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 18 October 2026.

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

6 months to
18 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 89 203 124
Rank change year-on-year +114 -79 +23
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 1,527 466 958
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.74% 1.36% 1.95%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.89% 1.52% 2.04%
Number of salaries quoted 1,296 378 606
10th Percentile £27,125 £25,700 £25,750
25th Percentile £30,000 £28,000 £29,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £34,500 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.45% -1.43% +1.45%
75th Percentile £43,750 £43,250 £45,000
90th Percentile £52,500 £53,750 £53,750
UK median annual salary £35,000 £35,000 £37,000
% change year-on-year - -5.41% +5.71%

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.

6 months to
18 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 80,907 30,649 46,936
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.26% 89.72% 95.41%
Number of salaries quoted 55,756 17,542 25,700
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £45,390 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.17% -9.22% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £63,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £79,725 £80,000
UK median annual salary £58,750 £52,500 £56,000
% change year-on-year +11.90% -6.25% -6.67%

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 18 October 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 18 October 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 +89 372 £38,500 +10.00% 86
Midlands +51 285 £35,000 +7.69% 52
North of England +32 254 £35,000 - 77
South West +40 239 £35,000 - 49
East of England +78 213 £35,000 - 37
West Midlands +50 159 £34,500 -27.37% 21
North West +51 140 £35,000 +8.53% 41
East Midlands +6 126 £35,000 +19.66% 31
Scotland +61 96 £30,000 - 31
Yorkshire -15 90 £30,000 -16.08% 30
Wales -31 54 £37,500 -53.13% 9
North East -51 24 £40,000 -17.95% 8
Northern Ireland -66 12 £41,000 +30.16% 6
Channel Islands +1 2 £35,000 -22.22% 3
IT Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 18 October 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.

RankSkillShareJob Ads
1Microsoft52.3%798
2Microsoft 36549.1%750
3Windows48.1%734
4Active Directory35.2%537
5Azure28.0%427
6Problem-Solving25.7%392
7Windows Server24.0%367
8Entra ID23.9%365
9Customer Service22.4%342
10Microsoft Intune19.6%300
11Firewall18.3%280
11Infrastructure Engineering18.3%280
13DNS17.7%271
14Microsoft Exchange16.8%256
15Cybersecurity15.5%237
16DHCP15.3%233
17Hyper-V14.5%222
18SharePoint13.8%210
19VPN13.4%205
20VMware12.6%193
21TCP/IP10.5%161
22VMware Infrastructure10.1%154
23Wi-Fi9.8%149
24ITIL9.6%147
25Continuous Improvement9.4%144
26Windows 107.9%121
27Disaster Recovery7.8%119
27PowerShell7.8%119
27VLAN7.8%119
30LAN7.4%113

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 Engineer68.9%1,052
2IT Infrastructure Engineer11.8%180
32nd Line Engineer9.9%151
42nd Line Support Engineer9.2%140
5Senior IT Engineer9.0%138
6Field Engineer7.8%119
7Systems Engineer7.5%114
8Senior IT Support6.2%95
9Senior Support Engineer5.8%88
103rd Line Engineer5.2%79
113rd Line Support Engineer4.9%75
12IT Security Engineer3.8%58
13Field Service Engineer3.6%55
141st/2nd Line Support Engineer3.5%53
151st Line Engineer2.9%44
161st Line Support Engineer2.8%43
17Infrastructure Support Engineer2.4%37
18Systems Support Engineer2.0%31
19Service Desk Engineer1.8%28
20Senior Infrastructure Engineer1.7%26
343 IT Engineer jobs in the UK excluding London