IT Engineer Jobs 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 2 July 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 247 109 201
Rank change year-on-year -138 +92 +64
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 462 1,840 925
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.10% 2.34% 1.74%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.24% 2.46% 1.95%
Number of salaries quoted 354 1,530 753
10th Percentile £25,750 £23,500 £25,000
25th Percentile £28,125 £26,250 £27,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £32,500 £32,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% - -
75th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £42,500
90th Percentile £54,275 £48,750 £53,750
UK median annual salary £35,000 £33,000 £34,000
% change year-on-year +6.06% -2.94% -2.86%

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 37,343 74,790 47,363
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.24% 94.93% 88.94%
Number of salaries quoted 19,822 52,152 28,899
10th Percentile £25,625 £27,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £33,750 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year - -5.66% +4.95%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

IT Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured IT Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for IT Engineer in the UK excluding London

IT Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing IT Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for IT Engineer 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 2 July 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 2 July 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
North of England -103 132 £32,500 +1.56% 182
South East -69 122 £37,500 +10.29% 166
Midlands -87 97 £35,000 -1.41% 93
Yorkshire +4 87 £30,000 - 75
South West -29 51 £35,000 +12.00% 67
East Midlands -65 49 £32,500 -13.33% 52
West Midlands -62 48 £40,000 +14.29% 41
North West -119 35 £32,000 +6.67% 88
East of England -82 32 £32,533 +2.20% 71
Scotland +55 28 £30,000 +5.26% 35
North East +3 10 £48,750 +50.00% 27
Wales -17 8 £61,250 +122.73% 18
Channel Islands -3 1 £45,000 -
IT Engineer
UK

IT Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 2 July 2025, IT Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring IT Engineer in the job title.

1 319 (69.05%) Windows
2 236 (51.08%) Microsoft
3 229 (49.57%) Active Directory
4 198 (42.86%) Microsoft 365
5 170 (36.80%) Social Skills
6 144 (31.17%) Azure
7 134 (29.00%) Firewall
8 132 (28.57%) Windows Server
8 132 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
9 96 (20.78%) Customer Service
10 95 (20.56%) VMware
11 83 (17.97%) Cybersecurity
12 81 (17.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 78 (16.88%) Driving Licence
14 72 (15.58%) DNS
15 68 (14.72%) Degree
16 67 (14.50%) PowerShell
17 66 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
18 65 (14.07%) Linux
18 65 (14.07%) Microsoft Intune
19 62 (13.42%) VMware Infrastructure
19 62 (13.42%) DHCP
20 61 (13.20%) Cisco
21 56 (12.12%) SQL Server
22 55 (11.90%) Entra ID
23 52 (11.26%) Hyper-V
23 52 (11.26%) Network Management
24 51 (11.04%) Windows 10
25 50 (10.82%) ITIL
26 48 (10.39%) SharePoint

IT Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 66 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
2 48 (10.39%) SharePoint
3 17 (3.68%) Confluence
4 3 (0.65%) IIS
5 2 (0.43%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.22%) Tomcat
Applications
1 29 (6.28%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (1.52%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (1.08%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.43%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 198 (42.86%) Microsoft 365
2 144 (31.17%) Azure
3 55 (11.90%) Entra ID
4 43 (9.31%) AWS
5 32 (6.93%) SaaS
6 17 (3.68%) IaaS
7 9 (1.95%) GCP
7 9 (1.95%) Mimecast
7 9 (1.95%) OneDrive
8 8 (1.73%) Nutanix
9 7 (1.52%) Google Workspace
9 7 (1.52%) PaaS
10 6 (1.30%) Cloud Computing
11 5 (1.08%) Amazon EC2
11 5 (1.08%) Amazon EKS
11 5 (1.08%) Serverless
12 4 (0.87%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (0.87%) Azure Stack
13 3 (0.65%) Rubrik
13 3 (0.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 134 (29.00%) Firewall
2 72 (15.58%) DNS
3 62 (13.42%) DHCP
4 46 (9.96%) VLAN
5 45 (9.74%) WAN
6 41 (8.87%) VPN
7 40 (8.66%) TCP/IP
8 38 (8.23%) SAN
9 37 (8.01%) LAN
10 31 (6.71%) Wi-Fi
11 24 (5.19%) VoIP
12 22 (4.76%) NAS
13 17 (3.68%) SD-WAN
14 16 (3.46%) Network Security
15 14 (3.03%) OSPF
16 13 (2.81%) BGP
17 12 (2.60%) Intrusion Detection
18 9 (1.95%) WLAN
19 8 (1.73%) Wireless
20 7 (1.52%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (12.12%) SQL Server
2 18 (3.90%) MySQL
3 16 (3.46%) Relational Database
4 3 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (0.43%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (0.43%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 19 (4.11%) JIRA
2 16 (3.46%) Bitbucket
2 16 (3.46%) Git
3 3 (0.65%) GitLab
3 3 (0.65%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.43%) CircleCI
General
1 170 (36.80%) Social Skills
2 38 (8.23%) Analytical Skills
3 32 (6.93%) Organisational Skills
4 23 (4.98%) Finance
5 19 (4.11%) Manufacturing
6 18 (3.90%) Retail
6 18 (3.90%) Telecoms
7 16 (3.46%) Public Sector
8 11 (2.38%) Law
9 10 (2.16%) Automotive
10 8 (1.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (1.30%) Pharmaceutical
12 5 (1.08%) Billing
13 4 (0.87%) Legal
13 4 (0.87%) Marketing
14 3 (0.65%) Banking
14 3 (0.65%) Electronics
14 3 (0.65%) Investment Banking
15 2 (0.43%) Financial Institution
15 2 (0.43%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (3.90%) .NET
2 5 (1.08%) EDI
3 3 (0.65%) 802.1X
4 2 (0.43%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (0.43%) Kafka
5 1 (0.22%) .NET Framework
5 1 (0.22%) ModSecurity
5 1 (0.22%) SAML
5 1 (0.22%) WSH
Miscellaneous
1 78 (16.88%) Driving Licence
2 41 (8.87%) Operational Technology
3 36 (7.79%) Self-Motivation
4 18 (3.90%) Mobile App
5 17 (3.68%) Data Centre
6 16 (3.46%) Social Media
7 15 (3.25%) Management Information System
8 12 (2.60%) Onboarding
9 11 (2.38%) Clustering
10 9 (1.95%) Smartphone
11 6 (1.30%) EPoS
11 6 (1.30%) Hybrid Cloud
12 5 (1.08%) Blackberry
12 5 (1.08%) FMCG
12 5 (1.08%) Security Posture
13 4 (0.87%) Life Science
13 4 (0.87%) Renewable Energy
14 3 (0.65%) BYOD
14 3 (0.65%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
15 2 (0.43%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 319 (69.05%) Windows
2 132 (28.57%) Windows Server
3 65 (14.07%) Linux
4 51 (11.04%) Windows 10
5 34 (7.36%) Android
6 27 (5.84%) Mac OS
7 24 (5.19%) Windows Server 2019
8 22 (4.76%) Windows Server 2016
9 19 (4.11%) Apple iOS
10 8 (1.73%) Windows 7
11 7 (1.52%) Mac OS X
11 7 (1.52%) Ubuntu
11 7 (1.52%) Windows Server 2012
12 6 (1.30%) Unix
13 4 (0.87%) Rocky
14 2 (0.43%) VMS
15 1 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 132 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
2 96 (20.78%) Customer Service
3 83 (17.97%) Cybersecurity
4 81 (17.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 52 (11.26%) Network Management
6 50 (10.82%) ITIL
7 43 (9.31%) Network Design
8 42 (9.09%) Disaster Recovery
9 37 (8.01%) Migration
10 32 (6.93%) Kalman Filter
11 31 (6.71%) Virtual Environments
12 30 (6.49%) Continuous Improvement
13 25 (5.41%) Data Privacy
13 25 (5.41%) Mathematics
13 25 (5.41%) Root Cause Analysis
13 25 (5.41%) Systems Engineering
13 25 (5.41%) Web Filtering
14 24 (5.19%) Agile
14 24 (5.19%) Computer Science
14 24 (5.19%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 67 (14.50%) PowerShell
2 27 (5.84%) SQL
3 16 (3.46%) C#
4 8 (1.73%) Python
5 4 (0.87%) Uniface
6 3 (0.65%) Bash
6 3 (0.65%) Java
7 2 (0.43%) VBScript
8 1 (0.22%) Go
8 1 (0.22%) Perl
8 1 (0.22%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 68 (14.72%) Degree
2 40 (8.66%) Microsoft Certification
3 35 (7.58%) Security Cleared
4 23 (4.98%) DBS Check
5 22 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
5 22 (4.76%) HND
6 21 (4.55%) SC Cleared
7 16 (3.46%) DV Cleared
8 15 (3.25%) CCNA
8 15 (3.25%) Cisco Certification
9 13 (2.81%) A+ Certification
9 13 (2.81%) Computer Science Degree
10 12 (2.60%) MCSE
11 10 (2.16%) HNC
12 9 (1.95%) MCP
13 8 (1.73%) MCSA
14 7 (1.52%) Network+ Certification
15 6 (1.30%) Azure Certification
16 3 (0.65%) CCNP
17 2 (0.43%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (5.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 14 (3.03%) GDPR
3 12 (2.60%) Cyber Essentials
3 12 (2.60%) NIST
4 10 (2.16%) SLA
5 5 (1.08%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 3 (0.65%) NCSC
6 3 (0.65%) SOC 2
7 2 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 2 (0.43%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.43%) QA
8 1 (0.22%) GRC
8 1 (0.22%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.22%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 229 (49.57%) Active Directory
2 62 (13.42%) VMware Infrastructure
3 52 (11.26%) Hyper-V
4 41 (8.87%) Virtual Servers
5 8 (1.73%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (1.30%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (1.08%) Docker
7 5 (1.08%) vSphere
8 4 (0.87%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (0.65%) Firmware
10 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 65 (14.07%) Microsoft Intune
2 19 (4.11%) SCCM
3 18 (3.90%) Ansible
4 14 (3.03%) Jamf Pro
5 12 (2.60%) Kubernetes
6 8 (1.73%) SmoothWall
6 8 (1.73%) Terraform
7 6 (1.30%) Autotask
7 6 (1.30%) FortiGate
8 5 (1.08%) WSUS
9 2 (0.43%) Failover Clustering
9 2 (0.43%) Grafana
9 2 (0.43%) Host Intrusion Detection System
9 2 (0.43%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.43%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.22%) Backup Exec
10 1 (0.22%) SCOM
10 1 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 236 (51.08%) Microsoft
2 95 (20.56%) VMware
3 61 (13.20%) Cisco
4 25 (5.41%) Apple
4 25 (5.41%) Meraki
5 23 (4.98%) Veeam
6 19 (4.11%) Sophos
7 18 (3.90%) Google
7 18 (3.90%) Zoho
8 17 (3.68%) Dell
9 16 (3.46%) Atlassian
10 15 (3.25%) HP
11 14 (3.03%) Fortinet
12 13 (2.81%) Aruba
13 11 (2.38%) Ubiquiti
14 10 (2.16%) Datto
15 8 (1.73%) CheckPoint
15 8 (1.73%) Citrix
16 5 (1.08%) ConnectWise
16 5 (1.08%) Juniper