IT Engineer Jobs in the South East

IT Engineer
England > South East

The median IT Engineer salary in the South East is £37,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 29 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
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 186 114 194
Rank change year-on-year -72 +80 +11
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 122 408 244
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 1.28% 2.34% 1.73%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.47% 2.49% 1.92%
Number of salaries quoted 91 385 212
10th Percentile £25,750 £24,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £27,500 £26,500 £27,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,000 £34,000 £32,250
Median % change year-on-year +8.82% +5.43% -6.52%
75th Percentile £42,500 £43,000 £47,500
90th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £53,750
England median annual salary £35,000 £32,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% -

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 8,283 16,379 12,707
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 86.89% 94.08% 90.21%
Number of salaries quoted 4,409 11,667 8,026
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £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 £56,000 £52,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +6.67% -13.65% +1.33%

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 29 May 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 29 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
Surrey +72 50 £38,750 +13.97% 13
Thames Valley -46 33 £37,000 -5.73% 22
Hampshire -6 18 £31,250 -3.10% 14
Kent +29 16 £42,456 +51.63% 15
Berkshire +4 15 £37,500 -6.25% 7
Oxfordshire -6 13 £27,500 -34.52% 9
Buckinghamshire +11 5 £28,000 -6.67% 8
West Sussex +4 3 £50,000 +66.67% 9
East Sussex -25 2 £27,500 -6.78%
IT Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 29 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 South East region featuring IT Engineer in the job title.

1 71 (58.20%) Windows
2 65 (53.28%) Microsoft
3 53 (43.44%) Social Skills
4 51 (41.80%) Active Directory
5 50 (40.98%) Problem-Solving
6 48 (39.34%) Microsoft 365
7 41 (33.61%) VMware
8 36 (29.51%) Azure
9 32 (26.23%) Microsoft Exchange
10 31 (25.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 29 (23.77%) VMware Infrastructure
12 27 (22.13%) PowerShell
13 24 (19.67%) Degree
13 24 (19.67%) Customer Service
14 23 (18.85%) Microsoft Certification
14 23 (18.85%) Security Cleared
15 21 (17.21%) SAN
16 20 (16.39%) Disaster Recovery
16 20 (16.39%) Mac OS
17 19 (15.57%) Virtual Environments
18 18 (14.75%) Windows Server
18 18 (14.75%) NAS
18 18 (14.75%) DNS
19 17 (13.93%) High Availability
20 16 (13.11%) Continuous Improvement
20 16 (13.11%) Kalman Filter
20 16 (13.11%) Firewall
21 15 (12.30%) DHCP
21 15 (12.30%) HND
21 15 (12.30%) Windows 10

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 32 (26.23%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (10.66%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (7.38%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (4.10%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 48 (39.34%) Microsoft 365
2 36 (29.51%) Azure
3 14 (11.48%) AWS
4 8 (6.56%) Entra ID
4 8 (6.56%) GCP
5 5 (4.10%) SaaS
6 3 (2.46%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (2.46%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (2.46%) Mimecast
6 3 (2.46%) Power Platform
6 3 (2.46%) Route 53
6 3 (2.46%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (1.64%) Nutanix
7 2 (1.64%) OneDrive
8 1 (0.82%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 21 (17.21%) SAN
2 18 (14.75%) DNS
2 18 (14.75%) NAS
3 16 (13.11%) Firewall
4 15 (12.30%) DHCP
5 14 (11.48%) TCP/IP
6 13 (10.66%) VPN
7 9 (7.38%) VLAN
8 8 (6.56%) WAN
9 7 (5.74%) LAN
9 7 (5.74%) VoIP
10 5 (4.10%) BGP
10 5 (4.10%) IP Telephony
10 5 (4.10%) OSPF
10 5 (4.10%) SNMP
11 3 (2.46%) Remote Desktop
12 2 (1.64%) Network Security
13 1 (0.82%) 4G
13 1 (0.82%) 5G
13 1 (0.82%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (8.20%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.46%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (0.82%) Git
1 1 (0.82%) Postman
General
1 53 (43.44%) Social Skills
2 9 (7.38%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (7.38%) Telecoms
3 8 (6.56%) Finance
4 3 (2.46%) Automotive
5 1 (0.82%) Legal
5 1 (0.82%) Manufacturing
5 1 (0.82%) Military
5 1 (0.82%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.64%) EDI
2 1 (0.82%) GraphQL
2 1 (0.82%) JSON
2 1 (0.82%) REST
2 1 (0.82%) SOAP
2 1 (0.82%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (11.48%) Driving Licence
2 10 (8.20%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (4.92%) Clustering
3 6 (4.92%) Onboarding
4 5 (4.10%) Blackberry
5 2 (1.64%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.64%) Social Media
6 1 (0.82%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.82%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (0.82%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.82%) Operational Technology
6 1 (0.82%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (0.82%) Replication
6 1 (0.82%) Smartphone
6 1 (0.82%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 71 (58.20%) Windows
2 20 (16.39%) Mac OS
3 18 (14.75%) Windows Server
4 15 (12.30%) Windows 10
5 14 (11.48%) Linux
6 12 (9.84%) Apple iOS
7 7 (5.74%) Windows Server 2012
8 6 (4.92%) Android
9 4 (3.28%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (2.46%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (1.64%) Unix
11 2 (1.64%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (40.98%) Problem-Solving
2 31 (25.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 24 (19.67%) Customer Service
4 20 (16.39%) Disaster Recovery
5 19 (15.57%) Virtual Environments
6 17 (13.93%) High Availability
7 16 (13.11%) Continuous Improvement
7 16 (13.11%) Kalman Filter
8 13 (10.66%) Computer Science
9 12 (9.84%) Server Building
9 12 (9.84%) Web Filtering
10 11 (9.02%) Antivirus Management
10 11 (9.02%) IT Strategy
10 11 (9.02%) ITSM
10 11 (9.02%) Patch Management
11 10 (8.20%) Cybersecurity
11 10 (8.20%) Mobile Device Management
12 9 (7.38%) ITIL
13 8 (6.56%) B2B
14 7 (5.74%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 27 (22.13%) PowerShell
2 7 (5.74%) SQL
3 5 (4.10%) Python
4 2 (1.64%) Java
5 1 (0.82%) Uniface
5 1 (0.82%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 24 (19.67%) Degree
2 23 (18.85%) Microsoft Certification
2 23 (18.85%) Security Cleared
3 15 (12.30%) HND
4 12 (9.84%) DV Cleared
5 11 (9.02%) A+ Certification
6 10 (8.20%) MCP
7 9 (7.38%) SC Cleared
8 7 (5.74%) CCNA
8 7 (5.74%) Cisco Certification
9 6 (4.92%) DBS Check
10 5 (4.10%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (2.46%) HNC
11 3 (2.46%) MCSA
11 3 (2.46%) MCSE
12 1 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.82%) CCNP
12 1 (0.82%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (1.64%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (1.64%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 2 (1.64%) QA
System Software
1 51 (41.80%) Active Directory
2 29 (23.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (9.02%) Hyper-V
4 3 (2.46%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (1.64%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.82%) Docker
6 1 (0.82%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 1 (0.82%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.82%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.82%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (9.84%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (3.28%) FortiGate
3 3 (2.46%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.46%) Terraform
4 2 (1.64%) SCCM
5 1 (0.82%) WSUS
Vendors
1 65 (53.28%) Microsoft
2 41 (33.61%) VMware
3 11 (9.02%) Cisco
3 11 (9.02%) Google
4 8 (6.56%) Sophos
4 8 (6.56%) Veeam
5 7 (5.74%) Apple
6 6 (4.92%) CheckPoint
6 6 (4.92%) Meraki
7 5 (4.10%) Fortinet
7 5 (4.10%) Juniper
7 5 (4.10%) McAfee
8 3 (2.46%) Aruba
8 3 (2.46%) HP
8 3 (2.46%) SonicWALL
9 2 (1.64%) BT
9 2 (1.64%) Citrix
9 2 (1.64%) Dell
9 2 (1.64%) Facebook
10 1 (0.82%) Draytek