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 8 October 2026.

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

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 265 175
Rank change year-on-year +144 -90 +4
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 1,587 473 1,041
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.53% 1.09% 1.59%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.65% 1.21% 1.67%
Number of salaries quoted 1,358 359 721
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,000 £26,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £37,500 £36,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +4.17% +2.86%
75th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £47,500
90th Percentile £57,500 £61,250 £57,500
UK median annual salary £35,000 £36,000 £36,000
% change year-on-year -2.78% - +2.86%

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 96,039 39,178 62,479
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.75% 90.48% 95.25%
Number of salaries quoted 67,339 23,090 36,055
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £31,020
25th Percentile £41,000 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,250 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.73% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £58,500 £54,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.34% -0.91% -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 8 October 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 8 October 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 +116 366 £38,500 -3.75% 88
Midlands +69 294 £35,000 - 63
North of England +40 253 £35,000 - 64
South West +39 235 £35,000 - 32
East of England +89 225 £35,000 -3.45% 27
London +41 212 £36,000 -13.77% 189
West Midlands +60 154 £34,500 -29.23% 31
North West +73 142 £35,000 +3.70% 34
East Midlands +27 140 £35,000 +18.64% 32
Yorkshire -19 87 £30,000 -9.09% 22
North East -41 24 £40,000 -17.95% 10
IT Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 8 October 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.

1 872 (54.95%) Microsoft
2 797 (50.22%) Microsoft 365
3 768 (48.39%) Windows
4 587 (36.99%) Active Directory
5 464 (29.24%) Azure
6 413 (26.02%) Problem-Solving
7 401 (25.27%) Entra ID
8 394 (24.83%) Windows Server
9 357 (22.50%) Customer Service
10 308 (19.41%) Firewall
11 304 (19.16%) Microsoft Intune
12 284 (17.90%) Microsoft Exchange
13 282 (17.77%) DNS
14 257 (16.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 248 (15.63%) Cybersecurity
16 240 (15.12%) DHCP
17 234 (14.74%) SharePoint
18 230 (14.49%) VPN
19 221 (13.93%) Hyper-V
20 210 (13.23%) VMware
21 177 (11.15%) TCP/IP
22 166 (10.46%) Wi-Fi
23 159 (10.02%) VMware Infrastructure
24 155 (9.77%) ITIL
25 148 (9.33%) Continuous Improvement
26 138 (8.70%) Disaster Recovery
27 133 (8.38%) VLAN
27 133 (8.38%) Windows 10
28 127 (8.00%) Degree
29 123 (7.75%) 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
1 284 (17.90%) Microsoft Exchange
2 234 (14.74%) SharePoint
3 23 (1.45%) IIS
4 7 (0.44%) Apache
5 4 (0.25%) Exchange Server 2007
5 4 (0.25%) Exchange Server 2010
5 4 (0.25%) Exchange Server 2013
6 3 (0.19%) Confluence
Applications
1 80 (5.04%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (0.95%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.13%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.13%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 6 (0.38%) Raiser’s Edge
2 4 (0.25%) NetSuite
2 4 (0.25%) Shopify
3 3 (0.19%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.13%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.063%) Eikon
Cloud Services
1 797 (50.22%) Microsoft 365
2 464 (29.24%) Azure
3 401 (25.27%) Entra ID
4 77 (4.85%) OneDrive
5 63 (3.97%) Google Workspace
6 50 (3.15%) AWS
7 38 (2.39%) SaaS
8 35 (2.21%) Mimecast
9 22 (1.39%) Power Platform
10 15 (0.95%) Power Automate
11 13 (0.82%) Dynamics 365
11 13 (0.82%) Nutanix
12 9 (0.57%) IaaS
13 8 (0.50%) Cloud Computing
13 8 (0.50%) PaaS
14 7 (0.44%) Azure DevOps
15 6 (0.38%) Cloudflare
16 4 (0.25%) Microsoft Purview
16 4 (0.25%) Serverless
17 3 (0.19%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 308 (19.41%) Firewall
2 282 (17.77%) DNS
3 240 (15.12%) DHCP
4 230 (14.49%) VPN
5 177 (11.15%) TCP/IP
6 166 (10.46%) Wi-Fi
7 133 (8.38%) VLAN
8 120 (7.56%) LAN
9 110 (6.93%) WAN
10 104 (6.55%) Wireless
11 93 (5.86%) VoIP
12 47 (2.96%) SAN
13 33 (2.08%) Network Security
14 23 (1.45%) Internet
15 22 (1.39%) SSL
16 18 (1.13%) WLAN
17 14 (0.88%) Remote Desktop
18 8 (0.50%) PBX
18 8 (0.50%) Structured Cabling
19 6 (0.38%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (4.66%) SQL Server
2 10 (0.63%) Azure SQL Database
3 9 (0.57%) MySQL
4 4 (0.25%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (0.13%) KNIME
6 1 (0.063%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 31 (1.95%) JIRA
2 3 (0.19%) Burp Suite
2 3 (0.19%) Metasploit
3 2 (0.13%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.063%) Carbide.c++
General
1 506 (31.88%) Social Skills
2 76 (4.79%) Analytical Skills
3 70 (4.41%) Manufacturing
4 69 (4.35%) Legal
5 59 (3.72%) Finance
6 55 (3.47%) Organisational Skills
7 42 (2.65%) Retail
8 34 (2.14%) Advertising
9 32 (2.02%) Telecoms
10 29 (1.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 27 (1.70%) Public Sector
12 25 (1.58%) Documentation Skills
13 22 (1.39%) Law
14 13 (0.82%) Automotive
14 13 (0.82%) Games
15 9 (0.57%) Aviation
16 8 (0.50%) Aerospace
17 6 (0.38%) Banking
17 6 (0.38%) Local Government
17 6 (0.38%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (0.50%) HTML
2 6 (0.38%) JSON
3 4 (0.25%) .NET
3 4 (0.25%) ASP.NET Web Forms
3 4 (0.25%) CSS
3 4 (0.25%) Web Services
3 4 (0.25%) WinForms
4 3 (0.19%) LDAP
4 3 (0.19%) Terraform
5 2 (0.13%) 802.1X
5 2 (0.13%) EDI
5 2 (0.13%) SAML
6 1 (0.063%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 219 (13.80%) Driving Licence
2 99 (6.24%) Onboarding
3 73 (4.60%) Self-Motivation
4 39 (2.46%) CCTV
5 35 (2.21%) Data Centre
6 29 (1.83%) Operational Technology
7 20 (1.26%) Video Conferencing
8 19 (1.20%) Replication
9 18 (1.13%) Management Information System
10 17 (1.07%) Hybrid Cloud
11 15 (0.95%) Clustering
12 14 (0.88%) Analytical Mindset
13 12 (0.76%) Cyber Threat
14 11 (0.69%) Cloud Native
15 10 (0.63%) Security Posture
16 8 (0.50%) NHS
16 8 (0.50%) PKI
16 8 (0.50%) Smartphone
17 6 (0.38%) EPoS
17 6 (0.38%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 768 (48.39%) Windows
2 394 (24.83%) Windows Server
3 133 (8.38%) Windows 10
4 123 (7.75%) Linux
5 107 (6.74%) Mac OS
6 44 (2.77%) Windows Server 2019
7 42 (2.65%) Apple iOS
8 41 (2.58%) Android
9 34 (2.14%) Windows Server 2016
10 17 (1.07%) Ubuntu
11 12 (0.76%) Windows Server 2012
12 6 (0.38%) Rocky
12 6 (0.38%) Windows 7
13 5 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 4 (0.25%) Windows 8
15 3 (0.19%) Kali Linux
15 3 (0.19%) Unix
16 1 (0.063%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 413 (26.02%) Problem-Solving
2 357 (22.50%) Customer Service
3 257 (16.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 248 (15.63%) Cybersecurity
5 155 (9.77%) ITIL
6 148 (9.33%) Continuous Improvement
7 138 (8.70%) Disaster Recovery
8 92 (5.80%) Project Delivery
9 81 (5.10%) Service Delivery
10 77 (4.85%) ITSM
11 61 (3.84%) Mentoring
12 60 (3.78%) Remote Monitoring and Management
13 54 (3.40%) Service Management
14 52 (3.28%) User Experience
15 51 (3.21%) Business Continuity
15 51 (3.21%) Change Management
15 51 (3.21%) Migration
16 45 (2.84%) Root Cause Analysis
17 40 (2.52%) Collaborative Culture
18 38 (2.39%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 122 (7.69%) PowerShell
2 48 (3.02%) SQL
3 12 (0.76%) Python
3 12 (0.76%) Ruby
4 8 (0.50%) R
5 7 (0.44%) C#
6 4 (0.25%) Bicep
6 4 (0.25%) VBScript
7 3 (0.19%) VB
8 2 (0.13%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.13%) PHP
8 2 (0.13%) T-SQL
8 2 (0.13%) VBA
9 1 (0.063%) Bash
9 1 (0.063%) Java
Qualifications
1 127 (8.00%) Degree
2 112 (7.06%) Microsoft Certification
3 70 (4.41%) DBS Check
4 52 (3.28%) Cisco Certification
5 50 (3.15%) CCNA
6 36 (2.27%) Azure Certification
7 31 (1.95%) Security Cleared
8 29 (1.83%) Network+ Certification
9 26 (1.64%) A+ Certification
10 19 (1.20%) CompTIA Security+
10 19 (1.20%) MCSE
11 15 (0.95%) SC Cleared
12 14 (0.88%) Computer Science Degree
13 11 (0.69%) MCSA
14 10 (0.63%) CCNP
14 10 (0.63%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 8 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
16 7 (0.44%) AWS Certification
16 7 (0.44%) DV Cleared
16 7 (0.44%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 110 (6.93%) Cyber Essentials
2 50 (3.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 47 (2.96%) GDPR
4 34 (2.14%) SLA
5 25 (1.58%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 11 (0.69%) PCI DSS
7 6 (0.38%) Accessibility
8 5 (0.32%) NCSC
8 5 (0.32%) NIST
9 2 (0.13%) QA
10 1 (0.063%) Data Quality
10 1 (0.063%) TickIT
System Software
1 587 (36.99%) Active Directory
2 221 (13.93%) Hyper-V
3 159 (10.02%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (1.45%) Virtual Machines
5 16 (1.01%) VMware ESXi
6 14 (0.88%) vSphere
7 10 (0.63%) Virtual Desktop
8 9 (0.57%) Firmware
9 8 (0.50%) Docker
10 6 (0.38%) BitLocker
11 4 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
12 3 (0.19%) Terminal Services
13 2 (0.13%) XenApp
14 1 (0.063%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 304 (19.16%) Microsoft Intune
2 33 (2.08%) Jamf Pro
3 19 (1.20%) SCCM
4 17 (1.07%) Autotask
5 13 (0.82%) WSUS
6 11 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
7 10 (0.63%) Failover Clustering
8 8 (0.50%) FortiGate
9 6 (0.38%) Backup Exec
9 6 (0.38%) Kubernetes
10 5 (0.32%) SmoothWall
10 5 (0.32%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 4 (0.25%) Iperf
11 4 (0.25%) Nessus
12 3 (0.19%) Nmap
13 2 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 2 (0.13%) Ansible
13 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
13 2 (0.13%) PaperCut
13 2 (0.13%) SCOM
Vendors
1 872 (54.95%) Microsoft
2 210 (13.23%) VMware
3 102 (6.43%) Cisco
4 86 (5.42%) Veeam
5 66 (4.16%) Google
6 61 (3.84%) SonicWALL
7 55 (3.47%) Apple
8 47 (2.96%) Meraki
9 38 (2.39%) Sophos
10 35 (2.21%) Datto
11 34 (2.14%) Dell
12 33 (2.08%) HP
13 32 (2.02%) Fortinet
14 31 (1.95%) Palo Alto
15 29 (1.83%) Ubiquiti
16 24 (1.51%) TOWER Software
17 21 (1.32%) Aruba
18 20 (1.26%) Draytek
18 20 (1.26%) Logitech
19 19 (1.20%) Citrix