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 22 October 2025.

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

6 months to
22 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 240 159 180
Rank change year-on-year -81 +21 +157
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 532 1,049 910
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.24% 1.69% 1.83%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.37% 1.78% 1.92%
Number of salaries quoted 425 662 812
10th Percentile £25,750 £26,000 £25,250
25th Percentile £29,000 £30,000 £29,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -
75th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £45,500
90th Percentile £58,750 £57,500 £59,200
UK median annual salary £35,000 £37,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year -5.41% +5.71% -

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 38,736 59,032 47,387
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.57% 95.23% 95.50%
Number of salaries quoted 23,399 33,811 36,566
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,750 £42,500 £43,879
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £56,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.08% -5.83% -

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 22 October 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 22 October 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
North of England -48 119 £35,000 - 88
Midlands -60 114 £32,500 -7.14% 39
South East -46 111 £35,000 -12.50% 112
London -5 92 £41,750 +4.38% 68
East Midlands -11 80 £30,000 -14.29% 30
Yorkshire +14 70 £40,000 +6.78% 34
South West -7 64 £34,000 -12.26% 41
North West -61 43 £32,000 -8.57% 43
East of England -20 39 £35,000 +7.69% 37
West Midlands -54 34 £47,500 +35.71% 9
North East 0 6 £48,750 +39.29% 17
IT Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 22 October 2025, 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.

1 357 (67.11%) Windows
2 298 (56.02%) Microsoft
3 295 (55.45%) Active Directory
4 290 (54.51%) Microsoft 365
5 242 (45.49%) Azure
6 191 (35.90%) Firewall
7 184 (34.59%) Windows Server
8 155 (29.14%) Problem-Solving
9 129 (24.25%) Microsoft Intune
10 123 (23.12%) DNS
11 115 (21.62%) Entra ID
12 113 (21.24%) Cybersecurity
13 107 (20.11%) Customer Service
13 107 (20.11%) DHCP
14 102 (19.17%) VMware
15 99 (18.61%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 87 (16.35%) Microsoft Exchange
17 84 (15.79%) Hyper-V
18 83 (15.60%) Degree
19 79 (14.85%) PowerShell
20 78 (14.66%) VMware Infrastructure
21 76 (14.29%) ITIL
22 74 (13.91%) SharePoint
23 72 (13.53%) VPN
24 71 (13.35%) VLAN
25 69 (12.97%) TCP/IP
26 62 (11.65%) Linux
27 59 (11.09%) Cisco
28 56 (10.53%) Disaster Recovery
29 55 (10.34%) Network Management

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 87 (16.35%) Microsoft Exchange
2 74 (13.91%) SharePoint
3 19 (3.57%) IIS
4 3 (0.56%) Confluence
4 3 (0.56%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (0.38%) Exchange Server 2007
5 2 (0.38%) Exchange Server 2010
5 2 (0.38%) Exchange Server 2013
6 1 (0.19%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 35 (6.58%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (1.50%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.56%) CINEMA 4D
5 1 (0.19%) Acrobat
5 1 (0.19%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 4 (0.75%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (0.75%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.19%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (0.19%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.19%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 290 (54.51%) Microsoft 365
2 242 (45.49%) Azure
3 115 (21.62%) Entra ID
4 52 (9.77%) AWS
5 23 (4.32%) SaaS
6 20 (3.76%) GCP
7 17 (3.20%) Azure DevOps
7 17 (3.20%) Power Platform
8 13 (2.44%) Google Workspace
9 12 (2.26%) Cloud Computing
9 12 (2.26%) Nutanix
9 12 (2.26%) OneDrive
10 11 (2.07%) IaaS
11 8 (1.50%) Azure Stack
11 8 (1.50%) PaaS
12 7 (1.32%) Mimecast
12 7 (1.32%) Serverless
13 6 (1.13%) iPaaS
13 6 (1.13%) Microsoft Copilot
13 6 (1.13%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 191 (35.90%) Firewall
2 123 (23.12%) DNS
3 107 (20.11%) DHCP
4 72 (13.53%) VPN
5 71 (13.35%) VLAN
6 69 (12.97%) TCP/IP
7 52 (9.77%) Wi-Fi
8 40 (7.52%) WAN
9 38 (7.14%) SAN
10 33 (6.20%) Wireless
11 25 (4.70%) Network Security
12 24 (4.51%) LAN
13 22 (4.14%) VoIP
14 19 (3.57%) SD-WAN
15 13 (2.44%) IP Telephony
16 10 (1.88%) Intrusion Detection
16 10 (1.88%) NAS
17 9 (1.69%) iSCSI
18 8 (1.50%) IPsec
18 8 (1.50%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (9.21%) SQL Server
2 11 (2.07%) Amazon RDS
3 10 (1.88%) Power BI
3 10 (1.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 5 (0.94%) Relational Database
5 4 (0.75%) NoSQL
6 3 (0.56%) DynamoDB
6 3 (0.56%) Mixpanel
6 3 (0.56%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.38%) MySQL
7 2 (0.38%) Oracle Database
7 2 (0.38%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (1.32%) JIRA
2 5 (0.94%) Git
3 3 (0.56%) Browser DevTools
3 3 (0.56%) Charles Proxy
3 3 (0.56%) Fiddler
3 3 (0.56%) Maven
3 3 (0.56%) Postman
3 3 (0.56%) Selenium
3 3 (0.56%) TestNG
3 3 (0.56%) WebDriver
3 3 (0.56%) Zephyr
4 2 (0.38%) Burp Suite
4 2 (0.38%) JMeter
4 2 (0.38%) LoadRunner
4 2 (0.38%) NeoLoad
4 2 (0.38%) Snyk
5 1 (0.19%) Bitbucket
General
1 203 (38.16%) Social Skills
2 41 (7.71%) Law
3 36 (6.77%) Finance
3 36 (6.77%) Manufacturing
4 32 (6.02%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (4.51%) Organisational Skills
6 16 (3.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 16 (3.01%) Public Sector
7 15 (2.82%) Telecoms
8 13 (2.44%) Legal
9 11 (2.07%) Electronics
10 9 (1.69%) Billing
10 9 (1.69%) Marketing
11 8 (1.50%) Pharmaceutical
11 8 (1.50%) Retail
12 6 (1.13%) Automotive
12 6 (1.13%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (0.56%) Back Office
13 3 (0.56%) Financial Institution
13 3 (0.56%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (3.01%) .NET
2 13 (2.44%) .NET Framework
3 10 (1.88%) Entity Framework
3 10 (1.88%) WinForms
4 9 (1.69%) REST
5 6 (1.13%) GraphQL
6 5 (0.94%) 802.1X
6 5 (0.94%) ASP.NET
7 4 (0.75%) AngularJS
7 4 (0.75%) React
8 3 (0.56%) EDI
9 2 (0.38%) OAuth
9 2 (0.38%) OAuth2
10 1 (0.19%) Django
10 1 (0.19%) Flask
10 1 (0.19%) LAMP
10 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Graph
10 1 (0.19%) ModSecurity
10 1 (0.19%) Spring Boot
10 1 (0.19%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 74 (13.91%) Driving Licence
2 40 (7.52%) Operational Technology
3 37 (6.95%) Onboarding
4 24 (4.51%) Self-Motivation
5 22 (4.14%) Data Centre
6 16 (3.01%) Clustering
7 13 (2.44%) Product Ownership
8 10 (1.88%) CCTV
8 10 (1.88%) Hybrid Cloud
9 8 (1.50%) FMCG
9 8 (1.50%) Security Posture
9 8 (1.50%) Social Media
10 7 (1.32%) Analytical Mindset
10 7 (1.32%) BYOD
10 7 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
10 7 (1.32%) Management Information System
11 6 (1.13%) CMDB
11 6 (1.13%) iPhone
12 5 (0.94%) iPad
12 5 (0.94%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 357 (67.11%) Windows
2 184 (34.59%) Windows Server
3 62 (11.65%) Linux
4 53 (9.96%) Windows 10
5 41 (7.71%) Mac OS
6 26 (4.89%) Windows Server 2019
7 20 (3.76%) Android
7 20 (3.76%) Apple iOS
8 19 (3.57%) Windows Server 2016
9 8 (1.50%) Rocky
10 6 (1.13%) VMS
11 5 (0.94%) Mac OS X
12 4 (0.75%) Unix
12 4 (0.75%) Windows 7
12 4 (0.75%) Windows Server 2012
13 2 (0.38%) Debian
13 2 (0.38%) Windows 8
14 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 1 (0.19%) Ubuntu
14 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 155 (29.14%) Problem-Solving
2 113 (21.24%) Cybersecurity
3 107 (20.11%) Customer Service
4 99 (18.61%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 76 (14.29%) ITIL
6 56 (10.53%) Disaster Recovery
7 55 (10.34%) Network Management
8 42 (7.89%) Network Design
9 34 (6.39%) Continuous Improvement
9 34 (6.39%) Migration
10 33 (6.20%) Mentoring
11 32 (6.02%) Agile
12 31 (5.83%) Computer Science
12 31 (5.83%) Incident Management
13 30 (5.64%) Root Cause Analysis
14 28 (5.26%) Project Delivery
15 26 (4.89%) DevOps
16 24 (4.51%) IT Strategy
17 23 (4.32%) ITSM
17 23 (4.32%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 79 (14.85%) PowerShell
2 37 (6.95%) SQL
3 15 (2.82%) Python
4 14 (2.63%) C#
5 10 (1.88%) JavaScript
5 10 (1.88%) T-SQL
6 5 (0.94%) PL/SQL
6 5 (0.94%) VBScript
7 4 (0.75%) Java
7 4 (0.75%) Uniface
8 2 (0.38%) Bash
8 2 (0.38%) Kusto Query Language
8 2 (0.38%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.19%) Perl
9 1 (0.19%) VBA
Qualifications
1 83 (15.60%) Degree
2 40 (7.52%) Microsoft Certification
3 29 (5.45%) DBS Check
4 27 (5.08%) Cisco Certification
5 25 (4.70%) CCNA
6 23 (4.32%) Computer Science Degree
7 21 (3.95%) Security Cleared
8 18 (3.38%) Azure Certification
8 18 (3.38%) SC Cleared
9 17 (3.20%) MCP
10 11 (2.07%) A+ Certification
11 9 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
11 9 (1.69%) CCNP
11 9 (1.69%) MCSA
11 9 (1.69%) MCSE
11 9 (1.69%) Network+ Certification
12 8 (1.50%) DV Cleared
12 8 (1.50%) HND
12 8 (1.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 7 (1.32%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (7.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 33 (6.20%) GDPR
3 32 (6.02%) Cyber Essentials
4 9 (1.69%) SLA
5 7 (1.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 7 (1.32%) NIST
6 6 (1.13%) QA
7 5 (0.94%) Accessibility
8 3 (0.56%) Data Quality
8 3 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.38%) GxP
10 1 (0.19%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.19%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 295 (55.45%) Active Directory
2 84 (15.79%) Hyper-V
3 78 (14.66%) VMware Infrastructure
4 42 (7.89%) Virtual Servers
5 11 (2.07%) Firmware
6 10 (1.88%) Docker
7 8 (1.50%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (0.94%) Virtual Desktop
9 4 (0.75%) vSphere
10 3 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
11 2 (0.38%) BitLocker
11 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 2 (0.38%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.38%) VMware Workstation
12 1 (0.19%) VMware Server
12 1 (0.19%) XenApp
12 1 (0.19%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 129 (24.25%) Microsoft Intune
2 29 (5.45%) SCCM
3 24 (4.51%) Kubernetes
4 16 (3.01%) Autotask
5 12 (2.26%) Jamf Pro
6 10 (1.88%) vCenter Server
7 8 (1.50%) Ansible
7 8 (1.50%) Failover Clustering
8 5 (0.94%) FortiGate
8 5 (0.94%) Terraform
9 4 (0.75%) SmoothWall
9 4 (0.75%) WSUS
10 3 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Clustering
11 2 (0.38%) NetBackup
11 2 (0.38%) Puppet
11 2 (0.38%) WhatsUp Gold
12 1 (0.19%) Nessus
12 1 (0.19%) Plesk
12 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 298 (56.02%) Microsoft
2 102 (19.17%) VMware
3 59 (11.09%) Cisco
4 46 (8.65%) Veeam
5 30 (5.64%) Apple
6 26 (4.89%) Google
6 26 (4.89%) Meraki
7 20 (3.76%) Sophos
8 18 (3.38%) Aruba
9 17 (3.20%) HP
10 16 (3.01%) Datto
11 14 (2.63%) Dell
11 14 (2.63%) ServiceNow
12 13 (2.44%) Zoho
13 11 (2.07%) Oracle
14 10 (1.88%) Citrix
14 10 (1.88%) Sage
14 10 (1.88%) Xamarin
15 9 (1.69%) Adobe
15 9 (1.69%) SAP