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 3 July 2026.

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

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 263 132
Rank change year-on-year +182 -131 +93
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 1,766 516 1,905
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.06% 1.24% 2.06%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.18% 1.37% 2.18%
Number of salaries quoted 1,522 401 1,595
10th Percentile £27,000 £25,750 £24,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £29,500 £27,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £37,000 £33,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% +10.45% -1.47%
75th Percentile £43,750 £48,750 £43,750
90th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £50,250
UK median annual salary £35,000 £35,000 £33,000
% change year-on-year - +6.06% -2.94%

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 80,906 37,725 87,507
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.21% 90.30% 94.63%
Number of salaries quoted 56,953 22,407 64,506
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,945 £38,594
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,201 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.52% +8.95% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £71,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £98,474 £90,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £56,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.65% +7.62% -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 3 July 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 July 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 +116 437 £35,000 -6.67% 59
North of England +93 351 £32,500 - 41
Midlands +79 274 £32,500 -7.14% 32
East of England +109 255 £35,000 +7.58% 23
London +91 237 £36,000 -20.00% 37
South West +53 209 £35,000 - 27
North West +120 199 £32,940 +2.94% 21
West Midlands +58 139 £32,500 -18.75% 14
East Midlands +48 135 £32,500 - 18
Yorkshire +5 134 £30,000 - 19
North East -40 18 £38,750 -20.51% 4
IT Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 3 July 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.

1 832 (47.11%) Microsoft
2 796 (45.07%) Microsoft 365
3 713 (40.37%) Windows
4 586 (33.18%) Active Directory
5 488 (27.63%) Azure
6 435 (24.63%) Problem-Solving
7 369 (20.89%) Windows Server
8 349 (19.76%) Entra ID
9 347 (19.65%) Customer Service
10 294 (16.65%) Firewall
11 252 (14.27%) Microsoft Exchange
12 245 (13.87%) Microsoft Intune
13 233 (13.19%) DNS
14 220 (12.46%) SharePoint
15 218 (12.34%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 198 (11.21%) DHCP
17 197 (11.16%) VPN
18 192 (10.87%) VMware
19 185 (10.48%) Cybersecurity
20 176 (9.97%) Hyper-V
21 162 (9.17%) ITIL
21 162 (9.17%) Wi-Fi
22 160 (9.06%) Windows 10
23 140 (7.93%) LAN
24 135 (7.64%) WAN
25 133 (7.53%) VMware Infrastructure
26 129 (7.30%) PowerShell
27 121 (6.85%) Disaster Recovery
28 119 (6.74%) Mac OS
29 118 (6.68%) Microsoft Office

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
1 252 (14.27%) Microsoft Exchange
2 220 (12.46%) SharePoint
3 14 (0.79%) Exchange Server 2013
3 14 (0.79%) IIS
4 12 (0.68%) Exchange Server 2007
4 12 (0.68%) Exchange Server 2010
5 11 (0.62%) Confluence
6 2 (0.11%) Apache
Applications
1 118 (6.68%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (1.08%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.17%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.057%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.057%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (0.28%) Dynamics NAV
1 5 (0.28%) NetSuite
1 5 (0.28%) Raiser’s Edge
2 1 (0.057%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 796 (45.07%) Microsoft 365
2 488 (27.63%) Azure
3 349 (19.76%) Entra ID
4 62 (3.51%) AWS
5 61 (3.45%) Google Workspace
6 59 (3.34%) OneDrive
7 57 (3.23%) SaaS
8 26 (1.47%) Mimecast
9 24 (1.36%) PaaS
10 23 (1.30%) Power Platform
11 20 (1.13%) IaaS
12 11 (0.62%) Azure DevOps
13 10 (0.57%) Nutanix
14 9 (0.51%) Power Automate
14 9 (0.51%) PowerApps
15 7 (0.40%) OCI
16 6 (0.34%) Azure Sentinel
16 6 (0.34%) Microsoft Copilot
17 5 (0.28%) Cloudflare
17 5 (0.28%) Intacct
Communications & Networking
1 294 (16.65%) Firewall
2 233 (13.19%) DNS
3 198 (11.21%) DHCP
4 197 (11.16%) VPN
5 162 (9.17%) Wi-Fi
6 140 (7.93%) LAN
7 135 (7.64%) WAN
8 94 (5.32%) TCP/IP
9 92 (5.21%) VLAN
10 81 (4.59%) VoIP
11 54 (3.06%) Wireless
12 53 (3.00%) SAN
13 29 (1.64%) Network Security
14 18 (1.02%) Internet
15 16 (0.91%) SD-WAN
15 16 (0.91%) WLAN
16 11 (0.62%) Remote Desktop
16 11 (0.62%) SSL
17 7 (0.40%) NAS
18 6 (0.34%) DMZ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (4.08%) SQL Server
2 13 (0.74%) Power BI
3 8 (0.45%) Azure SQL Database
4 5 (0.28%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (0.28%) MySQL
5 2 (0.11%) KNIME
Development Applications
1 46 (2.60%) JIRA
2 4 (0.23%) GitLab
3 3 (0.17%) Chocolatey
4 2 (0.11%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.057%) Carbide.c++
5 1 (0.057%) Git
5 1 (0.057%) LabVIEW
General
1 450 (25.48%) Social Skills
2 68 (3.85%) Finance
3 62 (3.51%) Organisational Skills
4 60 (3.40%) Manufacturing
5 59 (3.34%) Analytical Skills
5 59 (3.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 58 (3.28%) Legal
7 50 (2.83%) Law
8 41 (2.32%) Retail
9 39 (2.21%) Multimedia
10 34 (1.93%) Telecoms
11 21 (1.19%) Advertising
12 18 (1.02%) Public Sector
13 17 (0.96%) Documentation Skills
14 16 (0.91%) Automotive
15 8 (0.45%) Banking
15 8 (0.45%) Games
16 7 (0.40%) Local Government
17 6 (0.34%) Aerospace
18 5 (0.28%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (0.51%) HTML
2 7 (0.40%) JSON
3 5 (0.28%) CSS
3 5 (0.28%) Web Services
4 4 (0.23%) OpenTelemetry
5 2 (0.11%) EDI
6 1 (0.057%) OpenID
6 1 (0.057%) SAML
6 1 (0.057%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 243 (13.76%) Driving Licence
2 96 (5.44%) Onboarding
3 63 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
4 36 (2.04%) Data Centre
5 35 (1.98%) CCTV
6 20 (1.13%) Analytical Mindset
7 19 (1.08%) Security Posture
8 16 (0.91%) Video Conferencing
9 14 (0.79%) Clustering
9 14 (0.79%) Hybrid Cloud
10 12 (0.68%) Management Information System
11 11 (0.62%) FMCG
11 11 (0.62%) NHS
12 10 (0.57%) Replication
13 9 (0.51%) Enterprise Software
13 9 (0.51%) iPhone
13 9 (0.51%) Operational Technology
13 9 (0.51%) PKI
14 8 (0.45%) Cloud Native
14 8 (0.45%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 713 (40.37%) Windows
2 369 (20.89%) Windows Server
3 160 (9.06%) Windows 10
4 119 (6.74%) Mac OS
5 106 (6.00%) Linux
6 62 (3.51%) Windows Server 2019
7 54 (3.06%) Windows Server 2016
8 44 (2.49%) Apple iOS
9 39 (2.21%) Android
10 23 (1.30%) Windows Server 2012
11 17 (0.96%) Windows 7
12 11 (0.62%) Windows 8
13 9 (0.51%) Mac OS X
14 6 (0.34%) Ubuntu
15 4 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 4 (0.23%) Windows Server 2008
16 2 (0.11%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 435 (24.63%) Problem-Solving
2 347 (19.65%) Customer Service
3 218 (12.34%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 185 (10.48%) Cybersecurity
5 162 (9.17%) ITIL
6 121 (6.85%) Disaster Recovery
7 116 (6.57%) Continuous Improvement
8 101 (5.72%) Mentoring
9 96 (5.44%) Service Delivery
10 93 (5.27%) ITSM
11 75 (4.25%) Project Delivery
12 62 (3.51%) Change Management
12 62 (3.51%) Service Management
13 58 (3.28%) Remote Monitoring and Management
14 51 (2.89%) Root Cause Analysis
15 49 (2.77%) Migration
16 48 (2.72%) Business Continuity
17 44 (2.49%) Process Improvement
18 42 (2.38%) Time Management
19 41 (2.32%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 129 (7.30%) PowerShell
2 58 (3.28%) SQL
3 14 (0.79%) Python
4 9 (0.51%) Bash
4 9 (0.51%) R
5 5 (0.28%) VB
6 4 (0.23%) PHP
6 4 (0.23%) VBScript
7 3 (0.17%) Bicep
7 3 (0.17%) C#
7 3 (0.17%) JavaScript
7 3 (0.17%) Uniface
7 3 (0.17%) VBA
8 2 (0.11%) Google Apps Script
8 2 (0.11%) Ruby
8 2 (0.11%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 115 (6.51%) Degree
2 111 (6.29%) Microsoft Certification
3 76 (4.30%) DBS Check
4 69 (3.91%) Security Cleared
5 46 (2.60%) Cisco Certification
6 45 (2.55%) CCNA
7 42 (2.38%) SC Cleared
8 33 (1.87%) Azure Certification
9 32 (1.81%) A+ Certification
10 25 (1.42%) Network+ Certification
11 15 (0.85%) DV Cleared
12 14 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
12 14 (0.79%) CompTIA Security+
12 14 (0.79%) MCSE
13 10 (0.57%) CCNP
14 6 (0.34%) AWS Certification
14 6 (0.34%) MCSA
15 5 (0.28%) MCITP
16 4 (0.23%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 4 (0.23%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (5.10%) Cyber Essentials
2 68 (3.85%) SLA
3 62 (3.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 35 (1.98%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 25 (1.42%) GDPR
6 11 (0.62%) PCI DSS
7 5 (0.28%) Accessibility
7 5 (0.28%) NIST
8 4 (0.23%) QA
9 1 (0.057%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.057%) NCSC
9 1 (0.057%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.057%) TickIT
System Software
1 586 (33.18%) Active Directory
2 176 (9.97%) Hyper-V
3 133 (7.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (0.96%) Virtual Desktop
4 17 (0.96%) VMware ESXi
5 13 (0.74%) Docker
5 13 (0.74%) vSphere
6 8 (0.45%) BitLocker
6 8 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
7 7 (0.40%) VMware Workstation
8 6 (0.34%) Terminal Services
9 4 (0.23%) VMware NSX
10 3 (0.17%) Firmware
11 1 (0.057%) Terminal Server
11 1 (0.057%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 245 (13.87%) Microsoft Intune
2 33 (1.87%) SCCM
3 27 (1.53%) Autotask
4 24 (1.36%) Jamf Pro
5 16 (0.91%) WSUS
6 14 (0.79%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 14 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
7 10 (0.57%) FortiGate
8 9 (0.51%) Failover Clustering
9 6 (0.34%) Ansible
9 6 (0.34%) Terraform
10 4 (0.23%) Kubernetes
11 3 (0.17%) Iperf
12 1 (0.057%) Argo
12 1 (0.057%) Nessus
12 1 (0.057%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 832 (47.11%) Microsoft
2 192 (10.87%) VMware
3 68 (3.85%) Google
4 62 (3.51%) Cisco
5 59 (3.34%) Fortinet
6 47 (2.66%) Meraki
7 46 (2.60%) Veeam
8 43 (2.43%) Apple
9 39 (2.21%) Fujitsu
9 39 (2.21%) Virgin Media
10 33 (1.87%) SonicWALL
11 30 (1.70%) HP
12 28 (1.59%) Ubiquiti
13 26 (1.47%) Datto
14 24 (1.36%) Dell
15 22 (1.25%) Sophos
16 14 (0.79%) Aruba
17 13 (0.74%) Epicor
17 13 (0.74%) ServiceNow
18 12 (0.68%) Draytek