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 16 December 2025.

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

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 183 171 170
Rank change year-on-year -12 -1 +126
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 687 886 878
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.34% 1.72% 2.02%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.48% 1.84% 2.12%
Number of salaries quoted 591 534 796
10th Percentile £25,750 £26,000 £25,750
25th Percentile £28,000 £30,000 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,000 £36,750 £35,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.20% +3.52% +7.58%
75th Percentile £41,000 £47,500 £48,750
90th Percentile £50,625 £57,500 £60,000
UK median annual salary £32,500 £36,500 £35,500
% change year-on-year -10.96% +2.82% +7.58%

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 46,413 48,190 41,376
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.39% 93.64% 95.08%
Number of salaries quoted 29,005 26,207 32,361
10th Percentile £28,500 £33,000 £31,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -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 16 December 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 16 December 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 -29 175 £31,500 -10.00% 30
South East +13 149 £32,500 -13.33% 75
East Midlands +7 118 £30,000 -11.76% 14
London +33 116 £40,000 -11.11% 47
North of England -10 111 £32,250 -7.86% 61
South West +19 72 £35,000 -5.41% 37
East of England +22 70 £30,000 -7.69% 25
West Midlands -67 57 £37,500 +7.14% 16
North West +1 55 £30,000 -21.05% 31
Yorkshire -12 52 £36,500 +12.31% 27
North East -9 4 £48,125 +34.62% 7
IT Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 16 December 2025, 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.

1 408 (59.39%) Windows
2 403 (58.66%) Microsoft
3 398 (57.93%) Microsoft 365
4 329 (47.89%) Active Directory
5 289 (42.07%) Azure
6 250 (36.39%) Problem-Solving
7 239 (34.79%) Windows Server
8 180 (26.20%) Firewall
9 173 (25.18%) DNS
10 156 (22.71%) DHCP
11 152 (22.13%) Customer Service
12 146 (21.25%) Microsoft Intune
13 143 (20.82%) Entra ID
14 117 (17.03%) SharePoint
15 110 (16.01%) ITIL
15 110 (16.01%) VPN
16 101 (14.70%) VMware
17 95 (13.83%) Microsoft Exchange
18 94 (13.68%) Windows 10
19 92 (13.39%) Hyper-V
20 91 (13.25%) TCP/IP
21 87 (12.66%) Infrastructure Engineering
22 85 (12.37%) VLAN
23 82 (11.94%) Cybersecurity
24 75 (10.92%) Degree
25 71 (10.33%) VMware Infrastructure
26 66 (9.61%) Wi-Fi
27 63 (9.17%) Microsoft Certification
27 63 (9.17%) PowerShell
28 61 (8.88%) Microsoft Office

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
1 117 (17.03%) SharePoint
2 95 (13.83%) Microsoft Exchange
3 21 (3.06%) IIS
4 5 (0.73%) Confluence
5 3 (0.44%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.29%) Exchange Server 2007
6 2 (0.29%) Exchange Server 2010
6 2 (0.29%) Exchange Server 2013
7 1 (0.15%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 61 (8.88%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (1.89%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.44%) CINEMA 4D
5 2 (0.29%) Acrobat
6 1 (0.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.15%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.15%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 9 (1.31%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.58%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.29%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.15%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 398 (57.93%) Microsoft 365
2 289 (42.07%) Azure
3 143 (20.82%) Entra ID
4 57 (8.30%) AWS
5 33 (4.80%) Google Workspace
6 28 (4.08%) SaaS
7 27 (3.93%) OneDrive
8 24 (3.49%) GCP
8 24 (3.49%) Power Platform
9 16 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
10 13 (1.89%) Power Automate
11 11 (1.60%) IaaS
12 10 (1.46%) PaaS
13 8 (1.16%) Cloud Computing
13 8 (1.16%) Datadog
14 7 (1.02%) Nutanix
15 6 (0.87%) Azure Stack
15 6 (0.87%) iPaaS
15 6 (0.87%) Microsoft Copilot
15 6 (0.87%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 180 (26.20%) Firewall
2 173 (25.18%) DNS
3 156 (22.71%) DHCP
4 110 (16.01%) VPN
5 91 (13.25%) TCP/IP
6 85 (12.37%) VLAN
7 66 (9.61%) Wi-Fi
8 55 (8.01%) WAN
9 49 (7.13%) LAN
10 41 (5.97%) Wireless
11 34 (4.95%) VoIP
12 30 (4.37%) SAN
13 23 (3.35%) Network Security
14 13 (1.89%) SD-WAN
15 11 (1.60%) IP Telephony
15 11 (1.60%) IPsec
16 9 (1.31%) Remote Desktop
17 8 (1.16%) WLAN
18 7 (1.02%) Internet
19 6 (0.87%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (5.24%) SQL Server
2 19 (2.77%) Power BI
3 14 (2.04%) Amazon RDS
4 12 (1.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 7 (1.02%) Relational Database
6 4 (0.58%) NoSQL
7 3 (0.44%) DynamoDB
7 3 (0.44%) Mixpanel
7 3 (0.44%) MongoDB
7 3 (0.44%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (0.29%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.15%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 17 (2.47%) JIRA
2 5 (0.73%) Git
3 3 (0.44%) Browser DevTools
3 3 (0.44%) Charles Proxy
3 3 (0.44%) Fiddler
3 3 (0.44%) Maven
3 3 (0.44%) Postman
3 3 (0.44%) Selenium
3 3 (0.44%) TestNG
3 3 (0.44%) WebDriver
3 3 (0.44%) Zephyr
4 2 (0.29%) Burp Suite
4 2 (0.29%) Chocolatey
4 2 (0.29%) JMeter
4 2 (0.29%) LoadRunner
4 2 (0.29%) NeoLoad
4 2 (0.29%) Snyk
5 1 (0.15%) Bitbucket
General
1 261 (37.99%) Social Skills
2 54 (7.86%) Finance
3 51 (7.42%) Law
4 49 (7.13%) Manufacturing
5 42 (6.11%) Analytical Skills
6 40 (5.82%) Organisational Skills
7 28 (4.08%) Legal
8 25 (3.64%) Telecoms
9 24 (3.49%) Public Sector
10 17 (2.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 16 (2.33%) Electronics
12 15 (2.18%) Retail
13 10 (1.46%) Documentation Skills
14 8 (1.16%) Advertising
14 8 (1.16%) Marketing
15 5 (0.73%) Billing
15 5 (0.73%) Games
15 5 (0.73%) Pharmaceutical
16 4 (0.58%) Dutch Language
16 4 (0.58%) French Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (2.91%) .NET
2 15 (2.18%) .NET Framework
3 12 (1.75%) Entity Framework
3 12 (1.75%) WinForms
4 9 (1.31%) REST
5 7 (1.02%) ASP.NET
6 6 (0.87%) GraphQL
7 5 (0.73%) React
8 4 (0.58%) 802.1X
8 4 (0.58%) AngularJS
9 3 (0.44%) EDI
9 3 (0.44%) OAuth
10 2 (0.29%) OAuth2
11 1 (0.15%) AVA JavaScript Test Runner
11 1 (0.15%) Django
11 1 (0.15%) Flask
11 1 (0.15%) LAMP
11 1 (0.15%) Spring
11 1 (0.15%) Spring Boot
11 1 (0.15%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 110 (16.01%) Driving Licence
2 51 (7.42%) Onboarding
3 30 (4.37%) Self-Motivation
4 16 (2.33%) CCTV
4 16 (2.33%) Data Centre
5 15 (2.18%) Clustering
6 14 (2.04%) Product Ownership
7 13 (1.89%) Analytical Mindset
8 11 (1.60%) iPad
9 9 (1.31%) FMCG
10 8 (1.16%) Hybrid Cloud
10 8 (1.16%) Security Posture
10 8 (1.16%) Smartphone
11 7 (1.02%) CMDB
11 7 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
12 6 (0.87%) BYOD
12 6 (0.87%) iPhone
12 6 (0.87%) Management Information System
12 6 (0.87%) Virtual Team
13 5 (0.73%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 408 (59.39%) Windows
2 239 (34.79%) Windows Server
3 94 (13.68%) Windows 10
4 52 (7.57%) Linux
5 47 (6.84%) Mac OS
6 36 (5.24%) Windows Server 2019
7 28 (4.08%) Windows Server 2016
8 19 (2.77%) Apple iOS
9 18 (2.62%) Android
10 10 (1.46%) Windows Server 2012
11 8 (1.16%) Mac OS X
12 6 (0.87%) Rocky
12 6 (0.87%) VMS
12 6 (0.87%) Windows 7
13 4 (0.58%) Windows 8
14 3 (0.44%) Debian
15 1 (0.15%) Solaris
15 1 (0.15%) Ubuntu
15 1 (0.15%) Unix
15 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 250 (36.39%) Problem-Solving
2 152 (22.13%) Customer Service
3 110 (16.01%) ITIL
4 87 (12.66%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 82 (11.94%) Cybersecurity
6 56 (8.15%) Disaster Recovery
7 41 (5.97%) ITSM
7 41 (5.97%) Mentoring
8 38 (5.53%) Incident Management
8 38 (5.53%) Project Delivery
9 37 (5.39%) Migration
10 35 (5.09%) Continuous Improvement
11 33 (4.80%) Computer Science
12 29 (4.22%) Remote Monitoring and Management
12 29 (4.22%) Service Delivery
13 28 (4.08%) Agile
13 28 (4.08%) Business Intelligence
13 28 (4.08%) Process Improvement
13 28 (4.08%) Software Engineering
14 27 (3.93%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 63 (9.17%) PowerShell
2 40 (5.82%) SQL
3 20 (2.91%) Python
4 17 (2.47%) C#
5 12 (1.75%) T-SQL
6 10 (1.46%) JavaScript
7 7 (1.02%) PL/SQL
7 7 (1.02%) VBScript
8 5 (0.73%) Java
9 4 (0.58%) Bash
10 2 (0.29%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.15%) Perl
11 1 (0.15%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.15%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.15%) Uniface
11 1 (0.15%) VBA
Qualifications
1 75 (10.92%) Degree
2 63 (9.17%) Microsoft Certification
3 34 (4.95%) DBS Check
4 29 (4.22%) Cisco Certification
5 26 (3.78%) CCNA
5 26 (3.78%) Computer Science Degree
6 25 (3.64%) A+ Certification
7 21 (3.06%) MCP
8 20 (2.91%) Security Cleared
9 18 (2.62%) Azure Certification
10 16 (2.33%) MCSE
10 16 (2.33%) SC Cleared
11 15 (2.18%) Network+ Certification
12 14 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
13 12 (1.75%) MCSA
14 9 (1.31%) CCNP
15 8 (1.16%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 8 (1.16%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 7 (1.02%) CISSP
16 7 (1.02%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (5.97%) Cyber Essentials
2 39 (5.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 36 (5.24%) SLA
4 29 (4.22%) GDPR
5 9 (1.31%) QA
6 6 (0.87%) NIST
7 5 (0.73%) Accessibility
7 5 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 3 (0.44%) Data Quality
8 3 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.29%) GxP
10 1 (0.15%) HIPAA
System Software
1 329 (47.89%) Active Directory
2 92 (13.39%) Hyper-V
3 71 (10.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (1.75%) Firmware
4 12 (1.75%) Virtual Desktop
5 11 (1.60%) Docker
6 6 (0.87%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.58%) VMware Workstation
9 3 (0.44%) vSphere
10 2 (0.29%) BitLocker
10 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 2 (0.29%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.29%) XenDesktop
11 1 (0.15%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.15%) VMware Server
11 1 (0.15%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 146 (21.25%) Microsoft Intune
2 19 (2.77%) Kubernetes
3 17 (2.47%) SCCM
4 15 (2.18%) Autotask
5 11 (1.60%) Jamf Pro
6 8 (1.16%) vCenter Server
7 7 (1.02%) Ansible
7 7 (1.02%) Failover Clustering
8 5 (0.73%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 5 (0.73%) SmoothWall
8 5 (0.73%) WSUS
9 4 (0.58%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Clustering
10 2 (0.29%) NetBackup
10 2 (0.29%) Podman
10 2 (0.29%) Puppet
10 2 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.29%) WhatsUp Gold
11 1 (0.15%) QRadar
11 1 (0.15%) Terraform
Vendors
1 403 (58.66%) Microsoft
2 101 (14.70%) VMware
3 45 (6.55%) Google
4 42 (6.11%) Veeam
5 40 (5.82%) Cisco
6 39 (5.68%) Apple
7 24 (3.49%) ServiceNow
8 20 (2.91%) Meraki
9 15 (2.18%) Adobe
9 15 (2.18%) Dell
9 15 (2.18%) Sophos
10 13 (1.89%) Datto
10 13 (1.89%) Zoho
11 12 (1.75%) Sage
11 12 (1.75%) Xamarin
12 11 (1.60%) Oracle
13 10 (1.46%) Draytek
13 10 (1.46%) HP
13 10 (1.46%) SAP
13 10 (1.46%) WatchGuard