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 15 October 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 89 207 126
Rank change year-on-year +118 -81 +19
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 1,540 443 972
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.77% 1.29% 1.94%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.92% 1.44% 2.03%
Number of salaries quoted 1,322 355 619
10th Percentile £27,025 £25,750 £25,202
25th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £29,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +1.45%
75th Percentile £43,750 £43,500 £45,000
90th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
UK median annual salary £35,000 £35,000 £37,000
% change year-on-year - -5.41% +5.71%

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 80,403 30,800 47,820
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.46% 89.55% 95.39%
Number of salaries quoted 55,684 17,423 26,302
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £46,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +19.57% -8.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £63,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £58,500 £53,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.35% -2.73% -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 15 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 jobs citing IT Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 15 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
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +104 374 £38,500 +2.67% 35
Midlands +59 293 £35,000 +3.70% 14
North of England +42 258 £35,000 - 41
South West +29 235 £35,000 - 35
East of England +79 220 £35,000 - 22
West Midlands +56 160 £34,500 -27.37% 10
North West +67 145 £35,000 +7.69% 23
East Midlands +13 133 £35,000 +16.67% 4
Scotland +68 94 £30,000 - 17
Yorkshire -18 89 £30,000 -9.09% 15
Wales -23 53 £37,500 -53.13% 2
North East -44 24 £40,000 -17.95% 5
Northern Ireland -67 11 £41,000 +30.16%
Channel Islands +2 2 £35,000 -22.22% 3
IT Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 15 October 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.

1 808 (52.47%) Microsoft
2 762 (49.48%) Microsoft 365
3 743 (48.25%) Windows
4 544 (35.32%) Active Directory
5 427 (27.73%) Azure
6 397 (25.78%) Problem-Solving
7 375 (24.35%) Windows Server
8 364 (23.64%) Entra ID
9 349 (22.66%) Customer Service
10 300 (19.48%) Microsoft Intune
11 283 (18.38%) Firewall
12 280 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 271 (17.60%) DNS
14 260 (16.88%) Microsoft Exchange
15 238 (15.45%) Cybersecurity
16 232 (15.06%) DHCP
17 223 (14.48%) Hyper-V
18 213 (13.83%) SharePoint
19 203 (13.18%) VPN
20 194 (12.60%) VMware
21 161 (10.45%) TCP/IP
22 154 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
23 148 (9.61%) Wi-Fi
24 147 (9.55%) ITIL
25 145 (9.42%) Continuous Improvement
26 126 (8.18%) Windows 10
27 120 (7.79%) Disaster Recovery
28 119 (7.73%) PowerShell
29 118 (7.66%) VLAN
30 116 (7.53%) LAN

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
1 260 (16.88%) Microsoft Exchange
2 213 (13.83%) SharePoint
3 20 (1.30%) IIS
4 8 (0.52%) Apache
5 4 (0.26%) Confluence
5 4 (0.26%) Exchange Server 2007
5 4 (0.26%) Exchange Server 2010
5 4 (0.26%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 67 (4.35%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.13%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.065%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 6 (0.39%) Raiser’s Edge
2 4 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.26%) NetSuite
2 4 (0.26%) Shopify
3 2 (0.13%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 762 (49.48%) Microsoft 365
2 427 (27.73%) Azure
3 364 (23.64%) Entra ID
4 68 (4.42%) OneDrive
5 57 (3.70%) Google Workspace
6 52 (3.38%) AWS
7 29 (1.88%) Mimecast
8 21 (1.36%) Power Platform
9 20 (1.30%) SaaS
10 14 (0.91%) Power Automate
11 11 (0.71%) Dynamics 365
12 10 (0.65%) Nutanix
13 7 (0.45%) Cloud Computing
13 7 (0.45%) IaaS
14 5 (0.32%) Azure DevOps
15 4 (0.26%) Microsoft Copilot
15 4 (0.26%) PaaS
15 4 (0.26%) Serverless
16 3 (0.19%) Cloudflare
16 3 (0.19%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 283 (18.38%) Firewall
2 271 (17.60%) DNS
3 232 (15.06%) DHCP
4 203 (13.18%) VPN
5 161 (10.45%) TCP/IP
6 148 (9.61%) Wi-Fi
7 118 (7.66%) VLAN
8 116 (7.53%) LAN
9 102 (6.62%) WAN
10 100 (6.49%) VoIP
11 88 (5.71%) Wireless
12 33 (2.14%) SAN
13 31 (2.01%) Network Security
14 23 (1.49%) Internet
15 19 (1.23%) SSL
16 17 (1.10%) WLAN
17 15 (0.97%) Remote Desktop
18 8 (0.52%) PBX
18 8 (0.52%) Structured Cabling
19 7 (0.45%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (3.90%) SQL Server
2 11 (0.71%) MySQL
3 9 (0.58%) Azure SQL Database
4 5 (0.32%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (0.13%) KNIME
Development Applications
1 29 (1.88%) JIRA
2 2 (0.13%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (0.065%) Carbide.c++
General
1 463 (30.06%) Social Skills
2 84 (5.45%) Analytical Skills
3 78 (5.06%) Manufacturing
4 74 (4.81%) Legal
5 54 (3.51%) Public Sector
6 52 (3.38%) Organisational Skills
7 41 (2.66%) Retail
8 37 (2.40%) Telecoms
9 33 (2.14%) Documentation Skills
10 32 (2.08%) Advertising
11 31 (2.01%) Finance
12 21 (1.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 14 (0.91%) Law
14 12 (0.78%) Automotive
15 11 (0.71%) Aerospace
15 11 (0.71%) Military
16 10 (0.65%) Aviation
17 8 (0.52%) Police
18 6 (0.39%) Games
19 4 (0.26%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (0.32%) HTML
1 5 (0.32%) JSON
2 4 (0.26%) .NET
2 4 (0.26%) ASP.NET Web Forms
2 4 (0.26%) WinForms
3 3 (0.19%) Web Services
4 2 (0.13%) Terraform
5 1 (0.065%) 802.1X
5 1 (0.065%) ADO
5 1 (0.065%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 269 (17.47%) Driving Licence
2 97 (6.30%) Onboarding
3 66 (4.29%) Self-Motivation
4 46 (2.99%) CCTV
5 31 (2.01%) Data Centre
6 27 (1.75%) Operational Technology
7 17 (1.10%) Security Posture
8 16 (1.04%) Hybrid Cloud
8 16 (1.04%) Replication
9 15 (0.97%) Analytical Mindset
9 15 (0.97%) Management Information System
10 13 (0.84%) FMCG
10 13 (0.84%) Smartphone
11 11 (0.71%) Cloud Native
11 11 (0.71%) Clustering
12 9 (0.58%) Cyber Security Posture
12 9 (0.58%) Cyber Threat
12 9 (0.58%) NHS
13 8 (0.52%) PKI
14 7 (0.45%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 743 (48.25%) Windows
2 375 (24.35%) Windows Server
3 126 (8.18%) Windows 10
4 102 (6.62%) macOS
5 99 (6.43%) Linux
6 41 (2.66%) Apple iOS
7 38 (2.47%) Android
8 37 (2.40%) Windows Server 2019
9 33 (2.14%) Windows Server 2016
10 23 (1.49%) Ubuntu
11 12 (0.78%) Windows Server 2012
12 7 (0.45%) Rocky
13 6 (0.39%) Windows 7
14 4 (0.26%) Debian
14 4 (0.26%) Windows 8
15 2 (0.13%) Unix
16 1 (0.065%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 1 (0.065%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 397 (25.78%) Problem-Solving
2 349 (22.66%) Customer Service
3 280 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 238 (15.45%) Cybersecurity
5 147 (9.55%) ITIL
6 145 (9.42%) Continuous Improvement
7 120 (7.79%) Disaster Recovery
8 84 (5.45%) Project Delivery
9 63 (4.09%) ITSM
9 63 (4.09%) Service Delivery
10 57 (3.70%) Mentoring
11 49 (3.18%) Business Continuity
11 49 (3.18%) Remote Monitoring and Management
12 47 (3.05%) Root Cause Analysis
13 46 (2.99%) Service Management
13 46 (2.99%) User Experience
14 45 (2.92%) Change Management
15 40 (2.60%) Migration
16 39 (2.53%) Collaborative Working
17 37 (2.40%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 119 (7.73%) PowerShell
2 43 (2.79%) SQL
3 12 (0.78%) Ruby
4 8 (0.52%) Python
4 8 (0.52%) R
5 4 (0.26%) C#
5 4 (0.26%) VBScript
6 3 (0.19%) Bicep
6 3 (0.19%) VB
7 2 (0.13%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.065%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.065%) PHP
8 1 (0.065%) VBA
Qualifications
1 95 (6.17%) Microsoft Certification
2 87 (5.65%) Degree
3 55 (3.57%) CCNA
3 55 (3.57%) Cisco Certification
3 55 (3.57%) DBS Check
4 45 (2.92%) Security Cleared
5 40 (2.60%) Network+ Certification
6 28 (1.82%) SC Cleared
7 26 (1.69%) A+ Certification
7 26 (1.69%) Azure Certification
8 20 (1.30%) MCSE
9 18 (1.17%) CompTIA Security+
10 14 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
11 11 (0.71%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 10 (0.65%) MCSA
13 9 (0.58%) CCNP
14 6 (0.39%) AWS Certification
14 6 (0.39%) DV Cleared
14 6 (0.39%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 5 (0.32%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 108 (7.01%) Cyber Essentials
2 49 (3.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 36 (2.34%) GDPR
4 25 (1.62%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 23 (1.49%) SLA
6 10 (0.65%) PCI DSS
7 6 (0.39%) NCSC
8 4 (0.26%) Accessibility
8 4 (0.26%) NIST
9 2 (0.13%) QA
10 1 (0.065%) GRC
10 1 (0.065%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 544 (35.32%) Active Directory
2 223 (14.48%) Hyper-V
3 154 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (1.10%) Virtual Machines
5 16 (1.04%) vSphere
6 15 (0.97%) Virtual Desktop
7 13 (0.84%) VMware ESXi
8 10 (0.65%) Firmware
9 7 (0.45%) Docker
10 5 (0.32%) BitLocker
11 4 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
12 2 (0.13%) Terminal Services
13 1 (0.065%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 300 (19.48%) Microsoft Intune
2 25 (1.62%) Jamf Pro
3 21 (1.36%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 16 (1.04%) SCCM
5 13 (0.84%) WSUS
6 7 (0.45%) Failover Clustering
6 7 (0.45%) Proxmox
7 6 (0.39%) Backup Exec
7 6 (0.39%) Kubernetes
8 5 (0.32%) SmoothWall
9 4 (0.26%) FortiGate
9 4 (0.26%) Iperf
9 4 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.19%) Autotask
11 2 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.13%) Ansible
11 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
11 2 (0.13%) PaperCut
11 2 (0.13%) SCOM
12 1 (0.065%) AirWatch
Vendors
1 808 (52.47%) Microsoft
2 194 (12.60%) VMware
3 96 (6.23%) Cisco
4 85 (5.52%) Veeam
5 59 (3.83%) Google
6 55 (3.57%) Apple
7 53 (3.44%) SonicWALL
8 45 (2.92%) Meraki
9 38 (2.47%) Dell
10 32 (2.08%) Sophos
11 28 (1.82%) Fortinet
12 26 (1.69%) Palo Alto
12 26 (1.69%) TOWER Software
13 21 (1.36%) Datto
14 19 (1.23%) Logitech
15 18 (1.17%) HP
15 18 (1.17%) Ubiquiti
16 17 (1.10%) Draytek
17 16 (1.04%) Citrix
17 16 (1.04%) WatchGuard