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 14 September 2026.

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

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 228 130
Rank change year-on-year +140 -98 +27
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 1,593 407 992
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.91% 1.18% 1.79%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.04% 1.32% 1.88%
Number of salaries quoted 1,420 318 724
10th Percentile £27,000 £25,500 £25,750
25th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £28,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.19%
75th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £45,000
90th Percentile £53,750 £55,750 £52,500
UK median annual salary £35,000 £37,500 £36,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +4.17% +2.86%

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 77,965 30,790 52,750
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.62% 89.32% 95.20%
Number of salaries quoted 54,160 17,488 31,395
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £38,536
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £59,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.27% - -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 14 September 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 14 September 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 +134 390 £38,500 -3.75% 102
Midlands +66 285 £35,000 -5.41% 50
East of England +107 273 £35,000 -6.67% 36
North of England +47 258 £32,500 -7.14% 46
South West +45 239 £35,000 -12.50% 34
North West +87 145 £33,475 -4.36% 25
East Midlands +32 143 £35,000 +7.69% 23
West Midlands +56 142 £34,500 -27.37% 27
Yorkshire -9 96 £30,000 -9.09% 13
Scotland +51 82 £28,500 +5.56% 40
Wales -29 55 £40,000 -50.00% 6
North East -52 17 £40,000 -17.95% 8
Northern Ireland -71 11 £41,000 +30.16% 3
IT Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 14 September 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.

1 790 (49.59%) Microsoft
2 737 (46.26%) Microsoft 365
3 692 (43.44%) Windows
4 532 (33.40%) Active Directory
5 425 (26.68%) Azure
6 382 (23.98%) Problem-Solving
7 361 (22.66%) Windows Server
8 340 (21.34%) Customer Service
9 337 (21.16%) Entra ID
10 276 (17.33%) Microsoft Intune
11 261 (16.38%) Firewall
12 256 (16.07%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 242 (15.19%) Microsoft Exchange
14 239 (15.00%) DNS
15 218 (13.68%) Cybersecurity
16 215 (13.50%) SharePoint
17 208 (13.06%) Hyper-V
18 206 (12.93%) DHCP
19 181 (11.36%) VMware
20 170 (10.67%) VPN
21 148 (9.29%) VMware Infrastructure
22 147 (9.23%) Continuous Improvement
23 142 (8.91%) Wi-Fi
24 140 (8.79%) Windows 10
25 137 (8.60%) TCP/IP
26 134 (8.41%) ITIL
27 125 (7.85%) Disaster Recovery
28 116 (7.28%) PowerShell
29 105 (6.59%) Cyber Essentials
30 99 (6.21%) Linux

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
1 242 (15.19%) Microsoft Exchange
2 215 (13.50%) SharePoint
3 19 (1.19%) IIS
4 7 (0.44%) Confluence
5 6 (0.38%) Exchange Server 2013
6 5 (0.31%) Apache
7 4 (0.25%) Exchange Server 2007
7 4 (0.25%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 66 (4.14%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (0.69%) 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%) NetSuite
2 3 (0.19%) Shopify
3 2 (0.13%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 737 (46.26%) Microsoft 365
2 425 (26.68%) Azure
3 337 (21.16%) Entra ID
4 58 (3.64%) OneDrive
5 51 (3.20%) AWS
6 35 (2.20%) Google Workspace
7 29 (1.82%) Mimecast
8 28 (1.76%) Power Platform
9 23 (1.44%) SaaS
10 17 (1.07%) Power Automate
11 12 (0.75%) PaaS
12 11 (0.69%) Dynamics 365
12 11 (0.69%) Nutanix
13 10 (0.63%) Azure DevOps
14 9 (0.56%) IaaS
15 7 (0.44%) PowerApps
16 5 (0.31%) Microsoft Copilot
17 4 (0.25%) Serverless
18 3 (0.19%) Cloudflare
19 2 (0.13%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 261 (16.38%) Firewall
2 239 (15.00%) DNS
3 206 (12.93%) DHCP
4 170 (10.67%) VPN
5 142 (8.91%) Wi-Fi
6 137 (8.60%) TCP/IP
7 97 (6.09%) VoIP
8 90 (5.65%) LAN
8 90 (5.65%) VLAN
9 86 (5.40%) Wireless
10 79 (4.96%) WAN
11 34 (2.13%) Network Security
12 31 (1.95%) SAN
13 23 (1.44%) Internet
14 18 (1.13%) WLAN
15 16 (1.00%) SSL
16 14 (0.88%) Remote Desktop
17 8 (0.50%) PBX
18 7 (0.44%) NAS
18 7 (0.44%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (3.26%) SQL Server
2 11 (0.69%) MySQL
3 9 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
4 7 (0.44%) Power BI
5 4 (0.25%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.13%) KNIME
Development Applications
1 37 (2.32%) JIRA
2 2 (0.13%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (0.063%) Carbide.c++
General
1 424 (26.62%) Social Skills
2 86 (5.40%) Manufacturing
3 82 (5.15%) Analytical Skills
4 72 (4.52%) Legal
5 42 (2.64%) Organisational Skills
6 40 (2.51%) Public Sector
7 39 (2.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 38 (2.39%) Telecoms
9 33 (2.07%) Advertising
10 32 (2.01%) Retail
11 30 (1.88%) Documentation Skills
12 27 (1.69%) Finance
13 18 (1.13%) Automotive
14 14 (0.88%) Law
15 10 (0.63%) Aerospace
16 6 (0.38%) Games
17 5 (0.31%) Local Government
17 5 (0.31%) Police
18 4 (0.25%) Portuguese Language
18 4 (0.25%) Spanish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (0.44%) HTML
1 7 (0.44%) JSON
2 4 (0.25%) .NET
2 4 (0.25%) ASP.NET Web Forms
2 4 (0.25%) WinForms
3 3 (0.19%) CSS
3 3 (0.19%) Terraform
3 3 (0.19%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 246 (15.44%) Driving Licence
2 91 (5.71%) Onboarding
3 68 (4.27%) Self-Motivation
4 50 (3.14%) CCTV
5 34 (2.13%) Data Centre
6 26 (1.63%) Operational Technology
7 22 (1.38%) FMCG
8 16 (1.00%) Hybrid Cloud
9 15 (0.94%) Analytical Mindset
9 15 (0.94%) Replication
10 13 (0.82%) Management Information System
10 13 (0.82%) Security Posture
11 11 (0.69%) Cloud Native
11 11 (0.69%) Clustering
12 9 (0.56%) Cyber Threat
12 9 (0.56%) Smartphone
13 8 (0.50%) NHS
13 8 (0.50%) PKI
14 7 (0.44%) EPoS
14 7 (0.44%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 692 (43.44%) Windows
2 361 (22.66%) Windows Server
3 140 (8.79%) Windows 10
4 99 (6.21%) Linux
5 96 (6.03%) Mac OS
6 46 (2.89%) Apple iOS
7 40 (2.51%) Android
8 37 (2.32%) Windows Server 2019
9 27 (1.69%) Windows Server 2016
10 22 (1.38%) Ubuntu
11 11 (0.69%) Windows Server 2012
12 6 (0.38%) Windows 7
13 5 (0.31%) Rocky
14 4 (0.25%) Debian
14 4 (0.25%) Mac OS X
14 4 (0.25%) Windows 8
15 2 (0.13%) VMS
16 1 (0.063%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 382 (23.98%) Problem-Solving
2 340 (21.34%) Customer Service
3 256 (16.07%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 218 (13.68%) Cybersecurity
5 147 (9.23%) Continuous Improvement
6 134 (8.41%) ITIL
7 125 (7.85%) Disaster Recovery
8 80 (5.02%) Project Delivery
9 58 (3.64%) ITSM
10 57 (3.58%) Mentoring
11 53 (3.33%) Service Management
12 52 (3.26%) Service Delivery
13 45 (2.82%) Business Continuity
13 45 (2.82%) User Experience
14 43 (2.70%) Remote Monitoring and Management
15 38 (2.39%) Time Management
16 36 (2.26%) Collaborative Working
16 36 (2.26%) Root Cause Analysis
17 34 (2.13%) Change Management
17 34 (2.13%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 116 (7.28%) PowerShell
2 52 (3.26%) SQL
3 10 (0.63%) Python
3 10 (0.63%) R
3 10 (0.63%) Ruby
4 4 (0.25%) C#
4 4 (0.25%) VBScript
5 3 (0.19%) Bicep
5 3 (0.19%) JavaScript
5 3 (0.19%) PHP
5 3 (0.19%) VB
5 3 (0.19%) VBA
6 2 (0.13%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 92 (5.78%) Microsoft Certification
2 91 (5.71%) Degree
3 61 (3.83%) DBS Check
4 53 (3.33%) CCNA
4 53 (3.33%) Cisco Certification
5 52 (3.26%) Security Cleared
6 40 (2.51%) Network+ Certification
7 34 (2.13%) SC Cleared
8 25 (1.57%) Azure Certification
9 23 (1.44%) A+ Certification
10 19 (1.19%) CompTIA Security+
11 17 (1.07%) MCSE
12 11 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
13 10 (0.63%) CCNP
14 9 (0.56%) MCSA
15 8 (0.50%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 6 (0.38%) AWS Certification
16 6 (0.38%) DV Cleared
17 5 (0.31%) Computer Science Degree
18 4 (0.25%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 105 (6.59%) Cyber Essentials
2 52 (3.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 38 (2.39%) GDPR
4 28 (1.76%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 27 (1.69%) SLA
6 10 (0.63%) PCI DSS
7 5 (0.31%) Accessibility
8 4 (0.25%) NIST
9 2 (0.13%) QA
10 1 (0.063%) NCSC
System Software
1 532 (33.40%) Active Directory
2 208 (13.06%) Hyper-V
3 148 (9.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (1.07%) Virtual Machines
4 17 (1.07%) vSphere
5 15 (0.94%) Virtual Desktop
6 14 (0.88%) VMware ESXi
7 12 (0.75%) Docker
8 8 (0.50%) BitLocker
8 8 (0.50%) Firmware
9 5 (0.31%) Terminal Services
10 2 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.063%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 276 (17.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 19 (1.19%) SCCM
3 17 (1.07%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 14 (0.88%) WSUS
5 13 (0.82%) Jamf Pro
6 8 (0.50%) Proxmox
7 7 (0.44%) Failover Clustering
8 6 (0.38%) FortiGate
8 6 (0.38%) Kubernetes
9 4 (0.25%) Iperf
10 3 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.13%) Ansible
11 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
11 2 (0.13%) PaperCut
11 2 (0.13%) SCOM
12 1 (0.063%) Argo
12 1 (0.063%) Backup Exec
12 1 (0.063%) Nessus
Vendors
1 790 (49.59%) Microsoft
2 181 (11.36%) VMware
3 73 (4.58%) Cisco
4 66 (4.14%) Veeam
5 48 (3.01%) SonicWALL
6 47 (2.95%) Apple
7 37 (2.32%) Google
8 27 (1.69%) Dell
9 26 (1.63%) Sophos
10 24 (1.51%) Fortinet
11 22 (1.38%) Meraki
12 19 (1.19%) Ubiquiti
13 18 (1.13%) Draytek
13 18 (1.13%) HP
14 17 (1.07%) Logitech
14 17 (1.07%) TOWER Software
15 15 (0.94%) Palo Alto
16 13 (0.82%) Datto
16 13 (0.82%) ServiceNow
17 10 (0.63%) CrowdStrike