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 £32,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 11 February 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 91 126 105
Rank change year-on-year +35 -21 +105
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 991 737 1,363
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 2.11% 2.25% 2.75%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.32% 2.46% 2.89%
Number of salaries quoted 852 436 1,212
10th Percentile £25,750 £25,004 £23,050
25th Percentile £27,750 £27,438 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £35,000 £32,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% +2.36%
75th Percentile £40,000 £42,813 £41,000
90th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £50,000
UK median annual salary £32,500 £35,000 £33,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +4.48% +1.52%

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 42,716 29,971 47,099
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.06% 91.70% 95.07%
Number of salaries quoted 26,461 14,704 36,626
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £26,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -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 11 February 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 February 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 +52 263 £32,500 -5.80% 116
Midlands -17 226 £31,500 -10.00% 36
North of England +45 225 £32,500 -5.80% 57
East Midlands +12 141 £30,000 - 19
North West +53 113 £30,000 -22.08% 36
Yorkshire +22 103 £41,500 +37.19% 15
South West +25 102 £35,000 - 27
East of England +40 99 £30,000 +3.45% 38
West Midlands -43 85 £32,500 -7.14% 17
Scotland +16 59 £30,000 -4.76% 18
Wales +19 18 £42,500 - 12
North East -9 9 £30,000 -16.67% 7
Northern Ireland -18 1 £31,500 -47.50% 2
IT Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 11 February 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.

1 452 (45.61%) Microsoft 365
2 444 (44.80%) Windows
3 434 (43.79%) Microsoft
4 376 (37.94%) Active Directory
5 315 (31.79%) Problem-Solving
6 307 (30.98%) Azure
7 239 (24.12%) Windows Server
8 209 (21.09%) Customer Service
9 183 (18.47%) Firewall
10 172 (17.36%) Entra ID
11 161 (16.25%) DNS
12 150 (15.14%) DHCP
13 149 (15.04%) Microsoft Intune
14 125 (12.61%) SharePoint
15 123 (12.41%) ITIL
16 114 (11.50%) Cybersecurity
16 114 (11.50%) VPN
17 104 (10.49%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 104 (10.49%) Windows 10
18 97 (9.79%) VMware
19 91 (9.18%) Microsoft Exchange
20 87 (8.78%) Microsoft Office
21 84 (8.48%) Hyper-V
22 79 (7.97%) Mentoring
23 77 (7.77%) Microsoft Certification
24 76 (7.67%) LAN
24 76 (7.67%) WAN
25 67 (6.76%) VMware Infrastructure
26 65 (6.56%) Degree
27 63 (6.36%) TCP/IP

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
1 125 (12.61%) SharePoint
2 91 (9.18%) Microsoft Exchange
3 17 (1.72%) IIS
4 12 (1.21%) Confluence
5 9 (0.91%) Exchange Server 2007
5 9 (0.91%) Exchange Server 2010
5 9 (0.91%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 87 (8.78%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (1.92%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.20%) Acrobat
4 2 (0.20%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 7 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.40%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.30%) Dynamics NAV
3 3 (0.30%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.10%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.10%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 452 (45.61%) Microsoft 365
2 307 (30.98%) Azure
3 172 (17.36%) Entra ID
4 50 (5.05%) Google Workspace
5 48 (4.84%) AWS
6 37 (3.73%) OneDrive
7 27 (2.72%) SaaS
8 22 (2.22%) Power Platform
9 21 (2.12%) GCP
10 14 (1.41%) Azure DevOps
11 12 (1.21%) Power Automate
12 9 (0.91%) Azure Sentinel
13 7 (0.71%) IaaS
13 7 (0.71%) PaaS
13 7 (0.71%) PowerApps
14 6 (0.61%) iPaaS
15 5 (0.50%) Azure AI
15 5 (0.50%) Intacct
15 5 (0.50%) Microsoft Copilot
15 5 (0.50%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 183 (18.47%) Firewall
2 161 (16.25%) DNS
3 150 (15.14%) DHCP
4 114 (11.50%) VPN
5 76 (7.67%) LAN
5 76 (7.67%) WAN
6 63 (6.36%) TCP/IP
7 62 (6.26%) VLAN
8 57 (5.75%) Wi-Fi
9 33 (3.33%) VoIP
10 31 (3.13%) Wireless
11 20 (2.02%) Network Security
11 20 (2.02%) SAN
12 15 (1.51%) SD-WAN
13 11 (1.11%) Remote Desktop
13 11 (1.11%) WLAN
14 10 (1.01%) IP Telephony
15 7 (0.71%) Internet
15 7 (0.71%) TETRA
16 4 (0.40%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (2.62%) SQL Server
2 21 (2.12%) Power BI
3 12 (1.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 7 (0.71%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (0.40%) Relational Database
6 3 (0.30%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 27 (2.72%) JIRA
2 4 (0.40%) GitLab
3 1 (0.10%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.10%) Git
3 1 (0.10%) LabVIEW
3 1 (0.10%) Snyk
General
1 305 (30.78%) Social Skills
2 74 (7.47%) Organisational Skills
3 47 (4.74%) Analytical Skills
4 44 (4.44%) Law
5 43 (4.34%) Finance
6 40 (4.04%) Manufacturing
7 37 (3.73%) Public Sector
8 31 (3.13%) Telecoms
9 28 (2.83%) Multimedia
10 27 (2.72%) Retail
11 25 (2.52%) Legal
12 22 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 12 (1.21%) Electronics
14 10 (1.01%) Documentation Skills
15 7 (0.71%) Marketing
16 6 (0.61%) Fire and Rescue
16 6 (0.61%) Police
17 5 (0.50%) Advertising
18 4 (0.40%) Dutch Language
18 4 (0.40%) French Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (1.31%) .NET
2 12 (1.21%) .NET Framework
2 12 (1.21%) Entity Framework
2 12 (1.21%) WinForms
3 7 (0.71%) ASP.NET
4 4 (0.40%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (0.10%) OAuth
5 1 (0.10%) OAuth2
5 1 (0.10%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 191 (19.27%) Driving Licence
2 51 (5.15%) Onboarding
3 41 (4.14%) Self-Motivation
4 21 (2.12%) Analytical Mindset
5 17 (1.72%) CCTV
6 14 (1.41%) Smartphone
7 11 (1.11%) Data Centre
7 11 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
8 9 (0.91%) FMCG
8 9 (0.91%) iPad
9 8 (0.81%) Security Posture
9 8 (0.81%) Social Media
10 7 (0.71%) Clustering
11 6 (0.61%) Cyber Security Posture
11 6 (0.61%) Management Information System
11 6 (0.61%) PMI
12 5 (0.50%) Linux Command Line
12 5 (0.50%) Mobile App
13 4 (0.40%) iPhone
13 4 (0.40%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 444 (44.80%) Windows
2 239 (24.12%) Windows Server
3 104 (10.49%) Windows 10
4 45 (4.54%) Mac OS
5 38 (3.83%) Linux
6 32 (3.23%) Windows Server 2019
7 31 (3.13%) Windows Server 2016
8 21 (2.12%) Android
9 16 (1.61%) Apple iOS
10 14 (1.41%) Windows Server 2012
11 12 (1.21%) Windows 7
12 8 (0.81%) Windows 8
13 6 (0.61%) Windows Server 2008
14 3 (0.30%) Debian
15 2 (0.20%) Rocky
15 2 (0.20%) Ubuntu
16 1 (0.10%) CentOS
16 1 (0.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 1 (0.10%) Solaris
16 1 (0.10%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 315 (31.79%) Problem-Solving
2 209 (21.09%) Customer Service
3 123 (12.41%) ITIL
4 114 (11.50%) Cybersecurity
5 104 (10.49%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 79 (7.97%) Mentoring
7 60 (6.05%) Service Delivery
8 47 (4.74%) ITSM
9 39 (3.94%) Remote Monitoring and Management
10 37 (3.73%) Incident Management
11 34 (3.43%) Asset Management
11 34 (3.43%) Data Protection
12 33 (3.33%) Project Delivery
13 32 (3.23%) Process Improvement
14 31 (3.13%) Continuous Improvement
15 30 (3.03%) Disaster Recovery
16 29 (2.93%) Root Cause Analysis
17 28 (2.83%) Business Intelligence
18 26 (2.62%) Software Engineering
19 25 (2.52%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 51 (5.15%) PowerShell
2 46 (4.64%) SQL
3 13 (1.31%) C#
3 13 (1.31%) T-SQL
4 9 (0.91%) Python
5 7 (0.71%) Bash
5 7 (0.71%) PL/SQL
5 7 (0.71%) VBScript
6 4 (0.40%) VB
7 3 (0.30%) Uniface
8 2 (0.20%) Google Apps Script
9 1 (0.10%) PHP
9 1 (0.10%) R
Qualifications
1 77 (7.77%) Microsoft Certification
2 65 (6.56%) Degree
3 53 (5.35%) Security Cleared
4 42 (4.24%) DBS Check
5 36 (3.63%) Cisco Certification
5 36 (3.63%) SC Cleared
6 34 (3.43%) CCNA
7 32 (3.23%) A+ Certification
8 23 (2.32%) BPSS Clearance
9 22 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
10 21 (2.12%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 20 (2.02%) MCSE
12 19 (1.92%) Network+ Certification
13 13 (1.31%) CCNP
13 13 (1.31%) DV Cleared
14 11 (1.11%) MCSA
15 9 (0.91%) Azure Certification
16 7 (0.71%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
17 6 (0.61%) PMI Certification
18 4 (0.40%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (5.15%) Cyber Essentials
2 45 (4.54%) SLA
3 35 (3.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 19 (1.92%) GDPR
5 10 (1.01%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 6 (0.61%) Accessibility
7 5 (0.50%) NIST
8 3 (0.30%) QA
9 1 (0.10%) GxP
9 1 (0.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 376 (37.94%) Active Directory
2 84 (8.48%) Hyper-V
3 67 (6.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (1.82%) Virtual Desktop
5 9 (0.91%) VMware ESXi
5 9 (0.91%) vSphere
6 8 (0.81%) Firmware
6 8 (0.81%) VMware Workstation
7 5 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.40%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.20%) Docker
9 2 (0.20%) XenDesktop
10 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.10%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.10%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 149 (15.04%) Microsoft Intune
2 11 (1.11%) Jamf Pro
2 11 (1.11%) WSUS
3 10 (1.01%) SCCM
4 9 (0.91%) Autotask
4 9 (0.91%) FortiGate
4 9 (0.91%) Single Sign-On
5 7 (0.71%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 6 (0.61%) Ansible
6 6 (0.61%) Failover Clustering
7 5 (0.50%) Proxmox
7 5 (0.50%) SmoothWall
8 4 (0.40%) Kubernetes
8 4 (0.40%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 1 (0.10%) Podman
9 1 (0.10%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 434 (43.79%) Microsoft
2 97 (9.79%) VMware
3 61 (6.16%) Google
4 39 (3.94%) Cisco
5 33 (3.33%) Fortinet
6 30 (3.03%) Apple
6 30 (3.03%) Veeam
7 28 (2.83%) Dell
7 28 (2.83%) Fujitsu
7 28 (2.83%) Virgin Media
8 26 (2.62%) Meraki
9 17 (1.72%) Sage
10 14 (1.41%) ServiceNow
10 14 (1.41%) WatchGuard
11 12 (1.21%) HP
11 12 (1.21%) Xamarin
11 12 (1.21%) Zoho
12 10 (1.01%) Adobe
13 9 (0.91%) Draytek
14 8 (0.81%) SAP