IT Engineer Jobs 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 1 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 226 137 244
Rank change year-on-year -89 +107 +119
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 610 1,763 1,394
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.32% 2.07% 1.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.47% 2.19% 1.65%
Number of salaries quoted 419 1,584 1,112
10th Percentile £25,750 £24,000 £25,388
25th Percentile £27,500 £26,713 £27,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £33,000 £34,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.06% -4.35% +1.47%
75th Percentile £43,750 £43,125 £45,000
90th Percentile £53,900 £50,925 £60,473
UK median annual salary £35,000 £32,500 £34,500
% change year-on-year +7.69% -5.80% +1.47%

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 41,506 80,486 84,681
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.13% 94.46% 91.53%
Number of salaries quoted 24,507 60,251 53,657
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £53,773 £60,567
Median % change year-on-year +6.93% -11.22% +0.95%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £91,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,777 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.95% -12.04% -

IT Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured IT Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for IT Engineer in England

IT Engineer
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing IT Engineer in England.

Salary trend for IT Engineer in England

IT Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing IT Engineer in England over the 6 months to 1 May 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 1 May 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
Midlands -6 193 £35,000 - 72
West Midlands +10 132 £35,000 - 33
South East -54 122 £35,000 +2.94% 103
London +18 112 £47,500 +18.75% 76
North of England -83 97 £33,000 +6.45% 102
East Midlands -22 61 £30,000 -20.00% 36
Yorkshire +8 52 £29,250 -2.50% 46
East of England -47 48 £29,500 -6.10% 47
South West -35 40 £33,500 +11.67% 57
North West -89 35 £35,000 +16.67% 46
North East +11 10 £37,500 +15.38% 12
IT Engineer
UK

IT Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, IT Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region featuring IT Engineer in the job title.

1 443 (72.62%) Windows
2 407 (66.72%) Microsoft
3 286 (46.89%) Microsoft 365
4 277 (45.41%) Problem-Solving
5 261 (42.79%) Active Directory
6 219 (35.90%) Social Skills
7 218 (35.74%) Azure
8 182 (29.84%) Degree
9 179 (29.34%) Linux
10 176 (28.85%) ITIL
11 166 (27.21%) Driving Licence
12 165 (27.05%) Microsoft Certification
13 164 (26.89%) Cisco
14 161 (26.39%) Windows Server
15 133 (21.80%) Computer Science
16 132 (21.64%) Customer Service
17 121 (19.84%) Firewall
18 116 (19.02%) Cisco Certification
18 116 (19.02%) Computer Science Degree
19 115 (18.85%) Mentoring
20 114 (18.69%) MCSE
21 113 (18.52%) CCNA
21 113 (18.52%) WLAN
22 109 (17.87%) Internet
23 108 (17.70%) MCP
23 108 (17.70%) Network Security
24 107 (17.54%) Network Management
25 105 (17.21%) Asset Management
26 102 (16.72%) VMware
27 97 (15.90%) CCNP

IT Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 91 (14.92%) Microsoft Exchange
2 67 (10.98%) SharePoint
3 27 (4.43%) Confluence
4 4 (0.66%) WordPress
5 2 (0.33%) IIS
6 1 (0.16%) CMS
6 1 (0.16%) nginx
6 1 (0.16%) Tomcat
Applications
1 61 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (2.62%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.82%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.66%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (1.15%) Remedy ITSM
2 6 (0.98%) Sage 200
2 6 (0.98%) Sage 50
3 2 (0.33%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (0.33%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.16%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 286 (46.89%) Microsoft 365
2 218 (35.74%) Azure
3 84 (13.77%) Entra ID
4 66 (10.82%) AWS
5 46 (7.54%) SaaS
6 22 (3.61%) Google Workspace
7 20 (3.28%) OneDrive
8 19 (3.11%) GCP
9 15 (2.46%) IaaS
10 11 (1.80%) Mimecast
11 8 (1.31%) Power Platform
12 6 (0.98%) Cloud Computing
13 5 (0.82%) Slack
14 4 (0.66%) Amazon Bedrock
14 4 (0.66%) Amazon EC2
14 4 (0.66%) Amazon S3
14 4 (0.66%) PaaS
15 3 (0.49%) Microsoft Purview
15 3 (0.49%) Nutanix
15 3 (0.49%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 121 (19.84%) Firewall
2 113 (18.52%) WLAN
3 109 (17.87%) Internet
4 108 (17.70%) Network Security
5 92 (15.08%) DNS
6 73 (11.97%) DHCP
7 66 (10.82%) VLAN
8 54 (8.85%) VPN
9 51 (8.36%) LAN
10 50 (8.20%) TCP/IP
11 47 (7.70%) Wi-Fi
12 41 (6.72%) WAN
13 30 (4.92%) SAN
14 21 (3.44%) BGP
14 21 (3.44%) OSPF
15 20 (3.28%) NAS
16 18 (2.95%) VoIP
17 14 (2.30%) Cisco IOS
17 14 (2.30%) IPv4
18 11 (1.80%) PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (7.70%) SQL Server
2 17 (2.79%) MySQL
3 16 (2.62%) Relational Database
4 8 (1.31%) Power BI
5 4 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (0.49%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (0.33%) Crystal Reports
7 2 (0.33%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.16%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (0.16%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.16%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.16%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.16%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 25 (4.10%) JIRA
2 17 (2.79%) Git
3 16 (2.62%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.16%) Katalon Studio
4 1 (0.16%) Postman
4 1 (0.16%) Selenium
4 1 (0.16%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 219 (35.90%) Social Skills
2 50 (8.20%) Analytical Skills
3 49 (8.03%) Finance
4 33 (5.41%) Retail
5 30 (4.92%) Organisational Skills
6 19 (3.11%) Telecoms
7 17 (2.79%) Law
8 15 (2.46%) Automotive
8 15 (2.46%) Manufacturing
9 14 (2.30%) Legal
10 12 (1.97%) Marketing
11 11 (1.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 11 (1.80%) Public Sector
12 3 (0.49%) Banking
12 3 (0.49%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.33%) Local Government
13 2 (0.33%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.33%) Presentation Skills
14 1 (0.16%) Electronics
14 1 (0.16%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (3.11%) .NET
2 14 (2.30%) 802.1X
3 5 (0.82%) LangChain
4 3 (0.49%) Middleware
5 2 (0.33%) EDI
5 2 (0.33%) GraphQL
5 2 (0.33%) REST
6 1 (0.16%) .NET Framework
6 1 (0.16%) ASP.NET
6 1 (0.16%) ASP.NET MVC
6 1 (0.16%) CSS3
6 1 (0.16%) HTML5
6 1 (0.16%) jQuery
6 1 (0.16%) JSON
6 1 (0.16%) LAMP
6 1 (0.16%) React
6 1 (0.16%) SAML
6 1 (0.16%) Software Packaging
6 1 (0.16%) WSH
6 1 (0.16%) X-Windows
Miscellaneous
1 166 (27.21%) Driving Licence
2 46 (7.54%) Self-Motivation
3 26 (4.26%) Management Information System
4 19 (3.11%) Data Centre
5 17 (2.79%) Onboarding
5 17 (2.79%) Smartphone
6 16 (2.62%) Mobile App
7 11 (1.80%) Social Media
8 10 (1.64%) Virtual Team
9 7 (1.15%) Video Conferencing
10 6 (0.98%) Clustering
10 6 (0.98%) EPoS
10 6 (0.98%) Hybrid Cloud
10 6 (0.98%) Security Posture
11 5 (0.82%) iPhone
12 4 (0.66%) Algorithms
12 4 (0.66%) Cloud Native
12 4 (0.66%) CMDB
12 4 (0.66%) iPad
12 4 (0.66%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 443 (72.62%) Windows
2 179 (29.34%) Linux
3 161 (26.39%) Windows Server
4 78 (12.79%) Windows 10
5 41 (6.72%) Android
6 40 (6.56%) Mac OS
7 36 (5.90%) Windows Server 2016
8 32 (5.25%) Windows Server 2019
9 22 (3.61%) Ubuntu
10 19 (3.11%) Apple iOS
11 16 (2.62%) Mac OS X
12 10 (1.64%) Unix
12 10 (1.64%) Windows Server 2012
13 8 (1.31%) Windows 7
14 6 (0.98%) CentOS
14 6 (0.98%) Debian
15 4 (0.66%) Windows Server 2008
16 2 (0.33%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 277 (45.41%) Problem-Solving
2 176 (28.85%) ITIL
3 133 (21.80%) Computer Science
4 132 (21.64%) Customer Service
5 115 (18.85%) Mentoring
6 107 (17.54%) Network Management
7 105 (17.21%) Asset Management
8 96 (15.74%) IT Asset Management
9 78 (12.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 42 (6.89%) Cybersecurity
11 41 (6.72%) Migration
12 40 (6.56%) Continuous Improvement
13 39 (6.39%) Disaster Recovery
14 36 (5.90%) ITSM
15 32 (5.25%) Systems Engineering
16 29 (4.75%) Agile
17 28 (4.59%) Incident Management
18 26 (4.26%) CRM
19 25 (4.10%) CI/CD
20 24 (3.93%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 87 (14.26%) PowerShell
2 45 (7.38%) SQL
3 25 (4.10%) Python
4 17 (2.79%) C#
5 8 (1.31%) Java
6 4 (0.66%) C
6 4 (0.66%) C++
7 3 (0.49%) Bash
8 2 (0.33%) VBScript
9 1 (0.16%) Bicep
9 1 (0.16%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.16%) Perl
9 1 (0.16%) PHP
9 1 (0.16%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.16%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.16%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 182 (29.84%) Degree
2 165 (27.05%) Microsoft Certification
3 116 (19.02%) Cisco Certification
3 116 (19.02%) Computer Science Degree
4 114 (18.69%) MCSE
5 113 (18.52%) CCNA
6 108 (17.70%) MCP
7 97 (15.90%) CCNP
8 95 (15.57%) LPIC
9 31 (5.08%) Security Cleared
10 24 (3.93%) HND
11 22 (3.61%) A+ Certification
12 20 (3.28%) DBS Check
13 18 (2.95%) SC Cleared
14 17 (2.79%) BPSS Clearance
15 16 (2.62%) HNC
16 13 (2.13%) DV Cleared
17 11 (1.80%) MCSA
18 10 (1.64%) Azure Certification
18 10 (1.64%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (2.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 14 (2.30%) SLA
3 10 (1.64%) Cyber Essentials
3 10 (1.64%) GDPR
4 5 (0.82%) NIST
5 4 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 4 (0.66%) PCI DSS
5 4 (0.66%) QA
6 3 (0.49%) ISO 9001
7 2 (0.33%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 1 (0.16%) GRC
8 1 (0.16%) HIPAA
System Software
1 261 (42.79%) Active Directory
2 69 (11.31%) VMware Infrastructure
3 53 (8.69%) Hyper-V
4 16 (2.62%) VMware ESXi
5 11 (1.80%) Virtual Desktop
6 8 (1.31%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (0.98%) pfSense
7 6 (0.98%) Virtual Servers
7 6 (0.98%) vSphere
8 4 (0.66%) Firmware
9 2 (0.33%) Docker
9 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.16%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.16%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 81 (13.28%) Microsoft Intune
2 20 (3.28%) SCCM
3 19 (3.11%) Ansible
4 11 (1.80%) Jamf Pro
5 8 (1.31%) Terraform
5 8 (1.31%) WSUS
6 6 (0.98%) FortiGate
6 6 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (0.82%) SCOM
7 5 (0.82%) SmoothWall
8 4 (0.66%) CASB
9 3 (0.49%) vCenter Server
10 2 (0.33%) Host Intrusion Detection System
10 2 (0.33%) Kubernetes
11 1 (0.16%) Puppet
11 1 (0.16%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 407 (66.72%) Microsoft
2 164 (26.89%) Cisco
3 102 (16.72%) VMware
4 38 (6.23%) Google
5 34 (5.57%) Apple
6 33 (5.41%) Veeam
7 23 (3.77%) Fortinet
7 23 (3.77%) Meraki
8 21 (3.44%) Dell
9 18 (2.95%) Ubiquiti
10 16 (2.62%) Atlassian
10 16 (2.62%) Zoho
11 14 (2.30%) Citrix
12 12 (1.97%) ServiceNow
13 10 (1.64%) HP
13 10 (1.64%) Sophos
14 9 (1.48%) CheckPoint
14 9 (1.48%) Zscaler
15 7 (1.15%) Remedy
15 7 (1.15%) Sage