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 30 March 2026.

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

6 months to
30 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 118 111
Rank change year-on-year +39 -7 +105
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 1,270 610 1,659
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 2.25% 2.34% 2.63%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.44% 2.62% 2.78%
Number of salaries quoted 1,105 408 1,434
10th Percentile £25,750 £25,350 £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 £45,450 £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 51,979 23,326 59,748
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.25% 89.44% 94.73%
Number of salaries quoted 33,419 14,543 44,501
10th Percentile £28,250 £29,250 £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 £68,568 £63,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £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 30 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 30 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 +62 356 £33,500 -4.29% 75
North of England +58 282 £32,175 -3.54% 59
Midlands -27 236 £32,000 -8.57% 46
East of England +47 165 £30,000 +9.09% 30
North West +60 144 £31,000 -11.43% 35
South West +41 141 £34,500 -1.43% 41
East Midlands -8 136 £30,000 - 22
Yorkshire +14 127 £33,500 +11.67% 22
West Midlands -50 100 £32,500 -7.14% 24
Scotland +6 66 £30,000 +9.09% 14
Wales -3 24 £40,000 +9.59% 16
North East -19 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 30 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.

1 529 (41.65%) Microsoft 365
2 522 (41.10%) Microsoft
3 516 (40.63%) Windows
4 420 (33.07%) Active Directory
5 351 (27.64%) Problem-Solving
6 341 (26.85%) Azure
7 263 (20.71%) Windows Server
8 258 (20.31%) Customer Service
9 200 (15.75%) Firewall
10 196 (15.43%) Entra ID
11 166 (13.07%) DNS
12 159 (12.52%) Microsoft Intune
13 153 (12.05%) DHCP
14 135 (10.63%) ITIL
14 135 (10.63%) SharePoint
14 135 (10.63%) Windows 10
15 127 (10.00%) VPN
16 122 (9.61%) Cybersecurity
16 122 (9.61%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 112 (8.82%) Microsoft Exchange
18 109 (8.58%) VMware
19 101 (7.95%) LAN
20 99 (7.80%) WAN
21 96 (7.56%) Hyper-V
22 90 (7.09%) Microsoft Office
23 81 (6.38%) Mentoring
24 78 (6.14%) Microsoft Certification
25 76 (5.98%) Wi-Fi
26 75 (5.91%) Security Cleared
27 74 (5.83%) VMware Infrastructure

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
1 135 (10.63%) SharePoint
2 112 (8.82%) Microsoft Exchange
3 15 (1.18%) Confluence
4 12 (0.94%) Exchange Server 2013
5 11 (0.87%) Exchange Server 2007
5 11 (0.87%) Exchange Server 2010
5 11 (0.87%) IIS
Applications
1 90 (7.09%) Microsoft Office
2 22 (1.73%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.16%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.079%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 7 (0.55%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.39%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.079%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 529 (41.65%) Microsoft 365
2 341 (26.85%) Azure
3 196 (15.43%) Entra ID
4 58 (4.57%) Google Workspace
5 55 (4.33%) AWS
6 35 (2.76%) OneDrive
7 25 (1.97%) SaaS
8 23 (1.81%) Power Platform
9 19 (1.50%) GCP
10 14 (1.10%) PaaS
11 13 (1.02%) IaaS
12 11 (0.87%) Azure DevOps
12 11 (0.87%) PowerApps
13 10 (0.79%) Power Automate
14 9 (0.71%) Azure Sentinel
15 8 (0.63%) Mimecast
16 7 (0.55%) Microsoft Copilot
17 5 (0.39%) Intacct
17 5 (0.39%) OCI
18 3 (0.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 200 (15.75%) Firewall
2 166 (13.07%) DNS
3 153 (12.05%) DHCP
4 127 (10.00%) VPN
5 101 (7.95%) LAN
6 99 (7.80%) WAN
7 76 (5.98%) Wi-Fi
8 64 (5.04%) TCP/IP
9 55 (4.33%) VLAN
10 40 (3.15%) VoIP
11 30 (2.36%) Wireless
12 23 (1.81%) Network Security
13 17 (1.34%) SD-WAN
14 16 (1.26%) SAN
15 14 (1.10%) Remote Desktop
16 13 (1.02%) WLAN
17 10 (0.79%) IP Telephony
18 7 (0.55%) Internet
18 7 (0.55%) TETRA
19 4 (0.31%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (2.44%) SQL Server
2 23 (1.81%) Power BI
3 8 (0.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 7 (0.55%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (0.31%) Relational Database
6 3 (0.24%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 38 (2.99%) JIRA
2 4 (0.31%) GitLab
3 1 (0.079%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.079%) Git
3 1 (0.079%) LabVIEW
General
1 312 (24.57%) Social Skills
2 82 (6.46%) Organisational Skills
3 57 (4.49%) Manufacturing
4 50 (3.94%) Analytical Skills
5 44 (3.46%) Finance
5 44 (3.46%) Retail
6 42 (3.31%) Law
7 39 (3.07%) Public Sector
8 35 (2.76%) Telecoms
9 33 (2.60%) Legal
10 30 (2.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 28 (2.20%) Multimedia
12 11 (0.87%) Electronics
13 9 (0.71%) Advertising
14 6 (0.47%) Documentation Skills
14 6 (0.47%) Fire and Rescue
14 6 (0.47%) Marketing
14 6 (0.47%) Police
14 6 (0.47%) Spanish Language
15 5 (0.39%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (0.71%) .NET
2 8 (0.63%) .NET Framework
2 8 (0.63%) Entity Framework
2 8 (0.63%) WinForms
3 5 (0.39%) ASP.NET
4 4 (0.31%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (0.079%) Software Packaging
5 1 (0.079%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 205 (16.14%) Driving Licence
2 59 (4.65%) Onboarding
3 45 (3.54%) Self-Motivation
4 22 (1.73%) Analytical Mindset
5 20 (1.57%) CCTV
5 20 (1.57%) Data Centre
6 19 (1.50%) FMCG
7 18 (1.42%) Smartphone
8 11 (0.87%) Security Posture
9 7 (0.55%) Social Media
10 6 (0.47%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (0.47%) iPad
10 6 (0.47%) iPhone
10 6 (0.47%) PMI
11 5 (0.39%) Life Science
11 5 (0.39%) Linux Command Line
11 5 (0.39%) Management Information System
11 5 (0.39%) Mobile App
11 5 (0.39%) NHS
11 5 (0.39%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 516 (40.63%) Windows
2 263 (20.71%) Windows Server
3 135 (10.63%) Windows 10
4 59 (4.65%) Mac OS
5 42 (3.31%) Linux
6 31 (2.44%) Windows Server 2019
7 29 (2.28%) Windows Server 2016
8 23 (1.81%) Android
9 20 (1.57%) Apple iOS
10 17 (1.34%) Windows 7
11 14 (1.10%) Windows Server 2012
12 11 (0.87%) Windows 8
13 6 (0.47%) Windows Server 2008
14 3 (0.24%) Debian
14 3 (0.24%) Mac OS X
15 2 (0.16%) Ubuntu
16 1 (0.079%) CentOS
16 1 (0.079%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 1 (0.079%) Solaris
16 1 (0.079%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 351 (27.64%) Problem-Solving
2 258 (20.31%) Customer Service
3 135 (10.63%) ITIL
4 122 (9.61%) Cybersecurity
4 122 (9.61%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 81 (6.38%) Mentoring
6 67 (5.28%) Service Delivery
7 61 (4.80%) ITSM
8 46 (3.62%) Remote Monitoring and Management
9 44 (3.46%) Continuous Improvement
10 41 (3.23%) Disaster Recovery
10 41 (3.23%) Process Improvement
11 40 (3.15%) Root Cause Analysis
12 39 (3.07%) Project Delivery
13 38 (2.99%) Service Management
14 37 (2.91%) Incident Management
15 35 (2.76%) ERP
16 34 (2.68%) Asset Management
17 32 (2.52%) Data Protection
18 31 (2.44%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 56 (4.41%) PowerShell
2 44 (3.46%) SQL
3 9 (0.71%) C#
3 9 (0.71%) Python
4 8 (0.63%) T-SQL
5 7 (0.55%) Bash
6 5 (0.39%) PL/SQL
6 5 (0.39%) VB
6 5 (0.39%) VBScript
7 4 (0.31%) R
8 3 (0.24%) Uniface
9 2 (0.16%) Google Apps Script
10 1 (0.079%) PHP
Qualifications
1 78 (6.14%) Microsoft Certification
2 75 (5.91%) Security Cleared
3 58 (4.57%) Degree
4 48 (3.78%) SC Cleared
5 42 (3.31%) Cisco Certification
6 41 (3.23%) CCNA
6 41 (3.23%) DBS Check
7 38 (2.99%) A+ Certification
8 29 (2.28%) Network+ Certification
9 28 (2.20%) BPSS Clearance
10 23 (1.81%) MCSE
11 18 (1.42%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 17 (1.34%) Computer Science Degree
13 15 (1.18%) CCNP
13 15 (1.18%) DV Cleared
14 11 (0.87%) MCSA
15 10 (0.79%) Azure Certification
16 7 (0.55%) CompTIA Security+
17 6 (0.47%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
17 6 (0.47%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (5.28%) SLA
2 58 (4.57%) Cyber Essentials
3 41 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 20 (1.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 9 (0.71%) GDPR
6 5 (0.39%) NIST
7 4 (0.31%) QA
8 3 (0.24%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.079%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 420 (33.07%) Active Directory
2 96 (7.56%) Hyper-V
3 74 (5.83%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (1.50%) Virtual Desktop
5 11 (0.87%) VMware Workstation
6 9 (0.71%) VMware ESXi
7 8 (0.63%) vSphere
8 5 (0.39%) Firmware
8 5 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
9 4 (0.31%) Docker
9 4 (0.31%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.079%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.079%) Terminal Services
10 1 (0.079%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 159 (12.52%) Microsoft Intune
2 16 (1.26%) SCCM
3 14 (1.10%) WSUS
4 12 (0.94%) Autotask
4 12 (0.94%) Jamf Pro
5 10 (0.79%) FortiGate
6 8 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
7 7 (0.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 6 (0.47%) Ansible
8 6 (0.47%) Proxmox
8 6 (0.47%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 5 (0.39%) SmoothWall
10 2 (0.16%) Terraform
11 1 (0.079%) Failover Clustering
11 1 (0.079%) Kubernetes
11 1 (0.079%) Podman
Vendors
1 522 (41.10%) Microsoft
2 109 (8.58%) VMware
3 69 (5.43%) Google
4 37 (2.91%) Cisco
5 35 (2.76%) Apple
5 35 (2.76%) Fortinet
6 31 (2.44%) Dell
7 30 (2.36%) Meraki
8 28 (2.20%) Fujitsu
8 28 (2.20%) Virgin Media
9 24 (1.89%) Veeam
10 14 (1.10%) Sage
10 14 (1.10%) WatchGuard
11 13 (1.02%) ServiceNow
12 12 (0.94%) HP
13 11 (0.87%) Epicor
13 11 (0.87%) ESET
14 10 (0.79%) Citrix
14 10 (0.79%) SAP
14 10 (0.79%) Ubiquiti