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 £31,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 9 January 2026.

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

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 129 135 119
Rank change year-on-year +6 -16 +104
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 695 740 865
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.64% 2.05% 2.58%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.82% 2.20% 2.71%
Number of salaries quoted 604 432 739
10th Percentile £25,560 £25,750 £25,000
25th Percentile £27,500 £28,500 £28,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,500 £35,000 £34,854
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +0.42% +8.92%
75th Percentile £38,750 £43,750 £42,500
90th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £52,500
UK median annual salary £32,500 £36,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year -9.72% +2.86% +6.06%

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 38,285 33,619 31,967
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.45% 92.95% 95.35%
Number of salaries quoted 23,298 16,416 24,168
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £78,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -4.17%

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 9 January 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 9 January 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
Midlands -25 180 £31,500 -10.00% 28
South East +26 175 £32,000 -14.67% 62
North of England +16 132 £32,500 -7.14% 57
East Midlands +12 121 £30,000 - 13
South West +17 79 £32,750 -6.47% 32
East of England +23 70 £30,000 -4.00% 16
Yorkshire +13 64 £35,000 +6.06% 23
North West +11 62 £30,000 -21.05% 29
West Midlands -59 59 £35,000 - 15
Scotland +23 49 £30,000 -14.29% 15
Wales +15 15 £35,000 -17.65% 10
North East +2 6 £30,000 -16.67% 10
Northern Ireland -8 1 £31,500 -47.50% 3
IT Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 9 January 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.

1 352 (50.65%) Microsoft 365
2 342 (49.21%) Windows
3 341 (49.06%) Microsoft
4 290 (41.73%) Active Directory
5 243 (34.96%) Azure
6 235 (33.81%) Problem-Solving
7 192 (27.63%) Windows Server
8 151 (21.73%) Customer Service
9 137 (19.71%) Firewall
10 131 (18.85%) DNS
11 124 (17.84%) DHCP
12 121 (17.41%) Microsoft Intune
13 120 (17.27%) Entra ID
14 106 (15.25%) SharePoint
15 101 (14.53%) ITIL
16 78 (11.22%) Cybersecurity
16 78 (11.22%) VMware
17 77 (11.08%) VPN
18 74 (10.65%) Windows 10
19 71 (10.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
20 69 (9.93%) Hyper-V
21 66 (9.50%) Microsoft Exchange
22 62 (8.92%) Microsoft Certification
23 59 (8.49%) TCP/IP
24 57 (8.20%) Degree
24 57 (8.20%) VLAN
24 57 (8.20%) VMware Infrastructure
25 54 (7.77%) Microsoft Office
26 50 (7.19%) WAN
27 49 (7.05%) LAN

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
1 106 (15.25%) SharePoint
2 66 (9.50%) Microsoft Exchange
3 20 (2.88%) IIS
4 7 (1.01%) Confluence
5 2 (0.29%) Exchange Server 2007
5 2 (0.29%) Exchange Server 2010
5 2 (0.29%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 54 (7.77%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (2.16%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.29%) Acrobat
5 1 (0.14%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 9 (1.29%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.43%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.29%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.14%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.14%) Pegasus Opera
Cloud Services
1 352 (50.65%) Microsoft 365
2 243 (34.96%) Azure
3 120 (17.27%) Entra ID
4 35 (5.04%) AWS
5 27 (3.88%) Google Workspace
5 27 (3.88%) OneDrive
6 21 (3.02%) GCP
7 19 (2.73%) Power Platform
7 19 (2.73%) SaaS
8 15 (2.16%) Azure DevOps
9 12 (1.73%) Power Automate
10 6 (0.86%) iPaaS
11 5 (0.72%) Azure AI
11 5 (0.72%) Azure Sentinel
11 5 (0.72%) Cloud Computing
11 5 (0.72%) Microsoft Copilot
12 4 (0.58%) Datadog
12 4 (0.58%) IaaS
12 4 (0.58%) PaaS
12 4 (0.58%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 137 (19.71%) Firewall
2 131 (18.85%) DNS
3 124 (17.84%) DHCP
4 77 (11.08%) VPN
5 59 (8.49%) TCP/IP
6 57 (8.20%) VLAN
7 50 (7.19%) WAN
8 49 (7.05%) LAN
9 44 (6.33%) Wi-Fi
10 31 (4.46%) Wireless
11 24 (3.45%) VoIP
12 21 (3.02%) SAN
13 19 (2.73%) Network Security
14 11 (1.58%) WLAN
15 10 (1.44%) IP Telephony
15 10 (1.44%) Remote Desktop
16 7 (1.01%) Internet
16 7 (1.01%) IPsec
16 7 (1.01%) SD-WAN
17 6 (0.86%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (3.17%) SQL Server
2 17 (2.45%) Power BI
3 12 (1.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 10 (1.44%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (0.58%) Relational Database
6 3 (0.43%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 17 (2.45%) JIRA
2 1 (0.14%) Bitbucket
2 1 (0.14%) Git
2 1 (0.14%) Snyk
General
1 227 (32.66%) Social Skills
2 45 (6.47%) Organisational Skills
3 43 (6.19%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (5.76%) Manufacturing
5 39 (5.61%) Finance
6 32 (4.60%) Law
7 30 (4.32%) Public Sector
8 28 (4.03%) Telecoms
9 23 (3.31%) Legal
10 16 (2.30%) Retail
11 15 (2.16%) Electronics
12 13 (1.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 10 (1.44%) Documentation Skills
13 10 (1.44%) Marketing
14 6 (0.86%) Advertising
14 6 (0.86%) Fire and Rescue
14 6 (0.86%) Police
15 5 (0.72%) Pharmaceutical
16 4 (0.58%) Dutch Language
16 4 (0.58%) French Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (1.87%) .NET
2 12 (1.73%) .NET Framework
2 12 (1.73%) Entity Framework
2 12 (1.73%) WinForms
3 7 (1.01%) ASP.NET
4 1 (0.14%) 802.1X
4 1 (0.14%) EDI
4 1 (0.14%) LAMP
4 1 (0.14%) OAuth
4 1 (0.14%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 125 (17.99%) Driving Licence
2 48 (6.91%) Onboarding
3 29 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
4 18 (2.59%) Analytical Mindset
5 12 (1.73%) Smartphone
6 11 (1.58%) CCTV
6 11 (1.58%) Data Centre
6 11 (1.58%) FMCG
7 10 (1.44%) Clustering
8 9 (1.29%) iPad
9 6 (0.86%) Cyber Security Posture
9 6 (0.86%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (0.86%) PMI
9 6 (0.86%) Social Media
10 5 (0.72%) Hybrid Cloud
10 5 (0.72%) Life Science
10 5 (0.72%) Mobile App
10 5 (0.72%) Security Posture
11 4 (0.58%) Enterprise Storage
11 4 (0.58%) Solar Panel
Operating Systems
1 342 (49.21%) Windows
2 192 (27.63%) Windows Server
3 74 (10.65%) Windows 10
4 33 (4.75%) Linux
5 27 (3.88%) Mac OS
6 20 (2.88%) Windows Server 2019
7 14 (2.01%) Android
7 14 (2.01%) Windows Server 2016
8 10 (1.44%) Apple iOS
9 6 (0.86%) Windows 7
9 6 (0.86%) Windows Server 2012
10 4 (0.58%) Windows 8
11 3 (0.43%) Debian
11 3 (0.43%) Rocky
12 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 1 (0.14%) Solaris
12 1 (0.14%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.14%) Unix
12 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 235 (33.81%) Problem-Solving
2 151 (21.73%) Customer Service
3 101 (14.53%) ITIL
4 78 (11.22%) Cybersecurity
5 71 (10.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 37 (5.32%) Mentoring
7 35 (5.04%) ITSM
8 34 (4.89%) Service Delivery
9 32 (4.60%) Data Protection
9 32 (4.60%) Project Delivery
10 31 (4.46%) Incident Management
11 30 (4.32%) Disaster Recovery
11 30 (4.32%) Remote Monitoring and Management
12 27 (3.88%) Business Intelligence
13 26 (3.74%) Continuous Improvement
14 25 (3.60%) Process Improvement
15 23 (3.31%) Asset Management
15 23 (3.31%) Computer Science
16 22 (3.17%) Migration
16 22 (3.17%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 40 (5.76%) PowerShell
2 37 (5.32%) SQL
3 14 (2.01%) C#
4 13 (1.87%) T-SQL
5 10 (1.44%) Python
6 7 (1.01%) PL/SQL
6 7 (1.01%) VBScript
7 3 (0.43%) Bash
8 1 (0.14%) Google Apps Script
8 1 (0.14%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 62 (8.92%) Microsoft Certification
2 57 (8.20%) Degree
3 29 (4.17%) Cisco Certification
3 29 (4.17%) DBS Check
4 28 (4.03%) A+ Certification
4 28 (4.03%) Security Cleared
5 26 (3.74%) CCNA
6 24 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
7 21 (3.02%) MCP
7 21 (3.02%) SC Cleared
8 19 (2.73%) MCSE
9 17 (2.45%) BPSS Clearance
10 15 (2.16%) Network+ Certification
11 9 (1.29%) Azure Certification
11 9 (1.29%) MCSA
12 8 (1.15%) CCNP
13 7 (1.01%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 6 (0.86%) PMI Certification
15 5 (0.72%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 4 (0.58%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (5.61%) Cyber Essentials
2 32 (4.60%) SLA
3 29 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 18 (2.59%) GDPR
5 6 (0.86%) Accessibility
6 5 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 5 (0.72%) NIST
7 2 (0.29%) GxP
7 2 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.14%) QA
System Software
1 290 (41.73%) Active Directory
2 69 (9.93%) Hyper-V
3 57 (8.20%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (1.58%) Firmware
4 11 (1.58%) Virtual Desktop
5 6 (0.86%) Docker
6 5 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.58%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (0.58%) VMware Workstation
8 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 2 (0.29%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.29%) vSphere
8 2 (0.29%) XenDesktop
9 1 (0.14%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 121 (17.41%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (1.29%) Jamf Pro
2 9 (1.29%) Kubernetes
3 8 (1.15%) Autotask
3 8 (1.15%) SCCM
4 6 (0.86%) Failover Clustering
4 6 (0.86%) FortiGate
4 6 (0.86%) WSUS
5 5 (0.72%) SmoothWall
5 5 (0.72%) vCenter Server
6 3 (0.43%) Ansible
7 2 (0.29%) Podman
7 2 (0.29%) Proxmox
7 2 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Satellite
8 1 (0.14%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 1 (0.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 341 (49.06%) Microsoft
2 78 (11.22%) VMware
3 38 (5.47%) Google
4 33 (4.75%) Cisco
5 31 (4.46%) Veeam
6 28 (4.03%) Apple
7 20 (2.88%) Meraki
8 17 (2.45%) Dell
9 14 (2.01%) ServiceNow
9 14 (2.01%) Zoho
10 13 (1.87%) Sage
11 12 (1.73%) Xamarin
12 10 (1.44%) SAP
12 10 (1.44%) WatchGuard
13 9 (1.29%) Adobe
14 8 (1.15%) Draytek
15 7 (1.01%) Mitel
15 7 (1.01%) Sophos
16 6 (0.86%) HP
16 6 (0.86%) Salesforce