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 £32,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 18 March 2026.

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

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 119 107
Rank change year-on-year +37 -12 +105
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 1,186 650 1,605
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 2.21% 2.37% 2.71%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.41% 2.63% 2.86%
Number of salaries quoted 1,030 424 1,392
10th Percentile £25,750 £25,075 £23,500
25th Percentile £28,000 £26,250 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £34,250 £32,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.11% +5.38% +3.59%
75th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £42,500
90th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £48,750
UK median annual salary £32,500 £35,000 £33,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +6.06% -1.49%

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 49,309 24,700 56,198
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.05% 90.04% 94.79%
Number of salaries quoted 31,303 14,342 42,558
10th Percentile £28,250 £29,750 £26,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £39,750 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £54,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £64,500
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% -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 18 March 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 18 March 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 +66 342 £33,250 -5.00% 62
North of England +43 265 £32,500 -3.70% 51
Midlands -16 227 £31,500 -10.00% 36
East of England +41 138 £30,000 +9.09% 36
North West +52 136 £30,000 -17.24% 26
East Midlands -3 132 £30,000 - 16
South West +46 130 £34,000 -1.45% 30
Yorkshire +11 120 £35,000 +16.67% 22
West Midlands -47 95 £32,500 -7.14% 20
Scotland +11 62 £30,000 -4.76% 18
Wales +3 22 £40,000 -5.88% 15
North East -22 9 £30,000 -16.67% 7
IT Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 18 March 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.

1 496 (41.82%) Microsoft 365
2 492 (41.48%) Windows
3 490 (41.32%) Microsoft
4 399 (33.64%) Active Directory
5 340 (28.67%) Problem-Solving
6 334 (28.16%) Azure
7 251 (21.16%) Windows Server
8 244 (20.57%) Customer Service
9 194 (16.36%) Firewall
10 185 (15.60%) Entra ID
11 160 (13.49%) DNS
12 153 (12.90%) Microsoft Intune
13 148 (12.48%) DHCP
14 130 (10.96%) VPN
15 128 (10.79%) ITIL
15 128 (10.79%) SharePoint
16 122 (10.29%) Windows 10
17 118 (9.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 117 (9.87%) Cybersecurity
19 108 (9.11%) VMware
20 102 (8.60%) Microsoft Exchange
21 94 (7.93%) Hyper-V
22 93 (7.84%) LAN
22 93 (7.84%) Microsoft Office
23 92 (7.76%) WAN
24 79 (6.66%) Mentoring
25 75 (6.32%) Microsoft Certification
26 74 (6.24%) VMware Infrastructure
27 71 (5.99%) Google
28 70 (5.90%) Security Cleared

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
1 128 (10.79%) SharePoint
2 102 (8.60%) Microsoft Exchange
3 15 (1.26%) Confluence
3 15 (1.26%) IIS
4 11 (0.93%) Exchange Server 2007
4 11 (0.93%) Exchange Server 2010
4 11 (0.93%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 93 (7.84%) Microsoft Office
2 22 (1.85%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.17%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.084%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 7 (0.59%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.42%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.084%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 496 (41.82%) Microsoft 365
2 334 (28.16%) Azure
3 185 (15.60%) Entra ID
4 58 (4.89%) Google Workspace
5 54 (4.55%) AWS
6 34 (2.87%) OneDrive
7 23 (1.94%) SaaS
8 22 (1.85%) GCP
8 22 (1.85%) Power Platform
9 16 (1.35%) Azure DevOps
10 12 (1.01%) IaaS
10 12 (1.01%) PaaS
11 11 (0.93%) Power Automate
12 9 (0.76%) Azure Sentinel
12 9 (0.76%) PowerApps
13 7 (0.59%) Microsoft Copilot
14 6 (0.51%) Mimecast
15 5 (0.42%) Intacct
15 5 (0.42%) OCI
16 4 (0.34%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 194 (16.36%) Firewall
2 160 (13.49%) DNS
3 148 (12.48%) DHCP
4 130 (10.96%) VPN
5 93 (7.84%) LAN
6 92 (7.76%) WAN
7 66 (5.56%) Wi-Fi
8 60 (5.06%) TCP/IP
9 57 (4.81%) VLAN
10 37 (3.12%) VoIP
11 29 (2.45%) Wireless
12 21 (1.77%) Network Security
13 17 (1.43%) SAN
13 17 (1.43%) SD-WAN
14 14 (1.18%) Remote Desktop
15 11 (0.93%) WLAN
16 9 (0.76%) IP Telephony
17 7 (0.59%) Internet
17 7 (0.59%) TETRA
18 4 (0.34%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (2.53%) SQL Server
2 22 (1.85%) Power BI
3 12 (1.01%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 7 (0.59%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (0.34%) Relational Database
6 3 (0.25%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 33 (2.78%) JIRA
2 4 (0.34%) GitLab
3 1 (0.084%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.084%) Git
3 1 (0.084%) LabVIEW
3 1 (0.084%) Snyk
General
1 301 (25.38%) Social Skills
2 82 (6.91%) Organisational Skills
3 49 (4.13%) Analytical Skills
4 47 (3.96%) Manufacturing
5 46 (3.88%) Finance
6 42 (3.54%) Law
6 42 (3.54%) Retail
7 39 (3.29%) Public Sector
8 35 (2.95%) Telecoms
9 30 (2.53%) Legal
10 28 (2.36%) Multimedia
11 25 (2.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 11 (0.93%) Electronics
13 6 (0.51%) Advertising
13 6 (0.51%) Documentation Skills
13 6 (0.51%) Fire and Rescue
13 6 (0.51%) Marketing
13 6 (0.51%) Police
14 5 (0.42%) Social Housing
15 4 (0.34%) Dutch Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (1.10%) .NET
2 12 (1.01%) .NET Framework
2 12 (1.01%) Entity Framework
2 12 (1.01%) WinForms
3 7 (0.59%) ASP.NET
4 4 (0.34%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (0.084%) OAuth
5 1 (0.084%) OAuth2
5 1 (0.084%) Software Packaging
5 1 (0.084%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 203 (17.12%) Driving Licence
2 60 (5.06%) Onboarding
3 43 (3.63%) Self-Motivation
4 22 (1.85%) Analytical Mindset
5 20 (1.69%) CCTV
6 18 (1.52%) Smartphone
7 17 (1.43%) Data Centre
8 14 (1.18%) FMCG
9 12 (1.01%) Security Posture
10 7 (0.59%) Enterprise Software
10 7 (0.59%) Social Media
11 6 (0.51%) iPad
11 6 (0.51%) iPhone
11 6 (0.51%) Management Information System
11 6 (0.51%) PMI
12 5 (0.42%) Life Science
12 5 (0.42%) Linux Command Line
12 5 (0.42%) Mobile App
12 5 (0.42%) NHS
12 5 (0.42%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 492 (41.48%) Windows
2 251 (21.16%) Windows Server
3 122 (10.29%) Windows 10
4 60 (5.06%) Mac OS
5 41 (3.46%) Linux
6 31 (2.61%) Windows Server 2019
7 29 (2.45%) Windows Server 2016
8 23 (1.94%) Android
9 18 (1.52%) Apple iOS
10 17 (1.43%) Windows 7
11 14 (1.18%) Windows Server 2012
12 11 (0.93%) Windows 8
13 6 (0.51%) Windows Server 2008
14 3 (0.25%) Debian
15 2 (0.17%) Ubuntu
16 1 (0.084%) CentOS
16 1 (0.084%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 1 (0.084%) Rocky
16 1 (0.084%) Solaris
16 1 (0.084%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 340 (28.67%) Problem-Solving
2 244 (20.57%) Customer Service
3 128 (10.79%) ITIL
4 118 (9.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 117 (9.87%) Cybersecurity
6 79 (6.66%) Mentoring
7 65 (5.48%) Service Delivery
8 54 (4.55%) ITSM
9 46 (3.88%) Remote Monitoring and Management
10 41 (3.46%) Process Improvement
11 40 (3.37%) Continuous Improvement
12 39 (3.29%) Root Cause Analysis
13 38 (3.20%) Disaster Recovery
14 35 (2.95%) Incident Management
14 35 (2.95%) Project Delivery
15 34 (2.87%) Asset Management
15 34 (2.87%) Service Management
16 32 (2.70%) Data Protection
16 32 (2.70%) ERP
17 31 (2.61%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 54 (4.55%) PowerShell
2 48 (4.05%) SQL
3 13 (1.10%) C#
4 12 (1.01%) T-SQL
5 9 (0.76%) Python
6 7 (0.59%) Bash
6 7 (0.59%) PL/SQL
6 7 (0.59%) VBScript
7 5 (0.42%) VB
8 3 (0.25%) Uniface
9 2 (0.17%) Google Apps Script
9 2 (0.17%) R
10 1 (0.084%) PHP
Qualifications
1 75 (6.32%) Microsoft Certification
2 70 (5.90%) Security Cleared
3 59 (4.97%) Degree
4 47 (3.96%) SC Cleared
5 39 (3.29%) Cisco Certification
6 38 (3.20%) CCNA
6 38 (3.20%) DBS Check
7 37 (3.12%) A+ Certification
8 28 (2.36%) BPSS Clearance
9 25 (2.11%) Network+ Certification
10 23 (1.94%) MCSE
11 21 (1.77%) Computer Science Degree
12 18 (1.52%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 15 (1.26%) DV Cleared
14 14 (1.18%) CCNP
15 11 (0.93%) MCSA
16 9 (0.76%) Azure Certification
17 6 (0.51%) CompTIA Security+
17 6 (0.51%) MCITP
17 6 (0.51%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (4.97%) SLA
2 58 (4.89%) Cyber Essentials
3 38 (3.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 19 (1.60%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 10 (0.84%) GDPR
6 5 (0.42%) Accessibility
6 5 (0.42%) NIST
7 4 (0.34%) QA
8 1 (0.084%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 399 (33.64%) Active Directory
2 94 (7.93%) Hyper-V
3 74 (6.24%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (1.60%) Virtual Desktop
5 11 (0.93%) VMware Workstation
6 8 (0.67%) VMware ESXi
6 8 (0.67%) vSphere
7 5 (0.42%) Firmware
7 5 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.34%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.25%) Docker
10 1 (0.084%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 153 (12.90%) Microsoft Intune
2 12 (1.01%) Autotask
2 12 (1.01%) Jamf Pro
3 11 (0.93%) SCCM
3 11 (0.93%) WSUS
4 10 (0.84%) FortiGate
5 8 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (0.59%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 7 (0.59%) Proxmox
7 6 (0.51%) Ansible
7 6 (0.51%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 5 (0.42%) SmoothWall
9 2 (0.17%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (0.084%) Kubernetes
10 1 (0.084%) Podman
10 1 (0.084%) Terraform
Vendors
1 490 (41.32%) Microsoft
2 108 (9.11%) VMware
3 71 (5.99%) Google
4 33 (2.78%) Cisco
4 33 (2.78%) Fortinet
5 31 (2.61%) Dell
5 31 (2.61%) Meraki
6 29 (2.45%) Apple
7 28 (2.36%) Fujitsu
7 28 (2.36%) Veeam
7 28 (2.36%) Virgin Media
8 17 (1.43%) Sage
9 14 (1.18%) WatchGuard
10 12 (1.01%) HP
10 12 (1.01%) Xamarin
11 11 (0.93%) ESET
11 11 (0.93%) ServiceNow
11 11 (0.93%) Ubiquiti
12 10 (0.84%) Citrix
12 10 (0.84%) Zoho