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 6 February 2026.

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

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 94 129 103
Rank change year-on-year +35 -26 +103
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 943 746 1,355
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 2.05% 2.21% 2.78%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.25% 2.40% 2.92%
Number of salaries quoted 808 441 1,207
10th Percentile £25,750 £25,008 £23,300
25th Percentile £27,750 £27,500 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £35,000 £32,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% +1.56%
75th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £41,000
90th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £50,000
UK median annual salary £32,500 £35,000 £33,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +4.48% +1.52%

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 41,881 31,058 46,383
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.85% 91.92% 95.12%
Number of salaries quoted 25,848 15,071 36,148
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £26,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,110 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £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 6 February 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 6 February 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 +47 248 £32,500 -7.14% 112
Midlands -16 219 £31,500 -10.00% 37
North of England +40 211 £32,500 -5.80% 68
East Midlands +6 136 £30,000 - 20
North West +39 105 £30,000 -20.00% 40
South West +32 98 £35,000 - 25
Yorkshire +28 97 £41,500 +36.07% 19
East of England +35 94 £30,000 +3.45% 38
West Midlands -40 83 £32,500 -7.14% 17
Scotland +17 58 £30,000 -7.69% 18
Wales +17 16 £40,000 - 10
North East -11 9 £30,000 -16.67% 11
Northern Ireland -17 1 £31,500 -47.50% 1
IT Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 6 February 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.

1 429 (45.49%) Microsoft 365
2 419 (44.43%) Windows
3 416 (44.11%) Microsoft
4 356 (37.75%) Active Directory
5 302 (32.03%) Problem-Solving
6 295 (31.28%) Azure
7 228 (24.18%) Windows Server
8 194 (20.57%) Customer Service
9 171 (18.13%) Firewall
10 161 (17.07%) Entra ID
11 154 (16.33%) DNS
12 144 (15.27%) DHCP
13 141 (14.95%) Microsoft Intune
14 122 (12.94%) SharePoint
15 117 (12.41%) ITIL
16 109 (11.56%) Cybersecurity
17 106 (11.24%) VPN
18 98 (10.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 97 (10.29%) Windows 10
20 91 (9.65%) VMware
21 87 (9.23%) Microsoft Exchange
22 78 (8.27%) Hyper-V
23 76 (8.06%) Mentoring
23 76 (8.06%) Microsoft Certification
23 76 (8.06%) Microsoft Office
24 72 (7.64%) LAN
24 72 (7.64%) WAN
25 66 (7.00%) Degree
26 63 (6.68%) VMware Infrastructure
27 61 (6.47%) TCP/IP

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
1 122 (12.94%) SharePoint
2 87 (9.23%) Microsoft Exchange
3 17 (1.80%) IIS
4 10 (1.06%) Confluence
5 6 (0.64%) Exchange Server 2007
5 6 (0.64%) Exchange Server 2010
5 6 (0.64%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 76 (8.06%) Microsoft Office
2 18 (1.91%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.21%) Acrobat
4 2 (0.21%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 8 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.42%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.32%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.11%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.11%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 429 (45.49%) Microsoft 365
2 295 (31.28%) Azure
3 161 (17.07%) Entra ID
4 44 (4.67%) AWS
5 43 (4.56%) Google Workspace
6 34 (3.61%) OneDrive
7 23 (2.44%) SaaS
8 22 (2.33%) Power Platform
9 21 (2.23%) GCP
10 14 (1.48%) Azure DevOps
11 12 (1.27%) Power Automate
12 8 (0.85%) Azure Sentinel
13 7 (0.74%) IaaS
13 7 (0.74%) PaaS
13 7 (0.74%) PowerApps
14 6 (0.64%) iPaaS
15 5 (0.53%) Azure AI
15 5 (0.53%) Microsoft Copilot
15 5 (0.53%) OCI
16 4 (0.42%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 171 (18.13%) Firewall
2 154 (16.33%) DNS
3 144 (15.27%) DHCP
4 106 (11.24%) VPN
5 72 (7.64%) LAN
5 72 (7.64%) WAN
6 61 (6.47%) TCP/IP
6 61 (6.47%) VLAN
7 55 (5.83%) Wi-Fi
8 32 (3.39%) Wireless
9 30 (3.18%) VoIP
10 21 (2.23%) SAN
11 20 (2.12%) Network Security
12 13 (1.38%) SD-WAN
13 11 (1.17%) Remote Desktop
13 11 (1.17%) WLAN
14 10 (1.06%) IP Telephony
15 7 (0.74%) Internet
15 7 (0.74%) TETRA
16 4 (0.42%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (2.65%) SQL Server
2 21 (2.23%) Power BI
3 12 (1.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 7 (0.74%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (0.42%) Relational Database
6 3 (0.32%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 25 (2.65%) JIRA
2 3 (0.32%) GitLab
3 1 (0.11%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.11%) Git
3 1 (0.11%) LabVIEW
3 1 (0.11%) Snyk
General
1 290 (30.75%) Social Skills
2 67 (7.10%) Organisational Skills
3 47 (4.98%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (4.45%) Law
5 41 (4.35%) Finance
5 41 (4.35%) Manufacturing
6 36 (3.82%) Public Sector
7 29 (3.08%) Telecoms
8 28 (2.97%) Multimedia
9 25 (2.65%) Legal
9 25 (2.65%) Retail
10 20 (2.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 12 (1.27%) Electronics
12 10 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
13 7 (0.74%) Marketing
14 6 (0.64%) Fire and Rescue
14 6 (0.64%) Police
15 5 (0.53%) Advertising
16 4 (0.42%) Dutch Language
16 4 (0.42%) French Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (1.38%) .NET
2 12 (1.27%) .NET Framework
2 12 (1.27%) Entity Framework
2 12 (1.27%) WinForms
3 7 (0.74%) ASP.NET
4 3 (0.32%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (0.11%) OAuth
5 1 (0.11%) OAuth2
5 1 (0.11%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 185 (19.62%) Driving Licence
2 52 (5.51%) Onboarding
3 38 (4.03%) Self-Motivation
4 21 (2.23%) Analytical Mindset
5 14 (1.48%) CCTV
5 14 (1.48%) Smartphone
6 11 (1.17%) Data Centre
6 11 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (0.95%) FMCG
7 9 (0.95%) iPad
7 9 (0.95%) Security Posture
8 7 (0.74%) Clustering
8 7 (0.74%) Cyber Security Posture
8 7 (0.74%) Social Media
9 6 (0.64%) Management Information System
9 6 (0.64%) PMI
10 5 (0.53%) Linux Command Line
10 5 (0.53%) Mobile App
11 4 (0.42%) Life Science
11 4 (0.42%) Solar Panel
Operating Systems
1 419 (44.43%) Windows
2 228 (24.18%) Windows Server
3 97 (10.29%) Windows 10
4 40 (4.24%) Mac OS
5 37 (3.92%) Linux
6 32 (3.39%) Windows Server 2019
7 29 (3.08%) Windows Server 2016
8 20 (2.12%) Android
9 15 (1.59%) Apple iOS
10 12 (1.27%) Windows Server 2012
11 10 (1.06%) Windows 7
12 7 (0.74%) Windows 8
13 4 (0.42%) Windows Server 2008
14 3 (0.32%) Debian
15 2 (0.21%) Rocky
15 2 (0.21%) Ubuntu
16 1 (0.11%) CentOS
16 1 (0.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 1 (0.11%) Solaris
16 1 (0.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 302 (32.03%) Problem-Solving
2 194 (20.57%) Customer Service
3 117 (12.41%) ITIL
4 109 (11.56%) Cybersecurity
5 98 (10.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 76 (8.06%) Mentoring
7 55 (5.83%) Service Delivery
8 44 (4.67%) ITSM
9 37 (3.92%) Remote Monitoring and Management
10 35 (3.71%) Incident Management
11 34 (3.61%) Data Protection
12 32 (3.39%) Asset Management
12 32 (3.39%) Project Delivery
13 30 (3.18%) Continuous Improvement
13 30 (3.18%) Process Improvement
14 29 (3.08%) Disaster Recovery
15 28 (2.97%) Business Intelligence
16 26 (2.76%) Software Engineering
17 25 (2.65%) Computer Science
18 23 (2.44%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 47 (4.98%) PowerShell
2 44 (4.67%) SQL
3 13 (1.38%) C#
3 13 (1.38%) T-SQL
4 9 (0.95%) Python
5 7 (0.74%) Bash
5 7 (0.74%) PL/SQL
5 7 (0.74%) VBScript
6 3 (0.32%) Uniface
6 3 (0.32%) VB
7 2 (0.21%) Google Apps Script
8 1 (0.11%) PHP
8 1 (0.11%) R
Qualifications
1 76 (8.06%) Microsoft Certification
2 66 (7.00%) Degree
3 47 (4.98%) Security Cleared
4 40 (4.24%) DBS Check
5 36 (3.82%) Cisco Certification
6 34 (3.61%) CCNA
7 32 (3.39%) SC Cleared
8 31 (3.29%) A+ Certification
9 23 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
10 22 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
11 21 (2.23%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 20 (2.12%) MCSE
13 18 (1.91%) Network+ Certification
14 13 (1.38%) CCNP
15 11 (1.17%) MCSA
16 10 (1.06%) DV Cleared
17 8 (0.85%) Azure Certification
18 7 (0.74%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
19 6 (0.64%) PMI Certification
20 4 (0.42%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (5.09%) Cyber Essentials
2 43 (4.56%) SLA
3 35 (3.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 20 (2.12%) GDPR
5 10 (1.06%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 6 (0.64%) Accessibility
7 5 (0.53%) NIST
8 3 (0.32%) QA
9 1 (0.11%) GxP
9 1 (0.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 356 (37.75%) Active Directory
2 78 (8.27%) Hyper-V
3 63 (6.68%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (1.80%) Virtual Desktop
5 8 (0.85%) Firmware
5 8 (0.85%) VMware ESXi
5 8 (0.85%) vSphere
6 7 (0.74%) VMware Workstation
7 5 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.32%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.21%) Docker
9 2 (0.21%) XenDesktop
10 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.11%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 141 (14.95%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (1.06%) Jamf Pro
2 10 (1.06%) WSUS
3 9 (0.95%) FortiGate
3 9 (0.95%) SCCM
3 9 (0.95%) Single Sign-On
4 8 (0.85%) Autotask
5 6 (0.64%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 6 (0.64%) Failover Clustering
6 5 (0.53%) Ansible
6 5 (0.53%) SmoothWall
7 4 (0.42%) Kubernetes
7 4 (0.42%) Proxmox
8 3 (0.32%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 1 (0.11%) Podman
9 1 (0.11%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 416 (44.11%) Microsoft
2 91 (9.65%) VMware
3 54 (5.73%) Google
4 38 (4.03%) Cisco
5 33 (3.50%) Fortinet
6 31 (3.29%) Veeam
7 29 (3.08%) Apple
8 28 (2.97%) Fujitsu
8 28 (2.97%) Virgin Media
9 25 (2.65%) Dell
9 25 (2.65%) Meraki
10 15 (1.59%) Sage
11 14 (1.48%) ServiceNow
11 14 (1.48%) WatchGuard
12 13 (1.38%) Zoho
13 12 (1.27%) Xamarin
14 10 (1.06%) Adobe
15 9 (0.95%) Draytek
15 9 (0.95%) HP
16 8 (0.85%) SAP