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 24 June 2026.

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

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 220 100
Rank change year-on-year +157 -120 +85
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 1,621 432 1,920
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 2.37% 1.42% 2.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.50% 1.60% 2.58%
Number of salaries quoted 1,432 337 1,579
10th Percentile £26,750 £25,750 £23,500
25th Percentile £30,000 £27,750 £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 £51,169 £54,050 £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 64,740 27,027 74,412
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.50% 88.92% 94.86%
Number of salaries quoted 44,916 14,743 53,334
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £26,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £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 £67,280 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £77,500
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 24 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 24 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 +107 428 £35,000 -6.67% 62
North of England +100 363 £32,940 +0.58% 45
Midlands +84 267 £32,500 -7.14% 27
East of England +108 246 £35,000 +7.58% 24
South West +56 207 £35,000 - 30
North West +127 203 £32,940 +2.14% 25
Yorkshire +8 142 £32,500 +8.33% 16
West Midlands +64 139 £32,500 -13.33% 8
East Midlands +39 128 £32,500 -0.76% 19
Scotland +43 62 £28,500 -5.00% 9
Wales -7 48 £45,000 +5.88% 12
North East -33 18 £37,500 -23.08% 7
IT Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 24 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.

1 665 (41.02%) Microsoft
2 645 (39.79%) Microsoft 365
3 583 (35.97%) Windows
4 474 (29.24%) Active Directory
5 399 (24.61%) Azure
6 382 (23.57%) Problem-Solving
7 316 (19.49%) Customer Service
8 314 (19.37%) Windows Server
9 274 (16.90%) Entra ID
10 247 (15.24%) Firewall
11 195 (12.03%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 191 (11.78%) Microsoft Intune
13 180 (11.10%) DNS
14 178 (10.98%) Microsoft Exchange
15 177 (10.92%) SharePoint
16 164 (10.12%) Cybersecurity
17 160 (9.87%) Hyper-V
18 159 (9.81%) VMware
19 154 (9.50%) VPN
20 151 (9.32%) Windows 10
21 150 (9.25%) DHCP
22 129 (7.96%) ITIL
23 127 (7.83%) VMware Infrastructure
24 115 (7.09%) LAN
25 110 (6.79%) Wi-Fi
26 107 (6.60%) WAN
27 102 (6.29%) PowerShell
28 96 (5.92%) Continuous Improvement
29 95 (5.86%) Disaster Recovery
30 93 (5.74%) Security Cleared

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
1 178 (10.98%) Microsoft Exchange
2 177 (10.92%) SharePoint
3 15 (0.93%) Confluence
3 15 (0.93%) Exchange Server 2013
4 13 (0.80%) Exchange Server 2007
4 13 (0.80%) Exchange Server 2010
5 10 (0.62%) IIS
Applications
1 85 (5.24%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (0.99%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.19%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.062%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.062%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (0.31%) Dynamics NAV
1 5 (0.31%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.12%) Raiser’s Edge
3 1 (0.062%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 645 (39.79%) Microsoft 365
2 399 (24.61%) Azure
3 274 (16.90%) Entra ID
4 53 (3.27%) AWS
5 47 (2.90%) OneDrive
6 42 (2.59%) Google Workspace
7 28 (1.73%) SaaS
8 23 (1.42%) Power Platform
9 21 (1.30%) Mimecast
10 20 (1.23%) PaaS
11 15 (0.93%) IaaS
12 10 (0.62%) Azure DevOps
13 9 (0.56%) PowerApps
14 8 (0.49%) Power Automate
15 7 (0.43%) Nutanix
16 6 (0.37%) Microsoft Copilot
17 5 (0.31%) Azure Sentinel
17 5 (0.31%) Intacct
17 5 (0.31%) OCI
18 4 (0.25%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 247 (15.24%) Firewall
2 180 (11.10%) DNS
3 154 (9.50%) VPN
4 150 (9.25%) DHCP
5 115 (7.09%) LAN
6 110 (6.79%) Wi-Fi
7 107 (6.60%) WAN
8 74 (4.57%) VoIP
9 64 (3.95%) TCP/IP
10 54 (3.33%) VLAN
11 40 (2.47%) Wireless
12 32 (1.97%) SAN
13 27 (1.67%) Network Security
14 16 (0.99%) WLAN
15 14 (0.86%) Internet
16 13 (0.80%) SD-WAN
17 11 (0.68%) SSL
18 10 (0.62%) Remote Desktop
19 7 (0.43%) NAS
20 5 (0.31%) DMZ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (2.59%) SQL Server
2 13 (0.80%) Power BI
3 6 (0.37%) Azure SQL Database
3 6 (0.37%) MySQL
4 5 (0.31%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.062%) KNIME
Development Applications
1 44 (2.71%) JIRA
2 4 (0.25%) GitLab
3 2 (0.12%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.062%) Carbide.c++
4 1 (0.062%) LabVIEW
General
1 358 (22.09%) Social Skills
2 71 (4.38%) Manufacturing
3 62 (3.82%) Analytical Skills
3 62 (3.82%) Organisational Skills
4 52 (3.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 47 (2.90%) Legal
6 40 (2.47%) Public Sector
7 38 (2.34%) Retail
8 35 (2.16%) Telecoms
9 34 (2.10%) Law
10 28 (1.73%) Multimedia
11 27 (1.67%) Finance
12 17 (1.05%) Documentation Skills
13 15 (0.93%) Automotive
14 14 (0.86%) Advertising
15 6 (0.37%) Aerospace
15 6 (0.37%) Local Government
16 5 (0.31%) Social Housing
17 4 (0.25%) Dutch Language
17 4 (0.25%) Portuguese Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (0.43%) HTML
1 7 (0.43%) JSON
2 4 (0.25%) OpenTelemetry
2 4 (0.25%) Web Services
3 3 (0.19%) CSS
4 1 (0.062%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 230 (14.19%) Driving Licence
2 73 (4.50%) Onboarding
3 60 (3.70%) Self-Motivation
4 33 (2.04%) Data Centre
5 32 (1.97%) CCTV
6 26 (1.60%) FMCG
7 23 (1.42%) Analytical Mindset
8 16 (0.99%) Security Posture
9 13 (0.80%) Management Information System
10 11 (0.68%) Clustering
10 11 (0.68%) Hybrid Cloud
10 11 (0.68%) NHS
10 11 (0.68%) Smartphone
11 8 (0.49%) Operational Technology
12 7 (0.43%) Enterprise Software
12 7 (0.43%) PKI
12 7 (0.43%) Replication
13 6 (0.37%) EPoS
13 6 (0.37%) iPhone
13 6 (0.37%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 583 (35.97%) Windows
2 314 (19.37%) Windows Server
3 151 (9.32%) Windows 10
4 91 (5.61%) Mac OS
5 81 (5.00%) Linux
6 44 (2.71%) Windows Server 2019
7 38 (2.34%) Windows Server 2016
8 33 (2.04%) Android
8 33 (2.04%) Apple iOS
9 17 (1.05%) Windows 7
10 16 (0.99%) Windows Server 2012
11 11 (0.68%) Windows 8
12 8 (0.49%) Ubuntu
13 5 (0.31%) Windows Server 2008
14 4 (0.25%) Mac OS X
15 2 (0.12%) VMS
16 1 (0.062%) CentOS
16 1 (0.062%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 1 (0.062%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 382 (23.57%) Problem-Solving
2 316 (19.49%) Customer Service
3 195 (12.03%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 164 (10.12%) Cybersecurity
5 129 (7.96%) ITIL
6 96 (5.92%) Continuous Improvement
7 95 (5.86%) Disaster Recovery
8 88 (5.43%) Mentoring
9 65 (4.01%) Service Delivery
10 59 (3.64%) Root Cause Analysis
11 58 (3.58%) Project Delivery
11 58 (3.58%) Service Management
12 55 (3.39%) ITSM
13 45 (2.78%) Time Management
14 44 (2.71%) Business Continuity
14 44 (2.71%) Remote Monitoring and Management
15 39 (2.41%) User Experience
16 38 (2.34%) Process Improvement
17 36 (2.22%) ERP
18 28 (1.73%) Mobile Device Management
Programming Languages
1 102 (6.29%) PowerShell
2 57 (3.52%) SQL
3 7 (0.43%) Python
3 7 (0.43%) R
4 5 (0.31%) Bash
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 (0.12%) Bicep
7 2 (0.12%) Google Apps Script
7 2 (0.12%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.062%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 93 (5.74%) Security Cleared
2 81 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 76 (4.69%) Degree
4 66 (4.07%) SC Cleared
5 60 (3.70%) DBS Check
6 47 (2.90%) CCNA
6 47 (2.90%) Cisco Certification
7 37 (2.28%) Network+ Certification
8 28 (1.73%) A+ Certification
9 22 (1.36%) BPSS Clearance
10 21 (1.30%) Azure Certification
11 16 (0.99%) MCSE
12 15 (0.93%) CompTIA Security+
12 15 (0.93%) DV Cleared
13 9 (0.56%) CCNP
14 5 (0.31%) MCITP
14 5 (0.31%) MCSA
15 4 (0.25%) AWS Certification
15 4 (0.25%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 3 (0.19%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (4.94%) Cyber Essentials
2 58 (3.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 48 (2.96%) SLA
4 33 (2.04%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 20 (1.23%) GDPR
6 10 (0.62%) PCI DSS
7 5 (0.31%) NIST
7 5 (0.31%) QA
8 4 (0.25%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.062%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.062%) NCSC
System Software
1 474 (29.24%) Active Directory
2 160 (9.87%) Hyper-V
3 127 (7.83%) VMware Infrastructure
4 25 (1.54%) Virtual Desktop
5 16 (0.99%) VMware ESXi
6 14 (0.86%) vSphere
7 11 (0.68%) Docker
8 9 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
9 8 (0.49%) BitLocker
10 7 (0.43%) VMware Workstation
11 5 (0.31%) Terminal Services
12 4 (0.25%) VMware NSX
13 3 (0.19%) Firmware
14 1 (0.062%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 191 (11.78%) Microsoft Intune
2 22 (1.36%) SCCM
3 16 (0.99%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 14 (0.86%) FortiGate
4 14 (0.86%) Proxmox
5 11 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
6 10 (0.62%) Jamf Pro
6 10 (0.62%) WSUS
7 8 (0.49%) Autotask
8 7 (0.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 7 (0.43%) Failover Clustering
9 5 (0.31%) Ansible
10 4 (0.25%) Terraform
11 2 (0.12%) Iperf
11 2 (0.12%) Kubernetes
12 1 (0.062%) Argo
12 1 (0.062%) Nessus
12 1 (0.062%) SmoothWall
Vendors
1 665 (41.02%) Microsoft
2 159 (9.81%) VMware
3 53 (3.27%) Cisco
4 48 (2.96%) Google
5 41 (2.53%) Veeam
6 39 (2.41%) Fortinet
7 35 (2.16%) Meraki
8 34 (2.10%) Apple
9 29 (1.79%) Dell
10 28 (1.73%) Fujitsu
10 28 (1.73%) Virgin Media
11 21 (1.30%) Sophos
12 18 (1.11%) HP
13 17 (1.05%) Ubiquiti
14 15 (0.93%) SonicWALL
15 13 (0.80%) Epicor
16 11 (0.68%) ServiceNow
17 10 (0.62%) CrowdStrike
17 10 (0.62%) Logitech
18 9 (0.56%) Sage