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 2 November 2025.

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

6 months to
2 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 174 123 153
Rank change year-on-year -51 +30 +86
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 513 931 697
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.47% 1.94% 2.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.63% 2.04% 2.34%
Number of salaries quoted 427 582 631
10th Percentile £25,500 £25,750 £25,000
25th Percentile £27,250 £29,000 £28,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £35,257 £34,854
Median % change year-on-year -7.82% +1.16% +7.24%
75th Percentile £42,478 £45,000 £43,750
90th Percentile £50,625 £53,750 £53,000
UK median annual salary £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% +0.72%

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 31,443 45,575 29,738
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.05% 95.02% 95.83%
Number of salaries quoted 18,748 24,736 22,379
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £32,000 £40,000 £37,860
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £63,750 £66,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -

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 2 November 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 November 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
South East -21 126 £35,000 -12.50% 86
North of England -41 125 £35,000 - 64
Midlands -40 123 £31,500 -10.00% 37
East Midlands +13 92 £30,000 -14.29% 22
Yorkshire +24 73 £40,000 +14.29% 21
South West -6 67 £35,000 -12.50% 41
East of England +3 46 £32,500 -0.76% 40
North West -48 45 £32,000 -8.57% 39
West Midlands -62 31 £50,000 +42.86% 15
Scotland -5 29 £28,750 -8.73% 21
Wales +10 11 £80,000 +146.15% 19
North East -7 7 £48,750 +39.29% 4
Northern Ireland -1 1 £31,500 +5.00% 3
Channel Islands - 1 £45,000 - 1
IT Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 2 November 2025, 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.

1 342 (66.67%) Windows
2 301 (58.67%) Active Directory
3 295 (57.50%) Microsoft
4 282 (54.97%) Microsoft 365
5 224 (43.66%) Azure
6 179 (34.89%) Firewall
7 172 (33.53%) Windows Server
8 161 (31.38%) Problem-Solving
9 125 (24.37%) DNS
10 115 (22.42%) Customer Service
11 112 (21.83%) DHCP
11 112 (21.83%) Microsoft Intune
12 110 (21.44%) Cybersecurity
13 103 (20.08%) Entra ID
14 89 (17.35%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 88 (17.15%) VMware
16 83 (16.18%) Hyper-V
17 80 (15.59%) ITIL
18 72 (14.04%) Degree
18 72 (14.04%) SharePoint
19 69 (13.45%) Microsoft Exchange
20 68 (13.26%) PowerShell
20 68 (13.26%) TCP/IP
21 63 (12.28%) VMware Infrastructure
22 62 (12.09%) VLAN
23 57 (11.11%) Windows 10
24 56 (10.92%) Network Management
25 55 (10.72%) VPN
26 54 (10.53%) Cisco
27 51 (9.94%) 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 72 (14.04%) SharePoint
2 69 (13.45%) Microsoft Exchange
3 21 (4.09%) IIS
4 3 (0.58%) Confluence
5 2 (0.39%) Exchange Server 2007
5 2 (0.39%) Exchange Server 2010
5 2 (0.39%) Exchange Server 2013
6 1 (0.19%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 41 (7.99%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (1.75%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.19%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 4 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (0.78%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.19%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (0.19%) Pegasus Opera
Cloud Services
1 282 (54.97%) Microsoft 365
2 224 (43.66%) Azure
3 103 (20.08%) Entra ID
4 39 (7.60%) AWS
5 20 (3.90%) GCP
6 19 (3.70%) SaaS
7 18 (3.51%) Azure DevOps
8 17 (3.31%) OneDrive
9 14 (2.73%) Google Workspace
9 14 (2.73%) Power Platform
10 11 (2.14%) IaaS
11 9 (1.75%) Cloud Computing
12 8 (1.56%) Azure Stack
12 8 (1.56%) Nutanix
12 8 (1.56%) Power Automate
13 7 (1.36%) PaaS
14 6 (1.17%) iPaaS
14 6 (1.17%) Serverless
15 5 (0.97%) Azure AI
15 5 (0.97%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 179 (34.89%) Firewall
2 125 (24.37%) DNS
3 112 (21.83%) DHCP
4 68 (13.26%) TCP/IP
5 62 (12.09%) VLAN
6 55 (10.72%) VPN
7 49 (9.55%) Wi-Fi
8 39 (7.60%) WAN
9 36 (7.02%) SAN
10 29 (5.65%) Wireless
11 26 (5.07%) LAN
12 22 (4.29%) VoIP
13 20 (3.90%) Network Security
14 18 (3.51%) SD-WAN
15 13 (2.53%) IP Telephony
16 9 (1.75%) IPsec
17 8 (1.56%) iSCSI
18 7 (1.36%) Intrusion Detection
18 7 (1.36%) Remote Desktop
19 6 (1.17%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (7.80%) SQL Server
2 12 (2.34%) Amazon RDS
2 12 (2.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 10 (1.95%) Power BI
4 4 (0.78%) Relational Database
5 3 (0.58%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.19%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 7 (1.36%) JIRA
2 1 (0.19%) Bitbucket
2 1 (0.19%) Git
2 1 (0.19%) GitLab
2 1 (0.19%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.19%) Snyk
General
1 191 (37.23%) Social Skills
2 32 (6.24%) Manufacturing
3 27 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (4.68%) Law
5 23 (4.48%) Organisational Skills
6 22 (4.29%) Public Sector
7 19 (3.70%) Telecoms
8 16 (3.12%) Finance
9 13 (2.53%) Legal
10 11 (2.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 9 (1.75%) Electronics
12 8 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
12 8 (1.56%) Pharmaceutical
12 8 (1.56%) Retail
13 7 (1.36%) Marketing
14 5 (0.97%) Automotive
14 5 (0.97%) Billing
15 3 (0.58%) Back Office
15 3 (0.58%) Publishing
15 3 (0.58%) Spanish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (2.53%) .NET
2 12 (2.34%) .NET Framework
2 12 (2.34%) Entity Framework
2 12 (2.34%) WinForms
3 7 (1.36%) ASP.NET
4 5 (0.97%) 802.1X
5 3 (0.58%) EDI
6 1 (0.19%) LAMP
6 1 (0.19%) ModSecurity
6 1 (0.19%) OAuth
6 1 (0.19%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 96 (18.71%) Driving Licence
2 40 (7.80%) Operational Technology
3 37 (7.21%) Onboarding
4 19 (3.70%) Data Centre
5 16 (3.12%) Clustering
5 16 (3.12%) Self-Motivation
6 10 (1.95%) Hybrid Cloud
7 9 (1.75%) CCTV
8 8 (1.56%) Analytical Mindset
8 8 (1.56%) FMCG
8 8 (1.56%) Social Media
9 7 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (1.17%) Security Posture
11 5 (0.97%) BYOD
11 5 (0.97%) Cyber Security Posture
11 5 (0.97%) Life Science
12 4 (0.78%) Blackberry
12 4 (0.78%) Enterprise Storage
12 4 (0.78%) iPad
12 4 (0.78%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 342 (66.67%) Windows
2 172 (33.53%) Windows Server
3 57 (11.11%) Windows 10
4 50 (9.75%) Linux
5 31 (6.04%) Mac OS
6 23 (4.48%) Windows Server 2019
7 12 (2.34%) Android
7 12 (2.34%) Apple iOS
7 12 (2.34%) Windows Server 2016
8 8 (1.56%) Rocky
9 5 (0.97%) Windows 7
10 4 (0.78%) Unix
10 4 (0.78%) Windows Server 2012
11 3 (0.58%) Debian
11 3 (0.58%) Windows 8
12 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 1 (0.19%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 161 (31.38%) Problem-Solving
2 115 (22.42%) Customer Service
3 110 (21.44%) Cybersecurity
4 89 (17.35%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 80 (15.59%) ITIL
6 56 (10.92%) Network Management
7 41 (7.99%) Network Design
8 40 (7.80%) Disaster Recovery
9 33 (6.43%) Continuous Improvement
10 31 (6.04%) Project Delivery
11 29 (5.65%) Incident Management
12 28 (5.46%) Mentoring
13 26 (5.07%) Computer Science
13 26 (5.07%) DevOps
13 26 (5.07%) Migration
14 24 (4.68%) ITSM
15 23 (4.48%) Data Protection
15 23 (4.48%) Service Delivery
16 22 (4.29%) Process Improvement
16 22 (4.29%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 68 (13.26%) PowerShell
2 34 (6.63%) SQL
3 14 (2.73%) C#
4 13 (2.53%) T-SQL
5 8 (1.56%) Python
6 6 (1.17%) PL/SQL
6 6 (1.17%) VBScript
7 4 (0.78%) Uniface
8 2 (0.39%) Bash
8 2 (0.39%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.19%) Go
Qualifications
1 72 (14.04%) Degree
2 51 (9.94%) Microsoft Certification
3 30 (5.85%) Cisco Certification
4 26 (5.07%) CCNA
5 25 (4.87%) DBS Check
6 23 (4.48%) Computer Science Degree
7 20 (3.90%) Security Cleared
8 19 (3.70%) MCP
9 17 (3.31%) SC Cleared
10 15 (2.92%) A+ Certification
10 15 (2.92%) Azure Certification
11 12 (2.34%) BPSS Clearance
11 12 (2.34%) MCSE
11 12 (2.34%) Network+ Certification
12 9 (1.75%) HND
13 8 (1.56%) CCNP
13 8 (1.56%) DV Cleared
13 8 (1.56%) MCSA
14 7 (1.36%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 6 (1.17%) ACMT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (6.63%) Cyber Essentials
2 33 (6.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 26 (5.07%) GDPR
4 16 (3.12%) SLA
5 7 (1.36%) NIST
6 6 (1.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 5 (0.97%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.39%) GxP
8 2 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.19%) NCSC
9 1 (0.19%) SOC 2
System Software
1 301 (58.67%) Active Directory
2 83 (16.18%) Hyper-V
3 63 (12.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 41 (7.99%) Virtual Servers
5 11 (2.14%) Firmware
6 8 (1.56%) Docker
7 7 (1.36%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (0.97%) Virtual Desktop
8 5 (0.97%) Virtual Machines
9 3 (0.58%) VMware Workstation
10 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 2 (0.39%) vSphere
11 1 (0.19%) VMware Server
11 1 (0.19%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 112 (21.83%) Microsoft Intune
2 22 (4.29%) SCCM
3 19 (3.70%) Kubernetes
4 14 (2.73%) Autotask
5 11 (2.14%) Jamf Pro
6 9 (1.75%) vCenter Server
7 8 (1.56%) Failover Clustering
8 5 (0.97%) Terraform
9 4 (0.78%) SmoothWall
9 4 (0.78%) WSUS
10 3 (0.58%) Ansible
10 3 (0.58%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Clustering
11 2 (0.39%) NetBackup
11 2 (0.39%) Puppet
11 2 (0.39%) WhatsUp Gold
12 1 (0.19%) Backup Exec
12 1 (0.19%) Podman
12 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Satellite
12 1 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 295 (57.50%) Microsoft
2 88 (17.15%) VMware
3 54 (10.53%) Cisco
4 45 (8.77%) Veeam
5 27 (5.26%) Google
6 25 (4.87%) Meraki
7 23 (4.48%) Apple
8 20 (3.90%) Sophos
9 19 (3.70%) Dell
10 18 (3.51%) HP
11 16 (3.12%) Aruba
12 15 (2.92%) Datto
13 13 (2.53%) Sage
14 12 (2.34%) Xamarin
14 12 (2.34%) Zoho
15 11 (2.14%) ServiceNow
16 8 (1.56%) Draytek
16 8 (1.56%) ESET
16 8 (1.56%) SAP
16 8 (1.56%) WatchGuard