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 11 January 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 164 173 153
Rank change year-on-year +9 -20 +121
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 764 833 990
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.46% 1.73% 2.00%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.61% 1.86% 2.10%
Number of salaries quoted 651 481 905
10th Percentile £25,750 £25,750 £25,250
25th Percentile £28,000 £29,000 £29,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £35,000 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% - +6.06%
75th Percentile £40,000 £47,500 £45,000
90th Percentile £49,000 £57,500 £57,500
UK median annual salary £32,500 £35,507 £35,000
% change year-on-year -8.47% +1.45% +6.06%

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 47,440 44,776 47,116
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.78% 92.73% 95.15%
Number of salaries quoted 29,933 23,492 36,893
10th Percentile £28,697 £33,500 £31,000
25th Percentile £36,750 £45,000 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +3.45% -5.69%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,750 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -4.17%

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 11 January 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 11 January 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
Midlands -26 178 £31,500 -10.00% 31
South East +27 174 £32,000 -15.79% 67
North of England +24 134 £32,500 -7.14% 59
London +49 131 £40,000 -11.11% 33
East Midlands +13 120 £30,000 - 15
South West +15 79 £32,500 -7.16% 32
East of England +21 71 £30,000 -4.00% 16
Yorkshire +5 65 £35,750 +8.33% 25
North West +13 63 £30,000 -20.53% 29
West Midlands -50 58 £35,000 - 16
North East 0 6 £30,000 -16.67% 10
IT Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 11 January 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.

1 408 (53.40%) Windows
2 402 (52.62%) Microsoft 365
3 400 (52.36%) Microsoft
4 331 (43.32%) Active Directory
5 292 (38.22%) Azure
6 266 (34.82%) Problem-Solving
7 231 (30.24%) Windows Server
8 174 (22.77%) Firewall
9 169 (22.12%) DNS
10 164 (21.47%) Customer Service
11 154 (20.16%) DHCP
12 149 (19.50%) Microsoft Intune
13 141 (18.46%) Entra ID
14 122 (15.97%) SharePoint
15 115 (15.05%) ITIL
15 115 (15.05%) VPN
16 104 (13.61%) VMware
17 103 (13.48%) Windows 10
18 98 (12.83%) Microsoft Exchange
19 85 (11.13%) TCP/IP
20 84 (10.99%) Hyper-V
21 81 (10.60%) Cybersecurity
21 81 (10.60%) VLAN
22 80 (10.47%) Degree
23 74 (9.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
24 69 (9.03%) VMware Infrastructure
25 68 (8.90%) Wi-Fi
26 67 (8.77%) WAN
27 65 (8.51%) Microsoft Office
28 64 (8.38%) Microsoft Certification

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
1 122 (15.97%) SharePoint
2 98 (12.83%) Microsoft Exchange
3 19 (2.49%) IIS
4 7 (0.92%) Confluence
5 3 (0.39%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.26%) Exchange Server 2007
6 2 (0.26%) Exchange Server 2010
6 2 (0.26%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 65 (8.51%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (2.09%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.39%) CINEMA 4D
5 2 (0.26%) Acrobat
6 1 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.13%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 9 (1.18%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.39%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.26%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.13%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 402 (52.62%) Microsoft 365
2 292 (38.22%) Azure
3 141 (18.46%) Entra ID
4 58 (7.59%) AWS
5 42 (5.50%) Google Workspace
6 31 (4.06%) OneDrive
7 29 (3.80%) SaaS
8 24 (3.14%) GCP
9 23 (3.01%) Power Platform
10 16 (2.09%) Azure DevOps
11 13 (1.70%) Power Automate
12 11 (1.44%) Datadog
13 9 (1.18%) IaaS
13 9 (1.18%) PaaS
14 7 (0.92%) Cloud Computing
15 6 (0.79%) Azure Sentinel
15 6 (0.79%) iPaaS
15 6 (0.79%) Microsoft Copilot
15 6 (0.79%) Nutanix
16 5 (0.65%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 174 (22.77%) Firewall
2 169 (22.12%) DNS
3 154 (20.16%) DHCP
4 115 (15.05%) VPN
5 85 (11.13%) TCP/IP
6 81 (10.60%) VLAN
7 68 (8.90%) Wi-Fi
8 67 (8.77%) WAN
9 61 (7.98%) LAN
10 36 (4.71%) Wireless
11 35 (4.58%) VoIP
12 31 (4.06%) SAN
13 21 (2.75%) Network Security
14 13 (1.70%) SD-WAN
15 11 (1.44%) IP Telephony
15 11 (1.44%) Remote Desktop
16 9 (1.18%) IPsec
17 8 (1.05%) Internet
17 8 (1.05%) WLAN
18 4 (0.52%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (4.58%) SQL Server
2 19 (2.49%) Power BI
3 12 (1.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 11 (1.44%) Amazon RDS
5 7 (0.92%) Relational Database
6 4 (0.52%) NoSQL
7 3 (0.39%) DynamoDB
7 3 (0.39%) Mixpanel
7 3 (0.39%) MongoDB
7 3 (0.39%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (0.26%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.13%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 20 (2.62%) JIRA
2 5 (0.65%) Chocolatey
2 5 (0.65%) Git
3 3 (0.39%) Browser DevTools
3 3 (0.39%) Charles Proxy
3 3 (0.39%) Fiddler
3 3 (0.39%) Maven
3 3 (0.39%) Postman
3 3 (0.39%) Selenium
3 3 (0.39%) TestNG
3 3 (0.39%) WebDriver
3 3 (0.39%) Zephyr
4 2 (0.26%) Burp Suite
4 2 (0.26%) JMeter
4 2 (0.26%) LoadRunner
4 2 (0.26%) NeoLoad
4 2 (0.26%) Snyk
5 1 (0.13%) Bitbucket
General
1 259 (33.90%) Social Skills
2 61 (7.98%) Finance
3 53 (6.94%) Analytical Skills
4 52 (6.81%) Law
5 45 (5.89%) Organisational Skills
6 40 (5.24%) Manufacturing
7 27 (3.53%) Legal
7 27 (3.53%) Telecoms
8 21 (2.75%) Public Sector
9 18 (2.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 16 (2.09%) Retail
11 14 (1.83%) Electronics
12 10 (1.31%) Documentation Skills
13 8 (1.05%) Advertising
14 6 (0.79%) Games
14 6 (0.79%) Marketing
15 5 (0.65%) Banking
16 4 (0.52%) Billing
16 4 (0.52%) Dutch Language
16 4 (0.52%) French Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (2.75%) .NET
2 15 (1.96%) .NET Framework
3 12 (1.57%) Entity Framework
3 12 (1.57%) WinForms
4 9 (1.18%) REST
5 7 (0.92%) ASP.NET
6 6 (0.79%) GraphQL
7 5 (0.65%) React
8 4 (0.52%) AngularJS
9 3 (0.39%) OAuth
10 2 (0.26%) OAuth2
11 1 (0.13%) AVA JavaScript Test Runner
11 1 (0.13%) Django
11 1 (0.13%) Flask
11 1 (0.13%) LangChain
11 1 (0.13%) LangGraph
11 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Graph
11 1 (0.13%) Spring
11 1 (0.13%) Spring Boot
11 1 (0.13%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 113 (14.79%) Driving Licence
2 48 (6.28%) Onboarding
3 31 (4.06%) Self-Motivation
4 17 (2.23%) Analytical Mindset
5 16 (2.09%) CCTV
6 14 (1.83%) Product Ownership
7 12 (1.57%) Data Centre
8 11 (1.44%) iPad
9 10 (1.31%) Clustering
10 9 (1.18%) FMCG
10 9 (1.18%) Smartphone
11 7 (0.92%) CMDB
11 7 (0.92%) Management Information System
11 7 (0.92%) Virtual Team
12 6 (0.79%) Enterprise Software
12 6 (0.79%) Fat Client
12 6 (0.79%) PMI
12 6 (0.79%) Security Posture
12 6 (0.79%) Social Media
12 6 (0.79%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 408 (53.40%) Windows
2 231 (30.24%) Windows Server
3 103 (13.48%) Windows 10
4 51 (6.68%) Mac OS
5 42 (5.50%) Linux
6 35 (4.58%) Windows Server 2019
7 31 (4.06%) Windows Server 2016
8 18 (2.36%) Android
8 18 (2.36%) Apple iOS
9 14 (1.83%) Windows Server 2012
10 8 (1.05%) Mac OS X
11 6 (0.79%) VMS
11 6 (0.79%) Windows 7
12 4 (0.52%) Windows 8
13 3 (0.39%) Debian
13 3 (0.39%) Rocky
14 1 (0.13%) Solaris
14 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
14 1 (0.13%) Unix
14 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 266 (34.82%) Problem-Solving
2 164 (21.47%) Customer Service
3 115 (15.05%) ITIL
4 81 (10.60%) Cybersecurity
5 74 (9.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 51 (6.68%) Disaster Recovery
7 46 (6.02%) ITSM
8 39 (5.10%) Mentoring
9 38 (4.97%) Computer Science
9 38 (4.97%) Migration
10 36 (4.71%) Incident Management
11 33 (4.32%) Project Delivery
11 33 (4.32%) Remote Monitoring and Management
12 32 (4.19%) Continuous Improvement
13 30 (3.93%) Service Delivery
14 27 (3.53%) Agile
14 27 (3.53%) Data Protection
14 27 (3.53%) Process Improvement
14 27 (3.53%) Software Engineering
15 26 (3.40%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 53 (6.94%) PowerShell
2 42 (5.50%) SQL
3 18 (2.36%) C#
4 17 (2.23%) Python
5 12 (1.57%) T-SQL
6 10 (1.31%) JavaScript
7 7 (0.92%) PL/SQL
7 7 (0.92%) VBScript
8 5 (0.65%) Java
9 2 (0.26%) Bash
10 1 (0.13%) Google Apps Script
10 1 (0.13%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.13%) Perl
10 1 (0.13%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.13%) VBA
Qualifications
1 80 (10.47%) Degree
2 64 (8.38%) Microsoft Certification
3 36 (4.71%) DBS Check
4 30 (3.93%) Computer Science Degree
5 27 (3.53%) Cisco Certification
6 26 (3.40%) A+ Certification
7 25 (3.27%) CCNA
8 21 (2.75%) MCP
9 20 (2.62%) Security Cleared
10 17 (2.23%) Azure Certification
10 17 (2.23%) SC Cleared
11 16 (2.09%) MCSE
12 15 (1.96%) Network+ Certification
13 14 (1.83%) BPSS Clearance
14 12 (1.57%) MCSA
15 9 (1.18%) CCNP
16 7 (0.92%) CompTIA Security+
17 6 (0.79%) CISSP
17 6 (0.79%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
17 6 (0.79%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (5.10%) Cyber Essentials
1 39 (5.10%) SLA
2 37 (4.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 25 (3.27%) GDPR
4 10 (1.31%) QA
5 6 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 6 (0.79%) NIST
6 5 (0.65%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.39%) Data Quality
7 3 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.26%) GxP
9 1 (0.13%) HIPAA
System Software
1 331 (43.32%) Active Directory
2 84 (10.99%) Hyper-V
3 69 (9.03%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (1.57%) Virtual Desktop
5 11 (1.44%) Firmware
6 8 (1.05%) Docker
7 5 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.52%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.52%) VMware Workstation
9 2 (0.26%) BitLocker
9 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 2 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.26%) vSphere
9 2 (0.26%) XenDesktop
10 1 (0.13%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 149 (19.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 16 (2.09%) SCCM
3 14 (1.83%) Kubernetes
4 13 (1.70%) Autotask
4 13 (1.70%) Jamf Pro
5 9 (1.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 7 (0.92%) SmoothWall
7 6 (0.79%) Failover Clustering
7 6 (0.79%) FortiGate
7 6 (0.79%) WSUS
8 5 (0.65%) Ansible
9 4 (0.52%) vCenter Server
10 3 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.13%) CASB
11 1 (0.13%) Nessus
11 1 (0.13%) Podman
11 1 (0.13%) Proxmox
11 1 (0.13%) QRadar
11 1 (0.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 400 (52.36%) Microsoft
2 104 (13.61%) VMware
3 54 (7.07%) Google
4 41 (5.37%) Apple
5 33 (4.32%) Cisco
6 32 (4.19%) Veeam
7 23 (3.01%) ServiceNow
8 20 (2.62%) Meraki
9 15 (1.96%) Adobe
10 14 (1.83%) Zoho
11 12 (1.57%) Dell
11 12 (1.57%) Sage
11 12 (1.57%) Xamarin
12 11 (1.44%) Fortinet
13 10 (1.31%) Datto
13 10 (1.31%) WatchGuard
14 9 (1.18%) Draytek
14 9 (1.18%) Oracle
15 8 (1.05%) Sophos
16 7 (0.92%) Mitel