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 January 2026.

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

6 months to
24 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 137 165 145
Rank change year-on-year +28 -20 +126
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 921 860 1,233
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.67% 1.80% 2.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.84% 1.95% 2.23%
Number of salaries quoted 759 507 1,139
10th Percentile £25,750 £25,750 £24,700
25th Percentile £28,045 £29,000 £28,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £35,000 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% - +6.06%
75th Percentile £41,000 £47,500 £43,750
90th Percentile £49,000 £57,500 £54,250
UK median annual salary £32,500 £35,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +6.06%

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 50,021 44,012 55,228
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.94% 92.08% 95.08%
Number of salaries quoted 31,787 22,968 43,812
10th Percentile £29,000 £33,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,173
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +8.75% -11.72%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £75,419
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.41%

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 January 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 January 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 +38 209 £32,500 -7.14% 117
Midlands -26 205 £31,500 -10.00% 45
North of England +38 183 £32,500 -7.14% 83
London +64 151 £42,000 -13.40% 38
East Midlands +14 133 £30,000 - 26
North West +32 91 £30,000 -20.53% 37
South West +30 90 £33,000 -5.71% 42
Yorkshire +16 85 £39,000 +18.18% 34
East of England +31 82 £30,000 - 44
West Midlands -41 72 £33,750 -3.57% 19
North East -4 7 £30,000 -16.67% 16
IT Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 24 January 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.

1 452 (49.08%) Microsoft 365
1 452 (49.08%) Windows
2 451 (48.97%) Microsoft
3 374 (40.61%) Active Directory
4 328 (35.61%) Azure
5 306 (33.22%) Problem-Solving
6 251 (27.25%) Windows Server
7 192 (20.85%) Firewall
8 189 (20.52%) Customer Service
8 189 (20.52%) DNS
9 173 (18.78%) DHCP
10 165 (17.92%) Entra ID
11 161 (17.48%) Microsoft Intune
12 142 (15.42%) VPN
13 137 (14.88%) SharePoint
14 129 (14.01%) ITIL
15 121 (13.14%) Windows 10
16 111 (12.05%) Microsoft Exchange
16 111 (12.05%) VMware
17 99 (10.75%) Cybersecurity
18 89 (9.66%) TCP/IP
19 88 (9.55%) Degree
19 88 (9.55%) Hyper-V
19 88 (9.55%) VLAN
20 87 (9.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
21 84 (9.12%) Mentoring
22 83 (9.01%) WAN
23 78 (8.47%) LAN
23 78 (8.47%) Microsoft Office
24 76 (8.25%) Wi-Fi

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
1 137 (14.88%) SharePoint
2 111 (12.05%) Microsoft Exchange
3 17 (1.85%) IIS
4 8 (0.87%) Confluence
5 3 (0.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.22%) Exchange Server 2007
6 2 (0.22%) Exchange Server 2010
6 2 (0.22%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 78 (8.47%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (1.74%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.33%) CINEMA 4D
5 2 (0.22%) Acrobat
5 2 (0.22%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 9 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.33%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.22%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.11%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.11%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 452 (49.08%) Microsoft 365
2 328 (35.61%) Azure
3 165 (17.92%) Entra ID
4 66 (7.17%) AWS
5 51 (5.54%) Google Workspace
6 38 (4.13%) OneDrive
7 32 (3.47%) SaaS
8 23 (2.50%) GCP
8 23 (2.50%) Power Platform
9 15 (1.63%) Azure DevOps
10 13 (1.41%) Datadog
10 13 (1.41%) IaaS
10 13 (1.41%) PaaS
10 13 (1.41%) Power Automate
11 8 (0.87%) Azure Sentinel
12 6 (0.65%) iPaaS
12 6 (0.65%) Microsoft Copilot
12 6 (0.65%) PowerApps
13 5 (0.54%) Azure AI
13 5 (0.54%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 192 (20.85%) Firewall
2 189 (20.52%) DNS
3 173 (18.78%) DHCP
4 142 (15.42%) VPN
5 89 (9.66%) TCP/IP
6 88 (9.55%) VLAN
7 83 (9.01%) WAN
8 78 (8.47%) LAN
9 76 (8.25%) Wi-Fi
10 41 (4.45%) VoIP
11 36 (3.91%) Wireless
12 34 (3.69%) SAN
13 20 (2.17%) Network Security
14 18 (1.95%) SD-WAN
15 11 (1.19%) IP Telephony
16 10 (1.09%) Remote Desktop
17 8 (0.87%) Internet
17 8 (0.87%) WLAN
18 6 (0.65%) IPsec
19 5 (0.54%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (4.56%) SQL Server
2 21 (2.28%) Power BI
3 12 (1.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 9 (0.98%) Amazon RDS
5 7 (0.76%) Relational Database
6 3 (0.33%) DynamoDB
6 3 (0.33%) Mixpanel
6 3 (0.33%) MongoDB
6 3 (0.33%) NoSQL
6 3 (0.33%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (0.22%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.11%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 24 (2.61%) JIRA
2 7 (0.76%) Chocolatey
3 5 (0.54%) Git
4 3 (0.33%) Browser DevTools
4 3 (0.33%) Charles Proxy
4 3 (0.33%) Fiddler
4 3 (0.33%) Maven
4 3 (0.33%) Postman
4 3 (0.33%) Selenium
4 3 (0.33%) TestNG
4 3 (0.33%) WebDriver
4 3 (0.33%) Zephyr
5 2 (0.22%) Burp Suite
5 2 (0.22%) GitLab
5 2 (0.22%) JMeter
5 2 (0.22%) LoadRunner
5 2 (0.22%) NeoLoad
5 2 (0.22%) Snyk
6 1 (0.11%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.11%) LabVIEW
General
1 300 (32.57%) Social Skills
2 68 (7.38%) Finance
3 59 (6.41%) Analytical Skills
4 57 (6.19%) Law
5 55 (5.97%) Organisational Skills
6 41 (4.45%) Manufacturing
7 39 (4.23%) Multimedia
8 30 (3.26%) Legal
9 28 (3.04%) Telecoms
10 24 (2.61%) Public Sector
11 22 (2.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 19 (2.06%) Retail
13 12 (1.30%) Electronics
14 10 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
15 9 (0.98%) Games
16 8 (0.87%) Advertising
17 7 (0.76%) Banking
18 4 (0.43%) Billing
18 4 (0.43%) Marketing
18 4 (0.43%) Spanish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (2.28%) .NET
2 15 (1.63%) .NET Framework
3 12 (1.30%) Entity Framework
3 12 (1.30%) WinForms
4 9 (0.98%) REST
5 7 (0.76%) ASP.NET
6 6 (0.65%) GraphQL
7 4 (0.43%) React
8 3 (0.33%) AngularJS
8 3 (0.33%) OAuth
9 2 (0.22%) OAuth2
9 2 (0.22%) OpenTelemetry
10 1 (0.11%) AVA JavaScript Test Runner
10 1 (0.11%) LangChain
10 1 (0.11%) LangGraph
10 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Graph
10 1 (0.11%) OpenID
10 1 (0.11%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 168 (18.24%) Driving Licence
2 55 (5.97%) Onboarding
3 36 (3.91%) Self-Motivation
4 21 (2.28%) Analytical Mindset
5 17 (1.85%) CCTV
6 14 (1.52%) Product Ownership
7 11 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
7 11 (1.19%) iPad
8 9 (0.98%) Data Centre
8 9 (0.98%) Fat Client
8 9 (0.98%) Smartphone
8 9 (0.98%) Thin Client
9 8 (0.87%) Clustering
9 8 (0.87%) Cyber Security Posture
9 8 (0.87%) FMCG
9 8 (0.87%) Security Posture
10 7 (0.76%) CMDB
10 7 (0.76%) Cyber Threat
10 7 (0.76%) iPhone
10 7 (0.76%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 452 (49.08%) Windows
2 251 (27.25%) Windows Server
3 121 (13.14%) Windows 10
4 59 (6.41%) Mac OS
5 42 (4.56%) Linux
6 41 (4.45%) Windows Server 2019
7 38 (4.13%) Windows Server 2016
8 22 (2.39%) Android
9 19 (2.06%) Apple iOS
10 18 (1.95%) Windows Server 2012
11 8 (0.87%) Mac OS X
12 7 (0.76%) Windows 7
13 6 (0.65%) VMS
14 5 (0.54%) Windows 8
15 3 (0.33%) Debian
16 1 (0.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 1 (0.11%) Solaris
16 1 (0.11%) Ubuntu
16 1 (0.11%) Unix
16 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 306 (33.22%) Problem-Solving
2 189 (20.52%) Customer Service
3 129 (14.01%) ITIL
4 99 (10.75%) Cybersecurity
5 87 (9.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 84 (9.12%) Mentoring
7 54 (5.86%) ITSM
8 52 (5.65%) Disaster Recovery
9 43 (4.67%) Migration
10 42 (4.56%) Service Delivery
11 40 (4.34%) Computer Science
12 38 (4.13%) Incident Management
13 37 (4.02%) Remote Monitoring and Management
14 32 (3.47%) Continuous Improvement
15 30 (3.26%) Asset Management
15 30 (3.26%) Data Protection
15 30 (3.26%) Project Delivery
16 29 (3.15%) Process Improvement
16 29 (3.15%) Software Engineering
17 28 (3.04%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 59 (6.41%) PowerShell
2 44 (4.78%) SQL
3 18 (1.95%) C#
4 17 (1.85%) Python
5 12 (1.30%) T-SQL
6 9 (0.98%) JavaScript
7 8 (0.87%) Bash
8 7 (0.76%) PL/SQL
8 7 (0.76%) VBScript
9 4 (0.43%) Java
10 2 (0.22%) Google Apps Script
10 2 (0.22%) Uniface
11 1 (0.11%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.11%) R
11 1 (0.11%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.11%) VB
11 1 (0.11%) VBA
Qualifications
1 88 (9.55%) Degree
2 69 (7.49%) Microsoft Certification
3 41 (4.45%) DBS Check
4 31 (3.37%) Cisco Certification
4 31 (3.37%) Computer Science Degree
5 29 (3.15%) CCNA
6 27 (2.93%) Security Cleared
7 26 (2.82%) A+ Certification
8 21 (2.28%) MCP
9 20 (2.17%) SC Cleared
10 16 (1.74%) Azure Certification
10 16 (1.74%) BPSS Clearance
11 15 (1.63%) MCSE
11 15 (1.63%) Network+ Certification
12 12 (1.30%) CCNP
12 12 (1.30%) MCSA
13 7 (0.76%) CompTIA Security+
14 6 (0.65%) DV Cleared
14 6 (0.65%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 6 (0.65%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (5.32%) SLA
2 47 (5.10%) Cyber Essentials
3 44 (4.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 26 (2.82%) GDPR
5 11 (1.19%) QA
6 10 (1.09%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 6 (0.65%) Accessibility
7 6 (0.65%) NIST
8 3 (0.33%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.11%) GxP
9 1 (0.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.11%) SOC 2
System Software
1 374 (40.61%) Active Directory
2 88 (9.55%) Hyper-V
3 69 (7.49%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (1.41%) Virtual Desktop
5 11 (1.19%) Firmware
6 6 (0.65%) VMware ESXi
6 6 (0.65%) vSphere
7 5 (0.54%) Docker
7 5 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (0.54%) VMware Workstation
8 2 (0.22%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.22%) XenDesktop
9 1 (0.11%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.11%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 161 (17.48%) Microsoft Intune
2 17 (1.85%) SCCM
3 14 (1.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 12 (1.30%) Jamf Pro
5 11 (1.19%) Autotask
6 9 (0.98%) Kubernetes
6 9 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
7 8 (0.87%) FortiGate
7 8 (0.87%) WSUS
8 7 (0.76%) Ansible
8 7 (0.76%) SmoothWall
9 6 (0.65%) Failover Clustering
10 2 (0.22%) vCenter Server
11 1 (0.11%) Nessus
11 1 (0.11%) Podman
11 1 (0.11%) Proxmox
11 1 (0.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 451 (48.97%) Microsoft
2 111 (12.05%) VMware
3 62 (6.73%) Google
4 53 (5.75%) Fortinet
5 44 (4.78%) Apple
6 39 (4.23%) Fujitsu
6 39 (4.23%) Virgin Media
7 37 (4.02%) Cisco
8 33 (3.58%) Veeam
9 24 (2.61%) ServiceNow
10 23 (2.50%) Meraki
11 16 (1.74%) Adobe
12 14 (1.52%) Sage
12 14 (1.52%) WatchGuard
12 14 (1.52%) Zoho
13 13 (1.41%) Datto
13 13 (1.41%) Dell
14 12 (1.30%) Xamarin
15 10 (1.09%) Draytek
16 9 (0.98%) Acronis