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 21 October 2026.

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

6 months to
21 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 91 198 128
Rank change year-on-year +107 -70 +26
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 1,542 471 951
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.75% 1.38% 1.95%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.89% 1.54% 2.04%
Number of salaries quoted 1,300 386 600
10th Percentile £27,000 £25,700 £25,750
25th Percentile £30,000 £28,000 £29,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £33,500 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.48% -4.29% +1.45%
75th Percentile £43,750 £43,250 £45,000
90th Percentile £52,500 £53,125 £53,750
UK median annual salary £35,000 £35,000 £37,000
% change year-on-year - -5.41% +5.71%

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.

6 months to
21 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 81,376 30,648 46,509
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.17% 89.58% 95.41%
Number of salaries quoted 56,079 17,606 25,414
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £63,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £59,000 £52,500 £56,252
% change year-on-year +12.38% -6.67% -6.25%

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 21 October 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 21 October 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 +93 374 £38,500 +10.00% 36
Midlands +54 284 £35,000 +7.69% 17
North of England +34 255 £35,000 - 45
South West +36 248 £35,000 +2.94% 35
East of England +71 211 £35,000 - 19
West Midlands +51 157 £34,500 -27.37% 9
North West +41 141 £35,000 +9.38% 24
East Midlands +2 127 £35,000 +19.66% 8
Scotland +71 101 £30,000 - 12
Yorkshire -11 90 £30,000 -16.08% 15
Wales -26 54 £35,000 -56.25% 2
North East -53 24 £40,000 -17.95% 8
Northern Ireland -68 12 £41,000 +30.16%
Channel Islands +2 3 £35,000 -22.22% 4
IT Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 21 October 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.

RankSkillShareJob Ads
1Microsoft51.4%792
2Microsoft 36548.3%745
3Windows47.3%730
4Active Directory34.7%535
5Azure27.4%422
6Problem-Solving25.4%392
7Windows Server23.6%364
8Entra ID23.4%361
9Customer Service22.4%345
10Microsoft Intune19.3%298
11Infrastructure Engineering18.5%285
12Firewall17.9%276
13DNS17.6%271
14Microsoft Exchange16.5%255
15Cybersecurity15.2%234
16DHCP15.1%233
17Hyper-V14.4%222
18SharePoint13.4%207
19VPN13.3%205
20VMware12.3%190
21TCP/IP10.4%161
22VMware Infrastructure9.9%152
23Wi-Fi9.6%148
24ITIL9.5%147
25Continuous Improvement9.3%143
26Windows 107.7%119
27PowerShell7.7%118
27VLAN7.7%118
29Disaster Recovery7.6%117
30LAN7.3%112

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 Engineer68.2%1,051
2IT Infrastructure Engineer12.0%185
32nd Line Engineer10.0%154
42nd Line Support Engineer9.2%142
5Senior IT Engineer9.0%139
6Field Engineer8.4%130
7Systems Engineer7.4%114
8Senior IT Support6.2%95
9Senior Support Engineer5.7%88
103rd Line Engineer5.3%81
113rd Line Support Engineer4.9%76
12Field Service Engineer3.8%59
13IT Security Engineer3.6%56
141st/2nd Line Support Engineer3.5%54
151st Line Engineer2.9%44
161st Line Support Engineer2.8%43
17Infrastructure Support Engineer2.4%37
18Systems Support Engineer2.0%31
19Service Desk Engineer1.9%29
20Senior Infrastructure Engineer1.8%27
163 IT Engineer jobs in the UK excluding London