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 27 February 2026.

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

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 121 110
Rank change year-on-year +36 -11 +99
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 1,082 713 1,373
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 2.18% 2.31% 2.70%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.38% 2.54% 2.84%
Number of salaries quoted 938 427 1,212
10th Percentile £25,750 £25,008 £23,500
25th Percentile £28,000 £27,000 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £34,000 £32,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.41% +4.62% +3.59%
75th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £41,000
90th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £50,000
UK median annual salary £32,500 £35,000 £33,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +4.48% +1.52%

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 45,466 28,114 48,310
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.43% 91.23% 94.89%
Number of salaries quoted 28,530 14,181 37,219
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,000 £26,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,748 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -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 27 February 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 27 February 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 +54 302 £33,000 - 79
North of England +55 246 £32,500 -4.06% 50
Midlands -18 229 £31,500 -10.00% 17
East Midlands -1 135 £30,000 - 5
North West +48 125 £30,000 -22.08% 30
South West +44 114 £35,000 +0.72% 26
East of England +39 113 £30,000 +6.19% 22
Yorkshire +22 112 £39,750 +31.40% 18
West Midlands -41 94 £32,500 -7.14% 12
Scotland +12 57 £30,000 -4.76% 24
Wales +10 21 £40,000 -5.88% 5
North East -7 9 £30,000 -16.67% 5
IT Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 27 February 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.

1 480 (44.36%) Microsoft 365
2 477 (44.09%) Windows
3 461 (42.61%) Microsoft
4 394 (36.41%) Active Directory
5 326 (30.13%) Problem-Solving
6 325 (30.04%) Azure
7 250 (23.11%) Windows Server
8 226 (20.89%) Customer Service
9 194 (17.93%) Firewall
10 179 (16.54%) Entra ID
11 163 (15.06%) DNS
12 153 (14.14%) Microsoft Intune
13 151 (13.96%) DHCP
14 128 (11.83%) SharePoint
15 126 (11.65%) ITIL
16 125 (11.55%) VPN
17 121 (11.18%) Windows 10
18 117 (10.81%) Cybersecurity
18 117 (10.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 108 (9.98%) VMware
20 101 (9.33%) Microsoft Exchange
21 95 (8.78%) Microsoft Office
22 94 (8.69%) Hyper-V
23 88 (8.13%) LAN
24 87 (8.04%) WAN
25 79 (7.30%) Mentoring
26 75 (6.93%) Microsoft Certification
27 74 (6.84%) VMware Infrastructure
28 71 (6.56%) Google
29 66 (6.10%) Service Delivery

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
1 128 (11.83%) SharePoint
2 101 (9.33%) Microsoft Exchange
3 15 (1.39%) Confluence
3 15 (1.39%) IIS
4 11 (1.02%) Exchange Server 2007
4 11 (1.02%) Exchange Server 2010
4 11 (1.02%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 95 (8.78%) Microsoft Office
2 21 (1.94%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.18%) Acrobat
4 2 (0.18%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 6 (0.55%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.46%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.46%) Dynamics NAV
3 3 (0.28%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.092%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.092%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 480 (44.36%) Microsoft 365
2 325 (30.04%) Azure
3 179 (16.54%) Entra ID
4 57 (5.27%) Google Workspace
5 55 (5.08%) AWS
6 37 (3.42%) OneDrive
7 27 (2.50%) SaaS
8 23 (2.13%) GCP
9 22 (2.03%) Power Platform
10 14 (1.29%) Azure DevOps
11 12 (1.11%) Power Automate
12 9 (0.83%) Azure Sentinel
12 9 (0.83%) IaaS
12 9 (0.83%) PaaS
13 7 (0.65%) PowerApps
14 6 (0.55%) iPaaS
14 6 (0.55%) Microsoft Copilot
15 5 (0.46%) Azure AI
15 5 (0.46%) Intacct
15 5 (0.46%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 194 (17.93%) Firewall
2 163 (15.06%) DNS
3 151 (13.96%) DHCP
4 125 (11.55%) VPN
5 88 (8.13%) LAN
6 87 (8.04%) WAN
7 65 (6.01%) TCP/IP
8 64 (5.91%) Wi-Fi
9 60 (5.55%) VLAN
10 35 (3.23%) VoIP
11 28 (2.59%) Wireless
12 20 (1.85%) Network Security
13 19 (1.76%) SAN
14 17 (1.57%) SD-WAN
15 13 (1.20%) Remote Desktop
16 11 (1.02%) IP Telephony
16 11 (1.02%) WLAN
17 7 (0.65%) Internet
17 7 (0.65%) TETRA
18 4 (0.37%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (2.40%) SQL Server
2 21 (1.94%) Power BI
3 12 (1.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 6 (0.55%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (0.37%) Relational Database
6 3 (0.28%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 30 (2.77%) JIRA
2 4 (0.37%) GitLab
3 1 (0.092%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.092%) Git
3 1 (0.092%) LabVIEW
3 1 (0.092%) Snyk
General
1 307 (28.37%) Social Skills
2 80 (7.39%) Organisational Skills
3 46 (4.25%) Analytical Skills
3 46 (4.25%) Law
4 45 (4.16%) Finance
5 43 (3.97%) Manufacturing
6 39 (3.60%) Public Sector
7 36 (3.33%) Retail
8 32 (2.96%) Telecoms
9 28 (2.59%) Multimedia
10 27 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 26 (2.40%) Legal
12 11 (1.02%) Electronics
13 10 (0.92%) Documentation Skills
14 6 (0.55%) Fire and Rescue
14 6 (0.55%) Marketing
14 6 (0.55%) Police
15 5 (0.46%) Advertising
15 5 (0.46%) Social Housing
16 4 (0.37%) Dutch Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (1.20%) .NET
2 12 (1.11%) .NET Framework
2 12 (1.11%) Entity Framework
2 12 (1.11%) WinForms
3 7 (0.65%) ASP.NET
4 4 (0.37%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (0.092%) OAuth
5 1 (0.092%) OAuth2
5 1 (0.092%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 198 (18.30%) Driving Licence
2 51 (4.71%) Onboarding
3 43 (3.97%) Self-Motivation
4 21 (1.94%) CCTV
5 20 (1.85%) Analytical Mindset
6 16 (1.48%) Smartphone
7 12 (1.11%) Data Centre
8 11 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
8 11 (1.02%) FMCG
9 9 (0.83%) iPad
9 9 (0.83%) Security Posture
10 8 (0.74%) Social Media
11 6 (0.55%) Clustering
11 6 (0.55%) iPhone
11 6 (0.55%) Management Information System
11 6 (0.55%) PMI
12 5 (0.46%) Life Science
12 5 (0.46%) Linux Command Line
12 5 (0.46%) Mobile App
12 5 (0.46%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 477 (44.09%) Windows
2 250 (23.11%) Windows Server
3 121 (11.18%) Windows 10
4 55 (5.08%) Mac OS
5 37 (3.42%) Linux
6 32 (2.96%) Windows Server 2019
7 30 (2.77%) Windows Server 2016
8 25 (2.31%) Android
9 18 (1.66%) Apple iOS
10 16 (1.48%) Windows 7
11 14 (1.29%) Windows Server 2012
12 10 (0.92%) Windows 8
13 6 (0.55%) Windows Server 2008
14 3 (0.28%) Debian
15 2 (0.18%) Ubuntu
16 1 (0.092%) CentOS
16 1 (0.092%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 1 (0.092%) Rocky
16 1 (0.092%) Solaris
16 1 (0.092%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 326 (30.13%) Problem-Solving
2 226 (20.89%) Customer Service
3 126 (11.65%) ITIL
4 117 (10.81%) Cybersecurity
4 117 (10.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 79 (7.30%) Mentoring
6 66 (6.10%) Service Delivery
7 54 (4.99%) ITSM
8 40 (3.70%) Remote Monitoring and Management
9 38 (3.51%) Continuous Improvement
10 36 (3.33%) Disaster Recovery
10 36 (3.33%) Incident Management
10 36 (3.33%) Process Improvement
10 36 (3.33%) Root Cause Analysis
11 35 (3.23%) Asset Management
12 33 (3.05%) Project Delivery
13 31 (2.87%) Data Protection
14 28 (2.59%) Coaching
14 28 (2.59%) ERP
15 27 (2.50%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 52 (4.81%) PowerShell
2 47 (4.34%) SQL
3 13 (1.20%) C#
3 13 (1.20%) T-SQL
4 9 (0.83%) Python
5 7 (0.65%) Bash
5 7 (0.65%) PL/SQL
5 7 (0.65%) VBScript
6 5 (0.46%) VB
7 3 (0.28%) Uniface
8 2 (0.18%) Google Apps Script
9 1 (0.092%) PHP
9 1 (0.092%) R
Qualifications
1 75 (6.93%) Microsoft Certification
2 64 (5.91%) Degree
2 64 (5.91%) Security Cleared
3 44 (4.07%) SC Cleared
4 42 (3.88%) DBS Check
5 40 (3.70%) Cisco Certification
6 38 (3.51%) CCNA
7 36 (3.33%) A+ Certification
8 26 (2.40%) BPSS Clearance
9 22 (2.03%) Computer Science Degree
10 21 (1.94%) MCSE
10 21 (1.94%) Network+ Certification
11 20 (1.85%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 15 (1.39%) DV Cleared
13 13 (1.20%) CCNP
14 11 (1.02%) MCSA
15 8 (0.74%) Azure Certification
16 7 (0.65%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
17 6 (0.55%) MCITP
17 6 (0.55%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (4.99%) Cyber Essentials
2 50 (4.62%) SLA
3 35 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 15 (1.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 14 (1.29%) GDPR
6 6 (0.55%) Accessibility
7 5 (0.46%) NIST
8 3 (0.28%) QA
9 1 (0.092%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 394 (36.41%) Active Directory
2 94 (8.69%) Hyper-V
3 74 (6.84%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (1.85%) Virtual Desktop
5 10 (0.92%) VMware Workstation
6 9 (0.83%) vSphere
7 8 (0.74%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (0.46%) Firmware
8 5 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
9 4 (0.37%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.18%) XenDesktop
11 1 (0.092%) Docker
11 1 (0.092%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 153 (14.14%) Microsoft Intune
2 12 (1.11%) Jamf Pro
2 12 (1.11%) SCCM
3 11 (1.02%) WSUS
4 10 (0.92%) Autotask
5 9 (0.83%) FortiGate
6 8 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
7 7 (0.65%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 7 (0.65%) Proxmox
8 6 (0.55%) Ansible
8 6 (0.55%) Failover Clustering
8 6 (0.55%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 5 (0.46%) SmoothWall
10 2 (0.18%) Kubernetes
11 1 (0.092%) Podman
Vendors
1 461 (42.61%) Microsoft
2 108 (9.98%) VMware
3 71 (6.56%) Google
4 38 (3.51%) Cisco
5 33 (3.05%) Fortinet
6 32 (2.96%) Apple
7 31 (2.87%) Dell
8 30 (2.77%) Meraki
8 30 (2.77%) Veeam
9 28 (2.59%) Fujitsu
9 28 (2.59%) Virgin Media
10 17 (1.57%) Sage
11 14 (1.29%) HP
11 14 (1.29%) ServiceNow
11 14 (1.29%) WatchGuard
12 12 (1.11%) Xamarin
13 10 (0.92%) Adobe
13 10 (0.92%) ESET
13 10 (0.92%) Zoho
14 9 (0.83%) Citrix