IT Engineer Jobs in Oxfordshire

IT Engineer
South East > Oxfordshire

The median IT Engineer salary in Oxfordshire is £27,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 28 April 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 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 46 98
Rank change year-on-year -2 +52 -1
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 17 65 25
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 2.61% 3.86% 1.58%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.07% 4.04% 1.86%
Number of salaries quoted 16 64 24
10th Percentile - £31,000 £26,125
25th Percentile £25,750 £36,250 £29,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £27,500 £42,000 £32,250
Median % change year-on-year -34.52% +30.23% -17.31%
75th Percentile £38,000 £43,750 £40,313
90th Percentile £40,250 - £53,750
South East median annual salary £35,000 £34,000 £31,500
% change year-on-year +2.94% +7.94% -8.70%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Oxfordshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Oxfordshire. 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 Oxfordshire with a recognized job title 554 1,609 1,344
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 85.10% 95.66% 84.90%
Number of salaries quoted 364 1,302 811
10th Percentile £32,500 £29,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £32,626
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £46,293 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.81% -7.41% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £60,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £81,250
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

IT Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Engineer in Oxfordshire

IT Engineer
Salary Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Salary trend for IT Engineer in Oxfordshire

IT Engineer
Salary Histogram in Oxfordshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing IT Engineer in Oxfordshire over the 6 months to 28 April 2025.

Salary histogram for IT Engineer in Oxfordshire

IT Engineer
Job Locations in Oxfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IT Engineer within the Oxfordshire region over the 6 months to 28 April 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
Banbury +15 9 £27,500 -45.00%
Oxford +11 5 £36,000 -6.49% 5
Witney -7 1 £42,500 +1.19%
IT Engineer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 28 April 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 Oxfordshire region featuring IT Engineer in the job title.

1 16 (94.12%) Windows
2 14 (82.35%) Microsoft
2 14 (82.35%) Problem-Solving
3 13 (76.47%) DNS
4 12 (70.59%) Active Directory
4 12 (70.59%) Social Skills
5 11 (64.71%) Microsoft 365
5 11 (64.71%) DHCP
5 11 (64.71%) TCP/IP
6 10 (58.82%) MCP
6 10 (58.82%) Microsoft Certification
6 10 (58.82%) Azure
7 9 (52.94%) AWS
7 9 (52.94%) A+ Certification
7 9 (52.94%) Microsoft Office
7 9 (52.94%) GCP
7 9 (52.94%) Google
8 4 (23.53%) Firewall
9 3 (17.65%) VPN
9 3 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
10 2 (11.76%) ConnectWise
10 2 (11.76%) Project Delivery
10 2 (11.76%) Meraki
10 2 (11.76%) Windows Server
10 2 (11.76%) Root Cause Analysis
10 2 (11.76%) WAN
10 2 (11.76%) Cisco
10 2 (11.76%) Linux
10 2 (11.76%) SharePoint
10 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Exchange

IT Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (11.76%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (52.94%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 11 (64.71%) Microsoft 365
2 10 (58.82%) Azure
3 9 (52.94%) AWS
3 9 (52.94%) GCP
4 2 (11.76%) Entra ID
4 2 (11.76%) OneDrive
4 2 (11.76%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (76.47%) DNS
2 11 (64.71%) DHCP
2 11 (64.71%) TCP/IP
3 4 (23.53%) Firewall
4 3 (17.65%) VPN
5 2 (11.76%) VLAN
5 2 (11.76%) WAN
6 1 (5.88%) 4G
6 1 (5.88%) 5G
6 1 (5.88%) Internet
6 1 (5.88%) LAN
6 1 (5.88%) Network Security
6 1 (5.88%) SD-WAN
6 1 (5.88%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (5.88%) WLAN
General
1 12 (70.59%) Social Skills
2 3 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.88%) Driving Licence
1 1 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
1 1 (5.88%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 16 (94.12%) Windows
2 2 (11.76%) Linux
2 2 (11.76%) Mac OS
2 2 (11.76%) Windows Server
3 1 (5.88%) Android
3 1 (5.88%) Windows 10
3 1 (5.88%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (5.88%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (82.35%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (11.76%) Change Management
2 2 (11.76%) Data Entry
2 2 (11.76%) Password Management
2 2 (11.76%) Project Delivery
2 2 (11.76%) Project Management
2 2 (11.76%) Project Planning
2 2 (11.76%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (5.88%) Asset Management
3 1 (5.88%) Computer Science
3 1 (5.88%) Data Protection
3 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (5.88%) IT Asset Management
3 1 (5.88%) ITIL
3 1 (5.88%) Mentoring
3 1 (5.88%) Network Management
3 1 (5.88%) Server Management
3 1 (5.88%) Service Delivery
Qualifications
1 10 (58.82%) MCP
1 10 (58.82%) Microsoft Certification
2 9 (52.94%) A+ Certification
3 2 (11.76%) CCNA
3 2 (11.76%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (11.76%) SC Cleared
3 2 (11.76%) Security Cleared
4 1 (5.88%) CCNP
4 1 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (5.88%) Degree
4 1 (5.88%) LPIC
4 1 (5.88%) MCSE
4 1 (5.88%) Network+ Certification
System Software
1 12 (70.59%) Active Directory
2 2 (11.76%) Hyper-V
3 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 1 (5.88%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (5.88%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 14 (82.35%) Microsoft
2 9 (52.94%) Google
3 2 (11.76%) Cisco
3 2 (11.76%) ConnectWise
3 2 (11.76%) Meraki
3 2 (11.76%) Veeam
4 1 (5.88%) VMware