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 £32,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 10 December 2025.

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

6 months to
10 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 147 123 134
Rank change year-on-year -24 +11 +113
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 591 914 710
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.49% 2.14% 2.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.66% 2.28% 2.56%
Number of salaries quoted 523 533 652
10th Percentile £25,710 £25,750 £25,025
25th Percentile £27,250 £29,000 £29,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,000 £35,000 £34,966
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% +0.10% +7.59%
75th Percentile £38,750 £45,000 £43,750
90th Percentile £49,000 £52,500 £53,750
UK median annual salary £32,500 £36,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year -10.96% +4.29% +4.48%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 35,626 40,138 27,761
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.70% 93.79% 95.51%
Number of salaries quoted 21,807 21,180 21,084
10th Percentile £27,625 £30,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £33,250 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% - -
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £58,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -5.17% -3.33% -

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 December 2025.

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 December 2025. 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
Midlands -34 171 £31,500 -10.00% 36
South East +8 142 £32,500 -14.47% 79
East Midlands +13 117 £30,000 -11.76% 17
North of England -24 102 £32,500 -7.14% 83
South West +4 71 £35,000 -6.67% 33
East of England +17 66 £30,500 -6.15% 27
West Midlands -72 54 £37,500 +7.14% 19
North West +2 51 £30,000 -21.05% 32
Yorkshire -19 47 £36,500 +10.61% 48
Scotland -1 37 £28,000 -12.50% 20
Wales +14 15 £35,000 -6.67% 19
North East -3 4 £48,125 +34.62% 7
Northern Ireland -7 1 £31,500 +5.00%
IT Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 10 December 2025, 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.

1 336 (56.85%) Microsoft 365
2 335 (56.68%) Microsoft
3 334 (56.51%) Windows
4 286 (48.39%) Active Directory
5 242 (40.95%) Azure
6 214 (36.21%) Problem-Solving
7 197 (33.33%) Windows Server
8 145 (24.53%) Firewall
9 140 (23.69%) DNS
10 134 (22.67%) Customer Service
11 130 (22.00%) DHCP
12 115 (19.46%) Entra ID
13 114 (19.29%) Microsoft Intune
14 95 (16.07%) SharePoint
15 92 (15.57%) ITIL
16 86 (14.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 81 (13.71%) Hyper-V
18 80 (13.54%) VMware
19 75 (12.69%) Cybersecurity
20 71 (12.01%) Windows 10
21 70 (11.84%) TCP/IP
22 69 (11.68%) VPN
23 68 (11.51%) Microsoft Exchange
24 65 (11.00%) VLAN
25 62 (10.49%) Microsoft Certification
26 58 (9.81%) VMware Infrastructure
27 54 (9.14%) Degree
28 53 (8.97%) Microsoft Office
29 51 (8.63%) PowerShell
30 50 (8.46%) Wi-Fi

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 95 (16.07%) SharePoint
2 68 (11.51%) Microsoft Exchange
3 22 (3.72%) IIS
4 4 (0.68%) Confluence
5 2 (0.34%) Exchange Server 2007
5 2 (0.34%) Exchange Server 2010
5 2 (0.34%) Exchange Server 2013
6 1 (0.17%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 53 (8.97%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (1.86%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.34%) Acrobat
5 1 (0.17%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 9 (1.52%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.68%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.17%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.17%) Pegasus Opera
Cloud Services
1 336 (56.85%) Microsoft 365
2 242 (40.95%) Azure
3 115 (19.46%) Entra ID
4 35 (5.92%) AWS
5 22 (3.72%) OneDrive
6 21 (3.55%) GCP
6 21 (3.55%) Power Platform
7 20 (3.38%) SaaS
8 18 (3.05%) Google Workspace
9 16 (2.71%) Azure DevOps
10 12 (2.03%) Power Automate
11 10 (1.69%) IaaS
12 8 (1.35%) PaaS
13 7 (1.18%) Azure Stack
13 7 (1.18%) Cloud Computing
14 6 (1.02%) iPaaS
14 6 (1.02%) PowerApps
14 6 (1.02%) Serverless
15 5 (0.85%) Nutanix
15 5 (0.85%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 145 (24.53%) Firewall
2 140 (23.69%) DNS
3 130 (22.00%) DHCP
4 70 (11.84%) TCP/IP
5 69 (11.68%) VPN
6 65 (11.00%) VLAN
7 50 (8.46%) Wi-Fi
8 45 (7.61%) WAN
9 36 (6.09%) LAN
10 33 (5.58%) Wireless
11 29 (4.91%) SAN
12 23 (3.89%) VoIP
13 19 (3.21%) Network Security
14 16 (2.71%) SD-WAN
15 10 (1.69%) IP Telephony
16 9 (1.52%) IPsec
16 9 (1.52%) WLAN
17 7 (1.18%) Remote Desktop
18 6 (1.02%) Cisco IOS
19 5 (0.85%) Softphone
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (5.08%) SQL Server
2 17 (2.88%) Power BI
3 13 (2.20%) Amazon RDS
4 12 (2.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 4 (0.68%) Relational Database
6 3 (0.51%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 14 (2.37%) JIRA
2 1 (0.17%) Bitbucket
2 1 (0.17%) Git
2 1 (0.17%) Snyk
General
1 215 (36.38%) Social Skills
2 43 (7.28%) Manufacturing
3 33 (5.58%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (5.41%) Organisational Skills
5 31 (5.25%) Law
6 30 (5.08%) Public Sector
7 29 (4.91%) Finance
8 25 (4.23%) Legal
9 24 (4.06%) Telecoms
10 14 (2.37%) Electronics
10 14 (2.37%) Retail
11 12 (2.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 10 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
13 9 (1.52%) Marketing
14 7 (1.18%) Pharmaceutical
15 5 (0.85%) Advertising
16 4 (0.68%) Dutch Language
16 4 (0.68%) French Language
16 4 (0.68%) Spanish Language
17 3 (0.51%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (2.20%) .NET
2 12 (2.03%) .NET Framework
2 12 (2.03%) Entity Framework
2 12 (2.03%) WinForms
3 7 (1.18%) ASP.NET
4 5 (0.85%) 802.1X
5 3 (0.51%) EDI
6 1 (0.17%) LAMP
6 1 (0.17%) OAuth
6 1 (0.17%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 119 (20.14%) Driving Licence
2 48 (8.12%) Onboarding
3 22 (3.72%) Self-Motivation
4 18 (3.05%) Data Centre
5 15 (2.54%) Clustering
6 14 (2.37%) Analytical Mindset
7 12 (2.03%) Smartphone
8 11 (1.86%) CCTV
8 11 (1.86%) FMCG
9 9 (1.52%) Hybrid Cloud
10 7 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
10 7 (1.18%) iPad
11 6 (1.02%) Security Posture
12 5 (0.85%) BYOD
12 5 (0.85%) Cyber Security Posture
12 5 (0.85%) Life Science
13 4 (0.68%) Enterprise Storage
13 4 (0.68%) Solar Panel
14 3 (0.51%) Digital Signage
14 3 (0.51%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 334 (56.51%) Windows
2 197 (33.33%) Windows Server
3 71 (12.01%) Windows 10
4 44 (7.45%) Linux
5 28 (4.74%) Mac OS
6 27 (4.57%) Windows Server 2019
7 13 (2.20%) Apple iOS
7 13 (2.20%) Windows Server 2016
8 12 (2.03%) Android
9 7 (1.18%) Rocky
10 6 (1.02%) Windows 7
11 4 (0.68%) Windows 8
11 4 (0.68%) Windows Server 2012
12 3 (0.51%) Debian
13 2 (0.34%) Unix
14 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 1 (0.17%) Solaris
14 1 (0.17%) Ubuntu
14 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 214 (36.21%) Problem-Solving
2 134 (22.67%) Customer Service
3 92 (15.57%) ITIL
4 86 (14.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 75 (12.69%) Cybersecurity
6 39 (6.60%) Project Delivery
7 36 (6.09%) Disaster Recovery
8 35 (5.92%) Mentoring
9 32 (5.41%) Incident Management
9 32 (5.41%) ITSM
10 31 (5.25%) Continuous Improvement
11 28 (4.74%) Data Protection
12 27 (4.57%) Business Intelligence
12 27 (4.57%) Service Delivery
13 26 (4.40%) Process Improvement
14 25 (4.23%) Asset Management
14 25 (4.23%) Migration
15 24 (4.06%) Remote Monitoring and Management
15 24 (4.06%) Software Engineering
16 21 (3.55%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 51 (8.63%) PowerShell
2 35 (5.92%) SQL
3 14 (2.37%) C#
4 13 (2.20%) T-SQL
5 11 (1.86%) Python
6 7 (1.18%) PL/SQL
6 7 (1.18%) VBScript
7 3 (0.51%) Bash
8 2 (0.34%) Kusto Query Language
8 2 (0.34%) Uniface
Qualifications
1 62 (10.49%) Microsoft Certification
2 54 (9.14%) Degree
3 33 (5.58%) Cisco Certification
4 29 (4.91%) CCNA
5 25 (4.23%) A+ Certification
6 23 (3.89%) DBS Check
7 21 (3.55%) MCP
8 20 (3.38%) Computer Science Degree
9 19 (3.21%) MCSE
10 18 (3.05%) Security Cleared
11 17 (2.88%) BPSS Clearance
11 17 (2.88%) Network+ Certification
12 14 (2.37%) Azure Certification
13 13 (2.20%) SC Cleared
14 9 (1.52%) MCSA
15 8 (1.35%) CCNP
15 8 (1.35%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 7 (1.18%) DV Cleared
16 7 (1.18%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
17 6 (1.02%) ACMT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (6.26%) Cyber Essentials
2 31 (5.25%) SLA
3 29 (4.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 22 (3.72%) GDPR
5 6 (1.02%) Accessibility
6 4 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 4 (0.68%) NIST
7 2 (0.34%) GxP
7 2 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 286 (48.39%) Active Directory
2 81 (13.71%) Hyper-V
3 58 (9.81%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (1.86%) Firmware
5 9 (1.52%) Virtual Desktop
6 8 (1.35%) Docker
7 7 (1.18%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
9 4 (0.68%) VMware Workstation
10 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 2 (0.34%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.34%) vSphere
10 2 (0.34%) XenDesktop
11 1 (0.17%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 114 (19.29%) Microsoft Intune
2 15 (2.54%) SCCM
3 14 (2.37%) Kubernetes
4 12 (2.03%) Autotask
5 9 (1.52%) vCenter Server
6 7 (1.18%) Failover Clustering
7 6 (1.02%) Jamf Pro
8 4 (0.68%) WSUS
9 3 (0.51%) Ansible
9 3 (0.51%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Clustering
10 2 (0.34%) NetBackup
10 2 (0.34%) Podman
10 2 (0.34%) Puppet
10 2 (0.34%) SmoothWall
10 2 (0.34%) WhatsUp Gold
11 1 (0.17%) Proxmox
11 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Satellite
11 1 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 335 (56.68%) Microsoft
2 80 (13.54%) VMware
3 42 (7.11%) Cisco
4 39 (6.60%) Veeam
5 29 (4.91%) Google
6 25 (4.23%) Apple
7 23 (3.89%) Dell
8 18 (3.05%) Meraki
9 16 (2.71%) ServiceNow
10 15 (2.54%) Sophos
11 14 (2.37%) HP
12 13 (2.20%) Sage
13 12 (2.03%) Aruba
13 12 (2.03%) Xamarin
13 12 (2.03%) Zoho
14 10 (1.69%) Datto
14 10 (1.69%) SAP
15 9 (1.52%) Adobe
15 9 (1.52%) Draytek
15 9 (1.52%) WatchGuard