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 £34,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 May 2026.

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

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 214 107
Rank change year-on-year +135 -107 +75
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 1,499 422 1,745
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 2.23% 1.49% 2.46%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.38% 1.68% 2.60%
Number of salaries quoted 1,310 324 1,499
10th Percentile £26,250 £25,750 £23,500
25th Percentile £29,000 £26,250 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £34,250 £33,500 £32,250
Median % change year-on-year +2.24% +3.88% -0.77%
75th Percentile £42,500 £42,456 £42,500
90th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
UK median annual salary £35,000 £35,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year - +7.69% -7.14%

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 62,970 25,190 67,231
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.78% 88.98% 94.85%
Number of salaries quoted 41,929 13,343 48,972
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,250 £26,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £51,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% -6.43%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £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 26 May 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 26 May 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 +101 365 £34,250 -2.14% 65
North of England +113 344 £32,940 +2.94% 31
Midlands +44 259 £32,500 -7.14% 30
East of England +92 233 £34,875 +16.25% 35
South West +57 195 £35,000 +4.48% 26
North West +116 189 £32,940 +1.35% 14
Yorkshire +14 144 £33,500 +21.82% 16
East Midlands +36 132 £30,000 -7.69% 16
West Midlands +9 127 £32,500 -7.14% 14
Scotland +32 62 £28,000 -6.67% 9
Wales +3 41 £45,000 +13.92% 10
North East -37 11 £30,000 -20.00% 3
IT Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 26 May 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.

1 551 (36.76%) Microsoft 365
2 549 (36.62%) Microsoft
3 499 (33.29%) Windows
4 411 (27.42%) Active Directory
5 348 (23.22%) Azure
6 346 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
7 282 (18.81%) Customer Service
8 272 (18.15%) Windows Server
9 220 (14.68%) Entra ID
9 220 (14.68%) Firewall
10 158 (10.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 154 (10.27%) Microsoft Intune
12 147 (9.81%) DNS
13 141 (9.41%) VPN
14 140 (9.34%) SharePoint
15 134 (8.94%) Microsoft Exchange
16 132 (8.81%) Windows 10
17 128 (8.54%) Cybersecurity
18 127 (8.47%) DHCP
18 127 (8.47%) VMware
19 123 (8.21%) Hyper-V
20 114 (7.61%) LAN
21 112 (7.47%) ITIL
22 106 (7.07%) WAN
23 99 (6.60%) VMware Infrastructure
24 96 (6.40%) Security Cleared
25 94 (6.27%) Wi-Fi
26 83 (5.54%) Microsoft Office
27 82 (5.47%) Mentoring
28 76 (5.07%) PowerShell

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
1 140 (9.34%) SharePoint
2 134 (8.94%) Microsoft Exchange
3 17 (1.13%) Confluence
4 15 (1.00%) Exchange Server 2013
5 13 (0.87%) Exchange Server 2007
5 13 (0.87%) Exchange Server 2010
6 8 (0.53%) IIS
Applications
1 83 (5.54%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (1.13%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.20%) Photoshop
4 2 (0.13%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.067%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (0.40%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.33%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.067%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 551 (36.76%) Microsoft 365
2 348 (23.22%) Azure
3 220 (14.68%) Entra ID
4 46 (3.07%) Google Workspace
5 45 (3.00%) AWS
6 36 (2.40%) OneDrive
7 21 (1.40%) Power Platform
8 20 (1.33%) SaaS
9 19 (1.27%) PaaS
10 16 (1.07%) Mimecast
11 14 (0.93%) IaaS
12 9 (0.60%) Azure DevOps
12 9 (0.60%) PowerApps
13 8 (0.53%) Azure Sentinel
14 6 (0.40%) Microsoft Copilot
15 5 (0.33%) Intacct
15 5 (0.33%) OCI
16 4 (0.27%) GCP
16 4 (0.27%) Nutanix
17 3 (0.20%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 220 (14.68%) Firewall
2 147 (9.81%) DNS
3 141 (9.41%) VPN
4 127 (8.47%) DHCP
5 114 (7.61%) LAN
6 106 (7.07%) WAN
7 94 (6.27%) Wi-Fi
8 58 (3.87%) VoIP
9 49 (3.27%) VLAN
10 42 (2.80%) TCP/IP
11 34 (2.27%) Wireless
12 27 (1.80%) SAN
13 24 (1.60%) Network Security
14 20 (1.33%) WLAN
15 13 (0.87%) SD-WAN
16 10 (0.67%) Remote Desktop
17 9 (0.60%) Internet
18 8 (0.53%) SSL
19 7 (0.47%) NAS
20 5 (0.33%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (2.40%) SQL Server
2 15 (1.00%) Power BI
3 5 (0.33%) MySQL
4 3 (0.20%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.067%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.067%) KNIME
Development Applications
1 39 (2.60%) JIRA
2 4 (0.27%) GitLab
3 1 (0.067%) LabVIEW
General
1 298 (19.88%) Social Skills
2 69 (4.60%) Manufacturing
3 57 (3.80%) Organisational Skills
4 55 (3.67%) Analytical Skills
5 51 (3.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 39 (2.60%) Telecoms
7 37 (2.47%) Legal
7 37 (2.47%) Retail
8 36 (2.40%) Law
9 35 (2.33%) Finance
9 35 (2.33%) Public Sector
10 28 (1.87%) Multimedia
11 14 (0.93%) Automotive
12 13 (0.87%) Advertising
13 5 (0.33%) Local Government
13 5 (0.33%) Social Housing
14 4 (0.27%) Dutch Language
14 4 (0.27%) Military
14 4 (0.27%) Portuguese Language
14 4 (0.27%) Spanish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (0.33%) HTML
1 5 (0.33%) JSON
2 4 (0.27%) OpenTelemetry
3 3 (0.20%) CSS
3 3 (0.20%) Web Services
4 1 (0.067%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 199 (13.28%) Driving Licence
2 55 (3.67%) Onboarding
3 49 (3.27%) Self-Motivation
4 27 (1.80%) Analytical Mindset
4 27 (1.80%) CCTV
5 26 (1.73%) FMCG
6 25 (1.67%) Data Centre
7 13 (0.87%) Management Information System
8 12 (0.80%) Smartphone
9 11 (0.73%) Security Posture
10 10 (0.67%) NHS
11 9 (0.60%) Social Media
12 8 (0.53%) Clustering
13 7 (0.47%) Operational Technology
14 6 (0.40%) iPhone
14 6 (0.40%) Replication
15 5 (0.33%) Enterprise Software
15 5 (0.33%) Hybrid Cloud
15 5 (0.33%) Linux Command Line
15 5 (0.33%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 499 (33.29%) Windows
2 272 (18.15%) Windows Server
3 132 (8.81%) Windows 10
4 65 (4.34%) Mac OS
5 58 (3.87%) Linux
6 36 (2.40%) Windows Server 2019
7 34 (2.27%) Windows Server 2016
8 32 (2.13%) Android
9 30 (2.00%) Apple iOS
10 17 (1.13%) Windows 7
11 13 (0.87%) Windows Server 2012
12 11 (0.73%) Windows 8
13 7 (0.47%) Ubuntu
14 5 (0.33%) Windows Server 2008
15 4 (0.27%) Mac OS X
16 1 (0.067%) CentOS
16 1 (0.067%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 1 (0.067%) Rocky
16 1 (0.067%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 346 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
2 282 (18.81%) Customer Service
3 158 (10.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 128 (8.54%) Cybersecurity
5 112 (7.47%) ITIL
6 82 (5.47%) Mentoring
7 66 (4.40%) Disaster Recovery
8 60 (4.00%) Service Delivery
9 56 (3.74%) Continuous Improvement
10 52 (3.47%) ITSM
11 51 (3.40%) Remote Monitoring and Management
11 51 (3.40%) Root Cause Analysis
12 45 (3.00%) Project Delivery
13 44 (2.94%) Service Management
14 41 (2.74%) Time Management
15 35 (2.33%) Business Continuity
16 34 (2.27%) ERP
17 31 (2.07%) Process Improvement
18 29 (1.93%) Coaching
18 29 (1.93%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 76 (5.07%) PowerShell
2 47 (3.14%) SQL
3 7 (0.47%) Python
4 6 (0.40%) Bash
5 5 (0.33%) VB
6 4 (0.27%) PHP
6 4 (0.27%) R
7 3 (0.20%) JavaScript
7 3 (0.20%) Uniface
7 3 (0.20%) VBA
8 2 (0.13%) Google Apps Script
8 2 (0.13%) VBScript
9 1 (0.067%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 96 (6.40%) Security Cleared
2 75 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 73 (4.87%) Degree
4 66 (4.40%) SC Cleared
5 55 (3.67%) DBS Check
6 42 (2.80%) CCNA
6 42 (2.80%) Cisco Certification
7 37 (2.47%) Network+ Certification
8 30 (2.00%) A+ Certification
9 24 (1.60%) BPSS Clearance
10 17 (1.13%) Azure Certification
10 17 (1.13%) MCSE
11 16 (1.07%) DV Cleared
12 15 (1.00%) CompTIA Security+
13 7 (0.47%) CCNP
14 5 (0.33%) Computer Science Degree
14 5 (0.33%) MCITP
15 4 (0.27%) PMI Certification
16 3 (0.20%) ITIL Certification
16 3 (0.20%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (4.67%) Cyber Essentials
2 56 (3.74%) SLA
3 51 (3.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 30 (2.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 12 (0.80%) GDPR
6 8 (0.53%) NIST
7 6 (0.40%) PCI DSS
8 5 (0.33%) QA
9 4 (0.27%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.067%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 411 (27.42%) Active Directory
2 123 (8.21%) Hyper-V
3 99 (6.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (1.47%) Virtual Desktop
5 16 (1.07%) VMware ESXi
6 10 (0.67%) Docker
6 10 (0.67%) vSphere
7 7 (0.47%) VMware Workstation
8 5 (0.33%) BitLocker
8 5 (0.33%) Terminal Services
9 4 (0.27%) VMware NSX
10 3 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
11 2 (0.13%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 154 (10.27%) Microsoft Intune
2 19 (1.27%) SCCM
3 14 (0.93%) WSUS
4 11 (0.73%) Jamf Pro
4 11 (0.73%) Proxmox
4 11 (0.73%) Single Sign-On
4 11 (0.73%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 10 (0.67%) FortiGate
6 8 (0.53%) Autotask
7 7 (0.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (0.27%) Ansible
8 4 (0.27%) Failover Clustering
8 4 (0.27%) SmoothWall
9 3 (0.20%) Terraform
10 2 (0.13%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 549 (36.62%) Microsoft
2 127 (8.47%) VMware
3 51 (3.40%) Google
4 44 (2.94%) Cisco
5 37 (2.47%) Fortinet
6 36 (2.40%) Apple
7 34 (2.27%) Meraki
8 29 (1.93%) Dell
9 28 (1.87%) Fujitsu
9 28 (1.87%) Veeam
9 28 (1.87%) Virgin Media
10 19 (1.27%) Sophos
11 15 (1.00%) HP
12 14 (0.93%) Ubiquiti
13 13 (0.87%) Epicor
14 11 (0.73%) SonicWALL
15 9 (0.60%) ServiceNow
16 8 (0.53%) Logitech
16 8 (0.53%) Sage
17 7 (0.47%) CrowdStrike