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 23 October 2026.

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

6 months to
23 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 91 191 124
Rank change year-on-year +100 -67 +29
Permanent IT Engineer jobs 1,551 471 948
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.75% 1.37% 1.94%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.90% 1.53% 2.04%
Number of salaries quoted 1,302 386 597
10th Percentile £27,250 £25,600 £25,550
25th Percentile £30,000 £28,000 £29,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £33,250 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +1.45%
75th Percentile £43,750 £43,063 £45,000
90th Percentile £52,500 £53,125 £53,750
UK median annual salary £35,000 £35,000 £37,000
% change year-on-year - -5.41% +5.71%

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 adverts in the UK excluding London matching a recognised job title. The table also shows what proportion of all permanent IT job adverts they make up.

6 months to
23 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Permanent job adverts in the UK excluding London matching a recognised job title 81,821 30,741 46,523
% of permanent job adverts matching a recognised job title 92.10% 89.62% 95.43%
Number of salaries quoted 56,202 17,694 25,401
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £45,497 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.89% -9.01% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £63,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £59,000 £52,500 £56,252
% change year-on-year +12.38% -6.67% -6.25%

IT Engineer Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT Engineer job postings 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 IT Engineer jobs in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 23 October 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 Engineer jobs within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 23 October 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		 Job Ads
Past 6 Months		 Median Salary
Past 6 Months		 Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Live
Jobs
South East +83 370 £38,500 +10.00% 87
Midlands +42 283 £35,000 +7.69% 52
North of England +35 261 £35,000 - 72
South West +40 249 £35,000 +2.94% 50
East of England +79 212 £35,000 - 32
West Midlands +52 158 £34,500 -27.37% 22
North West +61 145 £35,000 +9.38% 40
East Midlands -3 125 £35,000 +17.65% 30
Scotland +64 104 £30,000 - 25
Yorkshire -13 92 £30,000 -26.38% 24
Wales -22 56 £35,000 -56.25% 9
North East -45 24 £40,000 -17.95% 10
Northern Ireland -70 12 £41,000 +30.16% 8
Channel Islands +2 4 £35,000 -22.22% 2
IT Engineer
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IT Engineer Skill Set Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 23 October 2026, IT Engineer job ads cited 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 IT Engineer job ads across the UK excluding London region.

RankSkillShareJob Ads
1Microsoft51.0%791
2Microsoft 36548.0%744
3Windows47.3%733
4Active Directory34.2%530
5Azure27.0%419
6Problem-Solving25.4%394
7Windows Server23.4%363
8Entra ID23.1%359
9Customer Service22.1%343
10Microsoft Intune19.1%297
11Infrastructure Engineering18.7%290
12Firewall17.6%273
13DNS17.5%271
14Microsoft Exchange16.4%254
15DHCP15.1%234
16Cybersecurity15.0%233
17Hyper-V14.1%219
18SharePoint13.3%206
19VPN13.0%202
20VMware12.3%191
21TCP/IP10.5%163
22VMware Infrastructure9.7%151
23Wi-Fi9.5%148
24ITIL9.4%146
25Continuous Improvement9.2%143
26Windows 107.7%120
27VLAN7.7%119
28PowerShell7.6%118
29Disaster Recovery7.5%117
30LAN7.0%109

IT Engineer Skill Set Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Job Titles

RankJob TitleShareJob Ads
1IT Support Engineer67.8%1,051
2IT Infrastructure Engineer12.3%190
32nd Line Engineer9.9%154
42nd Line Support Engineer9.2%142
4Senior IT Engineer9.2%142
6Field Engineer8.6%134
7Systems Engineer7.4%115
8Senior IT Support6.1%94
9Senior Support Engineer5.6%87
103rd Line Engineer5.3%82
113rd Line Support Engineer5.0%77
12Field Service Engineer3.8%59
13IT Security Engineer3.7%57
141st/2nd Line Support Engineer3.5%54
151st Line Engineer2.8%44
161st Line Support Engineer2.8%43
17Infrastructure Support Engineer2.5%39
18Systems Support Engineer2.1%32
19Senior Infrastructure Engineer1.9%30
19Service Desk Engineer1.9%30
330 IT Engineer jobs in the UK excluding London