IT Engineer Job Trends in England

IT Engineer
UK > England

The median IT Engineer salary in England is £32,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 31 January 2026.

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

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 132 152 132
Rank change year-on-year +20 -20 +128
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 976 863 1,378
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.74% 1.84% 2.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.91% 2.00% 2.34%
Number of salaries quoted 807 511 1,283
10th Percentile £25,750 £25,750 £24,000
25th Percentile £28,000 £29,000 £27,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £35,000 £34,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +2.94% +1.49%
75th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £42,625
90th Percentile £49,400 £57,500 £52,500
UK median annual salary £32,500 £35,000 £34,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +2.94% +3.03%

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 51,087 43,080 58,903
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.03% 92.01% 94.96%
Number of salaries quoted 32,513 22,455 47,048
10th Percentile £29,000 £33,750 £29,160
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -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 31 January 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 31 January 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 +45 226 £32,500 -7.14% 107
Midlands -19 212 £31,500 -10.00% 41
North of England +41 200 £32,500 -7.14% 66
London +57 156 £42,000 -15.58% 48
East Midlands +15 136 £30,000 - 28
North West +38 98 £30,000 -20.53% 34
South West +24 94 £34,000 -2.86% 31
Yorkshire +32 93 £41,500 +27.69% 26
East of England +36 87 £30,000 - 34
West Midlands -44 76 £32,500 -7.14% 13
North East -2 9 £30,000 -16.67% 9
IT Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 31 January 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.

1 472 (48.36%) Microsoft 365
2 471 (48.26%) Windows
3 470 (48.16%) Microsoft
4 391 (40.06%) Active Directory
5 345 (35.35%) Azure
6 319 (32.68%) Problem-Solving
7 261 (26.74%) Windows Server
8 205 (21.00%) Firewall
9 200 (20.49%) Customer Service
10 199 (20.39%) DNS
11 183 (18.75%) DHCP
12 173 (17.73%) Entra ID
13 165 (16.91%) Microsoft Intune
14 150 (15.37%) VPN
15 140 (14.34%) SharePoint
16 131 (13.42%) ITIL
17 126 (12.91%) Windows 10
18 116 (11.89%) VMware
19 114 (11.68%) Microsoft Exchange
20 105 (10.76%) Cybersecurity
21 99 (10.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
22 93 (9.53%) VLAN
23 92 (9.43%) Hyper-V
24 91 (9.32%) Degree
24 91 (9.32%) TCP/IP
25 88 (9.02%) WAN
26 87 (8.91%) Mentoring
27 83 (8.50%) LAN
27 83 (8.50%) Microsoft Office
27 83 (8.50%) Wi-Fi

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
1 140 (14.34%) SharePoint
2 114 (11.68%) Microsoft Exchange
3 17 (1.74%) IIS
4 9 (0.92%) Confluence
5 3 (0.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.20%) Exchange Server 2007
6 2 (0.20%) Exchange Server 2010
6 2 (0.20%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 83 (8.50%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (1.74%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.31%) CINEMA 4D
5 2 (0.20%) Acrobat
5 2 (0.20%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.10%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.10%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 9 (0.92%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.31%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (0.20%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.10%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.10%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 472 (48.36%) Microsoft 365
2 345 (35.35%) Azure
3 173 (17.73%) Entra ID
4 69 (7.07%) AWS
5 54 (5.53%) Google Workspace
6 39 (4.00%) OneDrive
7 35 (3.59%) SaaS
8 24 (2.46%) Power Platform
9 23 (2.36%) GCP
10 15 (1.54%) Azure DevOps
10 15 (1.54%) IaaS
10 15 (1.54%) PaaS
11 14 (1.43%) Datadog
12 13 (1.33%) Power Automate
13 8 (0.82%) Azure Sentinel
14 7 (0.72%) OCI
15 6 (0.61%) iPaaS
15 6 (0.61%) Microsoft Copilot
15 6 (0.61%) PowerApps
16 5 (0.51%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 205 (21.00%) Firewall
2 199 (20.39%) DNS
3 183 (18.75%) DHCP
4 150 (15.37%) VPN
5 93 (9.53%) VLAN
6 91 (9.32%) TCP/IP
7 88 (9.02%) WAN
8 83 (8.50%) LAN
8 83 (8.50%) Wi-Fi
9 44 (4.51%) VoIP
10 36 (3.69%) SAN
11 35 (3.59%) Wireless
12 20 (2.05%) Network Security
12 20 (2.05%) SD-WAN
13 11 (1.13%) IP Telephony
13 11 (1.13%) Remote Desktop
14 9 (0.92%) Internet
15 8 (0.82%) WLAN
16 6 (0.61%) IPsec
16 6 (0.61%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (4.61%) SQL Server
2 22 (2.25%) Power BI
3 12 (1.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 9 (0.92%) Amazon RDS
5 7 (0.72%) Relational Database
6 3 (0.31%) DynamoDB
6 3 (0.31%) Mixpanel
6 3 (0.31%) MongoDB
6 3 (0.31%) NoSQL
6 3 (0.31%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (0.20%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.10%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 26 (2.66%) JIRA
2 8 (0.82%) Chocolatey
3 5 (0.51%) Git
4 3 (0.31%) Browser DevTools
4 3 (0.31%) Charles Proxy
4 3 (0.31%) Fiddler
4 3 (0.31%) GitLab
4 3 (0.31%) Maven
4 3 (0.31%) Postman
4 3 (0.31%) Selenium
4 3 (0.31%) TestNG
4 3 (0.31%) WebDriver
4 3 (0.31%) Zephyr
5 2 (0.20%) Burp Suite
5 2 (0.20%) JMeter
5 2 (0.20%) LoadRunner
5 2 (0.20%) NeoLoad
5 2 (0.20%) Snyk
6 1 (0.10%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.10%) LabVIEW
General
1 309 (31.66%) Social Skills
2 73 (7.48%) Finance
3 63 (6.45%) Law
4 59 (6.05%) Analytical Skills
5 58 (5.94%) Organisational Skills
6 42 (4.30%) Manufacturing
7 39 (4.00%) Multimedia
8 32 (3.28%) Legal
9 29 (2.97%) Telecoms
10 26 (2.66%) Public Sector
11 24 (2.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 23 (2.36%) Retail
13 12 (1.23%) Electronics
14 10 (1.02%) Documentation Skills
15 9 (0.92%) Games
16 8 (0.82%) Advertising
16 8 (0.82%) Banking
17 4 (0.41%) Billing
17 4 (0.41%) Dutch Language
17 4 (0.41%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (2.15%) .NET
2 15 (1.54%) .NET Framework
3 12 (1.23%) Entity Framework
3 12 (1.23%) WinForms
4 9 (0.92%) REST
5 7 (0.72%) ASP.NET
6 6 (0.61%) GraphQL
7 4 (0.41%) React
8 3 (0.31%) AngularJS
8 3 (0.31%) OAuth
8 3 (0.31%) OpenTelemetry
9 2 (0.20%) OAuth2
10 1 (0.10%) AVA JavaScript Test Runner
10 1 (0.10%) LangChain
10 1 (0.10%) LangGraph
10 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Graph
10 1 (0.10%) OpenID
10 1 (0.10%) SAML
10 1 (0.10%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 177 (18.14%) Driving Licence
2 57 (5.84%) Onboarding
3 33 (3.38%) Self-Motivation
4 21 (2.15%) Analytical Mindset
5 18 (1.84%) CCTV
6 14 (1.43%) Product Ownership
7 13 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
8 11 (1.13%) iPad
9 10 (1.02%) Security Posture
10 9 (0.92%) Data Centre
10 9 (0.92%) Fat Client
10 9 (0.92%) Smartphone
10 9 (0.92%) Thin Client
11 8 (0.82%) Clustering
11 8 (0.82%) Cyber Threat
11 8 (0.82%) Linux Command Line
12 7 (0.72%) CMDB
12 7 (0.72%) Cyber Security Posture
12 7 (0.72%) FMCG
12 7 (0.72%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 471 (48.26%) Windows
2 261 (26.74%) Windows Server
3 126 (12.91%) Windows 10
4 62 (6.35%) Mac OS
5 45 (4.61%) Linux
5 45 (4.61%) Windows Server 2019
6 42 (4.30%) Windows Server 2016
7 23 (2.36%) Android
8 21 (2.15%) Apple iOS
9 19 (1.95%) Windows Server 2012
10 8 (0.82%) Mac OS X
10 8 (0.82%) Windows 7
11 6 (0.61%) VMS
11 6 (0.61%) Windows 8
12 3 (0.31%) Debian
13 1 (0.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 1 (0.10%) Solaris
13 1 (0.10%) Ubuntu
13 1 (0.10%) Unix
13 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 319 (32.68%) Problem-Solving
2 200 (20.49%) Customer Service
3 131 (13.42%) ITIL
4 105 (10.76%) Cybersecurity
5 99 (10.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 87 (8.91%) Mentoring
7 59 (6.05%) ITSM
8 53 (5.43%) Disaster Recovery
9 45 (4.61%) Migration
9 45 (4.61%) Service Delivery
10 41 (4.20%) Computer Science
11 40 (4.10%) Incident Management
12 39 (4.00%) Remote Monitoring and Management
13 32 (3.28%) Asset Management
13 32 (3.28%) Continuous Improvement
14 31 (3.18%) Process Improvement
14 31 (3.18%) Root Cause Analysis
15 30 (3.07%) Agile
16 29 (2.97%) Data Protection
16 29 (2.97%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 66 (6.76%) PowerShell
2 47 (4.82%) SQL
3 18 (1.84%) C#
4 17 (1.74%) Python
5 12 (1.23%) T-SQL
6 10 (1.02%) Bash
7 9 (0.92%) JavaScript
8 7 (0.72%) PL/SQL
8 7 (0.72%) VBScript
9 4 (0.41%) Java
10 2 (0.20%) Google Apps Script
10 2 (0.20%) Uniface
10 2 (0.20%) VB
11 1 (0.10%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.10%) PHP
11 1 (0.10%) R
11 1 (0.10%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.10%) VBA
Qualifications
1 91 (9.32%) Degree
2 73 (7.48%) Microsoft Certification
3 43 (4.41%) DBS Check
4 33 (3.38%) Cisco Certification
5 32 (3.28%) Computer Science Degree
5 32 (3.28%) Security Cleared
6 31 (3.18%) CCNA
7 26 (2.66%) A+ Certification
8 22 (2.25%) SC Cleared
9 21 (2.15%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 18 (1.84%) Azure Certification
11 16 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
11 16 (1.64%) Network+ Certification
12 15 (1.54%) MCSE
13 13 (1.33%) CCNP
13 13 (1.33%) MCSA
14 9 (0.92%) DV Cleared
15 7 (0.72%) CompTIA Security+
16 6 (0.61%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 6 (0.61%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (5.43%) SLA
2 48 (4.92%) Cyber Essentials
3 45 (4.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 26 (2.66%) GDPR
5 11 (1.13%) QA
6 10 (1.02%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 6 (0.61%) Accessibility
7 6 (0.61%) NIST
8 3 (0.31%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.10%) GxP
9 1 (0.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.10%) SOC 2
System Software
1 391 (40.06%) Active Directory
2 92 (9.43%) Hyper-V
3 71 (7.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (1.54%) Virtual Desktop
5 11 (1.13%) Firmware
6 8 (0.82%) VMware ESXi
7 7 (0.72%) vSphere
8 6 (0.61%) VMware Workstation
9 5 (0.51%) Docker
9 5 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
10 3 (0.31%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.20%) XenDesktop
12 1 (0.10%) BitLocker
12 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.10%) Terminal Services
12 1 (0.10%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.10%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 165 (16.91%) Microsoft Intune
2 17 (1.74%) SCCM
3 16 (1.64%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 12 (1.23%) Autotask
4 12 (1.23%) Jamf Pro
5 11 (1.13%) Single Sign-On
6 10 (1.02%) WSUS
7 9 (0.92%) FortiGate
7 9 (0.92%) Kubernetes
8 8 (0.82%) Ansible
9 7 (0.72%) SmoothWall
10 6 (0.61%) Failover Clustering
11 2 (0.20%) vCenter Server
12 1 (0.10%) Nessus
12 1 (0.10%) Podman
12 1 (0.10%) Proxmox
12 1 (0.10%) Terraform
Vendors
1 470 (48.16%) Microsoft
2 116 (11.89%) VMware
3 65 (6.66%) Google
4 52 (5.33%) Fortinet
5 43 (4.41%) Apple
6 39 (4.00%) Fujitsu
6 39 (4.00%) Virgin Media
7 36 (3.69%) Cisco
8 34 (3.48%) Veeam
9 22 (2.25%) Meraki
9 22 (2.25%) ServiceNow
10 16 (1.64%) Adobe
11 15 (1.54%) Sage
12 14 (1.43%) Dell
12 14 (1.43%) WatchGuard
12 14 (1.43%) Zoho
13 13 (1.33%) Datto
14 12 (1.23%) Xamarin
15 10 (1.02%) Draytek
16 9 (0.92%) Acronis