IT Engineer Job Trends in London

IT Engineer
England > London

The median IT Engineer salary in London is £40,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 9 January 2026.

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

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 236 292 249
Rank change year-on-year +56 -43 +105
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 131 130 212
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.94% 0.84% 1.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.03% 0.91% 1.24%
Number of salaries quoted 104 77 189
10th Percentile £28,325 £31,250 £31,200
25th Percentile £33,625 £35,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £47,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +18.75% +6.67%
75th Percentile £55,000 £60,000 £57,750
90th Percentile £70,000 - £72,500
England median annual salary £32,500 £35,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +6.06%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 12,673 14,335 17,136
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.03% 92.71% 95.24%
Number of salaries quoted 8,412 8,295 13,802
10th Percentile £36,000 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,438 £95,000
90th Percentile £113,750 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £59,059
% change year-on-year -8.33% +1.59% -3.97%

IT Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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 London.

IT Engineer job vacancy trend in London

IT Engineer
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for IT Engineer job vacancies in London.

Salary distribution trend for IT Engineer job vacancies in London

IT Engineer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing IT Engineer in London over the 6 months to 9 January 2026.

Salary histogram for IT Engineer in London

IT Engineer
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IT Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 9 January 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
Central London +68 38 £40,000 -11.11% 10
South London +36 9 £46,000 +26.03% 2
West London -1 4 £38,000 -1.30% 2
East London -11 1 - - 2
North London - 1 - -
IT Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 9 January 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 London region featuring IT Engineer in the job title.

1 86 (65.65%) Microsoft
2 84 (64.12%) Windows
3 74 (56.49%) Microsoft 365
4 63 (48.09%) Azure
5 57 (43.51%) Active Directory
6 46 (35.11%) Problem-Solving
7 44 (33.59%) DNS
7 44 (33.59%) Windows Server
8 42 (32.06%) Firewall
9 40 (30.53%) VPN
10 36 (27.48%) DHCP
11 33 (25.19%) Microsoft Exchange
11 33 (25.19%) Microsoft Intune
12 32 (24.43%) TCP/IP
13 31 (23.66%) Windows 10
14 29 (22.14%) Degree
15 28 (21.37%) VMware
15 28 (21.37%) Wi-Fi
16 26 (19.85%) VLAN
17 25 (19.08%) Entra ID
18 24 (18.32%) AWS
18 24 (18.32%) Mac OS
19 22 (16.79%) Disaster Recovery
19 22 (16.79%) ITIL
20 21 (16.03%) WAN
21 20 (15.27%) Customer Service
21 20 (15.27%) Cybersecurity
22 19 (14.50%) Hyper-V
23 18 (13.74%) SharePoint
24 17 (12.98%) Agile

IT Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 33 (25.19%) Microsoft Exchange
2 18 (13.74%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 13 (9.92%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.29%) CINEMA 4D
3 1 (0.76%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.76%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 74 (56.49%) Microsoft 365
2 63 (48.09%) Azure
3 25 (19.08%) Entra ID
4 24 (18.32%) AWS
5 16 (12.21%) Google Workspace
6 11 (8.40%) SaaS
7 10 (7.63%) OneDrive
8 8 (6.11%) Datadog
9 6 (4.58%) IaaS
9 6 (4.58%) PaaS
10 4 (3.05%) Amazon S3
10 4 (3.05%) Power Platform
11 3 (2.29%) Adobe Analytics
11 3 (2.29%) Adobe Creative Cloud
11 3 (2.29%) Cohesity
11 3 (2.29%) GCP
11 3 (2.29%) Kong
11 3 (2.29%) Nutanix
12 2 (1.53%) Cloud Computing
12 2 (1.53%) Contentstack
Communications & Networking
1 44 (33.59%) DNS
2 42 (32.06%) Firewall
3 40 (30.53%) VPN
4 36 (27.48%) DHCP
5 32 (24.43%) TCP/IP
6 28 (21.37%) Wi-Fi
7 26 (19.85%) VLAN
8 21 (16.03%) WAN
9 15 (11.45%) LAN
10 13 (9.92%) SAN
10 13 (9.92%) VoIP
11 8 (6.11%) Wireless
12 7 (5.34%) SD-WAN
13 3 (2.29%) NAS
13 3 (2.29%) Network Security
14 2 (1.53%) Extranet
14 2 (1.53%) Internet
14 2 (1.53%) Intranet
14 2 (1.53%) Intrusion Detection
14 2 (1.53%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (10.69%) SQL Server
2 4 (3.05%) NoSQL
3 3 (2.29%) DynamoDB
3 3 (2.29%) Mixpanel
3 3 (2.29%) MongoDB
3 3 (2.29%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.53%) Oracle Database
4 2 (1.53%) Power BI
5 1 (0.76%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.76%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 5 (3.82%) Chocolatey
2 4 (3.05%) Git
3 3 (2.29%) Browser DevTools
3 3 (2.29%) Charles Proxy
3 3 (2.29%) Fiddler
3 3 (2.29%) JIRA
3 3 (2.29%) Maven
3 3 (2.29%) Postman
3 3 (2.29%) Selenium
3 3 (2.29%) TestNG
3 3 (2.29%) WebDriver
3 3 (2.29%) Zephyr
4 2 (1.53%) Burp Suite
4 2 (1.53%) JMeter
4 2 (1.53%) LoadRunner
4 2 (1.53%) NeoLoad
5 1 (0.76%) Snyk
General
1 57 (43.51%) Social Skills
2 25 (19.08%) Finance
3 22 (16.79%) Law
4 17 (12.98%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (6.11%) Legal
6 6 (4.58%) Games
6 6 (4.58%) Manufacturing
7 5 (3.82%) Banking
7 5 (3.82%) Billing
7 5 (3.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (3.82%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (2.29%) Advertising
8 3 (2.29%) Electronics
8 3 (2.29%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.76%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (6.87%) REST
2 8 (6.11%) .NET
3 6 (4.58%) GraphQL
4 5 (3.82%) React
5 4 (3.05%) AngularJS
6 3 (2.29%) .NET Framework
7 2 (1.53%) OAuth
8 1 (0.76%) AVA JavaScript Test Runner
8 1 (0.76%) Django
8 1 (0.76%) Flask
8 1 (0.76%) LangChain
8 1 (0.76%) LangGraph
8 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Graph
8 1 (0.76%) OAuth2
8 1 (0.76%) Spring
8 1 (0.76%) Spring Boot
8 1 (0.76%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 14 (10.69%) Product Ownership
2 7 (5.34%) CCTV
2 7 (5.34%) CMDB
2 7 (5.34%) Onboarding
2 7 (5.34%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (4.58%) Driving Licence
3 6 (4.58%) Fat Client
3 6 (4.58%) Thin Client
3 6 (4.58%) Virtual Team
4 5 (3.82%) Cyber Threat
4 5 (3.82%) iPhone
5 4 (3.05%) Cloud Native
5 4 (3.05%) Data Centre
5 4 (3.05%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.29%) W3C
7 2 (1.53%) BYOD
7 2 (1.53%) iPad
7 2 (1.53%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.53%) Private Cloud
7 2 (1.53%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 84 (64.12%) Windows
2 44 (33.59%) Windows Server
3 31 (23.66%) Windows 10
4 24 (18.32%) Mac OS
5 16 (12.21%) Windows Server 2016
6 14 (10.69%) Windows Server 2019
7 10 (7.63%) Linux
8 8 (6.11%) Apple iOS
8 8 (6.11%) Mac OS X
8 8 (6.11%) Windows Server 2012
9 6 (4.58%) VMS
10 4 (3.05%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (35.11%) Problem-Solving
2 22 (16.79%) Disaster Recovery
2 22 (16.79%) ITIL
3 20 (15.27%) Customer Service
3 20 (15.27%) Cybersecurity
4 17 (12.98%) Agile
5 15 (11.45%) Business Strategy
5 15 (11.45%) Computer Science
5 15 (11.45%) Migration
6 14 (10.69%) ITSM
6 14 (10.69%) Root Cause Analysis
7 13 (9.92%) Analytics
8 11 (8.40%) AI
8 11 (8.40%) Continuous Improvement
8 11 (8.40%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 10 (7.63%) CI/CD
9 10 (7.63%) Incident Response
9 10 (7.63%) Scrum
9 10 (7.63%) SDLC
10 9 (6.87%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 13 (9.92%) PowerShell
2 10 (7.63%) JavaScript
3 8 (6.11%) Python
4 6 (4.58%) SQL
5 5 (3.82%) Java
6 4 (3.05%) C#
7 1 (0.76%) Perl
7 1 (0.76%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.76%) VBA
Qualifications
1 29 (22.14%) Degree
2 8 (6.11%) Azure Certification
3 7 (5.34%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (4.58%) DBS Check
5 5 (3.82%) A+ Certification
5 5 (3.82%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (3.05%) CISM
6 4 (3.05%) CISSP
6 4 (3.05%) Master's Degree
7 3 (2.29%) CCNA
7 3 (2.29%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (2.29%) CompTIA Security+
7 3 (2.29%) MCSA
7 3 (2.29%) Network+ Certification
8 2 (1.53%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.76%) CCNP
9 1 (0.76%) CCSP
9 1 (0.76%) CISA
9 1 (0.76%) MCITP
9 1 (0.76%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.40%) SLA
2 9 (6.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (6.87%) QA
3 7 (5.34%) GDPR
4 3 (2.29%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.76%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.76%) NIST
5 1 (0.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 57 (43.51%) Active Directory
2 19 (14.50%) Hyper-V
3 15 (11.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (2.29%) Docker
5 2 (1.53%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.76%) Firmware
6 1 (0.76%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 33 (25.19%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (6.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 8 (6.11%) SCCM
3 6 (4.58%) Kubernetes
4 5 (3.82%) Autotask
5 4 (3.05%) Jamf Pro
6 3 (2.29%) Ansible
7 2 (1.53%) SmoothWall
8 1 (0.76%) CASB
8 1 (0.76%) Nessus
8 1 (0.76%) QRadar
8 1 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 86 (65.65%) Microsoft
2 28 (21.37%) VMware
3 17 (12.98%) Google
4 13 (9.92%) Apple
5 9 (6.87%) ServiceNow
6 7 (5.34%) Fortinet
7 6 (4.58%) Acronis
7 6 (4.58%) Adobe
7 6 (4.58%) Datto
7 6 (4.58%) Tenable
8 5 (3.82%) AppDynamics
8 5 (3.82%) Dynatrace
8 5 (3.82%) Oracle
9 3 (2.29%) ConnectWise
9 3 (2.29%) MuleSoft
9 3 (2.29%) Okta
9 3 (2.29%) Tealium
10 2 (1.53%) Cisco
10 2 (1.53%) iManage
10 2 (1.53%) Veeam