IT Engineer Job Trends in England

IT Engineer
UK > England

The median IT Engineer salary in England is £35,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 11 September 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 267 169
Rank change year-on-year +153 -98 +21
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 1,662 469 1,087
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.66% 1.08% 1.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.77% 1.19% 1.65%
Number of salaries quoted 1,444 352 797
10th Percentile £27,500 £25,888 £26,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £30,500 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £39,000 £36,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.26% +6.85% +4.29%
75th Percentile £43,750 £49,000 £46,250
90th Percentile £57,500 £61,125 £55,000
UK median annual salary £35,000 £37,500 £36,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +4.17% +2.86%

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 93,676 39,281 65,854
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.51% 90.38% 95.20%
Number of salaries quoted 66,297 23,621 40,888
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.45% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £93,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -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 11 September 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 11 September 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 +132 391 £37,500 -6.25% 68
Midlands +66 279 £35,000 -5.41% 41
East of England +104 275 £35,000 -4.76% 25
North of England +51 259 £32,500 -7.14% 32
South West +47 237 £35,000 -12.50% 30
London +53 220 £36,000 -20.00% 53
North West +81 144 £33,475 -4.36% 16
East Midlands +27 142 £35,000 +7.69% 19
West Midlands +51 137 £34,500 -27.37% 22
Yorkshire -25 98 £30,000 -9.09% 10
North East -47 17 £40,000 -17.95% 6
IT Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 11 September 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.

1 889 (53.49%) Microsoft
2 808 (48.62%) Microsoft 365
3 755 (45.43%) Windows
4 601 (36.16%) Active Directory
5 476 (28.64%) Azure
6 408 (24.55%) Problem-Solving
7 393 (23.65%) Windows Server
8 389 (23.41%) Entra ID
9 350 (21.06%) Customer Service
10 300 (18.05%) Firewall
11 290 (17.45%) Microsoft Intune
12 284 (17.09%) Microsoft Exchange
13 263 (15.82%) DNS
14 248 (14.92%) SharePoint
15 247 (14.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 236 (14.20%) Cybersecurity
17 225 (13.54%) DHCP
18 214 (12.88%) Hyper-V
19 208 (12.52%) VPN
20 202 (12.15%) VMware
21 166 (9.99%) Wi-Fi
22 162 (9.75%) TCP/IP
23 155 (9.33%) VMware Infrastructure
24 148 (8.90%) Continuous Improvement
25 147 (8.84%) ITIL
26 140 (8.42%) Windows 10
27 138 (8.30%) Disaster Recovery
28 136 (8.18%) Degree
29 126 (7.58%) PowerShell
30 124 (7.46%) Linux

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
1 284 (17.09%) Microsoft Exchange
2 248 (14.92%) SharePoint
3 22 (1.32%) IIS
4 9 (0.54%) Exchange Server 2013
5 7 (0.42%) Exchange Server 2007
5 7 (0.42%) Exchange Server 2010
6 5 (0.30%) Apache
7 4 (0.24%) Confluence
Applications
1 86 (5.17%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (0.90%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.18%) Photoshop
5 2 (0.12%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (0.36%) Raiser’s Edge
2 2 (0.12%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.12%) Sage 200
2 2 (0.12%) Shopify
3 1 (0.060%) Eikon
Cloud Services
1 808 (48.62%) Microsoft 365
2 476 (28.64%) Azure
3 389 (23.41%) Entra ID
4 72 (4.33%) OneDrive
5 51 (3.07%) AWS
6 48 (2.89%) SaaS
7 47 (2.83%) Google Workspace
8 34 (2.05%) Mimecast
9 28 (1.68%) Power Platform
10 17 (1.02%) Power Automate
11 14 (0.84%) Nutanix
11 14 (0.84%) PaaS
12 13 (0.78%) Dynamics 365
13 12 (0.72%) IaaS
14 11 (0.66%) Azure DevOps
15 7 (0.42%) PowerApps
16 6 (0.36%) Cloud Computing
16 6 (0.36%) Cloudflare
16 6 (0.36%) Microsoft Copilot
17 5 (0.30%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 300 (18.05%) Firewall
2 263 (15.82%) DNS
3 225 (13.54%) DHCP
4 208 (12.52%) VPN
5 166 (9.99%) Wi-Fi
6 162 (9.75%) TCP/IP
7 116 (6.98%) VLAN
8 104 (6.26%) Wireless
9 102 (6.14%) LAN
10 95 (5.72%) WAN
11 90 (5.42%) VoIP
12 46 (2.77%) SAN
13 37 (2.23%) Network Security
14 23 (1.38%) Internet
15 20 (1.20%) SSL
16 19 (1.14%) WLAN
17 14 (0.84%) Remote Desktop
18 8 (0.48%) PBX
18 8 (0.48%) Structured Cabling
19 7 (0.42%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (4.09%) SQL Server
2 10 (0.60%) Azure SQL Database
3 8 (0.48%) MySQL
4 7 (0.42%) Power BI
5 5 (0.30%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.12%) KNIME
Development Applications
1 38 (2.29%) JIRA
2 3 (0.18%) Burp Suite
2 3 (0.18%) Metasploit
3 2 (0.12%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.060%) Carbide.c++
General
1 477 (28.70%) Social Skills
2 73 (4.39%) Analytical Skills
3 72 (4.33%) Legal
3 72 (4.33%) Manufacturing
4 54 (3.25%) Finance
5 50 (3.01%) Organisational Skills
6 42 (2.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 37 (2.23%) Retail
8 36 (2.17%) Advertising
9 30 (1.81%) Telecoms
10 25 (1.50%) Law
11 23 (1.38%) Documentation Skills
12 18 (1.08%) Automotive
13 15 (0.90%) Public Sector
14 13 (0.78%) Games
15 9 (0.54%) Aerospace
16 8 (0.48%) Local Government
17 6 (0.36%) Banking
17 6 (0.36%) Police
18 4 (0.24%) Aviation
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (0.54%) HTML
2 7 (0.42%) JSON
3 5 (0.30%) CSS
3 5 (0.30%) Web Services
4 4 (0.24%) .NET
4 4 (0.24%) ASP.NET Web Forms
4 4 (0.24%) Terraform
4 4 (0.24%) WinForms
5 2 (0.12%) EDI
5 2 (0.12%) LDAP
5 2 (0.12%) SAML
6 1 (0.060%) 802.1X
6 1 (0.060%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 215 (12.94%) Driving Licence
2 97 (5.84%) Onboarding
3 74 (4.45%) Self-Motivation
4 41 (2.47%) CCTV
5 38 (2.29%) Data Centre
6 26 (1.56%) Operational Technology
7 19 (1.14%) Replication
7 19 (1.14%) Video Conferencing
8 18 (1.08%) Hybrid Cloud
9 16 (0.96%) Management Information System
10 15 (0.90%) Clustering
11 13 (0.78%) Analytical Mindset
12 12 (0.72%) Cyber Threat
13 11 (0.66%) Cloud Native
13 11 (0.66%) Security Posture
14 8 (0.48%) FMCG
14 8 (0.48%) NHS
14 8 (0.48%) PKI
15 7 (0.42%) EPoS
16 6 (0.36%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 755 (45.43%) Windows
2 393 (23.65%) Windows Server
3 140 (8.42%) Windows 10
4 124 (7.46%) Linux
5 110 (6.62%) Mac OS
6 49 (2.95%) Apple iOS
7 47 (2.83%) Windows Server 2019
8 43 (2.59%) Android
9 35 (2.11%) Windows Server 2016
10 16 (0.96%) Ubuntu
11 15 (0.90%) Windows Server 2012
12 6 (0.36%) Windows 7
13 5 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 5 (0.30%) Rocky
14 4 (0.24%) Mac OS X
14 4 (0.24%) Windows 8
15 3 (0.18%) Kali Linux
15 3 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
16 2 (0.12%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 408 (24.55%) Problem-Solving
2 350 (21.06%) Customer Service
3 247 (14.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 236 (14.20%) Cybersecurity
5 148 (8.90%) Continuous Improvement
6 147 (8.84%) ITIL
7 138 (8.30%) Disaster Recovery
8 94 (5.66%) Project Delivery
9 80 (4.81%) Service Delivery
10 76 (4.57%) ITSM
11 62 (3.73%) Mentoring
12 60 (3.61%) Remote Monitoring and Management
13 57 (3.43%) Service Management
14 50 (3.01%) Change Management
15 48 (2.89%) Business Continuity
16 47 (2.83%) User Experience
17 45 (2.71%) Migration
18 43 (2.59%) Collaborative Culture
19 41 (2.47%) Identity Management
20 39 (2.35%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 126 (7.58%) PowerShell
2 54 (3.25%) SQL
3 12 (0.72%) Python
4 11 (0.66%) R
5 10 (0.60%) Ruby
6 7 (0.42%) C#
7 4 (0.24%) Bicep
7 4 (0.24%) VBScript
8 3 (0.18%) JavaScript
8 3 (0.18%) PHP
8 3 (0.18%) VB
8 3 (0.18%) VBA
9 2 (0.12%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.060%) Bash
10 1 (0.060%) Java
Qualifications
1 136 (8.18%) Degree
2 114 (6.86%) Microsoft Certification
3 75 (4.51%) DBS Check
4 50 (3.01%) Cisco Certification
5 47 (2.83%) CCNA
6 39 (2.35%) Security Cleared
7 35 (2.11%) Azure Certification
8 29 (1.74%) Network+ Certification
9 25 (1.50%) A+ Certification
10 20 (1.20%) CompTIA Security+
10 20 (1.20%) SC Cleared
11 17 (1.02%) MCSE
12 14 (0.84%) Computer Science Degree
13 11 (0.66%) CCNP
14 10 (0.60%) MCSA
15 8 (0.48%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 7 (0.42%) AWS Certification
16 7 (0.42%) DV Cleared
17 5 (0.30%) BPSS Clearance
17 5 (0.30%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 112 (6.74%) Cyber Essentials
2 55 (3.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 46 (2.77%) GDPR
4 39 (2.35%) SLA
5 29 (1.74%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 11 (0.66%) PCI DSS
7 6 (0.36%) NIST
8 5 (0.30%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.12%) QA
10 1 (0.060%) Data Quality
10 1 (0.060%) NCSC
10 1 (0.060%) TickIT
System Software
1 601 (36.16%) Active Directory
2 214 (12.88%) Hyper-V
3 155 (9.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (1.14%) Virtual Machines
5 16 (0.96%) VMware ESXi
6 13 (0.78%) vSphere
7 12 (0.72%) Docker
8 10 (0.60%) Virtual Desktop
9 8 (0.48%) BitLocker
9 8 (0.48%) Firmware
10 5 (0.30%) Terminal Services
11 2 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.060%) Terminal Server
12 1 (0.060%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 290 (17.45%) Microsoft Intune
2 27 (1.62%) Jamf Pro
3 23 (1.38%) SCCM
4 20 (1.20%) Autotask
5 15 (0.90%) WSUS
6 11 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
7 10 (0.60%) Failover Clustering
8 9 (0.54%) FortiGate
9 6 (0.36%) Kubernetes
10 4 (0.24%) Iperf
10 4 (0.24%) Nessus
11 3 (0.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (0.18%) Nmap
12 2 (0.12%) Ansible
12 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
12 2 (0.12%) PaperCut
12 2 (0.12%) SCOM
12 2 (0.12%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
13 1 (0.060%) vCenter Server
13 1 (0.060%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 889 (53.49%) Microsoft
2 202 (12.15%) VMware
3 86 (5.17%) Cisco
4 69 (4.15%) Veeam
5 61 (3.67%) SonicWALL
6 50 (3.01%) Google
7 49 (2.95%) Apple
8 37 (2.23%) HP
9 33 (1.99%) Meraki
10 32 (1.93%) Datto
10 32 (1.93%) Ubiquiti
11 29 (1.74%) Fortinet
11 29 (1.74%) Sophos
12 28 (1.68%) Dell
13 23 (1.38%) Draytek
14 21 (1.26%) Aruba
15 20 (1.20%) Palo Alto
16 18 (1.08%) Logitech
17 17 (1.02%) TOWER Software
18 16 (0.96%) ServiceNow