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 9 June 2026.

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

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 206 107
Rank change year-on-year +141 -99 +76
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 1,564 432 1,824
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 2.37% 1.47% 2.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.51% 1.65% 2.51%
Number of salaries quoted 1,377 337 1,540
10th Percentile £26,500 £25,750 £23,500
25th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £35,000 £32,500
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% -
75th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
90th Percentile £50,000 £50,625 £48,250
UK median annual salary £35,000 £35,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year - +7.69% -5.80%

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 62,390 26,239 72,577
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.44% 89.06% 94.94%
Number of salaries quoted 43,046 14,192 52,127
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,968 £26,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £34,750 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.54%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £76,950
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%

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 June 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 June 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 +97 397 £35,000 -6.67% 57
North of England +99 354 £33,500 +3.08% 45
Midlands +80 261 £32,500 -7.14% 31
East of England +103 242 £35,000 +12.00% 27
South West +63 206 £35,000 +1.45% 29
North West +136 200 £35,000 +9.38% 24
Yorkshire -1 141 £33,500 +11.67% 17
West Midlands +59 132 £32,500 -7.14% 10
East Midlands +39 129 £30,000 -8.40% 21
Scotland +42 59 £28,000 -6.67% 12
Wales 0 45 £45,000 +5.88% 11
North East -39 13 £32,000 -20.00% 5
IT Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 9 June 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.

1 597 (38.17%) Microsoft
2 590 (37.72%) Microsoft 365
3 531 (33.95%) Windows
4 434 (27.75%) Active Directory
5 375 (23.98%) Azure
6 363 (23.21%) Problem-Solving
7 299 (19.12%) Customer Service
8 288 (18.41%) Windows Server
9 243 (15.54%) Entra ID
10 234 (14.96%) Firewall
11 173 (11.06%) Microsoft Intune
12 170 (10.87%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 159 (10.17%) SharePoint
14 157 (10.04%) DNS
14 157 (10.04%) Microsoft Exchange
15 149 (9.53%) VPN
16 147 (9.40%) Cybersecurity
17 145 (9.27%) VMware
18 143 (9.14%) Windows 10
19 140 (8.95%) Hyper-V
20 134 (8.57%) DHCP
21 119 (7.61%) ITIL
22 116 (7.42%) LAN
23 114 (7.29%) VMware Infrastructure
24 108 (6.91%) WAN
25 101 (6.46%) Wi-Fi
26 97 (6.20%) Security Cleared
27 92 (5.88%) PowerShell
28 85 (5.43%) Microsoft Office
29 83 (5.31%) Mentoring

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
1 159 (10.17%) SharePoint
2 157 (10.04%) Microsoft Exchange
3 17 (1.09%) Confluence
4 15 (0.96%) Exchange Server 2013
5 13 (0.83%) Exchange Server 2007
5 13 (0.83%) Exchange Server 2010
6 9 (0.58%) IIS
Applications
1 85 (5.43%) Microsoft Office
2 18 (1.15%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.19%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.064%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.064%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (0.38%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.32%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.064%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 590 (37.72%) Microsoft 365
2 375 (23.98%) Azure
3 243 (15.54%) Entra ID
4 47 (3.01%) AWS
5 46 (2.94%) Google Workspace
6 44 (2.81%) OneDrive
7 22 (1.41%) Power Platform
8 21 (1.34%) SaaS
9 19 (1.21%) PaaS
10 18 (1.15%) Mimecast
11 14 (0.90%) IaaS
12 9 (0.58%) Azure DevOps
12 9 (0.58%) PowerApps
13 7 (0.45%) Azure Sentinel
14 6 (0.38%) Microsoft Copilot
15 5 (0.32%) Intacct
15 5 (0.32%) Nutanix
15 5 (0.32%) OCI
15 5 (0.32%) Power Automate
16 4 (0.26%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 234 (14.96%) Firewall
2 157 (10.04%) DNS
3 149 (9.53%) VPN
4 134 (8.57%) DHCP
5 116 (7.42%) LAN
6 108 (6.91%) WAN
7 101 (6.46%) Wi-Fi
8 65 (4.16%) VoIP
9 50 (3.20%) VLAN
10 48 (3.07%) TCP/IP
11 35 (2.24%) Wireless
12 31 (1.98%) SAN
13 24 (1.53%) Network Security
14 17 (1.09%) WLAN
15 13 (0.83%) SD-WAN
16 12 (0.77%) Internet
17 11 (0.70%) Remote Desktop
18 10 (0.64%) SSL
19 7 (0.45%) NAS
20 5 (0.32%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (2.37%) SQL Server
2 13 (0.83%) Power BI
3 6 (0.38%) MySQL
4 4 (0.26%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (0.19%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.064%) KNIME
Development Applications
1 40 (2.56%) JIRA
2 4 (0.26%) GitLab
3 1 (0.064%) Carbide.c++
3 1 (0.064%) LabVIEW
3 1 (0.064%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 325 (20.78%) Social Skills
2 64 (4.09%) Manufacturing
3 59 (3.77%) Analytical Skills
4 57 (3.64%) Organisational Skills
5 51 (3.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 41 (2.62%) Legal
7 38 (2.43%) Public Sector
7 38 (2.43%) Telecoms
8 36 (2.30%) Retail
9 34 (2.17%) Law
10 31 (1.98%) Finance
11 28 (1.79%) Multimedia
12 14 (0.90%) Automotive
13 12 (0.77%) Advertising
14 8 (0.51%) Documentation Skills
15 5 (0.32%) Aerospace
15 5 (0.32%) Local Government
15 5 (0.32%) Social Housing
16 4 (0.26%) Dutch Language
16 4 (0.26%) Portuguese Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (0.45%) HTML
1 7 (0.45%) JSON
2 4 (0.26%) OpenTelemetry
2 4 (0.26%) Web Services
3 3 (0.19%) CSS
4 1 (0.064%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 219 (14.00%) Driving Licence
2 60 (3.84%) Onboarding
3 50 (3.20%) Self-Motivation
4 29 (1.85%) CCTV
5 28 (1.79%) Data Centre
6 26 (1.66%) Analytical Mindset
7 25 (1.60%) FMCG
8 14 (0.90%) Management Information System
9 12 (0.77%) Security Posture
9 12 (0.77%) Smartphone
10 11 (0.70%) NHS
11 10 (0.64%) Clustering
12 8 (0.51%) Social Media
13 7 (0.45%) Hybrid Cloud
13 7 (0.45%) Operational Technology
13 7 (0.45%) Replication
14 6 (0.38%) Enterprise Software
14 6 (0.38%) iPhone
15 5 (0.32%) Linux Command Line
15 5 (0.32%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 531 (33.95%) Windows
2 288 (18.41%) Windows Server
3 143 (9.14%) Windows 10
4 75 (4.80%) Mac OS
5 68 (4.35%) Linux
6 42 (2.69%) Windows Server 2019
7 38 (2.43%) Windows Server 2016
8 31 (1.98%) Android
8 31 (1.98%) Apple iOS
9 17 (1.09%) Windows 7
10 15 (0.96%) Windows Server 2012
11 11 (0.70%) Windows 8
12 8 (0.51%) Ubuntu
13 5 (0.32%) Windows Server 2008
14 4 (0.26%) Mac OS X
15 1 (0.064%) CentOS
15 1 (0.064%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 1 (0.064%) Rocky
15 1 (0.064%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 363 (23.21%) Problem-Solving
2 299 (19.12%) Customer Service
3 170 (10.87%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 147 (9.40%) Cybersecurity
5 119 (7.61%) ITIL
6 83 (5.31%) Mentoring
7 81 (5.18%) Disaster Recovery
8 72 (4.60%) Continuous Improvement
9 64 (4.09%) Service Delivery
10 55 (3.52%) Root Cause Analysis
11 54 (3.45%) ITSM
12 53 (3.39%) Service Management
13 52 (3.32%) Project Delivery
14 48 (3.07%) Remote Monitoring and Management
15 41 (2.62%) Time Management
16 39 (2.49%) Business Continuity
17 34 (2.17%) ERP
17 34 (2.17%) User Experience
18 32 (2.05%) Process Improvement
19 29 (1.85%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 92 (5.88%) PowerShell
2 52 (3.32%) SQL
3 6 (0.38%) Bash
4 5 (0.32%) Python
4 5 (0.32%) VB
5 4 (0.26%) PHP
5 4 (0.26%) R
5 4 (0.26%) VBScript
6 3 (0.19%) JavaScript
6 3 (0.19%) Uniface
6 3 (0.19%) VBA
7 2 (0.13%) Google Apps Script
8 1 (0.064%) Bicep
8 1 (0.064%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 97 (6.20%) Security Cleared
2 82 (5.24%) Microsoft Certification
3 78 (4.99%) Degree
4 69 (4.41%) SC Cleared
5 62 (3.96%) DBS Check
6 45 (2.88%) CCNA
6 45 (2.88%) Cisco Certification
7 39 (2.49%) Network+ Certification
8 29 (1.85%) A+ Certification
9 25 (1.60%) BPSS Clearance
10 19 (1.21%) Azure Certification
11 17 (1.09%) MCSE
12 16 (1.02%) CompTIA Security+
12 16 (1.02%) DV Cleared
13 8 (0.51%) CCNP
14 5 (0.32%) MCITP
15 4 (0.26%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 4 (0.26%) Computer Science Degree
16 3 (0.19%) ITIL Certification
16 3 (0.19%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (5.05%) Cyber Essentials
2 55 (3.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 49 (3.13%) SLA
4 32 (2.05%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 15 (0.96%) GDPR
6 9 (0.58%) PCI DSS
7 7 (0.45%) NIST
8 6 (0.38%) QA
9 4 (0.26%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.064%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 434 (27.75%) Active Directory
2 140 (8.95%) Hyper-V
3 114 (7.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 24 (1.53%) Virtual Desktop
5 16 (1.02%) VMware ESXi
6 12 (0.77%) vSphere
7 10 (0.64%) Docker
8 8 (0.51%) BitLocker
9 7 (0.45%) VMware Workstation
10 6 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
11 5 (0.32%) Terminal Services
12 4 (0.26%) VMware NSX
13 3 (0.19%) Firmware
14 1 (0.064%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 173 (11.06%) Microsoft Intune
2 22 (1.41%) SCCM
3 13 (0.83%) Proxmox
3 13 (0.83%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 12 (0.77%) FortiGate
4 12 (0.77%) Jamf Pro
4 12 (0.77%) WSUS
5 11 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
6 8 (0.51%) Autotask
7 7 (0.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 6 (0.38%) Failover Clustering
9 4 (0.26%) Ansible
10 3 (0.19%) SmoothWall
10 3 (0.19%) Terraform
11 2 (0.13%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 597 (38.17%) Microsoft
2 145 (9.27%) VMware
3 52 (3.32%) Google
4 50 (3.20%) Cisco
5 38 (2.43%) Apple
5 38 (2.43%) Meraki
6 37 (2.37%) Fortinet
6 37 (2.37%) Veeam
7 29 (1.85%) Dell
8 28 (1.79%) Fujitsu
8 28 (1.79%) Virgin Media
9 21 (1.34%) Sophos
10 17 (1.09%) Ubiquiti
11 15 (0.96%) HP
12 13 (0.83%) Epicor
12 13 (0.83%) SonicWALL
13 11 (0.70%) ServiceNow
14 10 (0.64%) Logitech
15 9 (0.58%) Sage
16 8 (0.51%) TOWER Software