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 23 June 2026.

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

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 213 102
Rank change year-on-year +150 -111 +82
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 1,613 434 1,934
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 2.36% 1.43% 2.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.50% 1.61% 2.57%
Number of salaries quoted 1,424 338 1,588
10th Percentile £26,750 £25,750 £23,500
25th Percentile £30,000 £27,563 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £35,000 £32,500
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% -
75th Percentile £43,750 £43,250 £42,500
90th Percentile £51,250 £53,975 £48,750
UK median annual salary £35,000 £35,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year - +7.69% -4.41%

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 64,481 26,973 75,169
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.51% 88.89% 94.85%
Number of salaries quoted 44,723 14,723 53,904
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £26,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £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 £67,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £76,985
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 23 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 23 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 +104 426 £35,000 -6.67% 64
North of England +99 364 £32,940 -0.18% 46
Midlands +75 265 £32,500 -7.14% 25
East of England +106 247 £35,000 +7.58% 23
South West +52 205 £35,000 - 32
North West +135 203 £32,940 +2.14% 24
Yorkshire +13 143 £32,500 +8.33% 18
West Midlands +58 137 £32,500 -16.13% 7
East Midlands +37 128 £32,500 -0.76% 18
Scotland +45 61 £28,500 -5.00% 8
Wales -8 45 £45,000 +5.88% 10
North East -42 18 £37,500 -23.08% 7
IT Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 23 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.

1 658 (40.79%) Microsoft
2 640 (39.68%) Microsoft 365
3 578 (35.83%) Windows
4 469 (29.08%) Active Directory
5 397 (24.61%) Azure
6 378 (23.43%) Problem-Solving
7 311 (19.28%) Customer Service
7 311 (19.28%) Windows Server
8 271 (16.80%) Entra ID
9 245 (15.19%) Firewall
10 193 (11.97%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 188 (11.66%) Microsoft Intune
12 175 (10.85%) Microsoft Exchange
13 174 (10.79%) DNS
13 174 (10.79%) SharePoint
14 161 (9.98%) Cybersecurity
15 157 (9.73%) Hyper-V
15 157 (9.73%) VMware
16 152 (9.42%) VPN
17 150 (9.30%) Windows 10
18 145 (8.99%) DHCP
19 127 (7.87%) ITIL
20 125 (7.75%) VMware Infrastructure
21 115 (7.13%) LAN
22 107 (6.63%) WAN
22 107 (6.63%) Wi-Fi
23 100 (6.20%) PowerShell
24 94 (5.83%) Disaster Recovery
25 93 (5.77%) Continuous Improvement
25 93 (5.77%) Security Cleared

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
1 175 (10.85%) Microsoft Exchange
2 174 (10.79%) SharePoint
3 15 (0.93%) Confluence
3 15 (0.93%) Exchange Server 2013
4 13 (0.81%) Exchange Server 2007
4 13 (0.81%) Exchange Server 2010
5 10 (0.62%) IIS
Applications
1 84 (5.21%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (0.99%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.19%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.062%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.062%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (0.31%) Dynamics NAV
1 5 (0.31%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.062%) Raiser’s Edge
2 1 (0.062%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 640 (39.68%) Microsoft 365
2 397 (24.61%) Azure
3 271 (16.80%) Entra ID
4 52 (3.22%) AWS
5 45 (2.79%) OneDrive
6 43 (2.67%) Google Workspace
7 28 (1.74%) SaaS
8 23 (1.43%) Power Platform
9 21 (1.30%) Mimecast
10 20 (1.24%) PaaS
11 15 (0.93%) IaaS
12 10 (0.62%) Azure DevOps
13 9 (0.56%) PowerApps
14 8 (0.50%) Power Automate
15 7 (0.43%) Nutanix
16 6 (0.37%) Microsoft Copilot
17 5 (0.31%) Azure Sentinel
17 5 (0.31%) Intacct
17 5 (0.31%) OCI
18 4 (0.25%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 245 (15.19%) Firewall
2 174 (10.79%) DNS
3 152 (9.42%) VPN
4 145 (8.99%) DHCP
5 115 (7.13%) LAN
6 107 (6.63%) WAN
6 107 (6.63%) Wi-Fi
7 73 (4.53%) VoIP
8 63 (3.91%) TCP/IP
9 52 (3.22%) VLAN
10 39 (2.42%) Wireless
11 32 (1.98%) SAN
12 26 (1.61%) Network Security
13 16 (0.99%) WLAN
14 14 (0.87%) Internet
15 13 (0.81%) SD-WAN
16 11 (0.68%) SSL
17 10 (0.62%) Remote Desktop
18 7 (0.43%) NAS
19 5 (0.31%) DMZ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (2.60%) SQL Server
2 13 (0.81%) Power BI
3 6 (0.37%) Azure SQL Database
3 6 (0.37%) MySQL
4 5 (0.31%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.062%) KNIME
Development Applications
1 44 (2.73%) JIRA
2 4 (0.25%) GitLab
3 2 (0.12%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.062%) Carbide.c++
4 1 (0.062%) LabVIEW
General
1 352 (21.82%) Social Skills
2 69 (4.28%) Manufacturing
3 62 (3.84%) Analytical Skills
3 62 (3.84%) Organisational Skills
4 52 (3.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 47 (2.91%) Legal
6 38 (2.36%) Public Sector
7 37 (2.29%) Retail
8 35 (2.17%) Telecoms
9 34 (2.11%) Law
10 28 (1.74%) Multimedia
11 27 (1.67%) Finance
12 16 (0.99%) Documentation Skills
13 15 (0.93%) Automotive
14 14 (0.87%) Advertising
15 6 (0.37%) Aerospace
15 6 (0.37%) Local Government
16 5 (0.31%) Social Housing
17 4 (0.25%) Dutch Language
17 4 (0.25%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (0.43%) HTML
1 7 (0.43%) JSON
2 4 (0.25%) OpenTelemetry
2 4 (0.25%) Web Services
3 3 (0.19%) CSS
4 1 (0.062%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 228 (14.14%) Driving Licence
2 72 (4.46%) Onboarding
3 58 (3.60%) Self-Motivation
4 33 (2.05%) Data Centre
5 31 (1.92%) CCTV
6 26 (1.61%) FMCG
7 23 (1.43%) Analytical Mindset
8 16 (0.99%) Security Posture
9 13 (0.81%) Management Information System
10 11 (0.68%) Clustering
10 11 (0.68%) NHS
10 11 (0.68%) Smartphone
11 10 (0.62%) Hybrid Cloud
12 7 (0.43%) Enterprise Software
12 7 (0.43%) Operational Technology
12 7 (0.43%) PKI
12 7 (0.43%) Replication
12 7 (0.43%) Social Media
13 6 (0.37%) Cloud Native
13 6 (0.37%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 578 (35.83%) Windows
2 311 (19.28%) Windows Server
3 150 (9.30%) Windows 10
4 90 (5.58%) Mac OS
5 81 (5.02%) Linux
6 44 (2.73%) Windows Server 2019
7 38 (2.36%) Windows Server 2016
8 33 (2.05%) Android
8 33 (2.05%) Apple iOS
9 17 (1.05%) Windows 7
10 16 (0.99%) Windows Server 2012
11 11 (0.68%) Windows 8
12 8 (0.50%) Ubuntu
13 5 (0.31%) Windows Server 2008
14 4 (0.25%) Mac OS X
15 2 (0.12%) VMS
16 1 (0.062%) CentOS
16 1 (0.062%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 1 (0.062%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 378 (23.43%) Problem-Solving
2 311 (19.28%) Customer Service
3 193 (11.97%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 161 (9.98%) Cybersecurity
5 127 (7.87%) ITIL
6 94 (5.83%) Disaster Recovery
7 93 (5.77%) Continuous Improvement
8 87 (5.39%) Mentoring
9 64 (3.97%) Service Delivery
10 59 (3.66%) Root Cause Analysis
11 58 (3.60%) Project Delivery
11 58 (3.60%) Service Management
12 54 (3.35%) ITSM
13 44 (2.73%) Business Continuity
13 44 (2.73%) Remote Monitoring and Management
13 44 (2.73%) Time Management
14 39 (2.42%) User Experience
15 37 (2.29%) Process Improvement
16 36 (2.23%) ERP
17 28 (1.74%) Mobile Device Management
Programming Languages
1 100 (6.20%) PowerShell
2 57 (3.53%) SQL
3 7 (0.43%) R
4 6 (0.37%) Python
5 5 (0.31%) Bash
5 5 (0.31%) VB
6 4 (0.25%) PHP
6 4 (0.25%) VBScript
7 3 (0.19%) JavaScript
7 3 (0.19%) Uniface
7 3 (0.19%) VBA
8 2 (0.12%) Bicep
8 2 (0.12%) Google Apps Script
8 2 (0.12%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.062%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 93 (5.77%) Security Cleared
2 81 (5.02%) Microsoft Certification
3 76 (4.71%) Degree
4 66 (4.09%) SC Cleared
5 61 (3.78%) DBS Check
6 47 (2.91%) CCNA
6 47 (2.91%) Cisco Certification
7 37 (2.29%) Network+ Certification
8 28 (1.74%) A+ Certification
9 22 (1.36%) BPSS Clearance
10 21 (1.30%) Azure Certification
11 16 (0.99%) MCSE
12 15 (0.93%) CompTIA Security+
12 15 (0.93%) DV Cleared
13 9 (0.56%) CCNP
14 5 (0.31%) MCITP
14 5 (0.31%) MCSA
15 4 (0.25%) AWS Certification
15 4 (0.25%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 3 (0.19%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (4.90%) Cyber Essentials
2 58 (3.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 48 (2.98%) SLA
4 33 (2.05%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 19 (1.18%) GDPR
6 10 (0.62%) PCI DSS
7 5 (0.31%) NIST
7 5 (0.31%) QA
8 4 (0.25%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.062%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.062%) NCSC
System Software
1 469 (29.08%) Active Directory
2 157 (9.73%) Hyper-V
3 125 (7.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 25 (1.55%) Virtual Desktop
5 16 (0.99%) VMware ESXi
6 13 (0.81%) vSphere
7 11 (0.68%) Docker
8 9 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
9 8 (0.50%) BitLocker
10 7 (0.43%) VMware Workstation
11 5 (0.31%) Terminal Services
12 4 (0.25%) VMware NSX
13 3 (0.19%) Firmware
14 1 (0.062%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 188 (11.66%) Microsoft Intune
2 22 (1.36%) SCCM
3 14 (0.87%) FortiGate
3 14 (0.87%) Proxmox
3 14 (0.87%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 11 (0.68%) Jamf Pro
4 11 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
5 10 (0.62%) WSUS
6 8 (0.50%) Autotask
7 7 (0.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 7 (0.43%) Failover Clustering
8 5 (0.31%) Ansible
9 4 (0.25%) Terraform
10 2 (0.12%) Iperf
10 2 (0.12%) Kubernetes
10 2 (0.12%) SmoothWall
11 1 (0.062%) Argo
11 1 (0.062%) Nessus
Vendors
1 658 (40.79%) Microsoft
2 157 (9.73%) VMware
3 54 (3.35%) Cisco
4 49 (3.04%) Google
5 40 (2.48%) Veeam
6 39 (2.42%) Fortinet
7 36 (2.23%) Meraki
8 34 (2.11%) Apple
9 29 (1.80%) Dell
10 28 (1.74%) Fujitsu
10 28 (1.74%) Virgin Media
11 21 (1.30%) Sophos
12 18 (1.12%) HP
13 17 (1.05%) Ubiquiti
14 15 (0.93%) SonicWALL
15 13 (0.81%) Epicor
16 11 (0.68%) ServiceNow
17 10 (0.62%) CrowdStrike
17 10 (0.62%) Logitech
18 9 (0.56%) Sage