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 5 November 2026.

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

6 months to
5 Nov 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 94 160 127
Rank change year-on-year +66 -33 +22
Permanent IT Engineer jobs 1,507 538 930
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.67% 1.55% 1.95%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.82% 1.72% 2.05%
Number of salaries quoted 1,233 451 580
10th Percentile £27,000 £25,700 £25,750
25th Percentile £30,000 £27,625 £29,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £32,500 £35,257
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -7.82% +1.16%
75th Percentile £43,750 £42,353 £45,000
90th Percentile £52,500 £50,625 £53,750
UK median annual salary £35,000 £34,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year +1.45% -8.00% +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 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
5 Nov 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Permanent job adverts in the UK excluding London matching a recognised job title 82,698 31,235 45,382
% of permanent job adverts matching a recognised job title 91.63% 89.92% 95.02%
Number of salaries quoted 56,005 19,305 24,614
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £46,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +19.57% -8.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £64,250 £66,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £59,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +12.38% -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 5 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 5 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 +55 374 £39,000 +11.43% 76
Midlands +11 267 £35,000 +11.11% 46
North of England +17 261 £35,000 - 47
South West +29 236 £35,000 - 30
East of England +30 187 £35,000 +7.69% 29
West Midlands +43 150 £34,500 -31.00% 28
North West +22 140 £34,500 +7.81% 27
East Midlands -33 117 £35,000 +16.67% 18
Scotland +57 113 £30,000 - 22
Yorkshire -15 94 £30,000 -25.00% 12
Wales -35 50 £35,000 -56.25% 11
North East -46 27 £40,000 -17.95% 9
Northern Ireland -68 13 £41,000 +30.16% 1
Channel Islands +2 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 5 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
1Microsoft51.3%773
2Windows48.1%725
3Microsoft 36547.8%721
4Active Directory33.8%510
5Azure26.3%397
6Problem-Solving25.0%377
7Windows Server23.6%355
8Entra ID23.2%350
9Customer Service22.1%333
10Microsoft Intune19.6%296
11Infrastructure Engineering19.2%289
12DNS17.9%269
13Firewall17.1%258
14Microsoft Exchange16.3%245
15Cybersecurity15.5%234
15DHCP15.5%234
17Hyper-V13.7%206
18SharePoint13.0%196
19VPN12.7%191
20VMware12.2%184
21TCP/IP10.9%164
22ITIL10.0%150
23Continuous Improvement9.6%144
24VMware Infrastructure9.5%143
25Wi-Fi9.4%142
26Windows 107.9%119
27PowerShell7.8%118
27VLAN7.8%118
29Disaster Recovery7.6%114
30LAN7.2%108

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 Engineer67.0%1,009
2IT Infrastructure Engineer12.5%189
3Field Engineer10.7%161
42nd Line Engineer9.9%149
5Senior IT Engineer9.4%142
62nd Line Support Engineer9.0%136
7Systems Engineer6.8%102
8Senior IT Support6.4%96
9Senior Support Engineer5.9%89
103rd Line Engineer5.2%79
113rd Line Support Engineer4.9%74
12Field Service Engineer4.0%61
131st/2nd Line Support Engineer3.3%49
14IT Security Engineer3.1%47
151st Line Engineer3.0%45
161st Line Support Engineer2.9%44
17Infrastructure Support Engineer2.9%43
18Senior Infrastructure Engineer2.3%34
18Service Desk Engineer2.3%34
20Systems Support Engineer2.1%31
255 IT Engineer jobs in the UK excluding London