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 24 August 2026.

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

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 219 122
Rank change year-on-year +138 -97 +37
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 1,571 440 1,170
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.98% 1.26% 1.95%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.11% 1.41% 2.05%
Number of salaries quoted 1,394 346 903
10th Percentile £26,750 £25,750 £24,500
25th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £27,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £36,000 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +2.94%
75th Percentile £43,750 £47,250 £43,750
90th Percentile £53,750 £57,500 £52,250
UK median annual salary £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -

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 74,603 31,136 56,974
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.24% 89.45% 95.08%
Number of salaries quoted 51,725 17,928 36,721
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £28,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,292 £47,602 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.05% -4.80% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -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 24 August 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 24 August 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 +123 396 £36,250 -9.38% 59
East of England +100 273 £35,000 -1.41% 35
North of England +56 273 £32,500 -3.70% 37
Midlands +64 260 £35,000 - 37
South West +48 226 £35,000 -12.50% 27
North West +97 152 £33,475 -4.36% 18
East Midlands +35 131 £35,000 +20.69% 13
West Midlands +57 129 £34,500 -18.82% 24
Yorkshire -8 105 £30,000 -9.09% 14
Scotland +52 78 £28,500 +3.64% 10
Wales -16 54 £40,000 -50.00% 5
North East -49 16 £40,000 -17.95% 5
Northern Ireland -70 11 £41,000 +30.16%
IT Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 24 August 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.

1 760 (48.38%) Microsoft
2 687 (43.73%) Microsoft 365
3 641 (40.80%) Windows
4 510 (32.46%) Active Directory
5 403 (25.65%) Azure
6 361 (22.98%) Problem-Solving
7 337 (21.45%) Windows Server
8 328 (20.88%) Customer Service
9 307 (19.54%) Entra ID
10 245 (15.60%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 243 (15.47%) Microsoft Intune
12 241 (15.34%) Firewall
13 226 (14.39%) Microsoft Exchange
14 210 (13.37%) DNS
15 197 (12.54%) Hyper-V
16 193 (12.29%) SharePoint
17 190 (12.09%) Cybersecurity
18 177 (11.27%) DHCP
19 170 (10.82%) VMware
20 156 (9.93%) VPN
21 145 (9.23%) VMware Infrastructure
22 136 (8.66%) Continuous Improvement
23 131 (8.34%) Windows 10
24 130 (8.27%) Disaster Recovery
25 127 (8.08%) ITIL
26 124 (7.89%) Wi-Fi
27 115 (7.32%) PowerShell
27 115 (7.32%) TCP/IP
28 97 (6.17%) Cyber Essentials
29 95 (6.05%) Mac OS

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
1 226 (14.39%) Microsoft Exchange
2 193 (12.29%) SharePoint
3 17 (1.08%) IIS
4 7 (0.45%) Confluence
4 7 (0.45%) Exchange Server 2013
5 5 (0.32%) Exchange Server 2007
5 5 (0.32%) Exchange Server 2010
6 3 (0.19%) Apache
Applications
1 63 (4.01%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (0.70%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.19%) Photoshop
4 2 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.13%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (0.38%) Raiser’s Edge
2 2 (0.13%) Sage 200
3 1 (0.064%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 687 (43.73%) Microsoft 365
2 403 (25.65%) Azure
3 307 (19.54%) Entra ID
4 48 (3.06%) AWS
5 42 (2.67%) OneDrive
6 29 (1.85%) Mimecast
7 28 (1.78%) Google Workspace
8 24 (1.53%) Power Platform
8 24 (1.53%) SaaS
9 16 (1.02%) Power Automate
10 14 (0.89%) PaaS
11 11 (0.70%) Azure DevOps
11 11 (0.70%) IaaS
11 11 (0.70%) Nutanix
12 9 (0.57%) PowerApps
13 6 (0.38%) Microsoft Copilot
14 5 (0.32%) Dynamics 365
15 3 (0.19%) Cloudflare
15 3 (0.19%) GCP
16 2 (0.13%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 241 (15.34%) Firewall
2 210 (13.37%) DNS
3 177 (11.27%) DHCP
4 156 (9.93%) VPN
5 124 (7.89%) Wi-Fi
6 115 (7.32%) TCP/IP
7 90 (5.73%) LAN
8 80 (5.09%) VoIP
8 80 (5.09%) Wireless
9 79 (5.03%) WAN
10 76 (4.84%) VLAN
11 36 (2.29%) Network Security
12 33 (2.10%) SAN
13 22 (1.40%) Internet
14 16 (1.02%) WLAN
15 15 (0.95%) Remote Desktop
15 15 (0.95%) SSL
16 7 (0.45%) NAS
17 5 (0.32%) Broadband
18 4 (0.25%) DMZ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (2.99%) SQL Server
2 9 (0.57%) Azure SQL Database
2 9 (0.57%) MySQL
2 9 (0.57%) Power BI
3 5 (0.32%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (0.13%) KNIME
Development Applications
1 37 (2.36%) JIRA
2 2 (0.13%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (0.064%) Carbide.c++
General
1 379 (24.12%) Social Skills
2 83 (5.28%) Analytical Skills
2 83 (5.28%) Manufacturing
3 71 (4.52%) Legal
4 43 (2.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 38 (2.42%) Organisational Skills
6 36 (2.29%) Public Sector
7 32 (2.04%) Telecoms
8 31 (1.97%) Retail
9 29 (1.85%) Advertising
10 28 (1.78%) Finance
11 25 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
12 17 (1.08%) Automotive
13 14 (0.89%) Law
14 9 (0.57%) Aerospace
15 6 (0.38%) Local Government
16 4 (0.25%) Banking
16 4 (0.25%) Dutch Language
16 4 (0.25%) Military
16 4 (0.25%) Portuguese Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (0.45%) HTML
1 7 (0.45%) JSON
2 4 (0.25%) Terraform
2 4 (0.25%) Web Services
3 3 (0.19%) CSS
4 2 (0.13%) .NET
4 2 (0.13%) ASP.NET Web Forms
4 2 (0.13%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 230 (14.64%) Driving Licence
2 97 (6.17%) Onboarding
3 63 (4.01%) Self-Motivation
4 44 (2.80%) CCTV
5 38 (2.42%) Data Centre
6 21 (1.34%) FMCG
7 20 (1.27%) Operational Technology
8 17 (1.08%) Analytical Mindset
9 16 (1.02%) Hybrid Cloud
9 16 (1.02%) Security Posture
10 13 (0.83%) Management Information System
10 13 (0.83%) Replication
11 11 (0.70%) Cloud Native
11 11 (0.70%) Clustering
11 11 (0.70%) Smartphone
12 10 (0.64%) NHS
13 9 (0.57%) Cyber Threat
14 8 (0.51%) PKI
15 7 (0.45%) EPoS
16 6 (0.38%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 641 (40.80%) Windows
2 337 (21.45%) Windows Server
3 131 (8.34%) Windows 10
4 95 (6.05%) Mac OS
5 92 (5.86%) Linux
6 43 (2.74%) Apple iOS
7 35 (2.23%) Android
7 35 (2.23%) Windows Server 2019
8 25 (1.59%) Windows Server 2016
9 17 (1.08%) Ubuntu
10 10 (0.64%) Windows Server 2012
11 8 (0.51%) Windows 7
12 5 (0.32%) Windows 8
13 4 (0.25%) Mac OS X
14 3 (0.19%) Debian
14 3 (0.19%) Rocky
15 2 (0.13%) VMS
16 1 (0.064%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 361 (22.98%) Problem-Solving
2 328 (20.88%) Customer Service
3 245 (15.60%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 190 (12.09%) Cybersecurity
5 136 (8.66%) Continuous Improvement
6 130 (8.27%) Disaster Recovery
7 127 (8.08%) ITIL
8 75 (4.77%) Project Delivery
9 61 (3.88%) Service Management
10 57 (3.63%) Mentoring
11 53 (3.37%) ITSM
12 46 (2.93%) User Experience
13 45 (2.86%) Business Continuity
13 45 (2.86%) Remote Monitoring and Management
14 43 (2.74%) Root Cause Analysis
15 42 (2.67%) Service Delivery
16 38 (2.42%) Time Management
17 32 (2.04%) Collaborative Culture
17 32 (2.04%) ERP
18 31 (1.97%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 115 (7.32%) PowerShell
2 51 (3.25%) SQL
3 11 (0.70%) R
4 10 (0.64%) Python
5 8 (0.51%) Ruby
6 4 (0.25%) VBScript
7 3 (0.19%) Bicep
7 3 (0.19%) JavaScript
7 3 (0.19%) PHP
7 3 (0.19%) VBA
8 2 (0.13%) C#
8 2 (0.13%) T-SQL
8 2 (0.13%) VB
Qualifications
1 89 (5.67%) Degree
2 87 (5.54%) Microsoft Certification
3 60 (3.82%) Security Cleared
4 58 (3.69%) DBS Check
5 51 (3.25%) CCNA
5 51 (3.25%) Cisco Certification
6 41 (2.61%) SC Cleared
7 38 (2.42%) Network+ Certification
8 26 (1.65%) Azure Certification
9 22 (1.40%) A+ Certification
10 19 (1.21%) CompTIA Security+
11 15 (0.95%) MCSE
12 13 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
13 7 (0.45%) DV Cleared
14 6 (0.38%) AWS Certification
14 6 (0.38%) CCNP
15 5 (0.32%) Computer Science Degree
15 5 (0.32%) MCSA
16 4 (0.25%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 4 (0.25%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (6.17%) Cyber Essentials
2 52 (3.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 34 (2.16%) SLA
4 32 (2.04%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 30 (1.91%) GDPR
6 10 (0.64%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.25%) Accessibility
7 4 (0.25%) NIST
8 3 (0.19%) QA
9 1 (0.064%) NCSC
System Software
1 510 (32.46%) Active Directory
2 197 (12.54%) Hyper-V
3 145 (9.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (1.08%) Virtual Machines
4 17 (1.08%) vSphere
5 16 (1.02%) Virtual Desktop
6 13 (0.83%) Docker
7 12 (0.76%) VMware ESXi
8 8 (0.51%) BitLocker
8 8 (0.51%) Firmware
9 5 (0.32%) Terminal Services
10 1 (0.064%) Terminal Server
10 1 (0.064%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 243 (15.47%) Microsoft Intune
2 21 (1.34%) SCCM
3 16 (1.02%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 13 (0.83%) Jamf Pro
5 12 (0.76%) WSUS
6 9 (0.57%) Proxmox
7 7 (0.45%) Failover Clustering
7 7 (0.45%) FortiGate
8 6 (0.38%) Kubernetes
9 4 (0.25%) Iperf
10 3 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.13%) Ansible
11 2 (0.13%) Autotask
11 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
11 2 (0.13%) PaperCut
11 2 (0.13%) SCOM
12 1 (0.064%) Argo
12 1 (0.064%) Nessus
Vendors
1 760 (48.38%) Microsoft
2 170 (10.82%) VMware
3 65 (4.14%) Cisco
4 58 (3.69%) Veeam
5 40 (2.55%) SonicWALL
6 39 (2.48%) Apple
7 32 (2.04%) Google
8 27 (1.72%) Sophos
9 26 (1.65%) Dell
10 23 (1.46%) Meraki
11 21 (1.34%) Ubiquiti
12 20 (1.27%) Fortinet
13 17 (1.08%) HP
14 15 (0.95%) Logitech
14 15 (0.95%) TOWER Software
15 12 (0.76%) Datto
15 12 (0.76%) Palo Alto
16 11 (0.70%) CrowdStrike
16 11 (0.70%) Draytek
17 10 (0.64%) ServiceNow