IT Engineer Job Trends in England

IT Engineer
UK > England

The median IT Engineer salary in England is £38,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 18 September 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 281 169 187
Rank change year-on-year -112 +18 +174
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 460 1,081 987
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.06% 1.57% 1.83%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.18% 1.65% 1.95%
Number of salaries quoted 345 781 880
10th Percentile £25,925 £26,000 £25,500
25th Percentile £30,500 £30,000 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,500 £37,500 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.67% +7.14% -
75th Percentile £49,000 £46,500 £47,500
90th Percentile £61,250 £55,250 £61,825
UK median annual salary £37,500 £36,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% +2.86% -

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 39,065 65,689 50,712
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.39% 95.18% 94.03%
Number of salaries quoted 23,443 39,893 39,224
10th Percentile £28,260 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £93,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

IT Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured IT Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for IT Engineer 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 18 September 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 18 September 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
North of England -50 118 £35,000 +2.19% 82
London -1 94 £45,000 +9.09% 48
Midlands -50 92 £37,000 +5.71% 62
Yorkshire +25 79 £33,000 -5.71% 41
South East -66 79 £40,000 +1.27% 99
East Midlands -18 56 £30,750 -12.14% 34
South West -15 53 £40,000 +6.67% 40
West Midlands -34 36 £47,500 +35.71% 26
East of England -52 32 £36,250 +11.54% 37
North West -69 32 £35,000 +4.48% 32
North East +7 7 £48,750 +44.44% 16
IT Engineer
UK

IT Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 18 September 2025, IT Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region featuring IT Engineer in the job title.

1 301 (65.43%) Windows
2 268 (58.26%) Microsoft
3 263 (57.17%) Active Directory
4 238 (51.74%) Microsoft 365
5 200 (43.48%) Azure
6 174 (37.83%) Social Skills
7 170 (36.96%) Firewall
8 152 (33.04%) Windows Server
9 141 (30.65%) Problem-Solving
10 115 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
11 109 (23.70%) Entra ID
12 105 (22.83%) Cybersecurity
13 95 (20.65%) VMware
14 94 (20.43%) DNS
14 94 (20.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 89 (19.35%) Customer Service
16 88 (19.13%) Degree
17 83 (18.04%) PowerShell
18 82 (17.83%) DHCP
19 74 (16.09%) VMware Infrastructure
20 69 (15.00%) Microsoft Exchange
20 69 (15.00%) Cisco
21 67 (14.57%) VLAN
21 67 (14.57%) Hyper-V
22 65 (14.13%) SharePoint
22 65 (14.13%) ITIL
23 60 (13.04%) VPN
23 60 (13.04%) Network Management
24 58 (12.61%) Disaster Recovery
25 55 (11.96%) SQL Server

IT Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 69 (15.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 65 (14.13%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.52%) IIS
4 2 (0.43%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.22%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 15 (3.26%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.65%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.65%) CINEMA 4D
2 3 (0.65%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.43%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.22%) Acrobat
4 1 (0.22%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 7 (1.52%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (0.87%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.43%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (0.43%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.22%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 238 (51.74%) Microsoft 365
2 200 (43.48%) Azure
3 109 (23.70%) Entra ID
4 45 (9.78%) AWS
5 23 (5.00%) SaaS
6 14 (3.04%) Cloud Computing
7 13 (2.83%) OneDrive
8 10 (2.17%) IaaS
9 9 (1.96%) GCP
9 9 (1.96%) Power Platform
10 8 (1.74%) Azure Stack
10 8 (1.74%) Nutanix
11 7 (1.52%) Mimecast
11 7 (1.52%) Serverless
12 6 (1.30%) Google Workspace
12 6 (1.30%) Microsoft Purview
12 6 (1.30%) PaaS
13 5 (1.09%) Azure DevOps
13 5 (1.09%) Dynamics 365
13 5 (1.09%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 170 (36.96%) Firewall
2 94 (20.43%) DNS
3 82 (17.83%) DHCP
4 67 (14.57%) VLAN
5 60 (13.04%) VPN
6 47 (10.22%) Wi-Fi
7 46 (10.00%) WAN
8 44 (9.57%) SAN
9 42 (9.13%) TCP/IP
10 31 (6.74%) LAN
11 25 (5.43%) VoIP
12 24 (5.22%) Wireless
13 21 (4.57%) Network Security
14 20 (4.35%) SD-WAN
15 19 (4.13%) NAS
16 12 (2.61%) Cisco IOS
16 12 (2.61%) Intrusion Detection
17 10 (2.17%) IPsec
18 9 (1.96%) IP Telephony
18 9 (1.96%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (11.96%) SQL Server
2 8 (1.74%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (0.65%) Mixpanel
3 3 (0.65%) NoSQL
4 2 (0.43%) DynamoDB
4 2 (0.43%) MongoDB
4 2 (0.43%) MySQL
4 2 (0.43%) Power BI
4 2 (0.43%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (0.87%) Git
1 4 (0.87%) JIRA
2 3 (0.65%) Browser DevTools
2 3 (0.65%) Charles Proxy
2 3 (0.65%) Fiddler
2 3 (0.65%) Maven
2 3 (0.65%) Postman
2 3 (0.65%) Selenium
2 3 (0.65%) TestNG
2 3 (0.65%) WebDriver
2 3 (0.65%) Zephyr
3 1 (0.22%) Burp Suite
3 1 (0.22%) JMeter
3 1 (0.22%) LoadRunner
3 1 (0.22%) NeoLoad
General
1 174 (37.83%) Social Skills
2 42 (9.13%) Finance
3 41 (8.91%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (8.26%) Law
5 37 (8.04%) Manufacturing
6 26 (5.65%) Organisational Skills
7 19 (4.13%) Public Sector
8 16 (3.48%) Marketing
8 16 (3.48%) Telecoms
9 15 (3.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 14 (3.04%) Legal
11 10 (2.17%) Electronics
12 9 (1.96%) Pharmaceutical
13 8 (1.74%) Retail
14 6 (1.30%) Automotive
14 6 (1.30%) Billing
15 4 (0.87%) Documentation Skills
16 3 (0.65%) Back Office
16 3 (0.65%) Influencing Skills
16 3 (0.65%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (1.52%) REST
2 5 (1.09%) 802.1X
2 5 (1.09%) GraphQL
3 4 (0.87%) .NET
4 3 (0.65%) AngularJS
4 3 (0.65%) EDI
4 3 (0.65%) LangChain
4 3 (0.65%) React
5 2 (0.43%) .NET Framework
6 1 (0.22%) Django
6 1 (0.22%) Flask
6 1 (0.22%) LAMP
6 1 (0.22%) ModSecurity
6 1 (0.22%) Spring
6 1 (0.22%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.22%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 53 (11.52%) Driving Licence
2 42 (9.13%) Operational Technology
3 36 (7.83%) Onboarding
4 27 (5.87%) Self-Motivation
5 22 (4.78%) Data Centre
6 16 (3.48%) Clustering
7 12 (2.61%) Social Media
8 11 (2.39%) Mobile App
9 10 (2.17%) Hybrid Cloud
9 10 (2.17%) Product Ownership
10 9 (1.96%) FMCG
10 9 (1.96%) Security Posture
11 8 (1.74%) Analytical Mindset
11 8 (1.74%) Management Information System
12 7 (1.52%) BYOD
12 7 (1.52%) Virtual Team
13 6 (1.30%) CMDB
13 6 (1.30%) Video Conferencing
14 5 (1.09%) iPhone
14 5 (1.09%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 301 (65.43%) Windows
2 152 (33.04%) Windows Server
3 55 (11.96%) Linux
4 38 (8.26%) Windows 10
5 32 (6.96%) Mac OS
6 30 (6.52%) Android
7 22 (4.78%) Windows Server 2019
8 20 (4.35%) Apple iOS
9 18 (3.91%) Windows Server 2016
10 8 (1.74%) Rocky
11 6 (1.30%) Unix
11 6 (1.30%) VMS
12 1 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (30.65%) Problem-Solving
2 105 (22.83%) Cybersecurity
3 94 (20.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 89 (19.35%) Customer Service
5 65 (14.13%) ITIL
6 60 (13.04%) Network Management
7 58 (12.61%) Disaster Recovery
8 43 (9.35%) Migration
9 41 (8.91%) Network Design
10 37 (8.04%) Continuous Improvement
11 33 (7.17%) Mentoring
11 33 (7.17%) Root Cause Analysis
12 28 (6.09%) Agile
12 28 (6.09%) Computer Science
12 28 (6.09%) Kalman Filter
13 26 (5.65%) IT Strategy
14 23 (5.00%) ITSM
14 23 (5.00%) Project Delivery
15 22 (4.78%) CRM
15 22 (4.78%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 83 (18.04%) PowerShell
2 22 (4.78%) SQL
3 21 (4.57%) Python
4 8 (1.74%) JavaScript
5 7 (1.52%) Java
6 4 (0.87%) Uniface
7 3 (0.65%) C
7 3 (0.65%) C#
7 3 (0.65%) C++
8 2 (0.43%) Bash
8 2 (0.43%) Kusto Query Language
8 2 (0.43%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.22%) Bicep
9 1 (0.22%) Perl
9 1 (0.22%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.22%) VBA
Qualifications
1 88 (19.13%) Degree
2 32 (6.96%) Microsoft Certification
3 31 (6.74%) DBS Check
4 29 (6.30%) Security Cleared
5 27 (5.87%) Cisco Certification
6 22 (4.78%) CCNA
7 19 (4.13%) SC Cleared
8 16 (3.48%) Azure Certification
8 16 (3.48%) DV Cleared
9 14 (3.04%) Computer Science Degree
10 12 (2.61%) HND
11 10 (2.17%) CISSP
12 9 (1.96%) Network+ Certification
13 8 (1.74%) BPSS Clearance
13 8 (1.74%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 7 (1.52%) MCP
14 7 (1.52%) MCSA
15 6 (1.30%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 6 (1.30%) A+ Certification
15 6 (1.30%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (6.96%) GDPR
1 32 (6.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 23 (5.00%) Cyber Essentials
3 7 (1.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 7 (1.52%) NIST
3 7 (1.52%) SLA
4 5 (1.09%) QA
5 3 (0.65%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.43%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.43%) GxP
6 2 (0.43%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.43%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 263 (57.17%) Active Directory
2 74 (16.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 67 (14.57%) Hyper-V
4 44 (9.57%) Virtual Servers
5 11 (2.39%) VMware ESXi
6 9 (1.96%) Docker
6 9 (1.96%) Firmware
7 4 (0.87%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 4 (0.87%) vSphere
8 2 (0.43%) BitLocker
8 2 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.43%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.22%) VMware Server
9 1 (0.22%) XenApp
9 1 (0.22%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 115 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 31 (6.74%) SCCM
3 21 (4.57%) Kubernetes
4 16 (3.48%) Jamf Pro
5 12 (2.61%) Autotask
6 11 (2.39%) vCenter Server
7 8 (1.74%) SmoothWall
8 7 (1.52%) Ansible
8 7 (1.52%) Terraform
9 6 (1.30%) Failover Clustering
10 5 (1.09%) FortiGate
11 4 (0.87%) CASB
11 4 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (0.87%) WSUS
12 3 (0.65%) Puppet
13 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Clustering
13 2 (0.43%) NetBackup
13 2 (0.43%) SCOM
13 2 (0.43%) WhatsUp Gold
14 1 (0.22%) Podman
Vendors
1 268 (58.26%) Microsoft
2 95 (20.65%) VMware
3 69 (15.00%) Cisco
4 37 (8.04%) Veeam
5 33 (7.17%) Apple
6 30 (6.52%) Meraki
7 24 (5.22%) Sophos
8 19 (4.13%) HP
9 17 (3.70%) Aruba
10 15 (3.26%) Datto
10 15 (3.26%) ServiceNow
10 15 (3.26%) Zoho
11 14 (3.04%) Dell
12 12 (2.61%) Google
13 11 (2.39%) Citrix
14 10 (2.17%) Fortinet
15 9 (1.96%) SAP
16 8 (1.74%) Oracle
16 8 (1.74%) Palo Alto
17 7 (1.52%) Adobe