Senior IT Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Senior IT Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior IT Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £47,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 28 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 553 669 689
Rank change year-on-year +116 +20 +98
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior IT Engineer 18 96 70
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.046% 0.13% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.051% 0.14% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 13 83 54
10th Percentile £37,100 £31,250 £31,400
25th Percentile £41,250 £35,000 £37,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -5.56% -
75th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £50,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £63,750 £53,750
UK median annual salary £52,500 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +10.53% +5.56% -5.26%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 35,130 69,905 52,029
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.34% 94.92% 89.13%
Number of salaries quoted 17,680 49,398 29,909
10th Percentile £26,500 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,438 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,399 £50,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% -6.54% +6.63%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Senior IT Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior IT Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior IT Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Senior IT Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior IT Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior IT Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior IT Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior 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 Senior IT Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 28 May 2025. 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 +80 7 £40,500 -7.43% 11
Midlands +42 6 £45,000 +28.57% 5
East Midlands +24 4 £48,000 +37.14% 3
Scotland +121 2 £97,500 +129.41% 2
South West +102 2 £45,000 +12.50% 6
West Midlands +61 2 £45,000 +25.00% 2
East of England +37 1 £67,500 +58.82% 6
Senior IT Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 28 May 2025, Senior 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 Senior IT Engineer in the job title.

1 10 (55.56%) Windows Server
1 10 (55.56%) Microsoft 365
1 10 (55.56%) Windows
2 9 (50.00%) AWS
3 8 (44.44%) Azure
3 8 (44.44%) Microsoft
3 8 (44.44%) Active Directory
4 7 (38.89%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (33.33%) Driving Licence
6 5 (27.78%) Kubernetes
6 5 (27.78%) Entra ID
6 5 (27.78%) DevOps
6 5 (27.78%) Degree
6 5 (27.78%) VMware
6 5 (27.78%) Firewall
6 5 (27.78%) SharePoint
6 5 (27.78%) SQL Server
6 5 (27.78%) CI/CD
6 5 (27.78%) Cloud Security
7 4 (22.22%) Social Skills
7 4 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 4 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
7 4 (22.22%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (22.22%) MCSA
7 4 (22.22%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (22.22%) MCP
7 4 (22.22%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
7 4 (22.22%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (22.22%) Terraform

Senior 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 5 (27.78%) SharePoint
2 3 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (5.56%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 10 (55.56%) Microsoft 365
2 9 (50.00%) AWS
3 8 (44.44%) Azure
4 5 (27.78%) Entra ID
5 4 (22.22%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (22.22%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (16.67%) Route 53
6 3 (16.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (11.11%) OneDrive
8 1 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (5.56%) GCP
8 1 (5.56%) OpenShift
8 1 (5.56%) PaaS
8 1 (5.56%) SaaS
8 1 (5.56%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (27.78%) Firewall
2 3 (16.67%) DHCP
2 3 (16.67%) DNS
2 3 (16.67%) VLAN
2 3 (16.67%) VoIP
2 3 (16.67%) VPN
3 2 (11.11%) Intrusion Detection
3 2 (11.11%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (27.78%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) GitLab
1 2 (11.11%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.56%) CircleCI
General
1 4 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 3 (16.67%) Automotive
3 2 (11.11%) Banking
3 2 (11.11%) Finance
3 2 (11.11%) Investment Banking
3 2 (11.11%) Retail
4 1 (5.56%) Financial Institution
4 1 (5.56%) Law
4 1 (5.56%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (5.56%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 6 (33.33%) Driving Licence
2 3 (16.67%) Onboarding
3 2 (11.11%) Educational Technology
3 2 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (5.56%) FMCG
4 1 (5.56%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 10 (55.56%) Windows
1 10 (55.56%) Windows Server
2 3 (16.67%) Android
2 3 (16.67%) Mac OS
2 3 (16.67%) Windows 10
2 3 (16.67%) Windows Server 2016
3 2 (11.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (38.89%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (27.78%) CI/CD
2 5 (27.78%) Cloud Security
2 5 (27.78%) DevOps
3 4 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (16.67%) Data Privacy
4 3 (16.67%) Information Security
4 3 (16.67%) ITIL
4 3 (16.67%) Mentoring
4 3 (16.67%) Mobile Device Management
4 3 (16.67%) Project Delivery
4 3 (16.67%) Remote Monitoring and Management
5 2 (11.11%) Business Continuity
5 2 (11.11%) Capacity Planning
5 2 (11.11%) Customer Service
5 2 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (11.11%) Proactive Maintenance
5 2 (11.11%) Security Management
6 1 (5.56%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.11%) PowerShell
2 1 (5.56%) Bash
2 1 (5.56%) Go
2 1 (5.56%) Python
2 1 (5.56%) Shell Script
2 1 (5.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (27.78%) Degree
2 4 (22.22%) MCP
2 4 (22.22%) MCSA
2 4 (22.22%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (16.67%) DBS Check
4 1 (5.56%) CCNA
4 1 (5.56%) CCNP
4 1 (5.56%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (5.56%) MCSE
4 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
4 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) GDPR
2 1 (5.56%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 8 (44.44%) Active Directory
2 4 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (16.67%) Hyper-V
4 2 (11.11%) Docker
4 2 (11.11%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (5.56%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (27.78%) Kubernetes
2 4 (22.22%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (22.22%) Terraform
3 1 (5.56%) Grafana
3 1 (5.56%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (5.56%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (44.44%) Microsoft
2 5 (27.78%) VMware
3 3 (16.67%) Apple
3 3 (16.67%) SonicWALL
4 1 (5.56%) ConnectWise
4 1 (5.56%) Google
4 1 (5.56%) Oracle
4 1 (5.56%) Veeam