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 15 February 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 127 107
Rank change year-on-year +41 -20 +103
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 1,015 735 1,369
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 2.12% 2.25% 2.73%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.33% 2.46% 2.88%
Number of salaries quoted 875 433 1,216
10th Percentile £25,750 £25,008 £23,500
25th Percentile £27,750 £27,250 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £35,000 £32,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% +3.17%
75th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £41,000
90th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £50,000
UK median annual salary £32,500 £35,000 £33,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +4.48% +1.52%

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 43,601 29,910 47,587
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.12% 91.64% 95.05%
Number of salaries quoted 27,244 14,607 36,920
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £26,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%
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% -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 15 February 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 15 February 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 +51 272 £32,500 -1.52% 115
North of England +52 237 £32,500 -4.41% 71
Midlands -19 223 £31,500 -10.00% 33
East Midlands +8 137 £30,000 - 16
North West +48 119 £30,000 -21.05% 48
Yorkshire +30 109 £41,500 +37.19% 17
East of England +44 104 £30,000 +3.45% 38
South West +32 102 £35,000 - 30
West Midlands -37 86 £32,500 -7.14% 17
Scotland +14 59 £30,000 -4.76% 21
Wales +17 19 £40,000 - 17
North East -5 9 £30,000 -16.67% 8
Northern Ireland -21 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 15 February 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.

1 459 (45.22%) Microsoft 365
2 453 (44.63%) Windows
3 440 (43.35%) Microsoft
4 378 (37.24%) Active Directory
5 318 (31.33%) Problem-Solving
6 308 (30.34%) Azure
7 246 (24.24%) Windows Server
8 214 (21.08%) Customer Service
9 184 (18.13%) Firewall
10 172 (16.95%) Entra ID
11 161 (15.86%) DNS
12 149 (14.68%) DHCP
13 147 (14.48%) Microsoft Intune
14 125 (12.32%) SharePoint
15 122 (12.02%) ITIL
16 117 (11.53%) Cybersecurity
17 115 (11.33%) VPN
18 112 (11.03%) Windows 10
19 107 (10.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
20 98 (9.66%) VMware
21 91 (8.97%) Microsoft Exchange
22 90 (8.87%) Microsoft Office
23 85 (8.37%) Hyper-V
24 78 (7.68%) LAN
24 78 (7.68%) WAN
25 77 (7.59%) Mentoring
26 76 (7.49%) Microsoft Certification
27 67 (6.60%) VMware Infrastructure
28 66 (6.50%) TCP/IP
29 65 (6.40%) Degree

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
1 125 (12.32%) SharePoint
2 91 (8.97%) Microsoft Exchange
3 15 (1.48%) IIS
4 13 (1.28%) Confluence
5 9 (0.89%) Exchange Server 2007
5 9 (0.89%) Exchange Server 2010
5 9 (0.89%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 90 (8.87%) Microsoft Office
2 20 (1.97%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.20%) Acrobat
4 2 (0.20%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 5 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
1 5 (0.49%) NetSuite
2 4 (0.39%) Dynamics NAV
3 3 (0.30%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.099%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.099%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 459 (45.22%) Microsoft 365
2 308 (30.34%) Azure
3 172 (16.95%) Entra ID
4 53 (5.22%) Google Workspace
5 49 (4.83%) AWS
6 38 (3.74%) OneDrive
7 27 (2.66%) SaaS
8 22 (2.17%) Power Platform
9 21 (2.07%) GCP
10 14 (1.38%) Azure DevOps
11 12 (1.18%) Power Automate
12 9 (0.89%) Azure Sentinel
13 7 (0.69%) IaaS
13 7 (0.69%) PaaS
13 7 (0.69%) PowerApps
14 6 (0.59%) iPaaS
14 6 (0.59%) Microsoft Copilot
15 5 (0.49%) Azure AI
15 5 (0.49%) Intacct
15 5 (0.49%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 184 (18.13%) Firewall
2 161 (15.86%) DNS
3 149 (14.68%) DHCP
4 115 (11.33%) VPN
5 78 (7.68%) LAN
5 78 (7.68%) WAN
6 66 (6.50%) TCP/IP
7 62 (6.11%) VLAN
8 58 (5.71%) Wi-Fi
9 33 (3.25%) VoIP
10 31 (3.05%) Wireless
11 20 (1.97%) Network Security
11 20 (1.97%) SAN
12 16 (1.58%) SD-WAN
13 12 (1.18%) Remote Desktop
14 11 (1.08%) WLAN
15 10 (0.99%) IP Telephony
16 7 (0.69%) Internet
16 7 (0.69%) TETRA
17 4 (0.39%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (2.36%) SQL Server
2 21 (2.07%) Power BI
3 12 (1.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 6 (0.59%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (0.39%) Relational Database
6 3 (0.30%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 28 (2.76%) JIRA
2 4 (0.39%) GitLab
3 1 (0.099%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.099%) Git
3 1 (0.099%) LabVIEW
3 1 (0.099%) Snyk
General
1 308 (30.34%) Social Skills
2 77 (7.59%) Organisational Skills
3 46 (4.53%) Analytical Skills
3 46 (4.53%) Law
4 43 (4.24%) Finance
5 40 (3.94%) Manufacturing
6 36 (3.55%) Public Sector
7 31 (3.05%) Retail
7 31 (3.05%) Telecoms
8 28 (2.76%) Multimedia
9 24 (2.36%) Legal
10 22 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 11 (1.08%) Electronics
12 10 (0.99%) Documentation Skills
13 6 (0.59%) Fire and Rescue
13 6 (0.59%) Marketing
13 6 (0.59%) Police
14 5 (0.49%) Advertising
14 5 (0.49%) Social Housing
15 4 (0.39%) Dutch Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (1.28%) .NET
2 12 (1.18%) .NET Framework
2 12 (1.18%) Entity Framework
2 12 (1.18%) WinForms
3 7 (0.69%) ASP.NET
4 4 (0.39%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (0.099%) OAuth
5 1 (0.099%) OAuth2
5 1 (0.099%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 193 (19.01%) Driving Licence
2 50 (4.93%) Onboarding
3 41 (4.04%) Self-Motivation
4 20 (1.97%) Analytical Mindset
5 18 (1.77%) CCTV
6 14 (1.38%) Smartphone
7 11 (1.08%) Data Centre
7 11 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
8 9 (0.89%) FMCG
8 9 (0.89%) iPad
9 8 (0.79%) Security Posture
9 8 (0.79%) Social Media
10 6 (0.59%) Clustering
10 6 (0.59%) Cyber Security Posture
10 6 (0.59%) Management Information System
10 6 (0.59%) PMI
11 5 (0.49%) Life Science
11 5 (0.49%) Linux Command Line
11 5 (0.49%) Mobile App
11 5 (0.49%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 453 (44.63%) Windows
2 246 (24.24%) Windows Server
3 112 (11.03%) Windows 10
4 46 (4.53%) Mac OS
5 38 (3.74%) Linux
6 33 (3.25%) Windows Server 2019
7 30 (2.96%) Windows Server 2016
8 22 (2.17%) Android
9 18 (1.77%) Apple iOS
10 14 (1.38%) Windows Server 2012
11 13 (1.28%) Windows 7
12 9 (0.89%) Windows 8
13 6 (0.59%) Windows Server 2008
14 3 (0.30%) Debian
15 2 (0.20%) Rocky
15 2 (0.20%) Ubuntu
16 1 (0.099%) CentOS
16 1 (0.099%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 1 (0.099%) Solaris
16 1 (0.099%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 318 (31.33%) Problem-Solving
2 214 (21.08%) Customer Service
3 122 (12.02%) ITIL
4 117 (11.53%) Cybersecurity
5 107 (10.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 77 (7.59%) Mentoring
7 62 (6.11%) Service Delivery
8 49 (4.83%) ITSM
9 39 (3.84%) Remote Monitoring and Management
10 36 (3.55%) Incident Management
11 35 (3.45%) Asset Management
11 35 (3.45%) Continuous Improvement
11 35 (3.45%) Data Protection
12 34 (3.35%) Project Delivery
13 33 (3.25%) Process Improvement
14 30 (2.96%) Root Cause Analysis
15 29 (2.86%) Disaster Recovery
16 27 (2.66%) Business Intelligence
17 26 (2.56%) ERP
17 26 (2.56%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 52 (5.12%) PowerShell
2 46 (4.53%) SQL
3 13 (1.28%) C#
3 13 (1.28%) T-SQL
4 9 (0.89%) Python
5 7 (0.69%) Bash
5 7 (0.69%) PL/SQL
5 7 (0.69%) VBScript
6 5 (0.49%) VB
7 3 (0.30%) Uniface
8 2 (0.20%) Google Apps Script
9 1 (0.099%) PHP
9 1 (0.099%) R
Qualifications
1 76 (7.49%) Microsoft Certification
2 65 (6.40%) Degree
3 55 (5.42%) Security Cleared
4 44 (4.33%) DBS Check
5 36 (3.55%) SC Cleared
6 35 (3.45%) Cisco Certification
7 33 (3.25%) A+ Certification
7 33 (3.25%) CCNA
8 23 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
9 22 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
10 21 (2.07%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 20 (1.97%) Network+ Certification
12 19 (1.87%) MCSE
13 14 (1.38%) DV Cleared
14 13 (1.28%) CCNP
15 11 (1.08%) MCSA
16 9 (0.89%) Azure Certification
17 7 (0.69%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
18 6 (0.59%) PMI Certification
19 5 (0.49%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (4.93%) Cyber Essentials
2 46 (4.53%) SLA
3 35 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 19 (1.87%) GDPR
5 10 (0.99%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 6 (0.59%) Accessibility
7 5 (0.49%) NIST
8 3 (0.30%) QA
9 1 (0.099%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 378 (37.24%) Active Directory
2 85 (8.37%) Hyper-V
3 67 (6.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (1.77%) Virtual Desktop
5 9 (0.89%) VMware Workstation
5 9 (0.89%) vSphere
6 8 (0.79%) VMware ESXi
7 7 (0.69%) Firmware
8 5 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
9 4 (0.39%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.20%) XenDesktop
11 1 (0.099%) Docker
11 1 (0.099%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 147 (14.48%) Microsoft Intune
2 12 (1.18%) Jamf Pro
3 11 (1.08%) SCCM
3 11 (1.08%) WSUS
4 9 (0.89%) Autotask
4 9 (0.89%) FortiGate
5 8 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (0.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 6 (0.59%) Ansible
7 6 (0.59%) Failover Clustering
8 5 (0.49%) Proxmox
8 5 (0.49%) SmoothWall
9 4 (0.39%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 3 (0.30%) Kubernetes
11 1 (0.099%) Podman
Vendors
1 440 (43.35%) Microsoft
2 98 (9.66%) VMware
3 65 (6.40%) Google
4 37 (3.65%) Cisco
5 33 (3.25%) Fortinet
6 31 (3.05%) Apple
7 30 (2.96%) Veeam
8 28 (2.76%) Dell
8 28 (2.76%) Fujitsu
8 28 (2.76%) Virgin Media
9 27 (2.66%) Meraki
10 17 (1.67%) Sage
11 14 (1.38%) ServiceNow
11 14 (1.38%) WatchGuard
12 12 (1.18%) HP
12 12 (1.18%) Xamarin
13 10 (0.99%) Adobe
13 10 (0.99%) Zoho
14 9 (0.89%) Draytek
14 9 (0.89%) ESET