%) Windows
2 321 (19.83%) Windows Server
3 154 (9.51%) Windows 10
4 96 (5.93%) Mac OS
5 76 (4.69%) Linux
6 60 (3.71%) Windows Server 2019
7 54 (3.34%) Windows Server 2016
8 37 (2.29%) Apple iOS
9 35 (2.16%) Android
10 24 (1.48%) Windows Server 2012
11 17 (1.05%) Windows 7
12 11 (0.68%) 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%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 395 (24.40%) Problem-Solving
2 305 (18.84%) Customer Service
3 169 (10.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 142 (8.77%) ITIL
5 135 (8.34%) Cybersecurity
6 92 (5.68%) Mentoring
7 90 (5.56%) ITSM
8 83 (5.13%) Disaster Recovery
9 75 (4.63%) Service Delivery
10 63 (3.89%) Continuous Improvement
10 63 (3.89%) Remote Monitoring and Management
11 52 (3.21%) Project Delivery
12 48 (2.96%) Change Management
13 45 (2.78%) Migration
14 44 (2.72%) Service Management
14 44 (2.72%) Time Management
15 41 (2.53%) Root Cause Analysis
16 37 (2.29%) Process Improvement
17 36 (2.22%) Business Continuity
18 34 (2.10%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 95 (5.87%) PowerShell
2 48 (2.96%) SQL
3 10 (0.62%) Bash
4 9 (0.56%) Python
5 5 (0.31%) C#
5 5 (0.31%) VB
6 4 (0.25%) PHP
6 4 (0.25%) R
7 3 (0.19%) JavaScript
7 3 (0.19%) Uniface
7 3 (0.19%) VBA
8 2 (0.12%) Google Apps Script
8 2 (0.12%) VBScript
9 1 (0.062%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 117 (7.23%) Degree
2 99 (6.11%) Microsoft Certification
3 72 (4.45%) Security Cleared
4 63 (3.89%) DBS Check
5 44 (2.72%) SC Cleared
6 39 (2.41%) Cisco Certification
7 38 (2.35%) CCNA
8 34 (2.10%) A+ Certification
9 29 (1.79%) Azure Certification
9 29 (1.79%) Network+ Certification
10 17 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
10 17 (1.05%) CompTIA Security+
11 16 (0.99%) DV Cleared
12 15 (0.93%) MCSE
13 13 (0.80%) Computer Science Degree
14 7 (0.43%) CCNP
15 5 (0.31%) MCITP
16 4 (0.25%) MCSA
16 4 (0.25%) PMI Certification
17 3 (0.19%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (4.76%) SLA
2 71 (4.39%) Cyber Essentials
3 53 (3.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 30 (1.85%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 13 (0.80%) GDPR
6 9 (0.56%) NIST
7 6 (0.37%) PCI DSS
7 6 (0.37%) QA
8 5 (0.31%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.062%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.062%) SOC 2
System Software
1 505 (31.19%) Active Directory
2 139 (8.59%) Hyper-V
3 100 (6.18%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (1.11%) Virtual Desktop
5 15 (0.93%) VMware ESXi
6 10 (0.62%) Docker
7 7 (0.43%) VMware Workstation
7 7 (0.43%) vSphere
8 6 (0.37%) Terminal Services
9 5 (0.31%) BitLocker
10 4 (0.25%) VMware NSX
11 3 (0.19%) Firmware
12 1 (0.062%) Virtual Machines
12 1 (0.062%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 199 (12.29%) Microsoft Intune
2 35 (2.16%) SCCM
3 21 (1.30%) Autotask
4 20 (1.24%) Jamf Pro
5 19 (1.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 18 (1.11%) WSUS
7 13 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
8 10 (0.62%) FortiGate
9 5 (0.31%) Terraform
10 4 (0.25%) Ansible
10 4 (0.25%) Failover Clustering
10 4 (0.25%) SmoothWall
11 2 (0.12%) Kubernetes
12 1 (0.062%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 674 (41.63%) Microsoft
2 161 (9.94%) VMware
3 74 (4.57%) Google
4 60 (3.71%) Fortinet
5 49 (3.03%) Apple
6 47 (2.90%) Cisco
7 42 (2.59%) Meraki
8 39 (2.41%) Fujitsu
8 39 (2.41%) Virgin Media
9 30 (1.85%) Veeam
10 21 (1.30%) Dell
10 21 (1.30%) SonicWALL
11 20 (1.24%) Datto
11 20 (1.24%) HP
11 20 (1.24%) Ubiquiti
12 19 (1.17%) Sophos
13 13 (0.80%) Epicor
14 12 (0.74%) ConnectWise
15 11 (0.68%) Draytek
16 9 (0.56%) Citrix