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 12 October 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 90 214 131
Rank change year-on-year +124 -83 +18
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 1,519 443 925
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.76% 1.29% 1.82%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.90% 1.44% 1.91%
Number of salaries quoted 1,314 352 638
10th Percentile £27,000 £25,750 £25,600
25th Percentile £30,000 £28,375 £29,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +1.45%
75th Percentile £43,750 £43,750 £45,000
90th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
UK median annual salary £35,000 £35,000 £37,000
% change year-on-year - -5.41% +5.71%

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 79,938 30,816 48,457
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.56% 89.54% 95.38%
Number of salaries quoted 55,216 17,381 26,639
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £45,750 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.22% -8.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £63,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £58,500 £53,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.35% -2.73% -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 12 October 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 12 October 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 +105 364 £38,500 +2.67% 82
Midlands +60 289 £35,000 +3.70% 58
North of England +42 255 £35,000 - 75
South West +36 237 £35,000 - 45
East of England +85 221 £35,000 - 30
West Midlands +56 156 £34,750 -26.84% 28
North West +68 142 £35,000 +7.69% 38
East Midlands +20 133 £35,000 +16.67% 29
Scotland +60 91 £30,000 - 28
Yorkshire -24 89 £30,000 -9.09% 28
Wales -28 51 £37,500 -53.13% 10
North East -48 24 £40,000 -17.95% 11
Northern Ireland -63 11 £41,000 +30.16% 11
IT Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 12 October 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.

1 796 (52.40%) Microsoft
2 749 (49.31%) Microsoft 365
3 726 (47.79%) Windows
4 534 (35.15%) Active Directory
5 421 (27.72%) Azure
6 391 (25.74%) Problem-Solving
7 368 (24.23%) Windows Server
8 358 (23.57%) Entra ID
9 347 (22.84%) Customer Service
10 293 (19.29%) Microsoft Intune
11 276 (18.17%) Firewall
12 275 (18.10%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 265 (17.45%) DNS
14 252 (16.59%) Microsoft Exchange
15 232 (15.27%) Cybersecurity
16 227 (14.94%) DHCP
17 218 (14.35%) Hyper-V
18 209 (13.76%) SharePoint
19 201 (13.23%) VPN
20 190 (12.51%) VMware
21 159 (10.47%) TCP/IP
22 151 (9.94%) VMware Infrastructure
23 148 (9.74%) Wi-Fi
24 145 (9.55%) ITIL
25 140 (9.22%) Continuous Improvement
26 128 (8.43%) Windows 10
27 121 (7.97%) Disaster Recovery
28 116 (7.64%) PowerShell
28 116 (7.64%) VLAN
29 113 (7.44%) LAN

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
1 252 (16.59%) Microsoft Exchange
2 209 (13.76%) SharePoint
3 21 (1.38%) IIS
4 8 (0.53%) Apache
5 4 (0.26%) Confluence
5 4 (0.26%) Exchange Server 2007
5 4 (0.26%) Exchange Server 2010
5 4 (0.26%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 66 (4.34%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (0.86%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.13%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.13%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 6 (0.39%) Raiser’s Edge
2 4 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.26%) NetSuite
2 4 (0.26%) Shopify
3 2 (0.13%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 749 (49.31%) Microsoft 365
2 421 (27.72%) Azure
3 358 (23.57%) Entra ID
4 67 (4.41%) OneDrive
5 54 (3.55%) Google Workspace
6 51 (3.36%) AWS
7 29 (1.91%) Mimecast
8 21 (1.38%) Power Platform
8 21 (1.38%) SaaS
9 14 (0.92%) Power Automate
10 11 (0.72%) Dynamics 365
11 10 (0.66%) Nutanix
12 8 (0.53%) IaaS
13 7 (0.46%) Cloud Computing
14 6 (0.39%) Azure DevOps
14 6 (0.39%) PaaS
15 4 (0.26%) Serverless
16 3 (0.20%) Cloudflare
16 3 (0.20%) Microsoft Copilot
16 3 (0.20%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 276 (18.17%) Firewall
2 265 (17.45%) DNS
3 227 (14.94%) DHCP
4 201 (13.23%) VPN
5 159 (10.47%) TCP/IP
6 148 (9.74%) Wi-Fi
7 116 (7.64%) VLAN
8 113 (7.44%) LAN
9 101 (6.65%) VoIP
10 99 (6.52%) WAN
11 86 (5.66%) Wireless
12 32 (2.11%) Network Security
13 31 (2.04%) SAN
14 23 (1.51%) Internet
15 19 (1.25%) SSL
16 17 (1.12%) WLAN
17 15 (0.99%) Remote Desktop
18 8 (0.53%) PBX
19 7 (0.46%) Broadband
19 7 (0.46%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (3.88%) SQL Server
2 12 (0.79%) MySQL
3 9 (0.59%) Azure SQL Database
4 5 (0.33%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (0.13%) KNIME
Development Applications
1 31 (2.04%) JIRA
2 2 (0.13%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (0.066%) Carbide.c++
General
1 455 (29.95%) Social Skills
2 84 (5.53%) Analytical Skills
3 78 (5.13%) Manufacturing
4 72 (4.74%) Legal
5 52 (3.42%) Public Sector
6 51 (3.36%) Organisational Skills
7 38 (2.50%) Retail
7 38 (2.50%) Telecoms
8 33 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
9 31 (2.04%) Advertising
10 29 (1.91%) Finance
11 20 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 14 (0.92%) Law
13 12 (0.79%) Automotive
14 11 (0.72%) Aerospace
15 10 (0.66%) Aviation
16 6 (0.39%) Games
16 6 (0.39%) Military
16 6 (0.39%) Police
17 4 (0.26%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (0.39%) HTML
1 6 (0.39%) JSON
2 4 (0.26%) .NET
2 4 (0.26%) ASP.NET Web Forms
2 4 (0.26%) WinForms
3 3 (0.20%) Web Services
4 2 (0.13%) CSS
4 2 (0.13%) Terraform
5 1 (0.066%) 802.1X
5 1 (0.066%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 260 (17.12%) Driving Licence
2 93 (6.12%) Onboarding
3 67 (4.41%) Self-Motivation
4 46 (3.03%) CCTV
5 31 (2.04%) Data Centre
6 26 (1.71%) Operational Technology
7 16 (1.05%) Analytical Mindset
7 16 (1.05%) Hybrid Cloud
7 16 (1.05%) Replication
7 16 (1.05%) Security Posture
8 15 (0.99%) FMCG
8 15 (0.99%) Management Information System
9 13 (0.86%) Smartphone
10 11 (0.72%) Cloud Native
10 11 (0.72%) Clustering
11 9 (0.59%) Cyber Threat
11 9 (0.59%) NHS
12 8 (0.53%) Cyber Security Posture
12 8 (0.53%) PKI
13 7 (0.46%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 726 (47.79%) Windows
2 368 (24.23%) Windows Server
3 128 (8.43%) Windows 10
4 101 (6.65%) macOS
5 100 (6.58%) Linux
6 41 (2.70%) Apple iOS
7 38 (2.50%) Android
8 37 (2.44%) Windows Server 2019
9 33 (2.17%) Windows Server 2016
10 23 (1.51%) Ubuntu
11 12 (0.79%) Windows Server 2012
12 7 (0.46%) Rocky
13 6 (0.39%) Windows 7
14 4 (0.26%) Debian
14 4 (0.26%) Windows 8
15 2 (0.13%) Unix
16 1 (0.066%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 1 (0.066%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 391 (25.74%) Problem-Solving
2 347 (22.84%) Customer Service
3 275 (18.10%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 232 (15.27%) Cybersecurity
5 145 (9.55%) ITIL
6 140 (9.22%) Continuous Improvement
7 121 (7.97%) Disaster Recovery
8 81 (5.33%) Project Delivery
9 62 (4.08%) ITSM
10 56 (3.69%) Service Delivery
11 54 (3.55%) Mentoring
12 50 (3.29%) Remote Monitoring and Management
13 49 (3.23%) Business Continuity
14 46 (3.03%) Root Cause Analysis
14 46 (3.03%) Service Management
15 45 (2.96%) User Experience
16 44 (2.90%) Change Management
17 40 (2.63%) Migration
18 37 (2.44%) Collaborative Working
19 36 (2.37%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 116 (7.64%) PowerShell
2 44 (2.90%) SQL
3 12 (0.79%) Ruby
4 8 (0.53%) Python
4 8 (0.53%) R
5 4 (0.26%) C#
5 4 (0.26%) VBScript
6 3 (0.20%) Bicep
6 3 (0.20%) VB
7 2 (0.13%) JavaScript
7 2 (0.13%) PHP
7 2 (0.13%) T-SQL
7 2 (0.13%) VBA
Qualifications
1 97 (6.39%) Microsoft Certification
2 85 (5.60%) Degree
3 56 (3.69%) CCNA
3 56 (3.69%) Cisco Certification
4 55 (3.62%) DBS Check
5 43 (2.83%) Security Cleared
6 40 (2.63%) Network+ Certification
7 27 (1.78%) SC Cleared
8 26 (1.71%) Azure Certification
9 25 (1.65%) A+ Certification
10 20 (1.32%) MCSE
11 18 (1.18%) CompTIA Security+
12 14 (0.92%) BPSS Clearance
13 11 (0.72%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 10 (0.66%) MCSA
15 9 (0.59%) CCNP
16 6 (0.39%) AWS Certification
16 6 (0.39%) DV Cleared
16 6 (0.39%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
17 5 (0.33%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 106 (6.98%) Cyber Essentials
2 49 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 36 (2.37%) GDPR
4 25 (1.65%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 22 (1.45%) SLA
6 10 (0.66%) PCI DSS
7 5 (0.33%) NCSC
8 4 (0.26%) Accessibility
8 4 (0.26%) NIST
9 2 (0.13%) QA
System Software
1 534 (35.15%) Active Directory
2 218 (14.35%) Hyper-V
3 151 (9.94%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (1.12%) Virtual Machines
5 16 (1.05%) vSphere
6 15 (0.99%) Virtual Desktop
7 12 (0.79%) VMware ESXi
8 9 (0.59%) Firmware
9 8 (0.53%) Docker
10 5 (0.33%) BitLocker
11 4 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
12 2 (0.13%) Terminal Services
13 1 (0.066%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 293 (19.29%) Microsoft Intune
2 23 (1.51%) Jamf Pro
3 20 (1.32%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 16 (1.05%) SCCM
5 13 (0.86%) WSUS
6 7 (0.46%) Failover Clustering
6 7 (0.46%) Proxmox
7 6 (0.39%) Backup Exec
7 6 (0.39%) Kubernetes
8 5 (0.33%) SmoothWall
9 4 (0.26%) FortiGate
9 4 (0.26%) Iperf
10 3 (0.20%) Autotask
10 3 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.13%) Ansible
11 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
11 2 (0.13%) PaperCut
11 2 (0.13%) SCOM
12 1 (0.066%) Nessus
Vendors
1 796 (52.40%) Microsoft
2 190 (12.51%) VMware
3 92 (6.06%) Cisco
4 84 (5.53%) Veeam
5 56 (3.69%) Google
6 54 (3.55%) Apple
7 52 (3.42%) SonicWALL
8 42 (2.76%) Meraki
9 37 (2.44%) Dell
10 32 (2.11%) Sophos
11 27 (1.78%) Fortinet
12 25 (1.65%) Palo Alto
13 24 (1.58%) TOWER Software
14 21 (1.38%) Datto
15 19 (1.25%) Logitech
16 18 (1.18%) Ubiquiti
17 17 (1.12%) Draytek
17 17 (1.12%) HP
18 15 (0.99%) Citrix
18 15 (0.99%) WatchGuard