IT Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

IT Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median IT Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £32,001 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 116 197 244
Rank change year-on-year +81 +47 -69
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 1,718 1,046 1,071
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.42% 1.74% 1.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.55% 1.95% 1.57%
Number of salaries quoted 1,481 805 984
10th Percentile £23,500 £25,000 £22,875
25th Percentile £26,250 £27,500 £26,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,001 £32,500 £33,625
Median % change year-on-year -1.54% -3.35% +3.46%
75th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £43,750
90th Percentile £47,500 £53,000 £52,500
UK median annual salary £32,500 £34,500 £34,671
% change year-on-year -5.80% -0.49% -0.94%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 67,306 53,672 68,079
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.79% 89.22% 95.76%
Number of salaries quoted 47,632 30,597 42,434
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

IT Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured IT Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for IT Engineer in the UK excluding London

IT Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing IT Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for IT Engineer 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 12 May 2024.

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 12 May 2024. 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 +73 409 £34,000 +7.94% 66
Midlands +81 355 £35,000 +7.69% 59
North of England +72 355 £31,500 -8.70% 68
South West +2 227 £30,000 -7.69% 54
West Midlands +77 190 £34,750 +3.73% 26
East of England +64 181 £31,833 +0.86% 27
North West +25 170 £30,000 -14.29% 31
East Midlands +57 160 £37,500 +33.93% 33
Yorkshire +77 133 £30,000 +5.26% 28
Wales +97 123 £27,500 +4.27% 6
Scotland -50 63 £28,500 -22.97% 14
North East +28 51 £32,500 -2.26% 13
Northern Ireland +18 4 £30,000 - 1
Channel Islands - 3 - -
Isle of Man - 1 - - 1
IT Engineer
UK

IT Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 12 May 2024, IT Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring IT Engineer in the job title.

1 931 (54.19%) Windows
2 836 (48.66%) Microsoft 365
3 821 (47.79%) Microsoft
4 701 (40.80%) Active Directory
5 597 (34.75%) Azure
6 568 (33.06%) Social Skills
7 498 (28.99%) Windows Server
8 434 (25.26%) Firewall
9 361 (21.01%) VMware
10 356 (20.72%) Problem-Solving
11 342 (19.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 315 (18.34%) Customer Service
13 285 (16.59%) Microsoft Exchange
14 267 (15.54%) Hyper-V
15 241 (14.03%) ITIL
16 233 (13.56%) VMware Infrastructure
17 222 (12.92%) Windows 10
18 215 (12.51%) SharePoint
19 214 (12.46%) Microsoft Office
20 202 (11.76%) Degree
20 202 (11.76%) Microsoft Intune
21 200 (11.64%) DNS
22 199 (11.58%) Entra ID
23 172 (10.01%) DHCP
24 164 (9.55%) Cisco
25 156 (9.08%) Driving Licence
26 154 (8.96%) Linux
27 150 (8.73%) Cybersecurity
28 143 (8.32%) SQL
29 141 (8.21%) Continuous Improvement

IT Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 285 (16.59%) Microsoft Exchange
2 215 (12.51%) SharePoint
3 17 (0.99%) IIS
4 14 (0.81%) Exchange Server 2013
5 11 (0.64%) Confluence
6 9 (0.52%) Exchange Server 2010
7 7 (0.41%) Exchange Server 2007
8 6 (0.35%) Exchange Server 2000
9 3 (0.17%) CMS
9 3 (0.17%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.17%) WordPress
10 2 (0.12%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
10 2 (0.12%) Exchange Server 2003
10 2 (0.12%) Skype for Business
11 1 (0.058%) Apache
11 1 (0.058%) Moodle
11 1 (0.058%) Site Server
11 1 (0.058%) Tomcat
Applications
1 214 (12.46%) Microsoft Office
2 50 (2.91%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
4 4 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.058%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.058%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (0.29%) Sage X3
2 3 (0.17%) Dynamics NAV
2 3 (0.17%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.12%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.058%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.058%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.058%) MIS ActiveH
4 1 (0.058%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 836 (48.66%) Microsoft 365
2 597 (34.75%) Azure
3 199 (11.58%) Entra ID
4 87 (5.06%) AWS
5 52 (3.03%) OneDrive
6 30 (1.75%) Mimecast
7 27 (1.57%) Google Workspace
8 14 (0.81%) Power Platform
9 12 (0.70%) iTunes
10 11 (0.64%) SaaS
11 9 (0.52%) Cloud Computing
11 9 (0.52%) Nutanix
11 9 (0.52%) Power Automate
12 8 (0.47%) IaaS
12 8 (0.47%) PowerApps
13 6 (0.35%) PaaS
13 6 (0.35%) Serverless
14 5 (0.29%) GCP
14 5 (0.29%) WhatsApp
15 3 (0.17%) Dropbox
Communications & Networking
1 434 (25.26%) Firewall
2 200 (11.64%) DNS
3 172 (10.01%) DHCP
4 136 (7.92%) Wi-Fi
5 128 (7.45%) VPN
6 117 (6.81%) TCP/IP
7 111 (6.46%) WAN
8 105 (6.11%) SAN
9 101 (5.88%) VoIP
10 96 (5.59%) LAN
11 87 (5.06%) Wireless
12 83 (4.83%) VLAN
13 51 (2.97%) Network Security
14 47 (2.74%) Internet
15 29 (1.69%) NAS
15 29 (1.69%) Remote Desktop
16 23 (1.34%) SD-WAN
17 19 (1.11%) SSL
18 18 (1.05%) PBX
19 17 (0.99%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 118 (6.87%) SQL Server
2 42 (2.44%) Amazon RDS
3 34 (1.98%) MySQL
4 8 (0.47%) MariaDB
5 5 (0.29%) Power BI
6 4 (0.23%) Crystal Reports
6 4 (0.23%) DB2
6 4 (0.23%) InfluxDB
7 3 (0.17%) Metabase
8 2 (0.12%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 23 (1.34%) JIRA
2 4 (0.23%) Visual Studio
3 3 (0.17%) LabVIEW
3 3 (0.17%) Visual Studio Code
4 2 (0.12%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.058%) Jenkins
General
1 568 (33.06%) Social Skills
2 139 (8.09%) Law
3 126 (7.33%) Manufacturing
4 81 (4.71%) Finance
5 80 (4.66%) Telecoms
6 74 (4.31%) Organisational Skills
7 68 (3.96%) Analytical Skills
7 68 (3.96%) Influencing Skills
7 68 (3.96%) Presentation Skills
8 49 (2.85%) Retail
9 36 (2.10%) Legal
10 33 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 32 (1.86%) Documentation Skills
12 26 (1.51%) Marketing
13 21 (1.22%) Public Sector
14 17 (0.99%) Automotive
15 15 (0.87%) Games
16 14 (0.81%) Advertising
17 12 (0.70%) Back Office
18 9 (0.52%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (0.29%) Kafka
2 4 (0.23%) Cocoa
3 3 (0.17%) .NET
3 3 (0.17%) LAMP
4 2 (0.12%) CSS
4 2 (0.12%) HTML
4 2 (0.12%) V-Ray
5 1 (0.058%) EDI
5 1 (0.058%) LDAP
5 1 (0.058%) RESTEasy
5 1 (0.058%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 156 (9.08%) Driving Licence
2 68 (3.96%) FMCG
3 60 (3.49%) Self-Motivation
4 49 (2.85%) Data Centre
5 48 (2.79%) Management Information System
6 45 (2.62%) Replication
7 32 (1.86%) Onboarding
8 30 (1.75%) Fat Client
8 30 (1.75%) Thin Client
9 29 (1.69%) CCTV
10 25 (1.46%) Enterprise Storage
11 20 (1.16%) iPad
12 14 (0.81%) Public Cloud
13 12 (0.70%) EPoS
14 10 (0.58%) Security Posture
14 10 (0.58%) Social Media
15 9 (0.52%) Clustering
15 9 (0.52%) Life Science
15 9 (0.52%) Operational Technology
16 8 (0.47%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 931 (54.19%) Windows
2 498 (28.99%) Windows Server
3 222 (12.92%) Windows 10
4 154 (8.96%) Linux
5 131 (7.63%) Windows Server 2016
6 96 (5.59%) Windows Server 2019
7 82 (4.77%) Windows Server 2012
8 64 (3.73%) Mac OS
9 57 (3.32%) Android
10 54 (3.14%) Apple iOS
11 37 (2.15%) Windows 7
12 23 (1.34%) Windows 8
13 19 (1.11%) Windows Server 2008
14 12 (0.70%) Unix
15 11 (0.64%) Mac OS X
16 10 (0.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
17 9 (0.52%) Windows Server 2003
18 8 (0.47%) CentOS
19 5 (0.29%) Debian
20 4 (0.23%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 356 (20.72%) Problem-Solving
2 342 (19.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 315 (18.34%) Customer Service
4 241 (14.03%) ITIL
5 150 (8.73%) Cybersecurity
6 141 (8.21%) Continuous Improvement
7 90 (5.24%) Project Delivery
8 87 (5.06%) Migration
9 84 (4.89%) Disaster Recovery
10 74 (4.31%) Service Delivery
11 68 (3.96%) Benchmarking
11 68 (3.96%) Lean Manufacturing
11 68 (3.96%) Lean Six Sigma
11 68 (3.96%) Order Management
11 68 (3.96%) Six Sigma
12 67 (3.90%) Project Management
13 51 (2.97%) Incident Management
14 49 (2.85%) Agile
15 42 (2.44%) Change Management
15 42 (2.44%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 143 (8.32%) SQL
2 123 (7.16%) PowerShell
3 29 (1.69%) Python
4 12 (0.70%) Java
5 10 (0.58%) Bash
5 10 (0.58%) Swift
6 9 (0.52%) C++
7 8 (0.47%) PHP
8 7 (0.41%) JavaScript
9 6 (0.35%) C#
9 6 (0.35%) VB
10 4 (0.23%) R
11 2 (0.12%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.058%) Go
12 1 (0.058%) Perl
12 1 (0.058%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 202 (11.76%) Degree
2 112 (6.52%) Microsoft Certification
3 68 (3.96%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
4 66 (3.84%) DBS Check
5 64 (3.73%) Cisco Certification
6 53 (3.08%) CCNA
7 43 (2.50%) Network+ Certification
8 33 (1.92%) MCSE
8 33 (1.92%) Security Cleared
9 32 (1.86%) Azure Certification
10 29 (1.69%) A+ Certification
11 19 (1.11%) MCP
12 18 (1.05%) SC Cleared
13 16 (0.93%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 15 (0.87%) CompTIA Security+
15 14 (0.81%) CISSP
16 13 (0.76%) CCNP
17 12 (0.70%) MCSA
17 12 (0.70%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
18 10 (0.58%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 96 (5.59%) SLA
2 35 (2.04%) GDPR
3 27 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 20 (1.16%) Cyber Essentials
5 15 (0.87%) QA
6 7 (0.41%) NIST
7 6 (0.35%) SOC 2
8 4 (0.23%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 2 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 2 (0.12%) NCSC
11 1 (0.058%) Accessibility
11 1 (0.058%) COBIT
11 1 (0.058%) ISO 13485
11 1 (0.058%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 701 (40.80%) Active Directory
2 267 (15.54%) Hyper-V
3 233 (13.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 45 (2.62%) VMware ESXi
5 24 (1.40%) Virtual Desktop
5 24 (1.40%) vSphere
6 20 (1.16%) Virtual Machines
7 19 (1.11%) Virtual Servers
8 15 (0.87%) Docker
9 6 (0.35%) Firmware
9 6 (0.35%) Terminal Services
10 5 (0.29%) VMware Server
11 4 (0.23%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 2 (0.12%) pfSense
12 2 (0.12%) Samba
12 2 (0.12%) VMware Workstation
13 1 (0.058%) Microsoft App-V
13 1 (0.058%) NFS
13 1 (0.058%) Terminal Server
13 1 (0.058%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 202 (11.76%) Microsoft Intune
2 74 (4.31%) SCCM
3 15 (0.87%) WSUS
4 14 (0.81%) SCOM
5 13 (0.76%) Cisco CUCM
5 13 (0.76%) ServiceCenter
6 12 (0.70%) Kubernetes
7 10 (0.58%) Jamf Pro
8 9 (0.52%) Ansible
9 8 (0.47%) vCenter Server
10 7 (0.41%) Failover Clustering
11 6 (0.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 6 (0.35%) Grafana
11 6 (0.35%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
11 6 (0.35%) Opsgenie
12 5 (0.29%) NetCrunch
13 4 (0.23%) FortiGate
13 4 (0.23%) Nessus
13 4 (0.23%) Proxmox
14 3 (0.17%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 821 (47.79%) Microsoft
2 361 (21.01%) VMware
3 164 (9.55%) Cisco
4 110 (6.40%) Citrix
5 105 (6.11%) Veeam
6 72 (4.19%) Apple
6 72 (4.19%) HP
7 68 (3.96%) Meraki
8 53 (3.08%) Sophos
9 35 (2.04%) Google
10 33 (1.92%) Fortinet
11 32 (1.86%) Dell
12 28 (1.63%) Draytek
12 28 (1.63%) Palo Alto
13 27 (1.57%) Barracuda Networks
14 26 (1.51%) Aruba
15 22 (1.28%) ConnectWise
16 21 (1.22%) Acronis
17 19 (1.11%) WatchGuard
18 10 (0.58%) NetApp