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 £37,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 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
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 344 342 499
Rank change year-on-year -2 +157 +116
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Engineer 262 531 261
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.67% 0.75% 0.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.74% 0.79% 0.49%
Number of salaries quoted 176 445 136
10th Percentile £27,500 £24,807 £29,018
25th Percentile £30,500 £28,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,000 £35,000 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.71% -6.67% +15.38%
75th Percentile £47,813 £42,500 £50,000
90th Percentile £58,000 £50,000 £58,750
UK median annual salary £35,000 £35,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year - -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 35,427 67,196 53,197
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.64% 94.83% 89.21%
Number of salaries quoted 18,481 47,540 30,291
10th Percentile £27,000 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,574 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% -5.66% +6.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,750 £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 15 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 15 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 +21 80 £42,000 +20.00% 71
South West +93 46 £31,000 -13.89% 22
North of England +11 45 £32,750 +3.97% 45
East of England +42 42 £39,750 +13.57% 17
Midlands -24 35 £40,000 +14.29% 60
Yorkshire +43 23 £30,500 -1.61% 21
East Midlands +7 22 £40,000 +45.45% 40
North West -21 21 £37,500 +25.00% 16
West Midlands -5 13 £26,000 -25.71% 16
Scotland +110 10 £31,000 +16.98% 2
Northern Ireland +37 2 - - 7
Wales +30 2 £31,250 -4.26% 8
North East +39 1 £45,000 +30.43% 10
Technical Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 15 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 98 (37.40%) Social Skills
2 96 (36.64%) Problem-Solving
3 53 (20.23%) Customer Service
3 53 (20.23%) Firewall
4 50 (19.08%) Degree
5 48 (18.32%) Windows
6 44 (16.79%) Linux
7 42 (16.03%) Microsoft
8 40 (15.27%) Microsoft 365
9 37 (14.12%) CRM
10 31 (11.83%) Driving Licence
10 31 (11.83%) Windows Server
11 30 (11.45%) VMware
11 30 (11.45%) Mentoring
12 28 (10.69%) Security Cleared
12 28 (10.69%) VMware Infrastructure
12 28 (10.69%) Hyper-V
13 26 (9.92%) HND
14 25 (9.54%) B2B
14 25 (9.54%) SC Cleared
15 23 (8.78%) Azure
15 23 (8.78%) CCNA
15 23 (8.78%) Cisco Certification
15 23 (8.78%) JNCIA
16 22 (8.40%) VPN
16 22 (8.40%) DNS
16 22 (8.40%) Cisco
16 22 (8.40%) SQL
16 22 (8.40%) Test Automation
16 22 (8.40%) JIRA

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 11 (4.20%) SharePoint
2 7 (2.67%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.38%) Apache Solr
3 1 (0.38%) Confluence
3 1 (0.38%) nginx
Applications
1 12 (4.58%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (3.05%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (2.67%) AutoCAD
4 4 (1.53%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.76%) Autodesk Inventor
5 2 (0.76%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 4 (1.53%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.38%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 40 (15.27%) Microsoft 365
2 23 (8.78%) Azure
3 9 (3.44%) AWS
4 6 (2.29%) SaaS
5 5 (1.91%) Nutanix
6 4 (1.53%) Entra ID
6 4 (1.53%) GCP
7 3 (1.15%) Rubrik
8 2 (0.76%) OneDrive
9 1 (0.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (0.38%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 1 (0.38%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 53 (20.23%) Firewall
2 22 (8.40%) DNS
2 22 (8.40%) VPN
3 18 (6.87%) WAN
4 16 (6.11%) VSAT
5 11 (4.20%) LAN
6 9 (3.44%) DHCP
7 8 (3.05%) Internet
8 6 (2.29%) MPLS
8 6 (2.29%) NetScaler
8 6 (2.29%) Remote Desktop
8 6 (2.29%) Wi-Fi
9 5 (1.91%) Unified Communications
9 5 (1.91%) VoIP
10 4 (1.53%) TCP/IP
10 4 (1.53%) VLAN
11 3 (1.15%) Network Security
12 2 (0.76%) 4G
12 2 (0.76%) 5G
13 1 (0.38%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (4.58%) MySQL
2 5 (1.91%) SQL Server
3 4 (1.53%) Metabase
4 2 (0.76%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.38%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 22 (8.40%) JIRA
General
1 98 (37.40%) Social Skills
2 19 (7.25%) Presentation Skills
2 19 (7.25%) Telecoms
3 14 (5.34%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (4.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 11 (4.20%) Manufacturing
6 10 (3.82%) Finance
7 8 (3.05%) Electronics
8 7 (2.67%) Back Office
8 7 (2.67%) Retail
9 6 (2.29%) Legal
10 3 (1.15%) Automotive
10 3 (1.15%) Aviation
10 3 (1.15%) Local Government
10 3 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.76%) Advertising
11 2 (0.76%) Health Technology
11 2 (0.76%) Military
12 1 (0.38%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.38%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (0.76%) Software Packaging
2 1 (0.38%) PySpark
2 1 (0.38%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (0.38%) ServiceStack
Miscellaneous
1 31 (11.83%) Driving Licence
2 19 (7.25%) Satnav
3 12 (4.58%) Private Cloud
4 10 (3.82%) Onboarding
5 8 (3.05%) Public Cloud
6 7 (2.67%) Data Centre
6 7 (2.67%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (2.29%) Tandem
8 5 (1.91%) CCTV
9 4 (1.53%) Linux Command Line
10 3 (1.15%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (1.15%) Hybrid Cloud
11 2 (0.76%) IoT
11 2 (0.76%) Life Science
11 2 (0.76%) NHS
11 2 (0.76%) PACS
11 2 (0.76%) Reinsurance
11 2 (0.76%) Video\Live Streaming
12 1 (0.38%) Client/Server
12 1 (0.38%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 48 (18.32%) Windows
2 44 (16.79%) Linux
3 31 (11.83%) Windows Server
4 13 (4.96%) Windows 10
5 9 (3.44%) Windows Server 2019
6 8 (3.05%) Mac OS
7 4 (1.53%) VMS
7 4 (1.53%) Windows Server 2012
7 4 (1.53%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.76%) Debian
8 2 (0.76%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.76%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (36.64%) Problem-Solving
2 53 (20.23%) Customer Service
3 37 (14.12%) CRM
4 30 (11.45%) Mentoring
5 25 (9.54%) B2B
6 22 (8.40%) Test Automation
7 20 (7.63%) Continuous Improvement
8 19 (7.25%) Scenario Testing
9 16 (6.11%) Commercial Awareness
10 15 (5.73%) ITIL
11 14 (5.34%) Kalman Filter
11 14 (5.34%) Proactive Management
11 14 (5.34%) Web Filtering
12 13 (4.96%) Project Management
13 12 (4.58%) Customer Experience
14 11 (4.20%) Project Delivery
15 10 (3.82%) Presales
15 10 (3.82%) Statistics
16 8 (3.05%) Cybersecurity
16 8 (3.05%) Proactive Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 22 (8.40%) SQL
2 11 (4.20%) PL/SQL
3 7 (2.67%) Python
4 6 (2.29%) PowerShell
5 4 (1.53%) C++
6 1 (0.38%) Go
6 1 (0.38%) Java
6 1 (0.38%) PHP
6 1 (0.38%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 50 (19.08%) Degree
2 28 (10.69%) Security Cleared
3 26 (9.92%) HND
4 25 (9.54%) SC Cleared
5 23 (8.78%) CCNA
5 23 (8.78%) Cisco Certification
5 23 (8.78%) JNCIA
6 21 (8.02%) HNC
7 6 (2.29%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.53%) A+ Certification
8 4 (1.53%) Dell Certification
8 4 (1.53%) MCP
9 2 (0.76%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.76%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.76%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.38%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.38%) MCSA
10 1 (0.38%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (5.34%) SLA
2 3 (1.15%) COSHH
3 2 (0.76%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 28 (10.69%) Hyper-V
1 28 (10.69%) VMware Infrastructure
2 21 (8.02%) Active Directory
3 7 (2.67%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (2.67%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (1.91%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 3 (1.15%) Docker
6 2 (0.76%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.76%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (2.67%) vCenter Server
2 6 (2.29%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.29%) Proxmox
3 5 (1.91%) Terraform
4 3 (1.15%) NetBackup
5 2 (0.76%) Autotask
5 2 (0.76%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.38%) Ansible
Vendors
1 42 (16.03%) Microsoft
2 30 (11.45%) VMware
3 22 (8.40%) Cisco
4 19 (7.25%) Salesforce
5 14 (5.34%) Siemens
6 13 (4.96%) Dell
7 12 (4.58%) Juniper
8 11 (4.20%) Citrix
9 9 (3.44%) SAP
10 7 (2.67%) Sophos
11 6 (2.29%) McAfee
11 6 (2.29%) Ubiquiti
12 5 (1.91%) YouTube
13 4 (1.53%) Google
14 3 (1.15%) Commvault
14 3 (1.15%) Zerto
15 2 (0.76%) Databricks
15 2 (0.76%) NVIDIA
15 2 (0.76%) Oracle
15 2 (0.76%) Red Hat