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 8 March 2026.

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

6 months to
8 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 121 106
Rank change year-on-year +39 -15 +118
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 1,150 707 1,551
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 2.23% 2.41% 2.71%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.43% 2.66% 2.86%
Number of salaries quoted 998 445 1,354
10th Percentile £25,750 £24,850 £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% +3.17%
75th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £42,500
90th Percentile £45,225 £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 47,264 26,618 54,182
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.72% 90.84% 94.80%
Number of salaries quoted 29,877 14,313 41,463
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £26,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £54,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.26% +9.00% -5.66%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £64,750
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 8 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 8 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 +46 329 £33,500 -2.90% 79
North of England +43 262 £32,500 -4.06% 50
Midlands -20 234 £31,500 -10.00% 24
East Midlands +2 137 £30,000 - 10
North West +54 134 £30,000 -21.05% 32
East of England +47 122 £30,000 +9.09% 36
South West +39 121 £33,000 -5.71% 29
Yorkshire +20 119 £35,000 +16.67% 14
West Midlands -45 97 £32,500 -7.14% 14
Scotland +19 61 £30,000 -4.76% 20
Wales +14 21 £40,000 -5.88% 17
North East -17 9 £30,000 -16.67% 7
IT Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 8 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.

1 492 (42.78%) Microsoft 365
2 489 (42.52%) Windows
3 479 (41.65%) Microsoft
4 400 (34.78%) Active Directory
5 335 (29.13%) Problem-Solving
6 331 (28.78%) Azure
7 252 (21.91%) Windows Server
8 237 (20.61%) Customer Service
9 197 (17.13%) Firewall
10 179 (15.57%) Entra ID
11 164 (14.26%) DNS
12 152 (13.22%) DHCP
12 152 (13.22%) Microsoft Intune
13 130 (11.30%) ITIL
14 128 (11.13%) VPN
15 127 (11.04%) SharePoint
16 122 (10.61%) Windows 10
17 118 (10.26%) Cybersecurity
18 117 (10.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 110 (9.57%) VMware
20 102 (8.87%) Microsoft Exchange
21 97 (8.43%) Hyper-V
22 94 (8.17%) Microsoft Office
23 91 (7.91%) LAN
24 90 (7.83%) WAN
25 80 (6.96%) Mentoring
26 76 (6.61%) VMware Infrastructure
27 75 (6.52%) Microsoft Certification
28 72 (6.26%) Google
29 70 (6.09%) 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
1 127 (11.04%) SharePoint
2 102 (8.87%) Microsoft Exchange
3 15 (1.30%) Confluence
3 15 (1.30%) IIS
4 11 (0.96%) Exchange Server 2007
4 11 (0.96%) Exchange Server 2010
4 11 (0.96%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 94 (8.17%) Microsoft Office
2 22 (1.91%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.17%) Acrobat
4 2 (0.17%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 7 (0.61%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.43%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.087%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.087%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.087%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 492 (42.78%) Microsoft 365
2 331 (28.78%) Azure
3 179 (15.57%) Entra ID
4 58 (5.04%) Google Workspace
5 55 (4.78%) AWS
6 36 (3.13%) OneDrive
7 25 (2.17%) SaaS
8 23 (2.00%) GCP
8 23 (2.00%) Power Platform
9 15 (1.30%) Azure DevOps
10 12 (1.04%) Power Automate
11 10 (0.87%) IaaS
11 10 (0.87%) PaaS
12 9 (0.78%) Azure Sentinel
13 8 (0.70%) PowerApps
14 6 (0.52%) Microsoft Copilot
15 5 (0.43%) Azure AI
15 5 (0.43%) Intacct
15 5 (0.43%) iPaaS
15 5 (0.43%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 197 (17.13%) Firewall
2 164 (14.26%) DNS
3 152 (13.22%) DHCP
4 128 (11.13%) VPN
5 91 (7.91%) LAN
6 90 (7.83%) WAN
7 66 (5.74%) Wi-Fi
8 63 (5.48%) TCP/IP
9 59 (5.13%) VLAN
10 37 (3.22%) VoIP
11 28 (2.43%) Wireless
12 20 (1.74%) Network Security
13 19 (1.65%) SAN
14 18 (1.57%) SD-WAN
15 14 (1.22%) Remote Desktop
16 11 (0.96%) WLAN
17 10 (0.87%) IP Telephony
18 7 (0.61%) Internet
18 7 (0.61%) TETRA
19 4 (0.35%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (2.43%) SQL Server
2 22 (1.91%) Power BI
3 12 (1.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 6 (0.52%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (0.35%) Relational Database
6 3 (0.26%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 31 (2.70%) JIRA
2 4 (0.35%) GitLab
3 1 (0.087%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.087%) Git
3 1 (0.087%) LabVIEW
3 1 (0.087%) Snyk
General
1 306 (26.61%) Social Skills
2 83 (7.22%) Organisational Skills
3 47 (4.09%) Analytical Skills
4 46 (4.00%) Finance
5 45 (3.91%) Law
6 44 (3.83%) Manufacturing
7 39 (3.39%) Retail
8 38 (3.30%) Public Sector
9 35 (3.04%) Telecoms
10 28 (2.43%) Multimedia
11 27 (2.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 27 (2.35%) Legal
12 11 (0.96%) Electronics
13 9 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
14 6 (0.52%) Advertising
14 6 (0.52%) Fire and Rescue
14 6 (0.52%) Marketing
14 6 (0.52%) Police
15 5 (0.43%) Social Housing
16 4 (0.35%) Dutch Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (1.13%) .NET
2 12 (1.04%) .NET Framework
2 12 (1.04%) Entity Framework
2 12 (1.04%) WinForms
3 7 (0.61%) ASP.NET
4 4 (0.35%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (0.087%) OAuth
5 1 (0.087%) OAuth2
5 1 (0.087%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 203 (17.65%) Driving Licence
2 57 (4.96%) Onboarding
3 43 (3.74%) Self-Motivation
4 21 (1.83%) Analytical Mindset
4 21 (1.83%) CCTV
5 17 (1.48%) Smartphone
6 14 (1.22%) Data Centre
7 11 (0.96%) FMCG
8 10 (0.87%) Enterprise Software
8 10 (0.87%) Security Posture
9 8 (0.70%) Social Media
10 7 (0.61%) iPad
11 6 (0.52%) iPhone
11 6 (0.52%) Management Information System
11 6 (0.52%) PMI
12 5 (0.43%) Clustering
12 5 (0.43%) Life Science
12 5 (0.43%) Linux Command Line
12 5 (0.43%) Mobile App
12 5 (0.43%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 489 (42.52%) Windows
2 252 (21.91%) Windows Server
3 122 (10.61%) Windows 10
4 57 (4.96%) Mac OS
5 40 (3.48%) Linux
6 31 (2.70%) Windows Server 2019
7 29 (2.52%) Windows Server 2016
8 24 (2.09%) Android
9 18 (1.57%) Apple iOS
10 17 (1.48%) Windows 7
11 14 (1.22%) Windows Server 2012
12 11 (0.96%) Windows 8
13 6 (0.52%) Windows Server 2008
14 3 (0.26%) Debian
15 2 (0.17%) Ubuntu
16 1 (0.087%) CentOS
16 1 (0.087%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 1 (0.087%) Rocky
16 1 (0.087%) Solaris
16 1 (0.087%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 335 (29.13%) Problem-Solving
2 237 (20.61%) Customer Service
3 130 (11.30%) ITIL
4 118 (10.26%) Cybersecurity
5 117 (10.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 80 (6.96%) Mentoring
7 66 (5.74%) Service Delivery
8 56 (4.87%) ITSM
9 43 (3.74%) Remote Monitoring and Management
10 40 (3.48%) Disaster Recovery
10 40 (3.48%) Root Cause Analysis
11 39 (3.39%) Continuous Improvement
11 39 (3.39%) Process Improvement
12 36 (3.13%) Incident Management
13 35 (3.04%) Asset Management
14 34 (2.96%) Project Delivery
15 33 (2.87%) Data Protection
15 33 (2.87%) Service Management
16 30 (2.61%) ERP
17 29 (2.52%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 54 (4.70%) PowerShell
2 47 (4.09%) SQL
3 13 (1.13%) C#
4 12 (1.04%) T-SQL
5 9 (0.78%) Python
6 7 (0.61%) Bash
6 7 (0.61%) PL/SQL
6 7 (0.61%) VBScript
7 5 (0.43%) VB
8 3 (0.26%) Uniface
9 2 (0.17%) Google Apps Script
10 1 (0.087%) PHP
10 1 (0.087%) R
Qualifications
1 75 (6.52%) Microsoft Certification
2 70 (6.09%) Security Cleared
3 61 (5.30%) Degree
4 47 (4.09%) SC Cleared
5 40 (3.48%) DBS Check
6 38 (3.30%) Cisco Certification
7 37 (3.22%) CCNA
8 36 (3.13%) A+ Certification
9 27 (2.35%) BPSS Clearance
10 22 (1.91%) Computer Science Degree
10 22 (1.91%) MCSE
10 22 (1.91%) Network+ Certification
11 19 (1.65%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 15 (1.30%) DV Cleared
13 13 (1.13%) CCNP
14 11 (0.96%) MCSA
15 8 (0.70%) Azure Certification
16 6 (0.52%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 6 (0.52%) MCITP
16 6 (0.52%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (4.87%) Cyber Essentials
2 55 (4.78%) SLA
3 36 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 17 (1.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 13 (1.13%) GDPR
6 6 (0.52%) Accessibility
7 5 (0.43%) NIST
8 3 (0.26%) QA
9 1 (0.087%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 400 (34.78%) Active Directory
2 97 (8.43%) Hyper-V
3 76 (6.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (1.74%) Virtual Desktop
5 11 (0.96%) VMware Workstation
6 9 (0.78%) vSphere
7 8 (0.70%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (0.43%) Firmware
8 5 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
9 4 (0.35%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.17%) Docker
10 2 (0.17%) XenDesktop
11 1 (0.087%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 152 (13.22%) Microsoft Intune
2 12 (1.04%) Jamf Pro
2 12 (1.04%) SCCM
3 11 (0.96%) Autotask
3 11 (0.96%) WSUS
4 9 (0.78%) FortiGate
5 8 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (0.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 7 (0.61%) Proxmox
7 6 (0.52%) Ansible
7 6 (0.52%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 5 (0.43%) Failover Clustering
8 5 (0.43%) SmoothWall
9 1 (0.087%) Kubernetes
9 1 (0.087%) Podman
9 1 (0.087%) Terraform
Vendors
1 479 (41.65%) Microsoft
2 110 (9.57%) VMware
3 72 (6.26%) Google
4 35 (3.04%) Cisco
5 34 (2.96%) Fortinet
6 32 (2.78%) Dell
7 30 (2.61%) Apple
7 30 (2.61%) Meraki
7 30 (2.61%) Veeam
8 28 (2.43%) Fujitsu
8 28 (2.43%) Virgin Media
9 17 (1.48%) Sage
10 14 (1.22%) WatchGuard
11 13 (1.13%) HP
12 12 (1.04%) ServiceNow
12 12 (1.04%) Xamarin
13 11 (0.96%) ESET
14 10 (0.87%) Adobe
14 10 (0.87%) Citrix
14 10 (0.87%) Ubiquiti