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 11 June 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 252 132
Rank change year-on-year +175 -120 +93
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 1,704 499 1,928
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.07% 1.27% 2.07%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.20% 1.41% 2.19%
Number of salaries quoted 1,469 382 1,624
10th Percentile £26,750 £25,750 £24,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £28,125 £26,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £35,000 £33,000
Median % change year-on-year - +6.06% -4.35%
75th Percentile £43,750 £45,000 £43,000
90th Percentile £56,500 £55,000 £50,175
UK median annual salary £35,000 £35,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year - +7.69% -5.80%

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 77,354 35,327 87,995
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.03% 89.97% 94.57%
Number of salaries quoted 54,278 20,476 65,429
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.74% +9.52% -12.87%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £70,250
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 11 June 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 June 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 +98 402 £34,500 -8.00% 54
North of England +104 354 £33,500 +3.08% 46
Midlands +84 263 £32,500 -7.14% 32
East of England +105 243 £35,000 +7.69% 26
London +93 233 £36,500 -18.89% 40
South West +64 206 £35,000 +1.45% 30
North West +135 200 £35,000 +9.38% 27
Yorkshire +3 141 £33,500 +11.67% 15
West Midlands +62 132 £32,500 -7.14% 12
East Midlands +40 131 £30,000 -8.40% 20
North East -38 13 £32,000 -27.89% 5
IT Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 11 June 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.

1 733 (43.02%) Microsoft
2 726 (42.61%) Microsoft 365
3 652 (38.26%) Windows
4 536 (31.46%) Active Directory
5 463 (27.17%) Azure
6 415 (24.35%) Problem-Solving
7 341 (20.01%) Windows Server
8 322 (18.90%) Customer Service
9 310 (18.19%) Entra ID
10 279 (16.37%) Firewall
11 221 (12.97%) Microsoft Intune
12 213 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
13 210 (12.32%) DNS
14 194 (11.38%) SharePoint
15 191 (11.21%) VPN
16 183 (10.74%) DHCP
16 183 (10.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 178 (10.45%) VMware
18 162 (9.51%) Cybersecurity
19 161 (9.45%) Windows 10
20 157 (9.21%) Hyper-V
21 153 (8.98%) Wi-Fi
22 145 (8.51%) ITIL
23 143 (8.39%) LAN
24 142 (8.33%) WAN
25 120 (7.04%) Degree
26 119 (6.98%) Microsoft Office
27 117 (6.87%) VMware Infrastructure
28 113 (6.63%) Mac OS
28 113 (6.63%) PowerShell

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
1 213 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 194 (11.38%) SharePoint
3 14 (0.82%) Confluence
3 14 (0.82%) Exchange Server 2013
4 12 (0.70%) Exchange Server 2007
4 12 (0.70%) Exchange Server 2010
5 10 (0.59%) IIS
Applications
1 119 (6.98%) Microsoft Office
2 21 (1.23%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.18%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.059%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 5 (0.29%) Dynamics NAV
1 5 (0.29%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.059%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 726 (42.61%) Microsoft 365
2 463 (27.17%) Azure
3 310 (18.19%) Entra ID
4 71 (4.17%) Google Workspace
5 59 (3.46%) AWS
6 53 (3.11%) OneDrive
7 48 (2.82%) SaaS
8 27 (1.58%) PaaS
9 23 (1.35%) IaaS
10 22 (1.29%) Power Platform
11 19 (1.12%) Mimecast
12 10 (0.59%) Azure DevOps
13 9 (0.53%) PowerApps
14 8 (0.47%) Azure Sentinel
15 7 (0.41%) OCI
16 6 (0.35%) Datadog
16 6 (0.35%) Microsoft Copilot
17 5 (0.29%) GCP
17 5 (0.29%) Nutanix
17 5 (0.29%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 279 (16.37%) Firewall
2 210 (12.32%) DNS
3 191 (11.21%) VPN
4 183 (10.74%) DHCP
5 153 (8.98%) Wi-Fi
6 143 (8.39%) LAN
7 142 (8.33%) WAN
8 85 (4.99%) VLAN
9 76 (4.46%) VoIP
10 71 (4.17%) TCP/IP
11 55 (3.23%) SAN
12 36 (2.11%) Wireless
13 24 (1.41%) Network Security
14 20 (1.17%) SD-WAN
15 16 (0.94%) WLAN
16 14 (0.82%) Internet
17 11 (0.65%) Remote Desktop
18 10 (0.59%) SSL
19 7 (0.41%) NAS
20 5 (0.29%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (3.81%) SQL Server
2 13 (0.76%) Power BI
3 5 (0.29%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (0.29%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (0.18%) MySQL
5 1 (0.059%) KNIME
Development Applications
1 40 (2.35%) JIRA
2 6 (0.35%) Chocolatey
3 4 (0.23%) GitLab
4 1 (0.059%) Carbide.c++
4 1 (0.059%) Git
4 1 (0.059%) LabVIEW
4 1 (0.059%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 393 (23.06%) Social Skills
2 73 (4.28%) Finance
3 60 (3.52%) Analytical Skills
3 60 (3.52%) Organisational Skills
4 59 (3.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 50 (2.93%) Manufacturing
6 46 (2.70%) Law
6 46 (2.70%) Legal
7 39 (2.29%) Multimedia
7 39 (2.29%) Telecoms
8 38 (2.23%) Retail
9 18 (1.06%) Public Sector
10 17 (1.00%) Advertising
11 14 (0.82%) Automotive
12 11 (0.65%) Banking
13 7 (0.41%) Documentation Skills
14 6 (0.35%) Games
15 5 (0.29%) Aerospace
15 5 (0.29%) Local Government
15 5 (0.29%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (0.53%) HTML
2 7 (0.41%) JSON
3 5 (0.29%) CSS
3 5 (0.29%) Web Services
4 4 (0.23%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (0.059%) .NET
5 1 (0.059%) OpenID
5 1 (0.059%) SAML
5 1 (0.059%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 226 (13.26%) Driving Licence
2 76 (4.46%) Onboarding
3 50 (2.93%) Self-Motivation
4 29 (1.70%) CCTV
4 29 (1.70%) Data Centre
5 23 (1.35%) Analytical Mindset
6 15 (0.88%) Video Conferencing
7 13 (0.76%) Management Information System
7 13 (0.76%) Security Posture
8 12 (0.70%) Clustering
9 11 (0.65%) FMCG
9 11 (0.65%) NHS
10 10 (0.59%) Replication
10 10 (0.59%) Social Media
11 9 (0.53%) Hybrid Cloud
11 9 (0.53%) iPhone
12 8 (0.47%) Cyber Threat
12 8 (0.47%) Enterprise Software
12 8 (0.47%) Linux Command Line
13 7 (0.41%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 652 (38.26%) Windows
2 341 (20.01%) Windows Server
3 161 (9.45%) Windows 10
4 113 (6.63%) Mac OS
5 94 (5.52%) Linux
6 63 (3.70%) Windows Server 2019
7 54 (3.17%) Windows Server 2016
8 39 (2.29%) Apple iOS
9 35 (2.05%) Android
10 24 (1.41%) Windows Server 2012
11 17 (1.00%) Windows 7
12 11 (0.65%) Windows 8
13 9 (0.53%) Mac OS X
14 4 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 4 (0.23%) Ubuntu
14 4 (0.23%) Windows Server 2008
15 1 (0.059%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 415 (24.35%) Problem-Solving
2 322 (18.90%) Customer Service
3 183 (10.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 162 (9.51%) Cybersecurity
5 145 (8.51%) ITIL
6 103 (6.04%) Disaster Recovery
7 95 (5.58%) Mentoring
8 93 (5.46%) ITSM
9 88 (5.16%) Service Delivery
10 85 (4.99%) Continuous Improvement
11 64 (3.76%) Project Delivery
12 62 (3.64%) Remote Monitoring and Management
13 55 (3.23%) Service Management
14 48 (2.82%) Change Management
15 44 (2.58%) Root Cause Analysis
16 43 (2.52%) Migration
17 42 (2.46%) Business Continuity
18 40 (2.35%) Time Management
19 38 (2.23%) Process Improvement
20 34 (2.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 113 (6.63%) PowerShell
2 54 (3.17%) SQL
3 10 (0.59%) Bash
4 8 (0.47%) Python
5 5 (0.29%) VB
6 4 (0.23%) C#
6 4 (0.23%) PHP
6 4 (0.23%) R
6 4 (0.23%) VBScript
7 3 (0.18%) JavaScript
7 3 (0.18%) Uniface
7 3 (0.18%) VBA
8 2 (0.12%) Bicep
8 2 (0.12%) Google Apps Script
9 1 (0.059%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 120 (7.04%) Degree
2 106 (6.22%) Microsoft Certification
3 74 (4.34%) DBS Check
4 72 (4.23%) Security Cleared
5 45 (2.64%) SC Cleared
6 41 (2.41%) Cisco Certification
7 40 (2.35%) CCNA
8 33 (1.94%) Azure Certification
9 32 (1.88%) A+ Certification
10 29 (1.70%) Network+ Certification
11 18 (1.06%) CompTIA Security+
12 16 (0.94%) BPSS Clearance
12 16 (0.94%) DV Cleared
13 15 (0.88%) MCSE
14 10 (0.59%) Computer Science Degree
15 8 (0.47%) CCNP
16 5 (0.29%) MCITP
17 4 (0.23%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
18 3 (0.18%) ITIL Certification
18 3 (0.18%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (4.75%) Cyber Essentials
2 71 (4.17%) SLA
3 58 (3.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 32 (1.88%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 19 (1.12%) GDPR
6 10 (0.59%) PCI DSS
7 8 (0.47%) NIST
8 5 (0.29%) Accessibility
8 5 (0.29%) QA
9 1 (0.059%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.059%) NCSC
9 1 (0.059%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.059%) TickIT
System Software
1 536 (31.46%) Active Directory
2 157 (9.21%) Hyper-V
3 117 (6.87%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (1.00%) Virtual Desktop
5 15 (0.88%) VMware ESXi
6 11 (0.65%) Docker
7 8 (0.47%) BitLocker
7 8 (0.47%) vSphere
8 7 (0.41%) VMware Workstation
9 6 (0.35%) Terminal Services
10 4 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
10 4 (0.23%) VMware NSX
11 3 (0.18%) Firmware
12 1 (0.059%) Terminal Server
12 1 (0.059%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 221 (12.97%) Microsoft Intune
2 36 (2.11%) SCCM
3 27 (1.58%) Autotask
4 26 (1.53%) Jamf Pro
5 18 (1.06%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 16 (0.94%) WSUS
7 14 (0.82%) Single Sign-On
8 13 (0.76%) FortiGate
9 7 (0.41%) Failover Clustering
10 6 (0.35%) Terraform
11 5 (0.29%) Ansible
12 3 (0.18%) Kubernetes
12 3 (0.18%) SmoothWall
13 1 (0.059%) Argo
13 1 (0.059%) Nessus
13 1 (0.059%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 733 (43.02%) Microsoft
2 178 (10.45%) VMware
3 78 (4.58%) Google
4 59 (3.46%) Fortinet
5 57 (3.35%) Cisco
6 49 (2.88%) Meraki
7 48 (2.82%) Apple
8 39 (2.29%) Fujitsu
8 39 (2.29%) Virgin Media
9 37 (2.17%) Veeam
10 27 (1.58%) SonicWALL
10 27 (1.58%) Ubiquiti
11 26 (1.53%) Datto
12 24 (1.41%) HP
13 21 (1.23%) Dell
14 20 (1.17%) Sophos
15 13 (0.76%) Epicor
16 12 (0.70%) Aruba
16 12 (0.70%) ServiceNow
17 11 (0.65%) ConnectWise