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 6 August 2026.

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

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 225 125
Rank change year-on-year +150 -100 +49
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 1,598 435 1,204
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 2.11% 1.26% 2.01%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.23% 1.41% 2.12%
Number of salaries quoted 1,421 341 941
10th Percentile £26,750 £25,750 £24,250
25th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £27,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £36,500 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.11% +4.29% +6.06%
75th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £43,750
90th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £50,000
UK median annual salary £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +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 71,771 30,825 56,901
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.59% 89.62% 94.92%
Number of salaries quoted 49,683 17,756 37,944
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £28,121
25th Percentile £38,750 £32,500 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -6.54%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 August 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 August 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 +118 423 £35,000 -12.50% 66
North of England +71 294 £32,500 -1.52% 40
East of England +105 262 £35,000 -2.78% 39
Midlands +68 255 £33,875 -9.67% 41
South West +50 226 £35,000 -6.67% 26
North West +113 166 £35,000 +3.70% 23
East Midlands +52 133 £35,000 +7.69% 20
West Midlands +45 122 £33,250 -21.76% 21
Yorkshire -4 113 £30,000 -7.69% 13
Scotland +66 75 £28,500 -5.00% 7
Wales -11 54 £45,000 -43.75% 10
North East -47 15 £40,000 -17.95% 5
Northern Ireland - 9 £41,000 - 2
IT Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 6 August 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.

1 750 (46.93%) Microsoft
2 696 (43.55%) Microsoft 365
3 649 (40.61%) Windows
4 515 (32.23%) Active Directory
5 411 (25.72%) Azure
6 373 (23.34%) Problem-Solving
7 342 (21.40%) Customer Service
8 331 (20.71%) Windows Server
9 306 (19.15%) Entra ID
10 244 (15.27%) Firewall
11 237 (14.83%) Microsoft Intune
12 235 (14.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 225 (14.08%) Microsoft Exchange
14 205 (12.83%) DNS
15 195 (12.20%) SharePoint
16 190 (11.89%) Hyper-V
17 179 (11.20%) Cybersecurity
18 174 (10.89%) VMware
19 170 (10.64%) DHCP
20 156 (9.76%) VPN
21 144 (9.01%) VMware Infrastructure
22 143 (8.95%) Windows 10
23 130 (8.14%) ITIL
24 127 (7.95%) Continuous Improvement
25 126 (7.88%) Disaster Recovery
26 125 (7.82%) Wi-Fi
27 112 (7.01%) PowerShell
28 107 (6.70%) Mac OS
29 106 (6.63%) TCP/IP
30 103 (6.45%) LAN

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
1 225 (14.08%) Microsoft Exchange
2 195 (12.20%) SharePoint
3 14 (0.88%) IIS
4 12 (0.75%) Confluence
5 11 (0.69%) Exchange Server 2013
6 9 (0.56%) Exchange Server 2007
6 9 (0.56%) Exchange Server 2010
7 3 (0.19%) Apache
Applications
1 79 (4.94%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (0.88%) 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 3 (0.19%) Dynamics NAV
2 3 (0.19%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.13%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 696 (43.55%) Microsoft 365
2 411 (25.72%) Azure
3 306 (19.15%) Entra ID
4 53 (3.32%) AWS
5 48 (3.00%) OneDrive
6 34 (2.13%) Google Workspace
7 29 (1.81%) Mimecast
8 28 (1.75%) SaaS
9 20 (1.25%) Power Platform
10 16 (1.00%) PaaS
11 13 (0.81%) Power Automate
12 12 (0.75%) IaaS
13 11 (0.69%) Azure DevOps
13 11 (0.69%) Nutanix
14 7 (0.44%) Microsoft Copilot
14 7 (0.44%) PowerApps
15 5 (0.31%) GCP
16 3 (0.19%) Azure Sentinel
16 3 (0.19%) Cloudflare
16 3 (0.19%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 244 (15.27%) Firewall
2 205 (12.83%) DNS
3 170 (10.64%) DHCP
4 156 (9.76%) VPN
5 125 (7.82%) Wi-Fi
6 106 (6.63%) TCP/IP
7 103 (6.45%) LAN
8 93 (5.82%) WAN
9 79 (4.94%) VoIP
10 72 (4.51%) Wireless
11 66 (4.13%) VLAN
12 31 (1.94%) Network Security
12 31 (1.94%) SAN
13 22 (1.38%) Internet
14 17 (1.06%) Remote Desktop
15 16 (1.00%) WLAN
16 13 (0.81%) SSL
17 7 (0.44%) Broadband
17 7 (0.44%) NAS
18 5 (0.31%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (2.94%) SQL Server
2 9 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
2 9 (0.56%) MySQL
2 9 (0.56%) Power BI
3 5 (0.31%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (0.13%) KNIME
Development Applications
1 41 (2.57%) JIRA
2 2 (0.13%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (0.063%) Carbide.c++
3 1 (0.063%) GitLab
General
1 377 (23.59%) Social Skills
2 80 (5.01%) Manufacturing
3 78 (4.88%) Analytical Skills
4 64 (4.01%) Legal
5 47 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 45 (2.82%) Organisational Skills
7 36 (2.25%) Retail
8 32 (2.00%) Finance
8 32 (2.00%) Public Sector
8 32 (2.00%) Telecoms
9 27 (1.69%) Advertising
10 24 (1.50%) Documentation Skills
11 21 (1.31%) Law
12 17 (1.06%) Automotive
13 8 (0.50%) Aerospace
14 7 (0.44%) Local Government
15 4 (0.25%) Banking
15 4 (0.25%) Dutch Language
15 4 (0.25%) Military
15 4 (0.25%) Portuguese Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (0.44%) HTML
1 7 (0.44%) JSON
2 4 (0.25%) Web Services
3 3 (0.19%) CSS
4 1 (0.063%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 230 (14.39%) Driving Licence
2 90 (5.63%) Onboarding
3 64 (4.01%) Self-Motivation
4 44 (2.75%) CCTV
5 36 (2.25%) Data Centre
6 22 (1.38%) FMCG
7 17 (1.06%) Security Posture
8 16 (1.00%) Analytical Mindset
9 13 (0.81%) Hybrid Cloud
10 12 (0.75%) Management Information System
11 11 (0.69%) Cloud Native
11 11 (0.69%) Clustering
11 11 (0.69%) NHS
11 11 (0.69%) Operational Technology
12 10 (0.63%) Replication
12 10 (0.63%) Smartphone
13 8 (0.50%) Cyber Threat
13 8 (0.50%) PKI
14 7 (0.44%) EPoS
15 6 (0.38%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 649 (40.61%) Windows
2 331 (20.71%) Windows Server
3 143 (8.95%) Windows 10
4 107 (6.70%) Mac OS
5 90 (5.63%) Linux
6 42 (2.63%) Apple iOS
7 36 (2.25%) Android
8 32 (2.00%) Windows Server 2019
9 26 (1.63%) Windows Server 2016
10 13 (0.81%) Ubuntu
10 13 (0.81%) Windows 7
11 11 (0.69%) Windows Server 2012
12 8 (0.50%) Windows 8
13 4 (0.25%) Mac OS X
14 2 (0.13%) VMS
14 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
15 1 (0.063%) Debian
15 1 (0.063%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 1 (0.063%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 373 (23.34%) Problem-Solving
2 342 (21.40%) Customer Service
3 235 (14.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 179 (11.20%) Cybersecurity
5 130 (8.14%) ITIL
6 127 (7.95%) Continuous Improvement
7 126 (7.88%) Disaster Recovery
8 76 (4.76%) Project Delivery
9 63 (3.94%) Service Management
10 57 (3.57%) Mentoring
11 56 (3.50%) ITSM
12 53 (3.32%) Root Cause Analysis
13 48 (3.00%) Service Delivery
14 47 (2.94%) Business Continuity
15 46 (2.88%) Remote Monitoring and Management
16 43 (2.69%) User Experience
17 41 (2.57%) Time Management
18 34 (2.13%) Process Improvement
19 33 (2.07%) Incident Management
20 31 (1.94%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 112 (7.01%) PowerShell
2 53 (3.32%) SQL
3 11 (0.69%) R
4 10 (0.63%) Python
5 8 (0.50%) Ruby
6 4 (0.25%) VBScript
7 3 (0.19%) Bicep
7 3 (0.19%) JavaScript
7 3 (0.19%) PHP
7 3 (0.19%) VBA
8 2 (0.13%) T-SQL
8 2 (0.13%) VB
Qualifications
1 86 (5.38%) Microsoft Certification
2 83 (5.19%) Degree
3 72 (4.51%) Security Cleared
4 57 (3.57%) DBS Check
5 49 (3.07%) CCNA
5 49 (3.07%) Cisco Certification
5 49 (3.07%) SC Cleared
6 36 (2.25%) Network+ Certification
7 24 (1.50%) A+ Certification
7 24 (1.50%) Azure Certification
8 18 (1.13%) CompTIA Security+
9 13 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
9 13 (0.81%) MCSE
10 11 (0.69%) DV Cleared
11 6 (0.38%) AWS Certification
12 5 (0.31%) CCNP
12 5 (0.31%) MCSA
13 4 (0.25%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 4 (0.25%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 3 (0.19%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (5.88%) Cyber Essentials
2 53 (3.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 39 (2.44%) SLA
4 32 (2.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 24 (1.50%) GDPR
6 10 (0.63%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.25%) Accessibility
7 4 (0.25%) NIST
8 3 (0.19%) QA
9 1 (0.063%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.063%) NCSC
System Software
1 515 (32.23%) Active Directory
2 190 (11.89%) Hyper-V
3 144 (9.01%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (1.13%) Virtual Desktop
4 18 (1.13%) vSphere
5 16 (1.00%) Virtual Machines
6 13 (0.81%) Docker
6 13 (0.81%) VMware ESXi
7 8 (0.50%) BitLocker
8 6 (0.38%) Firmware
9 5 (0.31%) Terminal Services
10 4 (0.25%) VMware Workstation
11 1 (0.063%) Terminal Server
11 1 (0.063%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 237 (14.83%) Microsoft Intune
2 22 (1.38%) SCCM
3 18 (1.13%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 13 (0.81%) Jamf Pro
5 12 (0.75%) WSUS
6 11 (0.69%) Proxmox
7 7 (0.44%) Failover Clustering
7 7 (0.44%) FortiGate
8 5 (0.31%) Autotask
8 5 (0.31%) Kubernetes
9 4 (0.25%) Iperf
9 4 (0.25%) Terraform
10 3 (0.19%) Ansible
10 3 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.13%) PaperCut
12 1 (0.063%) Argo
12 1 (0.063%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
12 1 (0.063%) Nessus
12 1 (0.063%) SCOM
Vendors
1 750 (46.93%) Microsoft
2 174 (10.89%) VMware
3 66 (4.13%) Cisco
4 52 (3.25%) Veeam
5 41 (2.57%) Google
6 38 (2.38%) Apple
7 29 (1.81%) Meraki
7 29 (1.81%) SonicWALL
8 27 (1.69%) Dell
8 27 (1.69%) Sophos
9 24 (1.50%) Ubiquiti
10 21 (1.31%) HP
11 16 (1.00%) Fortinet
12 13 (0.81%) Logitech
12 13 (0.81%) TOWER Software
13 11 (0.69%) CrowdStrike
13 11 (0.69%) Palo Alto
14 10 (0.63%) ServiceNow
15 9 (0.56%) Datto
15 9 (0.56%) Epicor