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 9 November 2026.

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

6 months to
9 Nov 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 97 162 113
Rank change year-on-year +65 -49 +34
Permanent IT Engineer jobs 1,539 555 997
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.68% 1.56% 2.09%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.84% 1.73% 2.21%
Number of salaries quoted 1,239 467 580
10th Percentile £27,000 £25,730 £25,750
25th Percentile £30,000 £27,250 £29,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £32,500 £35,007
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -7.16% +0.12%
75th Percentile £43,750 £41,875 £45,000
90th Percentile £52,500 £50,625 £53,750
UK median annual salary £35,000 £33,250 £37,500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -11.33% +7.14%

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 adverts in the UK excluding London matching a recognised job title. The table also shows what proportion of all permanent IT job adverts they make up.

6 months to
9 Nov 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Permanent job adverts in the UK excluding London matching a recognised job title 83,767 32,018 45,206
% of permanent job adverts matching a recognised job title 91.62% 89.86% 94.86%
Number of salaries quoted 56,419 19,699 24,349
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,200 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £46,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +19.57% -8.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £64,750 £66,067
90th Percentile £88,000 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £59,813 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +13.93% -8.70% -4.17%

IT Engineer Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT Engineer job postings 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 IT Engineer jobs in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 November 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 Engineer jobs within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 November 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		 Job Ads
Past 6 Months		 Median Salary
Past 6 Months		 Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Live
Jobs
South East +58 386 £39,000 +13.87% 97
Midlands +8 271 £35,000 +11.11% 65
North of England +21 263 £35,000 - 65
South West +34 242 £35,000 - 32
East of England +32 186 £35,000 +12.90% 34
West Midlands +44 152 £34,750 -30.50% 43
North West +31 141 £34,500 +11.29% 35
East Midlands -35 119 £35,000 +16.67% 22
Scotland +64 116 £30,000 - 22
Yorkshire -26 95 £30,000 -25.00% 20
Wales -27 56 £35,000 -56.25% 13
North East -47 27 £40,000 -17.95% 12
Northern Ireland -64 13 £41,000 +30.16% 9
Channel Islands +3 7 £35,000 -22.22%
IT Engineer
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IT Engineer Skill Set Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 9 November 2026, IT Engineer job ads cited 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 IT Engineer job ads across the UK excluding London region.

RankSkillShareJob Ads
1Microsoft50.5%777
2Windows47.4%729
3Microsoft 36547.0%723
4Active Directory33.3%513
5Azure25.9%398
6Problem-Solving24.4%376
7Windows Server23.1%356
8Entra ID22.7%350
9Customer Service21.6%333
10Microsoft Intune19.5%300
11Infrastructure Engineering18.8%290
12DNS17.5%269
13Firewall16.8%259
14Microsoft Exchange15.7%242
15Cybersecurity15.2%234
15DHCP15.2%234
17Hyper-V13.3%204
18SharePoint12.5%193
19VPN12.4%191
20VMware11.8%182
21TCP/IP10.8%166
22ITIL10.1%155
23Continuous Improvement9.4%144
23Wi-Fi9.4%144
25VMware Infrastructure9.2%141
26Windows 107.9%122
27PowerShell7.9%121
28VLAN7.7%119
29Disaster Recovery7.7%118
30LAN7.1%110

IT Engineer Skill Set Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Job Titles

RankJob TitleShareJob Ads
1IT Support Engineer66.0%1,015
2IT Infrastructure Engineer12.3%190
3Field Engineer12.1%186
42nd Line Engineer9.9%152
5Senior IT Engineer9.2%141
62nd Line Support Engineer8.9%137
7Systems Engineer6.6%102
8Senior IT Support6.2%95
9Senior Support Engineer5.7%88
103rd Line Engineer5.3%81
113rd Line Support Engineer4.9%76
12Field Service Engineer4.1%63
131st/2nd Line Support Engineer3.2%50
141st Line Engineer3.0%46
14IT Security Engineer3.0%46
161st Line Support Engineer2.9%45
17Infrastructure Support Engineer2.9%44
18Senior Infrastructure Engineer2.2%34
18Service Desk Engineer2.2%34
20Systems Support Engineer2.0%31
331 IT Engineer jobs in the UK excluding London