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 12 July 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 221 106
Rank change year-on-year +155 -115 +71
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 1,686 466 1,716
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 2.36% 1.38% 2.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.50% 1.54% 2.47%
Number of salaries quoted 1,487 371 1,428
10th Percentile £26,660 £25,750 £23,850
25th Percentile £29,750 £28,750 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £35,000 £32,500
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% -
75th Percentile £43,750 £43,750 £42,500
90th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £48,750
UK median annual salary £35,000 £36,500 £33,000
% change year-on-year -4.11% +10.61% -4.35%

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 67,575 30,176 69,518
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.70% 89.38% 94.83%
Number of salaries quoted 46,820 17,246 49,288
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £33,750 £35,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -5.66%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,200 £64,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -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 12 July 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 12 July 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 +115 450 £35,000 -6.67% 66
North of England +94 348 £32,500 -1.52% 40
Midlands +72 274 £32,500 -13.33% 28
East of England +107 263 £35,000 +7.58% 30
South West +53 222 £35,000 - 28
North West +115 200 £32,940 +1.35% 13
West Midlands +65 139 £32,500 -21.00% 10
East Midlands +38 135 £32,500 - 18
Yorkshire +1 132 £30,000 - 24
Scotland +54 75 £28,500 -5.00% 15
Wales -3 52 £45,000 -43.75% 8
North East -49 16 £40,000 -17.95% 8
Northern Ireland - 2 £45,500 - 9
IT Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 12 July 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.

1 749 (44.42%) Microsoft
2 715 (42.41%) Microsoft 365
3 647 (38.37%) Windows
4 530 (31.44%) Active Directory
5 428 (25.39%) Azure
6 406 (24.08%) Problem-Solving
7 351 (20.82%) Customer Service
8 341 (20.23%) Windows Server
9 311 (18.45%) Entra ID
10 265 (15.72%) Firewall
11 225 (13.35%) Microsoft Intune
12 220 (13.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 217 (12.87%) Microsoft Exchange
14 214 (12.69%) DNS
15 197 (11.68%) SharePoint
16 184 (10.91%) Cybersecurity
17 177 (10.50%) DHCP
17 177 (10.50%) Hyper-V
18 174 (10.32%) VMware
19 171 (10.14%) VPN
20 153 (9.07%) Windows 10
21 140 (8.30%) ITIL
22 139 (8.24%) VMware Infrastructure
23 130 (7.71%) Wi-Fi
24 119 (7.06%) LAN
25 116 (6.88%) PowerShell
26 115 (6.82%) Continuous Improvement
27 112 (6.64%) WAN
28 111 (6.58%) Disaster Recovery
29 107 (6.35%) Mac OS

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
1 217 (12.87%) Microsoft Exchange
2 197 (11.68%) SharePoint
3 15 (0.89%) Exchange Server 2013
4 14 (0.83%) Confluence
5 13 (0.77%) Exchange Server 2007
5 13 (0.77%) Exchange Server 2010
5 13 (0.77%) IIS
6 3 (0.18%) Apache
Applications
1 96 (5.69%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (0.89%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.18%) Photoshop
4 2 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.12%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.059%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 6 (0.36%) Raiser’s Edge
2 5 (0.30%) Dynamics NAV
2 5 (0.30%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.059%) Sage 200
3 1 (0.059%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 715 (42.41%) Microsoft 365
2 428 (25.39%) Azure
3 311 (18.45%) Entra ID
4 57 (3.38%) AWS
5 49 (2.91%) OneDrive
6 42 (2.49%) Google Workspace
7 33 (1.96%) SaaS
8 26 (1.54%) Mimecast
9 23 (1.36%) Power Platform
10 20 (1.19%) PaaS
11 15 (0.89%) IaaS
12 11 (0.65%) Azure DevOps
12 11 (0.65%) Power Automate
13 9 (0.53%) PowerApps
14 8 (0.47%) Nutanix
15 6 (0.36%) Microsoft Copilot
16 5 (0.30%) Azure Sentinel
16 5 (0.30%) Intacct
16 5 (0.30%) OCI
17 4 (0.24%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 265 (15.72%) Firewall
2 214 (12.69%) DNS
3 177 (10.50%) DHCP
4 171 (10.14%) VPN
5 130 (7.71%) Wi-Fi
6 119 (7.06%) LAN
7 112 (6.64%) WAN
8 91 (5.40%) TCP/IP
9 80 (4.74%) VoIP
10 69 (4.09%) VLAN
11 61 (3.62%) Wireless
12 32 (1.90%) SAN
13 31 (1.84%) Network Security
14 20 (1.19%) Internet
15 16 (0.95%) WLAN
16 14 (0.83%) Remote Desktop
17 13 (0.77%) SD-WAN
18 11 (0.65%) SSL
19 7 (0.42%) Broadband
19 7 (0.42%) DMZ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (2.97%) SQL Server
2 13 (0.77%) Power BI
3 9 (0.53%) MySQL
4 8 (0.47%) Azure SQL Database
5 5 (0.30%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.12%) KNIME
Development Applications
1 45 (2.67%) JIRA
2 4 (0.24%) GitLab
3 2 (0.12%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.059%) Carbide.c++
4 1 (0.059%) LabVIEW
General
1 404 (23.96%) Social Skills
2 77 (4.57%) Manufacturing
3 71 (4.21%) Analytical Skills
4 61 (3.62%) Organisational Skills
5 53 (3.14%) Legal
6 51 (3.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 42 (2.49%) Public Sector
8 38 (2.25%) Retail
9 33 (1.96%) Law
10 31 (1.84%) Finance
10 31 (1.84%) Telecoms
11 28 (1.66%) Multimedia
12 23 (1.36%) Documentation Skills
13 21 (1.25%) Advertising
14 16 (0.95%) Automotive
15 7 (0.42%) Aerospace
15 7 (0.42%) Local Government
16 5 (0.30%) Social Housing
17 4 (0.24%) Dutch Language
17 4 (0.24%) Portuguese Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (0.42%) HTML
1 7 (0.42%) JSON
2 4 (0.24%) OpenTelemetry
2 4 (0.24%) Web Services
3 3 (0.18%) CSS
4 1 (0.059%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 263 (15.60%) Driving Licence
2 87 (5.16%) Onboarding
3 67 (3.97%) Self-Motivation
4 37 (2.19%) CCTV
4 37 (2.19%) Data Centre
5 24 (1.42%) FMCG
6 21 (1.25%) Analytical Mindset
7 20 (1.19%) Security Posture
8 12 (0.71%) Hybrid Cloud
8 12 (0.71%) Management Information System
9 11 (0.65%) Clustering
9 11 (0.65%) NHS
9 11 (0.65%) Smartphone
10 10 (0.59%) Cloud Native
10 10 (0.59%) PKI
11 9 (0.53%) Operational Technology
12 7 (0.42%) Enterprise Software
12 7 (0.42%) EPoS
12 7 (0.42%) Replication
13 6 (0.36%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 647 (38.37%) Windows
2 341 (20.23%) Windows Server
3 153 (9.07%) Windows 10
4 107 (6.35%) Mac OS
5 90 (5.34%) Linux
6 44 (2.61%) Windows Server 2019
7 41 (2.43%) Windows Server 2016
8 39 (2.31%) Apple iOS
9 35 (2.08%) Android
10 17 (1.01%) Windows 7
10 17 (1.01%) Windows Server 2012
11 11 (0.65%) Ubuntu
11 11 (0.65%) Windows 8
12 5 (0.30%) Windows Server 2008
13 4 (0.24%) Mac OS X
14 2 (0.12%) VMS
15 1 (0.059%) CentOS
15 1 (0.059%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 1 (0.059%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 406 (24.08%) Problem-Solving
2 351 (20.82%) Customer Service
3 220 (13.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 184 (10.91%) Cybersecurity
5 140 (8.30%) ITIL
6 115 (6.82%) Continuous Improvement
7 111 (6.58%) Disaster Recovery
8 92 (5.46%) Mentoring
9 69 (4.09%) Project Delivery
10 68 (4.03%) Service Delivery
11 62 (3.68%) Service Management
12 61 (3.62%) Root Cause Analysis
13 59 (3.50%) ITSM
14 50 (2.97%) Business Continuity
14 50 (2.97%) Remote Monitoring and Management
15 48 (2.85%) Time Management
16 42 (2.49%) User Experience
17 40 (2.37%) Process Improvement
18 38 (2.25%) ERP
19 35 (2.08%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 116 (6.88%) PowerShell
2 58 (3.44%) SQL
3 11 (0.65%) Python
4 10 (0.59%) R
5 5 (0.30%) Bash
5 5 (0.30%) VB
6 4 (0.24%) PHP
6 4 (0.24%) Ruby
6 4 (0.24%) VBScript
7 3 (0.18%) Bicep
7 3 (0.18%) JavaScript
7 3 (0.18%) Uniface
7 3 (0.18%) VBA
8 2 (0.12%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.059%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 91 (5.40%) Microsoft Certification
2 88 (5.22%) Security Cleared
3 79 (4.69%) Degree
4 60 (3.56%) SC Cleared
5 59 (3.50%) DBS Check
6 54 (3.20%) CCNA
6 54 (3.20%) Cisco Certification
7 36 (2.14%) Network+ Certification
8 28 (1.66%) A+ Certification
9 24 (1.42%) Azure Certification
10 21 (1.25%) BPSS Clearance
11 16 (0.95%) DV Cleared
11 16 (0.95%) MCSE
12 14 (0.83%) CompTIA Security+
13 10 (0.59%) CCNP
14 7 (0.42%) MCSA
15 6 (0.36%) AWS Certification
16 5 (0.30%) MCITP
17 4 (0.24%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 4 (0.24%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 96 (5.69%) Cyber Essentials
2 60 (3.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 48 (2.85%) SLA
4 34 (2.02%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 24 (1.42%) GDPR
6 10 (0.59%) PCI DSS
7 5 (0.30%) QA
8 4 (0.24%) Accessibility
8 4 (0.24%) NIST
9 1 (0.059%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.059%) NCSC
System Software
1 530 (31.44%) Active Directory
2 177 (10.50%) Hyper-V
3 139 (8.24%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (1.36%) Virtual Desktop
5 21 (1.25%) vSphere
6 19 (1.13%) VMware ESXi
7 14 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
8 13 (0.77%) Docker
9 8 (0.47%) BitLocker
10 7 (0.42%) VMware Workstation
11 5 (0.30%) Terminal Services
12 4 (0.24%) VMware NSX
13 3 (0.18%) Firmware
14 1 (0.059%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 225 (13.35%) Microsoft Intune
2 22 (1.30%) SCCM
3 19 (1.13%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 13 (0.77%) Proxmox
4 13 (0.77%) WSUS
5 10 (0.59%) FortiGate
5 10 (0.59%) Jamf Pro
5 10 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
6 8 (0.47%) Autotask
7 7 (0.42%) Failover Clustering
8 6 (0.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 6 (0.36%) Ansible
9 4 (0.24%) Iperf
9 4 (0.24%) Kubernetes
9 4 (0.24%) Terraform
10 1 (0.059%) Argo
10 1 (0.059%) Nessus
Vendors
1 749 (44.42%) Microsoft
2 174 (10.32%) VMware
3 61 (3.62%) Cisco
4 48 (2.85%) Google
5 47 (2.79%) Veeam
6 44 (2.61%) Fortinet
7 35 (2.08%) Meraki
8 34 (2.02%) Apple
8 34 (2.02%) Dell
9 28 (1.66%) Fujitsu
9 28 (1.66%) Virgin Media
10 23 (1.36%) HP
10 23 (1.36%) Sophos
10 23 (1.36%) Ubiquiti
11 22 (1.30%) SonicWALL
12 13 (0.77%) CrowdStrike
12 13 (0.77%) Epicor
13 11 (0.65%) Logitech
13 11 (0.65%) ServiceNow
14 10 (0.59%) Sage