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 5 May 2026.

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

6 months to
5 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 169 110
Rank change year-on-year +89 -59 +82
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 1,430 508 1,729
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 2.17% 1.83% 2.54%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.32% 2.05% 2.68%
Number of salaries quoted 1,239 364 1,493
10th Percentile £26,250 £25,538 £23,500
25th Percentile £29,000 £26,250 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £33,500 £32,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.99% +3.08% -
75th Percentile £40,250 £41,250 £42,500
90th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £48,750
UK median annual salary £34,625 £35,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year -1.07% +7.69% -4.41%

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 61,559 24,726 64,485
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.30% 88.83% 94.72%
Number of salaries quoted 39,570 14,687 47,071
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,000 £26,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £36,750 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -5.66%
75th Percentile £68,000 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £76,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £59,000 £52,900
% change year-on-year -6.78% +11.53% -11.83%

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 5 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 5 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 +80 357 £34,000 -2.86% 74
North of England +75 320 £32,500 -1.52% 57
Midlands 0 262 £32,500 -7.14% 35
East of England +71 208 £32,500 +10.17% 53
South West +56 177 £35,000 +4.48% 33
North West +85 173 £32,500 -7.14% 30
East Midlands +9 138 £30,000 - 18
Yorkshire +9 138 £32,500 +11.11% 26
West Midlands -22 124 £32,500 -7.14% 17
Scotland +26 70 £30,000 -9.77% 8
Wales +3 36 £45,000 +13.92% 14
North East -31 9 £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 5 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.

1 540 (37.76%) Microsoft 365
2 529 (36.99%) Microsoft
3 483 (33.78%) Windows
4 412 (28.81%) Active Directory
5 342 (23.92%) Problem-Solving
6 324 (22.66%) Azure
7 270 (18.88%) Customer Service
8 267 (18.67%) Windows Server
9 209 (14.62%) Entra ID
10 207 (14.48%) Firewall
11 147 (10.28%) DNS
12 142 (9.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 140 (9.79%) Microsoft Intune
14 138 (9.65%) Windows 10
15 137 (9.58%) SharePoint
16 131 (9.16%) DHCP
16 131 (9.16%) VPN
17 117 (8.18%) Cybersecurity
18 116 (8.11%) LAN
19 115 (8.04%) ITIL
20 114 (7.97%) VMware
21 112 (7.83%) Microsoft Exchange
22 108 (7.55%) WAN
23 104 (7.27%) Hyper-V
24 96 (6.71%) Security Cleared
25 88 (6.15%) Wi-Fi
26 86 (6.01%) VMware Infrastructure
27 84 (5.87%) Microsoft Office
28 80 (5.59%) Mentoring
29 75 (5.24%) Microsoft Certification

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
1 137 (9.58%) SharePoint
2 112 (7.83%) Microsoft Exchange
3 16 (1.12%) Confluence
4 11 (0.77%) Exchange Server 2013
5 9 (0.63%) Exchange Server 2007
5 9 (0.63%) Exchange Server 2010
6 7 (0.49%) IIS
Applications
1 84 (5.87%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (1.19%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.21%) Photoshop
4 2 (0.14%) AutoCAD
4 2 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.070%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 7 (0.49%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.35%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.070%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 540 (37.76%) Microsoft 365
2 324 (22.66%) Azure
3 209 (14.62%) Entra ID
4 47 (3.29%) Google Workspace
5 40 (2.80%) AWS
6 31 (2.17%) OneDrive
7 23 (1.61%) SaaS
8 20 (1.40%) Power Platform
9 19 (1.33%) PaaS
10 15 (1.05%) IaaS
11 14 (0.98%) Mimecast
12 12 (0.84%) PowerApps
13 9 (0.63%) Azure DevOps
14 8 (0.56%) Azure Sentinel
15 7 (0.49%) Power Automate
16 6 (0.42%) GCP
17 5 (0.35%) Intacct
17 5 (0.35%) Microsoft Copilot
17 5 (0.35%) OCI
18 4 (0.28%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 207 (14.48%) Firewall
2 147 (10.28%) DNS
3 131 (9.16%) DHCP
3 131 (9.16%) VPN
4 116 (8.11%) LAN
5 108 (7.55%) WAN
6 88 (6.15%) Wi-Fi
7 56 (3.92%) VoIP
8 46 (3.22%) VLAN
9 39 (2.73%) TCP/IP
10 33 (2.31%) Wireless
11 26 (1.82%) SAN
12 24 (1.68%) Network Security
13 16 (1.12%) WLAN
14 15 (1.05%) SD-WAN
15 11 (0.77%) Internet
16 10 (0.70%) Remote Desktop
17 7 (0.49%) NAS
17 7 (0.49%) TETRA
18 6 (0.42%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (2.52%) SQL Server
2 20 (1.40%) Power BI
3 5 (0.35%) MySQL
4 2 (0.14%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.070%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 41 (2.87%) JIRA
2 4 (0.28%) GitLab
3 1 (0.070%) LabVIEW
General
1 296 (20.70%) Social Skills
2 72 (5.03%) Manufacturing
3 69 (4.83%) Organisational Skills
4 49 (3.43%) Analytical Skills
5 48 (3.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 42 (2.94%) Finance
7 41 (2.87%) Telecoms
8 39 (2.73%) Public Sector
8 39 (2.73%) Retail
9 38 (2.66%) Law
10 37 (2.59%) Legal
11 28 (1.96%) Multimedia
12 14 (0.98%) Automotive
13 11 (0.77%) Advertising
14 9 (0.63%) Electronics
15 6 (0.42%) Fire and Rescue
15 6 (0.42%) Marketing
15 6 (0.42%) Police
16 5 (0.35%) Documentation Skills
16 5 (0.35%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (0.28%) OpenTelemetry
2 3 (0.21%) CSS
2 3 (0.21%) HTML
2 3 (0.21%) JSON
2 3 (0.21%) Web Services
3 1 (0.070%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 197 (13.78%) Driving Licence
2 60 (4.20%) Onboarding
3 47 (3.29%) Self-Motivation
4 28 (1.96%) Analytical Mindset
5 27 (1.89%) CCTV
6 26 (1.82%) FMCG
7 25 (1.75%) Data Centre
8 15 (1.05%) Smartphone
9 11 (0.77%) Security Posture
10 9 (0.63%) Social Media
11 8 (0.56%) Management Information System
12 7 (0.49%) NHS
12 7 (0.49%) Operational Technology
13 6 (0.42%) iPad
13 6 (0.42%) iPhone
13 6 (0.42%) PMI
14 5 (0.35%) Enterprise Software
14 5 (0.35%) Linux Command Line
14 5 (0.35%) Replication
14 5 (0.35%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 483 (33.78%) Windows
2 267 (18.67%) Windows Server
3 138 (9.65%) Windows 10
4 54 (3.78%) Mac OS
5 43 (3.01%) Linux
6 32 (2.24%) Android
6 32 (2.24%) Apple iOS
7 27 (1.89%) Windows Server 2019
8 26 (1.82%) Windows Server 2016
9 13 (0.91%) Windows 7
10 10 (0.70%) Windows Server 2012
11 8 (0.56%) Windows 8
12 7 (0.49%) Ubuntu
13 5 (0.35%) Windows Server 2008
14 4 (0.28%) Mac OS X
15 1 (0.070%) CentOS
15 1 (0.070%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 1 (0.070%) Solaris
15 1 (0.070%) Unix
15 1 (0.070%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 342 (23.92%) Problem-Solving
2 270 (18.88%) Customer Service
3 142 (9.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 117 (8.18%) Cybersecurity
5 115 (8.04%) ITIL
6 80 (5.59%) Mentoring
7 60 (4.20%) Disaster Recovery
8 58 (4.06%) Service Delivery
9 57 (3.99%) ITSM
10 50 (3.50%) Remote Monitoring and Management
11 48 (3.36%) Root Cause Analysis
12 47 (3.29%) Continuous Improvement
13 44 (3.08%) Service Management
14 40 (2.80%) Time Management
15 39 (2.73%) Project Delivery
16 35 (2.45%) ERP
17 33 (2.31%) Business Continuity
18 31 (2.17%) Asset Management
18 31 (2.17%) Incident Management
18 31 (2.17%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 60 (4.20%) PowerShell
2 42 (2.94%) SQL
3 7 (0.49%) Bash
3 7 (0.49%) Python
4 5 (0.35%) VB
5 4 (0.28%) PHP
5 4 (0.28%) R
6 3 (0.21%) JavaScript
6 3 (0.21%) Uniface
6 3 (0.21%) VBA
7 2 (0.14%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 96 (6.71%) Security Cleared
2 75 (5.24%) Microsoft Certification
3 64 (4.48%) SC Cleared
4 61 (4.27%) Degree
5 46 (3.22%) DBS Check
6 40 (2.80%) CCNA
6 40 (2.80%) Cisco Certification
7 35 (2.45%) A+ Certification
7 35 (2.45%) Network+ Certification
8 26 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
9 19 (1.33%) MCSE
10 15 (1.05%) DV Cleared
11 11 (0.77%) Azure Certification
12 10 (0.70%) CompTIA Security+
13 8 (0.56%) CCNP
14 6 (0.42%) Computer Science Degree
14 6 (0.42%) MCITP
14 6 (0.42%) PMI Certification
15 5 (0.35%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 3 (0.21%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (4.76%) SLA
2 57 (3.99%) Cyber Essentials
3 46 (3.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 25 (1.75%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 12 (0.84%) GDPR
6 8 (0.56%) NIST
7 5 (0.35%) QA
8 3 (0.21%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.14%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.070%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 412 (28.81%) Active Directory
2 104 (7.27%) Hyper-V
3 86 (6.01%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (1.47%) Virtual Desktop
5 14 (0.98%) VMware ESXi
6 10 (0.70%) Docker
6 10 (0.70%) vSphere
7 8 (0.56%) VMware Workstation
8 5 (0.35%) Terminal Services
9 4 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
9 4 (0.28%) VMware NSX
10 3 (0.21%) BitLocker
11 2 (0.14%) Firmware
12 1 (0.070%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 140 (9.79%) Microsoft Intune
2 18 (1.26%) SCCM
3 15 (1.05%) WSUS
4 10 (0.70%) FortiGate
4 10 (0.70%) Jamf Pro
4 10 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
5 9 (0.63%) Autotask
5 9 (0.63%) Proxmox
5 9 (0.63%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 7 (0.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 5 (0.35%) Ansible
8 4 (0.28%) SmoothWall
9 2 (0.14%) Terraform
10 1 (0.070%) Kubernetes
10 1 (0.070%) Podman
Vendors
1 529 (36.99%) Microsoft
2 114 (7.97%) VMware
3 52 (3.64%) Google
4 41 (2.87%) Cisco
5 37 (2.59%) Apple
5 37 (2.59%) Fortinet
6 31 (2.17%) Dell
7 30 (2.10%) Meraki
8 28 (1.96%) Fujitsu
8 28 (1.96%) Virgin Media
9 19 (1.33%) Veeam
10 18 (1.26%) Sophos
11 15 (1.05%) HP
12 13 (0.91%) Epicor
13 11 (0.77%) Citrix
14 10 (0.70%) SAP
15 9 (0.63%) ServiceNow
15 9 (0.63%) Ubiquiti
16 8 (0.56%) Adobe
16 8 (0.56%) ESET