Project Engineer
UK

The median Project Engineer salary in the UK is £47,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 621 796 1004
Rank change year-on-year +175 +208 -212
Permanent jobs requiring a Project Engineer 300 202 201
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.31% 0.19% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.33% 0.21% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 229 44 147
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £36,688 £35,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% +16.13%
75th Percentile £55,000 £53,750 £52,500
90th Percentile £65,000 £57,500 £57,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,000 £47,500 £43,750
% change year-on-year -1.05% +8.57% +25.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 91,989 97,583 147,027
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.63% 91.61% 96.02%
Number of salaries quoted 66,379 61,119 85,881
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

Project Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Project Engineer in the UK

Project Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Project Engineer in the UK

Project Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Project Engineer over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Project Engineer in the UK

Project 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 Project Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 19 April 2024. 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 +220 284 £47,500 - 225
UK excluding London +110 270 £47,000 -1.05% 228
South East +59 92 £45,000 -10.00% 48
Work from Home +67 69 £62,500 +47.06% 55
Midlands +28 58 £50,000 +11.11% 52
North of England +90 53 £54,000 +13.68% 54
South West -12 39 £37,500 -6.25% 25
West Midlands +33 32 £49,000 +8.89% 29
London +160 30 £52,500 +2.44% 28
North West +38 27 £65,000 +71.05% 20
East Midlands -2 26 £50,000 - 23
Yorkshire +104 20 £47,500 -7.32% 24
East of England +40 12 £42,500 - 18
Scotland -66 8 £45,000 -18.18% 24
Northern Ireland - 8 £50,000 - 2
North East - 6 £54,000 - 15

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

For the 6 months to 19 April 2024, Project 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 Project Engineer in the job title.

1 79 (26.33%) Microsoft 365
2 75 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 68 (22.67%) Project Management
4 61 (20.33%) Azure
5 59 (19.67%) Active Directory
6 54 (18.00%) Hyper-V
7 53 (17.67%) VMware
8 52 (17.33%) Windows
9 51 (17.00%) Firewall
9 51 (17.00%) Project Delivery
10 50 (16.67%) Cisco
10 50 (16.67%) Degree
11 49 (16.33%) Problem-Solving
12 46 (15.33%) Social Skills
13 39 (13.00%) VMware Infrastructure
14 37 (12.33%) Windows Server
14 37 (12.33%) Microsoft Exchange
15 36 (12.00%) SharePoint
16 34 (11.33%) Microsoft Intune
17 32 (10.67%) Cisco Certification
18 29 (9.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 27 (9.00%) PowerShell
20 26 (8.67%) VPN
20 26 (8.67%) Microsoft Office
21 25 (8.33%) Fortinet
21 25 (8.33%) Entra ID
22 24 (8.00%) Palo Alto
22 24 (8.00%) Customer Service
22 24 (8.00%) Power Platform
23 23 (7.67%) DNS

Project 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 37 (12.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 36 (12.00%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.67%) Apache
3 2 (0.67%) CMS
3 2 (0.67%) nginx
4 1 (0.33%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 26 (8.67%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (3.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (3.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.67%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.00%) Sage X3
2 2 (0.67%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 79 (26.33%) Microsoft 365
2 61 (20.33%) Azure
3 25 (8.33%) Entra ID
4 24 (8.00%) Power Platform
5 15 (5.00%) Power Automate
6 14 (4.67%) PowerApps
7 12 (4.00%) iTunes
8 10 (3.33%) OneDrive
9 4 (1.33%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (1.00%) AWS
11 2 (0.67%) Akamai
11 2 (0.67%) Azure Data Factory
11 2 (0.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 2 (0.67%) GitHub
11 2 (0.67%) Microsoft Purview
12 1 (0.33%) Azure Logic Apps
12 1 (0.33%) Dropbox
12 1 (0.33%) GCP
12 1 (0.33%) Google Sheets
12 1 (0.33%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 51 (17.00%) Firewall
2 26 (8.67%) VPN
3 23 (7.67%) DNS
4 21 (7.00%) LAN
5 17 (5.67%) DHCP
5 17 (5.67%) WAN
6 16 (5.33%) VLAN
7 13 (4.33%) Network Security
7 13 (4.33%) SSL
8 10 (3.33%) Cisco ISE
8 10 (3.33%) VoIP
9 8 (2.67%) Wireless
10 6 (2.00%) DKIM
10 6 (2.00%) DMARC
10 6 (2.00%) TCP/IP
11 5 (1.67%) PBX
12 4 (1.33%) Cisco IOS
12 4 (1.33%) IPv4
12 4 (1.33%) IPv6
12 4 (1.33%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.00%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (1.67%) Power BI
3 1 (0.33%) MySQL
3 1 (0.33%) SQL Server
General
1 46 (15.33%) Social Skills
2 29 (9.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 20 (6.67%) Finance
4 13 (4.33%) Manufacturing
5 11 (3.67%) Aerospace
5 11 (3.67%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (3.67%) Telecoms
6 8 (2.67%) Pharmaceutical
7 7 (2.33%) Legal
8 6 (2.00%) Retail
9 5 (1.67%) Automotive
10 4 (1.33%) Electronics
10 4 (1.33%) Public Sector
11 3 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.67%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.33%) Back Office
13 1 (0.33%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (0.67%) ARM Templates
1 2 (0.67%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 19 (6.33%) Renewable Energy
2 17 (5.67%) Driving Licence
2 17 (5.67%) Onboarding
3 9 (3.00%) CCTV
4 6 (2.00%) Data Centre
4 6 (2.00%) NHS
5 4 (1.33%) Management Information System
5 4 (1.33%) SCADA
6 3 (1.00%) Clustering
7 2 (0.67%) Digital Signage
7 2 (0.67%) IPTV
7 2 (0.67%) Robotics
7 2 (0.67%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.33%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.33%) IoT
8 1 (0.33%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 52 (17.33%) Windows
2 37 (12.33%) Windows Server
3 14 (4.67%) Windows 10
4 7 (2.33%) Linux
5 3 (1.00%) Windows 7
5 3 (1.00%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (1.00%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.67%) Android
7 1 (0.33%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.33%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.33%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (22.67%) Project Management
2 51 (17.00%) Project Delivery
3 49 (16.33%) Problem-Solving
4 24 (8.00%) Customer Service
5 23 (7.67%) Migration
6 21 (7.00%) Business Case
6 21 (7.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 19 (6.33%) ITIL
8 18 (6.00%) Presales
9 16 (5.33%) Project Planning
10 15 (5.00%) Logistics
11 13 (4.33%) Line Management
12 12 (4.00%) Data Integration
13 10 (3.33%) Change Control
13 10 (3.33%) ERP
13 10 (3.33%) Server Management
13 10 (3.33%) Software Engineering
14 9 (3.00%) Change Management
15 8 (2.67%) Disaster Recovery
15 8 (2.67%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 27 (9.00%) PowerShell
2 17 (5.67%) SQL
3 12 (4.00%) C#
4 8 (2.67%) Java
4 8 (2.67%) Python
5 4 (1.33%) C
5 4 (1.33%) Ladder Logic
5 4 (1.33%) VB
5 4 (1.33%) VBA
6 2 (0.67%) Bash
6 2 (0.67%) Korn
6 2 (0.67%) PHP
Qualifications
1 50 (16.67%) Degree
2 32 (10.67%) Cisco Certification
3 21 (7.00%) CCNP
4 15 (5.00%) CCNA
5 14 (4.67%) JNCIA
5 14 (4.67%) JNCIP
6 6 (2.00%) CCIE
6 6 (2.00%) DBS Check
7 5 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.33%) HND
8 4 (1.33%) Security Cleared
9 3 (1.00%) MCP
9 3 (1.00%) MCSA
9 3 (1.00%) MCSE
10 2 (0.67%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.67%) SC Cleared
11 1 (0.33%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 1 (0.33%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.33%) ISO 9001
2 3 (1.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (1.00%) HAZOP
3 2 (0.67%) PMO
4 1 (0.33%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.33%) GDPR
4 1 (0.33%) NEBOSH
4 1 (0.33%) QA
4 1 (0.33%) SLA
System Software
1 59 (19.67%) Active Directory
2 54 (18.00%) Hyper-V
3 39 (13.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (2.33%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (1.67%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (1.33%) vCloud
7 2 (0.67%) Firmware
7 2 (0.67%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 34 (11.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (2.00%) Ansible
3 3 (1.00%) FortiGate
4 2 (0.67%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 75 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 53 (17.67%) VMware
3 50 (16.67%) Cisco
4 25 (8.33%) Fortinet
5 24 (8.00%) Palo Alto
6 19 (6.33%) Aruba
7 16 (5.33%) Citrix
8 14 (4.67%) Juniper
9 9 (3.00%) HP
9 9 (3.00%) SAP
10 7 (2.33%) Meraki
11 6 (2.00%) QinetiQ
11 6 (2.00%) Rockwell
11 6 (2.00%) Siemens
12 5 (1.67%) WatchGuard
13 4 (1.33%) Draytek
13 4 (1.33%) Google
14 3 (1.00%) Apple
14 3 (1.00%) NETGEAR
14 3 (1.00%) Sage