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 27 May 2026.

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

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 91 245 135
Rank change year-on-year +154 -110 +104
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 1,628 516 1,779
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.96% 1.36% 2.06%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.10% 1.52% 2.18%
Number of salaries quoted 1,396 370 1,583
10th Percentile £26,750 £25,750 £24,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £27,563 £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 £54,550 £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 77,460 34,019 81,747
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.39% 89.60% 94.61%
Number of salaries quoted 52,716 19,492 61,957
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,000 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,501
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -13.65%
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 27 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 27 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 +102 370 £34,500 -1.43% 65
North of England +99 346 £32,940 +2.14% 29
Midlands +48 256 £32,500 -7.14% 30
East of England +91 234 £35,000 +16.67% 34
London +83 223 £40,000 -11.11% 23
South West +60 196 £35,000 +4.48% 24
North West +113 191 £32,940 +1.35% 14
Yorkshire +5 144 £33,500 +16.52% 14
East Midlands +32 129 £30,000 -7.69% 16
West Midlands +18 127 £32,500 -7.14% 14
North East -34 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 27 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.

1 685 (42.08%) Microsoft 365
2 682 (41.89%) Microsoft
3 619 (38.02%) Windows
4 513 (31.51%) Active Directory
5 438 (26.90%) Azure
6 402 (24.69%) Problem-Solving
7 325 (19.96%) Windows Server
8 307 (18.86%) Customer Service
9 278 (17.08%) Entra ID
10 269 (16.52%) Firewall
11 205 (12.59%) Microsoft Intune
12 202 (12.41%) DNS
13 187 (11.49%) VPN
14 185 (11.36%) Microsoft Exchange
15 181 (11.12%) DHCP
16 174 (10.69%) SharePoint
17 168 (10.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 163 (10.01%) VMware
19 157 (9.64%) Windows 10
20 149 (9.15%) Wi-Fi
21 144 (8.85%) ITIL
22 143 (8.78%) Hyper-V
23 139 (8.54%) Cybersecurity
24 138 (8.48%) LAN
25 137 (8.42%) WAN
26 118 (7.25%) Microsoft Office
27 117 (7.19%) Degree
28 102 (6.27%) VMware Infrastructure
29 101 (6.20%) Microsoft Certification
30 99 (6.08%) 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
1 185 (11.36%) Microsoft Exchange
2 174 (10.69%) 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
1 118 (7.25%) Microsoft Office
2 21 (1.29%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.18%) Photoshop
5 2 (0.12%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 6 (0.37%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.31%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.061%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.061%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 685 (42.08%) Microsoft 365
2 438 (26.90%) Azure
3 278 (17.08%) Entra ID
4 70 (4.30%) Google Workspace
5 55 (3.38%) AWS
6 49 (3.01%) OneDrive
7 44 (2.70%) SaaS
8 27 (1.66%) PaaS
9 23 (1.41%) IaaS
10 22 (1.35%) Power Platform
11 17 (1.04%) Mimecast
12 9 (0.55%) Azure DevOps
12 9 (0.55%) Azure Sentinel
12 9 (0.55%) PowerApps
13 8 (0.49%) Datadog
14 7 (0.43%) OCI
15 6 (0.37%) Microsoft Copilot
16 5 (0.31%) Intacct
17 4 (0.25%) Nutanix
17 4 (0.25%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 269 (16.52%) Firewall
2 202 (12.41%) DNS
3 187 (11.49%) VPN
4 181 (11.12%) DHCP
5 149 (9.15%) Wi-Fi
6 138 (8.48%) LAN
7 137 (8.42%) WAN
8 88 (5.41%) VLAN
9 72 (4.42%) VoIP
10 64 (3.93%) TCP/IP
11 54 (3.32%) SAN
12 35 (2.15%) Wireless
13 25 (1.54%) Network Security
14 20 (1.23%) SD-WAN
15 16 (0.98%) WLAN
16 12 (0.74%) Remote Desktop
17 10 (0.61%) Internet
18 8 (0.49%) SSL
19 7 (0.43%) NAS
20 5 (0.31%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (4.18%) SQL Server
2 15 (0.92%) Power BI
3 4 (0.25%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (0.18%) MySQL
5 1 (0.061%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.061%) KNIME
Development Applications
1 38 (2.33%) JIRA
2 8 (0.49%) Chocolatey
3 4 (0.25%) GitLab
4 1 (0.061%) Git
4 1 (0.061%) LabVIEW
General
1 367 (22.54%) Social Skills
2 79 (4.85%) Finance
3 63 (3.87%) Analytical Skills
4 59 (3.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 56 (3.44%) Organisational Skills
6 52 (3.19%) Manufacturing
7 45 (2.76%) Law
8 42 (2.58%) Legal
9 39 (2.40%) Multimedia
9 39 (2.40%) Telecoms
10 38 (2.33%) Retail
11 18 (1.11%) Public Sector
12 14 (0.86%) Advertising
12 14 (0.86%) Automotive
13 13 (0.80%) Banking
14 6 (0.37%) Games
15 5 (0.31%) Documentation Skills
15 5 (0.31%) Local Government
15 5 (0.31%) Social Housing
16 4 (0.25%) Portuguese 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 2 (0.12%) .NET
5 1 (0.061%) OpenID
5 1 (0.061%) SAML
5 1 (0.061%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 213 (13.08%) Driving Licence
2 69 (4.24%) Onboarding
3 46 (2.83%) Self-Motivation
4 27 (1.66%) CCTV
5 26 (1.60%) Data Centre
6 25 (1.54%) Analytical Mindset
7 12 (0.74%) Management Information System
8 11 (0.68%) FMCG
8 11 (0.68%) NHS
8 11 (0.68%) Security Posture
8 11 (0.68%) Social Media
9 10 (0.61%) Replication
9 10 (0.61%) Video Conferencing
10 9 (0.55%) Clustering
10 9 (0.55%) iPhone
11 8 (0.49%) Cyber Threat
11 8 (0.49%) Linux Command Line
12 7 (0.43%) Enterprise Software
12 7 (0.43%) Hybrid Cloud
12 7 (0.43%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 619 (38.02%) Windows
2 325 (19.96%) Windows Server
3 157 (9.64%) Windows 10
4 99 (6.08%) Mac OS
5 79 (4.85%) Linux
6 61 (3.75%) Windows Server 2019
7 56 (3.44%) Windows Server 2016
8 37 (2.27%) Apple iOS
9 35 (2.15%) Android
10 24 (1.47%) Windows Server 2012
11 17 (1.04%) 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 (0.061%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 402 (24.69%) Problem-Solving
2 307 (18.86%) Customer Service
3 168 (10.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 144 (8.85%) ITIL
5 139 (8.54%) Cybersecurity
6 92 (5.65%) Mentoring
7 91 (5.59%) ITSM
8 86 (5.28%) Disaster Recovery
9 77 (4.73%) Service Delivery
10 68 (4.18%) Continuous Improvement
11 63 (3.87%) Remote Monitoring and Management
12 55 (3.38%) Project Delivery
13 48 (2.95%) Change Management
14 47 (2.89%) Service Management
15 45 (2.76%) Migration
16 44 (2.70%) Time Management
17 41 (2.52%) Root Cause Analysis
18 38 (2.33%) Process Improvement
19 37 (2.27%) Business Continuity
20 34 (2.09%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 98 (6.02%) PowerShell
2 48 (2.95%) SQL
3 10 (0.61%) Bash
4 9 (0.55%) Python
5 5 (0.31%) C#
5 5 (0.31%) VB
6 4 (0.25%) PHP
6 4 (0.25%) R
7 3 (0.18%) JavaScript
7 3 (0.18%) Uniface
7 3 (0.18%) VBA
8 2 (0.12%) Google Apps Script
8 2 (0.12%) VBScript
9 1 (0.061%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 117 (7.19%) Degree
2 101 (6.20%) Microsoft Certification
3 72 (4.42%) Security Cleared
4 64 (3.93%) DBS Check
5 44 (2.70%) SC Cleared
6 40 (2.46%) Cisco Certification
7 39 (2.40%) CCNA
8 35 (2.15%) A+ Certification
9 30 (1.84%) Azure Certification
10 29 (1.78%) Network+ Certification
11 18 (1.11%) BPSS Clearance
12 17 (1.04%) CompTIA Security+
13 16 (0.98%) DV Cleared
14 15 (0.92%) MCSE
15 13 (0.80%) Computer Science Degree
16 7 (0.43%) CCNP
17 5 (0.31%) MCITP
18 4 (0.25%) MCSA
18 4 (0.25%) PMI Certification
19 3 (0.18%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (4.73%) SLA
2 72 (4.42%) Cyber Essentials
3 53 (3.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 30 (1.84%) 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 (0.061%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.061%) SOC 2
System Software
1 513 (31.51%) Active Directory
2 143 (8.78%) Hyper-V
3 102 (6.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (1.17%) Virtual Desktop
5 15 (0.92%) VMware ESXi
6 10 (0.61%) 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 (0.061%) Terminal Server
12 1 (0.061%) Virtual Machines
12 1 (0.061%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 205 (12.59%) Microsoft Intune
2 35 (2.15%) SCCM
3 22 (1.35%) Autotask
4 21 (1.29%) Jamf Pro
5 19 (1.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 18 (1.11%) WSUS
7 13 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
8 11 (0.68%) FortiGate
9 5 (0.31%) Failover Clustering
9 5 (0.31%) Terraform
10 4 (0.25%) Ansible
10 4 (0.25%) SmoothWall
11 2 (0.12%) Kubernetes
12 1 (0.061%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 682 (41.89%) Microsoft
2 163 (10.01%) VMware
3 75 (4.61%) Google
4 60 (3.69%) Fortinet
5 49 (3.01%) Apple
5 49 (3.01%) Cisco
6 44 (2.70%) Meraki
7 39 (2.40%) Fujitsu
7 39 (2.40%) Virgin Media
8 32 (1.97%) Veeam
9 22 (1.35%) SonicWALL
9 22 (1.35%) Ubiquiti
10 21 (1.29%) Datto
10 21 (1.29%) Dell
10 21 (1.29%) HP
11 19 (1.17%) Sophos
12 13 (0.80%) Epicor
13 12 (0.74%) ConnectWise
14 11 (0.68%) Draytek
15 9 (0.55%) Sage