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 28 August 2026.

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

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 227 120
Rank change year-on-year +145 -107 +39
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 1,572 433 1,166
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.97% 1.24% 1.95%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.09% 1.39% 2.05%
Number of salaries quoted 1,398 340 897
10th Percentile £26,750 £25,500 £24,450
25th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £27,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £36,000 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +2.94%
75th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £43,750
90th Percentile £53,975 £57,500 £50,650
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 75,311 31,166 56,985
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.17% 89.41% 95.07%
Number of salaries quoted 52,253 17,936 36,555
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £28,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -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 28 August 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 28 August 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 +124 391 £37,500 -6.25% 73
East of England +104 273 £35,000 -4.76% 45
North of England +53 270 £32,500 -4.41% 47
Midlands +67 265 £35,000 -4.11% 48
South West +44 228 £35,000 -12.50% 39
North West +84 152 £33,475 -4.36% 25
East Midlands +31 135 £35,000 +13.82% 17
West Midlands +49 130 £34,500 -18.82% 31
Yorkshire -19 102 £30,000 -9.09% 16
Scotland +50 80 £28,500 +3.64% 20
Wales -29 54 £40,000 -50.00% 5
North East -47 16 £40,000 -17.95% 6
Northern Ireland -71 11 £41,000 +30.16% 3
IT Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 28 August 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.

1 761 (48.41%) Microsoft
2 692 (44.02%) Microsoft 365
3 647 (41.16%) Windows
4 511 (32.51%) Active Directory
5 406 (25.83%) Azure
6 362 (23.03%) Problem-Solving
7 345 (21.95%) Windows Server
8 328 (20.87%) Customer Service
9 312 (19.85%) Entra ID
10 248 (15.78%) Microsoft Intune
11 247 (15.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 243 (15.46%) Firewall
13 228 (14.50%) Microsoft Exchange
14 215 (13.68%) DNS
15 200 (12.72%) Hyper-V
16 197 (12.53%) SharePoint
17 196 (12.47%) Cybersecurity
18 182 (11.58%) DHCP
19 171 (10.88%) VMware
20 159 (10.11%) VPN
21 144 (9.16%) VMware Infrastructure
22 138 (8.78%) Continuous Improvement
23 131 (8.33%) ITIL
23 131 (8.33%) Windows 10
24 130 (8.27%) Disaster Recovery
25 127 (8.08%) Wi-Fi
26 118 (7.51%) TCP/IP
27 117 (7.44%) PowerShell
28 98 (6.23%) Cyber Essentials
29 96 (6.11%) Linux

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
1 228 (14.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 197 (12.53%) SharePoint
3 18 (1.15%) IIS
4 7 (0.45%) Confluence
5 6 (0.38%) Exchange Server 2013
6 4 (0.25%) Apache
6 4 (0.25%) Exchange Server 2007
6 4 (0.25%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 63 (4.01%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (0.70%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.19%) Photoshop
4 2 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.13%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (0.38%) Raiser’s Edge
2 2 (0.13%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.13%) Sage 200
3 1 (0.064%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 692 (44.02%) Microsoft 365
2 406 (25.83%) Azure
3 312 (19.85%) Entra ID
4 49 (3.12%) AWS
5 45 (2.86%) OneDrive
6 29 (1.84%) Google Workspace
7 28 (1.78%) Mimecast
8 24 (1.53%) SaaS
9 23 (1.46%) Power Platform
10 17 (1.08%) Power Automate
11 14 (0.89%) PaaS
12 11 (0.70%) Azure DevOps
12 11 (0.70%) IaaS
12 11 (0.70%) Nutanix
13 8 (0.51%) PowerApps
14 6 (0.38%) Microsoft Copilot
15 5 (0.32%) Dynamics 365
16 3 (0.19%) Cloudflare
17 2 (0.13%) Azure Monitor
17 2 (0.13%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 243 (15.46%) Firewall
2 215 (13.68%) DNS
3 182 (11.58%) DHCP
4 159 (10.11%) VPN
5 127 (8.08%) Wi-Fi
6 118 (7.51%) TCP/IP
7 89 (5.66%) LAN
8 81 (5.15%) Wireless
9 80 (5.09%) VoIP
10 79 (5.03%) VLAN
11 78 (4.96%) WAN
12 36 (2.29%) Network Security
13 31 (1.97%) SAN
14 22 (1.40%) Internet
15 16 (1.02%) WLAN
16 15 (0.95%) SSL
17 14 (0.89%) Remote Desktop
18 7 (0.45%) NAS
19 5 (0.32%) IP Telephony
20 4 (0.25%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (3.05%) SQL Server
2 10 (0.64%) MySQL
3 9 (0.57%) Azure SQL Database
4 8 (0.51%) Power BI
5 5 (0.32%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.13%) KNIME
Development Applications
1 37 (2.35%) JIRA
2 2 (0.13%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (0.064%) Carbide.c++
General
1 384 (24.43%) Social Skills
2 84 (5.34%) Manufacturing
3 82 (5.22%) Analytical Skills
4 70 (4.45%) Legal
5 42 (2.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 39 (2.48%) Organisational Skills
7 36 (2.29%) Public Sector
8 35 (2.23%) Telecoms
9 30 (1.91%) Retail
10 29 (1.84%) Advertising
11 27 (1.72%) Finance
12 25 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
13 17 (1.08%) Automotive
14 14 (0.89%) Law
15 9 (0.57%) Aerospace
16 6 (0.38%) Local Government
17 4 (0.25%) Banking
17 4 (0.25%) Dutch Language
17 4 (0.25%) Games
17 4 (0.25%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (0.45%) HTML
1 7 (0.45%) JSON
2 4 (0.25%) Terraform
2 4 (0.25%) Web Services
3 3 (0.19%) CSS
4 2 (0.13%) .NET
4 2 (0.13%) ASP.NET Web Forms
4 2 (0.13%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 233 (14.82%) Driving Licence
2 95 (6.04%) Onboarding
3 63 (4.01%) Self-Motivation
4 46 (2.93%) CCTV
5 36 (2.29%) Data Centre
6 23 (1.46%) Operational Technology
7 21 (1.34%) FMCG
8 17 (1.08%) Hybrid Cloud
9 16 (1.02%) Security Posture
10 15 (0.95%) Analytical Mindset
11 13 (0.83%) Management Information System
11 13 (0.83%) Replication
12 11 (0.70%) Cloud Native
12 11 (0.70%) Clustering
13 9 (0.57%) Cyber Threat
13 9 (0.57%) NHS
13 9 (0.57%) Smartphone
14 8 (0.51%) PKI
15 7 (0.45%) EPoS
15 7 (0.45%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 647 (41.16%) Windows
2 345 (21.95%) Windows Server
3 131 (8.33%) Windows 10
4 96 (6.11%) Linux
5 94 (5.98%) Mac OS
6 45 (2.86%) Apple iOS
7 36 (2.29%) Android
7 36 (2.29%) Windows Server 2019
8 26 (1.65%) Windows Server 2016
9 19 (1.21%) Ubuntu
10 11 (0.70%) Windows Server 2012
11 7 (0.45%) Windows 7
12 5 (0.32%) Windows 8
13 4 (0.25%) Debian
13 4 (0.25%) Mac OS X
14 3 (0.19%) Rocky
15 2 (0.13%) VMS
16 1 (0.064%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 362 (23.03%) Problem-Solving
2 328 (20.87%) Customer Service
3 247 (15.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 196 (12.47%) Cybersecurity
5 138 (8.78%) Continuous Improvement
6 131 (8.33%) ITIL
7 130 (8.27%) Disaster Recovery
8 75 (4.77%) Project Delivery
9 58 (3.69%) Service Management
10 56 (3.56%) Mentoring
11 54 (3.44%) ITSM
12 47 (2.99%) User Experience
13 46 (2.93%) Remote Monitoring and Management
14 44 (2.80%) Business Continuity
15 43 (2.74%) Service Delivery
16 40 (2.54%) Root Cause Analysis
16 40 (2.54%) Time Management
17 32 (2.04%) ERP
17 32 (2.04%) Incident Management
18 31 (1.97%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 117 (7.44%) PowerShell
2 51 (3.24%) SQL
3 11 (0.70%) R
4 10 (0.64%) Python
5 8 (0.51%) Ruby
6 4 (0.25%) VBScript
7 3 (0.19%) Bicep
7 3 (0.19%) JavaScript
7 3 (0.19%) PHP
7 3 (0.19%) VB
7 3 (0.19%) VBA
8 2 (0.13%) C#
8 2 (0.13%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 89 (5.66%) Degree
2 88 (5.60%) Microsoft Certification
3 61 (3.88%) DBS Check
4 55 (3.50%) Security Cleared
5 50 (3.18%) CCNA
5 50 (3.18%) Cisco Certification
6 37 (2.35%) SC Cleared
7 36 (2.29%) Network+ Certification
8 26 (1.65%) Azure Certification
9 20 (1.27%) A+ Certification
10 19 (1.21%) CompTIA Security+
11 15 (0.95%) MCSE
12 11 (0.70%) BPSS Clearance
13 8 (0.51%) CCNP
14 7 (0.45%) MCSA
15 6 (0.38%) AWS Certification
15 6 (0.38%) DV Cleared
15 6 (0.38%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 5 (0.32%) Computer Science Degree
17 4 (0.25%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (6.23%) Cyber Essentials
2 52 (3.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 34 (2.16%) SLA
4 32 (2.04%) GDPR
5 30 (1.91%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 10 (0.64%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.25%) Accessibility
7 4 (0.25%) NIST
8 3 (0.19%) QA
9 1 (0.064%) NCSC
System Software
1 511 (32.51%) Active Directory
2 200 (12.72%) Hyper-V
3 144 (9.16%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (1.08%) Virtual Machines
4 17 (1.08%) vSphere
5 15 (0.95%) Virtual Desktop
6 13 (0.83%) Docker
6 13 (0.83%) VMware ESXi
7 8 (0.51%) BitLocker
7 8 (0.51%) Firmware
8 5 (0.32%) Terminal Services
9 1 (0.064%) Terminal Server
9 1 (0.064%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 248 (15.78%) Microsoft Intune
2 21 (1.34%) SCCM
3 15 (0.95%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 13 (0.83%) Jamf Pro
4 13 (0.83%) WSUS
5 8 (0.51%) Proxmox
6 7 (0.45%) Failover Clustering
6 7 (0.45%) FortiGate
7 6 (0.38%) Kubernetes
8 4 (0.25%) Iperf
9 3 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.13%) Ansible
10 2 (0.13%) Autotask
10 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
10 2 (0.13%) PaperCut
10 2 (0.13%) SCOM
11 1 (0.064%) Argo
11 1 (0.064%) Nessus
Vendors
1 761 (48.41%) Microsoft
2 171 (10.88%) VMware
3 65 (4.13%) Cisco
4 58 (3.69%) Veeam
5 43 (2.74%) SonicWALL
6 42 (2.67%) Apple
7 32 (2.04%) Google
8 26 (1.65%) Sophos
9 24 (1.53%) Dell
10 23 (1.46%) Meraki
11 21 (1.34%) Fortinet
12 20 (1.27%) Ubiquiti
13 17 (1.08%) HP
14 15 (0.95%) Logitech
14 15 (0.95%) TOWER Software
15 14 (0.89%) Draytek
16 13 (0.83%) Palo Alto
17 12 (0.76%) Datto
18 11 (0.70%) CrowdStrike
18 11 (0.70%) ServiceNow