IT Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

IT Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median IT Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £32,001 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 114 203 239
Rank change year-on-year +89 +36 -71
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 1,720 1,068 1,073
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.46% 1.73% 1.52%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.59% 1.94% 1.59%
Number of salaries quoted 1,483 823 997
10th Percentile £23,500 £24,500 £22,750
25th Percentile £26,250 £27,000 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,001 £32,500 £32,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.54% - -
75th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £43,750
90th Percentile £48,750 £52,500 £52,350
UK median annual salary £32,500 £34,500 £34,000
% change year-on-year -5.80% +1.47% -2.86%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 66,397 55,186 67,621
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.79% 89.30% 95.79%
Number of salaries quoted 47,063 31,277 42,902
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.42% - +9.09%

IT Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured IT Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for IT Engineer in the UK excluding London

IT Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing IT Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for IT Engineer 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 27 April 2024.

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 27 April 2024. 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 +71 411 £34,000 +7.94% 72
Midlands +88 352 £35,000 +7.69% 68
North of England +80 347 £30,500 -11.59% 70
South West +12 234 £30,000 -7.69% 49
West Midlands +82 193 £35,000 +4.48% 31
East of England +67 184 £31,417 -1.82% 28
North West +39 165 £30,000 -14.29% 39
East Midlands +51 154 £37,500 +33.93% 37
Yorkshire +84 132 £30,000 +5.26% 24
Wales +96 122 £27,500 +4.27% 12
Scotland -60 64 £28,500 -6.56% 10
North East +28 49 £32,500 -1.52% 10
Northern Ireland +26 4 £30,000 - 4
Channel Islands - 3 - -
Isle of Man - 1 - -
IT Engineer
UK

IT Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, IT Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring IT Engineer in the job title.

1 943 (54.83%) Windows
2 849 (49.36%) Microsoft 365
3 831 (48.31%) Microsoft
4 710 (41.28%) Active Directory
5 599 (34.83%) Azure
6 573 (33.31%) Social Skills
7 505 (29.36%) Windows Server
8 437 (25.41%) Firewall
9 364 (21.16%) VMware
10 355 (20.64%) Problem-Solving
11 337 (19.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 320 (18.60%) Customer Service
13 291 (16.92%) Microsoft Exchange
14 271 (15.76%) Hyper-V
15 240 (13.95%) ITIL
16 236 (13.72%) VMware Infrastructure
17 226 (13.14%) Windows 10
18 219 (12.73%) SharePoint
19 214 (12.44%) Microsoft Office
20 209 (12.15%) Degree
21 207 (12.03%) Microsoft Intune
22 206 (11.98%) DNS
23 204 (11.86%) Entra ID
24 177 (10.29%) DHCP
25 163 (9.48%) Cisco
26 158 (9.19%) Driving Licence
27 151 (8.78%) Linux
27 151 (8.78%) Cybersecurity
28 146 (8.49%) SQL
29 140 (8.14%) Continuous Improvement

IT Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 291 (16.92%) Microsoft Exchange
2 219 (12.73%) SharePoint
3 16 (0.93%) IIS
4 14 (0.81%) Exchange Server 2013
5 11 (0.64%) Confluence
6 9 (0.52%) Exchange Server 2010
7 7 (0.41%) Exchange Server 2007
8 6 (0.35%) Exchange Server 2000
9 3 (0.17%) CMS
9 3 (0.17%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.17%) WordPress
10 2 (0.12%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
10 2 (0.12%) Exchange Server 2003
10 2 (0.12%) Skype for Business
11 1 (0.058%) Apache
11 1 (0.058%) Moodle
11 1 (0.058%) Site Server
11 1 (0.058%) Tomcat
Applications
1 214 (12.44%) Microsoft Office
2 50 (2.91%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
4 4 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.058%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.058%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.058%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (0.29%) Sage X3
2 4 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
3 3 (0.17%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.12%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.12%) SAP ERP
4 2 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.058%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.058%) MIS ActiveH
Cloud Services
1 849 (49.36%) Microsoft 365
2 599 (34.83%) Azure
3 204 (11.86%) Entra ID
4 84 (4.88%) AWS
5 51 (2.97%) OneDrive
6 32 (1.86%) Mimecast
7 28 (1.63%) Google Workspace
8 13 (0.76%) Power Platform
9 12 (0.70%) iTunes
10 11 (0.64%) SaaS
11 10 (0.58%) Power Automate
12 9 (0.52%) Nutanix
13 8 (0.47%) Cloud Computing
13 8 (0.47%) IaaS
13 8 (0.47%) PowerApps
14 7 (0.41%) PaaS
15 6 (0.35%) Serverless
15 6 (0.35%) WhatsApp
16 5 (0.29%) GCP
17 3 (0.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 437 (25.41%) Firewall
2 206 (11.98%) DNS
3 177 (10.29%) DHCP
4 135 (7.85%) Wi-Fi
5 130 (7.56%) VPN
6 121 (7.03%) TCP/IP
7 114 (6.63%) WAN
8 106 (6.16%) SAN
9 101 (5.87%) VoIP
10 99 (5.76%) LAN
11 93 (5.41%) Wireless
12 87 (5.06%) VLAN
13 54 (3.14%) Network Security
14 45 (2.62%) Internet
15 31 (1.80%) NAS
16 28 (1.63%) Remote Desktop
17 24 (1.40%) SD-WAN
18 19 (1.10%) SSL
19 17 (0.99%) Cisco IOS
19 17 (0.99%) PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 120 (6.98%) SQL Server
2 42 (2.44%) Amazon RDS
3 34 (1.98%) MySQL
4 8 (0.47%) MariaDB
5 5 (0.29%) Power BI
6 4 (0.23%) Crystal Reports
6 4 (0.23%) DB2
7 3 (0.17%) InfluxDB
7 3 (0.17%) Metabase
8 2 (0.12%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.12%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.058%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 23 (1.34%) JIRA
2 4 (0.23%) Visual Studio
3 3 (0.17%) LabVIEW
3 3 (0.17%) Visual Studio Code
4 2 (0.12%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.058%) Jenkins
General
1 573 (33.31%) Social Skills
2 139 (8.08%) Law
3 126 (7.33%) Manufacturing
4 83 (4.83%) Finance
5 75 (4.36%) Organisational Skills
5 75 (4.36%) Telecoms
6 70 (4.07%) Analytical Skills
7 68 (3.95%) Influencing Skills
7 68 (3.95%) Presentation Skills
8 45 (2.62%) Retail
9 38 (2.21%) Legal
10 35 (2.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 34 (1.98%) Documentation Skills
12 26 (1.51%) Marketing
13 23 (1.34%) Public Sector
14 17 (0.99%) Automotive
15 15 (0.87%) Advertising
15 15 (0.87%) Games
16 12 (0.70%) Back Office
17 9 (0.52%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (0.29%) Kafka
2 4 (0.23%) Cocoa
3 3 (0.17%) .NET
3 3 (0.17%) LAMP
4 2 (0.12%) CSS
4 2 (0.12%) HTML
4 2 (0.12%) V-Ray
5 1 (0.058%) EDI
5 1 (0.058%) JSON
5 1 (0.058%) LDAP
5 1 (0.058%) OAuth
5 1 (0.058%) RESTEasy
Miscellaneous
1 158 (9.19%) Driving Licence
2 68 (3.95%) FMCG
3 62 (3.60%) Self-Motivation
4 50 (2.91%) Management Information System
5 48 (2.79%) Data Centre
6 46 (2.67%) Replication
7 32 (1.86%) Onboarding
8 30 (1.74%) Fat Client
8 30 (1.74%) Thin Client
9 29 (1.69%) CCTV
10 24 (1.40%) Enterprise Storage
11 20 (1.16%) iPad
12 15 (0.87%) Public Cloud
13 12 (0.70%) EPoS
14 10 (0.58%) Life Science
14 10 (0.58%) Operational Technology
14 10 (0.58%) Security Posture
14 10 (0.58%) Social Media
15 9 (0.52%) Clustering
15 9 (0.52%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 943 (54.83%) Windows
2 505 (29.36%) Windows Server
3 226 (13.14%) Windows 10
4 151 (8.78%) Linux
5 133 (7.73%) Windows Server 2016
6 99 (5.76%) Windows Server 2019
7 86 (5.00%) Windows Server 2012
8 69 (4.01%) Mac OS
9 58 (3.37%) Android
9 58 (3.37%) Apple iOS
10 37 (2.15%) Windows 7
11 24 (1.40%) Windows 8
12 20 (1.16%) Windows Server 2008
13 12 (0.70%) Unix
14 10 (0.58%) Mac OS X
14 10 (0.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 9 (0.52%) Windows Server 2003
16 8 (0.47%) CentOS
17 5 (0.29%) Debian
18 4 (0.23%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 355 (20.64%) Problem-Solving
2 337 (19.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 320 (18.60%) Customer Service
4 240 (13.95%) ITIL
5 151 (8.78%) Cybersecurity
6 140 (8.14%) Continuous Improvement
7 87 (5.06%) Migration
7 87 (5.06%) Project Delivery
8 84 (4.88%) Disaster Recovery
9 80 (4.65%) Service Delivery
10 68 (3.95%) Benchmarking
10 68 (3.95%) Lean Manufacturing
10 68 (3.95%) Lean Six Sigma
10 68 (3.95%) Order Management
10 68 (3.95%) Six Sigma
11 67 (3.90%) Project Management
12 48 (2.79%) Agile
12 48 (2.79%) Incident Management
13 44 (2.56%) Service Management
14 43 (2.50%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 146 (8.49%) SQL
2 129 (7.50%) PowerShell
3 29 (1.69%) Python
4 13 (0.76%) Bash
5 11 (0.64%) Java
6 10 (0.58%) Swift
7 8 (0.47%) C++
7 8 (0.47%) PHP
8 7 (0.41%) JavaScript
9 6 (0.35%) C#
9 6 (0.35%) VB
10 4 (0.23%) R
11 1 (0.058%) Go
11 1 (0.058%) Perl
11 1 (0.058%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.058%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 209 (12.15%) Degree
2 114 (6.63%) Microsoft Certification
3 68 (3.95%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
4 67 (3.90%) DBS Check
5 66 (3.84%) Cisco Certification
6 55 (3.20%) CCNA
7 44 (2.56%) Network+ Certification
8 34 (1.98%) Security Cleared
9 33 (1.92%) Azure Certification
10 32 (1.86%) MCSE
11 30 (1.74%) A+ Certification
12 18 (1.05%) MCP
12 18 (1.05%) SC Cleared
13 15 (0.87%) CompTIA Security+
13 15 (0.87%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 14 (0.81%) CISSP
15 13 (0.76%) CCNP
16 12 (0.70%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
17 11 (0.64%) MCSA
18 10 (0.58%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (5.93%) SLA
2 35 (2.03%) GDPR
3 26 (1.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 18 (1.05%) Cyber Essentials
5 15 (0.87%) QA
6 7 (0.41%) NIST
7 6 (0.35%) SOC 2
8 4 (0.23%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 2 (0.12%) NCSC
11 1 (0.058%) COBIT
11 1 (0.058%) GRC
11 1 (0.058%) ISO 13485
11 1 (0.058%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 710 (41.28%) Active Directory
2 271 (15.76%) Hyper-V
3 236 (13.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 44 (2.56%) VMware ESXi
5 26 (1.51%) vSphere
6 25 (1.45%) Virtual Desktop
7 21 (1.22%) Virtual Servers
8 20 (1.16%) Virtual Machines
9 15 (0.87%) Docker
10 6 (0.35%) Firmware
10 6 (0.35%) Terminal Services
11 5 (0.29%) VMware Server
12 4 (0.23%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 2 (0.12%) pfSense
13 2 (0.12%) Samba
13 2 (0.12%) VMware Workstation
14 1 (0.058%) Microsoft App-V
14 1 (0.058%) NFS
14 1 (0.058%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 207 (12.03%) Microsoft Intune
2 76 (4.42%) SCCM
3 17 (0.99%) WSUS
4 14 (0.81%) SCOM
5 13 (0.76%) Cisco CUCM
5 13 (0.76%) ServiceCenter
6 12 (0.70%) Jamf Pro
6 12 (0.70%) Kubernetes
7 9 (0.52%) Ansible
8 8 (0.47%) vCenter Server
9 7 (0.41%) Failover Clustering
10 6 (0.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 6 (0.35%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
10 6 (0.35%) Opsgenie
11 5 (0.29%) Grafana
11 5 (0.29%) NetCrunch
12 4 (0.23%) FortiGate
12 4 (0.23%) Nessus
12 4 (0.23%) Proxmox
13 3 (0.17%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 831 (48.31%) Microsoft
2 364 (21.16%) VMware
3 163 (9.48%) Cisco
4 112 (6.51%) Citrix
5 106 (6.16%) Veeam
6 73 (4.24%) Apple
6 73 (4.24%) HP
7 69 (4.01%) Meraki
8 52 (3.02%) Sophos
9 36 (2.09%) Google
10 32 (1.86%) Fortinet
11 30 (1.74%) Dell
12 28 (1.63%) Palo Alto
13 27 (1.57%) Barracuda Networks
13 27 (1.57%) Draytek
14 25 (1.45%) Aruba
15 22 (1.28%) Acronis
16 21 (1.22%) ConnectWise
17 20 (1.16%) WatchGuard
18 11 (0.64%) Remedy