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 £32,236 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 28 November 2025.

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

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 152 120 136
Rank change year-on-year -32 +16 +108
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 573 976 701
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.53% 2.09% 2.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.70% 2.22% 2.50%
Number of salaries quoted 509 570 638
10th Percentile £25,660 £25,226 £25,000
25th Percentile £27,250 £29,000 £29,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,236 £35,000 £34,854
Median % change year-on-year -7.90% +0.42% +7.24%
75th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
90th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £53,750
UK median annual salary £32,500 £37,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year -12.16% +5.71% +4.48%

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 33,771 43,941 28,089
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.22% 94.17% 95.62%
Number of salaries quoted 21,356 23,426 21,272
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £32,750 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.65% -0.95% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -

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 28 November 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 28 November 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
Midlands -21 164 £31,500 -10.00% 50
South East -3 137 £32,500 -15.58% 77
East Midlands +19 114 £30,000 -11.76% 20
North of England -38 99 £32,500 -7.14% 74
South West -13 74 £35,000 -12.50% 30
East of England +20 61 £31,000 -4.62% 29
West Midlands -57 50 £37,500 +7.14% 30
North West -5 48 £30,000 -14.29% 34
Yorkshire -7 45 £39,250 +18.94% 37
Scotland +7 36 £28,000 -11.11% 20
Wales +16 16 £57,500 +35.29% 6
North East -1 6 £48,750 +38.30% 3
Northern Ireland -4 1 £31,500 +5.00% 2
Channel Islands - 1 £45,000 -
IT Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 28 November 2025, 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.

1 337 (58.81%) Windows
2 335 (58.46%) Microsoft
3 333 (58.12%) Microsoft 365
4 292 (50.96%) Active Directory
5 243 (42.41%) Azure
6 207 (36.13%) Problem-Solving
7 197 (34.38%) Windows Server
8 149 (26.00%) Firewall
9 143 (24.96%) DNS
10 135 (23.56%) Customer Service
11 132 (23.04%) DHCP
12 114 (19.90%) Entra ID
13 113 (19.72%) Microsoft Intune
14 90 (15.71%) ITIL
14 90 (15.71%) SharePoint
15 88 (15.36%) Hyper-V
15 88 (15.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 88 (15.36%) VMware
16 77 (13.44%) Cybersecurity
17 72 (12.57%) Microsoft Exchange
17 72 (12.57%) TCP/IP
18 70 (12.22%) Windows 10
19 66 (11.52%) VPN
20 65 (11.34%) VLAN
21 64 (11.17%) VMware Infrastructure
22 63 (10.99%) Microsoft Certification
23 59 (10.30%) Degree
24 57 (9.95%) PowerShell
25 52 (9.08%) Microsoft Office
26 51 (8.90%) Wi-Fi

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 90 (15.71%) SharePoint
2 72 (12.57%) Microsoft Exchange
3 22 (3.84%) IIS
4 3 (0.52%) Confluence
5 2 (0.35%) Exchange Server 2007
5 2 (0.35%) Exchange Server 2010
5 2 (0.35%) Exchange Server 2013
6 1 (0.17%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 52 (9.08%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (1.92%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.35%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 8 (1.40%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.70%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.17%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.17%) Pegasus Opera
Cloud Services
1 333 (58.12%) Microsoft 365
2 243 (42.41%) Azure
3 114 (19.90%) Entra ID
4 36 (6.28%) AWS
5 22 (3.84%) GCP
6 21 (3.66%) OneDrive
7 20 (3.49%) Power Platform
7 20 (3.49%) SaaS
8 18 (3.14%) Azure DevOps
9 17 (2.97%) Google Workspace
10 12 (2.09%) Power Automate
11 11 (1.92%) IaaS
12 8 (1.40%) Azure Stack
12 8 (1.40%) Cloud Computing
12 8 (1.40%) PaaS
13 6 (1.05%) iPaaS
13 6 (1.05%) PowerApps
13 6 (1.05%) Serverless
14 5 (0.87%) Nutanix
14 5 (0.87%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 149 (26.00%) Firewall
2 143 (24.96%) DNS
3 132 (23.04%) DHCP
4 72 (12.57%) TCP/IP
5 66 (11.52%) VPN
6 65 (11.34%) VLAN
7 51 (8.90%) Wi-Fi
8 43 (7.50%) WAN
9 33 (5.76%) LAN
9 33 (5.76%) SAN
10 32 (5.58%) Wireless
11 24 (4.19%) VoIP
12 23 (4.01%) Network Security
13 17 (2.97%) SD-WAN
14 11 (1.92%) IP Telephony
15 9 (1.57%) IPsec
16 6 (1.05%) Cisco IOS
16 6 (1.05%) iSCSI
16 6 (1.05%) Remote Desktop
16 6 (1.05%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (6.28%) SQL Server
2 16 (2.79%) Power BI
3 13 (2.27%) Amazon RDS
4 12 (2.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 4 (0.70%) Relational Database
6 3 (0.52%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.17%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 12 (2.09%) JIRA
2 1 (0.17%) Bitbucket
2 1 (0.17%) Git
2 1 (0.17%) Snyk
General
1 215 (37.52%) Social Skills
2 41 (7.16%) Manufacturing
3 33 (5.76%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (5.58%) Organisational Skills
5 31 (5.41%) Public Sector
6 30 (5.24%) Law
7 27 (4.71%) Finance
8 24 (4.19%) Legal
8 24 (4.19%) Telecoms
9 14 (2.44%) Electronics
10 13 (2.27%) Retail
11 12 (2.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 10 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
13 9 (1.57%) Marketing
13 9 (1.57%) Pharmaceutical
14 4 (0.70%) Advertising
14 4 (0.70%) Dutch Language
14 4 (0.70%) French Language
14 4 (0.70%) Spanish Language
15 3 (0.52%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (2.27%) .NET
2 12 (2.09%) .NET Framework
2 12 (2.09%) Entity Framework
2 12 (2.09%) WinForms
3 7 (1.22%) ASP.NET
4 5 (0.87%) 802.1X
5 3 (0.52%) EDI
6 1 (0.17%) LAMP
6 1 (0.17%) OAuth
6 1 (0.17%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 121 (21.12%) Driving Licence
2 47 (8.20%) Onboarding
3 23 (4.01%) Data Centre
4 21 (3.66%) Self-Motivation
5 15 (2.62%) Clustering
6 13 (2.27%) Analytical Mindset
7 12 (2.09%) Smartphone
8 11 (1.92%) CCTV
9 10 (1.75%) Hybrid Cloud
10 9 (1.57%) FMCG
11 7 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
11 7 (1.22%) iPad
12 6 (1.05%) Security Posture
13 5 (0.87%) BYOD
13 5 (0.87%) Cyber Security Posture
13 5 (0.87%) Life Science
14 4 (0.70%) Enterprise Storage
14 4 (0.70%) Solar Panel
15 3 (0.52%) Mobile App
15 3 (0.52%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 337 (58.81%) Windows
2 197 (34.38%) Windows Server
3 70 (12.22%) Windows 10
4 47 (8.20%) Linux
5 30 (5.24%) Mac OS
6 26 (4.54%) Windows Server 2019
7 13 (2.27%) Apple iOS
8 12 (2.09%) Windows Server 2016
9 11 (1.92%) Android
10 8 (1.40%) Rocky
11 6 (1.05%) Windows 7
12 4 (0.70%) Windows 8
12 4 (0.70%) Windows Server 2012
13 3 (0.52%) Debian
13 3 (0.52%) Unix
14 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 1 (0.17%) Solaris
14 1 (0.17%) Ubuntu
14 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 207 (36.13%) Problem-Solving
2 135 (23.56%) Customer Service
3 90 (15.71%) ITIL
4 88 (15.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 77 (13.44%) Cybersecurity
6 39 (6.81%) Disaster Recovery
7 38 (6.63%) Project Delivery
8 34 (5.93%) Incident Management
9 33 (5.76%) Mentoring
10 32 (5.58%) Continuous Improvement
10 32 (5.58%) ITSM
11 28 (4.89%) Data Protection
12 27 (4.71%) Service Delivery
13 26 (4.54%) Business Intelligence
13 26 (4.54%) Migration
13 26 (4.54%) Software Engineering
14 25 (4.36%) Process Improvement
15 23 (4.01%) Asset Management
15 23 (4.01%) Computer Science
16 21 (3.66%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 57 (9.95%) PowerShell
2 36 (6.28%) SQL
3 14 (2.44%) C#
4 13 (2.27%) T-SQL
5 10 (1.75%) Python
6 7 (1.22%) PL/SQL
6 7 (1.22%) VBScript
7 4 (0.70%) Uniface
8 3 (0.52%) Bash
9 2 (0.35%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 63 (10.99%) Microsoft Certification
2 59 (10.30%) Degree
3 34 (5.93%) Cisco Certification
4 30 (5.24%) CCNA
5 25 (4.36%) A+ Certification
6 22 (3.84%) DBS Check
7 21 (3.66%) MCP
8 20 (3.49%) Computer Science Degree
9 19 (3.32%) MCSE
9 19 (3.32%) Security Cleared
10 18 (3.14%) BPSS Clearance
11 17 (2.97%) Network+ Certification
12 15 (2.62%) Azure Certification
13 14 (2.44%) SC Cleared
14 9 (1.57%) MCSA
15 8 (1.40%) CCNP
15 8 (1.40%) DV Cleared
16 7 (1.22%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 7 (1.22%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
17 6 (1.05%) ACMT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (6.28%) Cyber Essentials
2 33 (5.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 28 (4.89%) SLA
4 25 (4.36%) GDPR
5 6 (1.05%) Accessibility
5 6 (1.05%) NIST
6 5 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.35%) GxP
7 2 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.17%) NCSC
8 1 (0.17%) SOC 2
System Software
1 292 (50.96%) Active Directory
2 88 (15.36%) Hyper-V
3 64 (11.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (1.92%) Firmware
5 8 (1.40%) Docker
5 8 (1.40%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (1.22%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (1.05%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.70%) VMware Workstation
9 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 2 (0.35%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.35%) vSphere
9 2 (0.35%) XenDesktop
10 1 (0.17%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 113 (19.72%) Microsoft Intune
2 17 (2.97%) SCCM
3 15 (2.62%) Kubernetes
4 13 (2.27%) Autotask
5 9 (1.57%) vCenter Server
6 7 (1.22%) Failover Clustering
6 7 (1.22%) Jamf Pro
7 5 (0.87%) WSUS
8 3 (0.52%) Ansible
8 3 (0.52%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Clustering
9 2 (0.35%) NetBackup
9 2 (0.35%) Podman
9 2 (0.35%) Puppet
9 2 (0.35%) SmoothWall
9 2 (0.35%) WhatsUp Gold
10 1 (0.17%) Backup Exec
10 1 (0.17%) Proxmox
10 1 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 335 (58.46%) Microsoft
2 88 (15.36%) VMware
3 44 (7.68%) Cisco
4 42 (7.33%) Veeam
5 29 (5.06%) Google
6 25 (4.36%) Apple
6 25 (4.36%) Dell
7 18 (3.14%) Meraki
8 17 (2.97%) Sophos
9 15 (2.62%) HP
9 15 (2.62%) ServiceNow
10 14 (2.44%) Aruba
11 13 (2.27%) Sage
12 12 (2.09%) Datto
12 12 (2.09%) Xamarin
12 12 (2.09%) Zoho
13 10 (1.75%) SAP
14 9 (1.57%) Adobe
14 9 (1.57%) Draytek
14 9 (1.57%) WatchGuard