Technical Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Technical Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Technical Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £37,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 22 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
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 323 338 498
Rank change year-on-year +15 +160 +115
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Engineer 286 539 255
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.73% 0.75% 0.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.81% 0.79% 0.49%
Number of salaries quoted 194 448 135
10th Percentile £27,750 £24,807 £28,964
25th Percentile £30,500 £28,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £35,000 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -6.67% +15.38%
75th Percentile £48,750 £42,125 £50,000
90th Percentile £58,000 £50,000 £58,750
UK median annual salary £36,500 £35,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +4.29% -22.22% +28.57%

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 35,201 68,043 52,511
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.45% 94.85% 89.20%
Number of salaries quoted 17,750 48,018 29,945
10th Percentile £26,929 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £50,000 £53,325
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% -6.24% +6.65%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -12.50% -

Technical Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Engineer in the UK excluding London

Technical Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Technical Engineer in the UK excluding London

Technical Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Technical Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 22 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Technical Engineer in the UK excluding London

Technical 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 Technical Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 22 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 +29 94 £42,000 +20.00% 59
North of England +8 50 £32,750 +3.15% 43
South West +76 46 £31,000 -13.89% 32
East of England +39 42 £39,750 +9.66% 25
Midlands -30 40 £40,000 +14.29% 54
Yorkshire +46 25 £30,500 -4.69% 17
East Midlands +1 25 £40,500 +47.27% 35
North West -22 23 £47,250 +57.50% 17
West Midlands +8 15 £32,500 -7.14% 17
Scotland +122 10 £31,000 +16.98% 9
North East +42 2 £42,500 +23.19% 10
Wales +34 2 £31,250 -4.26% 6
Northern Ireland +34 2 - - 6
Technical Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 22 May 2025, Technical 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 Technical Engineer in the job title.

1 103 (36.01%) Social Skills
2 97 (33.92%) Problem-Solving
3 56 (19.58%) Customer Service
4 54 (18.88%) Degree
5 53 (18.53%) Firewall
6 46 (16.08%) Windows
7 43 (15.03%) Linux
8 42 (14.69%) Microsoft
9 41 (14.34%) Driving Licence
10 37 (12.94%) Microsoft 365
10 37 (12.94%) CRM
11 31 (10.84%) Mentoring
12 30 (10.49%) VMware
13 29 (10.14%) Security Cleared
14 28 (9.79%) VMware Infrastructure
14 28 (9.79%) HND
15 27 (9.44%) Hyper-V
15 27 (9.44%) Windows Server
16 25 (8.74%) SC Cleared
17 24 (8.39%) HNC
17 24 (8.39%) CCNA
17 24 (8.39%) B2B
17 24 (8.39%) Cisco Certification
17 24 (8.39%) JNCIA
18 22 (7.69%) SQL
18 22 (7.69%) Azure
19 21 (7.34%) Test Automation
19 21 (7.34%) JIRA
19 21 (7.34%) Continuous Improvement
19 21 (7.34%) Cisco

Technical 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 10 (3.50%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.10%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.35%) Apache Solr
3 1 (0.35%) Confluence
3 1 (0.35%) nginx
Applications
1 13 (4.55%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (3.15%) AutoCAD
2 9 (3.15%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.40%) Chatbot
4 3 (1.05%) Autodesk Inventor
5 2 (0.70%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 4 (1.40%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.35%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 37 (12.94%) Microsoft 365
2 22 (7.69%) Azure
3 9 (3.15%) AWS
4 5 (1.75%) Nutanix
4 5 (1.75%) SaaS
5 4 (1.40%) Entra ID
5 4 (1.40%) GCP
6 3 (1.05%) Rubrik
7 2 (0.70%) OneDrive
8 1 (0.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (0.35%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 1 (0.35%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 53 (18.53%) Firewall
2 20 (6.99%) VPN
3 19 (6.64%) DNS
4 18 (6.29%) WAN
5 17 (5.94%) VSAT
6 11 (3.85%) LAN
7 8 (2.80%) DHCP
8 7 (2.45%) Internet
9 6 (2.10%) MPLS
9 6 (2.10%) NetScaler
9 6 (2.10%) Remote Desktop
10 5 (1.75%) Unified Communications
10 5 (1.75%) VoIP
11 4 (1.40%) TCP/IP
11 4 (1.40%) Wi-Fi
12 3 (1.05%) Network Security
12 3 (1.05%) VLAN
13 1 (0.35%) 4G
13 1 (0.35%) IPsec
13 1 (0.35%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (4.20%) MySQL
2 4 (1.40%) Metabase
3 3 (1.05%) SQL Server
4 2 (0.70%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.35%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 21 (7.34%) JIRA
General
1 103 (36.01%) Social Skills
2 18 (6.29%) Presentation Skills
2 18 (6.29%) Telecoms
3 16 (5.59%) Manufacturing
4 12 (4.20%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (4.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 10 (3.50%) Finance
6 9 (3.15%) Electronics
7 7 (2.45%) Back Office
7 7 (2.45%) Retail
8 6 (2.10%) Legal
9 5 (1.75%) Aviation
10 4 (1.40%) Automotive
11 3 (1.05%) Advertising
11 3 (1.05%) Local Government
11 3 (1.05%) Marketing
11 3 (1.05%) Military
12 2 (0.70%) Health Technology
12 2 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.35%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (0.70%) Software Packaging
2 1 (0.35%) PySpark
2 1 (0.35%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (0.35%) ServiceStack
Miscellaneous
1 41 (14.34%) Driving Licence
2 18 (6.29%) Satnav
3 12 (4.20%) Private Cloud
4 9 (3.15%) Onboarding
5 8 (2.80%) Public Cloud
6 7 (2.45%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (2.10%) Data Centre
7 6 (2.10%) Tandem
8 4 (1.40%) CCTV
8 4 (1.40%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (1.05%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (1.05%) Life Science
10 2 (0.70%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.70%) Digital Media
10 2 (0.70%) Graphic Design
10 2 (0.70%) NHS
10 2 (0.70%) PACS
10 2 (0.70%) Reinsurance
11 1 (0.35%) Cloud Native
11 1 (0.35%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 46 (16.08%) Windows
2 43 (15.03%) Linux
3 27 (9.44%) Windows Server
4 11 (3.85%) Windows 10
5 8 (2.80%) Mac OS
5 8 (2.80%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (1.40%) Windows Server 2012
7 3 (1.05%) VMS
7 3 (1.05%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.70%) Debian
8 2 (0.70%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (33.92%) Problem-Solving
2 56 (19.58%) Customer Service
3 37 (12.94%) CRM
4 31 (10.84%) Mentoring
5 24 (8.39%) B2B
6 21 (7.34%) Continuous Improvement
6 21 (7.34%) Test Automation
7 18 (6.29%) Commercial Awareness
7 18 (6.29%) Scenario Testing
8 15 (5.24%) ITIL
9 14 (4.90%) Kalman Filter
9 14 (4.90%) Proactive Management
9 14 (4.90%) Web Filtering
10 13 (4.55%) Project Management
11 12 (4.20%) Customer Experience
12 11 (3.85%) Presales
12 11 (3.85%) Project Delivery
13 10 (3.50%) Statistics
14 9 (3.15%) Mathematics
15 8 (2.80%) Proactive Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 22 (7.69%) SQL
2 11 (3.85%) PL/SQL
3 7 (2.45%) Python
4 6 (2.10%) PowerShell
5 4 (1.40%) C++
6 1 (0.35%) Go
6 1 (0.35%) Java
6 1 (0.35%) PHP
6 1 (0.35%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 54 (18.88%) Degree
2 29 (10.14%) Security Cleared
3 28 (9.79%) HND
4 25 (8.74%) SC Cleared
5 24 (8.39%) CCNA
5 24 (8.39%) Cisco Certification
5 24 (8.39%) HNC
5 24 (8.39%) JNCIA
6 6 (2.10%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (1.40%) A+ Certification
7 4 (1.40%) Dell Certification
7 4 (1.40%) MCP
8 2 (0.70%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.70%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (0.70%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.35%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.35%) MCSA
9 1 (0.35%) MCSE
9 1 (0.35%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (4.55%) SLA
2 4 (1.40%) COSHH
3 2 (0.70%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 28 (9.79%) VMware Infrastructure
2 27 (9.44%) Hyper-V
3 18 (6.29%) Active Directory
4 8 (2.80%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (2.45%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (1.75%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 3 (1.05%) Docker
8 2 (0.70%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.70%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (2.45%) vCenter Server
2 6 (2.10%) Proxmox
3 5 (1.75%) Kubernetes
3 5 (1.75%) Terraform
4 3 (1.05%) NetBackup
5 2 (0.70%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.35%) Ansible
6 1 (0.35%) Autotask
Vendors
1 42 (14.69%) Microsoft
2 30 (10.49%) VMware
3 21 (7.34%) Cisco
4 20 (6.99%) Siemens
5 18 (6.29%) Salesforce
6 13 (4.55%) Dell
7 12 (4.20%) Juniper
8 11 (3.85%) Citrix
8 11 (3.85%) SAP
9 7 (2.45%) Sophos
10 6 (2.10%) McAfee
10 6 (2.10%) Ubiquiti
11 5 (1.75%) YouTube
12 4 (1.40%) Google
13 3 (1.05%) Commvault
13 3 (1.05%) Zerto
14 2 (0.70%) Databricks
14 2 (0.70%) Oracle
14 2 (0.70%) Red Hat
15 1 (0.35%) ESET