IT Engineer Jobs 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 31 May 2025.

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

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 284 136 238
Rank change year-on-year -148 +102 +143
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 536 1,797 1,313
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.09% 2.00% 1.54%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.20% 2.11% 1.69%
Number of salaries quoted 375 1,591 1,036
10th Percentile £25,750 £24,000 £25,750
25th Percentile £28,000 £26,750 £28,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £33,000 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.06% -5.71% -
75th Percentile £43,750 £43,000 £45,000
90th Percentile £55,000 £50,000 £60,000
UK median annual salary £35,000 £32,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% -

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 44,774 85,031 77,815
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.79% 94.67% 91.36%
Number of salaries quoted 23,692 62,917 50,230
10th Percentile £29,000 £28,500 £32,750
25th Percentile £41,000 £38,066 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £52,500 £60,567
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -13.32% +0.95%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £96,250 £90,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

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

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing IT Engineer in England.

Salary trend for IT Engineer in England

IT Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing IT Engineer in England over the 6 months to 31 May 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 31 May 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
South East -83 123 £37,000 +8.82% 86
North of England -113 119 £32,500 +3.17% 102
Midlands -68 116 £35,000 - 75
London +5 101 £45,000 +15.76% 128
Yorkshire +12 82 £30,000 - 37
West Midlands -33 69 £35,000 - 21
East Midlands -50 47 £33,000 -12.00% 54
South West -33 39 £33,750 +12.50% 71
East of England -68 38 £30,000 -5.76% 44
North West -137 28 £33,750 +12.50% 49
North East +3 9 £40,000 +23.08% 18
IT Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 31 May 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.

1 374 (69.78%) Windows
2 310 (57.84%) Microsoft
3 266 (49.63%) Active Directory
4 235 (43.84%) Microsoft 365
5 199 (37.13%) Social Skills
6 193 (36.01%) Azure
7 181 (33.77%) Problem-Solving
8 141 (26.31%) Firewall
9 139 (25.93%) Windows Server
10 121 (22.57%) Degree
11 115 (21.46%) Customer Service
12 102 (19.03%) Linux
13 101 (18.84%) VMware
14 100 (18.66%) Cisco
15 99 (18.47%) Driving Licence
16 97 (18.10%) ITIL
17 89 (16.60%) PowerShell
18 83 (15.49%) Microsoft Certification
19 82 (15.30%) Microsoft Intune
19 82 (15.30%) Network Management
20 80 (14.93%) Entra ID
21 79 (14.74%) Cybersecurity
22 77 (14.37%) DNS
23 76 (14.18%) Microsoft Exchange
24 74 (13.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
25 68 (12.69%) Computer Science
26 65 (12.13%) VMware Infrastructure
27 64 (11.94%) Windows 10
28 60 (11.19%) AWS
29 58 (10.82%) DHCP

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 76 (14.18%) Microsoft Exchange
2 54 (10.07%) SharePoint
3 27 (5.04%) Confluence
4 3 (0.56%) WordPress
5 2 (0.37%) IIS
6 1 (0.19%) Tomcat
Applications
1 48 (8.96%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (2.43%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.93%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.75%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (0.93%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (0.56%) Sage 200
2 3 (0.56%) Sage 50
3 2 (0.37%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (0.37%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.19%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 235 (43.84%) Microsoft 365
2 193 (36.01%) Azure
3 80 (14.93%) Entra ID
4 60 (11.19%) AWS
5 47 (8.77%) SaaS
6 17 (3.17%) Google Workspace
7 16 (2.99%) IaaS
8 14 (2.61%) GCP
9 13 (2.43%) OneDrive
10 11 (2.05%) Mimecast
11 8 (1.49%) Cloud Computing
12 7 (1.31%) Amazon EC2
13 6 (1.12%) Nutanix
14 5 (0.93%) PaaS
14 5 (0.93%) Power Platform
14 5 (0.93%) Slack
15 4 (0.75%) Amazon Bedrock
15 4 (0.75%) Amazon S3
16 3 (0.56%) Azure DevOps
16 3 (0.56%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 141 (26.31%) Firewall
2 77 (14.37%) DNS
3 58 (10.82%) DHCP
4 56 (10.45%) VLAN
5 50 (9.33%) VPN
6 45 (8.40%) Wi-Fi
7 44 (8.21%) LAN
7 44 (8.21%) Network Security
8 42 (7.84%) TCP/IP
8 42 (7.84%) WAN
9 41 (7.65%) Internet
9 41 (7.65%) WLAN
10 35 (6.53%) SAN
11 23 (4.29%) NAS
12 20 (3.73%) VoIP
13 17 (3.17%) BGP
13 17 (3.17%) OSPF
14 13 (2.43%) Intrusion Detection
15 11 (2.05%) Cisco IOS
16 10 (1.87%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (10.07%) SQL Server
2 18 (3.36%) MySQL
3 16 (2.99%) Relational Database
4 5 (0.93%) Power BI
5 2 (0.37%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (0.37%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.19%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.19%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 24 (4.48%) JIRA
2 17 (3.17%) Git
3 16 (2.99%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.19%) Katalon Studio
4 1 (0.19%) Postman
4 1 (0.19%) Selenium
4 1 (0.19%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 199 (37.13%) Social Skills
2 51 (9.51%) Analytical Skills
3 46 (8.58%) Finance
4 33 (6.16%) Organisational Skills
5 23 (4.29%) Retail
6 20 (3.73%) Telecoms
7 19 (3.54%) Law
8 15 (2.80%) Automotive
9 14 (2.61%) Legal
10 13 (2.43%) Marketing
11 12 (2.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 11 (2.05%) Manufacturing
13 8 (1.49%) Public Sector
14 4 (0.75%) Pharmaceutical
15 3 (0.56%) Banking
15 3 (0.56%) Billing
15 3 (0.56%) Influencing Skills
16 2 (0.37%) Electronics
16 2 (0.37%) Games
16 2 (0.37%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (3.36%) .NET
2 14 (2.61%) 802.1X
3 5 (0.93%) LangChain
4 2 (0.37%) EDI
4 2 (0.37%) GraphQL
4 2 (0.37%) REST
5 1 (0.19%) .NET Framework
5 1 (0.19%) JSON
5 1 (0.19%) ModSecurity
5 1 (0.19%) React
5 1 (0.19%) SAML
5 1 (0.19%) SOAP
5 1 (0.19%) WSH
5 1 (0.19%) XML
5 1 (0.19%) X-Windows
Miscellaneous
1 99 (18.47%) Driving Licence
2 41 (7.65%) Operational Technology
3 40 (7.46%) Self-Motivation
4 22 (4.10%) Management Information System
5 18 (3.36%) Mobile App
6 16 (2.99%) Social Media
7 15 (2.80%) Onboarding
8 14 (2.61%) Smartphone
9 12 (2.24%) Data Centre
10 7 (1.31%) Clustering
10 7 (1.31%) Video Conferencing
11 6 (1.12%) EPoS
11 6 (1.12%) Security Posture
12 5 (0.93%) Blackberry
12 5 (0.93%) Hybrid Cloud
13 4 (0.75%) Algorithms
13 4 (0.75%) Cloud Native
13 4 (0.75%) iPad
13 4 (0.75%) iPhone
13 4 (0.75%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 374 (69.78%) Windows
2 139 (25.93%) Windows Server
3 102 (19.03%) Linux
4 64 (11.94%) Windows 10
5 41 (7.65%) Android
6 30 (5.60%) Mac OS
6 30 (5.60%) Windows Server 2016
7 25 (4.66%) Windows Server 2019
8 18 (3.36%) Apple iOS
9 12 (2.24%) Mac OS X
10 11 (2.05%) Ubuntu
11 9 (1.68%) Windows Server 2012
12 8 (1.49%) Unix
12 8 (1.49%) Windows 7
13 2 (0.37%) VMS
14 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 181 (33.77%) Problem-Solving
2 115 (21.46%) Customer Service
3 97 (18.10%) ITIL
4 82 (15.30%) Network Management
5 79 (14.74%) Cybersecurity
6 74 (13.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 68 (12.69%) Computer Science
8 49 (9.14%) Mentoring
9 43 (8.02%) Network Design
10 42 (7.84%) Migration
11 41 (7.65%) Disaster Recovery
12 40 (7.46%) Continuous Improvement
13 36 (6.72%) Asset Management
14 34 (6.34%) ITSM
15 29 (5.41%) Agile
15 29 (5.41%) IT Asset Management
16 28 (5.22%) CI/CD
16 28 (5.22%) Kalman Filter
16 28 (5.22%) Systems Engineering
17 27 (5.04%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 89 (16.60%) PowerShell
2 36 (6.72%) SQL
3 20 (3.73%) Python
4 16 (2.99%) C#
5 8 (1.49%) Java
6 4 (0.75%) C
6 4 (0.75%) C++
7 2 (0.37%) VBScript
8 1 (0.19%) Bash
8 1 (0.19%) Bicep
8 1 (0.19%) Perl
8 1 (0.19%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.19%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.19%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.19%) Uniface
Qualifications
1 121 (22.57%) Degree
2 83 (15.49%) Microsoft Certification
3 50 (9.33%) Cisco Certification
3 50 (9.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 47 (8.77%) CCNA
5 43 (8.02%) MCSE
6 39 (7.28%) MCP
7 33 (6.16%) CCNP
8 32 (5.97%) Security Cleared
9 28 (5.22%) LPIC
10 26 (4.85%) HND
11 25 (4.66%) DBS Check
12 18 (3.36%) SC Cleared
13 17 (3.17%) A+ Certification
13 17 (3.17%) BPSS Clearance
14 14 (2.61%) HNC
15 12 (2.24%) DV Cleared
16 11 (2.05%) MCSA
17 8 (1.49%) Azure Certification
18 6 (1.12%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (3.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 14 (2.61%) SLA
3 12 (2.24%) GDPR
4 9 (1.68%) NIST
5 8 (1.49%) Cyber Essentials
6 6 (1.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 5 (0.93%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.75%) QA
9 3 (0.56%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.37%) Accessibility
10 2 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 1 (0.19%) GRC
11 1 (0.19%) HIPAA
System Software
1 266 (49.63%) Active Directory
2 65 (12.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 44 (8.21%) Virtual Servers
4 43 (8.02%) Hyper-V
5 11 (2.05%) VMware ESXi
6 10 (1.87%) Virtual Desktop
7 8 (1.49%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (0.93%) Firmware
8 5 (0.93%) vSphere
9 2 (0.37%) Docker
9 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 82 (15.30%) Microsoft Intune
2 23 (4.29%) SCCM
3 19 (3.54%) Ansible
4 13 (2.43%) Jamf Pro
5 12 (2.24%) Terraform
6 8 (1.49%) WSUS
7 7 (1.31%) SmoothWall
8 6 (1.12%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (0.93%) FortiGate
9 5 (0.93%) SCOM
10 4 (0.75%) CASB
10 4 (0.75%) Kubernetes
11 3 (0.56%) Autotask
12 2 (0.37%) Host Intrusion Detection System
12 2 (0.37%) vCenter Server
13 1 (0.19%) Failover Clustering
13 1 (0.19%) Plesk
13 1 (0.19%) Puppet
Vendors
1 310 (57.84%) Microsoft
2 101 (18.84%) VMware
3 100 (18.66%) Cisco
4 31 (5.78%) Apple
5 29 (5.41%) Google
5 29 (5.41%) Meraki
6 27 (5.04%) Veeam
7 21 (3.92%) Fortinet
8 18 (3.36%) Dell
8 18 (3.36%) Zoho
9 16 (2.99%) Atlassian
10 13 (2.43%) Citrix
10 13 (2.43%) HP
10 13 (2.43%) Sophos
10 13 (2.43%) Ubiquiti
11 10 (1.87%) Zscaler
12 9 (1.68%) ServiceNow
13 8 (1.49%) Aruba
13 8 (1.49%) CheckPoint
14 7 (1.31%) Palo Alto