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 £31,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 January 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 135 121
Rank change year-on-year +21 -14 +97
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 744 742 885
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.75% 2.06% 2.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.93% 2.22% 2.70%
Number of salaries quoted 624 433 758
10th Percentile £25,500 £25,350 £25,000
25th Percentile £27,500 £28,500 £28,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,500 £35,000 £34,966
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +0.10% +9.27%
75th Percentile £38,750 £43,750 £42,500
90th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £52,500
UK median annual salary £32,500 £35,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +6.06%

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 38,586 33,429 32,762
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.55% 92.91% 95.32%
Number of salaries quoted 23,611 16,250 24,824
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,013 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% -5.18%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £78,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -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 15 January 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 15 January 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
Midlands -19 191 £31,500 -10.00% 34
South East +32 183 £32,000 -11.72% 79
North of England +23 150 £32,500 -7.14% 75
East Midlands +10 126 £30,000 - 18
South West +18 82 £32,500 -7.14% 29
East of England +30 73 £30,000 - 29
North West +24 73 £30,000 -20.00% 33
Yorkshire +14 71 £35,000 +6.06% 33
West Midlands -53 65 £35,000 - 16
Scotland +23 52 £30,000 -11.11% 14
Wales +19 16 £40,000 - 3
North East +5 6 £30,000 -16.67% 15
Northern Ireland -11 1 £31,500 -47.50% 4
IT Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 15 January 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.

1 361 (48.52%) Microsoft 365
2 351 (47.18%) Microsoft
2 351 (47.18%) Windows
3 295 (39.65%) Active Directory
4 250 (33.60%) Azure
5 246 (33.06%) Problem-Solving
6 194 (26.08%) Windows Server
7 155 (20.83%) Customer Service
8 139 (18.68%) Firewall
9 135 (18.15%) DNS
10 128 (17.20%) DHCP
11 124 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
12 123 (16.53%) Entra ID
13 109 (14.65%) SharePoint
14 106 (14.25%) ITIL
15 83 (11.16%) Cybersecurity
15 83 (11.16%) VPN
16 79 (10.62%) VMware
17 74 (9.95%) Windows 10
18 71 (9.54%) Microsoft Exchange
19 69 (9.27%) Hyper-V
20 68 (9.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
20 68 (9.14%) Mentoring
21 64 (8.60%) Microsoft Certification
22 58 (7.80%) VMware Infrastructure
23 57 (7.66%) Degree
23 57 (7.66%) VLAN
24 56 (7.53%) Microsoft Office
24 56 (7.53%) TCP/IP
25 52 (6.99%) 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
1 109 (14.65%) SharePoint
2 71 (9.54%) Microsoft Exchange
3 20 (2.69%) IIS
4 7 (0.94%) Confluence
5 3 (0.40%) Exchange Server 2007
5 3 (0.40%) Exchange Server 2010
5 3 (0.40%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 56 (7.53%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (2.02%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.27%) Acrobat
5 1 (0.13%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 9 (1.21%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.40%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.27%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.13%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.13%) Pegasus Opera
Cloud Services
1 361 (48.52%) Microsoft 365
2 250 (33.60%) Azure
3 123 (16.53%) Entra ID
4 35 (4.70%) AWS
5 28 (3.76%) Google Workspace
5 28 (3.76%) OneDrive
6 21 (2.82%) GCP
7 20 (2.69%) SaaS
8 19 (2.55%) Power Platform
9 15 (2.02%) Azure DevOps
10 12 (1.61%) Power Automate
11 6 (0.81%) Azure Sentinel
11 6 (0.81%) iPaaS
12 5 (0.67%) Azure AI
12 5 (0.67%) Cloud Computing
12 5 (0.67%) Microsoft Copilot
13 4 (0.54%) Datadog
13 4 (0.54%) IaaS
13 4 (0.54%) PaaS
13 4 (0.54%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 139 (18.68%) Firewall
2 135 (18.15%) DNS
3 128 (17.20%) DHCP
4 83 (11.16%) VPN
5 57 (7.66%) VLAN
6 56 (7.53%) TCP/IP
7 52 (6.99%) LAN
8 51 (6.85%) WAN
9 45 (6.05%) Wi-Fi
10 30 (4.03%) Wireless
11 27 (3.63%) VoIP
12 21 (2.82%) SAN
13 20 (2.69%) Network Security
14 11 (1.48%) WLAN
15 10 (1.34%) IP Telephony
15 10 (1.34%) Remote Desktop
16 7 (0.94%) Internet
16 7 (0.94%) IPsec
17 6 (0.81%) SD-WAN
17 6 (0.81%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (3.09%) SQL Server
2 17 (2.28%) Power BI
3 12 (1.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 10 (1.34%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (0.54%) Relational Database
6 3 (0.40%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 18 (2.42%) JIRA
2 1 (0.13%) Bitbucket
2 1 (0.13%) Git
2 1 (0.13%) GitLab
2 1 (0.13%) Snyk
General
1 233 (31.32%) Social Skills
2 48 (6.45%) Organisational Skills
3 45 (6.05%) Analytical Skills
4 41 (5.51%) Finance
5 38 (5.11%) Manufacturing
6 32 (4.30%) Public Sector
7 31 (4.17%) Law
8 29 (3.90%) Telecoms
9 28 (3.76%) Multimedia
10 23 (3.09%) Legal
11 16 (2.15%) Retail
12 15 (2.02%) Electronics
13 14 (1.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 10 (1.34%) Documentation Skills
14 10 (1.34%) Marketing
15 6 (0.81%) Advertising
15 6 (0.81%) Fire and Rescue
15 6 (0.81%) Police
16 5 (0.67%) Pharmaceutical
17 4 (0.54%) Dutch Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (1.75%) .NET
2 12 (1.61%) .NET Framework
2 12 (1.61%) Entity Framework
2 12 (1.61%) WinForms
3 7 (0.94%) ASP.NET
4 1 (0.13%) OAuth
4 1 (0.13%) OAuth2
4 1 (0.13%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 156 (20.97%) Driving Licence
2 47 (6.32%) Onboarding
3 33 (4.44%) Self-Motivation
4 19 (2.55%) Analytical Mindset
5 13 (1.75%) Smartphone
6 11 (1.48%) CCTV
6 11 (1.48%) Data Centre
6 11 (1.48%) FMCG
7 10 (1.34%) Clustering
8 9 (1.21%) iPad
9 7 (0.94%) Cyber Security Posture
10 6 (0.81%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (0.81%) PMI
10 6 (0.81%) Social Media
11 5 (0.67%) Life Science
11 5 (0.67%) Mobile App
11 5 (0.67%) Security Posture
12 4 (0.54%) Enterprise Storage
12 4 (0.54%) Solar Panel
13 3 (0.40%) Digital Signage
Operating Systems
1 351 (47.18%) Windows
2 194 (26.08%) Windows Server
3 74 (9.95%) Windows 10
4 32 (4.30%) Linux
5 30 (4.03%) Mac OS
6 22 (2.96%) Windows Server 2019
7 19 (2.55%) Windows Server 2016
8 14 (1.88%) Android
9 10 (1.34%) Apple iOS
10 8 (1.08%) Windows Server 2012
11 6 (0.81%) Windows 7
12 4 (0.54%) Windows 8
13 3 (0.40%) Debian
14 2 (0.27%) Rocky
14 2 (0.27%) Windows Server 2008
15 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 1 (0.13%) Solaris
15 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
15 1 (0.13%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 246 (33.06%) Problem-Solving
2 155 (20.83%) Customer Service
3 106 (14.25%) ITIL
4 83 (11.16%) Cybersecurity
5 68 (9.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 68 (9.14%) Mentoring
6 36 (4.84%) ITSM
7 35 (4.70%) Service Delivery
8 32 (4.30%) Data Protection
8 32 (4.30%) Project Delivery
8 32 (4.30%) Remote Monitoring and Management
9 31 (4.17%) Incident Management
10 28 (3.76%) Disaster Recovery
11 27 (3.63%) Business Intelligence
12 26 (3.49%) Process Improvement
13 25 (3.36%) Continuous Improvement
14 24 (3.23%) Computer Science
15 23 (3.09%) Asset Management
15 23 (3.09%) Migration
15 23 (3.09%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 40 (5.38%) PowerShell
2 38 (5.11%) SQL
3 14 (1.88%) C#
4 13 (1.75%) T-SQL
5 10 (1.34%) Python
6 7 (0.94%) PL/SQL
6 7 (0.94%) VBScript
7 2 (0.27%) Bash
7 2 (0.27%) Google Apps Script
8 1 (0.13%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.13%) Uniface
Qualifications
1 64 (8.60%) Microsoft Certification
2 57 (7.66%) Degree
3 32 (4.30%) Security Cleared
4 30 (4.03%) Cisco Certification
4 30 (4.03%) DBS Check
5 29 (3.90%) A+ Certification
6 27 (3.63%) CCNA
7 24 (3.23%) SC Cleared
8 23 (3.09%) Computer Science Degree
9 21 (2.82%) MCP
10 19 (2.55%) MCSE
11 18 (2.42%) BPSS Clearance
12 16 (2.15%) Network+ Certification
13 9 (1.21%) CCNP
13 9 (1.21%) MCSA
14 8 (1.08%) Azure Certification
15 7 (0.94%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 6 (0.81%) PMI Certification
17 4 (0.54%) DV Cleared
17 4 (0.54%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (5.65%) Cyber Essentials
2 33 (4.44%) SLA
3 29 (3.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 19 (2.55%) GDPR
5 6 (0.81%) Accessibility
5 6 (0.81%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 5 (0.67%) NIST
7 2 (0.27%) GxP
7 2 (0.27%) QA
7 2 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 295 (39.65%) Active Directory
2 69 (9.27%) Hyper-V
3 58 (7.80%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (1.75%) Virtual Desktop
5 10 (1.34%) Firmware
6 6 (0.81%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (0.67%) Docker
7 5 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.54%) VMware Workstation
8 4 (0.54%) vSphere
9 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 2 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.27%) XenDesktop
10 1 (0.13%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.13%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 124 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (1.21%) Jamf Pro
3 8 (1.08%) Autotask
3 8 (1.08%) Kubernetes
3 8 (1.08%) SCCM
4 7 (0.94%) FortiGate
4 7 (0.94%) WSUS
5 6 (0.81%) Failover Clustering
6 5 (0.67%) SmoothWall
7 4 (0.54%) vCenter Server
8 3 (0.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (0.40%) Ansible
8 3 (0.40%) Proxmox
8 3 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.27%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 1 (0.13%) Podman
10 1 (0.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 351 (47.18%) Microsoft
2 79 (10.62%) VMware
3 39 (5.24%) Google
4 33 (4.44%) Fortinet
5 32 (4.30%) Cisco
6 30 (4.03%) Veeam
7 29 (3.90%) Apple
8 28 (3.76%) Fujitsu
8 28 (3.76%) Virgin Media
9 19 (2.55%) Dell
9 19 (2.55%) Meraki
10 14 (1.88%) Sage
10 14 (1.88%) ServiceNow
10 14 (1.88%) Zoho
11 12 (1.61%) Xamarin
12 11 (1.48%) WatchGuard
13 10 (1.34%) SAP
14 9 (1.21%) Adobe
15 8 (1.08%) Draytek
16 7 (0.94%) Mitel