IT Engineer Jobs

IT Engineer
UK

The median IT Engineer salary in the UK is £35,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 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
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 297 143 256
Rank change year-on-year -154 +113 +137
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 559 2,014 1,435
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.01% 2.03% 1.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.11% 2.14% 1.57%
Number of salaries quoted 428 1,703 1,140
10th Percentile £25,750 £24,000 £25,500
25th Percentile £27,500 £26,250 £27,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £32,500 £34,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -5.80% -1.43%
75th Percentile £43,750 £43,000 £45,000
90th Percentile £53,750 £50,000 £60,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £33,500 £32,500 £32,500
% change year-on-year +3.08% - -4.41%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 50,303 93,916 91,216
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.61% 94.69% 91.48%
Number of salaries quoted 27,096 67,168 57,442
10th Percentile £29,750 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £73,886 £71,250 £80,559
90th Percentile £96,250 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,645 £50,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year +3.29% -5.66% +5.64%

IT Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Engineer in the UK

IT Engineer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing IT Engineer.

Salary trend for IT Engineer in the UK

IT Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing IT Engineer over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Salary histogram for IT Engineer in the UK

IT Engineer
Top 16 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 16 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
England -153 517 £35,000 +6.06% 542
UK excluding London -139 441 £33,500 +3.08% 488
Work from Home -89 151 £35,000 -6.67% 162
Midlands -61 122 £35,000 - 75
South East -67 121 £35,000 +2.94% 138
London +17 104 £46,250 +15.63% 134
North of England -122 89 £32,500 +3.17% 109
West Midlands -27 78 £35,000 +0.36% 31
Yorkshire -3 49 £30,000 - 58
East Midlands -55 44 £32,500 -13.33% 38
East of England -70 43 £30,000 -5.76% 64
South West -32 40 £33,500 +11.67% 71
North West -123 33 £35,000 +16.67% 45
Scotland +73 25 £31,250 +9.65% 25
North East 0 7 £37,500 +15.38% 7
Wales -47 4 £39,500 +43.64% 14

IT Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 16 May 2025, 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 featuring IT Engineer in the job title.

1 359 (64.22%) Windows
2 334 (59.75%) Microsoft
3 267 (47.76%) Microsoft 365
4 243 (43.47%) Active Directory
5 214 (38.28%) Social Skills
6 213 (38.10%) Azure
7 203 (36.31%) Problem-Solving
8 151 (27.01%) Windows Server
9 125 (22.36%) Customer Service
10 124 (22.18%) Degree
11 114 (20.39%) Firewall
12 110 (19.68%) Linux
13 108 (19.32%) ITIL
13 108 (19.32%) VMware
14 105 (18.78%) Cisco
15 104 (18.60%) Driving Licence
16 90 (16.10%) Microsoft Certification
17 89 (15.92%) Microsoft Intune
18 86 (15.38%) DNS
19 84 (15.03%) Microsoft Exchange
19 84 (15.03%) PowerShell
20 83 (14.85%) Entra ID
21 75 (13.42%) Infrastructure Engineering
22 72 (12.88%) Windows 10
23 71 (12.70%) VMware Infrastructure
24 68 (12.16%) Computer Science
25 66 (11.81%) SharePoint
26 65 (11.63%) DHCP
26 65 (11.63%) AWS
27 59 (10.55%) VLAN

IT Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 84 (15.03%) Microsoft Exchange
2 66 (11.81%) SharePoint
3 27 (4.83%) Confluence
4 3 (0.54%) WordPress
5 2 (0.36%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.36%) IIS
5 2 (0.36%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.18%) Apache
Applications
1 55 (9.84%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (2.50%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.89%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.72%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.18%) 1Password
5 1 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (1.25%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (0.89%) Sage 200
2 5 (0.89%) Sage 50
3 2 (0.36%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (0.36%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.18%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 267 (47.76%) Microsoft 365
2 213 (38.10%) Azure
3 83 (14.85%) Entra ID
4 65 (11.63%) AWS
5 48 (8.59%) SaaS
6 21 (3.76%) Google Workspace
7 17 (3.04%) GCP
7 17 (3.04%) OneDrive
8 15 (2.68%) IaaS
9 14 (2.50%) Mimecast
10 11 (1.97%) Power Platform
11 9 (1.61%) Amazon EC2
12 7 (1.25%) Cloud Computing
13 6 (1.07%) PaaS
14 5 (0.89%) Amazon S3
14 5 (0.89%) Nutanix
14 5 (0.89%) Slack
15 4 (0.72%) Amazon Bedrock
15 4 (0.72%) Amazon EKS
16 3 (0.54%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 114 (20.39%) Firewall
2 86 (15.38%) DNS
3 65 (11.63%) DHCP
4 59 (10.55%) VLAN
5 53 (9.48%) VPN
6 51 (9.12%) LAN
7 47 (8.41%) TCP/IP
8 46 (8.23%) Wi-Fi
9 43 (7.69%) WAN
9 43 (7.69%) WLAN
10 42 (7.51%) Internet
11 41 (7.33%) Network Security
12 33 (5.90%) SAN
13 24 (4.29%) NAS
14 21 (3.76%) VoIP
15 19 (3.40%) BGP
15 19 (3.40%) OSPF
16 14 (2.50%) Wireless
17 11 (1.97%) Cisco IOS
18 9 (1.61%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (9.48%) SQL Server
2 17 (3.04%) MySQL
3 16 (2.86%) Relational Database
4 10 (1.79%) Power BI
5 5 (0.89%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (0.54%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (0.36%) Big Data
7 2 (0.36%) Crystal Reports
7 2 (0.36%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.18%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.18%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.18%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.18%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 25 (4.47%) JIRA
2 18 (3.22%) Git
3 16 (2.86%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.36%) CircleCI
4 2 (0.36%) GitLab
4 2 (0.36%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.18%) Hudson
5 1 (0.18%) Katalon Studio
5 1 (0.18%) Postman
5 1 (0.18%) Selenium
5 1 (0.18%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 214 (38.28%) Social Skills
2 54 (9.66%) Finance
3 53 (9.48%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (5.72%) Organisational Skills
5 30 (5.37%) Retail
6 20 (3.58%) Telecoms
7 18 (3.22%) Law
7 18 (3.22%) Legal
8 16 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 16 (2.86%) Manufacturing
9 15 (2.68%) Automotive
10 13 (2.33%) Public Sector
11 12 (2.15%) Marketing
12 5 (0.89%) Banking
13 3 (0.54%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (0.36%) Aviation
14 2 (0.36%) Electronics
14 2 (0.36%) Investment Banking
14 2 (0.36%) Local Government
14 2 (0.36%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (3.40%) .NET
2 14 (2.50%) 802.1X
3 5 (0.89%) LangChain
4 3 (0.54%) EDI
4 3 (0.54%) Middleware
5 2 (0.36%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (0.36%) GraphQL
5 2 (0.36%) Kafka
5 2 (0.36%) REST
6 1 (0.18%) ASP.NET
6 1 (0.18%) ASP.NET MVC
6 1 (0.18%) CSS
6 1 (0.18%) CSS3
6 1 (0.18%) HTML
6 1 (0.18%) HTML5
6 1 (0.18%) jQuery
6 1 (0.18%) React
6 1 (0.18%) SAML
6 1 (0.18%) SOAP
6 1 (0.18%) X-Windows
Miscellaneous
1 104 (18.60%) Driving Licence
2 42 (7.51%) Self-Motivation
3 29 (5.19%) Management Information System
4 20 (3.58%) Onboarding
5 17 (3.04%) Smartphone
6 16 (2.86%) Mobile App
6 16 (2.86%) Social Media
7 12 (2.15%) Data Centre
8 8 (1.43%) Clustering
8 8 (1.43%) Video Conferencing
8 8 (1.43%) Virtual Team
9 7 (1.25%) Security Posture
10 6 (1.07%) EPoS
11 5 (0.89%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (0.89%) Hybrid Cloud
12 4 (0.72%) Algorithms
12 4 (0.72%) CMDB
12 4 (0.72%) iPad
12 4 (0.72%) iPhone
12 4 (0.72%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 359 (64.22%) Windows
2 151 (27.01%) Windows Server
3 110 (19.68%) Linux
4 72 (12.88%) Windows 10
5 38 (6.80%) Android
6 32 (5.72%) Windows Server 2016
7 31 (5.55%) Mac OS
8 28 (5.01%) Windows Server 2019
9 15 (2.68%) Apple iOS
10 14 (2.50%) Mac OS X
10 14 (2.50%) Ubuntu
11 9 (1.61%) Windows 7
11 9 (1.61%) Windows Server 2012
12 8 (1.43%) Unix
13 2 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 2 (0.36%) VMS
13 2 (0.36%) Windows Server 2008
14 1 (0.18%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 203 (36.31%) Problem-Solving
2 125 (22.36%) Customer Service
3 108 (19.32%) ITIL
4 75 (13.42%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 68 (12.16%) Computer Science
6 54 (9.66%) Mentoring
7 44 (7.87%) Migration
8 43 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
9 42 (7.51%) Cybersecurity
9 42 (7.51%) Network Management
10 39 (6.98%) Disaster Recovery
11 38 (6.80%) Asset Management
12 35 (6.26%) ITSM
13 30 (5.37%) CI/CD
13 30 (5.37%) Systems Engineering
14 29 (5.19%) Agile
14 29 (5.19%) IT Asset Management
15 27 (4.83%) Kalman Filter
16 26 (4.65%) CRM
16 26 (4.65%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 84 (15.03%) PowerShell
2 43 (7.69%) SQL
3 23 (4.11%) Python
4 17 (3.04%) C#
5 8 (1.43%) Java
6 5 (0.89%) Bash
7 4 (0.72%) C
7 4 (0.72%) C++
8 2 (0.36%) VBScript
9 1 (0.18%) Bicep
9 1 (0.18%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.18%) Perl
9 1 (0.18%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.18%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.18%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 124 (22.18%) Degree
2 90 (16.10%) Microsoft Certification
3 51 (9.12%) Cisco Certification
3 51 (9.12%) Computer Science Degree
4 48 (8.59%) CCNA
5 47 (8.41%) MCSE
6 39 (6.98%) MCP
7 34 (6.08%) Security Cleared
8 33 (5.90%) CCNP
9 29 (5.19%) DBS Check
10 28 (5.01%) LPIC
11 26 (4.65%) HND
12 19 (3.40%) SC Cleared
13 18 (3.22%) A+ Certification
13 18 (3.22%) BPSS Clearance
14 16 (2.86%) HNC
15 13 (2.33%) DV Cleared
16 12 (2.15%) MCSA
17 8 (1.43%) Azure Certification
17 8 (1.43%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (3.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 16 (2.86%) SLA
3 11 (1.97%) Cyber Essentials
4 9 (1.61%) GDPR
5 8 (1.43%) NIST
6 5 (0.89%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 4 (0.72%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.72%) QA
8 3 (0.54%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.36%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 2 (0.36%) NCSC
9 2 (0.36%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.18%) GRC
10 1 (0.18%) HIPAA
System Software
1 243 (43.47%) Active Directory
2 71 (12.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 50 (8.94%) Hyper-V
4 11 (1.97%) Virtual Desktop
4 11 (1.97%) VMware ESXi
5 7 (1.25%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (1.07%) Virtual Servers
6 6 (1.07%) vSphere
7 5 (0.89%) Docker
7 5 (0.89%) Firmware
8 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.18%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 89 (15.92%) Microsoft Intune
2 20 (3.58%) Ansible
3 18 (3.22%) SCCM
4 14 (2.50%) Jamf Pro
5 13 (2.33%) Terraform
6 7 (1.25%) SmoothWall
7 6 (1.07%) FortiGate
7 6 (1.07%) Kubernetes
7 6 (1.07%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (1.07%) WSUS
8 5 (0.89%) SCOM
9 4 (0.72%) CASB
10 2 (0.36%) Grafana
10 2 (0.36%) Host Intrusion Detection System
10 2 (0.36%) Prometheus
10 2 (0.36%) vCenter Server
11 1 (0.18%) Autotask
11 1 (0.18%) Plesk
11 1 (0.18%) Puppet
Vendors
1 334 (59.75%) Microsoft
2 108 (19.32%) VMware
3 105 (18.78%) Cisco
4 35 (6.26%) Google
5 32 (5.72%) Apple
5 32 (5.72%) Meraki
6 28 (5.01%) Veeam
7 24 (4.29%) Fortinet
8 21 (3.76%) Dell
9 17 (3.04%) Ubiquiti
10 16 (2.86%) Atlassian
10 16 (2.86%) Zoho
11 13 (2.33%) HP
12 12 (2.15%) ServiceNow
12 12 (2.15%) Sophos
13 11 (1.97%) Citrix
14 10 (1.79%) Zscaler
15 9 (1.61%) CheckPoint
16 7 (1.25%) Palo Alto
16 7 (1.25%) Remedy