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 10 February 2026.

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

6 months to
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 91 126 104
Rank change year-on-year +35 -22 +100
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 983 741 1,366
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 2.11% 2.24% 2.75%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.31% 2.45% 2.89%
Number of salaries quoted 844 435 1,214
10th Percentile £25,750 £25,008 £23,150
25th Percentile £27,750 £27,500 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £35,000 £32,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% +1.56%
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 42,471 30,284 47,221
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.03% 91.71% 95.08%
Number of salaries quoted 26,271 14,673 36,728
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £26,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,000 £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 10 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 10 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 +52 262 £32,500 -5.80% 116
Midlands -15 225 £31,500 -10.00% 35
North of England +52 224 £32,500 -5.80% 58
East Midlands +8 140 £30,000 - 19
North West +50 112 £30,000 -22.08% 37
Yorkshire +15 103 £41,500 +36.07% 15
South West +15 100 £35,000 - 29
East of England +39 97 £30,000 +3.45% 38
West Midlands -42 85 £32,500 -7.14% 16
Scotland +14 58 £30,000 -4.76% 19
Wales +18 18 £42,500 - 11
North East -4 9 £30,000 -16.67% 7
Northern Ireland -20 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 10 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.

1 445 (45.27%) Microsoft 365
2 437 (44.46%) Windows
3 431 (43.85%) Microsoft
4 370 (37.64%) Active Directory
5 312 (31.74%) Problem-Solving
6 303 (30.82%) Azure
7 235 (23.91%) Windows Server
8 205 (20.85%) Customer Service
9 180 (18.31%) Firewall
10 168 (17.09%) Entra ID
11 159 (16.17%) DNS
12 148 (15.06%) DHCP
13 147 (14.95%) Microsoft Intune
14 124 (12.61%) SharePoint
15 121 (12.31%) ITIL
16 113 (11.50%) Cybersecurity
16 113 (11.50%) VPN
17 104 (10.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 102 (10.38%) Windows 10
19 96 (9.77%) VMware
20 90 (9.16%) Microsoft Exchange
21 83 (8.44%) Hyper-V
21 83 (8.44%) Microsoft Office
22 78 (7.93%) Mentoring
23 76 (7.73%) LAN
23 76 (7.73%) Microsoft Certification
23 76 (7.73%) WAN
24 67 (6.82%) VMware Infrastructure
25 65 (6.61%) Degree
26 63 (6.41%) TCP/IP

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
1 124 (12.61%) SharePoint
2 90 (9.16%) Microsoft Exchange
3 17 (1.73%) IIS
4 12 (1.22%) Confluence
5 8 (0.81%) Exchange Server 2007
5 8 (0.81%) Exchange Server 2010
5 8 (0.81%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 83 (8.44%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (1.93%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.20%) Acrobat
4 2 (0.20%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 7 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.41%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.31%) Dynamics NAV
3 3 (0.31%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.10%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.10%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 445 (45.27%) Microsoft 365
2 303 (30.82%) Azure
3 168 (17.09%) Entra ID
4 47 (4.78%) AWS
4 47 (4.78%) Google Workspace
5 36 (3.66%) OneDrive
6 25 (2.54%) SaaS
7 22 (2.24%) Power Platform
8 21 (2.14%) GCP
9 14 (1.42%) Azure DevOps
10 12 (1.22%) Power Automate
11 9 (0.92%) Azure Sentinel
12 7 (0.71%) IaaS
12 7 (0.71%) PaaS
12 7 (0.71%) PowerApps
13 6 (0.61%) iPaaS
14 5 (0.51%) Azure AI
14 5 (0.51%) Microsoft Copilot
14 5 (0.51%) OCI
15 4 (0.41%) Intacct
Communications & Networking
1 180 (18.31%) Firewall
2 159 (16.17%) DNS
3 148 (15.06%) DHCP
4 113 (11.50%) VPN
5 76 (7.73%) LAN
5 76 (7.73%) WAN
6 63 (6.41%) TCP/IP
7 62 (6.31%) VLAN
8 56 (5.70%) Wi-Fi
9 33 (3.36%) VoIP
10 30 (3.05%) Wireless
11 20 (2.03%) Network Security
11 20 (2.03%) SAN
12 15 (1.53%) SD-WAN
13 11 (1.12%) Remote Desktop
13 11 (1.12%) WLAN
14 10 (1.02%) IP Telephony
15 7 (0.71%) Internet
15 7 (0.71%) TETRA
16 4 (0.41%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (2.64%) SQL Server
2 21 (2.14%) Power BI
3 12 (1.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 7 (0.71%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (0.41%) Relational Database
6 3 (0.31%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 27 (2.75%) JIRA
2 4 (0.41%) GitLab
3 1 (0.10%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.10%) Git
3 1 (0.10%) LabVIEW
3 1 (0.10%) Snyk
General
1 301 (30.62%) Social Skills
2 73 (7.43%) Organisational Skills
3 47 (4.78%) Analytical Skills
4 44 (4.48%) Law
5 42 (4.27%) Finance
6 40 (4.07%) Manufacturing
7 37 (3.76%) Public Sector
8 31 (3.15%) Telecoms
9 28 (2.85%) Multimedia
10 27 (2.75%) Retail
11 25 (2.54%) Legal
12 22 (2.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 12 (1.22%) Electronics
14 10 (1.02%) Documentation Skills
15 7 (0.71%) Marketing
16 6 (0.61%) Fire and Rescue
16 6 (0.61%) Police
17 5 (0.51%) Advertising
18 4 (0.41%) Dutch Language
18 4 (0.41%) French Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (1.32%) .NET
2 12 (1.22%) .NET Framework
2 12 (1.22%) Entity Framework
2 12 (1.22%) WinForms
3 7 (0.71%) ASP.NET
4 4 (0.41%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (0.10%) OAuth
5 1 (0.10%) OAuth2
5 1 (0.10%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 188 (19.13%) Driving Licence
2 51 (5.19%) Onboarding
3 40 (4.07%) Self-Motivation
4 21 (2.14%) Analytical Mindset
5 16 (1.63%) CCTV
6 14 (1.42%) Smartphone
7 11 (1.12%) Data Centre
7 11 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
8 9 (0.92%) FMCG
8 9 (0.92%) iPad
9 8 (0.81%) Security Posture
9 8 (0.81%) Social Media
10 7 (0.71%) Clustering
11 6 (0.61%) Cyber Security Posture
11 6 (0.61%) Management Information System
11 6 (0.61%) PMI
12 5 (0.51%) Linux Command Line
12 5 (0.51%) Mobile App
13 4 (0.41%) iPhone
13 4 (0.41%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 437 (44.46%) Windows
2 235 (23.91%) Windows Server
3 102 (10.38%) Windows 10
4 44 (4.48%) Mac OS
5 38 (3.87%) Linux
6 31 (3.15%) Windows Server 2019
7 30 (3.05%) Windows Server 2016
8 21 (2.14%) Android
9 15 (1.53%) Apple iOS
10 13 (1.32%) Windows Server 2012
11 12 (1.22%) Windows 7
12 8 (0.81%) Windows 8
13 5 (0.51%) Windows Server 2008
14 3 (0.31%) Debian
15 2 (0.20%) Rocky
15 2 (0.20%) Ubuntu
16 1 (0.10%) CentOS
16 1 (0.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 1 (0.10%) Solaris
16 1 (0.10%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 312 (31.74%) Problem-Solving
2 205 (20.85%) Customer Service
3 121 (12.31%) ITIL
4 113 (11.50%) Cybersecurity
5 104 (10.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 78 (7.93%) Mentoring
7 59 (6.00%) Service Delivery
8 47 (4.78%) ITSM
9 39 (3.97%) Remote Monitoring and Management
10 37 (3.76%) Incident Management
11 34 (3.46%) Asset Management
11 34 (3.46%) Data Protection
12 32 (3.26%) Process Improvement
12 32 (3.26%) Project Delivery
13 31 (3.15%) Continuous Improvement
14 30 (3.05%) Disaster Recovery
15 29 (2.95%) Root Cause Analysis
16 28 (2.85%) Business Intelligence
17 26 (2.64%) Software Engineering
18 25 (2.54%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 50 (5.09%) PowerShell
2 46 (4.68%) SQL
3 13 (1.32%) C#
3 13 (1.32%) T-SQL
4 9 (0.92%) Python
5 7 (0.71%) Bash
5 7 (0.71%) PL/SQL
5 7 (0.71%) VBScript
6 3 (0.31%) Uniface
6 3 (0.31%) VB
7 2 (0.20%) Google Apps Script
8 1 (0.10%) PHP
8 1 (0.10%) R
Qualifications
1 76 (7.73%) Microsoft Certification
2 65 (6.61%) Degree
3 53 (5.39%) Security Cleared
4 41 (4.17%) DBS Check
5 36 (3.66%) Cisco Certification
5 36 (3.66%) SC Cleared
6 34 (3.46%) CCNA
7 32 (3.26%) A+ Certification
8 23 (2.34%) BPSS Clearance
9 22 (2.24%) Computer Science Degree
10 21 (2.14%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 20 (2.03%) MCSE
12 19 (1.93%) Network+ Certification
13 13 (1.32%) CCNP
13 13 (1.32%) DV Cleared
14 11 (1.12%) MCSA
15 8 (0.81%) Azure Certification
16 7 (0.71%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
17 6 (0.61%) PMI Certification
18 4 (0.41%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (5.09%) Cyber Essentials
2 45 (4.58%) SLA
3 35 (3.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 19 (1.93%) GDPR
5 10 (1.02%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 6 (0.61%) Accessibility
7 5 (0.51%) NIST
8 3 (0.31%) QA
9 1 (0.10%) GxP
9 1 (0.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 370 (37.64%) Active Directory
2 83 (8.44%) Hyper-V
3 67 (6.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (1.83%) Virtual Desktop
5 9 (0.92%) VMware ESXi
5 9 (0.92%) vSphere
6 8 (0.81%) Firmware
6 8 (0.81%) VMware Workstation
7 5 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.41%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.20%) Docker
9 2 (0.20%) XenDesktop
10 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.10%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.10%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 147 (14.95%) Microsoft Intune
2 11 (1.12%) Jamf Pro
2 11 (1.12%) WSUS
3 10 (1.02%) SCCM
4 9 (0.92%) Autotask
4 9 (0.92%) FortiGate
4 9 (0.92%) Single Sign-On
5 7 (0.71%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 6 (0.61%) Ansible
6 6 (0.61%) Failover Clustering
7 5 (0.51%) Proxmox
7 5 (0.51%) SmoothWall
8 4 (0.41%) Kubernetes
8 4 (0.41%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 1 (0.10%) Podman
9 1 (0.10%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 431 (43.85%) Microsoft
2 96 (9.77%) VMware
3 58 (5.90%) Google
4 39 (3.97%) Cisco
5 33 (3.36%) Fortinet
6 30 (3.05%) Veeam
7 29 (2.95%) Apple
8 28 (2.85%) Fujitsu
8 28 (2.85%) Virgin Media
9 27 (2.75%) Dell
10 26 (2.64%) Meraki
11 16 (1.63%) Sage
12 14 (1.42%) ServiceNow
12 14 (1.42%) WatchGuard
13 12 (1.22%) Xamarin
13 12 (1.22%) Zoho
14 11 (1.12%) HP
15 10 (1.02%) Adobe
16 9 (0.92%) Draytek
17 8 (0.81%) SAP