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 1 August 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 224 120
Rank change year-on-year +151 -104 +55
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 1,597 436 1,261
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 2.14% 1.27% 2.04%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.25% 1.42% 2.16%
Number of salaries quoted 1,423 344 995
10th Percentile £26,750 £25,750 £24,250
25th Percentile £30,000 £29,375 £27,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £37,000 £34,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% +8.82% +4.62%
75th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £43,750
90th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £50,000
UK median annual salary £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
% 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 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 70,839 30,721 58,495
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.72% 89.59% 94.85%
Number of salaries quoted 48,976 17,720 39,622
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £28,000
25th Percentile £38,000 £32,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -5.66%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £79,248
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 1 August 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 1 August 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 +120 427 £35,000 -12.50% 63
North of England +68 293 £32,500 -1.52% 38
East of England +116 262 £35,000 -1.41% 39
Midlands +76 255 £33,250 -11.33% 35
South West +51 225 £35,000 -6.67% 20
North West +113 166 £35,000 +7.69% 21
East Midlands +42 134 £35,000 +6.06% 18
West Midlands +47 121 £32,500 -23.53% 17
Yorkshire -10 112 £30,000 -7.69% 15
Scotland +56 74 £28,500 -5.00% 10
Wales -19 53 £45,000 -43.75% 9
North East -47 15 £40,000 -17.95% 4
Northern Ireland - 8 £41,000 - 4
IT Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 August 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.

1 741 (46.40%) Microsoft
2 694 (43.46%) Microsoft 365
3 642 (40.20%) Windows
4 510 (31.93%) Active Directory
5 408 (25.55%) Azure
6 375 (23.48%) Problem-Solving
7 342 (21.42%) Customer Service
8 326 (20.41%) Windows Server
9 302 (18.91%) Entra ID
10 242 (15.15%) Firewall
11 232 (14.53%) Microsoft Intune
12 230 (14.40%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 220 (13.78%) Microsoft Exchange
14 199 (12.46%) DNS
15 192 (12.02%) SharePoint
16 182 (11.40%) Hyper-V
17 176 (11.02%) Cybersecurity
18 171 (10.71%) VMware
19 163 (10.21%) DHCP
20 152 (9.52%) VPN
21 142 (8.89%) VMware Infrastructure
21 142 (8.89%) Windows 10
22 132 (8.27%) ITIL
23 123 (7.70%) Wi-Fi
24 122 (7.64%) Disaster Recovery
25 121 (7.58%) Continuous Improvement
26 108 (6.76%) PowerShell
27 107 (6.70%) Mac OS
28 104 (6.51%) LAN
29 102 (6.39%) TCP/IP

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
1 220 (13.78%) Microsoft Exchange
2 192 (12.02%) SharePoint
3 14 (0.88%) IIS
4 13 (0.81%) Confluence
5 11 (0.69%) Exchange Server 2013
6 9 (0.56%) Exchange Server 2007
6 9 (0.56%) Exchange Server 2010
7 3 (0.19%) Apache
Applications
1 82 (5.13%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (0.94%) 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 5 (0.31%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.19%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.13%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 694 (43.46%) Microsoft 365
2 408 (25.55%) Azure
3 302 (18.91%) Entra ID
4 50 (3.13%) AWS
5 47 (2.94%) OneDrive
6 37 (2.32%) Google Workspace
7 27 (1.69%) Mimecast
7 27 (1.69%) SaaS
8 19 (1.19%) Power Platform
9 17 (1.06%) PaaS
10 13 (0.81%) Power Automate
11 12 (0.75%) IaaS
12 11 (0.69%) Azure DevOps
13 10 (0.63%) Nutanix
14 7 (0.44%) Microsoft Copilot
15 6 (0.38%) PowerApps
16 5 (0.31%) GCP
17 3 (0.19%) Azure Sentinel
17 3 (0.19%) Cloudflare
17 3 (0.19%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 242 (15.15%) Firewall
2 199 (12.46%) DNS
3 163 (10.21%) DHCP
4 152 (9.52%) VPN
5 123 (7.70%) Wi-Fi
6 104 (6.51%) LAN
7 102 (6.39%) TCP/IP
8 96 (6.01%) WAN
9 79 (4.95%) VoIP
10 71 (4.45%) Wireless
11 62 (3.88%) VLAN
12 32 (2.00%) SAN
13 30 (1.88%) Network Security
14 22 (1.38%) Internet
15 17 (1.06%) Remote Desktop
16 16 (1.00%) WLAN
17 12 (0.75%) SSL
18 7 (0.44%) Broadband
18 7 (0.44%) NAS
19 6 (0.38%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (3.07%) SQL Server
2 9 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
2 9 (0.56%) MySQL
2 9 (0.56%) Power BI
3 5 (0.31%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (0.13%) KNIME
Development Applications
1 42 (2.63%) JIRA
2 2 (0.13%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (0.063%) Carbide.c++
3 1 (0.063%) GitLab
General
1 382 (23.92%) Social Skills
2 81 (5.07%) Manufacturing
3 76 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
4 62 (3.88%) Legal
5 49 (3.07%) Organisational Skills
6 48 (3.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 37 (2.32%) Retail
8 33 (2.07%) Finance
8 33 (2.07%) Public Sector
9 31 (1.94%) Telecoms
10 27 (1.69%) Advertising
11 24 (1.50%) Documentation Skills
12 23 (1.44%) Law
13 17 (1.06%) Automotive
14 8 (0.50%) Aerospace
15 7 (0.44%) Local Government
16 4 (0.25%) Dutch Language
16 4 (0.25%) Military
16 4 (0.25%) Portuguese Language
16 4 (0.25%) Spanish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (0.44%) HTML
1 7 (0.44%) JSON
2 4 (0.25%) Web Services
3 3 (0.19%) CSS
4 1 (0.063%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 234 (14.65%) Driving Licence
2 89 (5.57%) Onboarding
3 64 (4.01%) Self-Motivation
4 42 (2.63%) CCTV
5 37 (2.32%) Data Centre
6 22 (1.38%) FMCG
7 17 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
7 17 (1.06%) Security Posture
8 13 (0.81%) Management Information System
9 12 (0.75%) Hybrid Cloud
10 11 (0.69%) Cloud Native
10 11 (0.69%) Clustering
10 11 (0.69%) NHS
10 11 (0.69%) Smartphone
11 9 (0.56%) Operational Technology
11 9 (0.56%) Replication
12 8 (0.50%) PKI
13 7 (0.44%) Cyber Threat
13 7 (0.44%) EPoS
14 5 (0.31%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 642 (40.20%) Windows
2 326 (20.41%) Windows Server
3 142 (8.89%) Windows 10
4 107 (6.70%) Mac OS
5 88 (5.51%) Linux
6 41 (2.57%) Apple iOS
7 34 (2.13%) Android
8 33 (2.07%) Windows Server 2019
9 27 (1.69%) Windows Server 2016
10 14 (0.88%) Windows 7
11 11 (0.69%) Ubuntu
11 11 (0.69%) Windows Server 2012
12 9 (0.56%) Windows 8
13 4 (0.25%) Mac OS X
14 2 (0.13%) VMS
14 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
15 1 (0.063%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 375 (23.48%) Problem-Solving
2 342 (21.42%) Customer Service
3 230 (14.40%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 176 (11.02%) Cybersecurity
5 132 (8.27%) ITIL
6 122 (7.64%) Disaster Recovery
7 121 (7.58%) Continuous Improvement
8 75 (4.70%) Project Delivery
9 62 (3.88%) Service Management
10 57 (3.57%) ITSM
10 57 (3.57%) Mentoring
11 54 (3.38%) Root Cause Analysis
12 51 (3.19%) Service Delivery
13 47 (2.94%) Business Continuity
13 47 (2.94%) Remote Monitoring and Management
14 43 (2.69%) Time Management
15 42 (2.63%) User Experience
16 34 (2.13%) Process Improvement
17 33 (2.07%) Incident Management
18 31 (1.94%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 108 (6.76%) PowerShell
2 55 (3.44%) SQL
3 10 (0.63%) Python
3 10 (0.63%) R
4 8 (0.50%) Ruby
5 4 (0.25%) VBScript
6 3 (0.19%) Bicep
6 3 (0.19%) JavaScript
6 3 (0.19%) PHP
6 3 (0.19%) VB
6 3 (0.19%) VBA
7 2 (0.13%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.063%) Uniface
Qualifications
1 86 (5.39%) Microsoft Certification
2 80 (5.01%) Degree
3 73 (4.57%) Security Cleared
4 59 (3.69%) DBS Check
5 50 (3.13%) SC Cleared
6 49 (3.07%) CCNA
6 49 (3.07%) Cisco Certification
7 36 (2.25%) Network+ Certification
8 25 (1.57%) A+ Certification
9 23 (1.44%) Azure Certification
10 17 (1.06%) CompTIA Security+
11 16 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
12 14 (0.88%) MCSE
13 10 (0.63%) DV Cleared
14 6 (0.38%) AWS Certification
15 5 (0.31%) CCNP
15 5 (0.31%) MCSA
16 4 (0.25%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 4 (0.25%) Microsoft Certified Professional
17 3 (0.19%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (5.95%) Cyber Essentials
2 54 (3.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 41 (2.57%) SLA
4 33 (2.07%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 23 (1.44%) GDPR
6 10 (0.63%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.25%) Accessibility
7 4 (0.25%) NIST
8 3 (0.19%) QA
9 1 (0.063%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.063%) NCSC
System Software
1 510 (31.93%) Active Directory
2 182 (11.40%) Hyper-V
3 142 (8.89%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (1.19%) Virtual Desktop
5 18 (1.13%) vSphere
6 16 (1.00%) Virtual Machines
7 13 (0.81%) Docker
7 13 (0.81%) VMware ESXi
8 8 (0.50%) BitLocker
9 5 (0.31%) Firmware
9 5 (0.31%) Terminal Services
9 5 (0.31%) VMware Workstation
10 1 (0.063%) Terminal Server
10 1 (0.063%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 232 (14.53%) Microsoft Intune
2 21 (1.31%) SCCM
3 18 (1.13%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 13 (0.81%) Jamf Pro
5 11 (0.69%) Proxmox
6 10 (0.63%) WSUS
7 7 (0.44%) Failover Clustering
7 7 (0.44%) FortiGate
8 6 (0.38%) Autotask
9 4 (0.25%) Iperf
9 4 (0.25%) Kubernetes
9 4 (0.25%) Terraform
10 3 (0.19%) Ansible
10 3 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.13%) PaperCut
12 1 (0.063%) Argo
12 1 (0.063%) Nessus
Vendors
1 741 (46.40%) Microsoft
2 171 (10.71%) VMware
3 67 (4.20%) Cisco
4 49 (3.07%) Veeam
5 44 (2.76%) Google
6 36 (2.25%) Apple
7 32 (2.00%) Meraki
8 27 (1.69%) Dell
9 25 (1.57%) SonicWALL
9 25 (1.57%) Sophos
10 24 (1.50%) Ubiquiti
11 21 (1.31%) HP
12 15 (0.94%) Fortinet
13 12 (0.75%) Logitech
13 12 (0.75%) TOWER Software
14 10 (0.63%) CrowdStrike
14 10 (0.63%) Epicor
14 10 (0.63%) Palo Alto
14 10 (0.63%) ServiceNow
15 8 (0.50%) Sage