Junior Technical Engineer Jobs

Junior Technical Engineer
UK

The median Junior Technical Engineer salary in the UK is £30,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 9 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
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 674 899 949
Rank change year-on-year +225 +50 +278
Permanent jobs requiring a Junior Technical Engineer 16 3 24
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.030% 0.003% 0.024%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.033% 0.003% 0.026%
Number of salaries quoted 10 3 1
10th Percentile £26,250 £37,000 -
25th Percentile £27,750 £49,375 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £70,000 £27,500
Median % change year-on-year -56.43% +154.55% -21.43%
75th Percentile £33,250 - £28,750
90th Percentile £33,300 - -
UK excluding London median annual salary £30,500 £32,500 £27,500
% change year-on-year -6.15% +18.18% -21.43%

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 49,007 93,784 92,686
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.47% 94.63% 91.46%
Number of salaries quoted 27,411 67,216 58,370
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,375 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -5.66% +6.00%

Junior Technical Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Junior Technical Engineer in the UK

Junior Technical Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Junior Technical Engineer in the UK

Junior Technical Engineer
Top 7 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Junior Technical Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 9 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
UK excluding London +198 16 £30,500 -6.15% 2
England +173 16 £30,500 -56.43% 2
North of England - 11 £30,500 - 1
Work from Home - 6 £30,500 -
North West - 6 - - 1
South East +98 5 £28,000 -13.85%
Yorkshire - 5 £30,500 -

Junior Technical Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 9 May 2025, Junior 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 featuring Junior Technical Engineer in the job title.

1 14 (87.50%) Customer Service
2 9 (56.25%) Windows
3 8 (50.00%) VMware
3 8 (50.00%) Mentoring
3 8 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (43.75%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (43.75%) Windows Server
5 6 (37.50%) Proxmox
5 6 (37.50%) Customer Experience
5 6 (37.50%) Social Skills
5 6 (37.50%) Hyper-V
5 6 (37.50%) Private Cloud
5 6 (37.50%) Azure
5 6 (37.50%) Firewall
5 6 (37.50%) WAN
5 6 (37.50%) ITIL
5 6 (37.50%) MPLS
5 6 (37.50%) VPN
5 6 (37.50%) DNS
5 6 (37.50%) Cisco
5 6 (37.50%) Microsoft
6 5 (31.25%) Degree
6 5 (31.25%) Unified Communications
7 2 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (12.50%) Nutanix
7 2 (12.50%) Customer Engagement
7 2 (12.50%) Mac OS
7 2 (12.50%) Active Directory
7 2 (12.50%) VMS

Junior Technical 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (37.50%) Azure
2 2 (12.50%) Nutanix
3 1 (6.25%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (37.50%) DNS
1 6 (37.50%) Firewall
1 6 (37.50%) MPLS
1 6 (37.50%) VPN
1 6 (37.50%) WAN
2 5 (31.25%) Unified Communications
General
1 6 (37.50%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 6 (37.50%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (56.25%) Windows
2 7 (43.75%) Windows Server
3 2 (12.50%) Mac OS
3 2 (12.50%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (87.50%) Customer Service
2 8 (50.00%) Mentoring
3 7 (43.75%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (37.50%) Customer Experience
4 6 (37.50%) ITIL
5 2 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (12.50%) Customer Engagement
5 2 (12.50%) Migration
6 1 (6.25%) Service Management
Qualifications
1 5 (31.25%) Degree
2 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 8 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (37.50%) Hyper-V
3 2 (12.50%) Active Directory
3 2 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (37.50%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 8 (50.00%) VMware
2 6 (37.50%) Cisco
2 6 (37.50%) Microsoft