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 25 July 2026.

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

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 226 118
Rank change year-on-year +153 -108 +55
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 1,604 444 1,387
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 2.20% 1.31% 2.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.32% 1.46% 2.26%
Number of salaries quoted 1,430 352 1,118
10th Percentile £26,750 £25,750 £24,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £26,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £36,250 £32,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +11.54% -
75th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £43,750
90th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £50,000
UK median annual salary £35,000 £37,500 £34,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +8.70% -

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 69,196 30,436 61,334
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.84% 89.68% 94.83%
Number of salaries quoted 47,796 17,494 42,281
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,929 £27,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £33,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -4.76%
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 25 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 25 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 +114 437 £35,000 -12.50% 62
North of England +79 299 £32,500 -1.52% 48
East of England +113 256 £35,000 -0.71% 41
Midlands +72 255 £32,500 -13.33% 27
South West +49 223 £35,000 -9.68% 25
North West +107 169 £35,000 +8.53% 23
East Midlands +38 131 £35,000 +7.69% 15
West Midlands +52 124 £32,500 -23.53% 12
Yorkshire -13 114 £30,000 -7.69% 22
Scotland +64 74 £28,500 -5.00% 11
Wales -12 53 £45,000 -43.75% 8
North East -43 16 £40,000 -17.95% 6
Northern Ireland - 7 £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 25 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.

1 733 (45.70%) Microsoft
2 692 (43.14%) Microsoft 365
3 637 (39.71%) Windows
4 514 (32.04%) Active Directory
5 408 (25.44%) Azure
6 374 (23.32%) Problem-Solving
7 337 (21.01%) Customer Service
8 327 (20.39%) Windows Server
9 301 (18.77%) Entra ID
10 248 (15.46%) Firewall
11 229 (14.28%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 229 (14.28%) Microsoft Intune
12 213 (13.28%) Microsoft Exchange
13 199 (12.41%) DNS
14 189 (11.78%) SharePoint
15 179 (11.16%) Hyper-V
16 176 (10.97%) Cybersecurity
17 170 (10.60%) VMware
18 163 (10.16%) DHCP
19 154 (9.60%) VPN
20 141 (8.79%) Windows 10
21 138 (8.60%) VMware Infrastructure
22 132 (8.23%) ITIL
23 124 (7.73%) Wi-Fi
24 118 (7.36%) Disaster Recovery
25 117 (7.29%) Continuous Improvement
26 110 (6.86%) PowerShell
27 107 (6.67%) LAN
28 105 (6.55%) Mac OS
29 98 (6.11%) WAN

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
1 213 (13.28%) Microsoft Exchange
2 189 (11.78%) SharePoint
3 13 (0.81%) Exchange Server 2013
3 13 (0.81%) IIS
4 12 (0.75%) Confluence
5 11 (0.69%) Exchange Server 2007
5 11 (0.69%) Exchange Server 2010
6 3 (0.19%) Apache
Applications
1 87 (5.42%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (0.87%) 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 4 (0.25%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.12%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.062%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 692 (43.14%) Microsoft 365
2 408 (25.44%) Azure
3 301 (18.77%) Entra ID
4 51 (3.18%) AWS
5 46 (2.87%) OneDrive
6 35 (2.18%) Google Workspace
7 29 (1.81%) SaaS
8 27 (1.68%) Mimecast
9 21 (1.31%) Power Platform
10 18 (1.12%) PaaS
11 13 (0.81%) IaaS
12 12 (0.75%) Power Automate
13 11 (0.69%) Azure DevOps
14 9 (0.56%) Nutanix
15 7 (0.44%) PowerApps
16 6 (0.37%) Microsoft Copilot
17 4 (0.25%) GCP
18 3 (0.19%) Cloudflare
18 3 (0.19%) Dynamics 365
18 3 (0.19%) Intacct
Communications & Networking
1 248 (15.46%) Firewall
2 199 (12.41%) DNS
3 163 (10.16%) DHCP
4 154 (9.60%) VPN
5 124 (7.73%) Wi-Fi
6 107 (6.67%) LAN
7 98 (6.11%) WAN
8 96 (5.99%) TCP/IP
9 79 (4.93%) VoIP
10 66 (4.11%) Wireless
11 63 (3.93%) VLAN
12 31 (1.93%) SAN
13 30 (1.87%) Network Security
14 22 (1.37%) Internet
15 17 (1.06%) Remote Desktop
16 16 (1.00%) WLAN
17 11 (0.69%) SSL
18 7 (0.44%) Broadband
18 7 (0.44%) NAS
18 7 (0.44%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (2.99%) SQL Server
2 11 (0.69%) 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 41 (2.56%) JIRA
2 2 (0.12%) GitLab
2 2 (0.12%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (0.062%) Carbide.c++
General
1 379 (23.63%) Social Skills
2 78 (4.86%) Manufacturing
3 70 (4.36%) Analytical Skills
4 59 (3.68%) Legal
5 50 (3.12%) Organisational Skills
6 49 (3.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 37 (2.31%) Retail
8 35 (2.18%) Public Sector
9 32 (2.00%) Finance
10 31 (1.93%) Telecoms
11 24 (1.50%) Advertising
11 24 (1.50%) Documentation Skills
11 24 (1.50%) Law
12 17 (1.06%) Automotive
13 8 (0.50%) Aerospace
14 7 (0.44%) Local Government
15 4 (0.25%) Dutch Language
15 4 (0.25%) Military
15 4 (0.25%) Portuguese Language
15 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 2 (0.12%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (0.062%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 226 (14.09%) Driving Licence
2 86 (5.36%) Onboarding
3 64 (3.99%) Self-Motivation
4 41 (2.56%) CCTV
5 37 (2.31%) Data Centre
6 22 (1.37%) FMCG
7 19 (1.18%) Security Posture
8 17 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
9 12 (0.75%) Hybrid Cloud
10 11 (0.69%) Cloud Native
10 11 (0.69%) Clustering
10 11 (0.69%) Management Information System
10 11 (0.69%) NHS
11 10 (0.62%) Smartphone
12 9 (0.56%) Operational Technology
12 9 (0.56%) PKI
13 8 (0.50%) Replication
14 7 (0.44%) EPoS
15 6 (0.37%) Cyber Threat
16 5 (0.31%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 637 (39.71%) Windows
2 327 (20.39%) Windows Server
3 141 (8.79%) Windows 10
4 105 (6.55%) Mac OS
5 89 (5.55%) Linux
6 39 (2.43%) Apple iOS
7 36 (2.24%) Windows Server 2019
8 34 (2.12%) Android
9 31 (1.93%) Windows Server 2016
10 15 (0.94%) Windows 7
11 12 (0.75%) Windows Server 2012
12 11 (0.69%) Ubuntu
13 9 (0.56%) Windows 8
14 4 (0.25%) Mac OS X
15 3 (0.19%) Windows Server 2008
16 2 (0.12%) VMS
17 1 (0.062%) CentOS
17 1 (0.062%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
17 1 (0.062%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 374 (23.32%) Problem-Solving
2 337 (21.01%) Customer Service
3 229 (14.28%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 176 (10.97%) Cybersecurity
5 132 (8.23%) ITIL
6 118 (7.36%) Disaster Recovery
7 117 (7.29%) Continuous Improvement
8 74 (4.61%) Project Delivery
9 62 (3.87%) Service Management
10 58 (3.62%) Mentoring
11 57 (3.55%) ITSM
12 56 (3.49%) Root Cause Analysis
12 56 (3.49%) Service Delivery
13 47 (2.93%) Remote Monitoring and Management
14 45 (2.81%) Business Continuity
15 43 (2.68%) Time Management
16 42 (2.62%) User Experience
17 37 (2.31%) Process Improvement
18 34 (2.12%) ERP
18 34 (2.12%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 110 (6.86%) PowerShell
2 56 (3.49%) SQL
3 10 (0.62%) Python
3 10 (0.62%) R
4 7 (0.44%) Ruby
5 4 (0.25%) PHP
5 4 (0.25%) VBScript
6 3 (0.19%) Bicep
6 3 (0.19%) JavaScript
6 3 (0.19%) VB
6 3 (0.19%) VBA
7 2 (0.12%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.062%) Bash
8 1 (0.062%) Uniface
Qualifications
1 87 (5.42%) Microsoft Certification
2 79 (4.93%) Security Cleared
3 77 (4.80%) Degree
4 57 (3.55%) DBS Check
5 53 (3.30%) SC Cleared
6 49 (3.05%) CCNA
6 49 (3.05%) Cisco Certification
7 35 (2.18%) Network+ Certification
8 27 (1.68%) A+ Certification
9 22 (1.37%) Azure Certification
10 16 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
10 16 (1.00%) CompTIA Security+
11 14 (0.87%) DV Cleared
11 14 (0.87%) MCSE
12 6 (0.37%) AWS Certification
12 6 (0.37%) CCNP
12 6 (0.37%) MCSA
13 5 (0.31%) MCITP
14 4 (0.25%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 4 (0.25%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (5.86%) Cyber Essentials
2 55 (3.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 42 (2.62%) SLA
4 32 (2.00%) 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
1 514 (32.04%) Active Directory
2 179 (11.16%) Hyper-V
3 138 (8.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (1.31%) Virtual Desktop
5 19 (1.18%) vSphere
6 16 (1.00%) Virtual Machines
6 16 (1.00%) VMware ESXi
7 13 (0.81%) Docker
8 8 (0.50%) BitLocker
9 5 (0.31%) Terminal Services
9 5 (0.31%) VMware Workstation
10 4 (0.25%) Firmware
11 2 (0.12%) VMware NSX
12 1 (0.062%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 229 (14.28%) Microsoft Intune
2 20 (1.25%) SCCM
3 19 (1.18%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 12 (0.75%) Jamf Pro
4 12 (0.75%) Proxmox
5 11 (0.69%) WSUS
6 8 (0.50%) FortiGate
7 7 (0.44%) Failover Clustering
8 6 (0.37%) Autotask
9 4 (0.25%) Ansible
9 4 (0.25%) Iperf
9 4 (0.25%) Kubernetes
9 4 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.25%) Terraform
10 2 (0.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.12%) PaperCut
11 1 (0.062%) Argo
11 1 (0.062%) Nessus
Vendors
1 733 (45.70%) Microsoft
2 170 (10.60%) VMware
3 64 (3.99%) Cisco
4 47 (2.93%) Veeam
5 41 (2.56%) Google
6 33 (2.06%) Apple
7 31 (1.93%) Meraki
8 30 (1.87%) Dell
9 24 (1.50%) Sophos
10 23 (1.43%) HP
10 23 (1.43%) Ubiquiti
11 22 (1.37%) SonicWALL
12 14 (0.87%) Fortinet
13 11 (0.69%) CrowdStrike
13 11 (0.69%) Epicor
13 11 (0.69%) Logitech
13 11 (0.69%) TOWER Software
14 10 (0.62%) ServiceNow
15 9 (0.56%) Palo Alto
15 9 (0.56%) Sage