Field Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Field Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Field Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £29,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 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
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 539 615 614
Rank change year-on-year +76 -1 -40
Permanent jobs requiring a Field Engineer 218 139 228
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.31% 0.22% 0.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.33% 0.25% 0.34%
Number of salaries quoted 214 129 195
10th Percentile £25,500 £23,750 £24,600
25th Percentile £26,250 £26,500 £26,600
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £29,500 £30,000 £31,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.67% -3.23% +12.73%
75th Percentile £34,500 £33,750 £33,750
90th Percentile £42,500 £35,500 £37,500
UK median annual salary £30,000 £32,500 £31,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.84% +12.73%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 66,104 55,639 67,661
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.79% 89.29% 95.78%
Number of salaries quoted 47,008 31,467 43,049
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,307
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,639 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £53,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.67% - +9.09%

Field Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Field Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Field Engineer in the UK excluding London

Field Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Field Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Field Engineer in the UK excluding London

Field Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Field Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Field Engineer in the UK excluding London

Field Engineer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Field Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 23 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
South East +33 52 £32,500 - 179
North of England +57 51 £32,500 +14.04% 125
South West +14 46 £30,000 - 79
Midlands +37 36 £27,500 -15.38% 116
East of England +38 27 £27,500 -5.98% 89
North West +17 27 £28,000 - 66
East Midlands +4 22 £27,500 -15.38% 50
Yorkshire +85 18 £36,500 +28.07% 45
West Midlands +32 13 £28,000 -11.11% 67
North East +8 6 £28,000 -18.84% 16
Scotland -67 6 £27,500 -11.29% 49
Northern Ireland +23 4 £28,000 -8.20% 12
Field Engineer
UK

Field Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 23 April 2024, Field 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 UK excluding London region featuring Field Engineer in the job title.

1 147 (67.43%) Windows
2 102 (46.79%) Social Skills
3 101 (46.33%) Microsoft
4 94 (43.12%) Active Directory
5 78 (35.78%) Customer Service
6 77 (35.32%) Problem-Solving
7 75 (34.40%) Driving Licence
8 60 (27.52%) HP
9 56 (25.69%) Microsoft 365
10 50 (22.94%) Dell
11 47 (21.56%) ITIL
12 45 (20.64%) EPoS
12 45 (20.64%) Retail
12 45 (20.64%) Azure
12 45 (20.64%) DBS Check
13 44 (20.18%) Microsoft Office
14 41 (18.81%) Windows Server
14 41 (18.81%) Self-Motivation
15 39 (17.89%) DNS
16 38 (17.43%) Onboarding
17 37 (16.97%) SLA
18 36 (16.51%) Organisational Skills
19 34 (15.60%) DHCP
20 32 (14.68%) Analytical Skills
21 31 (14.22%) Entra ID
21 31 (14.22%) A+ Certification
22 30 (13.76%) Microsoft Certification
22 30 (13.76%) Degree
23 29 (13.30%) Time Management
23 29 (13.30%) Hyper-V

Field Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 18 (8.26%) SharePoint
2 9 (4.13%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.46%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 44 (20.18%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.83%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.46%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.46%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 56 (25.69%) Microsoft 365
2 45 (20.64%) Azure
3 31 (14.22%) Entra ID
4 14 (6.42%) Power Automate
4 14 (6.42%) Power Platform
4 14 (6.42%) PowerApps
5 13 (5.96%) OneDrive
6 6 (2.75%) AWS
7 4 (1.83%) Google Workspace
8 2 (0.92%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (0.92%) Nutanix
9 1 (0.46%) Mimecast
9 1 (0.46%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 39 (17.89%) DNS
2 34 (15.60%) DHCP
3 25 (11.47%) Network Security
4 23 (10.55%) Wi-Fi
5 22 (10.09%) TCP/IP
6 20 (9.17%) Firewall
7 18 (8.26%) Wireless
8 14 (6.42%) LAN
8 14 (6.42%) WAN
9 12 (5.50%) VPN
10 11 (5.05%) VLAN
11 7 (3.21%) SAN
12 4 (1.83%) 4G
12 4 (1.83%) DSL
12 4 (1.83%) LTE
13 3 (1.38%) IPsec
14 2 (0.92%) Remote Desktop
14 2 (0.92%) VoIP
15 1 (0.46%) ATM
15 1 (0.46%) Bluetooth
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.83%) Amazon RDS
General
1 102 (46.79%) Social Skills
2 45 (20.64%) Retail
3 36 (16.51%) Organisational Skills
4 32 (14.68%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (4.59%) Law
6 8 (3.67%) Legal
7 7 (3.21%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (3.21%) Public Sector
8 5 (2.29%) Finance
8 5 (2.29%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.83%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.38%) Electronics
10 3 (1.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.38%) Military
11 2 (0.92%) Back Office
11 2 (0.92%) Publishing
12 1 (0.46%) Aviation
12 1 (0.46%) Marketing
Miscellaneous
1 75 (34.40%) Driving Licence
2 45 (20.64%) EPoS
3 41 (18.81%) Self-Motivation
4 38 (17.43%) Onboarding
5 9 (4.13%) Smartphone
6 7 (3.21%) CCTV
7 6 (2.75%) IoT
7 6 (2.75%) Replication
8 5 (2.29%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (1.83%) Data Centre
9 4 (1.83%) Management Information System
10 3 (1.38%) Analogue Electronics
11 2 (0.92%) iPad
12 1 (0.46%) Public Cloud
12 1 (0.46%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 147 (67.43%) Windows
2 41 (18.81%) Windows Server
3 25 (11.47%) Mac OS
4 22 (10.09%) Windows Server 2012
5 21 (9.63%) Windows Server 2019
6 19 (8.72%) Windows Server 2016
7 15 (6.88%) Windows 10
8 6 (2.75%) Android
9 4 (1.83%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.92%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.46%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (35.78%) Customer Service
2 77 (35.32%) Problem-Solving
3 47 (21.56%) ITIL
4 29 (13.30%) Time Management
5 27 (12.39%) Break/Fix
6 25 (11.47%) Computer Science
7 22 (10.09%) Innovative Thinking
8 14 (6.42%) Migration
8 14 (6.42%) Project Management
9 13 (5.96%) Asset Management
9 13 (5.96%) Proactive Maintenance
10 8 (3.67%) Service Delivery
11 6 (2.75%) Incident Management
11 6 (2.75%) Project Delivery
12 5 (2.29%) Coaching
12 5 (2.29%) Cybersecurity
12 5 (2.29%) Email Filtering
12 5 (2.29%) Kalman Filter
12 5 (2.29%) Logistics
12 5 (2.29%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (7.80%) PowerShell
2 4 (1.83%) SQL
3 1 (0.46%) Bash
Qualifications
1 45 (20.64%) DBS Check
2 31 (14.22%) A+ Certification
3 30 (13.76%) Degree
3 30 (13.76%) Microsoft Certification
4 26 (11.93%) BPSS Clearance
5 25 (11.47%) Computer Science Degree
6 24 (11.01%) MCP
7 11 (5.05%) Security Cleared
8 6 (2.75%) CCNA
8 6 (2.75%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (1.83%) MCSE
9 4 (1.83%) Network+ Certification
10 1 (0.46%) CCNP
10 1 (0.46%) CTC Cleared
10 1 (0.46%) Server+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (16.97%) SLA
2 6 (2.75%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.46%) COSHH
3 1 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.46%) GDPR
System Software
1 94 (43.12%) Active Directory
2 29 (13.30%) Hyper-V
3 23 (10.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (5.50%) Firmware
5 6 (2.75%) KVM
6 2 (0.92%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.46%) Terminal Services
7 1 (0.46%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 29 (13.30%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (2.75%) WSUS
3 4 (1.83%) SCCM
4 2 (0.92%) SCOM
5 1 (0.46%) AirWatch
5 1 (0.46%) Autotask
5 1 (0.46%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 101 (46.33%) Microsoft
2 60 (27.52%) HP
3 50 (22.94%) Dell
4 26 (11.93%) IBM
5 23 (10.55%) VMware
6 21 (9.63%) Citrix
7 12 (5.50%) NetApp
8 10 (4.59%) Cisco
9 9 (4.13%) Veeam
10 7 (3.21%) Sophos
11 6 (2.75%) Apple
11 6 (2.75%) Google
12 4 (1.83%) Aruba
12 4 (1.83%) Ubiquiti
13 3 (1.38%) Fortinet
13 3 (1.38%) Meraki
13 3 (1.38%) WatchGuard
14 2 (0.92%) Avaya
14 2 (0.92%) Datto
14 2 (0.92%) Ruckus Wireless