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 7 August 2026.

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

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 234 126
Rank change year-on-year +157 -108 +51
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 1,595 434 1,205
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 2.09% 1.26% 2.02%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.21% 1.41% 2.12%
Number of salaries quoted 1,418 341 943
10th Percentile £26,750 £25,750 £24,275
25th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £27,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £36,500 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.11% +4.29% +6.41%
75th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £43,750
90th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £50,000
UK median annual salary £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
% 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 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 72,028 30,825 56,769
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.55% 89.57% 94.94%
Number of salaries quoted 49,824 17,771 37,769
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £38,750 £32,500 £37,099
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £49,600 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.85% -0.80% -6.54%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 7 August 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 7 August 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 +128 421 £35,000 -12.50% 66
North of England +67 291 £32,500 -1.52% 37
East of England +111 266 £35,000 -2.78% 39
Midlands +69 254 £34,500 -8.00% 36
South West +52 226 £35,000 -6.67% 29
North West +108 165 £35,000 +3.70% 21
East Midlands +46 132 £35,000 +7.69% 16
West Midlands +44 122 £33,250 -21.76% 20
Yorkshire -2 111 £30,000 -8.40% 12
Scotland +57 74 £28,500 -5.00% 8
Wales -18 54 £45,000 -43.75% 10
North East -47 15 £40,000 -17.95% 5
Northern Ireland - 9 £41,000 - 2
IT Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 7 August 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.

1 753 (47.21%) Microsoft
2 698 (43.76%) Microsoft 365
3 653 (40.94%) Windows
4 518 (32.48%) Active Directory
5 413 (25.89%) Azure
6 375 (23.51%) Problem-Solving
7 343 (21.50%) Customer Service
8 333 (20.88%) Windows Server
9 308 (19.31%) Entra ID
10 244 (15.30%) Firewall
11 239 (14.98%) Microsoft Intune
12 236 (14.80%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 225 (14.11%) Microsoft Exchange
14 204 (12.79%) DNS
15 195 (12.23%) SharePoint
16 191 (11.97%) Hyper-V
17 180 (11.29%) Cybersecurity
18 175 (10.97%) VMware
19 169 (10.60%) DHCP
20 156 (9.78%) VPN
21 145 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
22 144 (9.03%) Windows 10
23 132 (8.28%) ITIL
24 127 (7.96%) Continuous Improvement
24 127 (7.96%) Disaster Recovery
25 124 (7.77%) Wi-Fi
26 114 (7.15%) PowerShell
27 107 (6.71%) Mac OS
27 107 (6.71%) TCP/IP
28 103 (6.46%) LAN

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
1 225 (14.11%) Microsoft Exchange
2 195 (12.23%) SharePoint
3 15 (0.94%) IIS
4 11 (0.69%) Confluence
5 10 (0.63%) Exchange Server 2013
6 8 (0.50%) Exchange Server 2007
6 8 (0.50%) Exchange Server 2010
7 3 (0.19%) Apache
Applications
1 80 (5.02%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (0.88%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.19%) Photoshop
4 2 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.13%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (0.38%) Raiser’s Edge
2 3 (0.19%) Dynamics NAV
2 3 (0.19%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.13%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 698 (43.76%) Microsoft 365
2 413 (25.89%) Azure
3 308 (19.31%) Entra ID
4 53 (3.32%) AWS
5 48 (3.01%) OneDrive
6 35 (2.19%) Google Workspace
7 29 (1.82%) Mimecast
8 27 (1.69%) SaaS
9 20 (1.25%) Power Platform
10 16 (1.00%) PaaS
11 14 (0.88%) Power Automate
12 12 (0.75%) IaaS
13 11 (0.69%) Azure DevOps
13 11 (0.69%) Nutanix
14 7 (0.44%) Microsoft Copilot
14 7 (0.44%) PowerApps
15 5 (0.31%) GCP
16 3 (0.19%) Azure Sentinel
16 3 (0.19%) Cloudflare
16 3 (0.19%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 244 (15.30%) Firewall
2 204 (12.79%) DNS
3 169 (10.60%) DHCP
4 156 (9.78%) VPN
5 124 (7.77%) Wi-Fi
6 107 (6.71%) TCP/IP
7 103 (6.46%) LAN
8 93 (5.83%) WAN
9 79 (4.95%) VoIP
10 73 (4.58%) Wireless
11 66 (4.14%) VLAN
12 31 (1.94%) Network Security
12 31 (1.94%) SAN
13 22 (1.38%) Internet
14 17 (1.07%) Remote Desktop
15 16 (1.00%) WLAN
16 13 (0.82%) SSL
17 7 (0.44%) Broadband
17 7 (0.44%) NAS
18 5 (0.31%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (2.95%) SQL Server
2 9 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
2 9 (0.56%) MySQL
2 9 (0.56%) Power BI
3 5 (0.31%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (0.13%) KNIME
Development Applications
1 40 (2.51%) JIRA
2 2 (0.13%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (0.063%) Carbide.c++
3 1 (0.063%) GitLab
General
1 381 (23.89%) Social Skills
2 80 (5.02%) Manufacturing
3 78 (4.89%) Analytical Skills
4 64 (4.01%) Legal
5 45 (2.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 44 (2.76%) Organisational Skills
7 36 (2.26%) Retail
8 32 (2.01%) Finance
8 32 (2.01%) Public Sector
8 32 (2.01%) Telecoms
9 27 (1.69%) Advertising
10 24 (1.50%) Documentation Skills
11 20 (1.25%) Law
12 17 (1.07%) Automotive
13 8 (0.50%) Aerospace
14 7 (0.44%) Local Government
15 4 (0.25%) Banking
15 4 (0.25%) Dutch Language
15 4 (0.25%) Military
15 4 (0.25%) Portuguese Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (0.44%) HTML
1 7 (0.44%) JSON
2 4 (0.25%) Web Services
3 3 (0.19%) CSS
4 1 (0.063%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 232 (14.55%) Driving Licence
2 91 (5.71%) Onboarding
3 63 (3.95%) Self-Motivation
4 44 (2.76%) CCTV
5 36 (2.26%) Data Centre
6 22 (1.38%) FMCG
7 17 (1.07%) Security Posture
8 16 (1.00%) Analytical Mindset
9 13 (0.82%) Hybrid Cloud
9 13 (0.82%) Management Information System
10 11 (0.69%) Cloud Native
10 11 (0.69%) Clustering
10 11 (0.69%) NHS
10 11 (0.69%) Operational Technology
10 11 (0.69%) Replication
11 10 (0.63%) Smartphone
12 8 (0.50%) Cyber Threat
12 8 (0.50%) PKI
13 7 (0.44%) EPoS
14 6 (0.38%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 653 (40.94%) Windows
2 333 (20.88%) Windows Server
3 144 (9.03%) Windows 10
4 107 (6.71%) Mac OS
5 90 (5.64%) Linux
6 43 (2.70%) Apple iOS
7 36 (2.26%) Android
8 33 (2.07%) Windows Server 2019
9 25 (1.57%) Windows Server 2016
10 13 (0.82%) Ubuntu
10 13 (0.82%) Windows 7
11 10 (0.63%) Windows Server 2012
12 8 (0.50%) Windows 8
13 4 (0.25%) Mac OS X
14 2 (0.13%) VMS
15 1 (0.063%) Debian
15 1 (0.063%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 1 (0.063%) Rocky
15 1 (0.063%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 375 (23.51%) Problem-Solving
2 343 (21.50%) Customer Service
3 236 (14.80%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 180 (11.29%) Cybersecurity
5 132 (8.28%) ITIL
6 127 (7.96%) Continuous Improvement
6 127 (7.96%) Disaster Recovery
7 76 (4.76%) Project Delivery
8 63 (3.95%) Service Management
9 58 (3.64%) ITSM
9 58 (3.64%) Mentoring
10 54 (3.39%) Root Cause Analysis
11 48 (3.01%) Business Continuity
11 48 (3.01%) Service Delivery
12 46 (2.88%) Remote Monitoring and Management
13 44 (2.76%) User Experience
14 42 (2.63%) Time Management
15 35 (2.19%) Process Improvement
16 33 (2.07%) Incident Management
17 31 (1.94%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 114 (7.15%) PowerShell
2 53 (3.32%) SQL
3 11 (0.69%) R
4 10 (0.63%) Python
5 8 (0.50%) Ruby
6 4 (0.25%) VBScript
7 3 (0.19%) Bicep
7 3 (0.19%) JavaScript
7 3 (0.19%) PHP
7 3 (0.19%) VB
7 3 (0.19%) VBA
8 2 (0.13%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 87 (5.45%) Microsoft Certification
2 83 (5.20%) Degree
3 70 (4.39%) Security Cleared
4 58 (3.64%) DBS Check
5 49 (3.07%) CCNA
5 49 (3.07%) Cisco Certification
6 47 (2.95%) SC Cleared
7 36 (2.26%) Network+ Certification
8 25 (1.57%) Azure Certification
9 24 (1.50%) A+ Certification
10 18 (1.13%) CompTIA Security+
11 13 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
11 13 (0.82%) MCSE
12 11 (0.69%) DV Cleared
13 6 (0.38%) AWS Certification
14 5 (0.31%) CCNP
14 5 (0.31%) MCSA
15 4 (0.25%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 4 (0.25%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 3 (0.19%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (5.89%) Cyber Essentials
2 53 (3.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 38 (2.38%) SLA
4 32 (2.01%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 24 (1.50%) GDPR
6 10 (0.63%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.25%) Accessibility
7 4 (0.25%) NIST
8 3 (0.19%) QA
9 1 (0.063%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.063%) NCSC
System Software
1 518 (32.48%) Active Directory
2 191 (11.97%) Hyper-V
3 145 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (1.13%) Virtual Desktop
4 18 (1.13%) vSphere
5 16 (1.00%) Virtual Machines
6 13 (0.82%) Docker
6 13 (0.82%) VMware ESXi
7 8 (0.50%) BitLocker
8 7 (0.44%) Firmware
9 5 (0.31%) Terminal Services
10 4 (0.25%) VMware Workstation
11 1 (0.063%) Terminal Server
11 1 (0.063%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 239 (14.98%) Microsoft Intune
2 22 (1.38%) SCCM
3 18 (1.13%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 13 (0.82%) Jamf Pro
5 12 (0.75%) WSUS
6 11 (0.69%) Proxmox
7 7 (0.44%) Failover Clustering
7 7 (0.44%) FortiGate
8 5 (0.31%) Autotask
8 5 (0.31%) Kubernetes
9 4 (0.25%) Iperf
9 4 (0.25%) Terraform
10 3 (0.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (0.19%) Ansible
10 3 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.13%) PaperCut
12 1 (0.063%) Argo
12 1 (0.063%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
12 1 (0.063%) Nessus
12 1 (0.063%) SCOM
Vendors
1 753 (47.21%) Microsoft
2 175 (10.97%) VMware
3 67 (4.20%) Cisco
4 53 (3.32%) Veeam
5 42 (2.63%) Google
6 39 (2.45%) Apple
7 29 (1.82%) Meraki
7 29 (1.82%) SonicWALL
8 27 (1.69%) Sophos
9 26 (1.63%) Dell
10 24 (1.50%) Ubiquiti
11 20 (1.25%) HP
12 16 (1.00%) Fortinet
13 13 (0.82%) Logitech
13 13 (0.82%) TOWER Software
14 11 (0.69%) CrowdStrike
14 11 (0.69%) Palo Alto
15 10 (0.63%) ServiceNow
16 9 (0.56%) Datto
16 9 (0.56%) Epicor