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 28 July 2026.

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

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 226 116
Rank change year-on-year +153 -110 +58
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 1,618 440 1,327
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 2.20% 1.29% 2.09%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.32% 1.44% 2.21%
Number of salaries quoted 1,442 348 1,062
10th Percentile £26,750 £25,750 £24,250
25th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £27,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £36,500 £32,750
Median % change year-on-year -4.11% +11.45% +0.77%
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% +1.45%

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 69,861 30,584 60,125
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.87% 89.62% 94.80%
Number of salaries quoted 48,293 17,580 41,285
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,875 £28,000
25th Percentile £37,750 £33,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -5.87%
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 28 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 28 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 +136 437 £35,000 -12.50% 71
North of England +70 302 £32,500 -1.52% 44
Midlands +73 259 £32,500 -13.33% 27
East of England +112 257 £35,000 -2.78% 43
South West +50 225 £35,000 -6.67% 20
North West +120 170 £35,000 +8.53% 21
East Midlands +46 134 £35,000 +7.69% 15
West Midlands +57 125 £32,500 -23.53% 12
Yorkshire -12 116 £30,000 -7.69% 20
Scotland +61 77 £28,500 -5.00% 11
Wales -17 54 £45,000 -43.75% 10
North East -40 16 £40,000 -17.95% 5
Northern Ireland - 7 £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 28 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.

1 743 (45.92%) Microsoft
2 703 (43.45%) Microsoft 365
3 650 (40.17%) Windows
4 521 (32.20%) Active Directory
5 413 (25.53%) Azure
6 379 (23.42%) Problem-Solving
7 345 (21.32%) Customer Service
8 331 (20.46%) Windows Server
9 306 (18.91%) Entra ID
10 251 (15.51%) Firewall
11 233 (14.40%) Microsoft Intune
12 231 (14.28%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 218 (13.47%) Microsoft Exchange
14 202 (12.48%) DNS
15 192 (11.87%) SharePoint
16 183 (11.31%) Hyper-V
17 179 (11.06%) Cybersecurity
18 175 (10.82%) VMware
19 166 (10.26%) DHCP
20 158 (9.77%) VPN
21 145 (8.96%) Windows 10
22 144 (8.90%) VMware Infrastructure
23 133 (8.22%) ITIL
24 125 (7.73%) Wi-Fi
25 122 (7.54%) Continuous Improvement
26 120 (7.42%) Disaster Recovery
27 110 (6.80%) PowerShell
28 109 (6.74%) Mac OS
29 108 (6.67%) LAN
30 100 (6.18%) 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
1 218 (13.47%) Microsoft Exchange
2 192 (11.87%) SharePoint
3 13 (0.80%) Exchange Server 2013
3 13 (0.80%) IIS
4 12 (0.74%) Confluence
5 11 (0.68%) Exchange Server 2007
5 11 (0.68%) Exchange Server 2010
6 3 (0.19%) Apache
Applications
1 88 (5.44%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (0.87%) 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 4 (0.25%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.12%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.062%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 703 (43.45%) Microsoft 365
2 413 (25.53%) Azure
3 306 (18.91%) Entra ID
4 53 (3.28%) AWS
5 47 (2.90%) OneDrive
6 36 (2.22%) Google Workspace
7 29 (1.79%) SaaS
8 28 (1.73%) Mimecast
9 21 (1.30%) Power Platform
10 17 (1.05%) PaaS
11 12 (0.74%) IaaS
11 12 (0.74%) Power Automate
12 11 (0.68%) Azure DevOps
13 9 (0.56%) Nutanix
14 7 (0.43%) Microsoft Copilot
14 7 (0.43%) PowerApps
15 5 (0.31%) GCP
16 4 (0.25%) Azure Sentinel
17 3 (0.19%) Cloudflare
17 3 (0.19%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 251 (15.51%) Firewall
2 202 (12.48%) DNS
3 166 (10.26%) DHCP
4 158 (9.77%) VPN
5 125 (7.73%) Wi-Fi
6 108 (6.67%) LAN
7 100 (6.18%) TCP/IP
8 99 (6.12%) WAN
9 80 (4.94%) VoIP
10 68 (4.20%) Wireless
11 63 (3.89%) VLAN
12 32 (1.98%) SAN
13 30 (1.85%) Network Security
14 22 (1.36%) Internet
15 18 (1.11%) 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 (3.03%) SQL Server
2 11 (0.68%) 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 (2.53%) JIRA
2 2 (0.12%) GitLab
2 2 (0.12%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (0.062%) Carbide.c++
General
1 387 (23.92%) Social Skills
2 80 (4.94%) Manufacturing
3 74 (4.57%) Analytical Skills
4 60 (3.71%) Legal
5 50 (3.09%) Organisational Skills
6 49 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 38 (2.35%) Retail
8 35 (2.16%) Public Sector
9 33 (2.04%) Finance
10 32 (1.98%) Telecoms
11 26 (1.61%) Advertising
12 24 (1.48%) Documentation Skills
12 24 (1.48%) Law
13 17 (1.05%) Automotive
14 8 (0.49%) Aerospace
15 7 (0.43%) Local Government
16 4 (0.25%) Dutch Language
16 4 (0.25%) Military
16 4 (0.25%) Portuguese Language
16 4 (0.25%) Spanish 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 (14.40%) Driving Licence
2 88 (5.44%) Onboarding
3 65 (4.02%) Self-Motivation
4 42 (2.60%) CCTV
5 37 (2.29%) Data Centre
6 22 (1.36%) FMCG
7 17 (1.05%) Analytical Mindset
7 17 (1.05%) Security Posture
8 12 (0.74%) Hybrid Cloud
9 11 (0.68%) Cloud Native
9 11 (0.68%) Clustering
9 11 (0.68%) Management Information System
9 11 (0.68%) NHS
9 11 (0.68%) Smartphone
10 9 (0.56%) Operational Technology
10 9 (0.56%) PKI
11 8 (0.49%) Replication
12 7 (0.43%) EPoS
13 6 (0.37%) Cyber Threat
14 5 (0.31%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 650 (40.17%) Windows
2 331 (20.46%) Windows Server
3 145 (8.96%) Windows 10
4 109 (6.74%) Mac OS
5 90 (5.56%) Linux
6 41 (2.53%) Apple iOS
7 36 (2.22%) Android
8 35 (2.16%) Windows Server 2019
9 29 (1.79%) Windows Server 2016
10 15 (0.93%) Windows 7
11 12 (0.74%) Ubuntu
11 12 (0.74%) Windows Server 2012
12 9 (0.56%) Windows 8
13 4 (0.25%) Mac OS X
14 3 (0.19%) Windows Server 2008
15 2 (0.12%) VMS
16 1 (0.062%) CentOS
16 1 (0.062%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 1 (0.062%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 379 (23.42%) Problem-Solving
2 345 (21.32%) Customer Service
3 231 (14.28%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 179 (11.06%) Cybersecurity
5 133 (8.22%) ITIL
6 122 (7.54%) Continuous Improvement
7 120 (7.42%) Disaster Recovery
8 76 (4.70%) Project Delivery
9 62 (3.83%) Service Management
10 58 (3.58%) Mentoring
11 57 (3.52%) ITSM
12 56 (3.46%) Root Cause Analysis
13 55 (3.40%) Service Delivery
14 48 (2.97%) Remote Monitoring and Management
15 46 (2.84%) Business Continuity
16 44 (2.72%) Time Management
17 42 (2.60%) User Experience
18 36 (2.22%) Process Improvement
19 34 (2.10%) Incident Management
20 33 (2.04%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 110 (6.80%) PowerShell
2 56 (3.46%) SQL
3 10 (0.62%) Python
3 10 (0.62%) R
4 8 (0.49%) Ruby
5 4 (0.25%) PHP
5 4 (0.25%) VBScript
6 3 (0.19%) Bicep
6 3 (0.19%) JavaScript
6 3 (0.19%) VB
6 3 (0.19%) VBA
7 2 (0.12%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.062%) Bash
8 1 (0.062%) Uniface
Qualifications
1 87 (5.38%) Microsoft Certification
2 78 (4.82%) Degree
2 78 (4.82%) Security Cleared
3 56 (3.46%) DBS Check
4 53 (3.28%) SC Cleared
5 49 (3.03%) CCNA
5 49 (3.03%) Cisco Certification
6 35 (2.16%) Network+ Certification
7 27 (1.67%) A+ Certification
8 23 (1.42%) Azure Certification
9 16 (0.99%) BPSS Clearance
9 16 (0.99%) CompTIA Security+
10 14 (0.87%) MCSE
11 13 (0.80%) DV Cleared
12 6 (0.37%) AWS Certification
13 5 (0.31%) CCNP
13 5 (0.31%) MCITP
13 5 (0.31%) MCSA
14 4 (0.25%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 4 (0.25%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 96 (5.93%) Cyber Essentials
2 54 (3.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 42 (2.60%) SLA
4 32 (1.98%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 23 (1.42%) 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
1 521 (32.20%) Active Directory
2 183 (11.31%) Hyper-V
3 144 (8.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (1.24%) Virtual Desktop
4 20 (1.24%) vSphere
5 16 (0.99%) Virtual Machines
6 15 (0.93%) VMware ESXi
7 13 (0.80%) Docker
8 8 (0.49%) BitLocker
9 5 (0.31%) Firmware
9 5 (0.31%) Terminal Services
9 5 (0.31%) VMware Workstation
10 2 (0.12%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.062%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 233 (14.40%) Microsoft Intune
2 20 (1.24%) SCCM
3 19 (1.17%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 12 (0.74%) Jamf Pro
4 12 (0.74%) Proxmox
5 10 (0.62%) 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%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (0.25%) Terraform
9 2 (0.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.12%) PaperCut
10 1 (0.062%) Argo
10 1 (0.062%) Nessus
Vendors
1 743 (45.92%) Microsoft
2 175 (10.82%) VMware
3 66 (4.08%) Cisco
4 48 (2.97%) Veeam
5 42 (2.60%) Google
6 33 (2.04%) Apple
7 32 (1.98%) Meraki
8 29 (1.79%) Dell
9 26 (1.61%) Sophos
10 24 (1.48%) SonicWALL
10 24 (1.48%) Ubiquiti
11 23 (1.42%) 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