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 11 May 2026.

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

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 206 108
Rank change year-on-year +126 -98 +82
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 1,435 437 1,718
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 2.19% 1.52% 2.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.35% 1.70% 2.64%
Number of salaries quoted 1,246 358 1,481
10th Percentile £26,250 £25,631 £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 £40,500 £41,625 £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 61,165 25,677 65,104
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.49% 89.10% 94.72%
Number of salaries quoted 40,252 14,677 47,474
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 £77,480
UK median annual salary £55,000 £58,000 £52,550
% change year-on-year -5.17% +10.37% -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 11 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 11 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 +99 356 £34,000 -2.86% 55
North of England +95 324 £32,500 - 51
Midlands +39 256 £32,500 -7.14% 38
East of England +84 214 £32,500 +8.33% 39
South West +58 181 £35,000 +4.48% 28
North West +104 178 £32,500 -4.41% 22
Yorkshire +16 137 £33,500 +11.67% 27
East Midlands +43 132 £30,000 - 19
West Midlands +16 124 £32,500 -7.14% 19
Scotland +41 69 £28,000 -10.40% 7
Wales +3 35 £45,000 +13.92% 12
North East -42 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 11 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.

1 536 (37.35%) Microsoft 365
2 527 (36.72%) Microsoft
3 479 (33.38%) Windows
4 405 (28.22%) Active Directory
5 342 (23.83%) Problem-Solving
6 325 (22.65%) Azure
7 275 (19.16%) Customer Service
8 267 (18.61%) Windows Server
9 209 (14.56%) Entra ID
10 208 (14.49%) Firewall
11 145 (10.10%) DNS
12 142 (9.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 141 (9.83%) Microsoft Intune
14 135 (9.41%) SharePoint
14 135 (9.41%) VPN
15 130 (9.06%) Windows 10
16 128 (8.92%) DHCP
17 121 (8.43%) Cybersecurity
18 117 (8.15%) Microsoft Exchange
19 116 (8.08%) LAN
19 116 (8.08%) VMware
20 112 (7.80%) Hyper-V
21 108 (7.53%) WAN
22 107 (7.46%) ITIL
23 96 (6.69%) Security Cleared
24 91 (6.34%) Wi-Fi
25 90 (6.27%) VMware Infrastructure
26 84 (5.85%) 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
1 135 (9.41%) SharePoint
2 117 (8.15%) Microsoft Exchange
3 16 (1.11%) 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 (5.85%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (1.11%) 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 4 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.070%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 536 (37.35%) Microsoft 365
2 325 (22.65%) Azure
3 209 (14.56%) 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 (1.25%) 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
1 208 (14.49%) Firewall
2 145 (10.10%) DNS
3 135 (9.41%) VPN
4 128 (8.92%) DHCP
5 116 (8.08%) LAN
6 108 (7.53%) WAN
7 91 (6.34%) Wi-Fi
8 56 (3.90%) VoIP
9 48 (3.34%) VLAN
10 37 (2.58%) TCP/IP
11 33 (2.30%) Wireless
12 29 (2.02%) SAN
13 26 (1.81%) Network Security
14 19 (1.32%) 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 (1.25%) Power BI
3 5 (0.35%) MySQL
4 1 (0.070%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.070%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 39 (2.72%) JIRA
2 4 (0.28%) GitLab
3 1 (0.070%) LabVIEW
General
1 293 (20.42%) Social Skills
2 72 (5.02%) Manufacturing
3 63 (4.39%) Organisational Skills
4 53 (3.69%) Analytical Skills
5 51 (3.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 42 (2.93%) Finance
6 42 (2.93%) Telecoms
7 40 (2.79%) Public Sector
8 39 (2.72%) Retail
9 38 (2.65%) Legal
10 36 (2.51%) Law
11 28 (1.95%) Multimedia
12 14 (0.98%) Automotive
13 13 (0.91%) Advertising
14 8 (0.56%) Electronics
15 6 (0.42%) Fire and Rescue
15 6 (0.42%) Marketing
15 6 (0.42%) Police
16 5 (0.35%) Social Housing
17 4 (0.28%) Local Government
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
1 195 (13.59%) Driving Licence
2 56 (3.90%) Onboarding
3 49 (3.41%) 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 17 (1.18%) 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
1 479 (33.38%) Windows
2 267 (18.61%) Windows Server
3 130 (9.06%) Windows 10
4 55 (3.83%) Mac OS
5 45 (3.14%) Linux
6 32 (2.23%) Windows Server 2019
7 31 (2.16%) Android
7 31 (2.16%) Apple iOS
8 30 (2.09%) Windows Server 2016
9 14 (0.98%) Windows 7
10 11 (0.77%) Windows Server 2012
11 9 (0.63%) Windows 8
12 7 (0.49%) Ubuntu
13 5 (0.35%) Windows Server 2008
14 4 (0.28%) Mac OS X
15 1 (0.070%) CentOS
15 1 (0.070%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 1 (0.070%) Solaris
15 1 (0.070%) Unix
15 1 (0.070%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 342 (23.83%) Problem-Solving
2 275 (19.16%) Customer Service
3 142 (9.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 121 (8.43%) Cybersecurity
5 107 (7.46%) ITIL
6 79 (5.51%) Mentoring
7 61 (4.25%) Disaster Recovery
8 54 (3.76%) Service Delivery
9 53 (3.69%) ITSM
10 51 (3.55%) Remote Monitoring and Management
11 49 (3.41%) Continuous Improvement
12 48 (3.34%) Root Cause Analysis
13 44 (3.07%) 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
17 31 (2.16%) Incident Management
17 31 (2.16%) 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 64 (4.46%) Degree
3 64 (4.46%) SC Cleared
4 46 (3.21%) DBS Check
5 44 (3.07%) CCNA
5 44 (3.07%) Cisco Certification
6 37 (2.58%) Network+ Certification
7 36 (2.51%) A+ Certification
8 28 (1.95%) BPSS Clearance
9 20 (1.39%) MCSE
10 15 (1.05%) DV Cleared
11 14 (0.98%) Azure Certification
12 12 (0.84%) CompTIA Security+
13 7 (0.49%) CCNP
14 6 (0.42%) MCITP
14 6 (0.42%) PMI Certification
15 5 (0.35%) Computer Science Degree
16 4 (0.28%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
17 2 (0.14%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (4.32%) SLA
2 61 (4.25%) Cyber Essentials
3 47 (3.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 25 (1.74%) 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
1 405 (28.22%) Active Directory
2 112 (7.80%) Hyper-V
3 90 (6.27%) 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 (1.18%) 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
1 527 (36.72%) Microsoft
2 116 (8.08%) VMware
3 49 (3.41%) 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 (1.25%) 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