Project Engineer Jobs in England

Project Engineer
UK > England

The median Project Engineer salary in England is £46,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 28 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
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 497 539 780
Rank change year-on-year +42 +241 +203
Permanent jobs requiring a Project Engineer 189 315 141
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.39% 0.36% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.43% 0.38% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 66 242 49
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £31,100
25th Percentile £44,000 £38,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,250 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £67,500 £56,000 £53,750
90th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £57,500
UK median annual salary £44,500 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -6.32% - +4.40%

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 43,919 83,679 79,671
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.79% 94.64% 91.48%
Number of salaries quoted 23,116 62,210 50,998
10th Percentile £29,250 £28,500 £32,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,084 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £52,500 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -13.65% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Project Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Project Engineer in England

Project Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Project Engineer in England

Project Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Project Engineer in England over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Project Engineer in England

Project 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 Project Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 28 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
Midlands +52 50 £52,500 +5.00% 38
East Midlands +45 35 £53,750 +7.50% 18
London +118 30 £55,000 +22.22% 26
North of England +5 27 £44,000 -20.00% 62
South East +8 26 £67,500 +50.00% 57
North West -6 22 £44,000 -28.09% 27
East of England +47 17 £44,000 -2.22% 27
West Midlands +50 15 £39,000 -20.41% 19
South West +87 10 £67,500 +80.00% 27
Yorkshire +39 4 £50,000 +5.26% 27
North East +42 1 £34,000 -37.04% 10
Project Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 28 May 2025, Project 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 Project Engineer in the job title.

1 87 (46.03%) AutoCAD
2 83 (43.92%) DVB
2 83 (43.92%) Broadband
2 83 (43.92%) MPEG
2 83 (43.92%) Technical Architecture
2 83 (43.92%) Procure-to-Pay
2 83 (43.92%) Post-Production
3 45 (23.81%) Degree
4 35 (18.52%) Project Management
5 30 (15.87%) Microsoft
6 29 (15.34%) Project Delivery
7 28 (14.81%) Social Skills
8 26 (13.76%) Azure
9 25 (13.23%) Analytical Skills
10 21 (11.11%) Manufacturing
11 20 (10.58%) VMware
11 20 (10.58%) Legal
12 18 (9.52%) Continuous Improvement
12 18 (9.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 16 (8.47%) Microsoft 365
13 16 (8.47%) BPSS Clearance
13 16 (8.47%) Law
13 16 (8.47%) Firewall
14 15 (7.94%) Finance
14 15 (7.94%) Cisco
14 15 (7.94%) Problem-Solving
14 15 (7.94%) Business Case
15 14 (7.41%) Windows Server
15 14 (7.41%) Windows
16 13 (6.88%) HP

Project 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 9 (4.76%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.59%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 87 (46.03%) AutoCAD
2 6 (3.17%) Microsoft Project
3 5 (2.65%) MS Visio
4 4 (2.12%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (2.12%) Trello
5 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.53%) Revit
Business Applications
1 1 (0.53%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 26 (13.76%) Azure
2 16 (8.47%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (3.17%) IaaS
4 5 (2.65%) Mimecast
5 4 (2.12%) Power Platform
6 2 (1.06%) Entra ID
7 1 (0.53%) OneDrive
7 1 (0.53%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 83 (43.92%) Broadband
1 83 (43.92%) DVB
2 16 (8.47%) Firewall
3 12 (6.35%) LAN
3 12 (6.35%) WAN
4 8 (4.23%) Wi-Fi
5 7 (3.70%) Cisco Firepower
5 7 (3.70%) SD-WAN
5 7 (3.70%) VPN
6 4 (2.12%) DNS
6 4 (2.12%) VLAN
7 3 (1.59%) SAN
8 2 (1.06%) DHCP
8 2 (1.06%) iSCSI
8 2 (1.06%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.53%) Asterisk PBX
9 1 (0.53%) Multicast
9 1 (0.53%) Remote Desktop
9 1 (0.53%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (4.76%) MongoDB
2 6 (3.17%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.53%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (2.12%) JIRA
General
1 28 (14.81%) Social Skills
2 25 (13.23%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (11.11%) Manufacturing
4 20 (10.58%) Legal
5 16 (8.47%) Law
6 15 (7.94%) Finance
7 12 (6.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (4.76%) Aerospace
8 9 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (3.17%) Public Sector
10 2 (1.06%) Billing
10 2 (1.06%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.53%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.53%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (4.76%) Kafka
2 1 (0.53%) SOAP
2 1 (0.53%) XML
2 1 (0.53%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 83 (43.92%) MPEG
2 7 (3.70%) Driving Licence
3 6 (3.17%) Operational Technology
4 4 (2.12%) Onboarding
4 4 (2.12%) SCADA
5 2 (1.06%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (1.06%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (0.53%) Life Science
6 1 (0.53%) Robotics
6 1 (0.53%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.53%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 14 (7.41%) Windows
1 14 (7.41%) Windows Server
2 2 (1.06%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (0.53%) Debian
3 1 (0.53%) Linux
3 1 (0.53%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (43.92%) Post-Production
1 83 (43.92%) Procure-to-Pay
1 83 (43.92%) Technical Architecture
2 35 (18.52%) Project Management
3 29 (15.34%) Project Delivery
4 18 (9.52%) Continuous Improvement
4 18 (9.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 15 (7.94%) Business Case
5 15 (7.94%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (6.35%) Cybersecurity
6 12 (6.35%) Data Analysis
6 12 (6.35%) Data Management
6 12 (6.35%) Logistic Engineering
6 12 (6.35%) Logistics
6 12 (6.35%) Requirements Gathering
7 10 (5.29%) GAP Analysis
7 10 (5.29%) Roadmaps
7 10 (5.29%) Supply Chain Management
8 9 (4.76%) API Integration
8 9 (4.76%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (1.59%) PowerShell
2 1 (0.53%) Bash
2 1 (0.53%) Python
2 1 (0.53%) SQL
Qualifications
1 45 (23.81%) Degree
2 16 (8.47%) BPSS Clearance
3 10 (5.29%) Cisco Certification
3 10 (5.29%) SC Cleared
3 10 (5.29%) Security Cleared
4 9 (4.76%) HND
5 7 (3.70%) CCIE
5 7 (3.70%) CCNP
6 4 (2.12%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.59%) CCNA
7 3 (1.59%) CISSP
7 3 (1.59%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (1.59%) TOGAF Certification
8 2 (1.06%) HNC
9 1 (0.53%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.53%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.53%) MCSA
9 1 (0.53%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.76%) Def Stans
2 2 (1.06%) PMO
3 1 (0.53%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.53%) ISO 9001
3 1 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.53%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (6.35%) Active Directory
2 10 (5.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (3.17%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (3.17%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (1.59%) Autotask
3 2 (1.06%) FortiGate
3 2 (1.06%) Jamf Pro
3 2 (1.06%) SCCM
4 1 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 30 (15.87%) Microsoft
2 20 (10.58%) VMware
3 15 (7.94%) Cisco
4 13 (6.88%) HP
5 11 (5.82%) Fortinet
6 10 (5.29%) Meraki
7 9 (4.76%) Aruba
7 9 (4.76%) Palo Alto
8 3 (1.59%) Dell
8 3 (1.59%) Veeam
9 2 (1.06%) Apple
9 2 (1.06%) Datto
9 2 (1.06%) Sophos
9 2 (1.06%) WatchGuard
10 1 (0.53%) Avaya
10 1 (0.53%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.53%) SAP