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 31 July 2026.

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

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 228 120
Rank change year-on-year +154 -108 +57
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 1,608 437 1,278
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 2.16% 1.28% 2.04%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.28% 1.43% 2.15%
Number of salaries quoted 1,433 344 1,012
10th Percentile £26,750 £25,750 £24,250
25th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £27,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £37,000 £33,507
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% +10.43% +3.10%
75th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £43,750
90th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £50,000
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 70,658 30,652 59,310
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.75% 89.58% 94.83%
Number of salaries quoted 48,894 17,631 40,396
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,875 £28,000
25th Percentile £38,000 £32,759 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -6.54%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £78,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 31 July 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 31 July 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 +125 431 £35,000 -12.50% 62
North of England +71 296 £32,500 -1.52% 39
East of England +107 260 £35,000 -2.78% 36
Midlands +69 258 £33,250 -11.33% 31
South West +59 226 £35,000 -6.67% 18
North West +114 169 £35,000 +7.69% 22
East Midlands +45 134 £35,000 +6.87% 17
West Midlands +53 124 £32,500 -23.53% 14
Yorkshire -10 112 £30,000 -7.69% 15
Scotland +52 75 £28,500 -5.00% 11
Wales -16 54 £45,000 -43.75% 8
North East -44 15 £40,000 -17.95% 4
Northern Ireland - 8 £41,000 - 2
IT Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 31 July 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.

1 746 (46.39%) Microsoft
2 701 (43.59%) Microsoft 365
3 650 (40.42%) Windows
4 519 (32.28%) Active Directory
5 412 (25.62%) Azure
6 379 (23.57%) Problem-Solving
7 343 (21.33%) Customer Service
8 329 (20.46%) Windows Server
9 307 (19.09%) Entra ID
10 247 (15.36%) Firewall
11 236 (14.68%) Microsoft Intune
12 231 (14.37%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 220 (13.68%) Microsoft Exchange
14 200 (12.44%) DNS
15 193 (12.00%) SharePoint
16 185 (11.50%) Hyper-V
17 179 (11.13%) Cybersecurity
18 174 (10.82%) VMware
19 164 (10.20%) DHCP
20 155 (9.64%) VPN
21 144 (8.96%) Windows 10
22 143 (8.89%) VMware Infrastructure
23 133 (8.27%) ITIL
24 123 (7.65%) Wi-Fi
25 122 (7.59%) Continuous Improvement
25 122 (7.59%) Disaster Recovery
26 110 (6.84%) Mac OS
27 108 (6.72%) PowerShell
28 105 (6.53%) LAN
29 102 (6.34%) TCP/IP

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
1 220 (13.68%) Microsoft Exchange
2 193 (12.00%) SharePoint
3 14 (0.87%) IIS
4 13 (0.81%) Confluence
5 12 (0.75%) Exchange Server 2013
6 10 (0.62%) Exchange Server 2007
6 10 (0.62%) Exchange Server 2010
7 3 (0.19%) Apache
Applications
1 85 (5.29%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.19%) Photoshop
4 2 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.12%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (0.37%) Raiser’s Edge
2 5 (0.31%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.19%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.12%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 701 (43.59%) Microsoft 365
2 412 (25.62%) Azure
3 307 (19.09%) Entra ID
4 52 (3.23%) AWS
5 48 (2.99%) OneDrive
6 38 (2.36%) Google Workspace
7 27 (1.68%) Mimecast
7 27 (1.68%) SaaS
8 20 (1.24%) Power Platform
9 17 (1.06%) PaaS
10 13 (0.81%) Power Automate
11 12 (0.75%) IaaS
12 11 (0.68%) Azure DevOps
13 10 (0.62%) Nutanix
14 7 (0.44%) Microsoft Copilot
14 7 (0.44%) PowerApps
15 5 (0.31%) GCP
16 4 (0.25%) Azure Sentinel
17 3 (0.19%) Cloudflare
17 3 (0.19%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 247 (15.36%) Firewall
2 200 (12.44%) DNS
3 164 (10.20%) DHCP
4 155 (9.64%) VPN
5 123 (7.65%) Wi-Fi
6 105 (6.53%) LAN
7 102 (6.34%) TCP/IP
8 97 (6.03%) WAN
9 79 (4.91%) VoIP
10 69 (4.29%) Wireless
11 62 (3.86%) VLAN
12 32 (1.99%) SAN
13 30 (1.87%) Network Security
14 22 (1.37%) Internet
15 17 (1.06%) Remote Desktop
16 16 (1.00%) WLAN
17 12 (0.75%) SSL
18 7 (0.44%) NAS
19 6 (0.37%) Broadband
19 6 (0.37%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (3.05%) SQL Server
2 10 (0.62%) Power BI
3 9 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
3 9 (0.56%) MySQL
4 5 (0.31%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (0.12%) KNIME
Development Applications
1 42 (2.61%) JIRA
2 2 (0.12%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (0.062%) Carbide.c++
3 1 (0.062%) GitLab
General
1 387 (24.07%) Social Skills
2 80 (4.98%) Manufacturing
3 75 (4.66%) Analytical Skills
4 62 (3.86%) Legal
5 48 (2.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 48 (2.99%) Organisational Skills
6 37 (2.30%) Retail
7 34 (2.11%) Public Sector
8 33 (2.05%) Finance
9 31 (1.93%) Telecoms
10 26 (1.62%) Advertising
11 24 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
12 23 (1.43%) Law
13 17 (1.06%) Automotive
14 8 (0.50%) Aerospace
15 7 (0.44%) Local Government
16 4 (0.25%) Dutch Language
16 4 (0.25%) Military
16 4 (0.25%) Portuguese Language
16 4 (0.25%) Spanish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (0.44%) HTML
1 7 (0.44%) JSON
2 4 (0.25%) Web Services
3 3 (0.19%) CSS
4 1 (0.062%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 234 (14.55%) Driving Licence
2 88 (5.47%) Onboarding
3 65 (4.04%) Self-Motivation
4 42 (2.61%) CCTV
5 37 (2.30%) Data Centre
6 22 (1.37%) FMCG
7 17 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
7 17 (1.06%) Security Posture
8 13 (0.81%) Management Information System
9 12 (0.75%) Hybrid Cloud
10 11 (0.68%) Cloud Native
10 11 (0.68%) Clustering
10 11 (0.68%) NHS
10 11 (0.68%) Smartphone
11 9 (0.56%) Operational Technology
11 9 (0.56%) Replication
12 8 (0.50%) PKI
13 7 (0.44%) Cyber Threat
13 7 (0.44%) EPoS
14 5 (0.31%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 650 (40.42%) Windows
2 329 (20.46%) Windows Server
3 144 (8.96%) Windows 10
4 110 (6.84%) Mac OS
5 88 (5.47%) Linux
6 41 (2.55%) Apple iOS
7 35 (2.18%) Android
8 33 (2.05%) Windows Server 2019
9 27 (1.68%) Windows Server 2016
10 15 (0.93%) Windows 7
11 11 (0.68%) Ubuntu
11 11 (0.68%) Windows Server 2012
12 9 (0.56%) Windows 8
13 4 (0.25%) Mac OS X
14 2 (0.12%) VMS
14 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
15 1 (0.062%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 379 (23.57%) Problem-Solving
2 343 (21.33%) Customer Service
3 231 (14.37%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 179 (11.13%) Cybersecurity
5 133 (8.27%) ITIL
6 122 (7.59%) Continuous Improvement
6 122 (7.59%) Disaster Recovery
7 76 (4.73%) Project Delivery
8 62 (3.86%) Service Management
9 58 (3.61%) Mentoring
10 57 (3.54%) ITSM
11 55 (3.42%) Root Cause Analysis
12 52 (3.23%) Service Delivery
13 48 (2.99%) Business Continuity
13 48 (2.99%) Remote Monitoring and Management
14 43 (2.67%) Time Management
15 42 (2.61%) User Experience
16 35 (2.18%) Process Improvement
17 33 (2.05%) Incident Management
18 32 (1.99%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 108 (6.72%) PowerShell
2 55 (3.42%) SQL
3 10 (0.62%) Python
3 10 (0.62%) R
4 8 (0.50%) Ruby
5 4 (0.25%) VBScript
6 3 (0.19%) Bicep
6 3 (0.19%) JavaScript
6 3 (0.19%) PHP
6 3 (0.19%) VB
6 3 (0.19%) VBA
7 2 (0.12%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.062%) Uniface
Qualifications
1 87 (5.41%) Microsoft Certification
2 80 (4.98%) Degree
3 75 (4.66%) Security Cleared
4 59 (3.67%) DBS Check
5 52 (3.23%) SC Cleared
6 49 (3.05%) CCNA
6 49 (3.05%) Cisco Certification
7 37 (2.30%) Network+ Certification
8 26 (1.62%) A+ Certification
9 23 (1.43%) Azure Certification
10 17 (1.06%) CompTIA Security+
11 16 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
12 14 (0.87%) MCSE
13 11 (0.68%) DV Cleared
14 6 (0.37%) AWS Certification
15 5 (0.31%) CCNP
15 5 (0.31%) MCSA
16 4 (0.25%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 4 (0.25%) MCITP
16 4 (0.25%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 96 (5.97%) Cyber Essentials
2 54 (3.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 41 (2.55%) SLA
4 33 (2.05%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 23 (1.43%) GDPR
6 10 (0.62%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.25%) Accessibility
7 4 (0.25%) NIST
8 3 (0.19%) QA
9 1 (0.062%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.062%) NCSC
System Software
1 519 (32.28%) Active Directory
2 185 (11.50%) Hyper-V
3 143 (8.89%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (1.24%) Virtual Desktop
5 18 (1.12%) vSphere
6 16 (1.00%) Virtual Machines
7 13 (0.81%) Docker
7 13 (0.81%) VMware ESXi
8 8 (0.50%) BitLocker
9 5 (0.31%) Firmware
9 5 (0.31%) Terminal Services
9 5 (0.31%) VMware Workstation
10 1 (0.062%) Terminal Server
10 1 (0.062%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 236 (14.68%) Microsoft Intune
2 21 (1.31%) SCCM
3 19 (1.18%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 13 (0.81%) Jamf Pro
5 12 (0.75%) Proxmox
6 10 (0.62%) WSUS
7 7 (0.44%) Failover Clustering
7 7 (0.44%) FortiGate
8 6 (0.37%) Autotask
9 4 (0.25%) Iperf
9 4 (0.25%) Kubernetes
9 4 (0.25%) Terraform
10 3 (0.19%) Ansible
10 3 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.12%) PaperCut
12 1 (0.062%) Argo
12 1 (0.062%) Nessus
Vendors
1 746 (46.39%) Microsoft
2 174 (10.82%) VMware
3 68 (4.23%) Cisco
4 49 (3.05%) Veeam
5 45 (2.80%) Google
6 36 (2.24%) Apple
7 33 (2.05%) Meraki
8 28 (1.74%) Dell
9 25 (1.55%) SonicWALL
9 25 (1.55%) Sophos
10 23 (1.43%) Ubiquiti
11 22 (1.37%) HP
12 15 (0.93%) Fortinet
13 12 (0.75%) Logitech
13 12 (0.75%) TOWER Software
14 11 (0.68%) Epicor
15 10 (0.62%) CrowdStrike
15 10 (0.62%) Palo Alto
15 10 (0.62%) ServiceNow
16 8 (0.50%) Datto