IT Engineer Jobs in the South East

IT Engineer
England > South East

The median IT Engineer salary in the South East is £37,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 June 2025.

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

6 months to
14 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 184 113 188
Rank change year-on-year -71 +75 +34
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 126 423 225
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 1.31% 2.26% 1.70%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.49% 2.40% 1.90%
Number of salaries quoted 93 387 203
10th Percentile £25,750 £24,000 £25,750
25th Percentile £28,000 £26,750 £27,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £34,000 £31,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.29% +7.94% -7.35%
75th Percentile £42,500 £43,000 £47,500
90th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £53,750
England median annual salary £35,000 £33,000 £34,500
% change year-on-year +6.06% -4.35% -1.43%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the South East. 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 the South East with a recognized job title 8,455 17,626 11,841
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 87.98% 94.32% 89.64%
Number of salaries quoted 4,534 12,413 7,796
10th Percentile £29,075 £27,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £39,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,567
% change year-on-year +4.76% -13.32% +0.95%

IT Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Engineer in the South East

IT Engineer
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing IT Engineer in the South East.

Salary trend for IT Engineer in the South East

IT Engineer
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing IT Engineer in the South East over the 6 months to 14 June 2025.

Salary histogram for IT Engineer in the South East

IT Engineer
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IT Engineer within the South East region over the 6 months to 14 June 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
Surrey +75 52 £40,000 +14.29% 11
Thames Valley -35 39 £37,500 -3.85% 42
Berkshire +10 19 £37,500 -6.25% 22
Kent +29 18 £42,456 +51.63% 10
Oxfordshire -5 15 £37,000 -11.90% 4
Hampshire -8 12 £30,250 -2.42% 16
Buckinghamshire +6 5 £28,000 -6.67% 16
West Sussex +7 3 £50,000 +66.67% 7
East Sussex -23 2 £27,500 -8.33% 3
IT Engineer
England

IT Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 14 June 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 South East region featuring IT Engineer in the job title.

1 76 (60.32%) Windows
2 68 (53.97%) Microsoft
3 55 (43.65%) Active Directory
3 55 (43.65%) Social Skills
4 47 (37.30%) Problem-Solving
4 47 (37.30%) Microsoft 365
5 46 (36.51%) VMware
6 36 (28.57%) Microsoft Exchange
7 35 (27.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 35 (27.78%) Azure
8 33 (26.19%) VMware Infrastructure
9 28 (22.22%) PowerShell
10 27 (21.43%) Customer Service
10 27 (21.43%) Degree
11 23 (18.25%) Security Cleared
11 23 (18.25%) Mac OS
12 22 (17.46%) Microsoft Certification
12 22 (17.46%) SAN
13 20 (15.87%) DNS
13 20 (15.87%) Disaster Recovery
13 20 (15.87%) Virtual Environments
13 20 (15.87%) Windows Server
14 18 (14.29%) NAS
14 18 (14.29%) Kalman Filter
14 18 (14.29%) Firewall
15 17 (13.49%) DHCP
15 17 (13.49%) High Availability
15 17 (13.49%) Windows 10
16 16 (12.70%) Continuous Improvement
17 15 (11.90%) Hyper-V

IT Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 36 (28.57%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (10.32%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (6.35%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (3.97%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 47 (37.30%) Microsoft 365
2 35 (27.78%) Azure
3 12 (9.52%) AWS
4 8 (6.35%) Entra ID
4 8 (6.35%) GCP
5 5 (3.97%) SaaS
6 3 (2.38%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (2.38%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (2.38%) Mimecast
6 3 (2.38%) Route 53
6 3 (2.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (1.59%) Nutanix
7 2 (1.59%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 22 (17.46%) SAN
2 20 (15.87%) DNS
3 18 (14.29%) Firewall
3 18 (14.29%) NAS
4 17 (13.49%) DHCP
5 14 (11.11%) TCP/IP
6 13 (10.32%) VPN
7 9 (7.14%) VLAN
8 8 (6.35%) WAN
9 7 (5.56%) LAN
9 7 (5.56%) VoIP
10 5 (3.97%) BGP
10 5 (3.97%) IP Telephony
10 5 (3.97%) OSPF
10 5 (3.97%) SNMP
11 3 (2.38%) SMTP
12 2 (1.59%) Network Security
12 2 (1.59%) Remote Desktop
13 1 (0.79%) 5G
13 1 (0.79%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (11.11%) SQL Server
General
1 55 (43.65%) Social Skills
2 8 (6.35%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (6.35%) Finance
2 8 (6.35%) Telecoms
3 3 (2.38%) Automotive
4 2 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (0.79%) Manufacturing
5 1 (0.79%) Military
5 1 (0.79%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.59%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 13 (10.32%) Driving Licence
2 10 (7.94%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (4.76%) Clustering
3 6 (4.76%) Onboarding
4 5 (3.97%) Blackberry
5 3 (2.38%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.79%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (0.79%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.79%) Operational Technology
6 1 (0.79%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (0.79%) Replication
6 1 (0.79%) Social Media
6 1 (0.79%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 76 (60.32%) Windows
2 23 (18.25%) Mac OS
3 20 (15.87%) Windows Server
4 17 (13.49%) Windows 10
5 15 (11.90%) Linux
6 13 (10.32%) Apple iOS
7 7 (5.56%) Windows Server 2012
8 5 (3.97%) Android
9 4 (3.17%) Unix
9 4 (3.17%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (2.38%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (1.59%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (37.30%) Problem-Solving
2 35 (27.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 27 (21.43%) Customer Service
4 20 (15.87%) Disaster Recovery
4 20 (15.87%) Virtual Environments
5 18 (14.29%) Kalman Filter
6 17 (13.49%) High Availability
7 16 (12.70%) Continuous Improvement
8 15 (11.90%) Computer Science
9 14 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
10 12 (9.52%) Server Building
10 12 (9.52%) Web Filtering
11 11 (8.73%) Antivirus Management
11 11 (8.73%) IT Strategy
11 11 (8.73%) ITSM
11 11 (8.73%) Patch Management
12 10 (7.94%) ITIL
12 10 (7.94%) Mobile Device Management
13 9 (7.14%) Information Security
14 8 (6.35%) B2B
Programming Languages
1 28 (22.22%) PowerShell
2 8 (6.35%) SQL
3 4 (3.17%) Python
4 3 (2.38%) Uniface
5 2 (1.59%) Java
6 1 (0.79%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 27 (21.43%) Degree
2 23 (18.25%) Security Cleared
3 22 (17.46%) Microsoft Certification
4 15 (11.90%) HND
5 12 (9.52%) DV Cleared
6 10 (7.94%) A+ Certification
6 10 (7.94%) MCP
7 9 (7.14%) SC Cleared
8 6 (4.76%) CCNA
8 6 (4.76%) Cisco Certification
8 6 (4.76%) DBS Check
9 5 (3.97%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (2.38%) HNC
10 3 (2.38%) MCSA
11 2 (1.59%) MCSE
12 1 (0.79%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (3.17%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (3.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 2 (1.59%) QA
3 2 (1.59%) SLA
System Software
1 55 (43.65%) Active Directory
2 33 (26.19%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (11.90%) Hyper-V
4 3 (2.38%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (1.59%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 1 (0.79%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.79%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.79%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (9.52%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (3.17%) FortiGate
2 4 (3.17%) SCCM
3 3 (2.38%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.38%) Terraform
3 3 (2.38%) WSUS
Vendors
1 68 (53.97%) Microsoft
2 46 (36.51%) VMware
3 11 (8.73%) Cisco
3 11 (8.73%) Google
4 10 (7.94%) Sophos
5 9 (7.14%) Apple
6 8 (6.35%) Veeam
7 6 (4.76%) CheckPoint
7 6 (4.76%) Meraki
8 5 (3.97%) Fortinet
8 5 (3.97%) Juniper
8 5 (3.97%) McAfee
9 4 (3.17%) Citrix
10 3 (2.38%) Aruba
10 3 (2.38%) HP
10 3 (2.38%) SonicWALL
11 1 (0.79%) BT
11 1 (0.79%) Draytek
11 1 (0.79%) Facebook
11 1 (0.79%) Palo Alto