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 February 2026.

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

6 months to
24 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 160 135
Rank change year-on-year +51 -25 +132
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 1,159 802 1,455
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.90% 1.88% 2.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.07% 2.07% 2.30%
Number of salaries quoted 989 479 1,344
10th Percentile £25,875 £25,633 £24,000
25th Percentile £28,250 £28,500 £27,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £35,000 £33,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +4.48% -
75th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £43,000
90th Percentile £50,000 £57,500 £52,500
UK median annual salary £32,500 £35,000 £33,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +4.48% +1.52%

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 55,872 38,823 63,368
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.46% 91.19% 94.62%
Number of salaries quoted 36,054 20,919 50,547
10th Percentile £29,500 £32,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £38,250 £45,000 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
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% -8.33%

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 24 February 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 February 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 +47 296 £33,000 +0.76% 85
North of England +48 243 £32,500 -4.41% 61
Midlands -20 229 £31,500 -10.00% 22
London +58 167 £40,000 -19.19% 53
East Midlands 0 137 £30,000 - 9
North West +47 124 £30,000 -23.57% 33
East of England +41 111 £30,000 +6.19% 33
South West +32 111 £35,000 +0.72% 33
Yorkshire +23 110 £41,500 +37.19% 24
West Midlands -44 92 £32,500 -7.14% 13
North East -9 9 £30,000 -16.67% 8
IT Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 24 February 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.

1 555 (47.89%) Windows
2 549 (47.37%) Microsoft 365
3 533 (45.99%) Microsoft
4 453 (39.09%) Active Directory
5 383 (33.05%) Azure
6 353 (30.46%) Problem-Solving
7 294 (25.37%) Windows Server
8 238 (20.53%) Customer Service
9 229 (19.76%) Firewall
10 212 (18.29%) DNS
11 202 (17.43%) Entra ID
12 194 (16.74%) DHCP
13 188 (16.22%) Microsoft Intune
14 169 (14.58%) VPN
15 157 (13.55%) Windows 10
16 152 (13.11%) ITIL
17 146 (12.60%) SharePoint
18 135 (11.65%) VMware
19 133 (11.48%) Microsoft Exchange
20 126 (10.87%) Infrastructure Engineering
21 117 (10.09%) Cybersecurity
22 114 (9.84%) Microsoft Office
23 109 (9.40%) Hyper-V
24 108 (9.32%) WAN
25 103 (8.89%) LAN
26 96 (8.28%) VLAN
27 94 (8.11%) Wi-Fi
28 93 (8.02%) TCP/IP
29 92 (7.94%) Degree
29 92 (7.94%) Google

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
1 146 (12.60%) SharePoint
2 133 (11.48%) Microsoft Exchange
3 15 (1.29%) Confluence
4 14 (1.21%) IIS
5 5 (0.43%) Exchange Server 2007
5 5 (0.43%) Exchange Server 2010
5 5 (0.43%) Exchange Server 2013
6 2 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 114 (9.84%) Microsoft Office
2 21 (1.81%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.26%) CINEMA 4D
5 2 (0.17%) Acrobat
5 2 (0.17%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.086%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.086%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 6 (0.52%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.43%) Dynamics NAV
3 3 (0.26%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.086%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.086%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 549 (47.37%) Microsoft 365
2 383 (33.05%) Azure
3 202 (17.43%) Entra ID
4 79 (6.82%) Google Workspace
5 75 (6.47%) AWS
6 45 (3.88%) OneDrive
7 40 (3.45%) SaaS
8 24 (2.07%) GCP
8 24 (2.07%) Power Platform
9 18 (1.55%) IaaS
9 18 (1.55%) PaaS
10 15 (1.29%) Azure DevOps
11 13 (1.12%) Power Automate
12 11 (0.95%) Datadog
13 10 (0.86%) Azure Sentinel
14 7 (0.60%) Microsoft Copilot
14 7 (0.60%) OCI
14 7 (0.60%) PowerApps
15 6 (0.52%) iPaaS
16 5 (0.43%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 229 (19.76%) Firewall
2 212 (18.29%) DNS
3 194 (16.74%) DHCP
4 169 (14.58%) VPN
5 108 (9.32%) WAN
6 103 (8.89%) LAN
7 96 (8.28%) VLAN
8 94 (8.11%) Wi-Fi
9 93 (8.02%) TCP/IP
10 53 (4.57%) VoIP
11 37 (3.19%) SAN
12 33 (2.85%) Wireless
13 25 (2.16%) SD-WAN
14 19 (1.64%) Network Security
15 13 (1.12%) Remote Desktop
16 12 (1.04%) IP Telephony
17 9 (0.78%) Internet
18 8 (0.69%) WLAN
19 5 (0.43%) SSL
19 5 (0.43%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (4.14%) SQL Server
2 23 (1.98%) Power BI
3 12 (1.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 7 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (0.52%) Relational Database
6 3 (0.26%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (0.17%) DynamoDB
7 2 (0.17%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.17%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.17%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.086%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 30 (2.59%) JIRA
2 8 (0.69%) Chocolatey
3 4 (0.35%) GitLab
4 2 (0.17%) Burp Suite
4 2 (0.17%) Git
4 2 (0.17%) JMeter
4 2 (0.17%) LoadRunner
4 2 (0.17%) NeoLoad
4 2 (0.17%) Snyk
5 1 (0.086%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.086%) LabVIEW
General
1 341 (29.42%) Social Skills
2 79 (6.82%) Finance
3 76 (6.56%) Organisational Skills
4 62 (5.35%) Law
5 52 (4.49%) Analytical Skills
6 39 (3.36%) Multimedia
7 38 (3.28%) Manufacturing
8 36 (3.11%) Retail
9 35 (3.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 32 (2.76%) Legal
11 31 (2.67%) Telecoms
12 24 (2.07%) Public Sector
13 10 (0.86%) Documentation Skills
14 9 (0.78%) Games
15 8 (0.69%) Advertising
15 8 (0.69%) Banking
16 7 (0.60%) Electronics
17 5 (0.43%) Social Housing
18 4 (0.35%) Billing
18 4 (0.35%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (1.73%) .NET
2 14 (1.21%) .NET Framework
3 12 (1.04%) Entity Framework
3 12 (1.04%) WinForms
4 7 (0.60%) ASP.NET
5 4 (0.35%) OpenTelemetry
6 3 (0.26%) OAuth
6 3 (0.26%) React
6 3 (0.26%) REST
7 2 (0.17%) AngularJS
7 2 (0.17%) OAuth2
8 1 (0.086%) AVA JavaScript Test Runner
8 1 (0.086%) GraphQL
8 1 (0.086%) LangChain
8 1 (0.086%) LangGraph
8 1 (0.086%) Microsoft Graph
8 1 (0.086%) OpenID
8 1 (0.086%) SAML
8 1 (0.086%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 202 (17.43%) Driving Licence
2 56 (4.83%) Onboarding
3 36 (3.11%) Self-Motivation
4 25 (2.16%) CCTV
5 18 (1.55%) Analytical Mindset
6 13 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
7 11 (0.95%) iPad
8 10 (0.86%) iPhone
8 10 (0.86%) Security Posture
8 10 (0.86%) Smartphone
8 10 (0.86%) Social Media
9 9 (0.78%) Fat Client
9 9 (0.78%) Thin Client
10 8 (0.69%) Cyber Threat
10 8 (0.69%) Data Centre
10 8 (0.69%) Linux Command Line
11 7 (0.60%) FMCG
11 7 (0.60%) Management Information System
12 6 (0.52%) Clustering
12 6 (0.52%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 555 (47.89%) Windows
2 294 (25.37%) Windows Server
3 157 (13.55%) Windows 10
4 76 (6.56%) Mac OS
5 50 (4.31%) Windows Server 2019
6 48 (4.14%) Linux
7 44 (3.80%) Windows Server 2016
8 29 (2.50%) Android
9 28 (2.42%) Apple iOS
10 21 (1.81%) Windows Server 2012
11 15 (1.29%) Windows 7
12 12 (1.04%) Mac OS X
13 10 (0.86%) Windows 8
14 3 (0.26%) Debian
15 2 (0.17%) VMS
16 1 (0.086%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 1 (0.086%) Solaris
16 1 (0.086%) Ubuntu
16 1 (0.086%) Unix
16 1 (0.086%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 353 (30.46%) Problem-Solving
2 238 (20.53%) Customer Service
3 152 (13.11%) ITIL
4 126 (10.87%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 117 (10.09%) Cybersecurity
6 88 (7.59%) Mentoring
7 77 (6.64%) ITSM
8 64 (5.52%) Service Delivery
9 55 (4.75%) Disaster Recovery
10 48 (4.14%) Migration
11 43 (3.71%) Remote Monitoring and Management
12 41 (3.54%) Asset Management
12 41 (3.54%) Continuous Improvement
13 40 (3.45%) Incident Management
14 39 (3.36%) Computer Science
15 38 (3.28%) Process Improvement
16 34 (2.93%) Root Cause Analysis
17 33 (2.85%) Project Delivery
18 30 (2.59%) Change Management
19 29 (2.50%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 67 (5.78%) PowerShell
2 50 (4.31%) SQL
3 17 (1.47%) C#
4 13 (1.12%) Python
5 12 (1.04%) T-SQL
6 10 (0.86%) Bash
7 7 (0.60%) PL/SQL
7 7 (0.60%) VBScript
8 5 (0.43%) VB
9 3 (0.26%) JavaScript
9 3 (0.26%) Uniface
10 2 (0.17%) Google Apps Script
11 1 (0.086%) Java
11 1 (0.086%) PHP
11 1 (0.086%) R
11 1 (0.086%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.086%) VBA
Qualifications
1 92 (7.94%) Degree
2 81 (6.99%) Microsoft Certification
3 52 (4.49%) DBS Check
4 47 (4.06%) Security Cleared
5 35 (3.02%) Cisco Certification
6 34 (2.93%) CCNA
7 32 (2.76%) A+ Certification
8 31 (2.67%) Computer Science Degree
8 31 (2.67%) SC Cleared
9 20 (1.73%) BPSS Clearance
9 20 (1.73%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 19 (1.64%) Network+ Certification
11 17 (1.47%) Azure Certification
12 15 (1.29%) MCSE
13 14 (1.21%) DV Cleared
14 13 (1.12%) CCNP
14 13 (1.12%) MCSA
15 8 (0.69%) CompTIA Security+
16 6 (0.52%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 6 (0.52%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (5.87%) SLA
2 52 (4.49%) Cyber Essentials
3 42 (3.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 18 (1.55%) GDPR
5 13 (1.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 8 (0.69%) QA
7 6 (0.52%) Accessibility
7 6 (0.52%) NIST
8 1 (0.086%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.086%) SOC 2
System Software
1 453 (39.09%) Active Directory
2 109 (9.40%) Hyper-V
3 80 (6.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (1.38%) Virtual Desktop
5 10 (0.86%) VMware Workstation
6 8 (0.69%) vSphere
7 7 (0.60%) Firmware
7 7 (0.60%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
9 4 (0.35%) VMware NSX
10 3 (0.26%) Docker
11 2 (0.17%) XenDesktop
12 1 (0.086%) Terminal Services
12 1 (0.086%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 188 (16.22%) Microsoft Intune
2 28 (2.42%) SCCM
3 19 (1.64%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 16 (1.38%) Jamf Pro
5 15 (1.29%) WSUS
6 14 (1.21%) Autotask
7 10 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
8 9 (0.78%) Ansible
8 9 (0.78%) FortiGate
9 7 (0.60%) SmoothWall
10 6 (0.52%) Failover Clustering
11 5 (0.43%) Kubernetes
12 1 (0.086%) Nessus
12 1 (0.086%) Podman
12 1 (0.086%) Proxmox
12 1 (0.086%) Terraform
Vendors
1 533 (45.99%) Microsoft
2 135 (11.65%) VMware
3 92 (7.94%) Google
4 52 (4.49%) Fortinet
5 49 (4.23%) Apple
6 40 (3.45%) Cisco
7 39 (3.36%) Fujitsu
7 39 (3.36%) Virgin Media
8 33 (2.85%) Meraki
8 33 (2.85%) Veeam
9 17 (1.47%) Dell
9 17 (1.47%) Sage
9 17 (1.47%) ServiceNow
10 14 (1.21%) WatchGuard
11 13 (1.12%) Adobe
12 12 (1.04%) Xamarin
13 11 (0.95%) Datto
14 10 (0.86%) Draytek
14 10 (0.86%) ESET
14 10 (0.86%) Zoho