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 27 October 2026.

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

6 months to
27 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 90 194 124
Rank change year-on-year +104 -70 +26
Permanent IT Engineer jobs 1,538 488 927
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.72% 1.42% 1.93%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.87% 1.58% 2.03%
Number of salaries quoted 1,285 403 578
10th Percentile £27,100 £25,500 £25,750
25th Percentile £30,000 £27,375 £29,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £33,000 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.06% -5.71% +1.45%
75th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £45,000
90th Percentile £53,250 £52,250 £53,750
UK median annual salary £35,000 £35,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year - -6.67% +7.14%

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 adverts in the UK excluding London matching a recognised job title. The table also shows what proportion of all permanent IT job adverts they make up.

6 months to
27 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Permanent job adverts in the UK excluding London matching a recognised job title 82,280 30,976 45,742
% of permanent job adverts matching a recognised job title 92.00% 90.04% 95.27%
Number of salaries quoted 56,272 18,032 24,898
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £63,750 £65,603
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £59,490 £52,500 £57,000
% change year-on-year +13.31% -7.89% -5.00%

IT Engineer Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT Engineer job postings 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 IT Engineer jobs in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 27 October 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 Engineer jobs within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 27 October 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		 Job Ads
Past 6 Months		 Median Salary
Past 6 Months		 Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Live
Jobs
South East +86 374 £38,750 +10.71% 32
Midlands +30 277 £35,000 +11.11% 19
North of England +35 258 £34,000 -2.86% 42
South West +25 245 £35,000 +4.48% 21
East of England +66 206 £35,000 - 16
West Midlands +53 156 £34,500 -31.00% 11
North West +53 140 £34,000 +6.25% 24
East Midlands -8 121 £35,000 +16.67% 8
Scotland +70 106 £30,000 +4.35% 11
Yorkshire -8 94 £30,000 -26.38% 12
Wales -27 55 £35,000 -56.25% 2
North East -45 24 £40,000 -17.95% 8
Northern Ireland -68 12 £41,000 +30.16%
Channel Islands +2 5 £35,000 -22.22%
IT Engineer
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IT Engineer Skill Set Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 27 October 2026, IT Engineer job ads cited 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 IT Engineer job ads across the UK excluding London region.

RankSkillShareJob Ads
1Microsoft51.0%785
2Microsoft 36547.8%735
3Windows47.3%728
4Active Directory34.1%524
5Azure27.1%417
6Problem-Solving25.4%391
7Entra ID23.4%360
7Windows Server23.4%360
9Customer Service22.2%342
10Microsoft Intune19.4%299
11Infrastructure Engineering18.9%291
12DNS17.7%272
13Firewall17.6%271
14Microsoft Exchange16.5%254
15Cybersecurity15.3%235
15DHCP15.3%235
17Hyper-V14.2%219
18SharePoint13.3%204
19VPN13.1%202
20VMware12.4%190
21TCP/IP10.7%164
22VMware Infrastructure9.8%150
23ITIL9.6%147
23Wi-Fi9.6%147
25Continuous Improvement9.3%143
26VLAN7.7%119
26Windows 107.7%119
28PowerShell7.6%117
29Disaster Recovery7.4%114
30LAN7.1%109

IT Engineer Skill Set Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Job Titles

RankJob TitleShareJob Ads
1IT Support Engineer67.5%1,038
2IT Infrastructure Engineer12.5%192
32nd Line Engineer10.1%155
42nd Line Support Engineer9.3%143
5Senior IT Engineer9.2%141
6Field Engineer8.8%135
7Systems Engineer7.3%112
8Senior IT Support6.2%95
9Senior Support Engineer5.7%88
103rd Line Engineer5.3%81
113rd Line Support Engineer4.9%76
12Field Service Engineer3.8%58
12IT Security Engineer3.8%58
141st/2nd Line Support Engineer3.5%54
151st Line Engineer2.9%44
161st Line Support Engineer2.8%43
17Infrastructure Support Engineer2.5%39
18Service Desk Engineer2.1%32
19Senior Infrastructure Engineer2.0%31
19Systems Support Engineer2.0%31
139 IT Engineer jobs in the UK excluding London