IT Engineer Job Trends in England

IT Engineer
UK > England

The median IT Engineer salary in England is £33,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 20 April 2026.

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

6 months to
20 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 91 205 137
Rank change year-on-year +114 -68 +109
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 1,481 602 1,754
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.91% 1.61% 2.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.06% 1.80% 2.25%
Number of salaries quoted 1,271 428 1,577
10th Percentile £26,250 £25,715 £24,000
25th Percentile £29,000 £27,500 £26,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,500 £35,000 £33,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.29% +6.06% -4.35%
75th Percentile £42,000 £43,750 £43,000
90th Percentile £52,500 £54,650 £50,100
UK median annual salary £33,500 £35,000 £32,750
% change year-on-year -4.29% +6.87% -3.68%

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 71,777 33,354 77,878
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.64% 89.28% 94.45%
Number of salaries quoted 47,086 21,349 59,699
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% -10.74%
75th Percentile £75,000 £79,000 £72,433
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £91,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +13.21% -11.67%

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 20 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 20 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 +70 361 £33,500 -4.29% 62
North of England +75 316 £32,000 -3.03% 65
Midlands -5 257 £32,250 -7.86% 48
London +72 195 £40,000 -15.79% 29
East of England +49 195 £32,500 +12.07% 38
North West +75 164 £31,500 -10.00% 40
South West +42 155 £35,000 - 38
East Midlands -1 144 £30,000 - 31
Yorkshire +14 141 £32,500 +8.33% 24
West Midlands -35 113 £32,500 -7.14% 17
North East -38 11 £30,000 -20.00% 3
IT Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 20 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.

1 662 (44.70%) Microsoft
2 656 (44.29%) Microsoft 365
3 616 (41.59%) Windows
4 519 (35.04%) Active Directory
5 408 (27.55%) Azure
6 393 (26.54%) Problem-Solving
7 328 (22.15%) Windows Server
8 287 (19.38%) Customer Service
9 248 (16.75%) Entra ID
10 247 (16.68%) Firewall
11 209 (14.11%) DNS
12 198 (13.37%) Microsoft Intune
13 190 (12.83%) DHCP
14 180 (12.15%) Windows 10
15 168 (11.34%) VPN
16 164 (11.07%) SharePoint
17 162 (10.94%) ITIL
18 154 (10.40%) Microsoft Exchange
19 148 (9.99%) Infrastructure Engineering
20 145 (9.79%) VMware
21 134 (9.05%) LAN
22 133 (8.98%) WAN
23 130 (8.78%) Wi-Fi
24 126 (8.51%) Cybersecurity
24 126 (8.51%) Microsoft Office
25 116 (7.83%) Hyper-V
26 97 (6.55%) ITSM
27 94 (6.35%) Degree
27 94 (6.35%) Microsoft Certification
28 92 (6.21%) Mentoring

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
1 164 (11.07%) SharePoint
2 154 (10.40%) Microsoft Exchange
3 14 (0.95%) Confluence
4 10 (0.68%) Exchange Server 2013
5 8 (0.54%) Exchange Server 2007
5 8 (0.54%) Exchange Server 2010
6 6 (0.41%) IIS
Applications
1 126 (8.51%) Microsoft Office
2 24 (1.62%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.20%) Photoshop
5 2 (0.14%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.068%) Acrobat
6 1 (0.068%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 7 (0.47%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.34%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.068%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 656 (44.29%) Microsoft 365
2 408 (27.55%) Azure
3 248 (16.75%) Entra ID
4 79 (5.33%) Google Workspace
5 63 (4.25%) AWS
6 47 (3.17%) OneDrive
7 43 (2.90%) SaaS
8 27 (1.82%) PaaS
9 25 (1.69%) IaaS
10 22 (1.49%) Power Platform
11 13 (0.88%) PowerApps
12 12 (0.81%) Mimecast
13 11 (0.74%) Datadog
14 10 (0.68%) Azure Sentinel
14 10 (0.68%) GCP
14 10 (0.68%) Power Automate
15 9 (0.61%) Azure DevOps
16 7 (0.47%) OCI
17 5 (0.34%) Intacct
17 5 (0.34%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 247 (16.68%) Firewall
2 209 (14.11%) DNS
3 190 (12.83%) DHCP
4 168 (11.34%) VPN
5 134 (9.05%) LAN
6 133 (8.98%) WAN
7 130 (8.78%) Wi-Fi
8 85 (5.74%) VLAN
9 76 (5.13%) TCP/IP
10 65 (4.39%) VoIP
11 41 (2.77%) SAN
12 34 (2.30%) Wireless
13 24 (1.62%) SD-WAN
14 23 (1.55%) Network Security
15 10 (0.68%) Internet
15 10 (0.68%) Remote Desktop
16 8 (0.54%) IP Telephony
16 8 (0.54%) WLAN
17 7 (0.47%) NAS
18 6 (0.41%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (3.98%) SQL Server
2 22 (1.49%) Power BI
3 6 (0.41%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (0.20%) MySQL
5 2 (0.14%) Relational Database
5 2 (0.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.068%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 37 (2.50%) JIRA
2 8 (0.54%) Chocolatey
3 4 (0.27%) GitLab
4 1 (0.068%) Git
4 1 (0.068%) LabVIEW
General
1 350 (23.63%) Social Skills
2 79 (5.33%) Finance
3 72 (4.86%) Organisational Skills
4 53 (3.58%) Analytical Skills
4 53 (3.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 51 (3.44%) Manufacturing
6 48 (3.24%) Law
7 41 (2.77%) Retail
8 39 (2.63%) Multimedia
9 37 (2.50%) Legal
10 36 (2.43%) Telecoms
11 24 (1.62%) Public Sector
12 14 (0.95%) Advertising
13 10 (0.68%) Automotive
14 9 (0.61%) Banking
15 8 (0.54%) Games
16 7 (0.47%) Documentation Skills
17 6 (0.41%) Dutch Language
17 6 (0.41%) Electronics
17 6 (0.41%) Spanish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (0.34%) .NET
1 5 (0.34%) CSS
1 5 (0.34%) HTML
2 4 (0.27%) OpenTelemetry
3 3 (0.20%) JSON
4 2 (0.14%) .NET Framework
4 2 (0.14%) ASP.NET
4 2 (0.14%) Entity Framework
4 2 (0.14%) Web Services
4 2 (0.14%) WinForms
5 1 (0.068%) AVA JavaScript Test Runner
5 1 (0.068%) LangChain
5 1 (0.068%) LangGraph
5 1 (0.068%) OAuth
5 1 (0.068%) OpenID
5 1 (0.068%) React
5 1 (0.068%) SAML
5 1 (0.068%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 209 (14.11%) Driving Licence
2 67 (4.52%) Onboarding
3 41 (2.77%) Self-Motivation
4 26 (1.76%) CCTV
5 25 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
6 17 (1.15%) Data Centre
7 11 (0.74%) Security Posture
7 11 (0.74%) Smartphone
7 11 (0.74%) Social Media
8 10 (0.68%) FMCG
8 10 (0.68%) iPad
8 10 (0.68%) iPhone
9 8 (0.54%) Cyber Threat
9 8 (0.54%) Fat Client
9 8 (0.54%) Linux Command Line
9 8 (0.54%) Thin Client
10 7 (0.47%) Enterprise Software
10 7 (0.47%) Operational Technology
11 6 (0.41%) PMI
12 5 (0.34%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 616 (41.59%) Windows
2 328 (22.15%) Windows Server
3 180 (12.15%) Windows 10
4 81 (5.47%) Mac OS
5 54 (3.65%) Linux
6 52 (3.51%) Windows Server 2019
7 50 (3.38%) Windows Server 2016
8 37 (2.50%) Apple iOS
9 32 (2.16%) Android
10 25 (1.69%) Windows Server 2012
11 15 (1.01%) Windows 7
12 13 (0.88%) Mac OS X
13 10 (0.68%) Windows 8
14 4 (0.27%) Ubuntu
14 4 (0.27%) Windows Server 2008
15 1 (0.068%) Debian
15 1 (0.068%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 1 (0.068%) Solaris
15 1 (0.068%) Unix
15 1 (0.068%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 393 (26.54%) Problem-Solving
2 287 (19.38%) Customer Service
3 162 (10.94%) ITIL
4 148 (9.99%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 126 (8.51%) Cybersecurity
6 97 (6.55%) ITSM
7 92 (6.21%) Mentoring
8 73 (4.93%) Disaster Recovery
9 66 (4.46%) Service Delivery
10 58 (3.92%) Remote Monitoring and Management
11 53 (3.58%) Continuous Improvement
12 50 (3.38%) Service Management
13 46 (3.11%) Migration
14 44 (2.97%) Asset Management
15 43 (2.90%) Process Improvement
16 40 (2.70%) Change Management
17 39 (2.63%) Time Management
18 38 (2.57%) Project Delivery
19 37 (2.50%) ERP
20 36 (2.43%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 75 (5.06%) PowerShell
2 42 (2.84%) SQL
3 11 (0.74%) Python
4 10 (0.68%) Bash
5 6 (0.41%) C#
6 5 (0.34%) VB
7 4 (0.27%) PHP
7 4 (0.27%) R
8 3 (0.20%) JavaScript
8 3 (0.20%) Uniface
8 3 (0.20%) VBA
9 2 (0.14%) Google Apps Script
9 2 (0.14%) PL/SQL
9 2 (0.14%) T-SQL
9 2 (0.14%) VBScript
10 1 (0.068%) Java
10 1 (0.068%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 94 (6.35%) Degree
1 94 (6.35%) Microsoft Certification
2 68 (4.59%) Security Cleared
3 56 (3.78%) DBS Check
4 44 (2.97%) SC Cleared
5 38 (2.57%) A+ Certification
6 37 (2.50%) Cisco Certification
7 35 (2.36%) CCNA
8 26 (1.76%) Network+ Certification
9 20 (1.35%) BPSS Clearance
10 19 (1.28%) Azure Certification
11 18 (1.22%) Computer Science Degree
12 16 (1.08%) MCSE
13 15 (1.01%) DV Cleared
14 12 (0.81%) CCNP
15 9 (0.61%) CompTIA Security+
16 8 (0.54%) MCSA
16 8 (0.54%) Microsoft Certified Professional
17 6 (0.41%) MCITP
17 6 (0.41%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (6.08%) SLA
2 57 (3.85%) Cyber Essentials
3 46 (3.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 22 (1.49%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 11 (0.74%) GDPR
6 7 (0.47%) QA
7 6 (0.41%) NIST
8 3 (0.20%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.068%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.068%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.068%) SOC 2
System Software
1 519 (35.04%) Active Directory
2 116 (7.83%) Hyper-V
3 84 (5.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (1.08%) Virtual Desktop
5 13 (0.88%) VMware ESXi
6 11 (0.74%) VMware Workstation
7 8 (0.54%) Docker
8 7 (0.47%) vSphere
9 5 (0.34%) Terminal Services
9 5 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
10 4 (0.27%) Firmware
10 4 (0.27%) VMware NSX
11 3 (0.20%) BitLocker
12 1 (0.068%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 198 (13.37%) Microsoft Intune
2 34 (2.30%) SCCM
3 22 (1.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 21 (1.42%) Autotask
5 19 (1.28%) WSUS
6 18 (1.22%) Jamf Pro
7 10 (0.68%) FortiGate
7 10 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
8 6 (0.41%) SmoothWall
9 5 (0.34%) Ansible
10 3 (0.20%) Terraform
11 1 (0.068%) Kubernetes
11 1 (0.068%) Podman
Vendors
1 662 (44.70%) Microsoft
2 145 (9.79%) VMware
3 87 (5.87%) Google
4 60 (4.05%) Fortinet
5 51 (3.44%) Apple
6 40 (2.70%) Cisco
7 39 (2.63%) Fujitsu
7 39 (2.63%) Virgin Media
8 35 (2.36%) Meraki
9 22 (1.49%) Dell
9 22 (1.49%) Veeam
10 18 (1.22%) Datto
11 17 (1.15%) HP
12 16 (1.08%) ServiceNow
13 15 (1.01%) Sophos
14 14 (0.95%) Draytek
14 14 (0.95%) SonicWALL
15 13 (0.88%) Epicor
16 12 (0.81%) Ubiquiti
17 11 (0.74%) Citrix