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 21 July 2026.

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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 89 261 138
Rank change year-on-year +172 -123 +72
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 1,729 518 1,576
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.95% 1.20% 1.93%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.07% 1.32% 2.04%
Number of salaries quoted 1,514 405 1,295
10th Percentile £27,000 £25,750 £24,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £27,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £37,500 £34,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +8.70% -
75th Percentile £43,750 £48,750 £43,750
90th Percentile £56,250 £59,500 £52,500
UK median annual salary £35,000 £37,500 £34,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +10.29% -2.16%

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 83,664 39,191 77,342
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.33% 90.42% 94.62%
Number of salaries quoted 58,936 23,658 55,533
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £29,726
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,574 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,250 £75,000 £71,650
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £91,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year - +1.85% -10.00%

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 21 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 21 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 +117 442 £35,000 -9.68% 53
North of England +88 321 £32,500 -1.52% 48
East of England +116 264 £35,000 +1.45% 35
Midlands +67 260 £32,500 -12.16% 24
South West +56 226 £35,000 -6.67% 26
London +89 213 £36,000 -12.20% 32
North West +118 180 £32,940 +1.35% 22
East Midlands +42 131 £32,500 - 16
West Midlands +55 129 £32,500 -21.00% 8
Yorkshire -7 124 £30,000 - 23
North East -40 17 £40,000 -17.95% 7
IT Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 21 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.

1 852 (49.28%) Microsoft
2 814 (47.08%) Microsoft 365
3 731 (42.28%) Windows
4 600 (34.70%) Active Directory
5 489 (28.28%) Azure
6 421 (24.35%) Problem-Solving
7 377 (21.80%) Windows Server
8 365 (21.11%) Entra ID
9 344 (19.90%) Customer Service
10 295 (17.06%) Firewall
11 271 (15.67%) Microsoft Exchange
12 262 (15.15%) Microsoft Intune
13 233 (13.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 232 (13.42%) DNS
15 220 (12.72%) SharePoint
16 195 (11.28%) DHCP
17 193 (11.16%) Cybersecurity
18 190 (10.99%) VMware
19 189 (10.93%) Hyper-V
19 189 (10.93%) VPN
20 162 (9.37%) Wi-Fi
21 154 (8.91%) ITIL
22 149 (8.62%) Windows 10
23 137 (7.92%) VMware Infrastructure
24 131 (7.58%) Disaster Recovery
25 129 (7.46%) PowerShell
26 127 (7.35%) LAN
27 124 (7.17%) Continuous Improvement
28 123 (7.11%) Mac OS
29 120 (6.94%) WAN

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 (15.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 220 (12.72%) SharePoint
3 16 (0.93%) IIS
4 14 (0.81%) Exchange Server 2013
5 12 (0.69%) Exchange Server 2007
5 12 (0.69%) Exchange Server 2010
6 11 (0.64%) Confluence
7 3 (0.17%) Apache
Applications
1 118 (6.82%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (1.10%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.17%) Photoshop
5 2 (0.12%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (0.35%) Raiser’s Edge
2 5 (0.29%) Dynamics NAV
2 5 (0.29%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.12%) Sage 200
4 1 (0.058%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 814 (47.08%) Microsoft 365
2 489 (28.28%) Azure
3 365 (21.11%) Entra ID
4 62 (3.59%) AWS
5 58 (3.35%) Google Workspace
6 55 (3.18%) OneDrive
6 55 (3.18%) SaaS
7 29 (1.68%) Mimecast
8 23 (1.33%) Power Platform
9 20 (1.16%) PaaS
10 16 (0.93%) IaaS
11 12 (0.69%) Power Automate
12 11 (0.64%) Azure DevOps
12 11 (0.64%) Nutanix
13 9 (0.52%) PowerApps
14 7 (0.40%) OCI
15 6 (0.35%) Cloudflare
15 6 (0.35%) Microsoft Copilot
16 5 (0.29%) Azure Sentinel
16 5 (0.29%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 295 (17.06%) Firewall
2 232 (13.42%) DNS
3 195 (11.28%) DHCP
4 189 (10.93%) VPN
5 162 (9.37%) Wi-Fi
6 127 (7.35%) LAN
7 120 (6.94%) WAN
8 111 (6.42%) TCP/IP
9 91 (5.26%) VLAN
10 81 (4.68%) VoIP
11 71 (4.11%) Wireless
12 49 (2.83%) SAN
13 29 (1.68%) Network Security
14 23 (1.33%) Internet
15 18 (1.04%) Remote Desktop
16 16 (0.93%) WLAN
17 11 (0.64%) SSL
18 10 (0.58%) SD-WAN
19 7 (0.40%) NAS
20 5 (0.29%) DMZ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (4.11%) SQL Server
2 13 (0.75%) Power BI
3 10 (0.58%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (0.35%) MySQL
5 5 (0.29%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.12%) KNIME
Development Applications
1 46 (2.66%) JIRA
2 3 (0.17%) GitLab
3 2 (0.12%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.058%) Carbide.c++
4 1 (0.058%) Chocolatey
General
1 444 (25.68%) Social Skills
2 66 (3.82%) Finance
2 66 (3.82%) Legal
3 64 (3.70%) Manufacturing
4 59 (3.41%) Organisational Skills
5 58 (3.35%) Analytical Skills
6 57 (3.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 47 (2.72%) Law
8 44 (2.54%) Retail
9 29 (1.68%) Telecoms
10 27 (1.56%) Advertising
11 20 (1.16%) Documentation Skills
12 17 (0.98%) Automotive
13 15 (0.87%) Public Sector
14 8 (0.46%) Aerospace
15 7 (0.40%) Local Government
16 6 (0.35%) Banking
16 6 (0.35%) Games
17 4 (0.23%) Portuguese Language
17 4 (0.23%) Spanish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (0.52%) HTML
2 7 (0.40%) JSON
3 5 (0.29%) CSS
3 5 (0.29%) Web Services
4 3 (0.17%) OpenTelemetry
5 2 (0.12%) EDI
6 1 (0.058%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 213 (12.32%) Driving Licence
2 95 (5.49%) Onboarding
3 67 (3.88%) Self-Motivation
4 38 (2.20%) Data Centre
5 37 (2.14%) CCTV
6 17 (0.98%) Security Posture
7 16 (0.93%) Video Conferencing
8 15 (0.87%) Clustering
9 14 (0.81%) Analytical Mindset
9 14 (0.81%) Hybrid Cloud
10 11 (0.64%) Cloud Native
10 11 (0.64%) NHS
11 10 (0.58%) Management Information System
11 10 (0.58%) PKI
11 10 (0.58%) Replication
12 9 (0.52%) Enterprise Software
12 9 (0.52%) FMCG
12 9 (0.52%) Operational Technology
13 7 (0.40%) EPoS
13 7 (0.40%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 731 (42.28%) Windows
2 377 (21.80%) Windows Server
3 149 (8.62%) Windows 10
4 123 (7.11%) Mac OS
5 109 (6.30%) Linux
6 55 (3.18%) Windows Server 2019
7 48 (2.78%) Windows Server 2016
8 47 (2.72%) Apple iOS
9 39 (2.26%) Android
10 21 (1.21%) Windows Server 2012
11 16 (0.93%) Windows 7
12 10 (0.58%) Windows 8
13 9 (0.52%) Mac OS X
14 7 (0.40%) Ubuntu
15 4 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 4 (0.23%) Windows Server 2008
16 2 (0.12%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 421 (24.35%) Problem-Solving
2 344 (19.90%) Customer Service
3 233 (13.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 193 (11.16%) Cybersecurity
5 154 (8.91%) ITIL
6 131 (7.58%) Disaster Recovery
7 124 (7.17%) Continuous Improvement
8 92 (5.32%) Service Delivery
9 88 (5.09%) ITSM
10 81 (4.68%) Project Delivery
11 65 (3.76%) Remote Monitoring and Management
12 63 (3.64%) Mentoring
13 62 (3.59%) Change Management
13 62 (3.59%) Service Management
14 52 (3.01%) Root Cause Analysis
15 50 (2.89%) Business Continuity
16 43 (2.49%) Process Improvement
17 42 (2.43%) Migration
18 41 (2.37%) User Experience
19 39 (2.26%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 129 (7.46%) PowerShell
2 58 (3.35%) SQL
3 12 (0.69%) Python
4 11 (0.64%) R
5 8 (0.46%) Bash
6 7 (0.40%) Ruby
7 4 (0.23%) PHP
7 4 (0.23%) VB
7 4 (0.23%) VBScript
8 3 (0.17%) Bicep
8 3 (0.17%) C#
8 3 (0.17%) JavaScript
8 3 (0.17%) VBA
9 2 (0.12%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.058%) Uniface
Qualifications
1 114 (6.59%) Microsoft Certification
2 109 (6.30%) Degree
3 71 (4.11%) DBS Check
4 64 (3.70%) Security Cleared
5 49 (2.83%) Cisco Certification
6 48 (2.78%) CCNA
7 37 (2.14%) SC Cleared
8 32 (1.85%) A+ Certification
9 30 (1.74%) Azure Certification
10 25 (1.45%) Network+ Certification
11 15 (0.87%) CompTIA Security+
11 15 (0.87%) DV Cleared
12 14 (0.81%) MCSE
13 11 (0.64%) BPSS Clearance
14 7 (0.40%) AWS Certification
14 7 (0.40%) CCNP
14 7 (0.40%) MCSA
15 5 (0.29%) MCITP
16 4 (0.23%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 4 (0.23%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (5.78%) Cyber Essentials
2 60 (3.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 60 (3.47%) SLA
3 33 (1.91%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 25 (1.45%) GDPR
5 11 (0.64%) PCI DSS
6 5 (0.29%) NIST
7 4 (0.23%) Accessibility
8 3 (0.17%) QA
9 1 (0.058%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.058%) NCSC
9 1 (0.058%) TickIT
System Software
1 600 (34.70%) Active Directory
2 189 (10.93%) Hyper-V
3 137 (7.92%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (0.87%) Virtual Desktop
4 15 (0.87%) VMware ESXi
5 13 (0.75%) Docker
5 13 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
6 11 (0.64%) vSphere
7 8 (0.46%) BitLocker
8 6 (0.35%) Terminal Services
8 6 (0.35%) VMware Workstation
9 3 (0.17%) Firmware
9 3 (0.17%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.058%) Terminal Server
10 1 (0.058%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 262 (15.15%) Microsoft Intune
2 30 (1.74%) SCCM
3 26 (1.50%) Autotask
4 25 (1.45%) Jamf Pro
5 16 (0.93%) WSUS
6 11 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
7 10 (0.58%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 10 (0.58%) Failover Clustering
8 8 (0.46%) FortiGate
9 5 (0.29%) Ansible
9 5 (0.29%) Terraform
10 4 (0.23%) Iperf
10 4 (0.23%) Kubernetes
11 1 (0.058%) Argo
11 1 (0.058%) Nessus
11 1 (0.058%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 852 (49.28%) Microsoft
2 190 (10.99%) VMware
3 73 (4.22%) Cisco
4 65 (3.76%) Google
5 48 (2.78%) Veeam
6 44 (2.54%) Meraki
7 39 (2.26%) Apple
8 36 (2.08%) SonicWALL
9 34 (1.97%) HP
10 33 (1.91%) Ubiquiti
11 26 (1.50%) Dell
12 23 (1.33%) Sophos
13 22 (1.27%) Datto
14 19 (1.10%) Fortinet
15 17 (0.98%) Aruba
16 13 (0.75%) Draytek
16 13 (0.75%) Epicor
17 12 (0.69%) CrowdStrike
17 12 (0.69%) ServiceNow
18 11 (0.64%) Logitech