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 24 September 2026.

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

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 91 234 136
Rank change year-on-year +143 -98 +18
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 1,597 398 975
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.86% 1.16% 1.80%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.00% 1.30% 1.89%
Number of salaries quoted 1,417 310 688
10th Percentile £27,000 £25,750 £25,008
25th Percentile £30,000 £28,625 £28,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +1.45%
75th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £44,625
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 79,899 30,633 51,702
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.20% 89.34% 95.24%
Number of salaries quoted 55,249 17,421 29,497
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £38,750
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 £59,250 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.73% - -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 24 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 24 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 +125 394 £37,500 -6.25% 110
Midlands +66 297 £34,500 -8.00% 73
North of England +40 258 £33,475 -4.36% 77
East of England +99 255 £35,000 -3.45% 40
South West +38 242 £35,000 -3.45% 34
West Midlands +51 150 £34,500 -29.23% 31
North West +80 147 £34,000 -2.86% 50
East Midlands +36 147 £35,000 +20.69% 41
Yorkshire -25 91 £30,000 -9.09% 19
Scotland +54 86 £28,500 -0.87% 54
Wales -34 54 £40,000 -50.00% 20
North East -52 20 £40,000 -17.95% 8
Northern Ireland -76 11 £41,000 +30.16% 11
IT Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 24 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.

1 798 (49.97%) Microsoft
2 751 (47.03%) Microsoft 365
3 719 (45.02%) Windows
4 542 (33.94%) Active Directory
5 432 (27.05%) Azure
6 395 (24.73%) Problem-Solving
7 369 (23.11%) Windows Server
8 352 (22.04%) Customer Service
9 348 (21.79%) Entra ID
10 285 (17.85%) Microsoft Intune
11 268 (16.78%) Firewall
12 267 (16.72%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 254 (15.90%) DNS
14 248 (15.53%) Microsoft Exchange
15 225 (14.09%) Cybersecurity
16 219 (13.71%) SharePoint
17 216 (13.53%) DHCP
18 215 (13.46%) Hyper-V
19 190 (11.90%) VMware
20 179 (11.21%) VPN
21 153 (9.58%) VMware Infrastructure
22 148 (9.27%) Continuous Improvement
23 147 (9.20%) Wi-Fi
24 145 (9.08%) TCP/IP
25 144 (9.02%) ITIL
26 139 (8.70%) Windows 10
27 127 (7.95%) Disaster Recovery
28 115 (7.20%) PowerShell
29 105 (6.57%) Cyber Essentials
30 104 (6.51%) 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
1 248 (15.53%) Microsoft Exchange
2 219 (13.71%) SharePoint
3 20 (1.25%) 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 68 (4.26%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (0.75%) 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 4 (0.25%) NetSuite
2 4 (0.25%) Shopify
3 2 (0.13%) Sage 200
4 1 (0.063%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 751 (47.03%) Microsoft 365
2 432 (27.05%) Azure
3 348 (21.79%) Entra ID
4 62 (3.88%) OneDrive
5 52 (3.26%) AWS
6 41 (2.57%) Google Workspace
7 30 (1.88%) Mimecast
8 26 (1.63%) Power Platform
9 24 (1.50%) SaaS
10 16 (1.00%) Power Automate
11 11 (0.69%) Dynamics 365
11 11 (0.69%) Nutanix
12 10 (0.63%) PaaS
13 9 (0.56%) Azure DevOps
14 7 (0.44%) IaaS
15 6 (0.38%) PowerApps
16 4 (0.25%) Serverless
17 3 (0.19%) Cloud Computing
17 3 (0.19%) Cloudflare
17 3 (0.19%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 268 (16.78%) Firewall
2 254 (15.90%) DNS
3 216 (13.53%) DHCP
4 179 (11.21%) VPN
5 147 (9.20%) Wi-Fi
6 145 (9.08%) TCP/IP
7 101 (6.32%) VoIP
8 99 (6.20%) LAN
9 95 (5.95%) VLAN
10 87 (5.45%) WAN
10 87 (5.45%) Wireless
11 35 (2.19%) SAN
12 32 (2.00%) Network Security
13 23 (1.44%) Internet
14 17 (1.06%) WLAN
15 16 (1.00%) SSL
16 14 (0.88%) Remote Desktop
17 8 (0.50%) NAS
17 8 (0.50%) PBX
18 7 (0.44%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (3.38%) SQL Server
2 12 (0.75%) MySQL
3 9 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
4 5 (0.31%) Power BI
5 4 (0.25%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.13%) KNIME
Development Applications
1 37 (2.32%) JIRA
2 2 (0.13%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (0.063%) Carbide.c++
General
1 442 (27.68%) Social Skills
2 83 (5.20%) Analytical Skills
3 82 (5.13%) Manufacturing
4 72 (4.51%) Legal
5 48 (3.01%) Public Sector
6 45 (2.82%) Organisational Skills
7 41 (2.57%) Telecoms
8 36 (2.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 33 (2.07%) Advertising
9 33 (2.07%) Retail
10 31 (1.94%) Documentation Skills
11 28 (1.75%) Finance
12 17 (1.06%) Automotive
13 13 (0.81%) Law
14 11 (0.69%) Aerospace
15 7 (0.44%) Aviation
16 6 (0.38%) Games
17 5 (0.31%) Local Government
17 5 (0.31%) Police
18 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%) Web Services
4 2 (0.13%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 254 (15.90%) Driving Licence
2 93 (5.82%) Onboarding
3 69 (4.32%) Self-Motivation
4 51 (3.19%) CCTV
5 35 (2.19%) Data Centre
6 24 (1.50%) Operational Technology
7 20 (1.25%) FMCG
8 17 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
9 16 (1.00%) Hybrid Cloud
9 16 (1.00%) Replication
10 14 (0.88%) Security Posture
11 13 (0.81%) Management Information System
12 11 (0.69%) Cloud Native
12 11 (0.69%) Clustering
12 11 (0.69%) Smartphone
13 9 (0.56%) Cyber Threat
14 8 (0.50%) NHS
14 8 (0.50%) PKI
15 7 (0.44%) EPoS
15 7 (0.44%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 719 (45.02%) Windows
2 369 (23.11%) Windows Server
3 139 (8.70%) Windows 10
4 104 (6.51%) Linux
5 97 (6.07%) Mac OS
6 45 (2.82%) Apple iOS
7 39 (2.44%) Android
8 38 (2.38%) Windows Server 2019
9 30 (1.88%) Windows Server 2016
10 23 (1.44%) Ubuntu
11 12 (0.75%) Windows Server 2012
12 6 (0.38%) Windows 7
13 5 (0.31%) Rocky
14 4 (0.25%) Debian
14 4 (0.25%) Windows 8
15 3 (0.19%) Mac OS X
16 2 (0.13%) Unix
16 2 (0.13%) VMS
17 1 (0.063%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 395 (24.73%) Problem-Solving
2 352 (22.04%) Customer Service
3 267 (16.72%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 225 (14.09%) Cybersecurity
5 148 (9.27%) Continuous Improvement
6 144 (9.02%) ITIL
7 127 (7.95%) Disaster Recovery
8 83 (5.20%) Project Delivery
9 64 (4.01%) ITSM
10 59 (3.69%) Mentoring
11 55 (3.44%) Service Delivery
12 54 (3.38%) Service Management
13 51 (3.19%) Business Continuity
14 45 (2.82%) Remote Monitoring and Management
14 45 (2.82%) User Experience
15 39 (2.44%) Root Cause Analysis
16 38 (2.38%) Time Management
17 37 (2.32%) Change Management
17 37 (2.32%) Migration
18 36 (2.25%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 115 (7.20%) PowerShell
2 50 (3.13%) SQL
3 11 (0.69%) Ruby
4 10 (0.63%) Python
4 10 (0.63%) R
5 4 (0.25%) C#
5 4 (0.25%) VBScript
6 3 (0.19%) Bicep
6 3 (0.19%) JavaScript
6 3 (0.19%) PHP
6 3 (0.19%) VB
6 3 (0.19%) VBA
7 2 (0.13%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 96 (6.01%) Microsoft Certification
2 90 (5.64%) Degree
3 60 (3.76%) DBS Check
4 57 (3.57%) CCNA
4 57 (3.57%) Cisco Certification
5 54 (3.38%) Security Cleared
6 41 (2.57%) Network+ Certification
7 35 (2.19%) SC Cleared
8 26 (1.63%) Azure Certification
9 25 (1.57%) A+ Certification
10 20 (1.25%) MCSE
11 18 (1.13%) CompTIA Security+
12 13 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
13 10 (0.63%) CCNP
13 10 (0.63%) MCSA
14 9 (0.56%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 6 (0.38%) AWS Certification
15 6 (0.38%) DV Cleared
15 6 (0.38%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 5 (0.31%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 105 (6.57%) Cyber Essentials
2 51 (3.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 39 (2.44%) GDPR
4 26 (1.63%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 26 (1.63%) SLA
5 10 (0.63%) PCI DSS
6 5 (0.31%) Accessibility
7 4 (0.25%) NIST
8 3 (0.19%) NCSC
8 3 (0.19%) QA
System Software
1 542 (33.94%) Active Directory
2 215 (13.46%) Hyper-V
3 153 (9.58%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (1.13%) Virtual Machines
5 17 (1.06%) vSphere
6 15 (0.94%) Virtual Desktop
6 15 (0.94%) VMware ESXi
7 11 (0.69%) Docker
8 9 (0.56%) Firmware
9 7 (0.44%) BitLocker
10 4 (0.25%) Terminal Services
11 3 (0.19%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.063%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 285 (17.85%) Microsoft Intune
2 18 (1.13%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 17 (1.06%) SCCM
4 15 (0.94%) Jamf Pro
5 14 (0.88%) WSUS
6 8 (0.50%) 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%) Backup Exec
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
11 2 (0.13%) SmoothWall
12 1 (0.063%) Argo
12 1 (0.063%) Nessus
Vendors
1 798 (49.97%) Microsoft
2 190 (11.90%) VMware
3 81 (5.07%) Cisco
4 73 (4.57%) Veeam
5 49 (3.07%) SonicWALL
6 48 (3.01%) Apple
7 43 (2.69%) Google
8 31 (1.94%) Dell
9 29 (1.82%) Sophos
10 28 (1.75%) Meraki
11 25 (1.57%) Fortinet
12 20 (1.25%) TOWER Software
13 19 (1.19%) Draytek
13 19 (1.19%) HP
14 18 (1.13%) Logitech
14 18 (1.13%) Palo Alto
14 18 (1.13%) Ubiquiti
15 15 (0.94%) Datto
16 14 (0.88%) ServiceNow
17 11 (0.69%) Aruba