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 25 March 2026.

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

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 127 107
Rank change year-on-year +46 -20 +112
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 1,230 611 1,636
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 2.23% 2.34% 2.67%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.42% 2.61% 2.81%
Number of salaries quoted 1,070 407 1,415
10th Percentile £25,750 £25,500 £23,500
25th Percentile £28,000 £26,250 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £34,000 £32,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.41% +4.62% +2.77%
75th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £42,500
90th Percentile £45,075 £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 50,899 23,373 58,118
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.20% 89.58% 94.75%
Number of salaries quoted 32,380 14,267 43,614
10th Percentile £28,250 £29,500 £26,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,568 £63,750
90th Percentile £81,250 £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 25 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 25 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 +60 350 £33,500 -4.29% 75
North of England +52 275 £32,350 -1.97% 59
Midlands -29 232 £31,750 -9.29% 46
East of England +45 150 £30,000 +9.09% 30
North West +53 140 £30,000 -13.04% 35
South West +44 136 £35,000 +0.72% 41
East Midlands -6 134 £30,000 - 22
Yorkshire +24 125 £34,250 +14.17% 22
West Midlands -50 98 £32,500 -7.14% 24
Scotland +13 64 £30,000 +3.45% 14
Wales +2 23 £40,000 +10.34% 16
North East -25 10 £30,000 -16.67% 5
IT Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 25 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.

1 512 (41.63%) Microsoft 365
2 508 (41.30%) Microsoft
3 503 (40.89%) Windows
4 406 (33.01%) Active Directory
5 344 (27.97%) Problem-Solving
6 337 (27.40%) Azure
7 256 (20.81%) Windows Server
8 250 (20.33%) Customer Service
9 198 (16.10%) Firewall
10 189 (15.37%) Entra ID
11 162 (13.17%) DNS
12 154 (12.52%) Microsoft Intune
13 150 (12.20%) DHCP
14 132 (10.73%) ITIL
15 131 (10.65%) VPN
16 130 (10.57%) SharePoint
17 129 (10.49%) Windows 10
18 122 (9.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 118 (9.59%) Cybersecurity
20 111 (9.02%) VMware
21 105 (8.54%) Microsoft Exchange
22 98 (7.97%) LAN
23 96 (7.80%) Hyper-V
23 96 (7.80%) WAN
24 91 (7.40%) Microsoft Office
25 80 (6.50%) Mentoring
26 77 (6.26%) VMware Infrastructure
27 76 (6.18%) Microsoft Certification
28 74 (6.02%) Wi-Fi
29 71 (5.77%) 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
1 130 (10.57%) SharePoint
2 105 (8.54%) Microsoft Exchange
3 15 (1.22%) Confluence
4 13 (1.06%) IIS
5 11 (0.89%) Exchange Server 2007
5 11 (0.89%) Exchange Server 2010
5 11 (0.89%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 91 (7.40%) Microsoft Office
2 22 (1.79%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.16%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.081%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 7 (0.57%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.41%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.081%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 512 (41.63%) Microsoft 365
2 337 (27.40%) Azure
3 189 (15.37%) Entra ID
4 58 (4.72%) Google Workspace
5 55 (4.47%) AWS
6 35 (2.85%) OneDrive
7 23 (1.87%) Power Platform
7 23 (1.87%) SaaS
8 21 (1.71%) GCP
9 14 (1.14%) Azure DevOps
9 14 (1.14%) PaaS
10 13 (1.06%) IaaS
11 11 (0.89%) Power Automate
12 10 (0.81%) PowerApps
13 9 (0.73%) Azure Sentinel
14 7 (0.57%) Microsoft Copilot
15 6 (0.49%) Mimecast
16 5 (0.41%) Intacct
16 5 (0.41%) OCI
17 3 (0.24%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 198 (16.10%) Firewall
2 162 (13.17%) DNS
3 150 (12.20%) DHCP
4 131 (10.65%) VPN
5 98 (7.97%) LAN
6 96 (7.80%) WAN
7 74 (6.02%) Wi-Fi
8 61 (4.96%) TCP/IP
9 56 (4.55%) VLAN
10 39 (3.17%) VoIP
11 30 (2.44%) Wireless
12 22 (1.79%) Network Security
13 17 (1.38%) SD-WAN
14 16 (1.30%) SAN
15 14 (1.14%) Remote Desktop
16 12 (0.98%) WLAN
17 10 (0.81%) IP Telephony
18 7 (0.57%) Internet
18 7 (0.57%) TETRA
19 4 (0.33%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (2.52%) SQL Server
2 23 (1.87%) Power BI
3 10 (0.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 7 (0.57%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (0.33%) Relational Database
6 3 (0.24%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 34 (2.76%) JIRA
2 4 (0.33%) GitLab
3 1 (0.081%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.081%) Git
3 1 (0.081%) LabVIEW
3 1 (0.081%) Snyk
General
1 305 (24.80%) Social Skills
2 82 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
3 52 (4.23%) Manufacturing
4 48 (3.90%) Analytical Skills
5 45 (3.66%) Finance
6 44 (3.58%) Retail
7 41 (3.33%) Law
8 39 (3.17%) Public Sector
9 35 (2.85%) Telecoms
10 32 (2.60%) Legal
11 28 (2.28%) Multimedia
12 27 (2.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 11 (0.89%) Electronics
14 7 (0.57%) Advertising
15 6 (0.49%) Documentation Skills
15 6 (0.49%) Fire and Rescue
15 6 (0.49%) Marketing
15 6 (0.49%) Police
16 5 (0.41%) Social Housing
16 5 (0.41%) Spanish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (0.89%) .NET
2 10 (0.81%) .NET Framework
2 10 (0.81%) Entity Framework
2 10 (0.81%) WinForms
3 6 (0.49%) ASP.NET
4 4 (0.33%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (0.081%) OAuth
5 1 (0.081%) OAuth2
5 1 (0.081%) Software Packaging
5 1 (0.081%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 203 (16.50%) Driving Licence
2 60 (4.88%) Onboarding
3 44 (3.58%) Self-Motivation
4 22 (1.79%) Analytical Mindset
5 20 (1.63%) CCTV
6 19 (1.54%) Data Centre
7 18 (1.46%) Smartphone
8 16 (1.30%) FMCG
9 12 (0.98%) Security Posture
10 7 (0.57%) Social Media
11 6 (0.49%) Enterprise Software
11 6 (0.49%) iPad
11 6 (0.49%) iPhone
11 6 (0.49%) Management Information System
11 6 (0.49%) PMI
12 5 (0.41%) Life Science
12 5 (0.41%) Linux Command Line
12 5 (0.41%) Mobile App
12 5 (0.41%) NHS
12 5 (0.41%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 503 (40.89%) Windows
2 256 (20.81%) Windows Server
3 129 (10.49%) Windows 10
4 60 (4.88%) Mac OS
5 41 (3.33%) Linux
6 31 (2.52%) Windows Server 2019
7 29 (2.36%) Windows Server 2016
8 23 (1.87%) Android
9 18 (1.46%) Apple iOS
10 17 (1.38%) Windows 7
11 14 (1.14%) Windows Server 2012
12 11 (0.89%) Windows 8
13 6 (0.49%) Windows Server 2008
14 3 (0.24%) Debian
15 2 (0.16%) Ubuntu
16 1 (0.081%) CentOS
16 1 (0.081%) Mac OS X
16 1 (0.081%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 1 (0.081%) Solaris
16 1 (0.081%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 344 (27.97%) Problem-Solving
2 250 (20.33%) Customer Service
3 132 (10.73%) ITIL
4 122 (9.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 118 (9.59%) Cybersecurity
6 80 (6.50%) Mentoring
7 66 (5.37%) Service Delivery
8 58 (4.72%) ITSM
9 46 (3.74%) Remote Monitoring and Management
10 42 (3.41%) Continuous Improvement
11 40 (3.25%) Process Improvement
11 40 (3.25%) Root Cause Analysis
12 39 (3.17%) Disaster Recovery
13 37 (3.01%) Service Management
14 36 (2.93%) Project Delivery
15 35 (2.85%) Incident Management
16 34 (2.76%) ERP
17 33 (2.68%) Asset Management
17 33 (2.68%) Data Protection
18 31 (2.52%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 56 (4.55%) PowerShell
2 46 (3.74%) SQL
3 11 (0.89%) C#
4 10 (0.81%) T-SQL
5 9 (0.73%) Python
6 7 (0.57%) Bash
7 6 (0.49%) PL/SQL
7 6 (0.49%) VBScript
8 5 (0.41%) VB
9 3 (0.24%) Uniface
10 2 (0.16%) Google Apps Script
10 2 (0.16%) R
11 1 (0.081%) PHP
Qualifications
1 76 (6.18%) Microsoft Certification
2 71 (5.77%) Security Cleared
3 59 (4.80%) Degree
4 47 (3.82%) SC Cleared
5 40 (3.25%) Cisco Certification
5 40 (3.25%) DBS Check
6 39 (3.17%) CCNA
7 37 (3.01%) A+ Certification
8 28 (2.28%) BPSS Clearance
9 27 (2.20%) Network+ Certification
10 23 (1.87%) MCSE
11 19 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
12 18 (1.46%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 15 (1.22%) DV Cleared
14 14 (1.14%) CCNP
15 11 (0.89%) MCSA
16 10 (0.81%) Azure Certification
17 7 (0.57%) CompTIA Security+
18 6 (0.49%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
18 6 (0.49%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (5.12%) SLA
2 59 (4.80%) Cyber Essentials
3 39 (3.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 20 (1.63%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 10 (0.81%) GDPR
6 5 (0.41%) NIST
7 4 (0.33%) Accessibility
7 4 (0.33%) QA
8 1 (0.081%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 406 (33.01%) Active Directory
2 96 (7.80%) Hyper-V
3 77 (6.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (1.54%) Virtual Desktop
5 11 (0.89%) VMware Workstation
6 8 (0.65%) VMware ESXi
6 8 (0.65%) vSphere
7 5 (0.41%) Firmware
7 5 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.33%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.24%) Docker
10 1 (0.081%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.081%) Terminal Services
10 1 (0.081%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 154 (12.52%) Microsoft Intune
2 13 (1.06%) SCCM
3 12 (0.98%) Autotask
3 12 (0.98%) Jamf Pro
3 12 (0.98%) WSUS
4 10 (0.81%) FortiGate
5 8 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (0.57%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 7 (0.57%) Proxmox
7 6 (0.49%) Ansible
7 6 (0.49%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 5 (0.41%) SmoothWall
9 2 (0.16%) Terraform
10 1 (0.081%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (0.081%) Kubernetes
10 1 (0.081%) Podman
Vendors
1 508 (41.30%) Microsoft
2 111 (9.02%) VMware
3 70 (5.69%) Google
4 34 (2.76%) Cisco
4 34 (2.76%) Fortinet
5 32 (2.60%) Apple
6 31 (2.52%) Dell
6 31 (2.52%) Meraki
7 28 (2.28%) Fujitsu
7 28 (2.28%) Virgin Media
8 26 (2.11%) Veeam
9 16 (1.30%) Sage
10 14 (1.14%) WatchGuard
11 12 (0.98%) HP
11 12 (0.98%) ServiceNow
12 11 (0.89%) ESET
12 11 (0.89%) Ubiquiti
13 10 (0.81%) Citrix
13 10 (0.81%) Epicor
13 10 (0.81%) Xamarin