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 27 July 2026.

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

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 230 118
Rank change year-on-year +158 -112 +52
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 1,610 445 1,331
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 2.19% 1.30% 2.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.31% 1.45% 2.21%
Number of salaries quoted 1,435 353 1,065
10th Percentile £26,750 £25,750 £24,250
25th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £27,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £36,000 £33,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +9.09% +1.54%
75th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £43,750
90th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £50,000
UK median annual salary £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% +1.45%

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 69,609 30,629 60,204
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.86% 89.63% 94.80%
Number of salaries quoted 48,115 17,622 41,337
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,929 £28,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £33,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -5.66%
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 27 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 27 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 +129 434 £35,000 -12.50% 71
North of England +76 303 £32,500 -1.52% 51
Midlands +75 257 £32,500 -13.33% 26
East of England +110 256 £35,000 -0.71% 42
South West +54 224 £35,000 -9.68% 25
North West +108 170 £35,000 +8.53% 23
East Midlands +43 132 £35,000 +7.69% 15
West Midlands +51 125 £32,500 -23.53% 11
Yorkshire -11 117 £30,000 -7.69% 25
Scotland +58 75 £28,500 -5.00% 13
Wales -12 54 £45,000 -43.75% 9
North East -44 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 27 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.

1 738 (45.84%) Microsoft
2 698 (43.35%) Microsoft 365
3 643 (39.94%) Windows
4 517 (32.11%) Active Directory
5 408 (25.34%) Azure
6 378 (23.48%) Problem-Solving
7 343 (21.30%) Customer Service
8 329 (20.43%) Windows Server
9 303 (18.82%) Entra ID
10 251 (15.59%) Firewall
11 231 (14.35%) Microsoft Intune
12 229 (14.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 216 (13.42%) Microsoft Exchange
14 201 (12.48%) DNS
15 191 (11.86%) SharePoint
16 181 (11.24%) Hyper-V
17 177 (10.99%) Cybersecurity
18 173 (10.75%) VMware
19 165 (10.25%) DHCP
20 156 (9.69%) VPN
21 144 (8.94%) Windows 10
22 141 (8.76%) VMware Infrastructure
23 132 (8.20%) ITIL
24 125 (7.76%) Wi-Fi
25 119 (7.39%) Continuous Improvement
25 119 (7.39%) Disaster Recovery
26 111 (6.89%) PowerShell
27 109 (6.77%) LAN
28 106 (6.58%) Mac OS
29 100 (6.21%) 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
1 216 (13.42%) Microsoft Exchange
2 191 (11.86%) SharePoint
3 13 (0.81%) Exchange Server 2013
3 13 (0.81%) IIS
4 12 (0.75%) Confluence
5 11 (0.68%) Exchange Server 2007
5 11 (0.68%) Exchange Server 2010
6 3 (0.19%) Apache
Applications
1 88 (5.47%) 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
1 698 (43.35%) Microsoft 365
2 408 (25.34%) Azure
3 303 (18.82%) Entra ID
4 53 (3.29%) AWS
5 47 (2.92%) OneDrive
6 36 (2.24%) Google Workspace
7 29 (1.80%) SaaS
8 28 (1.74%) Mimecast
9 21 (1.30%) Power Platform
10 17 (1.06%) PaaS
11 12 (0.75%) IaaS
11 12 (0.75%) Power Automate
12 11 (0.68%) Azure DevOps
13 9 (0.56%) Nutanix
14 7 (0.43%) Microsoft Copilot
14 7 (0.43%) PowerApps
15 5 (0.31%) GCP
16 3 (0.19%) Cloudflare
16 3 (0.19%) Dynamics 365
16 3 (0.19%) Intacct
Communications & Networking
1 251 (15.59%) Firewall
2 201 (12.48%) DNS
3 165 (10.25%) DHCP
4 156 (9.69%) VPN
5 125 (7.76%) Wi-Fi
6 109 (6.77%) LAN
7 100 (6.21%) WAN
8 99 (6.15%) TCP/IP
9 79 (4.91%) VoIP
10 67 (4.16%) Wireless
11 63 (3.91%) VLAN
12 32 (1.99%) SAN
13 30 (1.86%) Network Security
14 22 (1.37%) Internet
15 17 (1.06%) Remote Desktop
16 16 (0.99%) WLAN
17 12 (0.75%) SSL
18 7 (0.43%) Broadband
18 7 (0.43%) NAS
18 7 (0.43%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (2.98%) SQL Server
2 11 (0.68%) 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 (2.55%) JIRA
2 2 (0.12%) GitLab
2 2 (0.12%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (0.062%) Carbide.c++
General
1 384 (23.85%) Social Skills
2 79 (4.91%) Manufacturing
3 71 (4.41%) Analytical Skills
4 59 (3.66%) Legal
5 50 (3.11%) Organisational Skills
6 49 (3.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 38 (2.36%) Retail
8 35 (2.17%) Public Sector
9 32 (1.99%) Finance
9 32 (1.99%) Telecoms
10 25 (1.55%) Advertising
11 24 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
11 24 (1.49%) Law
12 17 (1.06%) Automotive
13 8 (0.50%) Aerospace
14 7 (0.43%) 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 (0.43%) HTML
1 7 (0.43%) JSON
2 4 (0.25%) Web Services
3 3 (0.19%) CSS
4 2 (0.12%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (0.062%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 230 (14.29%) Driving Licence
2 88 (5.47%) Onboarding
3 64 (3.98%) Self-Motivation
4 42 (2.61%) CCTV
5 37 (2.30%) 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 (0.68%) Cloud Native
10 11 (0.68%) Clustering
10 11 (0.68%) Management Information System
10 11 (0.68%) NHS
10 11 (0.68%) Smartphone
11 9 (0.56%) Operational Technology
11 9 (0.56%) PKI
12 8 (0.50%) Replication
13 7 (0.43%) EPoS
14 6 (0.37%) Cyber Threat
15 5 (0.31%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 643 (39.94%) Windows
2 329 (20.43%) Windows Server
3 144 (8.94%) Windows 10
4 106 (6.58%) Mac OS
5 89 (5.53%) Linux
6 41 (2.55%) Apple iOS
7 36 (2.24%) Android
8 35 (2.17%) Windows Server 2019
9 29 (1.80%) Windows Server 2016
10 15 (0.93%) Windows 7
11 12 (0.75%) Ubuntu
11 12 (0.75%) Windows Server 2012
12 9 (0.56%) Windows 8
13 4 (0.25%) Mac OS X
14 3 (0.19%) Windows Server 2008
15 2 (0.12%) VMS
16 1 (0.062%) CentOS
16 1 (0.062%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 1 (0.062%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 378 (23.48%) Problem-Solving
2 343 (21.30%) Customer Service
3 229 (14.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 177 (10.99%) Cybersecurity
5 132 (8.20%) ITIL
6 119 (7.39%) Continuous Improvement
6 119 (7.39%) Disaster Recovery
7 75 (4.66%) Project Delivery
8 62 (3.85%) Service Management
9 57 (3.54%) ITSM
9 57 (3.54%) Mentoring
10 56 (3.48%) Root Cause Analysis
10 56 (3.48%) Service Delivery
11 47 (2.92%) Remote Monitoring and Management
12 46 (2.86%) Business Continuity
13 43 (2.67%) Time Management
14 42 (2.61%) User Experience
15 36 (2.24%) Process Improvement
16 34 (2.11%) ERP
16 34 (2.11%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 111 (6.89%) PowerShell
2 56 (3.48%) SQL
3 10 (0.62%) Python
3 10 (0.62%) R
4 7 (0.43%) 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 86 (5.34%) Microsoft Certification
2 78 (4.84%) Security Cleared
3 77 (4.78%) Degree
4 56 (3.48%) DBS Check
5 53 (3.29%) SC Cleared
6 49 (3.04%) CCNA
6 49 (3.04%) Cisco Certification
7 35 (2.17%) Network+ Certification
8 27 (1.68%) A+ Certification
9 22 (1.37%) Azure Certification
10 16 (0.99%) BPSS Clearance
10 16 (0.99%) CompTIA Security+
11 14 (0.87%) MCSE
12 13 (0.81%) DV Cleared
13 6 (0.37%) AWS Certification
13 6 (0.37%) CCNP
14 5 (0.31%) MCITP
14 5 (0.31%) MCSA
15 4 (0.25%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 4 (0.25%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (5.84%) Cyber Essentials
2 55 (3.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 42 (2.61%) SLA
4 32 (1.99%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 24 (1.49%) 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
1 517 (32.11%) Active Directory
2 181 (11.24%) Hyper-V
3 141 (8.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (1.24%) Virtual Desktop
4 20 (1.24%) vSphere
5 16 (0.99%) Virtual Machines
5 16 (0.99%) VMware ESXi
6 13 (0.81%) Docker
7 8 (0.50%) BitLocker
8 5 (0.31%) Terminal Services
8 5 (0.31%) VMware Workstation
9 4 (0.25%) Firmware
10 2 (0.12%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.062%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 231 (14.35%) Microsoft Intune
2 20 (1.24%) SCCM
3 19 (1.18%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 12 (0.75%) Jamf Pro
4 12 (0.75%) Proxmox
5 10 (0.62%) WSUS
6 8 (0.50%) FortiGate
7 7 (0.43%) 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
1 738 (45.84%) Microsoft
2 173 (10.75%) VMware
3 64 (3.98%) Cisco
4 48 (2.98%) Veeam
5 42 (2.61%) Google
6 33 (2.05%) Apple
7 31 (1.93%) Meraki
8 30 (1.86%) Dell
9 25 (1.55%) Sophos
10 23 (1.43%) HP
10 23 (1.43%) SonicWALL
10 23 (1.43%) Ubiquiti
11 14 (0.87%) Fortinet
12 12 (0.75%) Logitech
12 12 (0.75%) TOWER Software
13 11 (0.68%) CrowdStrike
13 11 (0.68%) Epicor
14 10 (0.62%) ServiceNow
15 9 (0.56%) Palo Alto
15 9 (0.56%) Sage