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 30 June 2026.

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

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 217 105
Rank change year-on-year +155 -112 +82
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 1,640 441 1,848
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 2.36% 1.40% 2.41%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.50% 1.57% 2.54%
Number of salaries quoted 1,448 346 1,531
10th Percentile £26,750 £25,750 £23,500
25th Percentile £29,750 £28,000 £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 £52,500 £54,125 £48,750
UK median annual salary £35,000 £35,000 £33,000
% change year-on-year - +6.06% -2.94%

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 65,661 28,006 72,671
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.59% 88.96% 94.83%
Number of salaries quoted 45,558 15,556 51,953
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £26,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £33,750 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% - -6.54%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,253 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £56,673 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.95% +7.95% -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 30 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 30 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 +113 434 £35,000 -6.67% 51
North of England +84 359 £32,500 -0.76% 37
Midlands +74 274 £32,500 -7.14% 23
East of England +105 254 £35,000 +7.58% 23
South West +57 208 £35,000 - 29
North West +128 200 £32,940 +2.94% 17
Yorkshire +9 141 £30,000 - 19
West Midlands +66 140 £32,500 -16.13% 10
East Midlands +39 134 £32,500 - 13
Scotland +48 63 £28,500 -5.00% 10
Wales -9 48 £45,000 +5.88% 7
North East -39 18 £37,500 -23.08% 4
IT Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 30 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.

1 696 (42.44%) Microsoft
2 670 (40.85%) Microsoft 365
3 604 (36.83%) Windows
4 492 (30.00%) Active Directory
5 407 (24.82%) Azure
6 393 (23.96%) Problem-Solving
7 328 (20.00%) Customer Service
8 322 (19.63%) Windows Server
9 284 (17.32%) Entra ID
10 255 (15.55%) Firewall
11 204 (12.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 197 (12.01%) Microsoft Intune
13 192 (11.71%) Microsoft Exchange
14 191 (11.65%) DNS
15 185 (11.28%) SharePoint
16 167 (10.18%) Cybersecurity
17 166 (10.12%) Hyper-V
18 165 (10.06%) VMware
19 159 (9.70%) DHCP
20 158 (9.63%) VPN
21 153 (9.33%) Windows 10
22 133 (8.11%) ITIL
23 132 (8.05%) VMware Infrastructure
24 116 (7.07%) LAN
24 116 (7.07%) Wi-Fi
25 109 (6.65%) PowerShell
26 108 (6.59%) WAN
27 103 (6.28%) Continuous Improvement
27 103 (6.28%) Disaster Recovery
28 95 (5.79%) Mac OS

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
1 192 (11.71%) Microsoft Exchange
2 185 (11.28%) SharePoint
3 15 (0.91%) Exchange Server 2013
4 14 (0.85%) Confluence
5 13 (0.79%) Exchange Server 2007
5 13 (0.79%) Exchange Server 2010
6 11 (0.67%) IIS
7 1 (0.061%) Apache
Applications
1 87 (5.30%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (0.98%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.18%) Photoshop
4 2 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.061%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 5 (0.30%) Dynamics NAV
1 5 (0.30%) NetSuite
2 4 (0.24%) Raiser’s Edge
3 1 (0.061%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 670 (40.85%) Microsoft 365
2 407 (24.82%) Azure
3 284 (17.32%) Entra ID
4 54 (3.29%) AWS
5 47 (2.87%) OneDrive
6 41 (2.50%) Google Workspace
7 32 (1.95%) SaaS
8 24 (1.46%) Mimecast
9 23 (1.40%) Power Platform
10 20 (1.22%) PaaS
11 15 (0.91%) IaaS
12 10 (0.61%) Azure DevOps
13 9 (0.55%) Power Automate
13 9 (0.55%) PowerApps
14 7 (0.43%) Nutanix
15 6 (0.37%) Microsoft Copilot
16 5 (0.30%) Azure Sentinel
16 5 (0.30%) Intacct
16 5 (0.30%) OCI
17 4 (0.24%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 255 (15.55%) Firewall
2 191 (11.65%) DNS
3 159 (9.70%) DHCP
4 158 (9.63%) VPN
5 116 (7.07%) LAN
5 116 (7.07%) Wi-Fi
6 108 (6.59%) WAN
7 76 (4.63%) VoIP
8 73 (4.45%) TCP/IP
9 59 (3.60%) VLAN
10 48 (2.93%) Wireless
11 32 (1.95%) SAN
12 28 (1.71%) Network Security
13 17 (1.04%) Internet
14 16 (0.98%) WLAN
15 13 (0.79%) SD-WAN
16 11 (0.67%) Remote Desktop
16 11 (0.67%) SSL
17 7 (0.43%) NAS
18 6 (0.37%) DMZ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (2.74%) SQL Server
2 13 (0.79%) Power BI
3 7 (0.43%) Azure SQL Database
3 7 (0.43%) MySQL
4 5 (0.30%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (0.12%) KNIME
Development Applications
1 45 (2.74%) JIRA
2 4 (0.24%) GitLab
3 2 (0.12%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.061%) Carbide.c++
4 1 (0.061%) LabVIEW
General
1 373 (22.74%) Social Skills
2 74 (4.51%) Manufacturing
3 64 (3.90%) Analytical Skills
4 62 (3.78%) Organisational Skills
5 51 (3.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 50 (3.05%) Legal
7 40 (2.44%) Public Sector
8 37 (2.26%) Retail
9 35 (2.13%) Law
10 34 (2.07%) Telecoms
11 28 (1.71%) Multimedia
12 26 (1.59%) Finance
13 19 (1.16%) Documentation Skills
14 16 (0.98%) Automotive
15 15 (0.91%) Advertising
16 7 (0.43%) Local Government
17 6 (0.37%) Aerospace
18 5 (0.30%) Social Housing
19 4 (0.24%) Banking
19 4 (0.24%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (0.43%) HTML
1 7 (0.43%) JSON
2 4 (0.24%) OpenTelemetry
2 4 (0.24%) Web Services
3 3 (0.18%) CSS
4 1 (0.061%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 240 (14.63%) Driving Licence
2 79 (4.82%) Onboarding
3 63 (3.84%) Self-Motivation
4 35 (2.13%) Data Centre
5 34 (2.07%) CCTV
6 26 (1.59%) FMCG
7 23 (1.40%) Analytical Mindset
8 17 (1.04%) Security Posture
9 13 (0.79%) Management Information System
10 12 (0.73%) Hybrid Cloud
11 11 (0.67%) Clustering
11 11 (0.67%) NHS
11 11 (0.67%) Smartphone
12 9 (0.55%) Operational Technology
13 8 (0.49%) PKI
14 7 (0.43%) Cloud Native
14 7 (0.43%) Enterprise Software
14 7 (0.43%) Replication
15 6 (0.37%) EPoS
15 6 (0.37%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 604 (36.83%) Windows
2 322 (19.63%) Windows Server
3 153 (9.33%) Windows 10
4 95 (5.79%) Mac OS
5 85 (5.18%) Linux
6 45 (2.74%) Windows Server 2019
7 40 (2.44%) Windows Server 2016
8 35 (2.13%) Android
8 35 (2.13%) Apple iOS
9 17 (1.04%) Windows 7
9 17 (1.04%) Windows Server 2012
10 11 (0.67%) Windows 8
11 9 (0.55%) Ubuntu
12 5 (0.30%) Windows Server 2008
13 4 (0.24%) Mac OS X
14 2 (0.12%) VMS
15 1 (0.061%) CentOS
15 1 (0.061%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 1 (0.061%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 393 (23.96%) Problem-Solving
2 328 (20.00%) Customer Service
3 204 (12.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 167 (10.18%) Cybersecurity
5 133 (8.11%) ITIL
6 103 (6.28%) Continuous Improvement
6 103 (6.28%) Disaster Recovery
7 91 (5.55%) Mentoring
8 65 (3.96%) Service Delivery
9 62 (3.78%) Project Delivery
10 59 (3.60%) Root Cause Analysis
10 59 (3.60%) Service Management
11 56 (3.41%) ITSM
12 47 (2.87%) Time Management
13 46 (2.80%) Business Continuity
14 43 (2.62%) Remote Monitoring and Management
15 41 (2.50%) User Experience
16 38 (2.32%) ERP
16 38 (2.32%) Process Improvement
17 30 (1.83%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 109 (6.65%) PowerShell
2 58 (3.54%) SQL
3 9 (0.55%) Python
3 9 (0.55%) R
4 5 (0.30%) Bash
4 5 (0.30%) VB
5 4 (0.24%) PHP
5 4 (0.24%) VBScript
6 3 (0.18%) Bicep
6 3 (0.18%) JavaScript
6 3 (0.18%) Uniface
6 3 (0.18%) VBA
7 2 (0.12%) Google Apps Script
7 2 (0.12%) Ruby
7 2 (0.12%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 91 (5.55%) Security Cleared
2 85 (5.18%) Microsoft Certification
3 77 (4.70%) Degree
4 64 (3.90%) SC Cleared
5 60 (3.66%) DBS Check
6 50 (3.05%) CCNA
6 50 (3.05%) Cisco Certification
7 36 (2.20%) Network+ Certification
8 28 (1.71%) A+ Certification
9 23 (1.40%) Azure Certification
10 22 (1.34%) BPSS Clearance
11 16 (0.98%) MCSE
12 15 (0.91%) DV Cleared
13 14 (0.85%) CompTIA Security+
14 10 (0.61%) CCNP
15 6 (0.37%) MCSA
16 5 (0.30%) AWS Certification
16 5 (0.30%) MCITP
17 4 (0.24%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
18 3 (0.18%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (5.06%) Cyber Essentials
2 58 (3.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 48 (2.93%) SLA
4 34 (2.07%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 22 (1.34%) GDPR
6 10 (0.61%) PCI DSS
7 5 (0.30%) QA
8 4 (0.24%) Accessibility
8 4 (0.24%) NIST
9 1 (0.061%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.061%) NCSC
System Software
1 492 (30.00%) Active Directory
2 166 (10.12%) Hyper-V
3 132 (8.05%) VMware Infrastructure
4 25 (1.52%) Virtual Desktop
5 17 (1.04%) VMware ESXi
5 17 (1.04%) vSphere
6 12 (0.73%) Docker
7 11 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
8 8 (0.49%) BitLocker
9 7 (0.43%) VMware Workstation
10 5 (0.30%) Terminal Services
11 4 (0.24%) VMware NSX
12 3 (0.18%) Firmware
13 1 (0.061%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 197 (12.01%) Microsoft Intune
2 22 (1.34%) SCCM
3 16 (0.98%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 14 (0.85%) Proxmox
5 12 (0.73%) FortiGate
6 11 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
6 11 (0.67%) WSUS
7 10 (0.61%) Jamf Pro
8 8 (0.49%) Autotask
9 7 (0.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 7 (0.43%) Failover Clustering
10 5 (0.30%) Ansible
11 4 (0.24%) Terraform
12 3 (0.18%) Iperf
12 3 (0.18%) Kubernetes
13 1 (0.061%) Argo
13 1 (0.061%) Nessus
Vendors
1 696 (42.44%) Microsoft
2 165 (10.06%) VMware
3 54 (3.29%) Cisco
4 47 (2.87%) Google
5 42 (2.56%) Veeam
6 41 (2.50%) Fortinet
7 34 (2.07%) Apple
7 34 (2.07%) Meraki
8 31 (1.89%) Dell
9 28 (1.71%) Fujitsu
9 28 (1.71%) Virgin Media
10 22 (1.34%) Sophos
11 20 (1.22%) HP
12 18 (1.10%) SonicWALL
13 17 (1.04%) Ubiquiti
14 13 (0.79%) Epicor
15 12 (0.73%) CrowdStrike
16 11 (0.67%) Logitech
16 11 (0.67%) ServiceNow
17 9 (0.55%) Sage