IT Engineer Jobs in England

IT Engineer
UK > England

The median IT Engineer salary in England is £36,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 17 June 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 299 132 232
Rank change year-on-year -167 +100 +156
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 513 1,967 1,260
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.04% 2.04% 1.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.15% 2.15% 1.70%
Number of salaries quoted 381 1,645 1,020
10th Percentile £25,750 £24,000 £25,750
25th Percentile £29,000 £27,000 £28,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,000 £33,000 £34,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -2.94% -2.86%
75th Percentile £47,250 £43,000 £45,000
90th Percentile £55,000 £50,000 £60,250
UK median annual salary £35,000 £32,500 £34,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% -4.41% -2.86%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 44,711 91,342 73,947
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.63% 94.65% 91.15%
Number of salaries quoted 23,895 66,536 48,955
10th Percentile £28,500 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £60,249
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.86% +0.42%
75th Percentile £73,886 £70,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £96,250 £90,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

IT Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured IT Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for IT Engineer in England

IT Engineer
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing IT Engineer in England.

Salary trend for IT Engineer in England

IT Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing IT Engineer in England over the 6 months to 17 June 2025.

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 17 June 2025. 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 -76 124 £37,500 +13.64% 362
North of England -115 118 £32,500 +1.56% 403
London -4 101 £45,000 +15.38% 418
Midlands -87 94 £35,000 - 296
Yorkshire +11 80 £30,000 -1.64% 158
East Midlands -55 48 £33,000 -9.59% 146
West Midlands -61 46 £35,000 - 148
South West -44 45 £35,000 +16.67% 179
East of England -83 33 £32,533 +2.20% 202
North West -133 30 £32,250 +7.50% 209
North East 0 8 £44,375 +36.54% 40
IT Engineer
UK

IT Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 17 June 2025, IT Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region featuring IT Engineer in the job title.

1 353 (68.81%) Windows
2 280 (54.58%) Microsoft
3 264 (51.46%) Active Directory
4 229 (44.64%) Microsoft 365
5 199 (38.79%) Azure
6 198 (38.60%) Social Skills
7 153 (29.82%) Problem-Solving
8 149 (29.04%) Firewall
9 143 (27.88%) Windows Server
10 119 (23.20%) Customer Service
11 104 (20.27%) VMware
12 91 (17.74%) Degree
12 91 (17.74%) PowerShell
13 85 (16.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 84 (16.37%) Microsoft Intune
14 84 (16.37%) Cybersecurity
15 79 (15.40%) Entra ID
16 76 (14.81%) Microsoft Exchange
17 74 (14.42%) Linux
17 74 (14.42%) Cisco
17 74 (14.42%) DNS
18 72 (14.04%) Driving Licence
19 68 (13.26%) VMware Infrastructure
20 67 (13.06%) ITIL
21 59 (11.50%) AWS
22 58 (11.31%) Windows 10
22 58 (11.31%) SQL Server
23 57 (11.11%) Network Management
24 56 (10.92%) DHCP
25 53 (10.33%) VLAN

IT Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 76 (14.81%) Microsoft Exchange
2 51 (9.94%) SharePoint
3 27 (5.26%) Confluence
4 3 (0.58%) WordPress
5 2 (0.39%) IIS
6 1 (0.19%) Tomcat
Applications
1 46 (8.97%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (2.14%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.97%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.78%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (0.97%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.39%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (0.39%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.19%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 229 (44.64%) Microsoft 365
2 199 (38.79%) Azure
3 79 (15.40%) Entra ID
4 59 (11.50%) AWS
5 47 (9.16%) SaaS
6 18 (3.51%) IaaS
7 15 (2.92%) Google Workspace
8 14 (2.73%) GCP
9 10 (1.95%) Mimecast
9 10 (1.95%) OneDrive
10 9 (1.75%) Cloud Computing
11 7 (1.36%) Amazon EC2
11 7 (1.36%) Nutanix
12 6 (1.17%) PaaS
13 5 (0.97%) Azure DevOps
13 5 (0.97%) Slack
14 4 (0.78%) Amazon Bedrock
14 4 (0.78%) Amazon S3
15 3 (0.58%) Route 53
15 3 (0.58%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 149 (29.04%) Firewall
2 74 (14.42%) DNS
3 56 (10.92%) DHCP
4 53 (10.33%) VLAN
5 49 (9.55%) VPN
6 46 (8.97%) Wi-Fi
7 43 (8.38%) WAN
8 42 (8.19%) LAN
9 39 (7.60%) TCP/IP
10 34 (6.63%) SAN
11 22 (4.29%) VoIP
12 20 (3.90%) NAS
13 18 (3.51%) Network Security
14 15 (2.92%) BGP
14 15 (2.92%) OSPF
15 14 (2.73%) SD-WAN
16 13 (2.53%) Internet
16 13 (2.53%) Intrusion Detection
17 11 (2.14%) WLAN
18 8 (1.56%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (11.31%) SQL Server
2 18 (3.51%) MySQL
3 16 (3.12%) Relational Database
4 2 (0.39%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.19%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.19%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.19%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 24 (4.68%) JIRA
2 16 (3.12%) Bitbucket
2 16 (3.12%) Git
3 1 (0.19%) Katalon Studio
3 1 (0.19%) Selenium
3 1 (0.19%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 198 (38.60%) Social Skills
2 51 (9.94%) Analytical Skills
3 41 (7.99%) Finance
4 33 (6.43%) Organisational Skills
5 20 (3.90%) Retail
5 20 (3.90%) Telecoms
6 19 (3.70%) Law
7 14 (2.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 13 (2.53%) Automotive
8 13 (2.53%) Legal
8 13 (2.53%) Marketing
9 10 (1.95%) Manufacturing
9 10 (1.95%) Public Sector
10 5 (0.97%) Billing
11 4 (0.78%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (0.58%) Banking
12 3 (0.58%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.39%) Electronics
13 2 (0.39%) Games
13 2 (0.39%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (3.51%) .NET
2 15 (2.92%) 802.1X
3 5 (0.97%) LangChain
4 2 (0.39%) EDI
5 1 (0.19%) .NET Framework
5 1 (0.19%) GraphQL
5 1 (0.19%) ModSecurity
5 1 (0.19%) React
5 1 (0.19%) REST
5 1 (0.19%) SAML
5 1 (0.19%) WSH
5 1 (0.19%) X-Windows
Miscellaneous
1 72 (14.04%) Driving Licence
2 41 (7.99%) Operational Technology
2 41 (7.99%) Self-Motivation
3 20 (3.90%) Management Information System
4 18 (3.51%) Mobile App
5 16 (3.12%) Data Centre
5 16 (3.12%) Social Media
6 15 (2.92%) Onboarding
7 11 (2.14%) Smartphone
8 7 (1.36%) Clustering
8 7 (1.36%) Video Conferencing
9 6 (1.17%) EPoS
9 6 (1.17%) Hybrid Cloud
9 6 (1.17%) iPhone
9 6 (1.17%) Security Posture
10 5 (0.97%) Blackberry
10 5 (0.97%) iPad
11 4 (0.78%) Algorithms
11 4 (0.78%) Life Science
11 4 (0.78%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 353 (68.81%) Windows
2 143 (27.88%) Windows Server
3 74 (14.42%) Linux
4 58 (11.31%) Windows 10
5 37 (7.21%) Android
6 34 (6.63%) Mac OS
7 27 (5.26%) Windows Server 2016
7 27 (5.26%) Windows Server 2019
8 20 (3.90%) Apple iOS
9 10 (1.95%) Mac OS X
10 9 (1.75%) Ubuntu
10 9 (1.75%) Unix
11 8 (1.56%) Windows 7
11 8 (1.56%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (0.39%) Rocky
12 2 (0.39%) VMS
13 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 153 (29.82%) Problem-Solving
2 119 (23.20%) Customer Service
3 85 (16.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 84 (16.37%) Cybersecurity
5 67 (13.06%) ITIL
6 57 (11.11%) Network Management
7 44 (8.58%) Network Design
8 43 (8.38%) Migration
9 42 (8.19%) Disaster Recovery
10 40 (7.80%) Computer Science
10 40 (7.80%) Continuous Improvement
11 32 (6.24%) ITSM
12 31 (6.04%) Agile
12 31 (6.04%) Kalman Filter
13 28 (5.46%) CI/CD
14 27 (5.26%) Systems Engineering
14 27 (5.26%) Virtual Environments
15 26 (5.07%) CRM
15 26 (5.07%) Data Privacy
15 26 (5.07%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 91 (17.74%) PowerShell
2 34 (6.63%) SQL
3 20 (3.90%) Python
4 16 (3.12%) C#
5 8 (1.56%) Java
6 4 (0.78%) C
6 4 (0.78%) C++
7 3 (0.58%) Uniface
8 2 (0.39%) Shell Script
8 2 (0.39%) VBScript
9 1 (0.19%) Bash
9 1 (0.19%) Bicep
9 1 (0.19%) Perl
9 1 (0.19%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.19%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 91 (17.74%) Degree
2 48 (9.36%) Microsoft Certification
3 33 (6.43%) Security Cleared
4 26 (5.07%) DBS Check
5 24 (4.68%) HND
6 20 (3.90%) Cisco Certification
6 20 (3.90%) Computer Science Degree
7 19 (3.70%) SC Cleared
8 18 (3.51%) BPSS Clearance
9 17 (3.31%) CCNA
10 15 (2.92%) A+ Certification
11 14 (2.73%) DV Cleared
12 12 (2.34%) Azure Certification
12 12 (2.34%) HNC
12 12 (2.34%) MCSE
13 11 (2.14%) MCP
13 11 (2.14%) MCSA
14 6 (1.17%) CISSP
15 5 (0.97%) CCNP
16 4 (0.78%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (4.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 14 (2.73%) SLA
3 13 (2.53%) GDPR
4 12 (2.34%) Cyber Essentials
5 9 (1.75%) NIST
6 8 (1.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 5 (0.97%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.78%) QA
9 3 (0.58%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.39%) Accessibility
10 2 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 1 (0.19%) GRC
11 1 (0.19%) HIPAA
System Software
1 264 (51.46%) Active Directory
2 68 (13.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 45 (8.77%) Hyper-V
4 44 (8.58%) Virtual Servers
5 9 (1.75%) Virtual Desktop
5 9 (1.75%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (1.75%) VMware ESXi
6 6 (1.17%) vSphere
7 5 (0.97%) Firmware
8 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.19%) Docker
9 1 (0.19%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 84 (16.37%) Microsoft Intune
2 27 (5.26%) SCCM
3 20 (3.90%) Ansible
4 14 (2.73%) Jamf Pro
5 12 (2.34%) Terraform
6 8 (1.56%) SmoothWall
7 7 (1.36%) Kubernetes
8 6 (1.17%) FortiGate
8 6 (1.17%) Single Sign-On
8 6 (1.17%) WSUS
9 5 (0.97%) Autotask
9 5 (0.97%) SCOM
10 4 (0.78%) CASB
11 3 (0.58%) vCenter Server
12 2 (0.39%) Host Intrusion Detection System
13 1 (0.19%) Failover Clustering
13 1 (0.19%) Plesk
13 1 (0.19%) Puppet
Vendors
1 280 (54.58%) Microsoft
2 104 (20.27%) VMware
3 74 (14.42%) Cisco
4 31 (6.04%) Apple
4 31 (6.04%) Meraki
5 26 (5.07%) Google
6 22 (4.29%) Veeam
7 19 (3.70%) Fortinet
8 18 (3.51%) Zoho
9 16 (3.12%) Atlassian
9 16 (3.12%) Dell
9 16 (3.12%) Sophos
10 14 (2.73%) HP
11 12 (2.34%) Aruba
11 12 (2.34%) Citrix
12 11 (2.14%) Ubiquiti
13 10 (1.95%) Zscaler
14 9 (1.75%) ServiceNow
15 8 (1.56%) CheckPoint
16 7 (1.36%) Palo Alto