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 15 March 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 155 137
Rank change year-on-year +51 -18 +125
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 1,262 760 1,641
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.92% 1.93% 2.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.09% 2.13% 2.34%
Number of salaries quoted 1,086 483 1,482
10th Percentile £25,875 £25,627 £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 £44,125 £43,000
90th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
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 60,440 35,628 70,181
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.86% 90.54% 94.44%
Number of salaries quoted 39,507 21,195 55,330
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,750 £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% -9.84%
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 15 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 15 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 +53 338 £33,250 -5.00% 61
North of England +38 264 £32,500 -4.06% 49
Midlands -19 228 £31,500 -10.00% 36
London +63 175 £40,000 -11.11% 33
East Midlands -6 134 £30,000 - 15
North West +57 133 £30,000 -20.00% 28
East of England +46 129 £30,000 +9.09% 34
South West +45 126 £34,000 -2.16% 29
Yorkshire +16 122 £35,000 +16.67% 18
West Midlands -46 94 £32,500 -7.14% 21
North East -16 9 £30,000 -16.67% 7
IT Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 15 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.

1 583 (46.20%) Windows
2 576 (45.64%) Microsoft 365
3 571 (45.25%) Microsoft
4 468 (37.08%) Active Directory
5 396 (31.38%) Azure
6 368 (29.16%) Problem-Solving
7 301 (23.85%) Windows Server
8 256 (20.29%) Customer Service
9 233 (18.46%) Firewall
10 211 (16.72%) DNS
11 205 (16.24%) Entra ID
12 195 (15.45%) DHCP
13 186 (14.74%) Microsoft Intune
14 172 (13.63%) VPN
15 159 (12.60%) Windows 10
16 156 (12.36%) ITIL
17 145 (11.49%) SharePoint
18 139 (11.01%) Microsoft Exchange
19 136 (10.78%) VMware
20 124 (9.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
21 122 (9.67%) Microsoft Office
22 118 (9.35%) WAN
23 117 (9.27%) Cybersecurity
23 117 (9.27%) Hyper-V
24 114 (9.03%) LAN
25 104 (8.24%) Wi-Fi
26 96 (7.61%) Google
27 92 (7.29%) Degree
28 91 (7.21%) VLAN
29 89 (7.05%) 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
1 145 (11.49%) SharePoint
2 139 (11.01%) Microsoft Exchange
3 15 (1.19%) Confluence
4 14 (1.11%) IIS
5 7 (0.55%) Exchange Server 2007
5 7 (0.55%) Exchange Server 2010
5 7 (0.55%) Exchange Server 2013
6 1 (0.079%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 122 (9.67%) Microsoft Office
2 22 (1.74%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.16%) Acrobat
4 2 (0.16%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.079%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 7 (0.55%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.40%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.079%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 576 (45.64%) Microsoft 365
2 396 (31.38%) Azure
3 205 (16.24%) Entra ID
4 83 (6.58%) Google Workspace
5 77 (6.10%) AWS
6 45 (3.57%) OneDrive
7 39 (3.09%) SaaS
8 24 (1.90%) Power Platform
9 23 (1.82%) GCP
10 21 (1.66%) IaaS
11 20 (1.58%) PaaS
12 16 (1.27%) Azure DevOps
13 12 (0.95%) Power Automate
14 11 (0.87%) Datadog
15 10 (0.79%) Azure Sentinel
16 9 (0.71%) PowerApps
17 8 (0.63%) Microsoft Copilot
18 7 (0.55%) OCI
19 6 (0.48%) Mimecast
20 5 (0.40%) Intacct
Communications & Networking
1 233 (18.46%) Firewall
2 211 (16.72%) DNS
3 195 (15.45%) DHCP
4 172 (13.63%) VPN
5 118 (9.35%) WAN
6 114 (9.03%) LAN
7 104 (8.24%) Wi-Fi
8 91 (7.21%) VLAN
9 89 (7.05%) TCP/IP
10 60 (4.75%) VoIP
11 32 (2.54%) SAN
12 30 (2.38%) Wireless
13 25 (1.98%) SD-WAN
14 20 (1.58%) Network Security
15 14 (1.11%) Remote Desktop
16 9 (0.71%) Internet
16 9 (0.71%) IP Telephony
17 8 (0.63%) WLAN
18 5 (0.40%) SSL
18 5 (0.40%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (4.04%) SQL Server
2 23 (1.82%) Power BI
3 12 (0.95%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 8 (0.63%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (0.40%) Relational Database
6 3 (0.24%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (0.16%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.079%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.079%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.079%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 32 (2.54%) JIRA
2 8 (0.63%) Chocolatey
3 4 (0.32%) GitLab
4 2 (0.16%) Git
4 2 (0.16%) Snyk
5 1 (0.079%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.079%) Burp Suite
5 1 (0.079%) JMeter
5 1 (0.079%) LabVIEW
5 1 (0.079%) LoadRunner
5 1 (0.079%) NeoLoad
General
1 336 (26.62%) Social Skills
2 82 (6.50%) Finance
3 75 (5.94%) Organisational Skills
4 54 (4.28%) Law
5 50 (3.96%) Analytical Skills
6 43 (3.41%) Retail
7 39 (3.09%) Multimedia
8 37 (2.93%) Manufacturing
9 33 (2.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 33 (2.61%) Legal
9 33 (2.61%) Telecoms
10 24 (1.90%) Public Sector
11 10 (0.79%) Advertising
12 9 (0.71%) Banking
12 9 (0.71%) Games
13 7 (0.55%) Documentation Skills
13 7 (0.55%) Electronics
14 5 (0.40%) Social Housing
15 4 (0.32%) Billing
15 4 (0.32%) Dutch Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (1.35%) .NET
2 13 (1.03%) .NET Framework
3 12 (0.95%) Entity Framework
3 12 (0.95%) WinForms
4 7 (0.55%) ASP.NET
5 4 (0.32%) OpenTelemetry
6 3 (0.24%) OAuth
7 2 (0.16%) OAuth2
7 2 (0.16%) React
7 2 (0.16%) REST
8 1 (0.079%) AngularJS
8 1 (0.079%) AVA JavaScript Test Runner
8 1 (0.079%) GraphQL
8 1 (0.079%) LangChain
8 1 (0.079%) LangGraph
8 1 (0.079%) Microsoft Graph
8 1 (0.079%) OpenID
8 1 (0.079%) SAML
8 1 (0.079%) Software Packaging
8 1 (0.079%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 209 (16.56%) Driving Licence
2 60 (4.75%) Onboarding
3 37 (2.93%) Self-Motivation
4 23 (1.82%) CCTV
5 18 (1.43%) Analytical Mindset
6 13 (1.03%) Security Posture
7 11 (0.87%) Data Centre
7 11 (0.87%) Smartphone
8 10 (0.79%) Enterprise Software
8 10 (0.79%) iPhone
9 9 (0.71%) Fat Client
9 9 (0.71%) Social Media
9 9 (0.71%) Thin Client
10 8 (0.63%) Cyber Threat
10 8 (0.63%) iPad
10 8 (0.63%) Linux Command Line
11 7 (0.55%) FMCG
11 7 (0.55%) Management Information System
12 6 (0.48%) PMI
13 5 (0.40%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 583 (46.20%) Windows
2 301 (23.85%) Windows Server
3 159 (12.60%) Windows 10
4 83 (6.58%) Mac OS
5 55 (4.36%) Windows Server 2019
6 50 (3.96%) Linux
6 50 (3.96%) Windows Server 2016
7 25 (1.98%) Apple iOS
7 25 (1.98%) Windows Server 2012
8 24 (1.90%) Android
9 17 (1.35%) Windows 7
10 13 (1.03%) Mac OS X
11 11 (0.87%) Windows 8
12 3 (0.24%) Debian
13 2 (0.16%) Windows Server 2008
14 1 (0.079%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 1 (0.079%) Solaris
14 1 (0.079%) Ubuntu
14 1 (0.079%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 368 (29.16%) Problem-Solving
2 256 (20.29%) Customer Service
3 156 (12.36%) ITIL
4 124 (9.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 117 (9.27%) Cybersecurity
6 87 (6.89%) Mentoring
7 80 (6.34%) ITSM
8 62 (4.91%) Service Delivery
9 53 (4.20%) Disaster Recovery
10 49 (3.88%) Remote Monitoring and Management
11 48 (3.80%) Migration
12 46 (3.65%) Process Improvement
13 44 (3.49%) Continuous Improvement
14 43 (3.41%) Asset Management
15 42 (3.33%) Computer Science
16 38 (3.01%) Incident Management
17 36 (2.85%) Root Cause Analysis
18 35 (2.77%) Service Management
19 34 (2.69%) Change Management
19 34 (2.69%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 64 (5.07%) PowerShell
2 48 (3.80%) SQL
3 15 (1.19%) C#
4 12 (0.95%) T-SQL
5 11 (0.87%) Python
6 10 (0.79%) Bash
7 7 (0.55%) PL/SQL
7 7 (0.55%) VBScript
8 5 (0.40%) VB
9 3 (0.24%) Uniface
10 2 (0.16%) Google Apps Script
10 2 (0.16%) JavaScript
10 2 (0.16%) R
11 1 (0.079%) Java
11 1 (0.079%) PHP
11 1 (0.079%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 92 (7.29%) Degree
2 84 (6.66%) Microsoft Certification
3 56 (4.44%) Security Cleared
4 47 (3.72%) DBS Check
5 37 (2.93%) SC Cleared
6 36 (2.85%) Cisco Certification
7 35 (2.77%) CCNA
8 34 (2.69%) A+ Certification
9 31 (2.46%) Computer Science Degree
10 21 (1.66%) BPSS Clearance
10 21 (1.66%) Network+ Certification
11 19 (1.51%) Azure Certification
12 18 (1.43%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 16 (1.27%) MCSE
14 15 (1.19%) DV Cleared
15 13 (1.03%) CCNP
15 13 (1.03%) MCSA
16 9 (0.71%) CompTIA Security+
17 6 (0.48%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
17 6 (0.48%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (6.10%) SLA
2 58 (4.60%) Cyber Essentials
3 41 (3.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 19 (1.51%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 11 (0.87%) GDPR
6 8 (0.63%) QA
7 6 (0.48%) NIST
8 5 (0.40%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.079%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.079%) SOC 2
System Software
1 468 (37.08%) Active Directory
2 117 (9.27%) Hyper-V
3 79 (6.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (1.43%) Virtual Desktop
5 11 (0.87%) VMware Workstation
6 8 (0.63%) vSphere
7 7 (0.55%) VMware ESXi
8 6 (0.48%) Firmware
9 5 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
10 4 (0.32%) VMware NSX
11 3 (0.24%) Docker
12 2 (0.16%) XenDesktop
13 1 (0.079%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 186 (14.74%) Microsoft Intune
2 26 (2.06%) SCCM
3 22 (1.74%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 16 (1.27%) Autotask
4 16 (1.27%) Jamf Pro
5 15 (1.19%) WSUS
6 10 (0.79%) FortiGate
6 10 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
7 8 (0.63%) Ansible
8 7 (0.55%) SmoothWall
9 4 (0.32%) Kubernetes
10 3 (0.24%) Failover Clustering
11 2 (0.16%) Terraform
12 1 (0.079%) Nessus
12 1 (0.079%) Podman
12 1 (0.079%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 571 (45.25%) Microsoft
2 136 (10.78%) VMware
3 96 (7.61%) Google
4 52 (4.12%) Fortinet
5 46 (3.65%) Apple
6 39 (3.09%) Fujitsu
6 39 (3.09%) Virgin Media
7 35 (2.77%) Cisco
8 34 (2.69%) Meraki
9 31 (2.46%) Veeam
10 20 (1.58%) Dell
11 17 (1.35%) Sage
12 14 (1.11%) WatchGuard
13 13 (1.03%) ServiceNow
14 12 (0.95%) ConnectWise
14 12 (0.95%) Datto
14 12 (0.95%) Xamarin
15 11 (0.87%) Citrix
15 11 (0.87%) ESET
15 11 (0.87%) Ubiquiti