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 22 March 2026.

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

6 months to
22 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 122 106
Rank change year-on-year +39 -16 +111
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 1,207 640 1,617
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 2.20% 2.37% 2.66%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.39% 2.64% 2.81%
Number of salaries quoted 1,048 417 1,399
10th Percentile £25,750 £25,300 £23,500
25th Percentile £28,000 £26,250 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £34,000 £32,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.41% +4.62% +3.17%
75th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £42,500
90th Percentile £46,275 £50,000 £48,750
UK median annual salary £32,500 £35,000 £33,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +6.06% -1.49%

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 50,553 24,268 57,599
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.16% 89.82% 94.76%
Number of salaries quoted 32,064 14,353 43,324
10th Percentile £28,250 £29,750 £26,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £39,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,688 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.87% +7.38% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £63,750
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 22 March 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 22 March 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 +56 342 £33,500 -4.29% 72
North of England +48 272 £32,175 -4.67% 52
Midlands -27 231 £31,500 -10.00% 40
East of England +42 144 £30,000 +9.09% 32
North West +51 137 £30,000 -14.29% 34
East Midlands -4 135 £30,000 - 19
South West +49 131 £34,500 -0.72% 35
Yorkshire +23 125 £34,250 +14.17% 17
West Midlands -56 96 £32,500 -7.14% 21
Scotland +11 64 £30,000 -4.76% 19
Wales -1 23 £40,000 +10.34% 16
North East -29 10 £30,000 -16.67% 3
IT Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 22 March 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.

1 507 (42.00%) Microsoft 365
2 500 (41.43%) Microsoft
2 500 (41.43%) Windows
3 407 (33.72%) Active Directory
4 340 (28.17%) Problem-Solving
5 335 (27.75%) Azure
6 256 (21.21%) Windows Server
7 246 (20.38%) Customer Service
8 195 (16.16%) Firewall
9 187 (15.49%) Entra ID
10 162 (13.42%) DNS
11 154 (12.76%) Microsoft Intune
12 150 (12.43%) DHCP
13 130 (10.77%) VPN
14 129 (10.69%) ITIL
14 129 (10.69%) SharePoint
15 128 (10.60%) Windows 10
16 119 (9.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 118 (9.78%) Cybersecurity
18 108 (8.95%) VMware
19 103 (8.53%) Microsoft Exchange
20 96 (7.95%) LAN
21 95 (7.87%) Hyper-V
22 94 (7.79%) WAN
23 92 (7.62%) Microsoft Office
24 79 (6.55%) Mentoring
25 76 (6.30%) Microsoft Certification
26 74 (6.13%) VMware Infrastructure
27 71 (5.88%) Wi-Fi
28 70 (5.80%) Google

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
1 129 (10.69%) SharePoint
2 103 (8.53%) Microsoft Exchange
3 15 (1.24%) Confluence
4 13 (1.08%) IIS
5 11 (0.91%) Exchange Server 2007
5 11 (0.91%) Exchange Server 2010
5 11 (0.91%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 92 (7.62%) Microsoft Office
2 22 (1.82%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.17%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.083%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 7 (0.58%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.41%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.083%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 507 (42.00%) Microsoft 365
2 335 (27.75%) Azure
3 187 (15.49%) Entra ID
4 58 (4.81%) Google Workspace
5 54 (4.47%) AWS
6 35 (2.90%) OneDrive
7 23 (1.91%) SaaS
8 22 (1.82%) Power Platform
9 21 (1.74%) GCP
10 14 (1.16%) Azure DevOps
11 12 (0.99%) IaaS
11 12 (0.99%) PaaS
12 10 (0.83%) Power Automate
12 10 (0.83%) PowerApps
13 9 (0.75%) Azure Sentinel
14 6 (0.50%) Microsoft Copilot
14 6 (0.50%) Mimecast
15 5 (0.41%) Intacct
15 5 (0.41%) OCI
16 3 (0.25%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 195 (16.16%) Firewall
2 162 (13.42%) DNS
3 150 (12.43%) DHCP
4 130 (10.77%) VPN
5 96 (7.95%) LAN
6 94 (7.79%) WAN
7 71 (5.88%) Wi-Fi
8 61 (5.05%) TCP/IP
9 57 (4.72%) VLAN
10 38 (3.15%) VoIP
11 30 (2.49%) Wireless
12 21 (1.74%) Network Security
13 17 (1.41%) SAN
13 17 (1.41%) SD-WAN
14 14 (1.16%) Remote Desktop
15 12 (0.99%) WLAN
16 10 (0.83%) IP Telephony
17 7 (0.58%) Internet
17 7 (0.58%) TETRA
18 4 (0.33%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (2.49%) SQL Server
2 22 (1.82%) Power BI
3 10 (0.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 7 (0.58%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (0.33%) Relational Database
6 3 (0.25%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 34 (2.82%) JIRA
2 4 (0.33%) GitLab
3 1 (0.083%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.083%) Git
3 1 (0.083%) LabVIEW
3 1 (0.083%) Snyk
General
1 304 (25.19%) Social Skills
2 82 (6.79%) Organisational Skills
3 52 (4.31%) Manufacturing
4 49 (4.06%) Analytical Skills
5 46 (3.81%) Finance
6 44 (3.65%) Retail
7 42 (3.48%) Law
8 39 (3.23%) Public Sector
9 35 (2.90%) Telecoms
10 30 (2.49%) Legal
11 28 (2.32%) Multimedia
12 27 (2.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 11 (0.91%) Electronics
14 7 (0.58%) Advertising
15 6 (0.50%) Documentation Skills
15 6 (0.50%) Fire and Rescue
15 6 (0.50%) Marketing
15 6 (0.50%) Police
16 5 (0.41%) Social Housing
16 5 (0.41%) Spanish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (0.91%) .NET
2 10 (0.83%) .NET Framework
2 10 (0.83%) Entity Framework
2 10 (0.83%) WinForms
3 6 (0.50%) ASP.NET
4 4 (0.33%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (0.083%) OAuth
5 1 (0.083%) OAuth2
5 1 (0.083%) Software Packaging
5 1 (0.083%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 203 (16.82%) Driving Licence
2 60 (4.97%) Onboarding
3 44 (3.65%) Self-Motivation
4 22 (1.82%) Analytical Mindset
5 20 (1.66%) CCTV
6 18 (1.49%) Data Centre
6 18 (1.49%) Smartphone
7 16 (1.33%) FMCG
8 12 (0.99%) Security Posture
9 7 (0.58%) Enterprise Software
9 7 (0.58%) Social Media
10 6 (0.50%) iPad
10 6 (0.50%) iPhone
10 6 (0.50%) Management Information System
10 6 (0.50%) PMI
11 5 (0.41%) Life Science
11 5 (0.41%) Linux Command Line
11 5 (0.41%) Mobile App
11 5 (0.41%) NHS
11 5 (0.41%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 500 (41.43%) Windows
2 256 (21.21%) Windows Server
3 128 (10.60%) Windows 10
4 60 (4.97%) Mac OS
5 41 (3.40%) Linux
6 31 (2.57%) Windows Server 2019
7 29 (2.40%) Windows Server 2016
8 24 (1.99%) Android
9 19 (1.57%) Apple iOS
10 17 (1.41%) Windows 7
11 14 (1.16%) Windows Server 2012
12 11 (0.91%) Windows 8
13 6 (0.50%) Windows Server 2008
14 3 (0.25%) Debian
15 2 (0.17%) Ubuntu
16 1 (0.083%) CentOS
16 1 (0.083%) Mac OS X
16 1 (0.083%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 1 (0.083%) Solaris
16 1 (0.083%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 340 (28.17%) Problem-Solving
2 246 (20.38%) Customer Service
3 129 (10.69%) ITIL
4 119 (9.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 118 (9.78%) Cybersecurity
6 79 (6.55%) Mentoring
7 65 (5.39%) Service Delivery
8 58 (4.81%) ITSM
9 46 (3.81%) Remote Monitoring and Management
10 42 (3.48%) Continuous Improvement
11 40 (3.31%) Root Cause Analysis
12 39 (3.23%) Disaster Recovery
12 39 (3.23%) Process Improvement
13 36 (2.98%) Service Management
14 35 (2.90%) Incident Management
14 35 (2.90%) Project Delivery
15 34 (2.82%) ERP
16 33 (2.73%) Asset Management
17 32 (2.65%) Data Protection
18 31 (2.57%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 55 (4.56%) PowerShell
2 46 (3.81%) SQL
3 11 (0.91%) C#
4 10 (0.83%) T-SQL
5 9 (0.75%) Python
6 7 (0.58%) Bash
7 6 (0.50%) PL/SQL
7 6 (0.50%) VBScript
8 5 (0.41%) VB
9 3 (0.25%) Uniface
10 2 (0.17%) Google Apps Script
10 2 (0.17%) R
11 1 (0.083%) PHP
Qualifications
1 76 (6.30%) Microsoft Certification
2 70 (5.80%) Security Cleared
3 59 (4.89%) Degree
4 47 (3.89%) SC Cleared
5 40 (3.31%) Cisco Certification
6 39 (3.23%) CCNA
7 38 (3.15%) DBS Check
8 37 (3.07%) A+ Certification
9 28 (2.32%) BPSS Clearance
10 26 (2.15%) Network+ Certification
11 23 (1.91%) MCSE
12 19 (1.57%) Computer Science Degree
13 18 (1.49%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 15 (1.24%) DV Cleared
15 14 (1.16%) CCNP
16 11 (0.91%) MCSA
17 9 (0.75%) Azure Certification
18 6 (0.50%) CompTIA Security+
18 6 (0.50%) MCITP
18 6 (0.50%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (5.14%) SLA
2 58 (4.81%) Cyber Essentials
3 38 (3.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 20 (1.66%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 10 (0.83%) GDPR
6 5 (0.41%) NIST
7 4 (0.33%) Accessibility
7 4 (0.33%) QA
8 1 (0.083%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 407 (33.72%) Active Directory
2 95 (7.87%) Hyper-V
3 74 (6.13%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (1.57%) Virtual Desktop
5 11 (0.91%) VMware Workstation
6 8 (0.66%) VMware ESXi
6 8 (0.66%) vSphere
7 5 (0.41%) Firmware
7 5 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.33%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.25%) Docker
10 1 (0.083%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 154 (12.76%) Microsoft Intune
2 12 (0.99%) Autotask
2 12 (0.99%) Jamf Pro
2 12 (0.99%) SCCM
2 12 (0.99%) WSUS
3 10 (0.83%) FortiGate
4 8 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
5 7 (0.58%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 7 (0.58%) Proxmox
6 6 (0.50%) Ansible
6 6 (0.50%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 5 (0.41%) SmoothWall
8 2 (0.17%) Failover Clustering
8 2 (0.17%) Terraform
9 1 (0.083%) Kubernetes
9 1 (0.083%) Podman
Vendors
1 500 (41.43%) Microsoft
2 108 (8.95%) VMware
3 70 (5.80%) Google
4 34 (2.82%) Cisco
5 33 (2.73%) Fortinet
6 32 (2.65%) Apple
7 31 (2.57%) Dell
7 31 (2.57%) Meraki
8 28 (2.32%) Fujitsu
8 28 (2.32%) Virgin Media
9 27 (2.24%) Veeam
10 15 (1.24%) Sage
11 14 (1.16%) WatchGuard
12 12 (0.99%) HP
12 12 (0.99%) ServiceNow
13 11 (0.91%) ESET
13 11 (0.91%) Ubiquiti
14 10 (0.83%) Citrix
14 10 (0.83%) Epicor
14 10 (0.83%) Xamarin