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 £32,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 30 January 2026.

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

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 99 129 102
Rank change year-on-year +30 -27 +108
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 876 759 1,269
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.95% 2.18% 2.78%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.15% 2.37% 2.92%
Number of salaries quoted 745 449 1,129
10th Percentile £25,580 £25,550 £23,500
25th Percentile £27,750 £27,500 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £35,000 £32,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% +1.56%
75th Percentile £38,750 £43,750 £41,000
90th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £50,000
UK median annual salary £32,500 £35,000 £34,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +2.94% +3.03%

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 40,667 32,051 43,423
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.60% 92.25% 95.26%
Number of salaries quoted 25,085 15,459 33,679
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £26,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,750 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £54,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.71%

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 30 January 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 30 January 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 +37 222 £32,500 -7.14% 112
Midlands -20 210 £31,500 -10.00% 43
North of England +42 193 £32,500 -7.14% 68
East Midlands +14 135 £30,000 - 28
North West +38 96 £30,000 -20.53% 36
South West +33 95 £33,000 -5.71% 33
Yorkshire +19 88 £39,000 +20.00% 26
East of England +38 87 £30,000 - 38
West Midlands -46 75 £32,500 -7.14% 15
Scotland +10 55 £30,000 -11.11% 19
Wales +15 15 £35,000 - 11
North East -2 9 £30,000 -16.67% 9
Northern Ireland -14 1 £31,500 -47.50% 2
IT Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 30 January 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.

1 409 (46.69%) Microsoft 365
2 399 (45.55%) Microsoft
3 395 (45.09%) Windows
4 339 (38.70%) Active Directory
5 290 (33.11%) Problem-Solving
6 286 (32.65%) Azure
7 218 (24.89%) Windows Server
8 181 (20.66%) Customer Service
9 162 (18.49%) Firewall
10 151 (17.24%) DNS
10 151 (17.24%) Entra ID
11 142 (16.21%) DHCP
12 135 (15.41%) Microsoft Intune
13 120 (13.70%) SharePoint
14 113 (12.90%) ITIL
15 103 (11.76%) Cybersecurity
16 101 (11.53%) VPN
17 91 (10.39%) Windows 10
18 87 (9.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 85 (9.70%) VMware
20 83 (9.47%) Microsoft Exchange
21 75 (8.56%) Mentoring
22 74 (8.45%) Hyper-V
23 72 (8.22%) Microsoft Certification
24 68 (7.76%) Microsoft Office
25 67 (7.65%) LAN
26 66 (7.53%) WAN
27 65 (7.42%) Degree
28 61 (6.96%) VLAN
29 60 (6.85%) TCP/IP

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
1 120 (13.70%) SharePoint
2 83 (9.47%) Microsoft Exchange
3 18 (2.05%) IIS
4 9 (1.03%) Confluence
5 5 (0.57%) Exchange Server 2007
5 5 (0.57%) Exchange Server 2010
5 5 (0.57%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 68 (7.76%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (1.94%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.23%) Acrobat
4 2 (0.23%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 9 (1.03%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.34%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.23%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (0.23%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.11%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.11%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 409 (46.69%) Microsoft 365
2 286 (32.65%) Azure
3 151 (17.24%) Entra ID
4 42 (4.79%) AWS
5 36 (4.11%) Google Workspace
6 33 (3.77%) OneDrive
7 22 (2.51%) SaaS
8 21 (2.40%) GCP
8 21 (2.40%) Power Platform
9 14 (1.60%) Azure DevOps
10 12 (1.37%) Power Automate
11 7 (0.80%) Azure Sentinel
12 6 (0.68%) IaaS
12 6 (0.68%) iPaaS
12 6 (0.68%) PaaS
12 6 (0.68%) PowerApps
13 5 (0.57%) Azure AI
13 5 (0.57%) Cloud Computing
13 5 (0.57%) Microsoft Copilot
13 5 (0.57%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 162 (18.49%) Firewall
2 151 (17.24%) DNS
3 142 (16.21%) DHCP
4 101 (11.53%) VPN
5 67 (7.65%) LAN
6 66 (7.53%) WAN
7 61 (6.96%) VLAN
8 60 (6.85%) TCP/IP
9 53 (6.05%) Wi-Fi
10 32 (3.65%) Wireless
11 28 (3.20%) VoIP
12 21 (2.40%) Network Security
13 20 (2.28%) SAN
14 11 (1.26%) SD-WAN
14 11 (1.26%) WLAN
15 10 (1.14%) IP Telephony
15 10 (1.14%) Remote Desktop
16 7 (0.80%) Internet
16 7 (0.80%) TETRA
17 4 (0.46%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (2.74%) SQL Server
2 20 (2.28%) Power BI
3 12 (1.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 8 (0.91%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (0.46%) Relational Database
6 3 (0.34%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 23 (2.63%) JIRA
2 2 (0.23%) GitLab
3 1 (0.11%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.11%) Git
3 1 (0.11%) LabVIEW
3 1 (0.11%) Snyk
General
1 275 (31.39%) Social Skills
2 61 (6.96%) Organisational Skills
3 48 (5.48%) Analytical Skills
4 41 (4.68%) Law
4 41 (4.68%) Manufacturing
5 40 (4.57%) Finance
6 35 (4.00%) Public Sector
7 30 (3.42%) Telecoms
8 28 (3.20%) Multimedia
9 24 (2.74%) Legal
10 22 (2.51%) Retail
11 16 (1.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 13 (1.48%) Electronics
13 10 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
14 8 (0.91%) Marketing
15 6 (0.68%) Fire and Rescue
15 6 (0.68%) Police
16 5 (0.57%) Advertising
17 4 (0.46%) Dutch Language
17 4 (0.46%) Spanish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (1.48%) .NET
2 12 (1.37%) .NET Framework
2 12 (1.37%) Entity Framework
2 12 (1.37%) WinForms
3 7 (0.80%) ASP.NET
4 2 (0.23%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (0.11%) OAuth
5 1 (0.11%) OAuth2
5 1 (0.11%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 176 (20.09%) Driving Licence
2 53 (6.05%) Onboarding
3 36 (4.11%) Self-Motivation
4 22 (2.51%) Analytical Mindset
5 13 (1.48%) Smartphone
6 12 (1.37%) CCTV
7 11 (1.26%) Enterprise Software
8 10 (1.14%) Data Centre
9 9 (1.03%) FMCG
9 9 (1.03%) iPad
9 9 (1.03%) Security Posture
10 8 (0.91%) Clustering
10 8 (0.91%) Cyber Security Posture
11 6 (0.68%) PMI
11 6 (0.68%) Social Media
12 5 (0.57%) Life Science
12 5 (0.57%) Linux Command Line
12 5 (0.57%) Management Information System
12 5 (0.57%) Mobile App
13 4 (0.46%) Solar Panel
Operating Systems
1 395 (45.09%) Windows
2 218 (24.89%) Windows Server
3 91 (10.39%) Windows 10
4 36 (4.11%) Linux
4 36 (4.11%) Mac OS
5 30 (3.42%) Windows Server 2019
6 28 (3.20%) Windows Server 2016
7 18 (2.05%) Android
8 13 (1.48%) Apple iOS
9 12 (1.37%) Windows Server 2012
10 8 (0.91%) Windows 7
11 6 (0.68%) Windows 8
12 4 (0.46%) Windows Server 2008
13 3 (0.34%) Debian
14 2 (0.23%) Rocky
14 2 (0.23%) Ubuntu
15 1 (0.11%) CentOS
15 1 (0.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 1 (0.11%) Solaris
15 1 (0.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 290 (33.11%) Problem-Solving
2 181 (20.66%) Customer Service
3 113 (12.90%) ITIL
4 103 (11.76%) Cybersecurity
5 87 (9.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 75 (8.56%) Mentoring
7 48 (5.48%) Service Delivery
8 41 (4.68%) ITSM
9 36 (4.11%) Remote Monitoring and Management
10 35 (4.00%) Incident Management
11 34 (3.88%) Data Protection
12 31 (3.54%) Project Delivery
13 29 (3.31%) Asset Management
14 28 (3.20%) Business Intelligence
14 28 (3.20%) Continuous Improvement
14 28 (3.20%) Disaster Recovery
14 28 (3.20%) Process Improvement
15 25 (2.85%) Computer Science
15 25 (2.85%) Software Engineering
16 22 (2.51%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 48 (5.48%) PowerShell
2 43 (4.91%) SQL
3 14 (1.60%) C#
4 13 (1.48%) T-SQL
5 10 (1.14%) Python
6 7 (0.80%) Bash
6 7 (0.80%) PL/SQL
6 7 (0.80%) VBScript
7 2 (0.23%) Google Apps Script
7 2 (0.23%) Uniface
7 2 (0.23%) VB
8 1 (0.11%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.11%) PHP
8 1 (0.11%) R
Qualifications
1 72 (8.22%) Microsoft Certification
2 65 (7.42%) Degree
3 38 (4.34%) Security Cleared
4 37 (4.22%) DBS Check
5 35 (4.00%) Cisco Certification
6 32 (3.65%) CCNA
7 29 (3.31%) A+ Certification
8 26 (2.97%) SC Cleared
9 23 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
10 21 (2.40%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 20 (2.28%) BPSS Clearance
12 19 (2.17%) MCSE
13 16 (1.83%) Network+ Certification
14 13 (1.48%) CCNP
15 11 (1.26%) MCSA
16 7 (0.80%) Azure Certification
16 7 (0.80%) DV Cleared
16 7 (0.80%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
17 6 (0.68%) PMI Certification
18 4 (0.46%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (5.25%) Cyber Essentials
2 39 (4.45%) SLA
3 35 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 21 (2.40%) GDPR
5 9 (1.03%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 6 (0.68%) Accessibility
7 5 (0.57%) NIST
8 3 (0.34%) QA
9 1 (0.11%) GxP
9 1 (0.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 339 (38.70%) Active Directory
2 74 (8.45%) Hyper-V
3 59 (6.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (1.71%) Virtual Desktop
5 10 (1.14%) Firmware
6 8 (0.91%) VMware ESXi
7 7 (0.80%) vSphere
8 6 (0.68%) VMware Workstation
9 5 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
10 3 (0.34%) Docker
11 2 (0.23%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.23%) XenDesktop
12 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.11%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 135 (15.41%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (1.03%) FortiGate
2 9 (1.03%) Jamf Pro
2 9 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
2 9 (1.03%) WSUS
3 8 (0.91%) Autotask
3 8 (0.91%) SCCM
4 6 (0.68%) Failover Clustering
5 5 (0.57%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 5 (0.57%) Kubernetes
5 5 (0.57%) SmoothWall
6 4 (0.46%) Ansible
7 3 (0.34%) Proxmox
8 2 (0.23%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 2 (0.23%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.11%) Podman
Vendors
1 399 (45.55%) Microsoft
2 85 (9.70%) VMware
3 47 (5.37%) Google
4 38 (4.34%) Cisco
5 33 (3.77%) Fortinet
6 31 (3.54%) Veeam
7 29 (3.31%) Apple
8 28 (3.20%) Fujitsu
8 28 (3.20%) Virgin Media
9 23 (2.63%) Dell
10 22 (2.51%) Meraki
11 14 (1.60%) Sage
11 14 (1.60%) ServiceNow
11 14 (1.60%) WatchGuard
11 14 (1.60%) Zoho
12 12 (1.37%) Xamarin
13 10 (1.14%) Adobe
14 9 (1.03%) Draytek
15 8 (0.91%) HP
15 8 (0.91%) SAP