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 £34,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 31 May 2026.

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

6 months to
31 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 207 108
Rank change year-on-year +127 -99 +74
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 1,515 451 1,765
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 2.25% 1.55% 2.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.40% 1.74% 2.56%
Number of salaries quoted 1,329 330 1,509
10th Percentile £26,250 £25,750 £23,500
25th Percentile £29,625 £26,813 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £34,500 £34,250 £32,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.73% +5.38% -
75th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
90th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £47,650
UK median annual salary £35,000 £35,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year - +7.69% -7.14%

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 63,236 25,954 68,853
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.85% 89.05% 94.87%
Number of salaries quoted 42,280 13,840 49,970
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £26,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,967 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% +1.93% -6.54%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £76,250
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 31 May 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 31 May 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 +106 372 £34,750 -6.08% 65
North of England +95 349 £32,940 +1.35% 37
Midlands +49 254 £32,500 -7.14% 29
East of England +94 238 £35,000 +16.67% 29
South West +67 200 £35,000 +3.70% 26
North West +123 192 £33,970 +0.65% 21
Yorkshire +3 146 £33,500 +11.67% 12
West Midlands +23 128 £32,500 -7.14% 10
East Midlands +37 126 £30,000 -9.09% 19
Scotland +35 61 £28,000 -6.67% 7
Wales -2 41 £45,000 +13.92% 10
North East -44 11 £30,000 -25.00% 6
IT Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 31 May 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.

1 574 (37.89%) Microsoft
2 573 (37.82%) Microsoft 365
3 518 (34.19%) Windows
4 427 (28.18%) Active Directory
5 367 (24.22%) Azure
6 361 (23.83%) Problem-Solving
7 293 (19.34%) Customer Service
8 284 (18.75%) Windows Server
9 234 (15.45%) Entra ID
10 227 (14.98%) Firewall
11 167 (11.02%) Microsoft Intune
12 156 (10.30%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 153 (10.10%) DNS
14 152 (10.03%) SharePoint
15 146 (9.64%) VPN
16 144 (9.50%) Microsoft Exchange
17 140 (9.24%) Cybersecurity
18 138 (9.11%) Windows 10
19 137 (9.04%) VMware
20 134 (8.84%) Hyper-V
21 132 (8.71%) DHCP
22 117 (7.72%) LAN
23 116 (7.66%) ITIL
24 109 (7.19%) WAN
25 107 (7.06%) VMware Infrastructure
26 99 (6.53%) Wi-Fi
27 96 (6.34%) Security Cleared
28 83 (5.48%) Microsoft Office
29 82 (5.41%) Mentoring
29 82 (5.41%) PowerShell

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
1 152 (10.03%) SharePoint
2 144 (9.50%) Microsoft Exchange
3 17 (1.12%) Confluence
4 15 (0.99%) Exchange Server 2013
5 13 (0.86%) Exchange Server 2007
5 13 (0.86%) Exchange Server 2010
6 9 (0.59%) IIS
Applications
1 83 (5.48%) Microsoft Office
2 18 (1.19%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.20%) Photoshop
4 2 (0.13%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.066%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (0.40%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.33%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.066%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.066%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 573 (37.82%) Microsoft 365
2 367 (24.22%) Azure
3 234 (15.45%) Entra ID
4 48 (3.17%) AWS
5 47 (3.10%) Google Workspace
6 40 (2.64%) OneDrive
7 21 (1.39%) SaaS
8 20 (1.32%) Power Platform
9 19 (1.25%) PaaS
10 17 (1.12%) Mimecast
11 14 (0.92%) IaaS
12 9 (0.59%) Azure DevOps
12 9 (0.59%) PowerApps
13 8 (0.53%) Azure Sentinel
14 6 (0.40%) Microsoft Copilot
15 5 (0.33%) Intacct
15 5 (0.33%) OCI
16 4 (0.26%) GCP
16 4 (0.26%) Nutanix
16 4 (0.26%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 227 (14.98%) Firewall
2 153 (10.10%) DNS
3 146 (9.64%) VPN
4 132 (8.71%) DHCP
5 117 (7.72%) LAN
6 109 (7.19%) WAN
7 99 (6.53%) Wi-Fi
8 61 (4.03%) VoIP
9 50 (3.30%) VLAN
10 46 (3.04%) TCP/IP
11 33 (2.18%) Wireless
12 29 (1.91%) SAN
13 24 (1.58%) Network Security
14 19 (1.25%) WLAN
15 13 (0.86%) SD-WAN
16 12 (0.79%) Remote Desktop
17 9 (0.59%) Internet
17 9 (0.59%) SSL
18 7 (0.46%) NAS
19 5 (0.33%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (2.44%) SQL Server
2 13 (0.86%) Power BI
3 5 (0.33%) MySQL
4 4 (0.26%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (0.13%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.066%) KNIME
Development Applications
1 41 (2.71%) JIRA
2 4 (0.26%) GitLab
3 1 (0.066%) Carbide.c++
3 1 (0.066%) LabVIEW
General
1 317 (20.92%) Social Skills
2 68 (4.49%) Manufacturing
3 59 (3.89%) Organisational Skills
4 57 (3.76%) Analytical Skills
5 51 (3.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 39 (2.57%) Telecoms
7 38 (2.51%) Legal
7 38 (2.51%) Public Sector
8 36 (2.38%) Retail
9 34 (2.24%) Finance
9 34 (2.24%) Law
10 28 (1.85%) Multimedia
11 14 (0.92%) Advertising
11 14 (0.92%) Automotive
12 5 (0.33%) Aerospace
12 5 (0.33%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (0.33%) Local Government
12 5 (0.33%) Social Housing
13 4 (0.26%) Dutch Language
13 4 (0.26%) Portuguese Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (0.46%) HTML
1 7 (0.46%) JSON
2 4 (0.26%) OpenTelemetry
2 4 (0.26%) Web Services
3 3 (0.20%) CSS
4 1 (0.066%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 207 (13.66%) Driving Licence
2 58 (3.83%) Onboarding
3 52 (3.43%) Self-Motivation
4 28 (1.85%) CCTV
5 27 (1.78%) Analytical Mindset
5 27 (1.78%) Data Centre
6 24 (1.58%) FMCG
7 14 (0.92%) Management Information System
8 12 (0.79%) Smartphone
9 11 (0.73%) NHS
9 11 (0.73%) Security Posture
10 10 (0.66%) Clustering
11 9 (0.59%) Social Media
12 7 (0.46%) Operational Technology
12 7 (0.46%) Replication
13 6 (0.40%) Hybrid Cloud
13 6 (0.40%) iPhone
14 5 (0.33%) Enterprise Software
14 5 (0.33%) Linux Command Line
14 5 (0.33%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 518 (34.19%) Windows
2 284 (18.75%) Windows Server
3 138 (9.11%) Windows 10
4 68 (4.49%) Mac OS
5 65 (4.29%) Linux
6 41 (2.71%) Windows Server 2019
7 37 (2.44%) Windows Server 2016
8 32 (2.11%) Android
9 30 (1.98%) Apple iOS
10 17 (1.12%) Windows 7
11 14 (0.92%) Windows Server 2012
12 11 (0.73%) Windows 8
13 7 (0.46%) Ubuntu
14 5 (0.33%) Windows Server 2008
15 4 (0.26%) Mac OS X
16 1 (0.066%) CentOS
16 1 (0.066%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 1 (0.066%) Rocky
16 1 (0.066%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 361 (23.83%) Problem-Solving
2 293 (19.34%) Customer Service
3 156 (10.30%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 140 (9.24%) Cybersecurity
5 116 (7.66%) ITIL
6 82 (5.41%) Mentoring
7 73 (4.82%) Disaster Recovery
8 64 (4.22%) Service Delivery
9 63 (4.16%) Continuous Improvement
10 54 (3.56%) ITSM
11 53 (3.50%) Root Cause Analysis
12 51 (3.37%) Remote Monitoring and Management
13 49 (3.23%) Service Management
14 47 (3.10%) Project Delivery
15 40 (2.64%) Time Management
16 37 (2.44%) Business Continuity
17 34 (2.24%) ERP
18 32 (2.11%) Process Improvement
19 30 (1.98%) User Experience
20 29 (1.91%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 82 (5.41%) PowerShell
2 47 (3.10%) SQL
3 6 (0.40%) Bash
4 5 (0.33%) Python
4 5 (0.33%) VB
5 4 (0.26%) PHP
5 4 (0.26%) R
6 3 (0.20%) JavaScript
6 3 (0.20%) Uniface
6 3 (0.20%) VBA
7 2 (0.13%) Google Apps Script
7 2 (0.13%) VBScript
8 1 (0.066%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 96 (6.34%) Security Cleared
2 79 (5.21%) Microsoft Certification
3 75 (4.95%) Degree
4 66 (4.36%) SC Cleared
5 56 (3.70%) DBS Check
6 43 (2.84%) CCNA
6 43 (2.84%) Cisco Certification
7 38 (2.51%) Network+ Certification
8 31 (2.05%) A+ Certification
9 26 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
10 18 (1.19%) Azure Certification
11 17 (1.12%) MCSE
12 16 (1.06%) CompTIA Security+
12 16 (1.06%) DV Cleared
13 7 (0.46%) CCNP
14 5 (0.33%) Computer Science Degree
14 5 (0.33%) MCITP
15 4 (0.26%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 3 (0.20%) ITIL Certification
16 3 (0.20%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (4.95%) Cyber Essentials
2 54 (3.56%) SLA
3 52 (3.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 31 (2.05%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 14 (0.92%) GDPR
6 8 (0.53%) NIST
7 6 (0.40%) PCI DSS
7 6 (0.40%) QA
8 4 (0.26%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.066%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 427 (28.18%) Active Directory
2 134 (8.84%) Hyper-V
3 107 (7.06%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (1.52%) Virtual Desktop
5 16 (1.06%) VMware ESXi
6 11 (0.73%) vSphere
7 10 (0.66%) Docker
8 7 (0.46%) VMware Workstation
9 5 (0.33%) BitLocker
9 5 (0.33%) Terminal Services
10 4 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
10 4 (0.26%) VMware NSX
11 3 (0.20%) Firmware
12 1 (0.066%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 167 (11.02%) Microsoft Intune
2 20 (1.32%) SCCM
3 13 (0.86%) WSUS
4 12 (0.79%) Jamf Pro
5 11 (0.73%) FortiGate
5 11 (0.73%) Proxmox
5 11 (0.73%) Single Sign-On
5 11 (0.73%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 8 (0.53%) Autotask
7 7 (0.46%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 6 (0.40%) Failover Clustering
9 4 (0.26%) Ansible
9 4 (0.26%) SmoothWall
10 3 (0.20%) Terraform
11 2 (0.13%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 574 (37.89%) Microsoft
2 137 (9.04%) VMware
3 52 (3.43%) Google
4 47 (3.10%) Cisco
5 37 (2.44%) Apple
5 37 (2.44%) Fortinet
6 36 (2.38%) Meraki
7 34 (2.24%) Veeam
8 29 (1.91%) Dell
9 28 (1.85%) Fujitsu
9 28 (1.85%) Virgin Media
10 20 (1.32%) Sophos
11 15 (0.99%) HP
11 15 (0.99%) Ubiquiti
12 13 (0.86%) Epicor
13 12 (0.79%) SonicWALL
14 10 (0.66%) ServiceNow
15 9 (0.59%) Logitech
15 9 (0.59%) Sage
16 7 (0.46%) ConnectWise