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 25 May 2026.

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

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 252 136
Rank change year-on-year +164 -116 +102
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 1,624 498 1,766
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.96% 1.30% 2.06%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.10% 1.45% 2.17%
Number of salaries quoted 1,389 372 1,575
10th Percentile £26,750 £25,750 £24,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £26,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £35,000 £32,500
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £42,500 £43,750 £43,000
90th Percentile £56,250 £54,425 £50,000
UK median annual salary £35,000 £35,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year - +7.69% -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 77,226 34,273 81,280
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.37% 89.51% 94.59%
Number of salaries quoted 52,463 19,709 61,616
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,000 £38,066
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +8.49% -12.83%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -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 25 May 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 25 May 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 +102 367 £34,000 -2.86% 60
North of England +110 345 £32,940 +1.35% 35
Midlands +45 259 £32,500 -7.14% 32
East of England +94 233 £34,750 +15.83% 38
London +80 222 £40,000 -11.11% 23
South West +58 195 £35,000 +4.48% 26
North West +118 190 £32,940 -2.40% 18
Yorkshire +15 144 £33,500 +21.82% 16
East Midlands +43 131 £30,000 -7.69% 17
West Midlands +19 128 £32,500 -7.14% 15
North East -38 11 £30,000 -20.00% 3
IT Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 25 May 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.

1 677 (41.69%) Microsoft 365
2 675 (41.56%) Microsoft
3 612 (37.68%) Windows
4 507 (31.22%) Active Directory
5 432 (26.60%) Azure
6 396 (24.38%) Problem-Solving
7 322 (19.83%) Windows Server
8 305 (18.78%) Customer Service
9 270 (16.63%) Entra ID
10 265 (16.32%) Firewall
11 199 (12.25%) DNS
11 199 (12.25%) Microsoft Intune
12 186 (11.45%) VPN
13 180 (11.08%) Microsoft Exchange
14 178 (10.96%) DHCP
15 170 (10.47%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 168 (10.34%) SharePoint
17 161 (9.91%) VMware
18 153 (9.42%) Windows 10
19 147 (9.05%) Wi-Fi
20 143 (8.81%) ITIL
21 139 (8.56%) LAN
22 138 (8.50%) Hyper-V
23 137 (8.44%) WAN
24 136 (8.37%) Cybersecurity
25 119 (7.33%) Microsoft Office
26 117 (7.20%) Degree
27 101 (6.22%) Microsoft Certification
28 100 (6.16%) VMware Infrastructure
29 96 (5.91%) Mac OS

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
1 180 (11.08%) Microsoft Exchange
2 168 (10.34%) SharePoint
3 15 (0.92%) Confluence
4 14 (0.86%) Exchange Server 2013
5 12 (0.74%) Exchange Server 2007
5 12 (0.74%) Exchange Server 2010
6 8 (0.49%) IIS
Applications
1 119 (7.33%) Microsoft Office
2 21 (1.29%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.18%) Photoshop
5 2 (0.12%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.062%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 6 (0.37%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.31%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.062%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 677 (41.69%) Microsoft 365
2 432 (26.60%) Azure
3 270 (16.63%) Entra ID
4 69 (4.25%) Google Workspace
5 56 (3.45%) AWS
6 46 (2.83%) OneDrive
7 43 (2.65%) SaaS
8 27 (1.66%) PaaS
9 23 (1.42%) IaaS
10 22 (1.35%) Power Platform
11 17 (1.05%) Mimecast
12 10 (0.62%) PowerApps
13 9 (0.55%) Azure DevOps
13 9 (0.55%) Azure Sentinel
14 8 (0.49%) Datadog
15 7 (0.43%) OCI
16 6 (0.37%) Microsoft Copilot
17 5 (0.31%) Intacct
18 4 (0.25%) GCP
18 4 (0.25%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 265 (16.32%) Firewall
2 199 (12.25%) DNS
3 186 (11.45%) VPN
4 178 (10.96%) DHCP
5 147 (9.05%) Wi-Fi
6 139 (8.56%) LAN
7 137 (8.44%) WAN
8 87 (5.36%) VLAN
9 72 (4.43%) VoIP
10 59 (3.63%) TCP/IP
11 53 (3.26%) SAN
12 34 (2.09%) Wireless
13 25 (1.54%) Network Security
14 20 (1.23%) SD-WAN
15 17 (1.05%) WLAN
16 10 (0.62%) Internet
16 10 (0.62%) Remote Desktop
17 8 (0.49%) SSL
18 7 (0.43%) NAS
19 5 (0.31%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (4.13%) SQL Server
2 16 (0.99%) Power BI
3 3 (0.18%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (0.18%) MySQL
4 1 (0.062%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.062%) KNIME
Development Applications
1 36 (2.22%) JIRA
2 8 (0.49%) Chocolatey
3 4 (0.25%) GitLab
4 1 (0.062%) Git
4 1 (0.062%) LabVIEW
General
1 358 (22.04%) Social Skills
2 81 (4.99%) Finance
3 62 (3.82%) Analytical Skills
4 60 (3.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 56 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
6 52 (3.20%) Manufacturing
7 47 (2.89%) Law
8 41 (2.52%) Legal
9 39 (2.40%) Multimedia
9 39 (2.40%) Retail
9 39 (2.40%) Telecoms
10 18 (1.11%) Public Sector
11 15 (0.92%) Advertising
12 14 (0.86%) Automotive
13 13 (0.80%) Banking
14 5 (0.31%) Games
14 5 (0.31%) Local Government
14 5 (0.31%) Social Housing
15 4 (0.25%) Portuguese Language
15 4 (0.25%) Spanish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (0.43%) HTML
2 5 (0.31%) CSS
2 5 (0.31%) JSON
3 4 (0.25%) OpenTelemetry
3 4 (0.25%) Web Services
4 3 (0.18%) .NET
5 1 (0.062%) AVA JavaScript Test Runner
5 1 (0.062%) LangChain
5 1 (0.062%) LangGraph
5 1 (0.062%) OAuth
5 1 (0.062%) OpenID
5 1 (0.062%) React
5 1 (0.062%) SAML
5 1 (0.062%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 211 (12.99%) Driving Licence
2 68 (4.19%) Onboarding
3 46 (2.83%) Self-Motivation
4 27 (1.66%) CCTV
5 25 (1.54%) Analytical Mindset
5 25 (1.54%) Data Centre
6 12 (0.74%) Management Information System
7 11 (0.68%) FMCG
7 11 (0.68%) Security Posture
7 11 (0.68%) Social Media
8 10 (0.62%) NHS
9 9 (0.55%) iPhone
9 9 (0.55%) Replication
9 9 (0.55%) Video Conferencing
10 8 (0.49%) Clustering
10 8 (0.49%) Cyber Threat
10 8 (0.49%) Linux Command Line
11 7 (0.43%) Enterprise Software
11 7 (0.43%) Hybrid Cloud
11 7 (0.43%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 612 (37.68%) Windows
2 322 (19.83%) Windows Server
3 153 (9.42%) Windows 10
4 96 (5.91%) Mac OS
5 75 (4.62%) Linux
6 60 (3.69%) Windows Server 2019
7 54 (3.33%) Windows Server 2016
8 37 (2.28%) Apple iOS
9 35 (2.16%) Android
10 24 (1.48%) Windows Server 2012
11 17 (1.05%) Windows 7
12 11 (0.68%) Windows 8
13 9 (0.55%) Mac OS X
14 4 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 4 (0.25%) Ubuntu
14 4 (0.25%) Windows Server 2008
15 1 (0.062%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 396 (24.38%) Problem-Solving
2 305 (18.78%) Customer Service
3 170 (10.47%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 143 (8.81%) ITIL
5 136 (8.37%) Cybersecurity
6 92 (5.67%) Mentoring
7 90 (5.54%) ITSM
8 83 (5.11%) Disaster Recovery
9 75 (4.62%) Service Delivery
10 63 (3.88%) Continuous Improvement
11 62 (3.82%) Remote Monitoring and Management
12 52 (3.20%) Project Delivery
13 48 (2.96%) Change Management
14 45 (2.77%) Migration
14 45 (2.77%) Service Management
15 44 (2.71%) Time Management
16 41 (2.52%) Root Cause Analysis
17 37 (2.28%) Process Improvement
18 36 (2.22%) Business Continuity
19 35 (2.16%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 94 (5.79%) PowerShell
2 48 (2.96%) SQL
3 10 (0.62%) Bash
3 10 (0.62%) Python
4 5 (0.31%) C#
4 5 (0.31%) VB
5 4 (0.25%) PHP
5 4 (0.25%) R
6 3 (0.18%) JavaScript
6 3 (0.18%) Uniface
6 3 (0.18%) VBA
7 2 (0.12%) Google Apps Script
7 2 (0.12%) VBScript
8 1 (0.062%) Bicep
8 1 (0.062%) Java
8 1 (0.062%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 117 (7.20%) Degree
2 101 (6.22%) Microsoft Certification
3 73 (4.50%) Security Cleared
4 64 (3.94%) DBS Check
5 45 (2.77%) SC Cleared
6 40 (2.46%) Cisco Certification
7 39 (2.40%) CCNA
8 34 (2.09%) A+ Certification
9 29 (1.79%) Azure Certification
9 29 (1.79%) Network+ Certification
10 18 (1.11%) BPSS Clearance
11 17 (1.05%) CompTIA Security+
12 16 (0.99%) DV Cleared
13 15 (0.92%) MCSE
14 14 (0.86%) Computer Science Degree
15 7 (0.43%) CCNP
16 5 (0.31%) MCITP
16 5 (0.31%) MCSA
17 4 (0.25%) PMI Certification
18 3 (0.18%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (4.74%) SLA
2 70 (4.31%) Cyber Essentials
3 52 (3.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 29 (1.79%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 13 (0.80%) GDPR
6 9 (0.55%) NIST
7 6 (0.37%) PCI DSS
7 6 (0.37%) QA
8 5 (0.31%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.062%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.062%) SOC 2
System Software
1 507 (31.22%) Active Directory
2 138 (8.50%) Hyper-V
3 100 (6.16%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (1.11%) Virtual Desktop
5 15 (0.92%) VMware ESXi
6 10 (0.62%) Docker
7 7 (0.43%) VMware Workstation
7 7 (0.43%) vSphere
8 6 (0.37%) Terminal Services
9 5 (0.31%) BitLocker
10 4 (0.25%) VMware NSX
11 3 (0.18%) Firmware
12 1 (0.062%) Virtual Machines
12 1 (0.062%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 199 (12.25%) Microsoft Intune
2 35 (2.16%) SCCM
3 21 (1.29%) Autotask
3 21 (1.29%) Jamf Pro
4 19 (1.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 18 (1.11%) WSUS
6 13 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
7 10 (0.62%) FortiGate
8 5 (0.31%) Terraform
9 4 (0.25%) Ansible
9 4 (0.25%) Failover Clustering
9 4 (0.25%) SmoothWall
10 2 (0.12%) Kubernetes
11 1 (0.062%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 675 (41.56%) Microsoft
2 161 (9.91%) VMware
3 74 (4.56%) Google
4 60 (3.69%) Fortinet
5 50 (3.08%) Apple
6 47 (2.89%) Cisco
7 42 (2.59%) Meraki
8 39 (2.40%) Fujitsu
8 39 (2.40%) Virgin Media
9 30 (1.85%) Veeam
10 21 (1.29%) Dell
10 21 (1.29%) SonicWALL
11 20 (1.23%) Datto
11 20 (1.23%) HP
11 20 (1.23%) Ubiquiti
12 19 (1.17%) Sophos
13 13 (0.80%) Epicor
14 11 (0.68%) ConnectWise
14 11 (0.68%) Draytek
15 9 (0.55%) Citrix