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 18 June 2026.

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

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 213 101
Rank change year-on-year +150 -112 +81
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 1,593 431 1,944
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 2.36% 1.44% 2.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.50% 1.62% 2.59%
Number of salaries quoted 1,404 335 1,585
10th Percentile £26,525 £25,750 £23,500
25th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £35,000 £32,500
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% -
75th Percentile £43,375 £42,875 £42,500
90th Percentile £50,443 £52,800 £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 63,706 26,644 75,126
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.49% 89.02% 94.84%
Number of salaries quoted 44,147 14,416 53,861
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £26,750
25th Percentile £37,250 £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 £66,350 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £76,250
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 18 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 18 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 +110 412 £35,000 -6.67% 58
North of England +96 360 £32,940 +1.35% 50
Midlands +83 265 £32,500 -7.14% 38
East of England +105 245 £35,000 +7.58% 26
South West +55 204 £35,000 - 28
North West +131 201 £33,970 +5.33% 23
Yorkshire +9 143 £32,500 +8.33% 22
West Midlands +68 134 £32,500 -10.34% 14
East Midlands +37 131 £30,000 -8.40% 24
Scotland +44 62 £28,500 -5.00% 9
Wales -7 45 £45,000 +5.88% 11
North East -39 16 £34,750 -21.69% 7
IT Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 18 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.

1 631 (39.61%) Microsoft
2 615 (38.61%) Microsoft 365
3 553 (34.71%) Windows
4 450 (28.25%) Active Directory
5 386 (24.23%) Azure
6 368 (23.10%) Problem-Solving
7 302 (18.96%) Customer Service
8 298 (18.71%) Windows Server
9 260 (16.32%) Entra ID
10 239 (15.00%) Firewall
11 186 (11.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 183 (11.49%) Microsoft Intune
13 167 (10.48%) SharePoint
14 166 (10.42%) Microsoft Exchange
15 165 (10.36%) DNS
16 155 (9.73%) Cybersecurity
17 151 (9.48%) VMware
18 149 (9.35%) Hyper-V
18 149 (9.35%) VPN
19 145 (9.10%) Windows 10
20 139 (8.73%) DHCP
21 122 (7.66%) ITIL
22 119 (7.47%) VMware Infrastructure
23 114 (7.16%) LAN
24 106 (6.65%) WAN
25 102 (6.40%) Wi-Fi
26 95 (5.96%) Security Cleared
27 93 (5.84%) PowerShell
28 87 (5.46%) Mentoring
29 86 (5.40%) Disaster Recovery

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
1 167 (10.48%) SharePoint
2 166 (10.42%) Microsoft Exchange
3 16 (1.00%) Confluence
4 15 (0.94%) Exchange Server 2013
5 13 (0.82%) Exchange Server 2007
5 13 (0.82%) Exchange Server 2010
6 10 (0.63%) IIS
Applications
1 82 (5.15%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (1.07%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.19%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.063%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.063%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (0.31%) Dynamics NAV
1 5 (0.31%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.063%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 615 (38.61%) Microsoft 365
2 386 (24.23%) Azure
3 260 (16.32%) Entra ID
4 51 (3.20%) AWS
5 44 (2.76%) Google Workspace
5 44 (2.76%) OneDrive
6 25 (1.57%) SaaS
7 22 (1.38%) Power Platform
8 20 (1.26%) Mimecast
8 20 (1.26%) PaaS
9 15 (0.94%) IaaS
10 10 (0.63%) Azure DevOps
11 9 (0.56%) PowerApps
12 7 (0.44%) Nutanix
13 6 (0.38%) Azure Sentinel
13 6 (0.38%) Microsoft Copilot
13 6 (0.38%) Power Automate
14 5 (0.31%) Intacct
14 5 (0.31%) OCI
15 4 (0.25%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 239 (15.00%) Firewall
2 165 (10.36%) DNS
3 149 (9.35%) VPN
4 139 (8.73%) DHCP
5 114 (7.16%) LAN
6 106 (6.65%) WAN
7 102 (6.40%) Wi-Fi
8 70 (4.39%) VoIP
9 57 (3.58%) TCP/IP
10 50 (3.14%) VLAN
11 34 (2.13%) Wireless
12 32 (2.01%) SAN
13 25 (1.57%) Network Security
14 16 (1.00%) WLAN
15 13 (0.82%) SD-WAN
16 12 (0.75%) Internet
17 10 (0.63%) Remote Desktop
17 10 (0.63%) SSL
18 7 (0.44%) NAS
19 4 (0.25%) Asterisk PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (2.39%) SQL Server
2 13 (0.82%) Power BI
3 6 (0.38%) MySQL
4 5 (0.31%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (0.31%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.063%) KNIME
Development Applications
1 42 (2.64%) JIRA
2 4 (0.25%) GitLab
3 1 (0.063%) Carbide.c++
3 1 (0.063%) LabVIEW
3 1 (0.063%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 336 (21.09%) Social Skills
2 66 (4.14%) Manufacturing
3 58 (3.64%) Analytical Skills
3 58 (3.64%) Organisational Skills
4 53 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 43 (2.70%) Legal
6 37 (2.32%) Public Sector
6 37 (2.32%) Retail
7 35 (2.20%) Telecoms
8 34 (2.13%) Law
9 28 (1.76%) Multimedia
10 27 (1.69%) Finance
11 14 (0.88%) Automotive
12 13 (0.82%) Advertising
13 12 (0.75%) Documentation Skills
14 6 (0.38%) Aerospace
15 5 (0.31%) Local Government
15 5 (0.31%) Social Housing
16 4 (0.25%) Dutch Language
16 4 (0.25%) Portuguese Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (0.44%) HTML
1 7 (0.44%) JSON
2 4 (0.25%) OpenTelemetry
2 4 (0.25%) Web Services
3 3 (0.19%) CSS
4 1 (0.063%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 223 (14.00%) Driving Licence
2 65 (4.08%) Onboarding
3 54 (3.39%) Self-Motivation
4 30 (1.88%) Data Centre
5 29 (1.82%) CCTV
6 25 (1.57%) FMCG
7 23 (1.44%) Analytical Mindset
8 14 (0.88%) Security Posture
9 13 (0.82%) Management Information System
10 11 (0.69%) Clustering
10 11 (0.69%) NHS
10 11 (0.69%) Smartphone
11 8 (0.50%) Hybrid Cloud
12 7 (0.44%) Operational Technology
12 7 (0.44%) Replication
12 7 (0.44%) Social Media
13 6 (0.38%) Enterprise Software
13 6 (0.38%) iPhone
14 5 (0.31%) Cloud Native
14 5 (0.31%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 553 (34.71%) Windows
2 298 (18.71%) Windows Server
3 145 (9.10%) Windows 10
4 86 (5.40%) Mac OS
5 78 (4.90%) Linux
6 43 (2.70%) Windows Server 2019
7 37 (2.32%) Windows Server 2016
8 32 (2.01%) Android
8 32 (2.01%) Apple iOS
9 17 (1.07%) Windows 7
10 15 (0.94%) Windows Server 2012
11 11 (0.69%) Windows 8
12 8 (0.50%) Ubuntu
13 5 (0.31%) Windows Server 2008
14 4 (0.25%) Mac OS X
15 1 (0.063%) CentOS
15 1 (0.063%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 1 (0.063%) Rocky
15 1 (0.063%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 368 (23.10%) Problem-Solving
2 302 (18.96%) Customer Service
3 186 (11.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 155 (9.73%) Cybersecurity
5 122 (7.66%) ITIL
6 87 (5.46%) Mentoring
7 86 (5.40%) Disaster Recovery
8 82 (5.15%) Continuous Improvement
9 63 (3.95%) Service Delivery
10 56 (3.52%) Root Cause Analysis
11 54 (3.39%) ITSM
11 54 (3.39%) Project Delivery
11 54 (3.39%) Service Management
12 46 (2.89%) Remote Monitoring and Management
13 42 (2.64%) Time Management
14 41 (2.57%) Business Continuity
15 35 (2.20%) User Experience
16 34 (2.13%) ERP
17 33 (2.07%) Process Improvement
18 28 (1.76%) Mobile Device Management
Programming Languages
1 93 (5.84%) PowerShell
2 55 (3.45%) SQL
3 6 (0.38%) R
4 5 (0.31%) Bash
4 5 (0.31%) Python
4 5 (0.31%) VB
5 4 (0.25%) PHP
5 4 (0.25%) VBScript
6 3 (0.19%) JavaScript
6 3 (0.19%) Uniface
6 3 (0.19%) VBA
7 2 (0.13%) Bicep
7 2 (0.13%) Google Apps Script
8 1 (0.063%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 95 (5.96%) Security Cleared
2 80 (5.02%) Microsoft Certification
3 75 (4.71%) Degree
4 68 (4.27%) SC Cleared
5 60 (3.77%) DBS Check
6 45 (2.82%) CCNA
6 45 (2.82%) Cisco Certification
7 38 (2.39%) Network+ Certification
8 28 (1.76%) A+ Certification
9 23 (1.44%) BPSS Clearance
10 20 (1.26%) Azure Certification
11 16 (1.00%) CompTIA Security+
11 16 (1.00%) MCSE
12 15 (0.94%) DV Cleared
13 8 (0.50%) CCNP
14 5 (0.31%) MCITP
15 4 (0.25%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 4 (0.25%) MCSA
16 3 (0.19%) AWS Certification
16 3 (0.19%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (4.90%) Cyber Essentials
2 57 (3.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 48 (3.01%) SLA
4 33 (2.07%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 17 (1.07%) GDPR
6 10 (0.63%) PCI DSS
7 6 (0.38%) NIST
8 5 (0.31%) QA
9 4 (0.25%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.063%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.063%) NCSC
System Software
1 450 (28.25%) Active Directory
2 149 (9.35%) Hyper-V
3 119 (7.47%) VMware Infrastructure
4 25 (1.57%) Virtual Desktop
5 16 (1.00%) VMware ESXi
6 12 (0.75%) vSphere
7 11 (0.69%) Docker
8 8 (0.50%) BitLocker
9 7 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
9 7 (0.44%) VMware Workstation
10 5 (0.31%) Terminal Services
11 4 (0.25%) VMware NSX
12 3 (0.19%) Firmware
13 1 (0.063%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 183 (11.49%) Microsoft Intune
2 22 (1.38%) SCCM
3 14 (0.88%) FortiGate
3 14 (0.88%) Proxmox
3 14 (0.88%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 11 (0.69%) Jamf Pro
4 11 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
5 10 (0.63%) WSUS
6 8 (0.50%) Autotask
7 7 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 7 (0.44%) Failover Clustering
8 5 (0.31%) Ansible
9 4 (0.25%) Terraform
10 2 (0.13%) Kubernetes
10 2 (0.13%) SmoothWall
11 1 (0.063%) Argo
11 1 (0.063%) Iperf
11 1 (0.063%) Nessus
Vendors
1 631 (39.61%) Microsoft
2 151 (9.48%) VMware
3 52 (3.26%) Cisco
4 50 (3.14%) Google
5 39 (2.45%) Veeam
6 38 (2.39%) Fortinet
7 36 (2.26%) Meraki
8 34 (2.13%) Apple
9 28 (1.76%) Dell
9 28 (1.76%) Fujitsu
9 28 (1.76%) Virgin Media
10 21 (1.32%) Sophos
11 17 (1.07%) HP
11 17 (1.07%) Ubiquiti
12 14 (0.88%) SonicWALL
13 13 (0.82%) Epicor
14 11 (0.69%) ServiceNow
15 10 (0.63%) Logitech
16 9 (0.56%) CrowdStrike
16 9 (0.56%) Sage