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 October 2026.

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

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 91 226 131
Rank change year-on-year +135 -95 +21
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 1,544 408 942
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.78% 1.18% 1.82%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.92% 1.31% 1.91%
Number of salaries quoted 1,355 319 653
10th Percentile £27,000 £25,750 £25,056
25th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £29,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +1.45%
75th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £45,000
90th Percentile £52,500 £55,500 £52,500
UK median annual salary £35,000 £37,000 £36,000
% change year-on-year -5.41% +2.78% +2.86%

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 80,470 31,061 49,429
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.85% 89.52% 95.31%
Number of salaries quoted 55,562 17,295 27,523
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,125 £39,390
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £46,566 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.11% -6.87% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £63,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £58,589 £54,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.50% -0.91% -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 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 jobs citing IT Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 6 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
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +127 367 £38,500 -3.75% 128
Midlands +66 297 £35,000 -5.41% 96
North of England +48 257 £34,500 -1.43% 90
South West +39 234 £35,000 - 52
East of England +95 232 £35,000 -3.45% 45
West Midlands +64 154 £34,500 -27.37% 40
North West +68 143 £35,000 +3.70% 47
East Midlands +25 143 £35,000 +16.67% 53
Scotland +55 91 £30,000 - 55
Yorkshire -17 90 £30,000 -9.09% 34
Wales -21 55 £37,500 -53.13% 18
North East -46 24 £40,000 -17.95% 11
Northern Ireland -78 11 £41,000 +30.16% 12
IT Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 6 October 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.

1 794 (51.42%) Microsoft
2 746 (48.32%) Microsoft 365
3 722 (46.76%) Windows
4 539 (34.91%) Active Directory
5 424 (27.46%) Azure
6 396 (25.65%) Problem-Solving
7 370 (23.96%) Windows Server
8 353 (22.86%) Entra ID
9 352 (22.80%) Customer Service
10 289 (18.72%) Microsoft Intune
11 274 (17.75%) Firewall
12 268 (17.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 263 (17.03%) DNS
14 245 (15.87%) Microsoft Exchange
15 231 (14.96%) Cybersecurity
16 225 (14.57%) DHCP
17 218 (14.12%) Hyper-V
18 214 (13.86%) SharePoint
19 189 (12.24%) VMware
20 188 (12.18%) VPN
21 152 (9.84%) VMware Infrastructure
22 150 (9.72%) Wi-Fi
23 148 (9.59%) TCP/IP
24 144 (9.33%) Continuous Improvement
25 143 (9.26%) ITIL
26 132 (8.55%) Windows 10
27 123 (7.97%) Disaster Recovery
28 116 (7.51%) PowerShell
29 108 (6.99%) LAN
30 106 (6.87%) Cyber Essentials

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
1 245 (15.87%) Microsoft Exchange
2 214 (13.86%) SharePoint
3 19 (1.23%) IIS
4 6 (0.39%) Apache
4 6 (0.39%) Confluence
5 4 (0.26%) Exchange Server 2007
5 4 (0.26%) Exchange Server 2010
5 4 (0.26%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 68 (4.40%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (0.84%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.13%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.13%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 6 (0.39%) Raiser’s Edge
2 4 (0.26%) NetSuite
2 4 (0.26%) Shopify
3 3 (0.19%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.13%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 746 (48.32%) Microsoft 365
2 424 (27.46%) Azure
3 353 (22.86%) Entra ID
4 64 (4.15%) OneDrive
5 51 (3.30%) AWS
5 51 (3.30%) Google Workspace
6 29 (1.88%) Mimecast
7 23 (1.49%) Power Platform
8 21 (1.36%) SaaS
9 15 (0.97%) Power Automate
10 11 (0.71%) Dynamics 365
10 11 (0.71%) Nutanix
11 7 (0.45%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (0.45%) IaaS
11 7 (0.45%) PaaS
12 5 (0.32%) Cloud Computing
13 4 (0.26%) PowerApps
13 4 (0.26%) Serverless
14 3 (0.19%) Cloudflare
15 2 (0.13%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 274 (17.75%) Firewall
2 263 (17.03%) DNS
3 225 (14.57%) DHCP
4 188 (12.18%) VPN
5 150 (9.72%) Wi-Fi
6 148 (9.59%) TCP/IP
7 108 (6.99%) LAN
8 104 (6.74%) VLAN
9 103 (6.67%) VoIP
10 95 (6.15%) WAN
11 87 (5.63%) Wireless
12 33 (2.14%) SAN
13 31 (2.01%) Network Security
14 23 (1.49%) Internet
15 17 (1.10%) SSL
15 17 (1.10%) WLAN
16 14 (0.91%) Remote Desktop
17 8 (0.52%) PBX
18 7 (0.45%) NAS
18 7 (0.45%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (3.69%) SQL Server
2 11 (0.71%) MySQL
3 9 (0.58%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (0.26%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (0.13%) KNIME
5 2 (0.13%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 33 (2.14%) JIRA
2 2 (0.13%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (0.065%) Carbide.c++
General
1 451 (29.21%) Social Skills
2 82 (5.31%) Analytical Skills
3 79 (5.12%) Manufacturing
4 70 (4.53%) Legal
5 52 (3.37%) Public Sector
6 49 (3.17%) Organisational Skills
7 41 (2.66%) Telecoms
8 37 (2.40%) Retail
9 33 (2.14%) Documentation Skills
10 31 (2.01%) Advertising
10 31 (2.01%) Finance
11 28 (1.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 15 (0.97%) Automotive
13 12 (0.78%) Aerospace
13 12 (0.78%) Law
14 9 (0.58%) Aviation
15 6 (0.39%) Games
15 6 (0.39%) Police
16 5 (0.32%) Military
17 4 (0.26%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (0.39%) HTML
1 6 (0.39%) JSON
2 4 (0.26%) .NET
2 4 (0.26%) ASP.NET Web Forms
2 4 (0.26%) WinForms
3 3 (0.19%) Web Services
4 2 (0.13%) CSS
4 2 (0.13%) Terraform
5 1 (0.065%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 256 (16.58%) Driving Licence
2 94 (6.09%) Onboarding
3 68 (4.40%) Self-Motivation
4 48 (3.11%) CCTV
5 31 (2.01%) Data Centre
6 25 (1.62%) Operational Technology
7 17 (1.10%) FMCG
8 16 (1.04%) Analytical Mindset
8 16 (1.04%) Hybrid Cloud
8 16 (1.04%) Replication
8 16 (1.04%) Security Posture
9 14 (0.91%) Management Information System
10 13 (0.84%) Smartphone
11 11 (0.71%) Cloud Native
11 11 (0.71%) Clustering
12 9 (0.58%) Cyber Threat
13 8 (0.52%) Cyber Security Posture
13 8 (0.52%) NHS
13 8 (0.52%) PKI
14 7 (0.45%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 722 (46.76%) Windows
2 370 (23.96%) Windows Server
3 132 (8.55%) Windows 10
4 101 (6.54%) Linux
5 100 (6.48%) Mac OS
6 42 (2.72%) Apple iOS
7 39 (2.53%) Android
8 37 (2.40%) Windows Server 2019
9 30 (1.94%) Windows Server 2016
10 22 (1.42%) Ubuntu
11 12 (0.78%) Windows Server 2012
12 6 (0.39%) Rocky
12 6 (0.39%) Windows 7
13 4 (0.26%) Debian
13 4 (0.26%) Windows 8
14 2 (0.13%) Unix
15 1 (0.065%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 1 (0.065%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 396 (25.65%) Problem-Solving
2 352 (22.80%) Customer Service
3 268 (17.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 231 (14.96%) Cybersecurity
5 144 (9.33%) Continuous Improvement
6 143 (9.26%) ITIL
7 123 (7.97%) Disaster Recovery
8 81 (5.25%) Project Delivery
9 66 (4.27%) ITSM
10 56 (3.63%) Mentoring
11 55 (3.56%) Service Delivery
12 50 (3.24%) Business Continuity
12 50 (3.24%) Service Management
13 49 (3.17%) Remote Monitoring and Management
14 46 (2.98%) User Experience
15 44 (2.85%) Root Cause Analysis
16 39 (2.53%) Migration
17 38 (2.46%) Change Management
17 38 (2.46%) Collaborative Working
18 36 (2.33%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 116 (7.51%) PowerShell
2 47 (3.04%) SQL
3 12 (0.78%) Ruby
4 10 (0.65%) Python
5 8 (0.52%) R
6 4 (0.26%) C#
6 4 (0.26%) VBScript
7 3 (0.19%) Bicep
7 3 (0.19%) VB
8 2 (0.13%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.13%) PHP
8 2 (0.13%) T-SQL
8 2 (0.13%) VBA
Qualifications
1 96 (6.22%) Microsoft Certification
2 87 (5.63%) Degree
3 58 (3.76%) DBS Check
4 57 (3.69%) CCNA
4 57 (3.69%) Cisco Certification
5 46 (2.98%) Security Cleared
6 41 (2.66%) Network+ Certification
7 30 (1.94%) SC Cleared
8 26 (1.68%) Azure Certification
9 25 (1.62%) A+ Certification
10 20 (1.30%) MCSE
11 18 (1.17%) CompTIA Security+
12 14 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
13 10 (0.65%) MCSA
13 10 (0.65%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 9 (0.58%) CCNP
15 6 (0.39%) AWS Certification
15 6 (0.39%) DV Cleared
15 6 (0.39%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 5 (0.32%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 106 (6.87%) Cyber Essentials
2 49 (3.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 38 (2.46%) GDPR
4 26 (1.68%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 24 (1.55%) SLA
6 10 (0.65%) PCI DSS
7 6 (0.39%) Accessibility
8 4 (0.26%) NCSC
8 4 (0.26%) NIST
9 2 (0.13%) QA
System Software
1 539 (34.91%) Active Directory
2 218 (14.12%) Hyper-V
3 152 (9.84%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (1.17%) Virtual Machines
5 17 (1.10%) vSphere
6 15 (0.97%) Virtual Desktop
7 12 (0.78%) VMware ESXi
8 9 (0.58%) Docker
9 8 (0.52%) Firmware
10 6 (0.39%) BitLocker
11 4 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
12 3 (0.19%) Terminal Services
13 1 (0.065%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 289 (18.72%) Microsoft Intune
2 21 (1.36%) Jamf Pro
2 21 (1.36%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 14 (0.91%) SCCM
4 11 (0.71%) WSUS
5 8 (0.52%) Proxmox
6 7 (0.45%) Failover Clustering
7 6 (0.39%) Backup Exec
7 6 (0.39%) Kubernetes
8 5 (0.32%) FortiGate
8 5 (0.32%) SmoothWall
9 4 (0.26%) Iperf
10 3 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.13%) Ansible
11 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
11 2 (0.13%) PaperCut
11 2 (0.13%) SCOM
12 1 (0.065%) Argo
12 1 (0.065%) Nessus
Vendors
1 794 (51.42%) Microsoft
2 189 (12.24%) VMware
3 89 (5.76%) Cisco
4 78 (5.05%) Veeam
5 53 (3.43%) Google
6 49 (3.17%) SonicWALL
7 47 (3.04%) Apple
8 37 (2.40%) Meraki
9 34 (2.20%) Dell
10 31 (2.01%) Sophos
11 25 (1.62%) Fortinet
12 24 (1.55%) TOWER Software
13 20 (1.30%) Palo Alto
14 19 (1.23%) Datto
14 19 (1.23%) Logitech
15 18 (1.17%) Draytek
15 18 (1.17%) HP
15 18 (1.17%) Ubiquiti
16 13 (0.84%) ServiceNow
17 12 (0.78%) WatchGuard