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 8 June 2026.

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

6 months to
8 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 262 134
Rank change year-on-year +180 -128 +95
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 1,696 525 1,851
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.06% 1.33% 2.01%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.19% 1.48% 2.13%
Number of salaries quoted 1,463 380 1,617
10th Percentile £26,750 £25,750 £24,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £28,000 £26,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £35,000 £33,000
Median % change year-on-year - +6.06% -4.35%
75th Percentile £43,750 £45,000 £43,000
90th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £50,100
UK median annual salary £35,000 £35,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year - +7.69% -5.80%

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 77,479 35,491 87,063
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.91% 89.92% 94.76%
Number of salaries quoted 53,666 20,523 64,895
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.61% +9.52% -12.86%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £70,250
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 8 June 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 8 June 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 +98 396 £34,750 -7.33% 78
North of England +99 359 £33,500 +3.08% 55
Midlands +44 261 £32,500 -7.14% 38
East of England +92 241 £35,000 +12.00% 33
London +102 231 £39,000 -13.33% 32
South West +58 205 £35,000 +1.45% 36
North West +132 202 £35,000 +8.53% 25
Yorkshire +7 144 £33,500 +11.67% 25
West Midlands +29 131 £32,500 -7.14% 12
East Midlands +30 130 £30,000 -8.40% 26
North East -37 13 £32,000 -20.00% 7
IT Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 8 June 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.

1 723 (42.63%) Microsoft
2 719 (42.39%) Microsoft 365
3 646 (38.09%) Windows
4 530 (31.25%) Active Directory
5 460 (27.12%) Azure
6 413 (24.35%) Problem-Solving
7 340 (20.05%) Windows Server
8 321 (18.93%) Customer Service
9 303 (17.87%) Entra ID
10 278 (16.39%) Firewall
11 223 (13.15%) Microsoft Intune
12 207 (12.21%) DNS
13 206 (12.15%) Microsoft Exchange
14 193 (11.38%) SharePoint
15 189 (11.14%) VPN
16 183 (10.79%) DHCP
17 177 (10.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 177 (10.44%) VMware
18 161 (9.49%) Windows 10
19 157 (9.26%) Hyper-V
20 155 (9.14%) Cybersecurity
21 151 (8.90%) Wi-Fi
22 145 (8.55%) ITIL
23 140 (8.25%) LAN
24 139 (8.20%) WAN
25 121 (7.13%) Degree
26 118 (6.96%) Microsoft Office
27 114 (6.72%) VMware Infrastructure
28 111 (6.54%) Mac OS
29 110 (6.49%) PowerShell

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
1 206 (12.15%) Microsoft Exchange
2 193 (11.38%) SharePoint
3 14 (0.83%) Confluence
3 14 (0.83%) Exchange Server 2013
4 12 (0.71%) Exchange Server 2007
4 12 (0.71%) Exchange Server 2010
5 9 (0.53%) IIS
Applications
1 118 (6.96%) Microsoft Office
2 22 (1.30%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.18%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.059%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 6 (0.35%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.29%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.059%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 719 (42.39%) Microsoft 365
2 460 (27.12%) Azure
3 303 (17.87%) Entra ID
4 73 (4.30%) Google Workspace
5 59 (3.48%) AWS
6 54 (3.18%) OneDrive
7 49 (2.89%) SaaS
8 26 (1.53%) PaaS
9 23 (1.36%) IaaS
10 22 (1.30%) Power Platform
11 18 (1.06%) Mimecast
12 9 (0.53%) Azure DevOps
12 9 (0.53%) PowerApps
13 8 (0.47%) Azure Sentinel
14 7 (0.41%) Datadog
14 7 (0.41%) OCI
15 6 (0.35%) Microsoft Copilot
16 5 (0.29%) Intacct
16 5 (0.29%) Nutanix
16 5 (0.29%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 278 (16.39%) Firewall
2 207 (12.21%) DNS
3 189 (11.14%) VPN
4 183 (10.79%) DHCP
5 151 (8.90%) Wi-Fi
6 140 (8.25%) LAN
7 139 (8.20%) WAN
8 87 (5.13%) VLAN
9 77 (4.54%) VoIP
10 64 (3.77%) TCP/IP
11 52 (3.07%) SAN
12 35 (2.06%) Wireless
13 25 (1.47%) Network Security
14 20 (1.18%) SD-WAN
15 15 (0.88%) WLAN
16 14 (0.83%) Internet
17 11 (0.65%) Remote Desktop
18 10 (0.59%) SSL
19 7 (0.41%) NAS
20 5 (0.29%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (3.89%) SQL Server
2 13 (0.77%) Power BI
3 5 (0.29%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (0.18%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (0.18%) MySQL
5 1 (0.059%) KNIME
Development Applications
1 39 (2.30%) JIRA
2 7 (0.41%) Chocolatey
3 4 (0.24%) GitLab
4 1 (0.059%) Carbide.c++
4 1 (0.059%) Git
4 1 (0.059%) LabVIEW
4 1 (0.059%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 393 (23.17%) Social Skills
2 74 (4.36%) Finance
3 63 (3.71%) Analytical Skills
4 60 (3.54%) Organisational Skills
5 59 (3.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 52 (3.07%) Manufacturing
7 45 (2.65%) Law
8 43 (2.54%) Legal
9 40 (2.36%) Telecoms
10 39 (2.30%) Multimedia
11 38 (2.24%) Retail
12 20 (1.18%) Public Sector
13 17 (1.00%) Advertising
14 14 (0.83%) Automotive
15 12 (0.71%) Banking
16 5 (0.29%) Aerospace
16 5 (0.29%) Documentation Skills
16 5 (0.29%) Games
16 5 (0.29%) Local Government
16 5 (0.29%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (0.53%) HTML
2 7 (0.41%) JSON
3 5 (0.29%) CSS
3 5 (0.29%) Web Services
4 4 (0.24%) OpenTelemetry
5 2 (0.12%) .NET
6 1 (0.059%) OpenID
6 1 (0.059%) SAML
6 1 (0.059%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 223 (13.15%) Driving Licence
2 74 (4.36%) Onboarding
3 50 (2.95%) Self-Motivation
4 28 (1.65%) CCTV
4 28 (1.65%) Data Centre
5 24 (1.42%) Analytical Mindset
6 14 (0.83%) Video Conferencing
7 13 (0.77%) Management Information System
7 13 (0.77%) Security Posture
8 11 (0.65%) NHS
8 11 (0.65%) Social Media
9 10 (0.59%) Clustering
9 10 (0.59%) FMCG
9 10 (0.59%) Replication
10 9 (0.53%) iPhone
11 8 (0.47%) Enterprise Software
11 8 (0.47%) Hybrid Cloud
11 8 (0.47%) Linux Command Line
12 7 (0.41%) Cyber Threat
12 7 (0.41%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 646 (38.09%) Windows
2 340 (20.05%) Windows Server
3 161 (9.49%) Windows 10
4 111 (6.54%) Mac OS
5 89 (5.25%) Linux
6 65 (3.83%) Windows Server 2019
7 57 (3.36%) Windows Server 2016
8 37 (2.18%) Apple iOS
9 34 (2.00%) Android
10 25 (1.47%) Windows Server 2012
11 17 (1.00%) Windows 7
12 11 (0.65%) Windows 8
13 9 (0.53%) Mac OS X
14 4 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 4 (0.24%) Ubuntu
14 4 (0.24%) Windows Server 2008
15 1 (0.059%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 413 (24.35%) Problem-Solving
2 321 (18.93%) Customer Service
3 177 (10.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 155 (9.14%) Cybersecurity
5 145 (8.55%) ITIL
6 99 (5.84%) Disaster Recovery
7 94 (5.54%) Mentoring
8 93 (5.48%) ITSM
9 86 (5.07%) Service Delivery
10 79 (4.66%) Continuous Improvement
11 64 (3.77%) Remote Monitoring and Management
12 63 (3.71%) Project Delivery
13 55 (3.24%) Service Management
14 47 (2.77%) Change Management
15 46 (2.71%) Root Cause Analysis
16 45 (2.65%) Migration
17 40 (2.36%) Business Continuity
17 40 (2.36%) Time Management
18 38 (2.24%) Process Improvement
19 35 (2.06%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 110 (6.49%) PowerShell
2 52 (3.07%) SQL
3 10 (0.59%) Bash
4 8 (0.47%) Python
5 5 (0.29%) C#
5 5 (0.29%) VB
6 4 (0.24%) PHP
6 4 (0.24%) R
6 4 (0.24%) VBScript
7 3 (0.18%) JavaScript
7 3 (0.18%) Uniface
7 3 (0.18%) VBA
8 2 (0.12%) Google Apps Script
9 1 (0.059%) Bicep
9 1 (0.059%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 121 (7.13%) Degree
2 109 (6.43%) Microsoft Certification
3 74 (4.36%) DBS Check
4 73 (4.30%) Security Cleared
5 45 (2.65%) SC Cleared
6 41 (2.42%) Cisco Certification
7 40 (2.36%) CCNA
8 35 (2.06%) A+ Certification
9 32 (1.89%) Azure Certification
10 29 (1.71%) Network+ Certification
11 18 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
12 17 (1.00%) CompTIA Security+
13 16 (0.94%) DV Cleared
14 15 (0.88%) MCSE
15 11 (0.65%) Computer Science Degree
16 7 (0.41%) CCNP
17 5 (0.29%) MCITP
18 4 (0.24%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
18 4 (0.24%) MCSA
19 3 (0.18%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (4.72%) Cyber Essentials
2 72 (4.25%) SLA
3 56 (3.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 32 (1.89%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 15 (0.88%) GDPR
6 8 (0.47%) NIST
6 8 (0.47%) PCI DSS
7 7 (0.41%) QA
8 5 (0.29%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.059%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.059%) SOC 2
System Software
1 530 (31.25%) Active Directory
2 157 (9.26%) Hyper-V
3 114 (6.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (1.12%) Virtual Desktop
5 15 (0.88%) VMware ESXi
6 10 (0.59%) Docker
7 8 (0.47%) BitLocker
7 8 (0.47%) vSphere
8 7 (0.41%) VMware Workstation
9 6 (0.35%) Terminal Services
10 4 (0.24%) Firmware
10 4 (0.24%) VMware NSX
11 3 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
12 1 (0.059%) Terminal Server
12 1 (0.059%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 223 (13.15%) Microsoft Intune
2 37 (2.18%) SCCM
3 27 (1.59%) Autotask
3 27 (1.59%) Jamf Pro
4 18 (1.06%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 17 (1.00%) WSUS
6 14 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
7 12 (0.71%) FortiGate
8 6 (0.35%) Failover Clustering
9 5 (0.29%) Terraform
10 4 (0.24%) Ansible
10 4 (0.24%) SmoothWall
11 2 (0.12%) Kubernetes
12 1 (0.059%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 723 (42.63%) Microsoft
2 177 (10.44%) VMware
3 79 (4.66%) Google
4 60 (3.54%) Fortinet
5 57 (3.36%) Cisco
6 51 (3.01%) Meraki
7 50 (2.95%) Apple
8 39 (2.30%) Fujitsu
8 39 (2.30%) Veeam
8 39 (2.30%) Virgin Media
9 27 (1.59%) SonicWALL
9 27 (1.59%) Ubiquiti
10 26 (1.53%) Datto
11 24 (1.42%) HP
12 21 (1.24%) Dell
13 20 (1.18%) Sophos
14 13 (0.77%) Epicor
15 12 (0.71%) Aruba
15 12 (0.71%) ConnectWise
15 12 (0.71%) ServiceNow