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 16 September 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 228 137
Rank change year-on-year +143 -91 +18
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 1,578 400 990
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.89% 1.16% 1.79%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.02% 1.30% 1.88%
Number of salaries quoted 1,402 311 716
10th Percentile £27,000 £25,500 £25,379
25th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £28,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.94%
75th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £45,000
90th Percentile £53,750 £57,500 £52,500
UK median annual salary £35,000 £37,500 £36,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +4.17% +2.86%

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 78,205 30,688 52,634
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.51% 89.33% 95.20%
Number of salaries quoted 54,314 17,458 30,845
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £38,572
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £59,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.27% - -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 16 September 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 16 September 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 +128 389 £38,500 -3.75% 115
Midlands +70 284 £34,750 -7.33% 71
East of England +107 267 £35,000 -3.45% 41
North of England +35 257 £32,720 -6.51% 75
South West +48 233 £35,000 -12.50% 35
North West +87 144 £33,488 -4.32% 47
West Midlands +53 142 £34,500 -27.37% 35
East Midlands +32 142 £35,000 +7.69% 36
Yorkshire -11 96 £30,000 -9.09% 19
Scotland +49 83 £28,500 +4.59% 48
Wales -33 54 £40,000 -50.00% 9
North East -53 17 £40,000 -17.95% 9
Northern Ireland -64 11 £41,000 +30.16% 8
IT Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 16 September 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.

1 786 (49.81%) Microsoft
2 734 (46.51%) Microsoft 365
3 693 (43.92%) Windows
4 530 (33.59%) Active Directory
5 422 (26.74%) Azure
6 383 (24.27%) Problem-Solving
7 361 (22.88%) Windows Server
8 343 (21.74%) Customer Service
9 336 (21.29%) Entra ID
10 275 (17.43%) Microsoft Intune
11 263 (16.67%) Firewall
12 254 (16.10%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 242 (15.34%) Microsoft Exchange
14 240 (15.21%) DNS
15 219 (13.88%) Cybersecurity
16 216 (13.69%) SharePoint
17 209 (13.24%) Hyper-V
18 207 (13.12%) DHCP
19 183 (11.60%) VMware
20 171 (10.84%) VPN
21 150 (9.51%) VMware Infrastructure
22 148 (9.38%) Continuous Improvement
23 143 (9.06%) Wi-Fi
24 140 (8.87%) Windows 10
25 138 (8.75%) TCP/IP
26 135 (8.56%) ITIL
27 124 (7.86%) Disaster Recovery
28 116 (7.35%) PowerShell
29 104 (6.59%) Cyber Essentials
30 100 (6.34%) Linux

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
1 242 (15.34%) Microsoft Exchange
2 216 (13.69%) SharePoint
3 20 (1.27%) IIS
4 7 (0.44%) Confluence
5 6 (0.38%) Apache
5 6 (0.38%) Exchange Server 2013
6 4 (0.25%) Exchange Server 2007
6 4 (0.25%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 66 (4.18%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (0.70%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.19%) Photoshop
4 2 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.13%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (0.38%) Raiser’s Edge
2 3 (0.19%) NetSuite
2 3 (0.19%) Shopify
3 2 (0.13%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 734 (46.51%) Microsoft 365
2 422 (26.74%) Azure
3 336 (21.29%) Entra ID
4 58 (3.68%) OneDrive
5 51 (3.23%) AWS
6 35 (2.22%) Google Workspace
7 29 (1.84%) Mimecast
8 28 (1.77%) Power Platform
9 24 (1.52%) SaaS
10 17 (1.08%) Power Automate
11 11 (0.70%) Dynamics 365
11 11 (0.70%) Nutanix
11 11 (0.70%) PaaS
12 9 (0.57%) Azure DevOps
13 8 (0.51%) IaaS
14 7 (0.44%) PowerApps
15 4 (0.25%) Microsoft Copilot
15 4 (0.25%) Serverless
16 3 (0.19%) Cloudflare
17 2 (0.13%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 263 (16.67%) Firewall
2 240 (15.21%) DNS
3 207 (13.12%) DHCP
4 171 (10.84%) VPN
5 143 (9.06%) Wi-Fi
6 138 (8.75%) TCP/IP
7 99 (6.27%) VoIP
8 92 (5.83%) VLAN
9 91 (5.77%) LAN
10 86 (5.45%) Wireless
11 79 (5.01%) WAN
12 33 (2.09%) Network Security
12 33 (2.09%) SAN
13 23 (1.46%) Internet
14 18 (1.14%) WLAN
15 16 (1.01%) SSL
16 14 (0.89%) Remote Desktop
17 8 (0.51%) NAS
17 8 (0.51%) PBX
18 7 (0.44%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (3.30%) SQL Server
2 12 (0.76%) MySQL
3 9 (0.57%) Azure SQL Database
4 7 (0.44%) Power BI
5 4 (0.25%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.13%) KNIME
Development Applications
1 37 (2.34%) JIRA
2 2 (0.13%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (0.063%) Carbide.c++
General
1 424 (26.87%) Social Skills
2 87 (5.51%) Manufacturing
3 84 (5.32%) Analytical Skills
4 73 (4.63%) Legal
5 43 (2.72%) Organisational Skills
6 42 (2.66%) Public Sector
7 39 (2.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 39 (2.47%) Telecoms
8 33 (2.09%) Advertising
9 32 (2.03%) Retail
10 30 (1.90%) Documentation Skills
11 28 (1.77%) Finance
12 17 (1.08%) Automotive
13 14 (0.89%) Law
14 10 (0.63%) Aerospace
15 6 (0.38%) Games
16 5 (0.32%) Local Government
16 5 (0.32%) Police
17 4 (0.25%) Aviation
17 4 (0.25%) Dutch Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (0.44%) HTML
1 7 (0.44%) JSON
2 4 (0.25%) .NET
2 4 (0.25%) ASP.NET Web Forms
2 4 (0.25%) WinForms
3 3 (0.19%) CSS
3 3 (0.19%) Terraform
3 3 (0.19%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 246 (15.59%) Driving Licence
2 92 (5.83%) Onboarding
3 68 (4.31%) Self-Motivation
4 50 (3.17%) CCTV
5 35 (2.22%) Data Centre
6 26 (1.65%) Operational Technology
7 21 (1.33%) FMCG
8 17 (1.08%) Analytical Mindset
9 16 (1.01%) Hybrid Cloud
9 16 (1.01%) Replication
10 13 (0.82%) Management Information System
10 13 (0.82%) Security Posture
11 11 (0.70%) Cloud Native
11 11 (0.70%) Clustering
11 11 (0.70%) Smartphone
12 9 (0.57%) Cyber Threat
13 8 (0.51%) PKI
14 7 (0.44%) EPoS
14 7 (0.44%) NHS
14 7 (0.44%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 693 (43.92%) Windows
2 361 (22.88%) Windows Server
3 140 (8.87%) Windows 10
4 100 (6.34%) Linux
5 95 (6.02%) Mac OS
6 46 (2.92%) Apple iOS
7 40 (2.53%) Android
8 37 (2.34%) Windows Server 2019
9 28 (1.77%) Windows Server 2016
10 23 (1.46%) Ubuntu
11 11 (0.70%) Windows Server 2012
12 6 (0.38%) Windows 7
13 5 (0.32%) Rocky
14 4 (0.25%) Debian
14 4 (0.25%) Mac OS X
14 4 (0.25%) Windows 8
15 2 (0.13%) VMS
16 1 (0.063%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 383 (24.27%) Problem-Solving
2 343 (21.74%) Customer Service
3 254 (16.10%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 219 (13.88%) Cybersecurity
5 148 (9.38%) Continuous Improvement
6 135 (8.56%) ITIL
7 124 (7.86%) Disaster Recovery
8 82 (5.20%) Project Delivery
9 60 (3.80%) ITSM
10 57 (3.61%) Mentoring
11 54 (3.42%) Service Management
12 52 (3.30%) Service Delivery
13 45 (2.85%) Business Continuity
13 45 (2.85%) User Experience
14 43 (2.72%) Remote Monitoring and Management
15 38 (2.41%) Time Management
16 36 (2.28%) Root Cause Analysis
17 35 (2.22%) Change Management
17 35 (2.22%) Collaborative Working
17 35 (2.22%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 116 (7.35%) PowerShell
2 51 (3.23%) SQL
3 10 (0.63%) Python
3 10 (0.63%) R
3 10 (0.63%) Ruby
4 4 (0.25%) C#
4 4 (0.25%) VBScript
5 3 (0.19%) Bicep
5 3 (0.19%) JavaScript
5 3 (0.19%) PHP
5 3 (0.19%) VB
5 3 (0.19%) VBA
6 2 (0.13%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 95 (6.02%) Microsoft Certification
2 91 (5.77%) Degree
3 62 (3.93%) DBS Check
4 56 (3.55%) CCNA
4 56 (3.55%) Cisco Certification
5 52 (3.30%) Security Cleared
6 43 (2.72%) Network+ Certification
7 34 (2.15%) SC Cleared
8 25 (1.58%) A+ Certification
8 25 (1.58%) Azure Certification
9 19 (1.20%) CompTIA Security+
9 19 (1.20%) MCSE
10 13 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
11 10 (0.63%) CCNP
12 9 (0.57%) MCSA
13 8 (0.51%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 6 (0.38%) AWS Certification
14 6 (0.38%) DV Cleared
15 5 (0.32%) Computer Science Degree
16 4 (0.25%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 104 (6.59%) Cyber Essentials
2 51 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 38 (2.41%) GDPR
4 28 (1.77%) SLA
5 27 (1.71%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 10 (0.63%) PCI DSS
7 5 (0.32%) Accessibility
8 4 (0.25%) NIST
9 3 (0.19%) QA
10 1 (0.063%) NCSC
System Software
1 530 (33.59%) Active Directory
2 209 (13.24%) Hyper-V
3 150 (9.51%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (1.08%) Virtual Machines
4 17 (1.08%) vSphere
5 15 (0.95%) Virtual Desktop
5 15 (0.95%) VMware ESXi
6 11 (0.70%) Docker
7 8 (0.51%) BitLocker
7 8 (0.51%) Firmware
8 5 (0.32%) Terminal Services
9 2 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.063%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 275 (17.43%) Microsoft Intune
2 19 (1.20%) SCCM
3 17 (1.08%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 15 (0.95%) WSUS
5 13 (0.82%) Jamf Pro
6 8 (0.51%) Proxmox
7 7 (0.44%) Failover Clustering
8 6 (0.38%) FortiGate
8 6 (0.38%) Kubernetes
9 4 (0.25%) Iperf
10 3 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.13%) Ansible
11 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
11 2 (0.13%) PaperCut
11 2 (0.13%) SCOM
12 1 (0.063%) Argo
12 1 (0.063%) Backup Exec
12 1 (0.063%) Nessus
Vendors
1 786 (49.81%) Microsoft
2 183 (11.60%) VMware
3 75 (4.75%) Cisco
4 68 (4.31%) Veeam
5 49 (3.11%) SonicWALL
6 47 (2.98%) Apple
7 37 (2.34%) Google
8 31 (1.96%) Dell
9 26 (1.65%) Sophos
10 24 (1.52%) Fortinet
11 23 (1.46%) Meraki
12 19 (1.20%) HP
13 18 (1.14%) Draytek
13 18 (1.14%) Ubiquiti
14 17 (1.08%) Logitech
14 17 (1.08%) TOWER Software
15 16 (1.01%) Palo Alto
16 13 (0.82%) Datto
16 13 (0.82%) ServiceNow
17 11 (0.70%) Aruba