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 29 July 2026.

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

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 228 119
Rank change year-on-year +156 -109 +52
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 1,611 435 1,289
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 2.19% 1.27% 2.06%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.30% 1.42% 2.17%
Number of salaries quoted 1,436 342 1,023
10th Percentile £26,750 £25,750 £24,250
25th Percentile £30,000 £29,125 £27,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £37,000 £33,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% +12.12% +1.54%
75th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £43,750
90th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £50,000
UK median annual salary £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% +0.10%

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 69,940 30,606 59,299
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.86% 89.59% 94.82%
Number of salaries quoted 48,327 17,587 40,465
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,875 £28,000
25th Percentile £38,000 £33,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -5.66%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £78,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 29 July 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 29 July 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 +124 432 £35,000 -12.50% 72
North of England +73 300 £32,500 -1.52% 46
Midlands +76 259 £32,500 -13.33% 36
East of England +103 258 £35,000 -2.78% 48
South West +52 225 £35,000 -6.67% 19
North West +104 169 £35,000 +7.69% 22
East Midlands +46 135 £35,000 +7.69% 18
West Midlands +47 124 £32,500 -23.53% 18
Yorkshire -6 116 £30,000 -7.69% 21
Scotland +58 75 £28,500 -5.00% 11
Wales -13 54 £45,000 -43.75% 9
North East -46 15 £40,000 -17.95% 5
Northern Ireland - 8 £41,000 - 2
IT Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 29 July 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.

1 741 (46.00%) Microsoft
2 699 (43.39%) Microsoft 365
3 649 (40.29%) Windows
4 518 (32.15%) Active Directory
5 409 (25.39%) Azure
6 378 (23.46%) Problem-Solving
7 345 (21.42%) Customer Service
8 327 (20.30%) Windows Server
9 305 (18.93%) Entra ID
10 247 (15.33%) Firewall
11 233 (14.46%) Microsoft Intune
12 229 (14.21%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 219 (13.59%) Microsoft Exchange
14 199 (12.35%) DNS
15 191 (11.86%) SharePoint
16 184 (11.42%) Hyper-V
17 177 (10.99%) Cybersecurity
18 175 (10.86%) VMware
19 163 (10.12%) DHCP
20 155 (9.62%) VPN
21 144 (8.94%) VMware Infrastructure
22 143 (8.88%) Windows 10
23 133 (8.26%) ITIL
24 123 (7.64%) Wi-Fi
25 121 (7.51%) Continuous Improvement
25 121 (7.51%) Disaster Recovery
26 109 (6.77%) Mac OS
27 108 (6.70%) PowerShell
28 106 (6.58%) LAN
29 101 (6.27%) TCP/IP

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
1 219 (13.59%) Microsoft Exchange
2 191 (11.86%) SharePoint
3 13 (0.81%) IIS
4 12 (0.74%) Confluence
4 12 (0.74%) Exchange Server 2013
5 10 (0.62%) Exchange Server 2007
5 10 (0.62%) Exchange Server 2010
6 3 (0.19%) Apache
Applications
1 85 (5.28%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.19%) Photoshop
4 2 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.12%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (0.37%) Raiser’s Edge
2 5 (0.31%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.19%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.12%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 699 (43.39%) Microsoft 365
2 409 (25.39%) Azure
3 305 (18.93%) Entra ID
4 52 (3.23%) AWS
5 47 (2.92%) OneDrive
6 37 (2.30%) Google Workspace
7 28 (1.74%) Mimecast
7 28 (1.74%) SaaS
8 20 (1.24%) Power Platform
9 17 (1.06%) PaaS
10 12 (0.74%) IaaS
10 12 (0.74%) Power Automate
11 11 (0.68%) Azure DevOps
12 9 (0.56%) Nutanix
13 7 (0.43%) Microsoft Copilot
13 7 (0.43%) PowerApps
14 5 (0.31%) GCP
15 4 (0.25%) Azure Sentinel
16 3 (0.19%) Cloudflare
16 3 (0.19%) Intacct
Communications & Networking
1 247 (15.33%) Firewall
2 199 (12.35%) DNS
3 163 (10.12%) DHCP
4 155 (9.62%) VPN
5 123 (7.64%) Wi-Fi
6 106 (6.58%) LAN
7 101 (6.27%) TCP/IP
8 98 (6.08%) WAN
9 80 (4.97%) VoIP
10 67 (4.16%) Wireless
11 60 (3.72%) VLAN
12 32 (1.99%) SAN
13 30 (1.86%) Network Security
14 22 (1.37%) Internet
15 18 (1.12%) Remote Desktop
16 16 (0.99%) WLAN
17 11 (0.68%) SSL
18 7 (0.43%) Broadband
18 7 (0.43%) NAS
18 7 (0.43%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (3.04%) SQL Server
2 10 (0.62%) Power BI
3 9 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
3 9 (0.56%) MySQL
4 5 (0.31%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (0.12%) KNIME
Development Applications
1 41 (2.55%) JIRA
2 2 (0.12%) GitLab
2 2 (0.12%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (0.062%) Carbide.c++
General
1 386 (23.96%) Social Skills
2 80 (4.97%) Manufacturing
3 74 (4.59%) Analytical Skills
4 61 (3.79%) Legal
5 50 (3.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 48 (2.98%) Organisational Skills
7 36 (2.23%) Retail
8 34 (2.11%) Public Sector
9 33 (2.05%) Finance
10 31 (1.92%) Telecoms
11 26 (1.61%) Advertising
12 24 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
13 23 (1.43%) Law
14 17 (1.06%) Automotive
15 8 (0.50%) Aerospace
16 7 (0.43%) Local Government
17 4 (0.25%) Banking
17 4 (0.25%) Dutch Language
17 4 (0.25%) Military
17 4 (0.25%) Portuguese Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (0.43%) HTML
1 7 (0.43%) JSON
2 4 (0.25%) Web Services
3 3 (0.19%) CSS
4 2 (0.12%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 233 (14.46%) Driving Licence
2 87 (5.40%) Onboarding
3 64 (3.97%) Self-Motivation
4 43 (2.67%) CCTV
5 37 (2.30%) Data Centre
6 22 (1.37%) FMCG
7 17 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
7 17 (1.06%) Security Posture
8 12 (0.74%) Hybrid Cloud
8 12 (0.74%) Management Information System
9 11 (0.68%) Cloud Native
9 11 (0.68%) Clustering
9 11 (0.68%) NHS
9 11 (0.68%) Smartphone
10 9 (0.56%) Operational Technology
10 9 (0.56%) PKI
10 9 (0.56%) Replication
11 7 (0.43%) Cyber Threat
11 7 (0.43%) EPoS
12 5 (0.31%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 649 (40.29%) Windows
2 327 (20.30%) Windows Server
3 143 (8.88%) Windows 10
4 109 (6.77%) Mac OS
5 89 (5.52%) Linux
6 42 (2.61%) Apple iOS
7 36 (2.23%) Android
8 33 (2.05%) Windows Server 2019
9 27 (1.68%) Windows Server 2016
10 15 (0.93%) Windows 7
11 11 (0.68%) Ubuntu
11 11 (0.68%) Windows Server 2012
12 9 (0.56%) Windows 8
13 4 (0.25%) Mac OS X
14 2 (0.12%) VMS
14 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
15 1 (0.062%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 378 (23.46%) Problem-Solving
2 345 (21.42%) Customer Service
3 229 (14.21%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 177 (10.99%) Cybersecurity
5 133 (8.26%) ITIL
6 121 (7.51%) Continuous Improvement
6 121 (7.51%) Disaster Recovery
7 75 (4.66%) Project Delivery
8 63 (3.91%) Service Management
9 57 (3.54%) ITSM
9 57 (3.54%) Mentoring
9 57 (3.54%) Root Cause Analysis
10 54 (3.35%) Service Delivery
11 48 (2.98%) Business Continuity
11 48 (2.98%) Remote Monitoring and Management
12 43 (2.67%) Time Management
13 42 (2.61%) User Experience
14 36 (2.23%) Process Improvement
15 34 (2.11%) Incident Management
16 32 (1.99%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 108 (6.70%) PowerShell
2 55 (3.41%) SQL
3 10 (0.62%) Python
3 10 (0.62%) R
4 8 (0.50%) Ruby
5 4 (0.25%) VBScript
6 3 (0.19%) Bicep
6 3 (0.19%) JavaScript
6 3 (0.19%) PHP
6 3 (0.19%) VB
6 3 (0.19%) VBA
7 2 (0.12%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.062%) Uniface
Qualifications
1 86 (5.34%) Microsoft Certification
2 79 (4.90%) Security Cleared
3 78 (4.84%) Degree
4 56 (3.48%) DBS Check
5 54 (3.35%) SC Cleared
6 49 (3.04%) CCNA
6 49 (3.04%) Cisco Certification
7 35 (2.17%) Network+ Certification
8 26 (1.61%) A+ Certification
9 23 (1.43%) Azure Certification
10 16 (0.99%) BPSS Clearance
10 16 (0.99%) CompTIA Security+
11 14 (0.87%) MCSE
12 13 (0.81%) DV Cleared
13 6 (0.37%) AWS Certification
14 5 (0.31%) CCNP
14 5 (0.31%) MCSA
15 4 (0.25%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 4 (0.25%) MCITP
15 4 (0.25%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 96 (5.96%) Cyber Essentials
2 54 (3.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 42 (2.61%) SLA
4 32 (1.99%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 23 (1.43%) GDPR
6 10 (0.62%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.25%) Accessibility
7 4 (0.25%) NIST
8 3 (0.19%) QA
9 1 (0.062%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.062%) NCSC
System Software
1 518 (32.15%) Active Directory
2 184 (11.42%) Hyper-V
3 144 (8.94%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (1.24%) Virtual Desktop
5 19 (1.18%) vSphere
6 16 (0.99%) Virtual Machines
7 14 (0.87%) VMware ESXi
8 13 (0.81%) Docker
9 8 (0.50%) BitLocker
10 5 (0.31%) Firmware
10 5 (0.31%) Terminal Services
10 5 (0.31%) VMware Workstation
11 2 (0.12%) VMware NSX
12 1 (0.062%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 233 (14.46%) Microsoft Intune
2 21 (1.30%) SCCM
3 19 (1.18%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 12 (0.74%) Jamf Pro
4 12 (0.74%) Proxmox
5 11 (0.68%) WSUS
6 7 (0.43%) Failover Clustering
6 7 (0.43%) FortiGate
7 6 (0.37%) Autotask
8 4 (0.25%) Ansible
8 4 (0.25%) Iperf
8 4 (0.25%) Kubernetes
8 4 (0.25%) Terraform
9 3 (0.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.12%) PaperCut
11 1 (0.062%) Argo
11 1 (0.062%) Nessus
Vendors
1 741 (46.00%) Microsoft
2 175 (10.86%) VMware
3 65 (4.03%) Cisco
4 49 (3.04%) Veeam
5 43 (2.67%) Google
6 34 (2.11%) Apple
7 32 (1.99%) Meraki
8 28 (1.74%) Dell
9 26 (1.61%) Sophos
10 24 (1.49%) SonicWALL
10 24 (1.49%) Ubiquiti
11 22 (1.37%) HP
12 15 (0.93%) Fortinet
13 12 (0.74%) Logitech
13 12 (0.74%) TOWER Software
14 11 (0.68%) Epicor
15 10 (0.62%) CrowdStrike
15 10 (0.62%) Palo Alto
15 10 (0.62%) ServiceNow
16 9 (0.56%) Sage