IT Engineer Job Trends in England

IT Engineer
UK > England

The median IT Engineer salary in England is £33,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 6 April 2026.

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

6 months to
6 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 94 172 140
Rank change year-on-year +78 -32 +112
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 1,427 673 1,703
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.97% 1.84% 2.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.13% 2.05% 2.28%
Number of salaries quoted 1,232 441 1,531
10th Percentile £26,000 £25,633 £24,000
25th Percentile £28,750 £27,500 £26,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,000 £35,000 £33,200
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% +5.42% -0.90%
75th Percentile £42,000 £43,750 £43,750
90th Percentile £50,443 £55,000 £51,000
UK median annual salary £33,000 £35,000 £33,000
% change year-on-year -5.71% +6.06% -1.49%

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 66,961 32,899 74,672
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.32% 89.80% 94.38%
Number of salaries quoted 44,022 21,259 58,070
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,572
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.72%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £91,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £54,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +10.09% -9.17%

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 6 April 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 6 April 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 +75 375 £33,500 -4.29% 75
North of England +58 294 £32,000 -3.03% 59
Midlands -19 243 £31,750 -9.29% 46
London +71 192 £40,000 -11.11% 30
East of England +46 173 £31,000 +12.73% 30
North West +64 151 £31,000 -11.43% 35
South West +45 148 £35,000 +1.45% 41
East Midlands -6 138 £30,000 - 22
Yorkshire +15 132 £33,500 +11.67% 22
West Midlands -45 105 £32,500 -7.14% 24
North East -28 11 £30,000 -20.00% 5
IT Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 6 April 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.

1 644 (45.13%) Microsoft 365
2 641 (44.92%) Microsoft
3 629 (44.08%) Windows
4 512 (35.88%) Active Directory
5 416 (29.15%) Azure
6 390 (27.33%) Problem-Solving
7 326 (22.85%) Windows Server
8 281 (19.69%) Customer Service
9 247 (17.31%) Firewall
10 233 (16.33%) Entra ID
11 216 (15.14%) DNS
12 203 (14.23%) Microsoft Intune
13 198 (13.88%) DHCP
14 176 (12.33%) Windows 10
15 172 (12.05%) ITIL
15 172 (12.05%) VPN
16 158 (11.07%) SharePoint
17 157 (11.00%) Microsoft Exchange
18 148 (10.37%) VMware
19 144 (10.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
20 128 (8.97%) WAN
21 127 (8.90%) Microsoft Office
22 126 (8.83%) LAN
23 125 (8.76%) Cybersecurity
24 123 (8.62%) Hyper-V
25 120 (8.41%) Wi-Fi
26 95 (6.66%) Mentoring
27 93 (6.52%) Google
28 92 (6.45%) Degree
28 92 (6.45%) Microsoft Certification

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
1 158 (11.07%) SharePoint
2 157 (11.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 16 (1.12%) Confluence
4 12 (0.84%) Exchange Server 2013
5 10 (0.70%) Exchange Server 2007
5 10 (0.70%) Exchange Server 2010
6 8 (0.56%) IIS
Applications
1 127 (8.90%) Microsoft Office
2 25 (1.75%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.14%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.070%) Acrobat
5 1 (0.070%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.070%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 7 (0.49%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.35%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.070%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 644 (45.13%) Microsoft 365
2 416 (29.15%) Azure
3 233 (16.33%) Entra ID
4 84 (5.89%) Google Workspace
5 73 (5.12%) AWS
6 48 (3.36%) OneDrive
7 45 (3.15%) SaaS
8 24 (1.68%) PaaS
8 24 (1.68%) Power Platform
9 23 (1.61%) IaaS
10 16 (1.12%) GCP
11 12 (0.84%) PowerApps
12 11 (0.77%) Datadog
13 10 (0.70%) Azure DevOps
13 10 (0.70%) Azure Sentinel
13 10 (0.70%) Power Automate
14 9 (0.63%) Mimecast
15 7 (0.49%) OCI
16 6 (0.42%) Microsoft Copilot
17 5 (0.35%) Intacct
Communications & Networking
1 247 (17.31%) Firewall
2 216 (15.14%) DNS
3 198 (13.88%) DHCP
4 172 (12.05%) VPN
5 128 (8.97%) WAN
6 126 (8.83%) LAN
7 120 (8.41%) Wi-Fi
8 89 (6.24%) VLAN
9 87 (6.10%) TCP/IP
10 61 (4.27%) VoIP
11 34 (2.38%) SAN
12 33 (2.31%) Wireless
13 24 (1.68%) Network Security
13 24 (1.68%) SD-WAN
14 13 (0.91%) Remote Desktop
15 11 (0.77%) IP Telephony
16 9 (0.63%) Internet
17 8 (0.56%) WLAN
18 5 (0.35%) SSL
18 5 (0.35%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (3.71%) SQL Server
2 24 (1.68%) Power BI
3 8 (0.56%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (0.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 4 (0.28%) Relational Database
6 3 (0.21%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (0.14%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.070%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 37 (2.59%) JIRA
2 8 (0.56%) Chocolatey
3 4 (0.28%) GitLab
4 2 (0.14%) Git
5 1 (0.070%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.070%) LabVIEW
General
1 352 (24.67%) Social Skills
2 81 (5.68%) Finance
3 79 (5.54%) Organisational Skills
4 52 (3.64%) Analytical Skills
5 51 (3.57%) Law
6 45 (3.15%) Manufacturing
7 44 (3.08%) Retail
8 43 (3.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 39 (2.73%) Multimedia
10 38 (2.66%) Legal
11 33 (2.31%) Telecoms
12 24 (1.68%) Public Sector
13 12 (0.84%) Advertising
14 9 (0.63%) Banking
14 9 (0.63%) Games
15 7 (0.49%) Electronics
15 7 (0.49%) Spanish Language
16 6 (0.42%) Documentation Skills
16 6 (0.42%) Dutch Language
17 5 (0.35%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (0.70%) .NET
2 6 (0.42%) .NET Framework
2 6 (0.42%) Entity Framework
2 6 (0.42%) WinForms
3 4 (0.28%) ASP.NET
3 4 (0.28%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (0.070%) AVA JavaScript Test Runner
4 1 (0.070%) CSS
4 1 (0.070%) HTML
4 1 (0.070%) JSON
4 1 (0.070%) LangChain
4 1 (0.070%) LangGraph
4 1 (0.070%) OAuth
4 1 (0.070%) OpenID
4 1 (0.070%) React
4 1 (0.070%) SAML
4 1 (0.070%) Software Packaging
4 1 (0.070%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 214 (15.00%) Driving Licence
2 60 (4.20%) Onboarding
3 44 (3.08%) Self-Motivation
4 25 (1.75%) CCTV
5 20 (1.40%) Analytical Mindset
6 16 (1.12%) Data Centre
7 11 (0.77%) Security Posture
7 11 (0.77%) Smartphone
8 10 (0.70%) iPad
8 10 (0.70%) iPhone
8 10 (0.70%) Social Media
9 9 (0.63%) Fat Client
9 9 (0.63%) FMCG
9 9 (0.63%) Thin Client
10 8 (0.56%) Cyber Threat
10 8 (0.56%) Linux Command Line
11 7 (0.49%) Enterprise Software
12 6 (0.42%) PMI
13 5 (0.35%) Management Information System
13 5 (0.35%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 629 (44.08%) Windows
2 326 (22.85%) Windows Server
3 176 (12.33%) Windows 10
4 82 (5.75%) Mac OS
5 58 (4.06%) Linux
6 55 (3.85%) Windows Server 2019
7 53 (3.71%) Windows Server 2016
8 31 (2.17%) Apple iOS
9 27 (1.89%) Windows Server 2012
10 24 (1.68%) Android
11 17 (1.19%) Windows 7
12 16 (1.12%) Mac OS X
13 11 (0.77%) Windows 8
14 4 (0.28%) Windows Server 2008
15 3 (0.21%) Debian
16 2 (0.14%) Ubuntu
17 1 (0.070%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
17 1 (0.070%) Solaris
17 1 (0.070%) Unix
17 1 (0.070%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 390 (27.33%) Problem-Solving
2 281 (19.69%) Customer Service
3 172 (12.05%) ITIL
4 144 (10.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 125 (8.76%) Cybersecurity
6 95 (6.66%) Mentoring
7 91 (6.38%) ITSM
8 66 (4.63%) Service Delivery
9 65 (4.56%) Disaster Recovery
10 53 (3.71%) Remote Monitoring and Management
11 50 (3.50%) Continuous Improvement
11 50 (3.50%) Process Improvement
12 46 (3.22%) Migration
13 45 (3.15%) Service Management
14 43 (3.01%) Asset Management
15 41 (2.87%) Project Delivery
16 38 (2.66%) Change Management
16 38 (2.66%) Computer Science
17 36 (2.52%) ERP
17 36 (2.52%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 75 (5.26%) PowerShell
2 44 (3.08%) SQL
3 11 (0.77%) Python
4 10 (0.70%) Bash
5 9 (0.63%) C#
6 6 (0.42%) T-SQL
7 5 (0.35%) VB
8 4 (0.28%) PL/SQL
8 4 (0.28%) R
8 4 (0.28%) VBScript
9 3 (0.21%) Uniface
10 2 (0.14%) Google Apps Script
10 2 (0.14%) PHP
11 1 (0.070%) Java
11 1 (0.070%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.070%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.070%) VBA
Qualifications
1 92 (6.45%) Degree
1 92 (6.45%) Microsoft Certification
2 67 (4.70%) Security Cleared
3 53 (3.71%) DBS Check
4 42 (2.94%) SC Cleared
5 40 (2.80%) Cisco Certification
6 38 (2.66%) A+ Certification
6 38 (2.66%) CCNA
7 25 (1.75%) Network+ Certification
8 24 (1.68%) Computer Science Degree
9 21 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
10 19 (1.33%) Azure Certification
11 18 (1.26%) MCSE
12 16 (1.12%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 15 (1.05%) CCNP
13 15 (1.05%) DV Cleared
14 12 (0.84%) MCSA
15 9 (0.63%) CompTIA Security+
16 6 (0.42%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 6 (0.42%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (6.10%) SLA
2 59 (4.13%) Cyber Essentials
3 45 (3.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 20 (1.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 10 (0.70%) GDPR
6 7 (0.49%) QA
7 6 (0.42%) NIST
8 2 (0.14%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.070%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.070%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.070%) SOC 2
System Software
1 512 (35.88%) Active Directory
2 123 (8.62%) Hyper-V
3 86 (6.03%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (1.26%) Virtual Desktop
5 11 (0.77%) VMware Workstation
6 10 (0.70%) VMware ESXi
7 8 (0.56%) Firmware
8 7 (0.49%) vSphere
9 5 (0.35%) Docker
9 5 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
10 4 (0.28%) VMware NSX
11 3 (0.21%) Terminal Services
12 2 (0.14%) BitLocker
13 1 (0.070%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 203 (14.23%) Microsoft Intune
2 34 (2.38%) SCCM
3 22 (1.54%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 20 (1.40%) Autotask
5 19 (1.33%) WSUS
6 18 (1.26%) Jamf Pro
7 11 (0.77%) FortiGate
8 10 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
9 8 (0.56%) Ansible
10 7 (0.49%) SmoothWall
11 3 (0.21%) Terraform
12 1 (0.070%) Kubernetes
12 1 (0.070%) Podman
Vendors
1 641 (44.92%) Microsoft
2 148 (10.37%) VMware
3 93 (6.52%) Google
4 57 (3.99%) Fortinet
5 53 (3.71%) Apple
6 41 (2.87%) Cisco
7 39 (2.73%) Fujitsu
7 39 (2.73%) Virgin Media
8 35 (2.45%) Meraki
9 27 (1.89%) Veeam
10 23 (1.61%) Dell
11 16 (1.12%) Datto
12 14 (0.98%) Draytek
12 14 (0.98%) HP
12 14 (0.98%) ServiceNow
12 14 (0.98%) WatchGuard
13 13 (0.91%) Sage
14 12 (0.84%) Epicor
14 12 (0.84%) SonicWALL
14 12 (0.84%) Ubiquiti