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 20 June 2026.

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

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 218 100
Rank change year-on-year +158 -118 +83
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 1,605 433 1,943
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 2.37% 1.44% 2.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.51% 1.62% 2.57%
Number of salaries quoted 1,417 337 1,588
10th Percentile £26,750 £25,750 £23,500
25th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £35,000 £32,500
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% -
75th Percentile £43,750 £43,250 £42,500
90th Percentile £50,443 £53,750 £48,750
UK median annual salary £35,000 £35,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year - +7.69% -4.41%

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 64,029 26,778 75,464
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.50% 89.04% 94.86%
Number of salaries quoted 44,390 14,530 54,102
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £26,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £33,750 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.54%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,350 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £77,225
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%

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 20 June 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 20 June 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 +112 420 £35,000 -6.67% 58
North of England +103 362 £32,940 +0.58% 42
Midlands +82 264 £32,500 -7.14% 30
East of England +107 246 £35,000 +7.58% 26
South West +51 206 £35,000 - 31
North West +130 203 £33,970 +5.33% 22
Yorkshire +7 143 £32,500 +8.33% 16
West Midlands +60 135 £32,500 -16.13% 7
East Midlands +34 129 £31,250 -5.30% 23
Scotland +43 62 £28,500 -5.00% 8
Wales -7 45 £45,000 +5.88% 10
North East -42 16 £34,750 -28.72% 6
IT Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 20 June 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.

1 648 (40.37%) Microsoft
2 632 (39.38%) Microsoft 365
3 570 (35.51%) Windows
4 461 (28.72%) Active Directory
5 393 (24.49%) Azure
6 374 (23.30%) Problem-Solving
7 307 (19.13%) Customer Service
8 306 (19.07%) Windows Server
9 267 (16.64%) Entra ID
10 242 (15.08%) Firewall
11 189 (11.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 187 (11.65%) Microsoft Intune
13 171 (10.65%) SharePoint
14 170 (10.59%) Microsoft Exchange
15 169 (10.53%) DNS
16 157 (9.78%) Cybersecurity
17 153 (9.53%) VMware
18 152 (9.47%) Hyper-V
18 152 (9.47%) VPN
19 149 (9.28%) Windows 10
20 143 (8.91%) DHCP
21 122 (7.60%) ITIL
22 121 (7.54%) VMware Infrastructure
23 114 (7.10%) LAN
24 106 (6.60%) WAN
25 105 (6.54%) Wi-Fi
26 99 (6.17%) PowerShell
27 94 (5.86%) Security Cleared
28 90 (5.61%) Mac OS
29 88 (5.48%) Continuous Improvement

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
1 171 (10.65%) SharePoint
2 170 (10.59%) Microsoft Exchange
3 16 (1.00%) Confluence
4 15 (0.93%) Exchange Server 2013
5 13 (0.81%) Exchange Server 2007
5 13 (0.81%) Exchange Server 2010
6 10 (0.62%) IIS
Applications
1 83 (5.17%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.19%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.062%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.062%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (0.31%) Dynamics NAV
1 5 (0.31%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.062%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 632 (39.38%) Microsoft 365
2 393 (24.49%) Azure
3 267 (16.64%) Entra ID
4 51 (3.18%) AWS
5 46 (2.87%) OneDrive
6 44 (2.74%) Google Workspace
7 26 (1.62%) SaaS
8 23 (1.43%) Power Platform
9 20 (1.25%) Mimecast
9 20 (1.25%) PaaS
10 15 (0.93%) IaaS
11 10 (0.62%) Azure DevOps
12 9 (0.56%) PowerApps
13 8 (0.50%) Power Automate
14 7 (0.44%) Nutanix
15 6 (0.37%) Azure Sentinel
15 6 (0.37%) Microsoft Copilot
16 5 (0.31%) Intacct
16 5 (0.31%) OCI
17 4 (0.25%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 242 (15.08%) Firewall
2 169 (10.53%) DNS
3 152 (9.47%) VPN
4 143 (8.91%) DHCP
5 114 (7.10%) LAN
6 106 (6.60%) WAN
7 105 (6.54%) Wi-Fi
8 72 (4.49%) VoIP
9 61 (3.80%) TCP/IP
10 51 (3.18%) VLAN
11 38 (2.37%) Wireless
12 32 (1.99%) SAN
13 25 (1.56%) Network Security
14 16 (1.00%) WLAN
15 13 (0.81%) Internet
15 13 (0.81%) SD-WAN
16 11 (0.69%) Remote Desktop
16 11 (0.69%) SSL
17 7 (0.44%) NAS
18 4 (0.25%) Asterisk PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (2.49%) SQL Server
2 13 (0.81%) Power BI
3 6 (0.37%) Azure SQL Database
3 6 (0.37%) MySQL
4 5 (0.31%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.062%) KNIME
Development Applications
1 44 (2.74%) JIRA
2 4 (0.25%) GitLab
3 2 (0.12%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.062%) Carbide.c++
4 1 (0.062%) LabVIEW
General
1 346 (21.56%) Social Skills
2 68 (4.24%) Manufacturing
3 61 (3.80%) Organisational Skills
4 60 (3.74%) Analytical Skills
5 52 (3.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 46 (2.87%) Legal
7 38 (2.37%) Public Sector
8 37 (2.31%) Retail
9 35 (2.18%) Telecoms
10 34 (2.12%) Law
11 28 (1.74%) Multimedia
12 27 (1.68%) Finance
13 14 (0.87%) Automotive
13 14 (0.87%) Documentation Skills
14 13 (0.81%) Advertising
15 6 (0.37%) Aerospace
15 6 (0.37%) Local Government
16 5 (0.31%) Social Housing
17 4 (0.25%) Portuguese Language
17 4 (0.25%) Spanish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (0.44%) HTML
1 7 (0.44%) JSON
2 4 (0.25%) OpenTelemetry
2 4 (0.25%) Web Services
3 3 (0.19%) CSS
4 1 (0.062%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 227 (14.14%) Driving Licence
2 69 (4.30%) Onboarding
3 56 (3.49%) Self-Motivation
4 31 (1.93%) Data Centre
5 30 (1.87%) CCTV
6 26 (1.62%) FMCG
7 23 (1.43%) Analytical Mindset
8 14 (0.87%) Security Posture
9 13 (0.81%) Management Information System
10 11 (0.69%) Clustering
10 11 (0.69%) NHS
10 11 (0.69%) Smartphone
11 10 (0.62%) Hybrid Cloud
12 7 (0.44%) Enterprise Software
12 7 (0.44%) Operational Technology
12 7 (0.44%) Replication
12 7 (0.44%) Social Media
13 6 (0.37%) Cloud Native
13 6 (0.37%) iPhone
14 5 (0.31%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 570 (35.51%) Windows
2 306 (19.07%) Windows Server
3 149 (9.28%) Windows 10
4 90 (5.61%) Mac OS
5 81 (5.05%) Linux
6 43 (2.68%) Windows Server 2019
7 37 (2.31%) Windows Server 2016
8 33 (2.06%) Android
8 33 (2.06%) Apple iOS
9 17 (1.06%) Windows 7
10 15 (0.93%) Windows Server 2012
11 11 (0.69%) Windows 8
12 8 (0.50%) Ubuntu
13 5 (0.31%) Windows Server 2008
14 4 (0.25%) Mac OS X
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
1 374 (23.30%) Problem-Solving
2 307 (19.13%) Customer Service
3 189 (11.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 157 (9.78%) Cybersecurity
5 122 (7.60%) ITIL
6 88 (5.48%) Continuous Improvement
6 88 (5.48%) Disaster Recovery
7 87 (5.42%) Mentoring
8 63 (3.93%) Service Delivery
9 57 (3.55%) Root Cause Analysis
9 57 (3.55%) Service Management
10 56 (3.49%) Project Delivery
11 54 (3.36%) ITSM
12 45 (2.80%) Remote Monitoring and Management
13 43 (2.68%) Time Management
14 42 (2.62%) Business Continuity
15 39 (2.43%) User Experience
16 35 (2.18%) Process Improvement
17 34 (2.12%) ERP
18 28 (1.74%) Mobile Device Management
Programming Languages
1 99 (6.17%) PowerShell
2 56 (3.49%) SQL
3 6 (0.37%) R
4 5 (0.31%) Bash
4 5 (0.31%) Python
4 5 (0.31%) VB
5 4 (0.25%) PHP
5 4 (0.25%) VBScript
6 3 (0.19%) JavaScript
6 3 (0.19%) Uniface
6 3 (0.19%) VBA
7 2 (0.12%) Bicep
7 2 (0.12%) Google Apps Script
7 2 (0.12%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.062%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 94 (5.86%) Security Cleared
2 80 (4.98%) Microsoft Certification
3 77 (4.80%) Degree
4 67 (4.17%) SC Cleared
5 60 (3.74%) DBS Check
6 46 (2.87%) CCNA
6 46 (2.87%) Cisco Certification
7 38 (2.37%) Network+ Certification
8 28 (1.74%) A+ Certification
9 22 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
10 20 (1.25%) Azure Certification
11 16 (1.00%) CompTIA Security+
11 16 (1.00%) MCSE
12 15 (0.93%) DV Cleared
13 9 (0.56%) CCNP
14 5 (0.31%) MCITP
15 4 (0.25%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 4 (0.25%) MCSA
16 3 (0.19%) Computer Science Degree
16 3 (0.19%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (4.92%) Cyber Essentials
2 57 (3.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 48 (2.99%) SLA
4 32 (1.99%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 18 (1.12%) GDPR
6 10 (0.62%) PCI DSS
7 6 (0.37%) NIST
8 5 (0.31%) QA
9 4 (0.25%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.062%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.062%) NCSC
System Software
1 461 (28.72%) Active Directory
2 152 (9.47%) Hyper-V
3 121 (7.54%) VMware Infrastructure
4 25 (1.56%) Virtual Desktop
5 16 (1.00%) VMware ESXi
6 12 (0.75%) vSphere
7 11 (0.69%) Docker
8 9 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
9 8 (0.50%) BitLocker
10 7 (0.44%) VMware Workstation
11 5 (0.31%) Terminal Services
12 4 (0.25%) VMware NSX
13 3 (0.19%) Firmware
14 1 (0.062%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 187 (11.65%) Microsoft Intune
2 22 (1.37%) SCCM
3 14 (0.87%) FortiGate
3 14 (0.87%) Proxmox
3 14 (0.87%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 11 (0.69%) Jamf Pro
4 11 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
5 10 (0.62%) WSUS
6 8 (0.50%) Autotask
7 7 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 7 (0.44%) Failover Clustering
8 5 (0.31%) Ansible
9 4 (0.25%) Terraform
10 2 (0.12%) Kubernetes
10 2 (0.12%) SmoothWall
11 1 (0.062%) Argo
11 1 (0.062%) Iperf
11 1 (0.062%) Nessus
Vendors
1 648 (40.37%) Microsoft
2 153 (9.53%) VMware
3 53 (3.30%) Cisco
4 50 (3.12%) Google
5 39 (2.43%) Veeam
6 38 (2.37%) Fortinet
7 36 (2.24%) Meraki
8 34 (2.12%) Apple
9 29 (1.81%) Dell
10 28 (1.74%) Fujitsu
10 28 (1.74%) Virgin Media
11 21 (1.31%) Sophos
12 18 (1.12%) HP
13 17 (1.06%) Ubiquiti
14 14 (0.87%) SonicWALL
15 13 (0.81%) Epicor
16 11 (0.69%) ServiceNow
17 10 (0.62%) Logitech
18 9 (0.56%) CrowdStrike
18 9 (0.56%) Sage