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 £32,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 29 March 2026.

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

6 months to
29 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 122 111
Rank change year-on-year +41 -11 +99
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 1,257 608 1,656
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 2.23% 2.34% 2.63%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.42% 2.61% 2.78%
Number of salaries quoted 1,093 407 1,431
10th Percentile £25,750 £25,300 £23,500
25th Percentile £28,000 £26,250 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £34,000 £32,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.41% +4.62% +2.36%
75th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £42,500
90th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £48,750
UK median annual salary £32,868 £35,000 £33,000
% change year-on-year -6.09% +6.06% -1.49%

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 51,913 23,269 59,597
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.24% 89.43% 94.73%
Number of salaries quoted 33,234 14,504 44,446
10th Percentile £28,250 £29,500 £26,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £81,250 £82,500 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -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 29 March 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 29 March 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 +69 353 £33,250 -5.00% 75
North of England +60 280 £32,175 -3.54% 59
Midlands -23 236 £32,000 -8.57% 46
East of England +46 161 £30,000 +9.09% 30
North West +59 143 £30,750 -12.14% 35
South West +44 140 £35,000 - 41
East Midlands -5 136 £30,000 - 22
Yorkshire +12 126 £33,500 +11.67% 22
West Midlands -56 100 £32,500 -7.14% 24
Scotland +2 64 £30,000 +9.09% 14
Wales -1 23 £40,000 +9.59% 16
North East -24 11 £30,000 -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 29 March 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.

1 526 (41.85%) Microsoft 365
2 520 (41.37%) Microsoft
3 513 (40.81%) Windows
4 418 (33.25%) Active Directory
5 349 (27.76%) Problem-Solving
6 340 (27.05%) Azure
7 261 (20.76%) Windows Server
8 255 (20.29%) Customer Service
9 198 (15.75%) Firewall
10 194 (15.43%) Entra ID
11 164 (13.05%) DNS
12 159 (12.65%) Microsoft Intune
13 151 (12.01%) DHCP
14 134 (10.66%) ITIL
14 134 (10.66%) SharePoint
14 134 (10.66%) Windows 10
15 128 (10.18%) VPN
16 122 (9.71%) Cybersecurity
16 122 (9.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 110 (8.75%) Microsoft Exchange
17 110 (8.75%) VMware
18 100 (7.96%) LAN
19 98 (7.80%) WAN
20 96 (7.64%) Hyper-V
21 91 (7.24%) Microsoft Office
22 81 (6.44%) Mentoring
23 78 (6.21%) Microsoft Certification
24 75 (5.97%) Security Cleared
24 75 (5.97%) VMware Infrastructure
24 75 (5.97%) Wi-Fi

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
1 134 (10.66%) SharePoint
2 110 (8.75%) Microsoft Exchange
3 15 (1.19%) Confluence
4 12 (0.95%) Exchange Server 2013
5 11 (0.88%) Exchange Server 2007
5 11 (0.88%) Exchange Server 2010
5 11 (0.88%) IIS
Applications
1 91 (7.24%) Microsoft Office
2 22 (1.75%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.16%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.080%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 7 (0.56%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.40%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.080%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 526 (41.85%) Microsoft 365
2 340 (27.05%) Azure
3 194 (15.43%) Entra ID
4 58 (4.61%) Google Workspace
5 55 (4.38%) AWS
6 35 (2.78%) OneDrive
7 24 (1.91%) SaaS
8 23 (1.83%) Power Platform
9 19 (1.51%) GCP
10 14 (1.11%) PaaS
11 13 (1.03%) IaaS
12 12 (0.95%) Azure DevOps
13 11 (0.88%) PowerApps
14 10 (0.80%) Power Automate
15 9 (0.72%) Azure Sentinel
16 7 (0.56%) Mimecast
17 6 (0.48%) Microsoft Copilot
18 5 (0.40%) Intacct
18 5 (0.40%) OCI
19 3 (0.24%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 198 (15.75%) Firewall
2 164 (13.05%) DNS
3 151 (12.01%) DHCP
4 128 (10.18%) VPN
5 100 (7.96%) LAN
6 98 (7.80%) WAN
7 75 (5.97%) Wi-Fi
8 62 (4.93%) TCP/IP
9 55 (4.38%) VLAN
10 39 (3.10%) VoIP
11 30 (2.39%) Wireless
12 23 (1.83%) Network Security
13 17 (1.35%) SD-WAN
14 16 (1.27%) SAN
15 14 (1.11%) Remote Desktop
16 13 (1.03%) WLAN
17 10 (0.80%) IP Telephony
18 7 (0.56%) Internet
18 7 (0.56%) TETRA
19 4 (0.32%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (2.39%) SQL Server
2 23 (1.83%) Power BI
3 8 (0.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 7 (0.56%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (0.32%) Relational Database
6 3 (0.24%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 36 (2.86%) JIRA
2 4 (0.32%) GitLab
3 1 (0.080%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.080%) Git
3 1 (0.080%) LabVIEW
General
1 312 (24.82%) Social Skills
2 83 (6.60%) Organisational Skills
3 54 (4.30%) Manufacturing
4 50 (3.98%) Analytical Skills
5 44 (3.50%) Finance
5 44 (3.50%) Retail
6 42 (3.34%) Law
7 39 (3.10%) Public Sector
8 35 (2.78%) Telecoms
9 32 (2.55%) Legal
10 30 (2.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 28 (2.23%) Multimedia
12 11 (0.88%) Electronics
13 9 (0.72%) Advertising
14 6 (0.48%) Documentation Skills
14 6 (0.48%) Fire and Rescue
14 6 (0.48%) Marketing
14 6 (0.48%) Police
14 6 (0.48%) Spanish Language
15 5 (0.40%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (0.72%) .NET
2 8 (0.64%) .NET Framework
2 8 (0.64%) Entity Framework
2 8 (0.64%) WinForms
3 5 (0.40%) ASP.NET
4 4 (0.32%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (0.080%) Software Packaging
5 1 (0.080%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 205 (16.31%) Driving Licence
2 59 (4.69%) Onboarding
3 45 (3.58%) Self-Motivation
4 22 (1.75%) Analytical Mindset
5 20 (1.59%) CCTV
5 20 (1.59%) Data Centre
6 18 (1.43%) Smartphone
7 17 (1.35%) FMCG
8 11 (0.88%) Security Posture
9 7 (0.56%) Social Media
10 6 (0.48%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (0.48%) iPad
10 6 (0.48%) iPhone
10 6 (0.48%) PMI
11 5 (0.40%) Life Science
11 5 (0.40%) Linux Command Line
11 5 (0.40%) Management Information System
11 5 (0.40%) Mobile App
11 5 (0.40%) NHS
11 5 (0.40%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 513 (40.81%) Windows
2 261 (20.76%) Windows Server
3 134 (10.66%) Windows 10
4 59 (4.69%) Mac OS
5 43 (3.42%) Linux
6 31 (2.47%) Windows Server 2019
7 29 (2.31%) Windows Server 2016
8 23 (1.83%) Android
9 20 (1.59%) Apple iOS
10 17 (1.35%) Windows 7
11 14 (1.11%) Windows Server 2012
12 11 (0.88%) Windows 8
13 6 (0.48%) Windows Server 2008
14 3 (0.24%) Debian
14 3 (0.24%) Mac OS X
14 3 (0.24%) Ubuntu
15 1 (0.080%) CentOS
15 1 (0.080%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 1 (0.080%) Solaris
15 1 (0.080%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 349 (27.76%) Problem-Solving
2 255 (20.29%) Customer Service
3 134 (10.66%) ITIL
4 122 (9.71%) Cybersecurity
4 122 (9.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 81 (6.44%) Mentoring
6 67 (5.33%) Service Delivery
7 61 (4.85%) ITSM
8 46 (3.66%) Remote Monitoring and Management
9 44 (3.50%) Continuous Improvement
10 41 (3.26%) Disaster Recovery
10 41 (3.26%) Process Improvement
11 40 (3.18%) Root Cause Analysis
12 38 (3.02%) Project Delivery
12 38 (3.02%) Service Management
13 36 (2.86%) Incident Management
14 35 (2.78%) ERP
15 34 (2.70%) Asset Management
16 32 (2.55%) Data Protection
17 31 (2.47%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 56 (4.46%) PowerShell
2 44 (3.50%) SQL
3 9 (0.72%) C#
3 9 (0.72%) Python
4 8 (0.64%) T-SQL
5 7 (0.56%) Bash
6 5 (0.40%) PL/SQL
6 5 (0.40%) VB
6 5 (0.40%) VBScript
7 3 (0.24%) R
7 3 (0.24%) Uniface
8 2 (0.16%) Google Apps Script
9 1 (0.080%) PHP
Qualifications
1 78 (6.21%) Microsoft Certification
2 75 (5.97%) Security Cleared
3 58 (4.61%) Degree
4 48 (3.82%) SC Cleared
5 41 (3.26%) Cisco Certification
6 40 (3.18%) CCNA
6 40 (3.18%) DBS Check
7 38 (3.02%) A+ Certification
8 28 (2.23%) BPSS Clearance
8 28 (2.23%) Network+ Certification
9 23 (1.83%) MCSE
10 18 (1.43%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 17 (1.35%) Computer Science Degree
12 15 (1.19%) CCNP
12 15 (1.19%) DV Cleared
13 11 (0.88%) MCSA
14 10 (0.80%) Azure Certification
15 7 (0.56%) CompTIA Security+
16 6 (0.48%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 6 (0.48%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (5.17%) SLA
2 58 (4.61%) Cyber Essentials
3 40 (3.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 20 (1.59%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 9 (0.72%) GDPR
6 5 (0.40%) NIST
7 4 (0.32%) QA
8 3 (0.24%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.080%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 418 (33.25%) Active Directory
2 96 (7.64%) Hyper-V
3 75 (5.97%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (1.51%) Virtual Desktop
5 11 (0.88%) VMware Workstation
6 9 (0.72%) VMware ESXi
7 8 (0.64%) vSphere
8 5 (0.40%) Firmware
8 5 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
9 4 (0.32%) Docker
9 4 (0.32%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.080%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.080%) Terminal Services
10 1 (0.080%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 159 (12.65%) Microsoft Intune
2 15 (1.19%) SCCM
3 14 (1.11%) WSUS
4 12 (0.95%) Autotask
4 12 (0.95%) Jamf Pro
5 10 (0.80%) FortiGate
6 8 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
7 7 (0.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 7 (0.56%) Proxmox
8 6 (0.48%) Ansible
8 6 (0.48%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 5 (0.40%) SmoothWall
10 2 (0.16%) Terraform
11 1 (0.080%) Failover Clustering
11 1 (0.080%) Kubernetes
11 1 (0.080%) Podman
Vendors
1 520 (41.37%) Microsoft
2 110 (8.75%) VMware
3 69 (5.49%) Google
4 36 (2.86%) Cisco
5 35 (2.78%) Apple
6 34 (2.70%) Fortinet
7 31 (2.47%) Dell
7 31 (2.47%) Meraki
8 28 (2.23%) Fujitsu
8 28 (2.23%) Virgin Media
9 24 (1.91%) Veeam
10 14 (1.11%) Sage
10 14 (1.11%) WatchGuard
11 13 (1.03%) ServiceNow
12 12 (0.95%) HP
13 11 (0.88%) Epicor
13 11 (0.88%) ESET
13 11 (0.88%) Ubiquiti
14 10 (0.80%) Citrix
14 10 (0.80%) SAP