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 16 October 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 90 203 125
Rank change year-on-year +113 -78 +24
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 1,535 457 967
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.76% 1.34% 1.94%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.90% 1.49% 2.04%
Number of salaries quoted 1,313 369 616
10th Percentile £27,000 £25,700 £25,500
25th Percentile £30,000 £28,000 £29,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +1.45%
75th Percentile £43,750 £43,250 £45,000
90th Percentile £52,500 £54,000 £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
16 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 80,602 30,608 47,448
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.37% 89.75% 95.39%
Number of salaries quoted 55,718 17,467 26,033
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £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 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £58,396 £53,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.15% -2.73% -8.33%

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 16 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 16 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 +98 376 £38,500 +4.76% 82
Midlands +57 289 £35,000 +7.69% 49
North of England +43 258 £35,000 - 73
South West +36 237 £35,000 - 45
East of England +78 215 £35,000 - 36
West Midlands +53 159 £34,500 -27.37% 22
North West +64 145 £35,000 +7.69% 39
East Midlands +7 130 £35,000 +16.67% 27
Scotland +65 95 £30,000 - 29
Yorkshire -23 89 £30,000 -9.09% 27
Wales -34 52 £37,500 -53.13% 10
North East -52 24 £40,000 -17.95% 9
Northern Ireland -71 11 £41,000 +30.16% 7
Channel Islands +1 2 £35,000 -22.22% 3
IT Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 16 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
1Microsoft52.3%803
2Microsoft 36549.4%758
3Windows48.1%738
4Active Directory35.3%542
5Azure27.8%427
6Problem-Solving25.5%392
7Windows Server24.2%371
8Entra ID23.8%365
9Customer Service22.5%345
10Microsoft Intune19.6%301
11Firewall18.4%282
12Infrastructure Engineering18.2%279
13DNS17.8%273
14Microsoft Exchange16.8%258
15Cybersecurity15.5%238
16DHCP15.3%235
17Hyper-V14.5%222
18SharePoint13.8%212
19VPN13.4%205
20VMware12.6%193
21TCP/IP10.6%162
22VMware Infrastructure10.0%153
23Wi-Fi9.8%150
24ITIL9.6%148
25Continuous Improvement9.4%144
26Windows 108.0%123
27Disaster Recovery7.8%119
27VLAN7.8%119
29PowerShell7.7%118
30LAN7.5%115

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 Engineer69.3%1,063
2IT Infrastructure Engineer11.8%181
32nd Line Engineer10.0%153
42nd Line Support Engineer9.3%142
5Senior IT Engineer9.2%141
6Field Engineer7.5%115
7Systems Engineer7.3%112
8Senior IT Support6.3%96
9Senior Support Engineer5.8%89
103rd Line Engineer5.1%79
113rd Line Support Engineer4.9%75
12Field Service Engineer3.7%57
13IT Security Engineer3.6%56
141st/2nd Line Support Engineer3.5%53
151st Line Engineer2.9%44
161st Line Support Engineer2.8%43
17Infrastructure Support Engineer2.4%37
18Systems Support Engineer2.0%30
19Service Desk Engineer1.9%29
20Senior Infrastructure Engineer1.7%26
327 IT Engineer jobs in the UK excluding London