Senior IT Engineer Job Trends in Suffolk

Senior IT Engineer
East of England > Suffolk

The median Senior IT Engineer salary in Suffolk is £57,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 29 July 2026.

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

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior IT Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Suffolk 0.20% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £56,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 - -
75th Percentile £58,750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median annual salary £58,750 £48,250 £38,500
% change year-on-year +21.76% +25.32% -30.63%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Suffolk

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Suffolk. 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 Suffolk with a recognized job title 471 552 417
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.93% 90.05% 94.56%
Number of salaries quoted 288 263 258
10th Percentile £28,000 £27,250 £25,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £33,125 £28,407
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,000 £51,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.45% +28.75% -5.88%
75th Percentile £61,563 £66,200 £55,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £66,296 £71,450
East of England median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £49,500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -4.04% -5.71%

Senior IT Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Suffolk

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Senior IT Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Suffolk.

Senior IT Engineer job vacancy trend in Suffolk

Senior IT Engineer
Salary Trend in Suffolk

Salary distribution trend for Senior IT Engineer job vacancies in Suffolk.

Salary distribution trend for Senior IT Engineer job vacancies in Suffolk

Senior IT Engineer
Job Locations in Suffolk

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior IT Engineer within the Suffolk region over the 6 months to 29 July 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
Stowmarket - 1 £57,500 - 1
Senior IT Engineer
East of England

Senior IT Engineer Skill Set
Top 21 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Suffolk

For the 6 months to 29 July 2026, Senior 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 Suffolk region featuring Senior IT Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) ITSM
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) Veeam
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server

Senior IT Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Suffolk 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 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) ITSM
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Veeam
1 1 (100.00%) VMware