IT Engineer Job Trends in the UK excluding London

IT Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median IT Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £35,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 June 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 213 101
Rank change year-on-year +149 -112 +84
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 1,586 431 1,930
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 2.37% 1.45% 2.46%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.50% 1.63% 2.59%
Number of salaries quoted 1,399 336 1,568
10th Percentile £26,500 £25,750 £23,500
25th Percentile £30,000 £27,375 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £35,000 £32,500
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% -
75th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
90th Percentile £50,443 £51,875 £48,250
UK median annual salary £35,000 £35,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year - +7.69% -5.80%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 63,325 26,427 74,434
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.51% 88.97% 94.82%
Number of salaries quoted 43,879 14,312 53,283
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £26,750
25th Percentile £36,750 £33,750 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.54%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,295 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £76,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%

IT Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

IT Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

IT Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for IT Engineer job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Salary distribution trend for IT Engineer job vacancies in the UK excluding London

IT Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing IT Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 15 June 2026.

Salary histogram for IT Engineer in the UK excluding London

IT 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 IT Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 15 June 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
South East +109 410 £35,000 -6.67% 54
North of England +96 360 £32,940 +1.35% 50
Midlands +79 264 £32,500 -7.14% 35
East of England +98 243 £35,000 +7.69% 23
South West +54 205 £35,000 - 29
North West +129 201 £33,970 +5.33% 24
Yorkshire +8 143 £32,500 +8.33% 22
West Midlands +62 133 £32,500 -10.34% 13
East Midlands +45 131 £30,000 -8.40% 22
Scotland +44 59 £28,500 -5.00% 9
Wales -9 45 £45,000 +5.88% 10
North East -39 16 £34,750 -21.69% 6
IT Engineer
UK

IT Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 15 June 2026, 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 UK excluding London region featuring IT Engineer in the job title.

1 619 (39.03%) Microsoft
2 607 (38.27%) Microsoft 365
3 546 (34.43%) Windows
4 445 (28.06%) Active Directory
5 381 (24.02%) Azure
6 369 (23.27%) Problem-Solving
7 302 (19.04%) Customer Service
8 296 (18.66%) Windows Server
9 253 (15.95%) Entra ID
10 236 (14.88%) Firewall
11 179 (11.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 176 (11.10%) Microsoft Intune
13 163 (10.28%) DNS
14 162 (10.21%) SharePoint
15 161 (10.15%) Microsoft Exchange
16 152 (9.58%) Cybersecurity
17 150 (9.46%) VMware
18 148 (9.33%) VPN
19 145 (9.14%) Hyper-V
20 144 (9.08%) Windows 10
21 138 (8.70%) DHCP
22 120 (7.57%) ITIL
23 118 (7.44%) VMware Infrastructure
24 114 (7.19%) LAN
25 106 (6.68%) WAN
26 102 (6.43%) Wi-Fi
27 95 (5.99%) Security Cleared
28 92 (5.80%) PowerShell
29 85 (5.36%) Mentoring
30 84 (5.30%) Disaster Recovery

IT Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 162 (10.21%) SharePoint
2 161 (10.15%) Microsoft Exchange
3 16 (1.01%) Confluence
4 15 (0.95%) Exchange Server 2013
5 13 (0.82%) Exchange Server 2007
5 13 (0.82%) Exchange Server 2010
6 10 (0.63%) IIS
Applications
1 83 (5.23%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (1.07%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.19%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.063%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.063%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (0.32%) Dynamics NAV
1 5 (0.32%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.063%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 607 (38.27%) Microsoft 365
2 381 (24.02%) Azure
3 253 (15.95%) Entra ID
4 50 (3.15%) AWS
5 45 (2.84%) Google Workspace
6 43 (2.71%) OneDrive
7 24 (1.51%) SaaS
8 22 (1.39%) Power Platform
9 20 (1.26%) PaaS
10 19 (1.20%) Mimecast
11 15 (0.95%) IaaS
12 10 (0.63%) Azure DevOps
13 9 (0.57%) PowerApps
14 7 (0.44%) Nutanix
15 6 (0.38%) Azure Sentinel
15 6 (0.38%) Microsoft Copilot
15 6 (0.38%) Power Automate
16 5 (0.32%) Intacct
16 5 (0.32%) OCI
17 4 (0.25%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 236 (14.88%) Firewall
2 163 (10.28%) DNS
3 148 (9.33%) VPN
4 138 (8.70%) DHCP
5 114 (7.19%) LAN
6 106 (6.68%) WAN
7 102 (6.43%) Wi-Fi
8 68 (4.29%) VoIP
9 54 (3.40%) TCP/IP
10 49 (3.09%) VLAN
11 34 (2.14%) Wireless
12 32 (2.02%) SAN
13 24 (1.51%) Network Security
14 16 (1.01%) WLAN
15 13 (0.82%) SD-WAN
16 12 (0.76%) Internet
17 10 (0.63%) Remote Desktop
17 10 (0.63%) SSL
18 7 (0.44%) NAS
19 4 (0.25%) Asterisk PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (2.40%) SQL Server
2 13 (0.82%) Power BI
3 6 (0.38%) MySQL
4 5 (0.32%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (0.25%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.063%) KNIME
Development Applications
1 41 (2.59%) JIRA
2 4 (0.25%) GitLab
3 1 (0.063%) Carbide.c++
3 1 (0.063%) LabVIEW
3 1 (0.063%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 329 (20.74%) Social Skills
2 65 (4.10%) Manufacturing
3 59 (3.72%) Analytical Skills
4 58 (3.66%) Organisational Skills
5 52 (3.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 43 (2.71%) Legal
7 37 (2.33%) Public Sector
7 37 (2.33%) Retail
8 36 (2.27%) Telecoms
9 34 (2.14%) Law
10 28 (1.77%) Finance
10 28 (1.77%) Multimedia
11 14 (0.88%) Automotive
12 13 (0.82%) Advertising
13 10 (0.63%) Documentation Skills
14 5 (0.32%) Aerospace
14 5 (0.32%) Local Government
14 5 (0.32%) Social Housing
15 4 (0.25%) Dutch Language
15 4 (0.25%) Portuguese Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (0.44%) HTML
1 7 (0.44%) JSON
2 4 (0.25%) OpenTelemetry
2 4 (0.25%) Web Services
3 3 (0.19%) CSS
4 1 (0.063%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 221 (13.93%) Driving Licence
2 65 (4.10%) Onboarding
3 52 (3.28%) Self-Motivation
4 30 (1.89%) Data Centre
5 29 (1.83%) CCTV
6 25 (1.58%) FMCG
7 24 (1.51%) Analytical Mindset
8 14 (0.88%) Management Information System
8 14 (0.88%) Security Posture
9 12 (0.76%) Smartphone
10 11 (0.69%) Clustering
10 11 (0.69%) NHS
11 8 (0.50%) Hybrid Cloud
11 8 (0.50%) Social Media
12 7 (0.44%) Operational Technology
12 7 (0.44%) Replication
13 6 (0.38%) Enterprise Software
13 6 (0.38%) iPhone
14 5 (0.32%) Linux Command Line
14 5 (0.32%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 546 (34.43%) Windows
2 296 (18.66%) Windows Server
3 144 (9.08%) Windows 10
4 80 (5.04%) Mac OS
5 75 (4.73%) Linux
6 43 (2.71%) Windows Server 2019
7 37 (2.33%) Windows Server 2016
8 32 (2.02%) Android
8 32 (2.02%) Apple iOS
9 17 (1.07%) Windows 7
10 15 (0.95%) Windows Server 2012
11 11 (0.69%) Windows 8
12 8 (0.50%) Ubuntu
13 5 (0.32%) Windows Server 2008
14 4 (0.25%) Mac OS X
15 1 (0.063%) CentOS
15 1 (0.063%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 1 (0.063%) Rocky
15 1 (0.063%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 369 (23.27%) Problem-Solving
2 302 (19.04%) Customer Service
3 179 (11.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 152 (9.58%) Cybersecurity
5 120 (7.57%) ITIL
6 85 (5.36%) Mentoring
7 84 (5.30%) Disaster Recovery
8 79 (4.98%) Continuous Improvement
9 63 (3.97%) Service Delivery
10 56 (3.53%) Root Cause Analysis
11 54 (3.40%) ITSM
11 54 (3.40%) Project Delivery
11 54 (3.40%) Service Management
12 46 (2.90%) Remote Monitoring and Management
13 42 (2.65%) Time Management
14 41 (2.59%) Business Continuity
15 36 (2.27%) User Experience
16 34 (2.14%) ERP
17 33 (2.08%) Process Improvement
18 29 (1.83%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 92 (5.80%) PowerShell
2 53 (3.34%) SQL
3 5 (0.32%) Bash
3 5 (0.32%) Python
3 5 (0.32%) R
3 5 (0.32%) VB
4 4 (0.25%) PHP
4 4 (0.25%) VBScript
5 3 (0.19%) JavaScript
5 3 (0.19%) Uniface
5 3 (0.19%) VBA
6 2 (0.13%) Bicep
6 2 (0.13%) Google Apps Script
7 1 (0.063%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 95 (5.99%) Security Cleared
2 81 (5.11%) Microsoft Certification
3 77 (4.85%) Degree
4 68 (4.29%) SC Cleared
5 61 (3.85%) DBS Check
6 46 (2.90%) CCNA
6 46 (2.90%) Cisco Certification
7 39 (2.46%) Network+ Certification
8 29 (1.83%) A+ Certification
9 24 (1.51%) BPSS Clearance
10 20 (1.26%) Azure Certification
11 17 (1.07%) MCSE
12 16 (1.01%) CompTIA Security+
13 15 (0.95%) DV Cleared
14 8 (0.50%) CCNP
15 5 (0.32%) MCITP
16 4 (0.25%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 4 (0.25%) MCSA
17 3 (0.19%) Computer Science Degree
17 3 (0.19%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (4.92%) Cyber Essentials
2 56 (3.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 48 (3.03%) SLA
4 33 (2.08%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 17 (1.07%) GDPR
6 9 (0.57%) PCI DSS
7 6 (0.38%) NIST
8 5 (0.32%) QA
9 4 (0.25%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.063%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.063%) NCSC
System Software
1 445 (28.06%) Active Directory
2 145 (9.14%) Hyper-V
3 118 (7.44%) VMware Infrastructure
4 24 (1.51%) Virtual Desktop
5 16 (1.01%) VMware ESXi
6 12 (0.76%) vSphere
7 11 (0.69%) Docker
8 8 (0.50%) BitLocker
9 7 (0.44%) VMware Workstation
10 6 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
11 5 (0.32%) Terminal Services
12 4 (0.25%) VMware NSX
13 3 (0.19%) Firmware
14 1 (0.063%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 176 (11.10%) Microsoft Intune
2 22 (1.39%) SCCM
3 13 (0.82%) FortiGate
3 13 (0.82%) Proxmox
3 13 (0.82%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 12 (0.76%) Jamf Pro
5 11 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
5 11 (0.69%) WSUS
6 8 (0.50%) Autotask
7 7 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 7 (0.44%) Failover Clustering
8 5 (0.32%) Ansible
9 4 (0.25%) Terraform
10 3 (0.19%) SmoothWall
11 2 (0.13%) Kubernetes
12 1 (0.063%) Argo
12 1 (0.063%) Iperf
12 1 (0.063%) Nessus
Vendors
1 619 (39.03%) Microsoft
2 150 (9.46%) VMware
3 51 (3.22%) Cisco
3 51 (3.22%) Google
4 38 (2.40%) Fortinet
5 37 (2.33%) Meraki
5 37 (2.33%) Veeam
6 35 (2.21%) Apple
7 29 (1.83%) Dell
8 28 (1.77%) Fujitsu
8 28 (1.77%) Virgin Media
9 21 (1.32%) Sophos
10 17 (1.07%) HP
10 17 (1.07%) Ubiquiti
11 14 (0.88%) SonicWALL
12 13 (0.82%) Epicor
13 11 (0.69%) ServiceNow
14 10 (0.63%) Logitech
15 9 (0.57%) Sage
16 8 (0.50%) TOWER Software