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 26 November 2025.

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

6 months to
26 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 148 119 136
Rank change year-on-year -29 +17 +108
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 585 982 703
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.57% 2.09% 2.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.74% 2.22% 2.49%
Number of salaries quoted 502 573 639
10th Percentile £25,520 £25,008 £25,000
25th Percentile £27,250 £29,000 £29,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £35,000 £34,854
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +0.42% +7.24%
75th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
90th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £53,750
UK median annual salary £32,500 £37,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year -12.16% +5.71% +4.48%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 33,555 44,293 28,199
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.17% 94.16% 95.58%
Number of salaries quoted 21,188 23,688 21,360
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £32,750 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.65% -0.95% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,100 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -

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 26 November 2025.

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 26 November 2025. 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
Midlands -26 159 £31,500 -10.00% 51
South East 0 139 £32,618 -15.28% 79
North of England -10 117 £32,500 -7.14% 73
East Midlands +20 111 £30,000 -13.04% 22
South West -2 76 £35,000 -12.50% 37
Yorkshire +9 64 £39,250 +18.94% 38
East of England +9 56 £31,000 -4.62% 32
West Midlands -56 48 £37,500 +7.14% 29
North West -13 47 £30,000 -14.29% 31
Scotland +7 36 £28,000 -11.11% 23
Wales +16 16 £57,500 +35.29% 8
North East +3 6 £48,750 +37.32% 4
Northern Ireland +1 1 £31,500 +5.00% 2
Channel Islands - 1 £45,000 - 2
IT Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 26 November 2025, 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.

1 355 (60.68%) Windows
2 332 (56.75%) Microsoft
3 329 (56.24%) Microsoft 365
4 312 (53.33%) Active Directory
5 243 (41.54%) Azure
6 202 (34.53%) Problem-Solving
7 193 (32.99%) Windows Server
8 170 (29.06%) Firewall
9 140 (23.93%) DNS
10 133 (22.74%) Customer Service
11 129 (22.05%) DHCP
12 115 (19.66%) Entra ID
13 114 (19.49%) Microsoft Intune
14 99 (16.92%) Cybersecurity
15 91 (15.56%) ITIL
16 90 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 89 (15.21%) VMware
18 87 (14.87%) Hyper-V
18 87 (14.87%) SharePoint
19 72 (12.31%) TCP/IP
20 71 (12.14%) Microsoft Exchange
21 70 (11.97%) Windows 10
22 65 (11.11%) VLAN
22 65 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
23 64 (10.94%) VPN
24 62 (10.60%) Microsoft Certification
25 59 (10.09%) Degree
26 57 (9.74%) PowerShell
27 52 (8.89%) Wi-Fi
28 51 (8.72%) Microsoft Office

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 87 (14.87%) SharePoint
2 71 (12.14%) Microsoft Exchange
3 22 (3.76%) IIS
4 3 (0.51%) Confluence
5 2 (0.34%) Exchange Server 2007
5 2 (0.34%) Exchange Server 2010
5 2 (0.34%) Exchange Server 2013
6 1 (0.17%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 51 (8.72%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (1.88%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.34%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 7 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.68%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.17%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.17%) Pegasus Opera
Cloud Services
1 329 (56.24%) Microsoft 365
2 243 (41.54%) Azure
3 115 (19.66%) Entra ID
4 37 (6.32%) AWS
5 22 (3.76%) GCP
6 21 (3.59%) OneDrive
7 20 (3.42%) SaaS
8 19 (3.25%) Power Platform
9 18 (3.08%) Azure DevOps
10 17 (2.91%) Google Workspace
11 12 (2.05%) Power Automate
12 11 (1.88%) IaaS
13 9 (1.54%) Cloud Computing
14 8 (1.37%) Azure Stack
14 8 (1.37%) PaaS
15 6 (1.03%) iPaaS
15 6 (1.03%) Nutanix
15 6 (1.03%) PowerApps
15 6 (1.03%) Serverless
16 5 (0.85%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 170 (29.06%) Firewall
2 140 (23.93%) DNS
3 129 (22.05%) DHCP
4 72 (12.31%) TCP/IP
5 65 (11.11%) VLAN
6 64 (10.94%) VPN
7 52 (8.89%) Wi-Fi
8 43 (7.35%) WAN
9 34 (5.81%) SAN
10 32 (5.47%) LAN
11 31 (5.30%) Wireless
12 24 (4.10%) VoIP
13 22 (3.76%) Network Security
14 18 (3.08%) SD-WAN
15 11 (1.88%) IP Telephony
16 9 (1.54%) IPsec
17 6 (1.03%) Cisco IOS
17 6 (1.03%) Intrusion Detection
17 6 (1.03%) iSCSI
17 6 (1.03%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (6.15%) SQL Server
2 15 (2.56%) Power BI
3 13 (2.22%) Amazon RDS
4 12 (2.05%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 4 (0.68%) Relational Database
6 3 (0.51%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.17%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 11 (1.88%) JIRA
2 1 (0.17%) Bitbucket
2 1 (0.17%) Git
2 1 (0.17%) Snyk
General
1 214 (36.58%) Social Skills
2 39 (6.67%) Manufacturing
3 33 (5.64%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (5.47%) Organisational Skills
5 31 (5.30%) Public Sector
6 29 (4.96%) Law
7 27 (4.62%) Finance
8 24 (4.10%) Legal
8 24 (4.10%) Telecoms
9 14 (2.39%) Electronics
10 12 (2.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 11 (1.88%) Retail
12 10 (1.71%) Documentation Skills
13 9 (1.54%) Marketing
13 9 (1.54%) Pharmaceutical
14 4 (0.68%) Dutch Language
14 4 (0.68%) French Language
14 4 (0.68%) Spanish Language
15 3 (0.51%) Fire and Rescue
15 3 (0.51%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (2.22%) .NET
2 12 (2.05%) .NET Framework
2 12 (2.05%) Entity Framework
2 12 (2.05%) WinForms
3 7 (1.20%) ASP.NET
4 5 (0.85%) 802.1X
5 3 (0.51%) EDI
6 1 (0.17%) LAMP
6 1 (0.17%) OAuth
6 1 (0.17%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 119 (20.34%) Driving Licence
2 46 (7.86%) Onboarding
3 23 (3.93%) Data Centre
4 22 (3.76%) Operational Technology
5 20 (3.42%) Self-Motivation
6 15 (2.56%) Clustering
7 13 (2.22%) Analytical Mindset
8 12 (2.05%) Smartphone
9 11 (1.88%) CCTV
10 10 (1.71%) Hybrid Cloud
11 9 (1.54%) FMCG
12 7 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
13 6 (1.03%) iPad
13 6 (1.03%) Security Posture
14 5 (0.85%) BYOD
14 5 (0.85%) Cyber Security Posture
14 5 (0.85%) Life Science
15 4 (0.68%) Enterprise Storage
15 4 (0.68%) Solar Panel
16 3 (0.51%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 355 (60.68%) Windows
2 193 (32.99%) Windows Server
3 70 (11.97%) Windows 10
4 48 (8.21%) Linux
5 31 (5.30%) Mac OS
6 25 (4.27%) Windows Server 2019
7 14 (2.39%) Apple iOS
8 12 (2.05%) Windows Server 2016
9 11 (1.88%) Android
10 8 (1.37%) Rocky
11 6 (1.03%) Windows 7
12 4 (0.68%) Unix
12 4 (0.68%) Windows 8
12 4 (0.68%) Windows Server 2012
13 3 (0.51%) Debian
14 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 1 (0.17%) Solaris
14 1 (0.17%) Ubuntu
14 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 202 (34.53%) Problem-Solving
2 133 (22.74%) Customer Service
3 99 (16.92%) Cybersecurity
4 91 (15.56%) ITIL
5 90 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 39 (6.67%) Disaster Recovery
7 38 (6.50%) Network Management
7 38 (6.50%) Project Delivery
8 33 (5.64%) Incident Management
9 32 (5.47%) Continuous Improvement
9 32 (5.47%) ITSM
9 32 (5.47%) Mentoring
10 28 (4.79%) Data Protection
11 27 (4.62%) Service Delivery
12 26 (4.44%) Migration
12 26 (4.44%) Software Engineering
13 25 (4.27%) Business Intelligence
13 25 (4.27%) Process Improvement
14 23 (3.93%) Computer Science
14 23 (3.93%) Network Design
Programming Languages
1 57 (9.74%) PowerShell
2 35 (5.98%) SQL
3 14 (2.39%) C#
4 13 (2.22%) T-SQL
5 9 (1.54%) Python
6 7 (1.20%) PL/SQL
6 7 (1.20%) VBScript
7 4 (0.68%) Uniface
8 3 (0.51%) Bash
9 2 (0.34%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 62 (10.60%) Microsoft Certification
2 59 (10.09%) Degree
3 34 (5.81%) Cisco Certification
4 30 (5.13%) CCNA
5 25 (4.27%) A+ Certification
6 22 (3.76%) DBS Check
7 21 (3.59%) MCP
8 20 (3.42%) Computer Science Degree
9 19 (3.25%) MCSE
9 19 (3.25%) Security Cleared
10 18 (3.08%) BPSS Clearance
11 17 (2.91%) Network+ Certification
12 15 (2.56%) Azure Certification
13 14 (2.39%) SC Cleared
14 9 (1.54%) MCSA
15 8 (1.37%) CCNP
15 8 (1.37%) DV Cleared
16 7 (1.20%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 7 (1.20%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
17 6 (1.03%) ACMT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (6.32%) Cyber Essentials
2 34 (5.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 27 (4.62%) SLA
4 25 (4.27%) GDPR
5 6 (1.03%) Accessibility
5 6 (1.03%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 6 (1.03%) NIST
6 2 (0.34%) GxP
6 2 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.17%) NCSC
7 1 (0.17%) SOC 2
System Software
1 312 (53.33%) Active Directory
2 87 (14.87%) Hyper-V
3 65 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (3.93%) Virtual Servers
5 11 (1.88%) Firmware
6 8 (1.37%) Docker
7 7 (1.20%) Virtual Desktop
7 7 (1.20%) VMware ESXi
8 6 (1.03%) Virtual Machines
9 4 (0.68%) VMware Workstation
10 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 2 (0.34%) vSphere
10 2 (0.34%) XenDesktop
11 1 (0.17%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 114 (19.49%) Microsoft Intune
2 19 (3.25%) SCCM
3 16 (2.74%) Kubernetes
4 13 (2.22%) Autotask
5 9 (1.54%) vCenter Server
6 7 (1.20%) Failover Clustering
6 7 (1.20%) Jamf Pro
7 4 (0.68%) WSUS
8 3 (0.51%) Ansible
8 3 (0.51%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Clustering
9 2 (0.34%) NetBackup
9 2 (0.34%) Podman
9 2 (0.34%) Puppet
9 2 (0.34%) SmoothWall
9 2 (0.34%) Terraform
9 2 (0.34%) WhatsUp Gold
10 1 (0.17%) Backup Exec
10 1 (0.17%) Proxmox
10 1 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 332 (56.75%) Microsoft
2 89 (15.21%) VMware
3 45 (7.69%) Cisco
4 42 (7.18%) Veeam
5 29 (4.96%) Google
6 25 (4.27%) Apple
6 25 (4.27%) Dell
7 19 (3.25%) Meraki
8 18 (3.08%) Sophos
9 15 (2.56%) HP
9 15 (2.56%) ServiceNow
10 14 (2.39%) Aruba
11 13 (2.22%) Sage
12 12 (2.05%) Datto
12 12 (2.05%) Xamarin
12 12 (2.05%) Zoho
13 10 (1.71%) SAP
14 9 (1.54%) Adobe
14 9 (1.54%) Draytek
14 9 (1.54%) WatchGuard