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 £32,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 21 January 2026.

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

6 months to
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 130 114
Rank change year-on-year +21 -16 +94
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 791 751 1,068
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.82% 2.12% 2.65%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.01% 2.29% 2.78%
Number of salaries quoted 666 440 933
10th Percentile £25,500 £25,226 £24,000
25th Percentile £27,750 £27,938 £26,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,000 £35,000 £33,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% +4.48% +5.51%
75th Percentile £38,750 £43,750 £41,500
90th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £50,000
UK median annual salary £32,500 £35,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +6.06%

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 39,442 32,857 38,430
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.64% 92.64% 95.31%
Number of salaries quoted 24,178 15,906 29,537
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £27,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,097
% change year-on-year -8.33% +8.90% -8.17%

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 21 January 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 21 January 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 +29 200 £32,500 -7.14% 94
Midlands -24 199 £31,500 -10.00% 34
North of England +36 165 £32,500 -7.14% 73
East Midlands +10 131 £30,000 - 19
South West +33 85 £33,000 -5.71% 31
North West +24 81 £30,000 -17.24% 29
Yorkshire +17 77 £39,000 +18.18% 33
East of England +22 76 £30,000 - 33
West Midlands -50 68 £35,000 - 15
Scotland +18 53 £30,000 -11.11% 24
Wales +20 16 £40,000 - 8
North East +2 7 £30,000 -16.67% 16
Northern Ireland -8 1 £31,500 -47.50% 2
IT Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 21 January 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.

1 373 (47.16%) Microsoft 365
2 366 (46.27%) Windows
3 364 (46.02%) Microsoft
4 306 (38.69%) Active Directory
5 262 (33.12%) Problem-Solving
6 257 (32.49%) Azure
7 197 (24.91%) Windows Server
8 167 (21.11%) Customer Service
9 144 (18.20%) Firewall
10 137 (17.32%) DNS
11 130 (16.43%) Entra ID
12 129 (16.31%) DHCP
13 128 (16.18%) Microsoft Intune
14 111 (14.03%) SharePoint
15 108 (13.65%) ITIL
16 89 (11.25%) VPN
17 87 (11.00%) Cybersecurity
18 80 (10.11%) Windows 10
19 79 (9.99%) VMware
20 74 (9.36%) Microsoft Exchange
21 70 (8.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
22 69 (8.72%) Hyper-V
22 69 (8.72%) Mentoring
23 67 (8.47%) Microsoft Certification
24 61 (7.71%) Degree
25 59 (7.46%) Microsoft Office
25 59 (7.46%) TCP/IP
26 57 (7.21%) LAN
26 57 (7.21%) VMware Infrastructure
26 57 (7.21%) WAN

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
1 111 (14.03%) SharePoint
2 74 (9.36%) Microsoft Exchange
3 19 (2.40%) IIS
4 7 (0.88%) Confluence
5 3 (0.38%) Exchange Server 2007
5 3 (0.38%) Exchange Server 2010
5 3 (0.38%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 59 (7.46%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (2.02%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.25%) Acrobat
4 2 (0.25%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 9 (1.14%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.38%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.25%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.13%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.13%) Pegasus Opera
Cloud Services
1 373 (47.16%) Microsoft 365
2 257 (32.49%) Azure
3 130 (16.43%) Entra ID
4 34 (4.30%) AWS
5 32 (4.05%) Google Workspace
6 29 (3.67%) OneDrive
7 21 (2.65%) GCP
8 20 (2.53%) SaaS
9 19 (2.40%) Power Platform
10 14 (1.77%) Azure DevOps
11 12 (1.52%) Power Automate
12 6 (0.76%) Azure Sentinel
12 6 (0.76%) iPaaS
13 5 (0.63%) Azure AI
13 5 (0.63%) Cloud Computing
13 5 (0.63%) IaaS
13 5 (0.63%) Microsoft Copilot
13 5 (0.63%) PaaS
14 4 (0.51%) Datadog
14 4 (0.51%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 144 (18.20%) Firewall
2 137 (17.32%) DNS
3 129 (16.31%) DHCP
4 89 (11.25%) VPN
5 59 (7.46%) TCP/IP
6 57 (7.21%) LAN
6 57 (7.21%) WAN
7 55 (6.95%) VLAN
8 45 (5.69%) Wi-Fi
9 31 (3.92%) Wireless
10 27 (3.41%) VoIP
11 21 (2.65%) Network Security
11 21 (2.65%) SAN
12 11 (1.39%) WLAN
13 10 (1.26%) IP Telephony
13 10 (1.26%) Remote Desktop
14 8 (1.01%) SD-WAN
15 7 (0.88%) Internet
15 7 (0.88%) TETRA
16 5 (0.63%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (3.03%) SQL Server
2 17 (2.15%) Power BI
3 12 (1.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 9 (1.14%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (0.51%) Relational Database
6 3 (0.38%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 19 (2.40%) JIRA
2 1 (0.13%) Bitbucket
2 1 (0.13%) Git
2 1 (0.13%) GitLab
2 1 (0.13%) LabVIEW
2 1 (0.13%) Snyk
General
1 251 (31.73%) Social Skills
2 51 (6.45%) Organisational Skills
3 47 (5.94%) Analytical Skills
4 41 (5.18%) Finance
5 40 (5.06%) Manufacturing
6 34 (4.30%) Law
7 32 (4.05%) Public Sector
8 29 (3.67%) Telecoms
9 28 (3.54%) Multimedia
10 23 (2.91%) Legal
11 16 (2.02%) Retail
12 15 (1.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 14 (1.77%) Electronics
14 10 (1.26%) Documentation Skills
15 9 (1.14%) Marketing
16 6 (0.76%) Advertising
16 6 (0.76%) Fire and Rescue
16 6 (0.76%) Police
17 4 (0.51%) Dutch Language
17 4 (0.51%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (1.64%) .NET
2 12 (1.52%) .NET Framework
2 12 (1.52%) Entity Framework
2 12 (1.52%) WinForms
3 7 (0.88%) ASP.NET
4 1 (0.13%) OAuth
4 1 (0.13%) OAuth2
4 1 (0.13%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 162 (20.48%) Driving Licence
2 48 (6.07%) Onboarding
3 34 (4.30%) Self-Motivation
4 21 (2.65%) Analytical Mindset
5 13 (1.64%) Smartphone
6 11 (1.39%) CCTV
6 11 (1.39%) Data Centre
7 10 (1.26%) FMCG
8 9 (1.14%) Clustering
8 9 (1.14%) iPad
9 7 (0.88%) Cyber Security Posture
10 6 (0.76%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (0.76%) PMI
10 6 (0.76%) Security Posture
10 6 (0.76%) Social Media
11 5 (0.63%) Life Science
11 5 (0.63%) Mobile App
12 4 (0.51%) Management Information System
12 4 (0.51%) Solar Panel
13 3 (0.38%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 366 (46.27%) Windows
2 197 (24.91%) Windows Server
3 80 (10.11%) Windows 10
4 33 (4.17%) Linux
4 33 (4.17%) Mac OS
5 25 (3.16%) Windows Server 2019
6 20 (2.53%) Windows Server 2016
7 16 (2.02%) Android
8 11 (1.39%) Apple iOS
9 8 (1.01%) Windows Server 2012
10 7 (0.88%) Windows 7
11 5 (0.63%) Windows 8
12 3 (0.38%) Debian
13 2 (0.25%) Rocky
13 2 (0.25%) Windows Server 2008
14 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 1 (0.13%) Solaris
14 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
14 1 (0.13%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 262 (33.12%) Problem-Solving
2 167 (21.11%) Customer Service
3 108 (13.65%) ITIL
4 87 (11.00%) Cybersecurity
5 70 (8.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 69 (8.72%) Mentoring
7 39 (4.93%) Service Delivery
8 37 (4.68%) ITSM
9 33 (4.17%) Data Protection
10 32 (4.05%) Incident Management
10 32 (4.05%) Remote Monitoring and Management
11 31 (3.92%) Project Delivery
12 28 (3.54%) Disaster Recovery
13 26 (3.29%) Business Intelligence
13 26 (3.29%) Continuous Improvement
13 26 (3.29%) Process Improvement
14 25 (3.16%) Asset Management
14 25 (3.16%) Computer Science
14 25 (3.16%) Software Engineering
15 23 (2.91%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 40 (5.06%) PowerShell
2 39 (4.93%) SQL
3 14 (1.77%) C#
4 13 (1.64%) T-SQL
5 10 (1.26%) Python
6 7 (0.88%) PL/SQL
6 7 (0.88%) VBScript
7 2 (0.25%) Bash
7 2 (0.25%) Google Apps Script
7 2 (0.25%) Uniface
8 1 (0.13%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.13%) VB
Qualifications
1 67 (8.47%) Microsoft Certification
2 61 (7.71%) Degree
3 34 (4.30%) DBS Check
3 34 (4.30%) Security Cleared
4 31 (3.92%) Cisco Certification
5 29 (3.67%) A+ Certification
6 28 (3.54%) CCNA
7 25 (3.16%) SC Cleared
8 23 (2.91%) Computer Science Degree
9 21 (2.65%) MCP
10 19 (2.40%) BPSS Clearance
11 18 (2.28%) MCSE
12 16 (2.02%) Network+ Certification
13 11 (1.39%) CCNP
14 9 (1.14%) Azure Certification
14 9 (1.14%) MCSA
15 7 (0.88%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 6 (0.76%) PMI Certification
17 5 (0.63%) DV Cleared
18 4 (0.51%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (5.44%) Cyber Essentials
2 35 (4.42%) SLA
3 31 (3.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 20 (2.53%) GDPR
5 7 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 6 (0.76%) Accessibility
7 5 (0.63%) NIST
8 2 (0.25%) QA
9 1 (0.13%) GxP
9 1 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 306 (38.69%) Active Directory
2 69 (8.72%) Hyper-V
3 57 (7.21%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (1.77%) Virtual Desktop
5 10 (1.26%) Firmware
6 6 (0.76%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (0.63%) VMware Workstation
7 5 (0.63%) vSphere
8 4 (0.51%) Docker
9 2 (0.25%) XenDesktop
10 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.13%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.13%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 128 (16.18%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (1.14%) Jamf Pro
2 9 (1.14%) SCCM
3 8 (1.01%) Autotask
3 8 (1.01%) FortiGate
4 7 (0.88%) Kubernetes
4 7 (0.88%) WSUS
5 6 (0.76%) Failover Clustering
6 5 (0.63%) SmoothWall
7 4 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (0.38%) Ansible
8 3 (0.38%) Proxmox
8 3 (0.38%) vCenter Server
9 2 (0.25%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 1 (0.13%) Podman
Vendors
1 364 (46.02%) Microsoft
2 79 (9.99%) VMware
3 43 (5.44%) Google
4 35 (4.42%) Cisco
5 33 (4.17%) Fortinet
6 30 (3.79%) Veeam
7 29 (3.67%) Apple
8 28 (3.54%) Fujitsu
8 28 (3.54%) Virgin Media
9 21 (2.65%) Meraki
10 20 (2.53%) Dell
11 15 (1.90%) Sage
11 15 (1.90%) ServiceNow
12 14 (1.77%) Zoho
13 12 (1.52%) WatchGuard
13 12 (1.52%) Xamarin
14 9 (1.14%) Adobe
14 9 (1.14%) SAP
15 8 (1.01%) Draytek
16 7 (0.88%) Mitel