IT Engineer Jobs in the South East

IT Engineer
England > South East

The median IT Engineer salary in the South East is £34,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 115 184 206
Rank change year-on-year +69 +22 -14
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 412 277 341
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 2.49% 1.82% 1.74%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.66% 2.01% 1.80%
Number of salaries quoted 393 250 322
10th Percentile £24,375 £25,750 £25,000
25th Percentile £27,000 £27,750 £27,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £34,000 £31,250 £34,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.80% -8.09% +13.33%
75th Percentile £43,000 £44,313 £44,500
90th Percentile £48,750 £53,750 £57,500
England median annual salary £33,000 £34,500 £34,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +1.47% -2.86%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 15,515 13,804 18,906
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.90% 90.69% 96.33%
Number of salaries quoted 11,273 8,655 12,709
10th Percentile £27,500 £29,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,750 £39,875 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £64,750 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £54,000 £60,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.74% +0.83% +9.09%

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 19 April 2024.

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 19 April 2024. 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
Thames Valley +72 152 £39,000 +20.93% 25
Hampshire +15 106 £32,500 - 27
Oxfordshire +36 64 £42,000 +32.28% 10
East Sussex +47 56 £28,250 -37.22% 2
Berkshire +43 47 £40,000 +35.02% 6
West Sussex +69 43 £32,500 -10.96% 9
Buckinghamshire +3 41 £31,500 -3.08% 9
Surrey +7 25 £34,000 +9.68% 11
Kent -28 25 £28,000 -1.75% 9
Middlesex - 2 £28,000 -
Sussex - 1 £45,000 -
IT Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 19 April 2024, 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.

1 276 (66.99%) Microsoft 365
2 257 (62.38%) Windows
3 241 (58.50%) Microsoft
4 179 (43.45%) Active Directory
5 171 (41.50%) Firewall
6 168 (40.78%) Azure
7 146 (35.44%) Social Skills
8 127 (30.83%) Windows Server
9 104 (25.24%) VMware
10 91 (22.09%) Microsoft Exchange
11 86 (20.87%) Customer Service
12 85 (20.63%) Microsoft Office
13 83 (20.15%) SharePoint
14 80 (19.42%) VMware Infrastructure
15 76 (18.45%) SQL
16 75 (18.20%) Windows 10
17 69 (16.75%) Hyper-V
18 64 (15.53%) Degree
19 62 (15.05%) Problem-Solving
20 58 (14.08%) Driving Licence
21 55 (13.35%) DNS
22 54 (13.11%) VPN
22 54 (13.11%) Microsoft Intune
23 53 (12.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
24 46 (11.17%) Cisco
24 46 (11.17%) DHCP
25 45 (10.92%) VLAN
25 45 (10.92%) Cybersecurity
26 44 (10.68%) Citrix
27 41 (9.95%) TCP/IP

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 91 (22.09%) Microsoft Exchange
2 83 (20.15%) SharePoint
3 11 (2.67%) IIS
4 6 (1.46%) Exchange Server 2000
5 5 (1.21%) Exchange Server 2013
6 3 (0.73%) CMS
7 1 (0.24%) Apache
7 1 (0.24%) Confluence
7 1 (0.24%) Tomcat
Applications
1 85 (20.63%) Microsoft Office
2 38 (9.22%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.24%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.24%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 5 (1.21%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 276 (66.99%) Microsoft 365
2 168 (40.78%) Azure
3 34 (8.25%) Entra ID
4 25 (6.07%) AWS
4 25 (6.07%) OneDrive
5 12 (2.91%) iTunes
5 12 (2.91%) Mimecast
6 10 (2.43%) Google Workspace
7 6 (1.46%) SaaS
8 4 (0.97%) IaaS
9 3 (0.73%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (0.73%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (0.73%) PaaS
10 2 (0.49%) GCP
10 2 (0.49%) Rubrik
11 1 (0.24%) OCI
11 1 (0.24%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 171 (41.50%) Firewall
2 55 (13.35%) DNS
3 54 (13.11%) VPN
4 46 (11.17%) DHCP
5 45 (10.92%) VLAN
6 41 (9.95%) TCP/IP
7 38 (9.22%) VoIP
7 38 (9.22%) Wireless
8 30 (7.28%) Wi-Fi
9 25 (6.07%) WAN
10 23 (5.58%) Network Security
11 21 (5.10%) SAN
12 20 (4.85%) SSL
13 15 (3.64%) LAN
14 14 (3.40%) Unified Communications
15 12 (2.91%) NAS
16 9 (2.18%) SD-WAN
17 6 (1.46%) Remote Desktop
18 5 (1.21%) Wireless Security
18 5 (1.21%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (9.95%) SQL Server
2 9 (2.18%) MySQL
3 2 (0.49%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (0.49%) MongoDB
3 2 (0.49%) SAP HANA
4 1 (0.24%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.24%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 7 (1.70%) JIRA
2 1 (0.24%) Jenkins
General
1 146 (35.44%) Social Skills
2 26 (6.31%) Law
3 25 (6.07%) Documentation Skills
4 17 (4.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 16 (3.88%) Legal
6 15 (3.64%) Analytical Skills
7 12 (2.91%) Games
8 11 (2.67%) Back Office
9 10 (2.43%) Finance
9 10 (2.43%) Organisational Skills
9 10 (2.43%) Telecoms
10 6 (1.46%) Advertising
11 5 (1.21%) Retail
12 4 (0.97%) Marketing
13 3 (0.73%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.49%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.21%) Kafka
2 1 (0.24%) .NET
2 1 (0.24%) LAMP
2 1 (0.24%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 58 (14.08%) Driving Licence
2 18 (4.37%) Management Information System
3 17 (4.13%) Replication
4 10 (2.43%) Onboarding
4 10 (2.43%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (1.94%) NHS
6 6 (1.46%) Analytical Mindset
7 5 (1.21%) Apple TV
7 5 (1.21%) CCTV
8 4 (0.97%) Data Centre
8 4 (0.97%) Operational Technology
8 4 (0.97%) Smartphone
9 3 (0.73%) Video Conferencing
10 2 (0.49%) Clustering
10 2 (0.49%) Digital Signage
10 2 (0.49%) IPTV
10 2 (0.49%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (0.49%) Public Cloud
11 1 (0.24%) IVR
11 1 (0.24%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 257 (62.38%) Windows
2 127 (30.83%) Windows Server
3 75 (18.20%) Windows 10
4 37 (8.98%) Windows Server 2016
5 32 (7.77%) Linux
6 29 (7.04%) Android
7 22 (5.34%) Windows Server 2019
8 18 (4.37%) Apple iOS
9 12 (2.91%) Windows 7
9 12 (2.91%) Windows 8
9 12 (2.91%) Windows Server 2008
10 9 (2.18%) Windows Server 2012
11 6 (1.46%) Mac OS X
12 4 (0.97%) Mac OS
13 3 (0.73%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (20.87%) Customer Service
2 62 (15.05%) Problem-Solving
3 53 (12.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 45 (10.92%) Cybersecurity
5 29 (7.04%) Project Management
6 28 (6.80%) ITIL
7 24 (5.83%) Service Delivery
8 23 (5.58%) Project Delivery
9 21 (5.10%) Remote Monitoring and Management
10 20 (4.85%) Customer Experience
11 18 (4.37%) Multi-Factor Authentication
12 17 (4.13%) Change Control
12 17 (4.13%) Migration
13 15 (3.64%) Data Integration
14 12 (2.91%) Cloud Security
14 12 (2.91%) Project Planning
15 11 (2.67%) ERP
15 11 (2.67%) Time Management
16 10 (2.43%) Client Onboarding
17 9 (2.18%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 76 (18.45%) SQL
2 29 (7.04%) PowerShell
3 9 (2.18%) Bash
4 8 (1.94%) Python
5 2 (0.49%) C++
6 1 (0.24%) PHP
Qualifications
1 64 (15.53%) Degree
2 40 (9.71%) CCNA
2 40 (9.71%) Cisco Certification
3 34 (8.25%) Microsoft Certification
4 27 (6.55%) Network+ Certification
5 15 (3.64%) MCSE
6 11 (2.67%) A+ Certification
7 7 (1.70%) CompTIA Security+
8 6 (1.46%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 5 (1.21%) Azure Certification
9 5 (1.21%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (1.21%) MCP
9 5 (1.21%) Security Cleared
10 4 (0.97%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.73%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 2 (0.49%) CCENT
12 2 (0.49%) CCNP
12 2 (0.49%) DV Cleared
12 2 (0.49%) SC Cleared
12 2 (0.49%) Server+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (4.85%) SLA
2 9 (2.18%) GDPR
3 3 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (0.73%) NIST
4 1 (0.24%) COBIT
4 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.24%) GRC
System Software
1 179 (43.45%) Active Directory
2 80 (19.42%) VMware Infrastructure
3 69 (16.75%) Hyper-V
4 7 (1.70%) Docker
4 7 (1.70%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (1.46%) vSphere
6 5 (1.21%) VMware Server
7 2 (0.49%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 2 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.24%) Firmware
8 1 (0.24%) NFS
8 1 (0.24%) Terminal Services
8 1 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.24%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 54 (13.11%) Microsoft Intune
2 13 (3.16%) Cisco CUCM
2 13 (3.16%) ServiceCenter
3 7 (1.70%) Kubernetes
4 3 (0.73%) FortiGate
4 3 (0.73%) NetCrunch
5 2 (0.49%) Jamf Pro
5 2 (0.49%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.24%) Autotask
6 1 (0.24%) Backup Exec
6 1 (0.24%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Clustering
6 1 (0.24%) SCCM
6 1 (0.24%) WSUS
Vendors
1 241 (58.50%) Microsoft
2 104 (25.24%) VMware
3 46 (11.17%) Cisco
4 44 (10.68%) Citrix
5 40 (9.71%) Veeam
6 30 (7.28%) Apple
7 24 (5.83%) Barracuda Networks
8 20 (4.85%) Meraki
9 18 (4.37%) Sophos
10 17 (4.13%) Fortinet
11 16 (3.88%) HP
11 16 (3.88%) Palo Alto
12 14 (3.40%) Aruba
12 14 (3.40%) Draytek
13 12 (2.91%) Google
14 11 (2.67%) ConnectWise
15 9 (2.18%) WatchGuard
16 6 (1.46%) Dell
17 5 (1.21%) Datto
17 5 (1.21%) Sage