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 3 April 2026.

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

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 95 170 135
Rank change year-on-year +75 -35 +117
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 1,405 674 1,703
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.98% 1.84% 2.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.14% 2.05% 2.30%
Number of salaries quoted 1,209 443 1,530
10th Percentile £26,000 £25,633 £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 £43,875 £43,750
90th Percentile £50,443 £55,000 £50,775
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 65,559 32,850 74,204
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.22% 89.88% 94.37%
Number of salaries quoted 43,137 21,103 57,884
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,676
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.71%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £91,934
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £54,995
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.10% -8.34%

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 3 April 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 3 April 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 +68 370 £32,736 -6.47% 75
North of England +50 290 £32,175 -2.50% 59
Midlands -21 238 £31,750 -9.29% 46
London +65 191 £40,000 -11.11% 30
East of England +49 171 £30,000 +9.09% 30
North West +59 148 £31,000 -11.43% 35
South West +46 143 £35,000 +1.45% 41
East Midlands -5 135 £30,000 - 22
Yorkshire +15 131 £33,500 +11.67% 22
West Midlands -54 103 £32,500 -7.14% 24
North East -23 11 £30,000 -20.00% 5
IT Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 3 April 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.

1 641 (45.62%) Microsoft 365
2 638 (45.41%) Microsoft
3 626 (44.56%) Windows
4 511 (36.37%) Active Directory
5 414 (29.47%) Azure
6 390 (27.76%) Problem-Solving
7 322 (22.92%) Windows Server
8 281 (20.00%) Customer Service
9 244 (17.37%) Firewall
10 231 (16.44%) Entra ID
11 217 (15.44%) DNS
12 203 (14.45%) Microsoft Intune
13 201 (14.31%) DHCP
14 176 (12.53%) Windows 10
15 173 (12.31%) VPN
16 172 (12.24%) ITIL
17 157 (11.17%) Microsoft Exchange
17 157 (11.17%) SharePoint
18 143 (10.18%) VMware
19 138 (9.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
20 128 (9.11%) WAN
21 126 (8.97%) LAN
21 126 (8.97%) Microsoft Office
22 123 (8.75%) Cybersecurity
23 121 (8.61%) Hyper-V
24 118 (8.40%) Wi-Fi
25 94 (6.69%) Google
25 94 (6.69%) Mentoring
26 93 (6.62%) Microsoft Certification
27 90 (6.41%) Degree

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
1 157 (11.17%) Microsoft Exchange
1 157 (11.17%) SharePoint
2 15 (1.07%) Confluence
3 12 (0.85%) Exchange Server 2013
4 10 (0.71%) Exchange Server 2007
4 10 (0.71%) Exchange Server 2010
5 8 (0.57%) IIS
Applications
1 126 (8.97%) Microsoft Office
2 25 (1.78%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.14%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.071%) Acrobat
5 1 (0.071%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.071%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 7 (0.50%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.36%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.071%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 641 (45.62%) Microsoft 365
2 414 (29.47%) Azure
3 231 (16.44%) Entra ID
4 84 (5.98%) Google Workspace
5 73 (5.20%) AWS
6 48 (3.42%) OneDrive
7 44 (3.13%) SaaS
8 25 (1.78%) Power Platform
9 23 (1.64%) IaaS
9 23 (1.64%) PaaS
10 17 (1.21%) GCP
11 12 (0.85%) PowerApps
12 11 (0.78%) Datadog
12 11 (0.78%) Power Automate
13 10 (0.71%) Azure DevOps
13 10 (0.71%) Azure Sentinel
14 8 (0.57%) Mimecast
15 7 (0.50%) Microsoft Copilot
15 7 (0.50%) OCI
16 5 (0.36%) Intacct
Communications & Networking
1 244 (17.37%) Firewall
2 217 (15.44%) DNS
3 201 (14.31%) DHCP
4 173 (12.31%) VPN
5 128 (9.11%) WAN
6 126 (8.97%) LAN
7 118 (8.40%) Wi-Fi
8 90 (6.41%) TCP/IP
8 90 (6.41%) VLAN
9 62 (4.41%) VoIP
10 35 (2.49%) Wireless
11 33 (2.35%) SAN
12 24 (1.71%) Network Security
12 24 (1.71%) SD-WAN
13 13 (0.93%) Remote Desktop
14 11 (0.78%) IP Telephony
15 10 (0.71%) WLAN
16 9 (0.64%) Internet
17 5 (0.36%) SSL
17 5 (0.36%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (3.77%) SQL Server
2 25 (1.78%) Power BI
3 8 (0.57%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (0.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 4 (0.28%) Relational Database
6 3 (0.21%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (0.14%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.071%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 37 (2.63%) JIRA
2 8 (0.57%) Chocolatey
3 4 (0.28%) GitLab
4 2 (0.14%) Git
5 1 (0.071%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.071%) LabVIEW
General
1 356 (25.34%) Social Skills
2 81 (5.77%) Finance
3 78 (5.55%) Organisational Skills
4 52 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
5 50 (3.56%) Law
6 46 (3.27%) Retail
7 44 (3.13%) Manufacturing
8 41 (2.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 39 (2.78%) Multimedia
10 36 (2.56%) Legal
11 33 (2.35%) Telecoms
12 24 (1.71%) Public Sector
13 12 (0.85%) Advertising
14 9 (0.64%) Banking
14 9 (0.64%) Games
15 7 (0.50%) Electronics
16 6 (0.43%) Documentation Skills
16 6 (0.43%) Spanish Language
17 5 (0.36%) Financial Institution
17 5 (0.36%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (0.71%) .NET
2 6 (0.43%) .NET Framework
2 6 (0.43%) Entity Framework
2 6 (0.43%) WinForms
3 4 (0.28%) ASP.NET
3 4 (0.28%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (0.071%) AVA JavaScript Test Runner
4 1 (0.071%) CSS
4 1 (0.071%) HTML
4 1 (0.071%) JSON
4 1 (0.071%) LangChain
4 1 (0.071%) LangGraph
4 1 (0.071%) OAuth
4 1 (0.071%) OpenID
4 1 (0.071%) React
4 1 (0.071%) SAML
4 1 (0.071%) Software Packaging
4 1 (0.071%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 217 (15.44%) Driving Licence
2 60 (4.27%) Onboarding
3 42 (2.99%) Self-Motivation
4 26 (1.85%) CCTV
5 20 (1.42%) Analytical Mindset
6 14 (1.00%) Data Centre
7 11 (0.78%) Security Posture
7 11 (0.78%) Smartphone
8 10 (0.71%) iPad
8 10 (0.71%) iPhone
8 10 (0.71%) Social Media
9 9 (0.64%) Fat Client
9 9 (0.64%) FMCG
9 9 (0.64%) Thin Client
10 8 (0.57%) Cyber Threat
10 8 (0.57%) Linux Command Line
11 7 (0.50%) Enterprise Software
12 6 (0.43%) PMI
13 5 (0.36%) Management Information System
13 5 (0.36%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 626 (44.56%) Windows
2 322 (22.92%) Windows Server
3 176 (12.53%) Windows 10
4 82 (5.84%) Mac OS
5 57 (4.06%) Linux
5 57 (4.06%) Windows Server 2019
6 54 (3.84%) Windows Server 2016
7 31 (2.21%) Apple iOS
8 27 (1.92%) Windows Server 2012
9 24 (1.71%) Android
10 17 (1.21%) Mac OS X
10 17 (1.21%) Windows 7
11 11 (0.78%) Windows 8
12 5 (0.36%) Windows Server 2008
13 3 (0.21%) Debian
14 1 (0.071%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 1 (0.071%) Solaris
14 1 (0.071%) Ubuntu
14 1 (0.071%) Unix
14 1 (0.071%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 390 (27.76%) Problem-Solving
2 281 (20.00%) Customer Service
3 172 (12.24%) ITIL
4 138 (9.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 123 (8.75%) Cybersecurity
6 94 (6.69%) Mentoring
7 89 (6.33%) ITSM
8 67 (4.77%) Service Delivery
9 60 (4.27%) Disaster Recovery
10 53 (3.77%) Remote Monitoring and Management
11 49 (3.49%) Process Improvement
12 48 (3.42%) Continuous Improvement
13 46 (3.27%) Migration
14 44 (3.13%) Service Management
15 42 (2.99%) Asset Management
16 40 (2.85%) Change Management
16 40 (2.85%) Project Delivery
17 38 (2.70%) Computer Science
18 36 (2.56%) Incident Management
19 35 (2.49%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 74 (5.27%) PowerShell
2 42 (2.99%) SQL
3 11 (0.78%) Python
4 10 (0.71%) Bash
5 9 (0.64%) C#
6 6 (0.43%) T-SQL
7 5 (0.36%) VB
8 4 (0.28%) PL/SQL
8 4 (0.28%) R
8 4 (0.28%) VBScript
9 3 (0.21%) Uniface
10 2 (0.14%) Google Apps Script
10 2 (0.14%) PHP
11 1 (0.071%) Java
11 1 (0.071%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.071%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.071%) VBA
Qualifications
1 93 (6.62%) Microsoft Certification
2 90 (6.41%) Degree
3 66 (4.70%) Security Cleared
4 53 (3.77%) DBS Check
5 42 (2.99%) SC Cleared
6 40 (2.85%) Cisco Certification
7 39 (2.78%) A+ Certification
8 38 (2.70%) CCNA
9 25 (1.78%) Network+ Certification
10 24 (1.71%) Computer Science Degree
11 21 (1.49%) BPSS Clearance
12 19 (1.35%) Azure Certification
13 18 (1.28%) MCSE
14 17 (1.21%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 15 (1.07%) CCNP
15 15 (1.07%) DV Cleared
16 12 (0.85%) MCSA
17 9 (0.64%) CompTIA Security+
18 6 (0.43%) MCITP
18 6 (0.43%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (6.19%) SLA
2 59 (4.20%) Cyber Essentials
3 44 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 20 (1.42%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 9 (0.64%) GDPR
6 7 (0.50%) QA
7 6 (0.43%) NIST
8 3 (0.21%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.071%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.071%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.071%) SOC 2
System Software
1 511 (36.37%) Active Directory
2 121 (8.61%) Hyper-V
3 82 (5.84%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (1.28%) Virtual Desktop
5 11 (0.78%) VMware Workstation
6 8 (0.57%) VMware ESXi
7 7 (0.50%) vSphere
8 6 (0.43%) Firmware
9 5 (0.36%) Docker
9 5 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
10 4 (0.28%) VMware NSX
11 3 (0.21%) Terminal Services
12 2 (0.14%) BitLocker
13 1 (0.071%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 203 (14.45%) Microsoft Intune
2 34 (2.42%) SCCM
3 22 (1.57%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 19 (1.35%) Autotask
4 19 (1.35%) WSUS
5 18 (1.28%) Jamf Pro
6 10 (0.71%) FortiGate
6 10 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
7 8 (0.57%) Ansible
8 7 (0.50%) SmoothWall
9 3 (0.21%) Terraform
10 1 (0.071%) Kubernetes
10 1 (0.071%) Podman
Vendors
1 638 (45.41%) Microsoft
2 143 (10.18%) VMware
3 94 (6.69%) Google
4 56 (3.99%) Fortinet
5 53 (3.77%) Apple
6 40 (2.85%) Cisco
7 39 (2.78%) Fujitsu
7 39 (2.78%) Virgin Media
8 35 (2.49%) Meraki
9 24 (1.71%) Veeam
10 23 (1.64%) Dell
11 16 (1.14%) Datto
12 14 (1.00%) ServiceNow
12 14 (1.00%) WatchGuard
13 13 (0.93%) Draytek
14 12 (0.85%) Epicor
14 12 (0.85%) HP
14 12 (0.85%) Sage
14 12 (0.85%) SonicWALL
14 12 (0.85%) Ubiquiti