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 8 July 2026.

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

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 216 107
Rank change year-on-year +151 -109 +71
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 1,666 458 1,760
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 2.36% 1.39% 2.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.50% 1.56% 2.50%
Number of salaries quoted 1,471 362 1,466
10th Percentile £26,525 £25,750 £23,500
25th Percentile £29,750 £29,000 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £35,000 £32,500
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% -
75th Percentile £43,750 £43,750 £42,500
90th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £48,750
UK median annual salary £35,000 £36,500 £33,000
% change year-on-year -4.11% +10.61% -4.35%

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 66,699 29,386 70,521
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.66% 89.40% 94.82%
Number of salaries quoted 46,234 16,643 50,240
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,929 £27,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £33,750 £35,042
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,130 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.26% - -5.66%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,230 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -12.50%

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 8 July 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 8 July 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 +117 444 £35,000 -6.67% 55
North of England +89 350 £32,500 -1.52% 38
Midlands +78 275 £32,500 -10.34% 26
East of England +111 260 £35,000 +7.58% 25
South West +56 216 £35,000 -3.45% 27
North West +118 199 £32,940 +2.14% 13
West Midlands +66 141 £32,500 -19.25% 12
Yorkshire +6 135 £30,000 - 24
East Midlands +38 134 £31,250 -3.85% 14
Scotland +52 70 £28,500 -5.00% 18
Wales -11 50 £45,000 -43.75% 7
North East -39 16 £40,000 -17.95% 6
Northern Ireland - 1 £41,000 - 10
IT Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 8 July 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.

1 731 (43.88%) Microsoft
2 696 (41.78%) Microsoft 365
3 633 (38.00%) Windows
4 515 (30.91%) Active Directory
5 424 (25.45%) Azure
6 402 (24.13%) Problem-Solving
7 342 (20.53%) Customer Service
8 335 (20.11%) Windows Server
9 299 (17.95%) Entra ID
10 265 (15.91%) Firewall
11 215 (12.91%) Microsoft Intune
12 214 (12.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 206 (12.36%) Microsoft Exchange
14 203 (12.18%) DNS
15 190 (11.40%) SharePoint
16 177 (10.62%) Cybersecurity
17 175 (10.50%) Hyper-V
18 171 (10.26%) VMware
19 168 (10.08%) DHCP
20 165 (9.90%) VPN
21 153 (9.18%) Windows 10
22 139 (8.34%) ITIL
23 137 (8.22%) VMware Infrastructure
24 124 (7.44%) Wi-Fi
25 120 (7.20%) LAN
26 114 (6.84%) PowerShell
27 113 (6.78%) WAN
28 112 (6.72%) Continuous Improvement
29 110 (6.60%) Disaster Recovery
30 103 (6.18%) Mac OS

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
1 206 (12.36%) Microsoft Exchange
2 190 (11.40%) SharePoint
3 15 (0.90%) Exchange Server 2013
4 14 (0.84%) Confluence
5 13 (0.78%) Exchange Server 2007
5 13 (0.78%) Exchange Server 2010
6 12 (0.72%) IIS
7 2 (0.12%) Apache
Applications
1 92 (5.52%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (0.90%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.18%) Photoshop
4 2 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.060%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.060%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (0.30%) Dynamics NAV
1 5 (0.30%) NetSuite
1 5 (0.30%) Raiser’s Edge
2 1 (0.060%) Sage 200
2 1 (0.060%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 696 (41.78%) Microsoft 365
2 424 (25.45%) Azure
3 299 (17.95%) Entra ID
4 58 (3.48%) AWS
5 49 (2.94%) OneDrive
6 41 (2.46%) Google Workspace
7 32 (1.92%) SaaS
8 25 (1.50%) Mimecast
9 23 (1.38%) Power Platform
10 20 (1.20%) PaaS
11 15 (0.90%) IaaS
12 11 (0.66%) Azure DevOps
13 10 (0.60%) Power Automate
14 9 (0.54%) PowerApps
15 8 (0.48%) Nutanix
16 6 (0.36%) Microsoft Copilot
17 5 (0.30%) Azure Sentinel
17 5 (0.30%) Intacct
17 5 (0.30%) OCI
18 4 (0.24%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 265 (15.91%) Firewall
2 203 (12.18%) DNS
3 168 (10.08%) DHCP
4 165 (9.90%) VPN
5 124 (7.44%) Wi-Fi
6 120 (7.20%) LAN
7 113 (6.78%) WAN
8 83 (4.98%) TCP/IP
9 80 (4.80%) VoIP
10 63 (3.78%) VLAN
11 55 (3.30%) Wireless
12 32 (1.92%) SAN
13 30 (1.80%) Network Security
14 20 (1.20%) Internet
15 16 (0.96%) WLAN
16 13 (0.78%) Remote Desktop
16 13 (0.78%) SD-WAN
17 11 (0.66%) SSL
18 7 (0.42%) DMZ
18 7 (0.42%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (2.94%) SQL Server
2 13 (0.78%) Power BI
3 8 (0.48%) Azure SQL Database
3 8 (0.48%) MySQL
4 5 (0.30%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (0.12%) KNIME
Development Applications
1 44 (2.64%) JIRA
2 4 (0.24%) GitLab
3 2 (0.12%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.060%) Carbide.c++
4 1 (0.060%) LabVIEW
General
1 394 (23.65%) Social Skills
2 76 (4.56%) Manufacturing
3 67 (4.02%) Analytical Skills
4 62 (3.72%) Organisational Skills
5 51 (3.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 51 (3.06%) Legal
6 41 (2.46%) Public Sector
7 37 (2.22%) Retail
8 33 (1.98%) Law
8 33 (1.98%) Telecoms
9 28 (1.68%) Finance
9 28 (1.68%) Multimedia
10 23 (1.38%) Documentation Skills
11 18 (1.08%) Advertising
12 16 (0.96%) Automotive
13 7 (0.42%) Aerospace
13 7 (0.42%) Local Government
14 5 (0.30%) Social Housing
15 4 (0.24%) Dutch Language
15 4 (0.24%) Portuguese Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (0.42%) HTML
1 7 (0.42%) JSON
2 4 (0.24%) OpenTelemetry
2 4 (0.24%) Web Services
3 3 (0.18%) CSS
4 1 (0.060%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 252 (15.13%) Driving Licence
2 87 (5.22%) Onboarding
3 67 (4.02%) Self-Motivation
4 37 (2.22%) Data Centre
5 36 (2.16%) CCTV
6 24 (1.44%) FMCG
7 23 (1.38%) Analytical Mindset
8 20 (1.20%) Security Posture
9 13 (0.78%) Management Information System
10 12 (0.72%) Hybrid Cloud
11 11 (0.66%) Clustering
11 11 (0.66%) NHS
11 11 (0.66%) Smartphone
12 10 (0.60%) PKI
13 9 (0.54%) Cloud Native
13 9 (0.54%) Operational Technology
14 7 (0.42%) Enterprise Software
14 7 (0.42%) EPoS
14 7 (0.42%) Replication
15 6 (0.36%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 633 (38.00%) Windows
2 335 (20.11%) Windows Server
3 153 (9.18%) Windows 10
4 103 (6.18%) Mac OS
5 88 (5.28%) Linux
6 46 (2.76%) Windows Server 2019
7 42 (2.52%) Windows Server 2016
8 37 (2.22%) Apple iOS
9 36 (2.16%) Android
10 18 (1.08%) Windows Server 2012
11 17 (1.02%) Windows 7
12 11 (0.66%) Windows 8
13 10 (0.60%) Ubuntu
14 5 (0.30%) Windows Server 2008
15 4 (0.24%) Mac OS X
16 2 (0.12%) VMS
17 1 (0.060%) CentOS
17 1 (0.060%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
17 1 (0.060%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 402 (24.13%) Problem-Solving
2 342 (20.53%) Customer Service
3 214 (12.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 177 (10.62%) Cybersecurity
5 139 (8.34%) ITIL
6 112 (6.72%) Continuous Improvement
7 110 (6.60%) Disaster Recovery
8 93 (5.58%) Mentoring
9 67 (4.02%) Service Delivery
10 66 (3.96%) Project Delivery
11 62 (3.72%) Root Cause Analysis
12 61 (3.66%) Service Management
13 57 (3.42%) ITSM
14 48 (2.88%) Business Continuity
15 46 (2.76%) Remote Monitoring and Management
15 46 (2.76%) Time Management
16 43 (2.58%) User Experience
17 40 (2.40%) Process Improvement
18 39 (2.34%) ERP
19 33 (1.98%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 114 (6.84%) PowerShell
2 58 (3.48%) SQL
3 10 (0.60%) Python
4 9 (0.54%) R
5 5 (0.30%) Bash
5 5 (0.30%) VB
6 4 (0.24%) PHP
6 4 (0.24%) VBScript
7 3 (0.18%) Bicep
7 3 (0.18%) JavaScript
7 3 (0.18%) Ruby
7 3 (0.18%) Uniface
7 3 (0.18%) VBA
8 2 (0.12%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.060%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 90 (5.40%) Security Cleared
2 89 (5.34%) Microsoft Certification
3 78 (4.68%) Degree
4 62 (3.72%) SC Cleared
5 60 (3.60%) DBS Check
6 53 (3.18%) CCNA
6 53 (3.18%) Cisco Certification
7 36 (2.16%) Network+ Certification
8 28 (1.68%) A+ Certification
9 24 (1.44%) Azure Certification
10 22 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
11 16 (0.96%) DV Cleared
11 16 (0.96%) MCSE
12 14 (0.84%) CompTIA Security+
13 10 (0.60%) CCNP
14 7 (0.42%) MCSA
15 6 (0.36%) AWS Certification
16 5 (0.30%) MCITP
17 4 (0.24%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 4 (0.24%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (5.46%) Cyber Essentials
2 59 (3.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 49 (2.94%) SLA
4 35 (2.10%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 23 (1.38%) GDPR
6 10 (0.60%) PCI DSS
7 5 (0.30%) QA
8 4 (0.24%) Accessibility
8 4 (0.24%) NIST
9 1 (0.060%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.060%) NCSC
System Software
1 515 (30.91%) Active Directory
2 175 (10.50%) Hyper-V
3 137 (8.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 25 (1.50%) Virtual Desktop
5 19 (1.14%) vSphere
6 18 (1.08%) VMware ESXi
7 13 (0.78%) Docker
7 13 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
8 8 (0.48%) BitLocker
9 7 (0.42%) VMware Workstation
10 5 (0.30%) Terminal Services
11 4 (0.24%) VMware NSX
12 3 (0.18%) Firmware
13 1 (0.060%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 215 (12.91%) Microsoft Intune
2 22 (1.32%) SCCM
3 18 (1.08%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 14 (0.84%) Proxmox
5 12 (0.72%) WSUS
6 10 (0.60%) FortiGate
6 10 (0.60%) Jamf Pro
6 10 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
7 8 (0.48%) Autotask
8 7 (0.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 7 (0.42%) Failover Clustering
9 6 (0.36%) Ansible
10 4 (0.24%) Iperf
10 4 (0.24%) Kubernetes
10 4 (0.24%) Terraform
11 1 (0.060%) Argo
11 1 (0.060%) Nessus
Vendors
1 731 (43.88%) Microsoft
2 171 (10.26%) VMware
3 60 (3.60%) Cisco
4 47 (2.82%) Google
5 45 (2.70%) Veeam
6 44 (2.64%) Fortinet
7 35 (2.10%) Meraki
8 34 (2.04%) Apple
9 33 (1.98%) Dell
10 28 (1.68%) Fujitsu
10 28 (1.68%) Virgin Media
11 23 (1.38%) Sophos
12 22 (1.32%) HP
13 21 (1.26%) SonicWALL
14 20 (1.20%) Ubiquiti
15 13 (0.78%) Epicor
16 12 (0.72%) CrowdStrike
17 11 (0.66%) Logitech
17 11 (0.66%) ServiceNow
18 10 (0.60%) Sage