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 £34,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 27 May 2026.

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

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 204 106
Rank change year-on-year +127 -98 +81
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 1,506 444 1,749
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 2.24% 1.57% 2.46%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.39% 1.76% 2.60%
Number of salaries quoted 1,318 325 1,502
10th Percentile £26,250 £25,750 £23,500
25th Percentile £29,000 £26,250 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £34,250 £33,500 £32,375
Median % change year-on-year +2.24% +3.47% -0.38%
75th Percentile £42,500 £42,456 £42,500
90th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
UK median annual salary £35,000 £35,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year - +7.69% -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 63,080 25,190 67,391
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.78% 88.95% 94.85%
Number of salaries quoted 42,046 13,312 49,098
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,250 £26,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £51,058 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.07% +2.12% -6.54%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £76,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%

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 27 May 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 27 May 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 +102 370 £34,500 -1.43% 78
North of England +99 346 £32,940 +2.14% 36
Midlands +48 256 £32,500 -7.14% 32
East of England +91 234 £35,000 +16.67% 38
South West +60 196 £35,000 +4.48% 28
North West +113 191 £32,940 +1.35% 21
Yorkshire +5 144 £33,500 +16.52% 14
East Midlands +32 129 £30,000 -7.69% 17
West Midlands +18 127 £32,500 -7.14% 15
Scotland +32 63 £28,000 -6.67% 12
Wales -1 41 £45,000 +13.92% 11
North East -34 11 £30,000 -20.00% 2
IT Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 27 May 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.

1 556 (36.92%) Microsoft 365
2 554 (36.79%) Microsoft
3 505 (33.53%) Windows
4 417 (27.69%) Active Directory
5 355 (23.57%) Azure
6 352 (23.37%) Problem-Solving
7 284 (18.86%) Customer Service
8 275 (18.26%) Windows Server
9 226 (15.01%) Entra ID
10 221 (14.67%) Firewall
11 160 (10.62%) Microsoft Intune
12 157 (10.42%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 149 (9.89%) DNS
14 143 (9.50%) SharePoint
15 141 (9.36%) VPN
16 136 (9.03%) Microsoft Exchange
17 135 (8.96%) Windows 10
18 131 (8.70%) Cybersecurity
19 129 (8.57%) DHCP
20 128 (8.50%) VMware
21 126 (8.37%) Hyper-V
22 114 (7.57%) ITIL
22 114 (7.57%) LAN
23 106 (7.04%) WAN
24 100 (6.64%) VMware Infrastructure
25 97 (6.44%) Wi-Fi
26 96 (6.37%) Security Cleared
27 83 (5.51%) Microsoft Office
28 82 (5.44%) Mentoring
29 79 (5.25%) PowerShell

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
1 143 (9.50%) SharePoint
2 136 (9.03%) Microsoft Exchange
3 17 (1.13%) Confluence
4 15 (1.00%) Exchange Server 2013
5 13 (0.86%) Exchange Server 2007
5 13 (0.86%) Exchange Server 2010
6 8 (0.53%) IIS
Applications
1 83 (5.51%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (1.13%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.20%) Photoshop
4 2 (0.13%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.066%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (0.40%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.33%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.066%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.066%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 556 (36.92%) Microsoft 365
2 355 (23.57%) Azure
3 226 (15.01%) Entra ID
4 46 (3.05%) Google Workspace
5 45 (2.99%) AWS
6 39 (2.59%) OneDrive
7 22 (1.46%) Power Platform
8 20 (1.33%) SaaS
9 19 (1.26%) PaaS
10 16 (1.06%) Mimecast
11 14 (0.93%) IaaS
12 9 (0.60%) Azure DevOps
12 9 (0.60%) PowerApps
13 8 (0.53%) Azure Sentinel
14 6 (0.40%) Microsoft Copilot
15 5 (0.33%) Intacct
15 5 (0.33%) OCI
16 4 (0.27%) GCP
16 4 (0.27%) Nutanix
16 4 (0.27%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 221 (14.67%) Firewall
2 149 (9.89%) DNS
3 141 (9.36%) VPN
4 129 (8.57%) DHCP
5 114 (7.57%) LAN
6 106 (7.04%) WAN
7 97 (6.44%) Wi-Fi
8 59 (3.92%) VoIP
9 49 (3.25%) VLAN
10 45 (2.99%) TCP/IP
11 35 (2.32%) Wireless
12 28 (1.86%) SAN
13 24 (1.59%) Network Security
14 19 (1.26%) WLAN
15 13 (0.86%) SD-WAN
16 12 (0.80%) Remote Desktop
17 9 (0.60%) Internet
18 8 (0.53%) SSL
19 7 (0.46%) NAS
20 5 (0.33%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (2.46%) SQL Server
2 15 (1.00%) Power BI
3 5 (0.33%) MySQL
4 3 (0.20%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.066%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.066%) KNIME
Development Applications
1 40 (2.66%) JIRA
2 4 (0.27%) GitLab
3 1 (0.066%) LabVIEW
General
1 307 (20.39%) Social Skills
2 69 (4.58%) Manufacturing
3 58 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
4 56 (3.72%) Analytical Skills
5 51 (3.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 39 (2.59%) Telecoms
7 38 (2.52%) Legal
8 37 (2.46%) Public Sector
9 36 (2.39%) Retail
10 35 (2.32%) Finance
10 35 (2.32%) Law
11 28 (1.86%) Multimedia
12 14 (0.93%) Automotive
13 12 (0.80%) Advertising
14 5 (0.33%) Documentation Skills
14 5 (0.33%) Local Government
14 5 (0.33%) Social Housing
15 4 (0.27%) Dutch Language
15 4 (0.27%) Portuguese Language
15 4 (0.27%) Spanish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (0.33%) HTML
1 5 (0.33%) JSON
2 4 (0.27%) OpenTelemetry
3 3 (0.20%) CSS
3 3 (0.20%) Web Services
4 1 (0.066%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 202 (13.41%) Driving Licence
2 56 (3.72%) Onboarding
3 49 (3.25%) Self-Motivation
4 27 (1.79%) Analytical Mindset
4 27 (1.79%) CCTV
5 26 (1.73%) Data Centre
5 26 (1.73%) FMCG
6 13 (0.86%) Management Information System
7 12 (0.80%) Smartphone
8 11 (0.73%) NHS
8 11 (0.73%) Security Posture
9 9 (0.60%) Clustering
9 9 (0.60%) Social Media
10 7 (0.46%) Operational Technology
10 7 (0.46%) Replication
11 6 (0.40%) iPhone
12 5 (0.33%) Enterprise Software
12 5 (0.33%) Hybrid Cloud
12 5 (0.33%) Linux Command Line
12 5 (0.33%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 505 (33.53%) Windows
2 275 (18.26%) Windows Server
3 135 (8.96%) Windows 10
4 66 (4.38%) Mac OS
5 60 (3.98%) Linux
6 37 (2.46%) Windows Server 2019
7 36 (2.39%) Windows Server 2016
8 32 (2.12%) Android
9 30 (1.99%) Apple iOS
10 17 (1.13%) Windows 7
11 13 (0.86%) Windows Server 2012
12 11 (0.73%) Windows 8
13 7 (0.46%) Ubuntu
14 5 (0.33%) Windows Server 2008
15 4 (0.27%) Mac OS X
16 1 (0.066%) CentOS
16 1 (0.066%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 1 (0.066%) Rocky
16 1 (0.066%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 352 (23.37%) Problem-Solving
2 284 (18.86%) Customer Service
3 157 (10.42%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 131 (8.70%) Cybersecurity
5 114 (7.57%) ITIL
6 82 (5.44%) Mentoring
7 68 (4.52%) Disaster Recovery
8 61 (4.05%) Service Delivery
9 60 (3.98%) Continuous Improvement
10 53 (3.52%) ITSM
11 51 (3.39%) Root Cause Analysis
12 50 (3.32%) Remote Monitoring and Management
13 47 (3.12%) Project Delivery
13 47 (3.12%) Service Management
14 41 (2.72%) Time Management
15 36 (2.39%) Business Continuity
16 34 (2.26%) ERP
17 32 (2.12%) Process Improvement
18 29 (1.93%) Coaching
18 29 (1.93%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 79 (5.25%) PowerShell
2 47 (3.12%) SQL
3 7 (0.46%) Python
4 6 (0.40%) Bash
5 5 (0.33%) VB
6 4 (0.27%) PHP
6 4 (0.27%) R
7 3 (0.20%) JavaScript
7 3 (0.20%) Uniface
7 3 (0.20%) VBA
8 2 (0.13%) Google Apps Script
8 2 (0.13%) VBScript
9 1 (0.066%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 96 (6.37%) Security Cleared
2 77 (5.11%) Microsoft Certification
3 73 (4.85%) Degree
4 66 (4.38%) SC Cleared
5 55 (3.65%) DBS Check
6 43 (2.86%) CCNA
6 43 (2.86%) Cisco Certification
7 37 (2.46%) Network+ Certification
8 31 (2.06%) A+ Certification
9 26 (1.73%) BPSS Clearance
10 18 (1.20%) Azure Certification
11 17 (1.13%) MCSE
12 16 (1.06%) DV Cleared
13 15 (1.00%) CompTIA Security+
14 7 (0.46%) CCNP
15 5 (0.33%) Computer Science Degree
15 5 (0.33%) MCITP
16 4 (0.27%) PMI Certification
17 3 (0.20%) ITIL Certification
17 3 (0.20%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (4.71%) Cyber Essentials
2 55 (3.65%) SLA
3 51 (3.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 30 (1.99%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 12 (0.80%) GDPR
6 8 (0.53%) NIST
7 6 (0.40%) PCI DSS
8 5 (0.33%) QA
9 4 (0.27%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.066%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 417 (27.69%) Active Directory
2 126 (8.37%) Hyper-V
3 100 (6.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (1.53%) Virtual Desktop
5 16 (1.06%) VMware ESXi
6 10 (0.66%) Docker
6 10 (0.66%) vSphere
7 7 (0.46%) VMware Workstation
8 5 (0.33%) BitLocker
8 5 (0.33%) Terminal Services
9 4 (0.27%) VMware NSX
10 3 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
11 2 (0.13%) Firmware
12 1 (0.066%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 160 (10.62%) Microsoft Intune
2 19 (1.26%) SCCM
3 14 (0.93%) WSUS
4 11 (0.73%) FortiGate
4 11 (0.73%) Jamf Pro
4 11 (0.73%) Proxmox
4 11 (0.73%) Single Sign-On
4 11 (0.73%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 8 (0.53%) Autotask
6 7 (0.46%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 5 (0.33%) Failover Clustering
8 4 (0.27%) Ansible
8 4 (0.27%) SmoothWall
9 3 (0.20%) Terraform
10 2 (0.13%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 554 (36.79%) Microsoft
2 128 (8.50%) VMware
3 51 (3.39%) Google
4 45 (2.99%) Cisco
5 37 (2.46%) Fortinet
6 36 (2.39%) Apple
7 35 (2.32%) Meraki
8 30 (1.99%) Veeam
9 29 (1.93%) Dell
10 28 (1.86%) Fujitsu
10 28 (1.86%) Virgin Media
11 19 (1.26%) Sophos
12 15 (1.00%) HP
12 15 (1.00%) Ubiquiti
13 13 (0.86%) Epicor
14 11 (0.73%) SonicWALL
15 9 (0.60%) Sage
15 9 (0.60%) ServiceNow
16 8 (0.53%) Logitech
17 7 (0.46%) ESET