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 £33,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 May 2026.

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

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 213 109
Rank change year-on-year +134 -104 +83
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 1,434 434 1,718
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 2.19% 1.51% 2.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.34% 1.70% 2.64%
Number of salaries quoted 1,244 355 1,481
10th Percentile £26,250 £25,633 £23,500
25th Percentile £29,000 £26,250 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,500 £33,500 £32,001
Median % change year-on-year - +4.69% -1.54%
75th Percentile £40,875 £41,500 £42,500
90th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £47,500
UK median annual salary £35,000 £35,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year - +7.69% -5.80%

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 61,261 25,599 65,135
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.60% 89.06% 94.72%
Number of salaries quoted 40,321 14,589 47,499
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,750 £26,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -5.66%
75th Percentile £68,750 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £77,446
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,670 £52,550
% change year-on-year -4.63% +9.74% -12.42%

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 May 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 May 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 +99 355 £34,000 -2.86% 58
North of England +105 324 £32,500 - 50
Midlands +38 252 £32,250 -7.86% 37
East of England +85 216 £33,000 +10.00% 40
South West +59 183 £35,000 +4.48% 31
North West +107 178 £32,500 -4.41% 25
Yorkshire +16 137 £33,500 +11.67% 23
East Midlands +42 128 £30,000 - 20
West Midlands +18 124 £32,500 -7.14% 17
Scotland +43 69 £28,000 -10.40% 5
Wales +3 35 £45,000 +13.92% 11
North East -34 9 £30,000 -20.00% 4
IT Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 12 May 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.

1 532 (37.10%) Microsoft 365
2 524 (36.54%) Microsoft
3 476 (33.19%) Windows
4 403 (28.10%) Active Directory
5 339 (23.64%) Problem-Solving
6 323 (22.52%) Azure
7 274 (19.11%) Customer Service
8 263 (18.34%) Windows Server
9 209 (14.57%) Entra ID
9 209 (14.57%) Firewall
10 143 (9.97%) DNS
11 142 (9.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 141 (9.83%) Microsoft Intune
13 135 (9.41%) VPN
14 133 (9.27%) SharePoint
15 130 (9.07%) Windows 10
16 126 (8.79%) DHCP
17 121 (8.44%) Cybersecurity
18 117 (8.16%) VMware
19 116 (8.09%) Microsoft Exchange
20 115 (8.02%) LAN
21 113 (7.88%) Hyper-V
22 107 (7.46%) WAN
23 106 (7.39%) ITIL
24 96 (6.69%) Security Cleared
25 91 (6.35%) VMware Infrastructure
25 91 (6.35%) Wi-Fi
26 84 (5.86%) Microsoft Office
27 79 (5.51%) Mentoring
28 75 (5.23%) 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
1 133 (9.27%) SharePoint
2 116 (8.09%) Microsoft Exchange
3 16 (1.12%) Confluence
4 13 (0.91%) Exchange Server 2013
5 11 (0.77%) Exchange Server 2007
5 11 (0.77%) Exchange Server 2010
6 6 (0.42%) IIS
Applications
1 84 (5.86%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (1.12%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.21%) Photoshop
4 2 (0.14%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.070%) Acrobat
5 1 (0.070%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (0.42%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.35%) Dynamics NAV
3 3 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.070%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 532 (37.10%) Microsoft 365
2 323 (22.52%) Azure
3 209 (14.57%) Entra ID
4 44 (3.07%) Google Workspace
5 40 (2.79%) AWS
6 33 (2.30%) OneDrive
7 22 (1.53%) Power Platform
8 21 (1.46%) SaaS
9 18 (1.26%) PaaS
10 15 (1.05%) Mimecast
11 14 (0.98%) IaaS
12 11 (0.77%) PowerApps
13 9 (0.63%) Azure DevOps
14 8 (0.56%) Azure Sentinel
15 5 (0.35%) GCP
15 5 (0.35%) Intacct
15 5 (0.35%) Microsoft Copilot
15 5 (0.35%) OCI
15 5 (0.35%) Power Automate
16 4 (0.28%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 209 (14.57%) Firewall
2 143 (9.97%) DNS
3 135 (9.41%) VPN
4 126 (8.79%) DHCP
5 115 (8.02%) LAN
6 107 (7.46%) WAN
7 91 (6.35%) Wi-Fi
8 56 (3.91%) VoIP
9 48 (3.35%) VLAN
10 37 (2.58%) TCP/IP
11 32 (2.23%) Wireless
12 29 (2.02%) SAN
13 26 (1.81%) Network Security
14 18 (1.26%) WLAN
15 14 (0.98%) SD-WAN
16 11 (0.77%) Internet
17 10 (0.70%) Remote Desktop
18 7 (0.49%) NAS
18 7 (0.49%) TETRA
19 6 (0.42%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (2.58%) SQL Server
2 18 (1.26%) Power BI
3 5 (0.35%) MySQL
4 1 (0.070%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.070%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 38 (2.65%) JIRA
2 4 (0.28%) GitLab
3 1 (0.070%) LabVIEW
General
1 294 (20.50%) Social Skills
2 72 (5.02%) Manufacturing
3 63 (4.39%) Organisational Skills
4 53 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
5 51 (3.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 42 (2.93%) Finance
6 42 (2.93%) Telecoms
7 40 (2.79%) Public Sector
8 39 (2.72%) Legal
8 39 (2.72%) Retail
9 36 (2.51%) Law
10 28 (1.95%) Multimedia
11 14 (0.98%) Automotive
12 13 (0.91%) Advertising
13 8 (0.56%) Electronics
14 6 (0.42%) Fire and Rescue
14 6 (0.42%) Marketing
14 6 (0.42%) Police
15 5 (0.35%) Social Housing
16 4 (0.28%) Dutch Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (0.28%) HTML
1 4 (0.28%) JSON
1 4 (0.28%) OpenTelemetry
2 3 (0.21%) CSS
2 3 (0.21%) Web Services
3 1 (0.070%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 191 (13.32%) Driving Licence
2 55 (3.84%) Onboarding
3 49 (3.42%) Self-Motivation
4 30 (2.09%) Analytical Mindset
5 27 (1.88%) CCTV
5 27 (1.88%) Data Centre
6 26 (1.81%) FMCG
7 16 (1.12%) Smartphone
8 11 (0.77%) Security Posture
9 10 (0.70%) Management Information System
10 9 (0.63%) NHS
10 9 (0.63%) Social Media
11 7 (0.49%) Operational Technology
12 6 (0.42%) iPad
12 6 (0.42%) iPhone
12 6 (0.42%) PMI
13 5 (0.35%) Clustering
13 5 (0.35%) Enterprise Software
13 5 (0.35%) Replication
13 5 (0.35%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 476 (33.19%) Windows
2 263 (18.34%) Windows Server
3 130 (9.07%) Windows 10
4 56 (3.91%) Mac OS
5 46 (3.21%) Linux
6 31 (2.16%) Android
6 31 (2.16%) Apple iOS
6 31 (2.16%) Windows Server 2019
7 30 (2.09%) Windows Server 2016
8 14 (0.98%) Windows 7
9 11 (0.77%) Windows Server 2012
10 9 (0.63%) Windows 8
11 7 (0.49%) Ubuntu
12 5 (0.35%) Windows Server 2008
13 4 (0.28%) Mac OS X
14 1 (0.070%) CentOS
14 1 (0.070%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 1 (0.070%) Solaris
14 1 (0.070%) Unix
14 1 (0.070%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 339 (23.64%) Problem-Solving
2 274 (19.11%) Customer Service
3 142 (9.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 121 (8.44%) Cybersecurity
5 106 (7.39%) ITIL
6 79 (5.51%) Mentoring
7 61 (4.25%) Disaster Recovery
8 55 (3.84%) Service Delivery
9 52 (3.63%) ITSM
10 50 (3.49%) Continuous Improvement
11 49 (3.42%) Remote Monitoring and Management
12 48 (3.35%) Root Cause Analysis
13 43 (3.00%) Service Management
14 40 (2.79%) Time Management
15 37 (2.58%) Project Delivery
16 34 (2.37%) Business Continuity
16 34 (2.37%) ERP
17 31 (2.16%) Coaching
18 30 (2.09%) Incident Management
18 30 (2.09%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 64 (4.46%) PowerShell
2 44 (3.07%) SQL
3 7 (0.49%) Bash
3 7 (0.49%) Python
4 5 (0.35%) VB
5 4 (0.28%) PHP
5 4 (0.28%) R
6 3 (0.21%) JavaScript
6 3 (0.21%) Uniface
6 3 (0.21%) VBA
7 2 (0.14%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 96 (6.69%) Security Cleared
2 75 (5.23%) Microsoft Certification
3 65 (4.53%) Degree
4 64 (4.46%) SC Cleared
5 46 (3.21%) DBS Check
6 44 (3.07%) CCNA
6 44 (3.07%) Cisco Certification
7 37 (2.58%) Network+ Certification
8 36 (2.51%) A+ Certification
9 28 (1.95%) BPSS Clearance
10 20 (1.39%) MCSE
11 15 (1.05%) DV Cleared
12 14 (0.98%) Azure Certification
13 13 (0.91%) CompTIA Security+
14 7 (0.49%) CCNP
15 6 (0.42%) MCITP
15 6 (0.42%) PMI Certification
16 5 (0.35%) Computer Science Degree
17 4 (0.28%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
18 2 (0.14%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (4.32%) Cyber Essentials
2 61 (4.25%) SLA
3 48 (3.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 26 (1.81%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 12 (0.84%) GDPR
6 8 (0.56%) NIST
7 5 (0.35%) QA
8 4 (0.28%) Accessibility
8 4 (0.28%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.070%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 403 (28.10%) Active Directory
2 113 (7.88%) Hyper-V
3 91 (6.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (1.46%) Virtual Desktop
5 15 (1.05%) VMware ESXi
6 10 (0.70%) Docker
6 10 (0.70%) vSphere
7 7 (0.49%) VMware Workstation
8 5 (0.35%) Terminal Services
9 4 (0.28%) VMware NSX
10 3 (0.21%) BitLocker
10 3 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
11 2 (0.14%) Firmware
12 1 (0.070%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 141 (9.83%) Microsoft Intune
2 17 (1.19%) SCCM
3 15 (1.05%) WSUS
4 10 (0.70%) FortiGate
4 10 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
5 9 (0.63%) Jamf Pro
5 9 (0.63%) Proxmox
5 9 (0.63%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 8 (0.56%) Autotask
7 7 (0.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 5 (0.35%) Ansible
9 4 (0.28%) SmoothWall
10 2 (0.14%) Failover Clustering
10 2 (0.14%) Terraform
11 1 (0.070%) Kubernetes
11 1 (0.070%) Podman
Vendors
1 524 (36.54%) Microsoft
2 117 (8.16%) VMware
3 49 (3.42%) Google
4 41 (2.86%) Cisco
5 37 (2.58%) Fortinet
6 36 (2.51%) Apple
7 33 (2.30%) Dell
8 30 (2.09%) Meraki
9 28 (1.95%) Fujitsu
9 28 (1.95%) Virgin Media
10 22 (1.53%) Veeam
11 18 (1.26%) Sophos
12 15 (1.05%) HP
13 13 (0.91%) Epicor
14 10 (0.70%) SAP
14 10 (0.70%) Ubiquiti
15 9 (0.63%) Citrix
15 9 (0.63%) SonicWALL
16 8 (0.56%) Sage
17 7 (0.49%) Adobe