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 18 September 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 225 138 156
Rank change year-on-year -87 +18 +81
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 401 995 744
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.17% 1.80% 2.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.30% 1.89% 2.31%
Number of salaries quoted 312 717 666
10th Percentile £25,525 £25,750 £24,750
25th Percentile £28,500 £28,750 £28,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £35,000 £34,000
Median % change year-on-year - +2.94% -
75th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £43,750
90th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £55,000
UK median annual salary £37,500 £36,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% +2.86% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 30,736 52,765 32,139
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.30% 95.21% 93.34%
Number of salaries quoted 17,476 30,933 24,084
10th Percentile £26,750 £30,000 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £38,620 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

IT Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Engineer 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 18 September 2025.

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 18 September 2025. 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
North of England -50 118 £35,000 +2.19% 81
Midlands -50 92 £37,000 +5.71% 62
Yorkshire +25 79 £33,000 -5.71% 40
South East -66 79 £40,000 +1.27% 101
East Midlands -18 56 £30,750 -12.14% 34
South West -15 53 £40,000 +6.67% 41
West Midlands -34 36 £47,500 +35.71% 26
East of England -52 32 £36,250 +11.54% 37
North West -69 32 £35,000 +4.48% 32
Scotland +35 31 £27,250 -9.92% 38
Wales 0 11 £80,000 +190.91% 4
North East +7 7 £48,750 +44.44% 16
Northern Ireland +11 1 £31,500 +5.00% 9
Channel Islands +4 1 £45,000 -
IT Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 18 September 2025, IT 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 IT Engineer in the job title.

1 266 (66.33%) Windows
2 233 (58.10%) Active Directory
3 227 (56.61%) Microsoft
4 204 (50.87%) Microsoft 365
5 157 (39.15%) Azure
6 152 (37.91%) Social Skills
7 147 (36.66%) Firewall
8 130 (32.42%) Windows Server
9 118 (29.43%) Problem-Solving
10 94 (23.44%) Cybersecurity
11 89 (22.19%) DNS
12 88 (21.95%) Microsoft Intune
13 85 (21.20%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 85 (21.20%) Customer Service
14 82 (20.45%) Entra ID
15 81 (20.20%) DHCP
15 81 (20.20%) VMware
16 70 (17.46%) Degree
17 68 (16.96%) Hyper-V
18 65 (16.21%) PowerShell
19 64 (15.96%) Cisco
19 64 (15.96%) Driving Licence
20 62 (15.46%) VMware Infrastructure
21 58 (14.46%) ITIL
21 58 (14.46%) SharePoint
21 58 (14.46%) Microsoft Exchange
21 58 (14.46%) Network Management
22 57 (14.21%) VLAN
23 49 (12.22%) SQL Server
24 45 (11.22%) Disaster Recovery

IT 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 58 (14.46%) Microsoft Exchange
1 58 (14.46%) SharePoint
2 7 (1.75%) IIS
3 1 (0.25%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 15 (3.74%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.50%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.25%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 4 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (1.00%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.50%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.25%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.25%) Pegasus Opera
Cloud Services
1 204 (50.87%) Microsoft 365
2 157 (39.15%) Azure
3 82 (20.45%) Entra ID
4 28 (6.98%) AWS
5 25 (6.23%) SaaS
6 17 (4.24%) OneDrive
7 10 (2.49%) Cloud Computing
7 10 (2.49%) IaaS
8 8 (2.00%) Azure Stack
9 7 (1.75%) Nutanix
9 7 (1.75%) PaaS
10 6 (1.50%) Power Platform
10 6 (1.50%) Serverless
11 5 (1.25%) Mimecast
11 5 (1.25%) Rubrik
12 4 (1.00%) Amazon EC2
12 4 (1.00%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (1.00%) GCP
12 4 (1.00%) iPaaS
13 3 (0.75%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 147 (36.66%) Firewall
2 89 (22.19%) DNS
3 81 (20.20%) DHCP
4 57 (14.21%) VLAN
5 44 (10.97%) SAN
5 44 (10.97%) VPN
6 42 (10.47%) WAN
7 40 (9.98%) TCP/IP
8 39 (9.73%) Wi-Fi
9 29 (7.23%) LAN
10 27 (6.73%) VoIP
11 20 (4.99%) Wireless
12 19 (4.74%) SD-WAN
13 17 (4.24%) NAS
14 15 (3.74%) Network Security
15 12 (2.99%) Cisco IOS
16 10 (2.49%) Intrusion Detection
16 10 (2.49%) IPsec
17 8 (2.00%) IP Telephony
17 8 (2.00%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (12.22%) SQL Server
2 7 (1.75%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.25%) Big Data
3 1 (0.25%) MySQL
3 1 (0.25%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (0.25%) GitLab
1 1 (0.25%) Jenkins
1 1 (0.25%) JIRA
General
1 152 (37.91%) Social Skills
2 31 (7.73%) Manufacturing
3 28 (6.98%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (5.74%) Public Sector
5 22 (5.49%) Organisational Skills
6 18 (4.49%) Finance
7 17 (4.24%) Law
8 16 (3.99%) Telecoms
9 11 (2.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (2.24%) Marketing
10 9 (2.24%) Pharmaceutical
11 8 (2.00%) Retail
12 7 (1.75%) Electronics
12 7 (1.75%) Legal
13 5 (1.25%) Automotive
13 5 (1.25%) Billing
14 4 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
15 3 (0.75%) Back Office
15 3 (0.75%) Publishing
16 1 (0.25%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.25%) 802.1X
2 3 (0.75%) EDI
3 1 (0.25%) LAMP
3 1 (0.25%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 64 (15.96%) Driving Licence
2 42 (10.47%) Operational Technology
3 31 (7.73%) Onboarding
4 20 (4.99%) Data Centre
4 20 (4.99%) Self-Motivation
5 17 (4.24%) Clustering
6 12 (2.99%) Social Media
7 11 (2.74%) Mobile App
8 10 (2.49%) Hybrid Cloud
9 9 (2.24%) FMCG
10 8 (2.00%) Analytical Mindset
11 5 (1.25%) Blackberry
11 5 (1.25%) BYOD
11 5 (1.25%) Cyber Security Posture
11 5 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (1.25%) Management Information System
11 5 (1.25%) Security Posture
12 4 (1.00%) Enterprise Storage
12 4 (1.00%) iPad
12 4 (1.00%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 266 (66.33%) Windows
2 130 (32.42%) Windows Server
3 41 (10.22%) Linux
4 34 (8.48%) Windows 10
5 27 (6.73%) Android
6 24 (5.99%) Mac OS
7 21 (5.24%) Windows Server 2019
8 14 (3.49%) Apple iOS
9 13 (3.24%) Windows Server 2016
10 8 (2.00%) Rocky
11 4 (1.00%) Unix
12 1 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (29.43%) Problem-Solving
2 94 (23.44%) Cybersecurity
3 85 (21.20%) Customer Service
3 85 (21.20%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 58 (14.46%) ITIL
4 58 (14.46%) Network Management
5 45 (11.22%) Disaster Recovery
6 41 (10.22%) Network Design
7 34 (8.48%) Migration
8 32 (7.98%) Continuous Improvement
9 27 (6.73%) Kalman Filter
10 24 (5.99%) IT Strategy
10 24 (5.99%) Root Cause Analysis
11 22 (5.49%) Project Delivery
12 21 (5.24%) Virtual Environments
12 21 (5.24%) Vulnerability Management
13 20 (4.99%) Incident Management
13 20 (4.99%) Web Filtering
14 19 (4.74%) Mentoring
14 19 (4.74%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 65 (16.21%) PowerShell
2 17 (4.24%) SQL
3 5 (1.25%) Python
4 4 (1.00%) Uniface
5 2 (0.50%) Bash
5 2 (0.50%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (0.25%) C#
6 1 (0.25%) Go
6 1 (0.25%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 70 (17.46%) Degree
2 37 (9.23%) Microsoft Certification
3 30 (7.48%) Security Cleared
4 27 (6.73%) DBS Check
5 25 (6.23%) Cisco Certification
6 22 (5.49%) CCNA
7 20 (4.99%) SC Cleared
8 16 (3.99%) DV Cleared
9 13 (3.24%) Azure Certification
9 13 (3.24%) HND
10 12 (2.99%) Network+ Certification
11 11 (2.74%) BPSS Clearance
12 9 (2.24%) Computer Science Degree
13 8 (2.00%) A+ Certification
14 7 (1.75%) MCP
14 7 (1.75%) MCSE
14 7 (1.75%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 6 (1.50%) ACMT
16 4 (1.00%) HNC
16 4 (1.00%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (6.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 24 (5.99%) GDPR
3 22 (5.49%) Cyber Essentials
4 9 (2.24%) NIST
5 6 (1.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 5 (1.25%) SLA
7 3 (0.75%) NCSC
7 3 (0.75%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.50%) GxP
8 2 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.25%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.25%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.25%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 233 (58.10%) Active Directory
2 68 (16.96%) Hyper-V
3 62 (15.46%) VMware Infrastructure
4 42 (10.47%) Virtual Servers
5 8 (2.00%) Docker
5 8 (2.00%) Firmware
5 8 (2.00%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (0.75%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 2 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.50%) vSphere
8 1 (0.25%) VMware Server
8 1 (0.25%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 88 (21.95%) Microsoft Intune
2 23 (5.74%) SCCM
3 19 (4.74%) Kubernetes
4 14 (3.49%) Jamf Pro
5 11 (2.74%) Autotask
6 9 (2.24%) vCenter Server
7 8 (2.00%) SmoothWall
8 6 (1.50%) Failover Clustering
9 5 (1.25%) Terraform
10 4 (1.00%) WSUS
11 3 (0.75%) Ansible
11 3 (0.75%) FortiGate
12 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Clustering
12 2 (0.50%) NetBackup
12 2 (0.50%) Puppet
12 2 (0.50%) WhatsUp Gold
13 1 (0.25%) Backup Exec
13 1 (0.25%) Podman
13 1 (0.25%) Red Hat Satellite
13 1 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 227 (56.61%) Microsoft
2 81 (20.20%) VMware
3 64 (15.96%) Cisco
4 35 (8.73%) Veeam
5 29 (7.23%) Apple
6 28 (6.98%) Meraki
7 24 (5.99%) Sophos
8 19 (4.74%) HP
9 18 (4.49%) Dell
10 16 (3.99%) Aruba
11 15 (3.74%) Datto
11 15 (3.74%) Zoho
12 9 (2.24%) Google
13 8 (2.00%) SAP
14 7 (1.75%) Citrix
14 7 (1.75%) Fortinet
15 6 (1.50%) Oracle
15 6 (1.50%) ServiceNow
16 5 (1.25%) McAfee
16 5 (1.25%) Progress