IT Engineer Jobs 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 22 June 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 239 105 205
Rank change year-on-year -134 +100 +58
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 449 1,941 957
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.12% 2.37% 1.76%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.25% 2.50% 1.98%
Number of salaries quoted 339 1,590 757
10th Percentile £25,750 £23,500 £25,325
25th Percentile £27,625 £26,250 £27,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £32,500 £32,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% - -2.26%
75th Percentile £43,250 £42,500 £42,500
90th Percentile £53,900 £48,750 £52,500
UK median annual salary £35,000 £32,500 £34,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% -4.41% -2.86%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 35,829 77,657 48,357
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.22% 94.92% 88.79%
Number of salaries quoted 18,555 54,301 28,952
10th Percentile £25,750 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £34,750 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -6.54% +6.37%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £80,627
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

IT Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured IT Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for IT Engineer in the UK excluding London

IT Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing IT Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for IT Engineer 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 22 June 2025.

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 22 June 2025. 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 -71 124 £37,500 +13.64% 219
North of England -118 123 £33,000 +1.54% 200
Midlands -76 95 £35,000 - 100
Yorkshire -3 82 £30,000 -0.83% 77
East Midlands -58 49 £32,750 -12.08% 57
South West -38 46 £35,000 +14.75% 66
West Midlands -67 46 £37,500 +7.14% 39
East of England -66 33 £32,533 +2.20% 58
North West -125 32 £32,250 +7.50% 102
Scotland +58 27 £30,000 +5.26% 43
North East +3 9 £48,750 +50.00% 26
Wales -33 7 £42,500 +54.55% 20
Channel Islands -3 1 £45,000 -
IT Engineer
UK

IT Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 22 June 2025, IT Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring IT Engineer in the job title.

1 314 (69.93%) Windows
2 232 (51.67%) Microsoft
3 225 (50.11%) Active Directory
4 194 (43.21%) Microsoft 365
5 173 (38.53%) Social Skills
6 140 (31.18%) Azure
7 132 (29.40%) Problem-Solving
8 127 (28.29%) Firewall
9 124 (27.62%) Windows Server
10 98 (21.83%) Customer Service
11 95 (21.16%) VMware
12 78 (17.37%) Cybersecurity
13 76 (16.93%) Driving Licence
13 76 (16.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 70 (15.59%) Degree
15 69 (15.37%) DNS
16 66 (14.70%) Microsoft Exchange
17 64 (14.25%) PowerShell
18 63 (14.03%) Linux
19 62 (13.81%) VMware Infrastructure
20 61 (13.59%) Cisco
20 61 (13.59%) Microsoft Intune
21 59 (13.14%) DHCP
22 55 (12.25%) SQL Server
23 53 (11.80%) Network Management
24 50 (11.14%) Windows 10
24 50 (11.14%) ITIL
25 49 (10.91%) Hyper-V
25 49 (10.91%) Entra ID
26 46 (10.24%) Microsoft Certification

IT Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 66 (14.70%) Microsoft Exchange
2 44 (9.80%) SharePoint
3 17 (3.79%) Confluence
4 2 (0.45%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.45%) IIS
5 1 (0.22%) Tomcat
Applications
1 32 (7.13%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (1.78%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (1.11%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.45%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 194 (43.21%) Microsoft 365
2 140 (31.18%) Azure
3 49 (10.91%) Entra ID
4 44 (9.80%) AWS
5 31 (6.90%) SaaS
6 15 (3.34%) IaaS
7 11 (2.45%) GCP
8 9 (2.00%) Mimecast
8 9 (2.00%) OneDrive
9 8 (1.78%) Google Workspace
9 8 (1.78%) Nutanix
10 6 (1.34%) Cloud Computing
10 6 (1.34%) PaaS
11 5 (1.11%) Amazon EC2
11 5 (1.11%) Amazon EKS
12 4 (0.89%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (0.89%) Serverless
13 3 (0.67%) Azure Stack
13 3 (0.67%) Route 53
13 3 (0.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 127 (28.29%) Firewall
2 69 (15.37%) DNS
3 59 (13.14%) DHCP
4 42 (9.35%) VLAN
5 41 (9.13%) TCP/IP
5 41 (9.13%) WAN
6 37 (8.24%) SAN
7 36 (8.02%) LAN
8 35 (7.80%) VPN
9 28 (6.24%) Wi-Fi
10 22 (4.90%) NAS
11 21 (4.68%) VoIP
12 16 (3.56%) Network Security
13 15 (3.34%) OSPF
13 15 (3.34%) SD-WAN
14 14 (3.12%) BGP
15 12 (2.67%) Intrusion Detection
16 10 (2.23%) WLAN
17 6 (1.34%) Cisco IOS
17 6 (1.34%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (12.25%) SQL Server
2 18 (4.01%) MySQL
3 16 (3.56%) Relational Database
4 2 (0.45%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (0.45%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (0.45%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 18 (4.01%) JIRA
2 16 (3.56%) Bitbucket
2 16 (3.56%) Git
3 3 (0.67%) GitLab
3 3 (0.67%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.45%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 173 (38.53%) Social Skills
2 38 (8.46%) Analytical Skills
3 32 (7.13%) Organisational Skills
4 22 (4.90%) Finance
5 19 (4.23%) Retail
6 17 (3.79%) Telecoms
7 14 (3.12%) Public Sector
8 13 (2.90%) Manufacturing
9 11 (2.45%) Automotive
9 11 (2.45%) Law
10 7 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (1.11%) Billing
11 5 (1.11%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (0.67%) Banking
12 3 (0.67%) Investment Banking
12 3 (0.67%) Legal
12 3 (0.67%) Marketing
13 2 (0.45%) Electronics
13 2 (0.45%) Financial Institution
14 1 (0.22%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (4.01%) .NET
2 3 (0.67%) EDI
3 2 (0.45%) 802.1X
3 2 (0.45%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (0.45%) Kafka
4 1 (0.22%) .NET Framework
4 1 (0.22%) ModSecurity
4 1 (0.22%) SAML
4 1 (0.22%) WSH
Miscellaneous
1 76 (16.93%) Driving Licence
2 41 (9.13%) Operational Technology
3 37 (8.24%) Self-Motivation
4 18 (4.01%) Mobile App
5 17 (3.79%) Data Centre
5 17 (3.79%) Management Information System
6 16 (3.56%) Social Media
7 10 (2.23%) Onboarding
7 10 (2.23%) Smartphone
8 9 (2.00%) Clustering
9 6 (1.34%) EPoS
10 5 (1.11%) Blackberry
10 5 (1.11%) Hybrid Cloud
11 4 (0.89%) FMCG
11 4 (0.89%) Life Science
11 4 (0.89%) Renewable Energy
12 3 (0.67%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 3 (0.67%) Security Posture
13 2 (0.45%) BYOD
13 2 (0.45%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 314 (69.93%) Windows
2 124 (27.62%) Windows Server
3 63 (14.03%) Linux
4 50 (11.14%) Windows 10
5 34 (7.57%) Android
6 28 (6.24%) Mac OS
7 24 (5.35%) Windows Server 2019
8 23 (5.12%) Windows Server 2016
9 18 (4.01%) Apple iOS
10 8 (1.78%) Mac OS X
10 8 (1.78%) Ubuntu
10 8 (1.78%) Windows 7
10 8 (1.78%) Windows Server 2012
11 6 (1.34%) Unix
12 3 (0.67%) Rocky
13 2 (0.45%) VMS
14 1 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 132 (29.40%) Problem-Solving
2 98 (21.83%) Customer Service
3 78 (17.37%) Cybersecurity
4 76 (16.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 53 (11.80%) Network Management
6 50 (11.14%) ITIL
7 43 (9.58%) Network Design
8 37 (8.24%) Disaster Recovery
9 34 (7.57%) Migration
10 32 (7.13%) Kalman Filter
11 31 (6.90%) Virtual Environments
12 29 (6.46%) Continuous Improvement
13 26 (5.79%) Computer Science
13 26 (5.79%) Systems Engineering
14 25 (5.57%) Mathematics
14 25 (5.57%) Web Filtering
15 24 (5.35%) Agile
15 24 (5.35%) Data Privacy
16 23 (5.12%) CI/CD
17 22 (4.90%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 64 (14.25%) PowerShell
2 29 (6.46%) SQL
3 16 (3.56%) C#
4 8 (1.78%) Python
5 4 (0.89%) Uniface
6 3 (0.67%) Bash
6 3 (0.67%) Java
7 2 (0.45%) VBScript
8 1 (0.22%) Go
8 1 (0.22%) Perl
8 1 (0.22%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 70 (15.59%) Degree
2 46 (10.24%) Microsoft Certification
3 35 (7.80%) Security Cleared
4 23 (5.12%) DBS Check
4 23 (5.12%) HND
5 21 (4.68%) BPSS Clearance
5 21 (4.68%) SC Cleared
6 16 (3.56%) A+ Certification
6 16 (3.56%) CCNA
6 16 (3.56%) Cisco Certification
7 15 (3.34%) DV Cleared
8 14 (3.12%) Computer Science Degree
9 13 (2.90%) MCSE
10 11 (2.45%) HNC
10 11 (2.45%) MCP
11 9 (2.00%) MCSA
12 6 (1.34%) Network+ Certification
13 5 (1.11%) Azure Certification
14 3 (0.67%) CCNP
15 2 (0.45%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (4.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 12 (2.67%) GDPR
3 11 (2.45%) NIST
4 10 (2.23%) Cyber Essentials
5 9 (2.00%) SLA
6 5 (1.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 3 (0.67%) NCSC
7 3 (0.67%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 2 (0.45%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.45%) QA
9 1 (0.22%) GRC
9 1 (0.22%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.22%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 225 (50.11%) Active Directory
2 62 (13.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 49 (10.91%) Hyper-V
4 42 (9.35%) Virtual Servers
5 8 (1.78%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (1.11%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (1.11%) vSphere
7 4 (0.89%) Docker
7 4 (0.89%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.67%) Firmware
9 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 61 (13.59%) Microsoft Intune
2 19 (4.23%) SCCM
3 18 (4.01%) Ansible
4 14 (3.12%) Jamf Pro
5 10 (2.23%) Kubernetes
6 8 (1.78%) SmoothWall
6 8 (1.78%) Terraform
7 5 (1.11%) Autotask
7 5 (1.11%) FortiGate
7 5 (1.11%) WSUS
8 2 (0.45%) Grafana
8 2 (0.45%) Host Intrusion Detection System
8 2 (0.45%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.22%) Backup Exec
9 1 (0.22%) Failover Clustering
9 1 (0.22%) SCOM
9 1 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.22%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 232 (51.67%) Microsoft
2 95 (21.16%) VMware
3 61 (13.59%) Cisco
4 25 (5.57%) Meraki
5 24 (5.35%) Apple
6 23 (5.12%) Google
7 20 (4.45%) Veeam
8 18 (4.01%) Zoho
9 17 (3.79%) Dell
10 16 (3.56%) Atlassian
10 16 (3.56%) Sophos
11 15 (3.34%) Fortinet
12 14 (3.12%) HP
13 12 (2.67%) Aruba
14 11 (2.45%) Ubiquiti
15 8 (1.78%) CheckPoint
15 8 (1.78%) Citrix
15 8 (1.78%) Datto
16 6 (1.34%) McAfee
17 5 (1.11%) Rapid7