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 12 November 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Nov 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 95 159 118
Rank change year-on-year +64 -41 +27
Permanent IT Engineer jobs 1,533 568 998
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.67% 1.56% 2.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.83% 1.74% 2.22%
Number of salaries quoted 1,227 478 582
10th Percentile £27,000 £25,750 £25,750
25th Percentile £30,000 £27,250 £29,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £32,500 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% +0.42%
75th Percentile £43,750 £41,250 £45,000
90th Percentile £52,500 £50,625 £53,750
UK median annual salary £35,000 £33,000 £37,000
% change year-on-year +6.06% -10.81% +5.71%

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 adverts in the UK excluding London matching a recognised job title. The table also shows what proportion of all permanent IT job adverts they make up.

6 months to
12 Nov 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Permanent job adverts in the UK excluding London matching a recognised job title 83,928 32,656 45,026
% of permanent job adverts matching a recognised job title 91.57% 89.71% 94.81%
Number of salaries quoted 56,375 19,959 24,181
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £46,350 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.66% -7.30% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £88,148 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +14.29% -8.70% -4.17%

IT Engineer Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT Engineer job postings 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 IT Engineer jobs in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 November 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 Engineer jobs within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 November 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		 Job Ads
Past 6 Months		 Median Salary
Past 6 Months		 Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Live
Jobs
South East +60 388 £38,500 +15.79% 172
Midlands +9 274 £35,000 +7.69% 100
North of England +17 258 £35,000 +7.69% 130
South West +35 239 £35,000 - 37
East of England +36 180 £35,000 +12.90% 60
West Midlands +42 153 £35,000 -30.00% 65
North West +24 139 £35,000 +14.75% 64
East Midlands -36 121 £35,000 +16.67% 35
Scotland +62 116 £30,000 - 34
Yorkshire -21 92 £30,000 -22.08% 48
Wales -19 59 £35,000 -56.25% 31
North East -50 27 £40,000 -17.95% 20
Northern Ireland -71 13 £41,000 +30.16% 19
Channel Islands +5 7 £35,000 -22.22%
IT Engineer
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IT Engineer Skill Set Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 12 November 2026, IT Engineer job ads cited 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 IT Engineer job ads across the UK excluding London region.

RankSkillShareJob Ads
1Microsoft50.4%772
2Windows47.3%725
3Microsoft 36546.9%719
4Active Directory33.5%513
5Azure25.6%392
6Problem-Solving24.2%371
7Windows Server23.2%355
8Entra ID22.8%350
9Customer Service21.7%333
10Microsoft Intune19.7%302
11Infrastructure Engineering19.0%291
12DNS17.4%267
13Firewall16.6%255
14Microsoft Exchange15.5%238
15DHCP15.3%235
16Cybersecurity15.2%233
17Hyper-V13.0%199
18SharePoint12.5%191
19VPN12.2%187
20VMware11.7%179
21TCP/IP10.7%164
22ITIL10.1%155
23Continuous Improvement9.3%143
23Wi-Fi9.3%143
25VMware Infrastructure9.0%138
26Windows 108.1%124
27PowerShell8.0%123
28VLAN7.6%117
29Disaster Recovery7.6%116
30LAN7.1%109

IT Engineer Skill Set Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Job Titles

RankJob TitleShareJob Ads
1IT Support Engineer65.8%1,008
2IT Infrastructure Engineer12.3%189
3Field Engineer12.3%188
42nd Line Engineer9.8%151
5Senior IT Engineer9.5%145
62nd Line Support Engineer8.9%136
7Systems Engineer6.5%100
8Senior IT Support6.3%96
9Senior Support Engineer5.8%89
103rd Line Engineer5.3%82
113rd Line Support Engineer5.0%77
12Field Service Engineer4.1%63
131st/2nd Line Support Engineer3.2%49
141st Line Engineer3.0%46
151st Line Support Engineer2.9%45
15Infrastructure Support Engineer2.9%45
17IT Security Engineer2.7%42
18Senior Infrastructure Engineer2.4%37
19Service Desk Engineer2.3%35
20Systems Support Engineer2.0%31
576 IT Engineer jobs in the UK excluding London