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 25 January 2026.

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

6 months to
25 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 133 109
Rank change year-on-year +31 -24 +107
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 855 754 1,186
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.93% 2.14% 2.73%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.13% 2.32% 2.86%
Number of salaries quoted 727 442 1,048
10th Percentile £25,500 £25,300 £24,000
25th Percentile £27,750 £27,813 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,000 £35,000 £32,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% +7.69% +2.36%
75th Percentile £38,750 £43,750 £41,000
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 40,206 32,525 41,420
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.56% 92.28% 95.31%
Number of salaries quoted 24,749 15,699 32,009
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £26,700
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,748 £35,920
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,688 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.87% +7.38% -5.66%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -9.30%

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 25 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 25 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 +33 213 £32,500 -7.14% 112
Midlands -20 208 £31,500 -10.00% 37
North of England +41 188 £32,500 -7.14% 76
East Midlands +16 135 £30,000 - 20
North West +33 93 £30,000 -20.53% 35
South West +21 92 £33,000 -5.71% 34
Yorkshire +21 87 £36,500 +11.45% 30
East of England +32 85 £30,000 - 35
West Midlands -44 73 £32,500 -7.14% 17
Scotland +6 55 £30,000 -11.11% 23
Wales +19 15 £35,000 - 10
North East -2 8 £29,250 -18.75% 15
Northern Ireland -11 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 25 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.

1 402 (47.02%) Microsoft 365
2 391 (45.73%) Microsoft
3 389 (45.50%) Windows
4 331 (38.71%) Active Directory
5 283 (33.10%) Problem-Solving
6 279 (32.63%) Azure
7 213 (24.91%) Windows Server
8 181 (21.17%) Customer Service
9 156 (18.25%) Firewall
10 147 (17.19%) DNS
11 145 (16.96%) Entra ID
12 138 (16.14%) DHCP
13 134 (15.67%) Microsoft Intune
14 118 (13.80%) SharePoint
15 113 (13.22%) ITIL
16 98 (11.46%) Cybersecurity
16 98 (11.46%) VPN
17 88 (10.29%) Windows 10
18 84 (9.82%) VMware
19 82 (9.59%) Microsoft Exchange
20 81 (9.47%) Infrastructure Engineering
21 74 (8.65%) Hyper-V
22 73 (8.54%) Mentoring
23 69 (8.07%) Microsoft Certification
24 66 (7.72%) Microsoft Office
25 64 (7.49%) Degree
25 64 (7.49%) LAN
25 64 (7.49%) WAN
26 60 (7.02%) TCP/IP
27 59 (6.90%) VMware Infrastructure

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
1 118 (13.80%) SharePoint
2 82 (9.59%) Microsoft Exchange
3 18 (2.11%) IIS
4 9 (1.05%) Confluence
5 4 (0.47%) Exchange Server 2007
5 4 (0.47%) Exchange Server 2010
5 4 (0.47%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 66 (7.72%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (1.99%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.23%) Acrobat
4 2 (0.23%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 9 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.35%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.23%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.12%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.12%) Pegasus Opera
Cloud Services
1 402 (47.02%) Microsoft 365
2 279 (32.63%) Azure
3 145 (16.96%) Entra ID
4 41 (4.80%) AWS
5 37 (4.33%) Google Workspace
6 32 (3.74%) OneDrive
7 21 (2.46%) GCP
7 21 (2.46%) SaaS
8 20 (2.34%) Power Platform
9 14 (1.64%) Azure DevOps
10 12 (1.40%) Power Automate
11 7 (0.82%) Azure Sentinel
12 6 (0.70%) iPaaS
12 6 (0.70%) PowerApps
13 5 (0.58%) Azure AI
13 5 (0.58%) Cloud Computing
13 5 (0.58%) IaaS
13 5 (0.58%) Microsoft Copilot
13 5 (0.58%) PaaS
14 4 (0.47%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 156 (18.25%) Firewall
2 147 (17.19%) DNS
3 138 (16.14%) DHCP
4 98 (11.46%) VPN
5 64 (7.49%) LAN
5 64 (7.49%) WAN
6 60 (7.02%) TCP/IP
7 57 (6.67%) VLAN
8 50 (5.85%) Wi-Fi
9 32 (3.74%) Wireless
10 29 (3.39%) VoIP
11 20 (2.34%) Network Security
11 20 (2.34%) SAN
12 11 (1.29%) SD-WAN
12 11 (1.29%) WLAN
13 10 (1.17%) IP Telephony
13 10 (1.17%) Remote Desktop
14 7 (0.82%) Internet
14 7 (0.82%) TETRA
15 4 (0.47%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (2.81%) SQL Server
2 19 (2.22%) Power BI
3 12 (1.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 8 (0.94%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (0.47%) Relational Database
6 3 (0.35%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 23 (2.69%) JIRA
2 2 (0.23%) GitLab
3 1 (0.12%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.12%) Git
3 1 (0.12%) LabVIEW
3 1 (0.12%) Snyk
General
1 271 (31.70%) Social Skills
2 59 (6.90%) Organisational Skills
3 48 (5.61%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (4.68%) Finance
4 40 (4.68%) Law
4 40 (4.68%) Manufacturing
5 34 (3.98%) Public Sector
6 29 (3.39%) Telecoms
7 28 (3.27%) Multimedia
8 24 (2.81%) Legal
9 20 (2.34%) Retail
10 16 (1.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 13 (1.52%) Electronics
12 10 (1.17%) Documentation Skills
13 8 (0.94%) Marketing
14 6 (0.70%) Advertising
14 6 (0.70%) Fire and Rescue
14 6 (0.70%) Police
15 4 (0.47%) Dutch Language
15 4 (0.47%) French Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (1.52%) .NET
2 12 (1.40%) .NET Framework
2 12 (1.40%) Entity Framework
2 12 (1.40%) WinForms
3 7 (0.82%) ASP.NET
4 2 (0.23%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (0.12%) OAuth
5 1 (0.12%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 175 (20.47%) Driving Licence
2 52 (6.08%) Onboarding
3 36 (4.21%) Self-Motivation
4 22 (2.57%) Analytical Mindset
5 13 (1.52%) Smartphone
6 12 (1.40%) CCTV
7 10 (1.17%) Data Centre
7 10 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
8 9 (1.05%) FMCG
8 9 (1.05%) iPad
9 8 (0.94%) Clustering
9 8 (0.94%) Cyber Security Posture
10 7 (0.82%) Security Posture
11 6 (0.70%) PMI
11 6 (0.70%) Social Media
12 5 (0.58%) Life Science
12 5 (0.58%) Management Information System
12 5 (0.58%) Mobile App
13 4 (0.47%) Linux Command Line
13 4 (0.47%) Solar Panel
Operating Systems
1 389 (45.50%) Windows
2 213 (24.91%) Windows Server
3 88 (10.29%) Windows 10
4 35 (4.09%) Mac OS
5 33 (3.86%) Linux
6 27 (3.16%) Windows Server 2019
7 24 (2.81%) Windows Server 2016
8 18 (2.11%) Android
9 13 (1.52%) Apple iOS
10 11 (1.29%) Windows Server 2012
11 8 (0.94%) Windows 7
12 6 (0.70%) Windows 8
13 3 (0.35%) Debian
13 3 (0.35%) Windows Server 2008
14 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 1 (0.12%) Rocky
14 1 (0.12%) Solaris
14 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
14 1 (0.12%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 283 (33.10%) Problem-Solving
2 181 (21.17%) Customer Service
3 113 (13.22%) ITIL
4 98 (11.46%) Cybersecurity
5 81 (9.47%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 73 (8.54%) Mentoring
7 46 (5.38%) Service Delivery
8 40 (4.68%) ITSM
9 35 (4.09%) Incident Management
9 35 (4.09%) Remote Monitoring and Management
10 34 (3.98%) Data Protection
11 30 (3.51%) Project Delivery
12 28 (3.27%) Asset Management
12 28 (3.27%) Disaster Recovery
13 27 (3.16%) Business Intelligence
13 27 (3.16%) Continuous Improvement
13 27 (3.16%) Process Improvement
14 25 (2.92%) Computer Science
14 25 (2.92%) Software Engineering
15 22 (2.57%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 45 (5.26%) PowerShell
2 42 (4.91%) SQL
3 14 (1.64%) C#
4 13 (1.52%) T-SQL
5 10 (1.17%) Python
6 7 (0.82%) PL/SQL
6 7 (0.82%) VBScript
7 6 (0.70%) Bash
8 2 (0.23%) Google Apps Script
8 2 (0.23%) Uniface
8 2 (0.23%) VB
9 1 (0.12%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.12%) R
Qualifications
1 69 (8.07%) Microsoft Certification
2 64 (7.49%) Degree
3 37 (4.33%) Security Cleared
4 36 (4.21%) DBS Check
5 34 (3.98%) Cisco Certification
6 31 (3.63%) CCNA
7 29 (3.39%) A+ Certification
8 26 (3.04%) SC Cleared
9 23 (2.69%) Computer Science Degree
10 21 (2.46%) MCP
11 20 (2.34%) BPSS Clearance
12 19 (2.22%) MCSE
13 16 (1.87%) Network+ Certification
14 12 (1.40%) CCNP
15 10 (1.17%) MCSA
16 7 (0.82%) Azure Certification
16 7 (0.82%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
17 6 (0.70%) DV Cleared
17 6 (0.70%) PMI Certification
18 4 (0.47%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (5.38%) Cyber Essentials
2 39 (4.56%) SLA
3 34 (3.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 20 (2.34%) GDPR
5 9 (1.05%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 6 (0.70%) Accessibility
7 5 (0.58%) NIST
8 3 (0.35%) QA
9 1 (0.12%) GxP
9 1 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 331 (38.71%) Active Directory
2 74 (8.65%) Hyper-V
3 59 (6.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (1.64%) Virtual Desktop
5 10 (1.17%) Firmware
6 6 (0.70%) VMware ESXi
6 6 (0.70%) VMware Workstation
6 6 (0.70%) vSphere
7 5 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.35%) Docker
9 2 (0.23%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.23%) XenDesktop
10 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.12%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 134 (15.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (1.05%) Jamf Pro
2 9 (1.05%) SCCM
3 8 (0.94%) Autotask
3 8 (0.94%) FortiGate
3 8 (0.94%) Single Sign-On
3 8 (0.94%) WSUS
4 6 (0.70%) Failover Clustering
5 5 (0.58%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 5 (0.58%) Kubernetes
5 5 (0.58%) SmoothWall
6 4 (0.47%) Ansible
7 3 (0.35%) Proxmox
8 2 (0.23%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 2 (0.23%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.12%) Podman
Vendors
1 391 (45.73%) Microsoft
2 84 (9.82%) VMware
3 48 (5.61%) Google
4 37 (4.33%) Cisco
5 33 (3.86%) Fortinet
6 31 (3.63%) Veeam
7 30 (3.51%) Apple
8 28 (3.27%) Fujitsu
8 28 (3.27%) Virgin Media
9 22 (2.57%) Meraki
10 21 (2.46%) Dell
11 15 (1.75%) Sage
11 15 (1.75%) ServiceNow
12 14 (1.64%) WatchGuard
12 14 (1.64%) Zoho
13 12 (1.40%) Xamarin
14 10 (1.17%) Adobe
15 9 (1.05%) Draytek
16 8 (0.94%) SAP
17 7 (0.82%) HP