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 21 August 2026.

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

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 108 277 160
Rank change year-on-year +169 -117 +38
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 1,646 495 1,231
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.73% 1.13% 1.70%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.84% 1.25% 1.79%
Number of salaries quoted 1,426 378 953
10th Percentile £27,500 £25,750 £25,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £30,313 £28,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -
75th Percentile £43,750 £48,938 £43,750
90th Percentile £57,500 £61,250 £53,750
UK median annual salary £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -

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 89,557 39,579 68,958
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.02% 90.58% 95.01%
Number of salaries quoted 63,024 23,847 46,222
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £76,250 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -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 21 August 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 21 August 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 +119 394 £36,250 -9.38% 63
North of England +59 275 £32,500 -3.70% 37
East of England +106 270 £35,000 -2.78% 41
Midlands +62 258 £35,000 -2.10% 41
South West +45 226 £35,000 -12.50% 30
London +61 222 £36,000 -20.00% 48
North West +90 155 £33,488 -4.32% 17
East Midlands +40 131 £35,000 +7.69% 18
West Midlands +45 127 £34,500 -18.82% 23
Yorkshire -23 104 £30,000 -9.09% 15
North East -48 16 £40,000 -17.95% 5
IT Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 21 August 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.

1 862 (52.37%) Microsoft
2 771 (46.84%) Microsoft 365
3 717 (43.56%) Windows
4 580 (35.24%) Active Directory
5 458 (27.83%) Azure
6 389 (23.63%) Problem-Solving
7 375 (22.78%) Windows Server
8 360 (21.87%) Entra ID
9 330 (20.05%) Customer Service
10 284 (17.25%) Firewall
11 277 (16.83%) Microsoft Exchange
12 259 (15.74%) Microsoft Intune
13 238 (14.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 234 (14.22%) DNS
15 225 (13.67%) SharePoint
16 203 (12.33%) Cybersecurity
17 202 (12.27%) Hyper-V
18 196 (11.91%) DHCP
19 190 (11.54%) VMware
20 187 (11.36%) VPN
21 155 (9.42%) Wi-Fi
22 149 (9.05%) VMware Infrastructure
23 141 (8.57%) Disaster Recovery
24 140 (8.51%) Continuous Improvement
25 139 (8.44%) ITIL
26 133 (8.08%) TCP/IP
27 128 (7.78%) Degree
27 128 (7.78%) Windows 10
28 124 (7.53%) PowerShell
29 116 (7.05%) Linux

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
1 277 (16.83%) Microsoft Exchange
2 225 (13.67%) SharePoint
3 20 (1.22%) IIS
4 11 (0.67%) Exchange Server 2013
5 9 (0.55%) Exchange Server 2007
5 9 (0.55%) Exchange Server 2010
6 5 (0.30%) Confluence
7 3 (0.18%) Apache
Applications
1 87 (5.29%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (0.97%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.18%) Photoshop
5 2 (0.12%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (0.36%) Raiser’s Edge
2 2 (0.12%) Sage 200
3 1 (0.061%) Eikon
3 1 (0.061%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 771 (46.84%) Microsoft 365
2 458 (27.83%) Azure
3 360 (21.87%) Entra ID
4 58 (3.52%) OneDrive
5 50 (3.04%) AWS
6 49 (2.98%) SaaS
7 41 (2.49%) Google Workspace
8 32 (1.94%) Mimecast
9 22 (1.34%) Power Platform
10 17 (1.03%) PaaS
11 16 (0.97%) Power Automate
12 15 (0.91%) IaaS
13 14 (0.85%) Nutanix
14 11 (0.67%) Azure DevOps
15 8 (0.49%) PowerApps
16 6 (0.36%) Cloud Computing
16 6 (0.36%) Cloudflare
16 6 (0.36%) Dynamics 365
16 6 (0.36%) Microsoft Copilot
17 5 (0.30%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 284 (17.25%) Firewall
2 234 (14.22%) DNS
3 196 (11.91%) DHCP
4 187 (11.36%) VPN
5 155 (9.42%) Wi-Fi
6 133 (8.08%) TCP/IP
7 104 (6.32%) LAN
8 99 (6.01%) VLAN
9 98 (5.95%) WAN
10 90 (5.47%) Wireless
11 76 (4.62%) VoIP
12 48 (2.92%) SAN
13 38 (2.31%) Network Security
14 22 (1.34%) Internet
15 18 (1.09%) SSL
16 17 (1.03%) WLAN
17 15 (0.91%) Remote Desktop
18 7 (0.43%) NAS
19 4 (0.24%) Cisco ASA
19 4 (0.24%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (4.01%) SQL Server
2 10 (0.61%) Azure SQL Database
3 9 (0.55%) Power BI
4 6 (0.36%) MySQL
5 5 (0.30%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.12%) KNIME
Development Applications
1 39 (2.37%) JIRA
2 3 (0.18%) Burp Suite
2 3 (0.18%) Metasploit
3 2 (0.12%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.061%) Carbide.c++
General
1 432 (26.25%) Social Skills
2 72 (4.37%) Analytical Skills
3 71 (4.31%) Legal
4 68 (4.13%) Manufacturing
5 60 (3.65%) Finance
6 47 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 47 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
7 37 (2.25%) Retail
8 34 (2.07%) Advertising
9 29 (1.76%) Law
10 25 (1.52%) Telecoms
11 21 (1.28%) Documentation Skills
12 17 (1.03%) Automotive
13 11 (0.67%) Public Sector
14 9 (0.55%) Aerospace
15 8 (0.49%) Games
15 8 (0.49%) Local Government
16 7 (0.43%) Banking
17 6 (0.36%) Police
18 4 (0.24%) Portuguese Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (0.55%) HTML
2 7 (0.43%) JSON
3 5 (0.30%) CSS
3 5 (0.30%) Terraform
3 5 (0.30%) Web Services
4 2 (0.12%) EDI
4 2 (0.12%) LDAP
4 2 (0.12%) SAML
5 1 (0.061%) .NET
5 1 (0.061%) 802.1X
5 1 (0.061%) ASP.NET Web Forms
5 1 (0.061%) Software Packaging
5 1 (0.061%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 201 (12.21%) Driving Licence
2 101 (6.14%) Onboarding
3 71 (4.31%) Self-Motivation
4 40 (2.43%) Data Centre
5 36 (2.19%) CCTV
6 18 (1.09%) Operational Technology
6 18 (1.09%) Video Conferencing
7 17 (1.03%) Hybrid Cloud
8 16 (0.97%) Management Information System
8 16 (0.97%) Replication
9 15 (0.91%) Clustering
10 13 (0.79%) Analytical Mindset
10 13 (0.79%) Security Posture
11 12 (0.73%) Cyber Threat
12 11 (0.67%) Cloud Native
13 10 (0.61%) NHS
14 8 (0.49%) FMCG
14 8 (0.49%) PKI
15 7 (0.43%) EPoS
16 6 (0.36%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 717 (43.56%) Windows
2 375 (22.78%) Windows Server
3 128 (7.78%) Windows 10
4 116 (7.05%) Linux
5 112 (6.80%) Mac OS
6 49 (2.98%) Windows Server 2019
7 44 (2.67%) Apple iOS
8 39 (2.37%) Windows Server 2016
9 37 (2.25%) Android
10 17 (1.03%) Windows Server 2012
11 11 (0.67%) Ubuntu
12 9 (0.55%) Windows 7
13 6 (0.36%) Windows 8
14 5 (0.30%) Mac OS X
14 5 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 4 (0.24%) Windows Server 2008
16 3 (0.18%) Kali Linux
17 2 (0.12%) Rocky
17 2 (0.12%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 389 (23.63%) Problem-Solving
2 330 (20.05%) Customer Service
3 238 (14.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 203 (12.33%) Cybersecurity
5 141 (8.57%) Disaster Recovery
6 140 (8.51%) Continuous Improvement
7 139 (8.44%) ITIL
8 87 (5.29%) Project Delivery
9 76 (4.62%) ITSM
10 71 (4.31%) Service Delivery
11 65 (3.95%) Service Management
12 62 (3.77%) Mentoring
13 61 (3.71%) Remote Monitoring and Management
14 48 (2.92%) Change Management
15 47 (2.86%) Business Continuity
16 45 (2.73%) User Experience
17 44 (2.67%) Collaborative Culture
18 41 (2.49%) Identity Management
18 41 (2.49%) Root Cause Analysis
19 40 (2.43%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 124 (7.53%) PowerShell
2 53 (3.22%) SQL
3 12 (0.73%) Python
4 11 (0.67%) R
5 8 (0.49%) Ruby
6 4 (0.24%) C#
6 4 (0.24%) VBScript
7 3 (0.18%) Bicep
7 3 (0.18%) JavaScript
7 3 (0.18%) PHP
7 3 (0.18%) VBA
8 2 (0.12%) T-SQL
8 2 (0.12%) VB
9 1 (0.061%) Bash
9 1 (0.061%) Java
Qualifications
1 128 (7.78%) Degree
2 110 (6.68%) Microsoft Certification
3 72 (4.37%) DBS Check
4 49 (2.98%) Cisco Certification
5 47 (2.86%) CCNA
5 47 (2.86%) Security Cleared
6 35 (2.13%) Azure Certification
7 27 (1.64%) SC Cleared
8 25 (1.52%) A+ Certification
8 25 (1.52%) Network+ Certification
9 18 (1.09%) CompTIA Security+
10 13 (0.79%) MCSE
11 11 (0.67%) Computer Science Degree
12 8 (0.49%) DV Cleared
13 7 (0.43%) AWS Certification
13 7 (0.43%) CCNP
14 6 (0.36%) MCSA
15 5 (0.30%) BPSS Clearance
15 5 (0.30%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 4 (0.24%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (6.08%) Cyber Essentials
2 53 (3.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 47 (2.86%) SLA
4 34 (2.07%) GDPR
5 31 (1.88%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 11 (0.67%) PCI DSS
7 6 (0.36%) NIST
8 4 (0.24%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.12%) QA
10 1 (0.061%) Data Quality
10 1 (0.061%) NCSC
10 1 (0.061%) TickIT
System Software
1 580 (35.24%) Active Directory
2 202 (12.27%) Hyper-V
3 149 (9.05%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (0.91%) Virtual Machines
5 14 (0.85%) VMware ESXi
6 13 (0.79%) Docker
6 13 (0.79%) vSphere
7 12 (0.73%) Virtual Desktop
8 8 (0.49%) BitLocker
8 8 (0.49%) Firmware
9 5 (0.30%) Terminal Services
10 2 (0.12%) VMware Workstation
11 1 (0.061%) Terminal Server
11 1 (0.061%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 259 (15.74%) Microsoft Intune
2 25 (1.52%) Jamf Pro
2 25 (1.52%) SCCM
3 22 (1.34%) Autotask
4 13 (0.79%) WSUS
5 11 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
6 10 (0.61%) Failover Clustering
7 9 (0.55%) FortiGate
8 6 (0.36%) Kubernetes
9 5 (0.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 4 (0.24%) Iperf
10 4 (0.24%) Nessus
11 3 (0.18%) Nmap
12 2 (0.12%) Ansible
12 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
12 2 (0.12%) PaperCut
12 2 (0.12%) SCOM
13 1 (0.061%) vCenter Server
13 1 (0.061%) vRealize Orchestrator
13 1 (0.061%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 862 (52.37%) Microsoft
2 190 (11.54%) VMware
3 79 (4.80%) Cisco
4 59 (3.58%) Veeam
5 52 (3.16%) SonicWALL
6 46 (2.79%) Google
7 40 (2.43%) Apple
8 35 (2.13%) HP
9 34 (2.07%) Ubiquiti
10 32 (1.94%) Meraki
11 28 (1.70%) Datto
12 25 (1.52%) Sophos
13 24 (1.46%) Dell
13 24 (1.46%) Fortinet
14 19 (1.15%) Aruba
15 17 (1.03%) Palo Alto
16 16 (0.97%) Draytek
17 15 (0.91%) Logitech
18 14 (0.85%) CrowdStrike
18 14 (0.85%) TOWER Software