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 3 November 2026.

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

6 months to
3 Nov 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 92 172 128
Rank change year-on-year +80 -44 +23
Permanent IT Engineer jobs 1,522 520 929
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.68% 1.49% 1.94%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.83% 1.65% 2.04%
Number of salaries quoted 1,253 433 580
10th Percentile £27,250 £25,540 £25,750
25th Percentile £30,000 £27,250 £29,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £32,500 £35,007
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -7.16% +0.44%
75th Percentile £43,750 £42,456 £45,000
90th Percentile £52,500 £50,625 £53,750
UK median annual salary £35,000 £35,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year - -6.67% +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 adverts in the UK excluding London matching a recognised job title. The table also shows what proportion of all permanent IT job adverts they make up.

6 months to
3 Nov 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Permanent job adverts in the UK excluding London matching a recognised job title 83,054 31,489 45,448
% of permanent job adverts matching a recognised job title 91.73% 90.03% 95.02%
Number of salaries quoted 56,390 18,862 24,632
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £46,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +19.57% -8.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £63,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £59,000 £52,500 £57,000
% change year-on-year +12.38% -7.89% -5.00%

IT Engineer Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT Engineer job postings 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 IT Engineer jobs in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 3 November 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 Engineer jobs within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 November 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		 Job Ads
Past 6 Months		 Median Salary
Past 6 Months		 Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Live
Jobs
South East +58 378 £39,000 +11.43% 71
Midlands +18 269 £35,000 +11.11% 47
North of England +31 262 £35,000 - 46
South West +40 240 £35,000 - 29
East of England +48 192 £35,000 +7.69% 25
West Midlands +55 150 £34,500 -31.00% 25
North West +40 139 £34,000 +6.25% 26
East Midlands -27 119 £35,000 +16.67% 22
Scotland +60 110 £30,000 +4.35% 25
Yorkshire -17 96 £30,000 -25.00% 14
Wales -39 52 £35,000 -56.25% 10
North East -52 27 £40,000 -17.95% 8
Northern Ireland -63 13 £41,000 +30.16% 3
Channel Islands +2 7 £35,000 -22.22%
IT Engineer
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IT Engineer Skill Set Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 3 November 2026, IT Engineer job ads cited 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 IT Engineer job ads across the UK excluding London region.

RankSkillShareJob Ads
1Microsoft50.9%775
2Windows47.8%727
3Microsoft 36547.7%726
4Active Directory33.8%515
5Azure26.5%403
6Problem-Solving25.2%384
7Windows Server23.5%358
8Entra ID23.3%354
9Customer Service22.0%335
10Microsoft Intune19.6%299
11Infrastructure Engineering19.1%290
12DNS17.8%271
13Firewall17.2%262
14Microsoft Exchange16.3%248
15DHCP15.4%235
16Cybersecurity15.4%234
17Hyper-V13.9%211
18SharePoint13.2%201
19VPN12.6%192
20VMware12.1%184
21TCP/IP10.8%164
22ITIL9.8%149
23Wi-Fi9.5%145
24Continuous Improvement9.5%144
25VMware Infrastructure9.4%143
26Windows 107.9%120
27VLAN7.8%119
28PowerShell7.8%118
29Disaster Recovery7.5%114
30LAN7.0%106

IT Engineer Skill Set Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Job Titles

RankJob TitleShareJob Ads
1IT Support Engineer67.2%1,023
2IT Infrastructure Engineer12.5%190
32nd Line Engineer10.1%153
3Field Engineer10.1%153
5Senior IT Engineer9.5%144
62nd Line Support Engineer9.2%140
7Systems Engineer7.0%107
8Senior IT Support6.4%97
9Senior Support Engineer5.9%90
103rd Line Engineer5.3%80
113rd Line Support Engineer4.9%75
12Field Service Engineer4.0%61
131st/2nd Line Support Engineer3.4%51
14IT Security Engineer3.2%49
151st Line Engineer3.0%45
161st Line Support Engineer2.9%44
17Infrastructure Support Engineer2.8%42
18Senior Infrastructure Engineer2.2%34
19Service Desk Engineer2.2%33
20Systems Support Engineer2.0%31
251 IT Engineer jobs in the UK excluding London