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 16 June 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 219 101
Rank change year-on-year +156 -118 +77
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 1,598 431 1,934
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 2.38% 1.45% 2.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.52% 1.63% 2.59%
Number of salaries quoted 1,407 336 1,573
10th Percentile £26,515 £25,750 £23,500
25th Percentile £30,000 £27,375 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £35,000 £32,500
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% -
75th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
90th Percentile £50,443 £51,875 £48,250
UK median annual salary £35,000 £35,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year - +7.69% -4.41%

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 63,411 26,495 74,743
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.49% 88.99% 94.82%
Number of salaries quoted 43,940 14,354 53,488
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £26,750
25th Percentile £37,000 £33,750 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.54%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,274 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £76,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -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 16 June 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 16 June 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 +106 415 £35,000 -6.67% 60
North of England +100 361 £32,940 +1.35% 50
Midlands +91 265 £32,500 -7.14% 39
East of England +103 244 £35,000 +7.69% 25
South West +61 208 £35,000 - 31
North West +133 202 £35,000 +8.53% 28
Yorkshire +6 143 £32,500 +8.33% 18
West Midlands +61 133 £32,500 -10.34% 16
East Midlands +39 132 £30,000 -8.40% 23
Scotland +35 60 £28,500 -5.00% 8
Wales -5 45 £45,000 +5.88% 13
North East -36 16 £34,750 -21.69% 6
IT Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 16 June 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.

1 627 (39.24%) Microsoft
2 613 (38.36%) Microsoft 365
3 552 (34.54%) Windows
4 448 (28.04%) Active Directory
5 385 (24.09%) Azure
6 369 (23.09%) Problem-Solving
7 304 (19.02%) Customer Service
8 299 (18.71%) Windows Server
9 257 (16.08%) Entra ID
10 238 (14.89%) Firewall
11 183 (11.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 181 (11.33%) Microsoft Intune
13 165 (10.33%) DNS
13 165 (10.33%) Microsoft Exchange
13 165 (10.33%) SharePoint
14 157 (9.82%) Cybersecurity
15 150 (9.39%) VMware
16 148 (9.26%) VPN
17 147 (9.20%) Hyper-V
18 144 (9.01%) Windows 10
19 139 (8.70%) DHCP
20 121 (7.57%) ITIL
21 118 (7.38%) VMware Infrastructure
22 114 (7.13%) LAN
23 106 (6.63%) WAN
24 102 (6.38%) Wi-Fi
25 95 (5.94%) Security Cleared
26 93 (5.82%) PowerShell
27 86 (5.38%) Mentoring
28 85 (5.32%) Disaster Recovery

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
1 165 (10.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 165 (10.33%) SharePoint
2 16 (1.00%) Confluence
3 15 (0.94%) Exchange Server 2013
4 13 (0.81%) Exchange Server 2007
4 13 (0.81%) Exchange Server 2010
5 10 (0.63%) IIS
Applications
1 83 (5.19%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (1.06%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.19%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.063%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.063%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (0.31%) Dynamics NAV
1 5 (0.31%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.063%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 613 (38.36%) Microsoft 365
2 385 (24.09%) Azure
3 257 (16.08%) Entra ID
4 51 (3.19%) AWS
5 44 (2.75%) Google Workspace
5 44 (2.75%) OneDrive
6 24 (1.50%) SaaS
7 22 (1.38%) Power Platform
8 20 (1.25%) PaaS
9 19 (1.19%) Mimecast
10 15 (0.94%) IaaS
11 10 (0.63%) Azure DevOps
12 9 (0.56%) PowerApps
13 7 (0.44%) Nutanix
14 6 (0.38%) Azure Sentinel
14 6 (0.38%) Microsoft Copilot
14 6 (0.38%) Power Automate
15 5 (0.31%) Intacct
15 5 (0.31%) OCI
16 4 (0.25%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 238 (14.89%) Firewall
2 165 (10.33%) DNS
3 148 (9.26%) VPN
4 139 (8.70%) DHCP
5 114 (7.13%) LAN
6 106 (6.63%) WAN
7 102 (6.38%) Wi-Fi
8 69 (4.32%) VoIP
9 56 (3.50%) TCP/IP
10 50 (3.13%) VLAN
11 34 (2.13%) Wireless
12 33 (2.07%) SAN
13 26 (1.63%) Network Security
14 16 (1.00%) WLAN
15 13 (0.81%) Internet
15 13 (0.81%) SD-WAN
16 10 (0.63%) Remote Desktop
16 10 (0.63%) SSL
17 7 (0.44%) NAS
18 4 (0.25%) Asterisk PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (2.38%) SQL Server
2 13 (0.81%) Power BI
3 6 (0.38%) MySQL
4 5 (0.31%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (0.31%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.063%) KNIME
Development Applications
1 41 (2.57%) JIRA
2 4 (0.25%) GitLab
3 1 (0.063%) Carbide.c++
3 1 (0.063%) LabVIEW
3 1 (0.063%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 334 (20.90%) Social Skills
2 66 (4.13%) Manufacturing
3 59 (3.69%) Analytical Skills
4 58 (3.63%) Organisational Skills
5 53 (3.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 43 (2.69%) Legal
7 37 (2.32%) Public Sector
7 37 (2.32%) Retail
8 35 (2.19%) Telecoms
9 34 (2.13%) Law
10 29 (1.81%) Finance
11 28 (1.75%) Multimedia
12 14 (0.88%) Automotive
13 13 (0.81%) Advertising
14 12 (0.75%) Documentation Skills
15 6 (0.38%) Aerospace
16 5 (0.31%) Local Government
16 5 (0.31%) Social Housing
17 4 (0.25%) Dutch Language
17 4 (0.25%) Portuguese Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (0.44%) HTML
1 7 (0.44%) JSON
2 4 (0.25%) OpenTelemetry
2 4 (0.25%) Web Services
3 3 (0.19%) CSS
4 1 (0.063%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 223 (13.95%) Driving Licence
2 64 (4.01%) Onboarding
3 54 (3.38%) Self-Motivation
4 30 (1.88%) Data Centre
5 29 (1.81%) CCTV
6 25 (1.56%) FMCG
7 24 (1.50%) Analytical Mindset
8 14 (0.88%) Security Posture
9 13 (0.81%) Management Information System
10 12 (0.75%) Smartphone
11 11 (0.69%) Clustering
11 11 (0.69%) NHS
12 8 (0.50%) Hybrid Cloud
13 7 (0.44%) Operational Technology
13 7 (0.44%) Replication
13 7 (0.44%) Social Media
14 6 (0.38%) Enterprise Software
14 6 (0.38%) iPhone
15 5 (0.31%) Linux Command Line
15 5 (0.31%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 552 (34.54%) Windows
2 299 (18.71%) Windows Server
3 144 (9.01%) Windows 10
4 82 (5.13%) Mac OS
5 76 (4.76%) Linux
6 43 (2.69%) Windows Server 2019
7 37 (2.32%) Windows Server 2016
8 32 (2.00%) Android
8 32 (2.00%) Apple iOS
9 17 (1.06%) Windows 7
10 15 (0.94%) Windows Server 2012
11 11 (0.69%) Windows 8
12 8 (0.50%) Ubuntu
13 5 (0.31%) Windows Server 2008
14 4 (0.25%) Mac OS X
15 1 (0.063%) CentOS
15 1 (0.063%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 1 (0.063%) Rocky
15 1 (0.063%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 369 (23.09%) Problem-Solving
2 304 (19.02%) Customer Service
3 183 (11.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 157 (9.82%) Cybersecurity
5 121 (7.57%) ITIL
6 86 (5.38%) Mentoring
7 85 (5.32%) Disaster Recovery
8 80 (5.01%) Continuous Improvement
9 63 (3.94%) Service Delivery
10 55 (3.44%) Root Cause Analysis
11 54 (3.38%) ITSM
11 54 (3.38%) Project Delivery
11 54 (3.38%) Service Management
12 46 (2.88%) Remote Monitoring and Management
13 41 (2.57%) Business Continuity
13 41 (2.57%) Time Management
14 35 (2.19%) User Experience
15 34 (2.13%) ERP
16 33 (2.07%) Process Improvement
17 29 (1.81%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 93 (5.82%) PowerShell
2 55 (3.44%) SQL
3 5 (0.31%) Bash
3 5 (0.31%) Python
3 5 (0.31%) R
3 5 (0.31%) VB
4 4 (0.25%) PHP
4 4 (0.25%) VBScript
5 3 (0.19%) JavaScript
5 3 (0.19%) Uniface
5 3 (0.19%) VBA
6 2 (0.13%) Bicep
6 2 (0.13%) Google Apps Script
7 1 (0.063%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 95 (5.94%) Security Cleared
2 81 (5.07%) Microsoft Certification
3 76 (4.76%) Degree
4 68 (4.26%) SC Cleared
5 61 (3.82%) DBS Check
6 46 (2.88%) CCNA
6 46 (2.88%) Cisco Certification
7 39 (2.44%) Network+ Certification
8 29 (1.81%) A+ Certification
9 24 (1.50%) BPSS Clearance
10 20 (1.25%) Azure Certification
11 17 (1.06%) MCSE
12 16 (1.00%) CompTIA Security+
13 15 (0.94%) DV Cleared
14 8 (0.50%) CCNP
15 5 (0.31%) MCITP
16 4 (0.25%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 4 (0.25%) MCSA
17 3 (0.19%) AWS Certification
17 3 (0.19%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (4.88%) Cyber Essentials
2 57 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 48 (3.00%) SLA
4 33 (2.07%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 17 (1.06%) GDPR
6 10 (0.63%) PCI DSS
7 6 (0.38%) NIST
8 5 (0.31%) QA
9 4 (0.25%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.063%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.063%) NCSC
System Software
1 448 (28.04%) Active Directory
2 147 (9.20%) Hyper-V
3 118 (7.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 24 (1.50%) Virtual Desktop
5 16 (1.00%) VMware ESXi
6 12 (0.75%) vSphere
7 11 (0.69%) Docker
8 8 (0.50%) BitLocker
9 7 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
9 7 (0.44%) VMware Workstation
10 5 (0.31%) Terminal Services
11 4 (0.25%) VMware NSX
12 3 (0.19%) Firmware
13 1 (0.063%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 181 (11.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 22 (1.38%) SCCM
3 13 (0.81%) FortiGate
3 13 (0.81%) Proxmox
3 13 (0.81%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 11 (0.69%) Jamf Pro
4 11 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
4 11 (0.69%) WSUS
5 8 (0.50%) Autotask
6 7 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 7 (0.44%) Failover Clustering
7 5 (0.31%) Ansible
8 4 (0.25%) Terraform
9 2 (0.13%) Kubernetes
9 2 (0.13%) SmoothWall
10 1 (0.063%) Argo
10 1 (0.063%) Iperf
10 1 (0.063%) Nessus
Vendors
1 627 (39.24%) Microsoft
2 150 (9.39%) VMware
3 51 (3.19%) Cisco
4 50 (3.13%) Google
5 39 (2.44%) Veeam
6 38 (2.38%) Fortinet
7 36 (2.25%) Meraki
8 35 (2.19%) Apple
9 29 (1.81%) Dell
10 28 (1.75%) Fujitsu
10 28 (1.75%) Virgin Media
11 21 (1.31%) Sophos
12 17 (1.06%) HP
12 17 (1.06%) Ubiquiti
13 14 (0.88%) SonicWALL
14 13 (0.81%) Epicor
15 11 (0.69%) ServiceNow
16 10 (0.63%) Logitech
17 9 (0.56%) Sage
18 8 (0.50%) TOWER Software