Senior Technical Engineer Jobs

Senior Technical Engineer
UK

The median Senior Technical Engineer salary in the UK is £57,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 805 959 1201
Rank change year-on-year +154 +242 -353
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Technical Engineer 89 34 11
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.091% 0.032% 0.007%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.096% 0.035% 0.007%
Number of salaries quoted 82 26 9
10th Percentile £33,000 £46,500 £34,350
25th Percentile £36,250 £52,500 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year - +35.29% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £66,250 £50,000
90th Percentile £138,750 £137,500 £57,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +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 92,901 95,961 148,050
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.57% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 66,751 60,281 85,224
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,686 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.19% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,495
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

Senior Technical Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Technical Engineer in the UK

Senior Technical Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Senior Technical Engineer in the UK

Senior Technical Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Technical Engineer over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Technical Engineer in the UK

Senior Technical Engineer
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Technical Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 26 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 +151 66 £60,000 +4.35% 9
UK excluding London +40 57 £45,000 -10.00% 9
Work from Home +107 36 £105,000 -16.00% 5
London +151 29 £105,000 +82.61% 1
South East +35 16 £60,000 +20.00%
North of England +54 13 £37,500 -25.00% 3
North West +16 12 £37,500 -25.00% 3
Wales - 12 £32,640 - 1
West Midlands - 5 £45,000 - 1
Midlands - 5 £45,000 - 2
Isle of Man - 4 £52,500 -
Scotland - 4 - -
South West - 3 £50,000 - 2
Yorkshire - 1 £33,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, Senior 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 Senior Technical Engineer in the job title.

1 46 (51.69%) Windows
2 37 (41.57%) Mentoring
3 36 (40.45%) Python
4 35 (39.33%) Microsoft
5 23 (25.84%) Investment Management
5 23 (25.84%) Finance
5 23 (25.84%) Azure
6 22 (24.72%) Hedge funds
6 22 (24.72%) Front Office
6 22 (24.72%) Back Office
6 22 (24.72%) Banking
6 22 (24.72%) Asset Management
6 22 (24.72%) Derivative
6 22 (24.72%) Active Directory
6 22 (24.72%) TCP/IP
6 22 (24.72%) SQL
6 22 (24.72%) C#
7 21 (23.60%) Microsoft Exchange
8 20 (22.47%) Windows Server
8 20 (22.47%) Customer Service
9 18 (20.22%) ITIL
10 17 (19.10%) Linux
10 17 (19.10%) Microsoft 365
11 16 (17.98%) Entra ID
11 16 (17.98%) VMware
12 15 (16.85%) WAN
12 15 (16.85%) DNS
12 15 (16.85%) OneDrive
13 14 (15.73%) Network Management
13 14 (15.73%) SNMP

Senior 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:

Application Platforms
1 21 (23.60%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (15.73%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 23 (25.84%) Azure
2 17 (19.10%) Microsoft 365
3 16 (17.98%) Entra ID
4 15 (16.85%) OneDrive
5 5 (5.62%) Azure Monitor
5 5 (5.62%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (3.37%) AWS
6 3 (3.37%) GCP
7 2 (2.25%) PaaS
7 2 (2.25%) SaaS
8 1 (1.12%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (1.12%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 22 (24.72%) TCP/IP
2 15 (16.85%) DNS
2 15 (16.85%) WAN
3 14 (15.73%) Firewall
3 14 (15.73%) SNMP
4 13 (14.61%) SSH
5 12 (13.48%) SAN
6 9 (10.11%) DHCP
7 7 (7.87%) LAN
8 5 (5.62%) Extranet
8 5 (5.62%) Internet
8 5 (5.62%) Unified Communications
8 5 (5.62%) VoIP
9 4 (4.49%) iSCSI
9 4 (4.49%) VLAN
10 2 (2.25%) Network Security
10 2 (2.25%) SD-WAN
10 2 (2.25%) Wi-Fi
11 1 (1.12%) GPON
11 1 (1.12%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (14.61%) MySQL
1 13 (14.61%) Relational Database
2 1 (1.12%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (14.61%) Eclipse
General
1 23 (25.84%) Finance
2 22 (24.72%) Back Office
2 22 (24.72%) Banking
2 22 (24.72%) Front Office
3 12 (13.48%) Police
3 12 (13.48%) Social Skills
4 10 (11.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 10 (11.24%) Local Government
5 7 (7.87%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (5.62%) Telecoms
7 4 (4.49%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (4.49%) Billing
7 4 (4.49%) Electronics
8 2 (2.25%) Japanese Language
8 2 (2.25%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.12%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (14.61%) Ajax
1 13 (14.61%) AngularJS
1 13 (14.61%) CSS
1 13 (14.61%) HTML
1 13 (14.61%) JDBC
1 13 (14.61%) ODBC
1 13 (14.61%) REST
1 13 (14.61%) SOAP
1 13 (14.61%) Web Services
1 13 (14.61%) XHTML
1 13 (14.61%) XML
2 2 (2.25%) Middleware
2 2 (2.25%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 22 (24.72%) Derivative
1 22 (24.72%) Hedge funds
2 13 (14.61%) CMDB
3 9 (10.11%) Driving Licence
4 5 (5.62%) Data Centre
4 5 (5.62%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (5.62%) Fat Client
4 5 (5.62%) Management Information System
4 5 (5.62%) Smartphone
4 5 (5.62%) Thin Client
5 3 (3.37%) Robotics
6 2 (2.25%) Device Driver
6 2 (2.25%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.12%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.12%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 46 (51.69%) Windows
2 20 (22.47%) Windows Server
3 17 (19.10%) Linux
4 13 (14.61%) Unix
5 10 (11.24%) Windows 10
6 6 (6.74%) Android
7 5 (5.62%) VMS
8 4 (4.49%) Mac OS
9 1 (1.12%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (41.57%) Mentoring
2 23 (25.84%) Investment Management
3 22 (24.72%) Asset Management
4 20 (22.47%) Customer Service
5 18 (20.22%) ITIL
6 14 (15.73%) Network Management
7 13 (14.61%) Business Intelligence
7 13 (14.61%) Data Extraction
7 13 (14.61%) Database Tuning
7 13 (14.61%) ITSM
7 13 (14.61%) OO
7 13 (14.61%) OOP
8 10 (11.24%) Problem-Solving
9 9 (10.11%) CRM
9 9 (10.11%) Cybersecurity
9 9 (10.11%) Disaster Recovery
10 6 (6.74%) Business Continuity
10 6 (6.74%) Change Control
11 5 (5.62%) Patch Management
11 5 (5.62%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 36 (40.45%) Python
2 22 (24.72%) C#
2 22 (24.72%) SQL
3 14 (15.73%) PowerShell
4 13 (14.61%) Java
4 13 (14.61%) JavaScript
4 13 (14.61%) Perl
5 2 (2.25%) C++
5 2 (2.25%) Rust
Qualifications
1 11 (12.36%) Degree
2 5 (5.62%) ITIL Certification
2 5 (5.62%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (4.49%) CCNA
3 4 (4.49%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (4.49%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.62%) GDPR
2 4 (4.49%) SLA
System Software
1 22 (24.72%) Active Directory
2 10 (11.24%) Hyper-V
3 5 (5.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (4.49%) NFS
5 1 (1.12%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (1.12%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 13 (14.61%) WMI
2 10 (11.24%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (5.62%) SCCM
3 5 (5.62%) SCOM
4 2 (2.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (1.12%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 35 (39.33%) Microsoft
2 16 (17.98%) VMware
3 13 (14.61%) Oracle
3 13 (14.61%) Splunk
4 6 (6.74%) Cisco
4 6 (6.74%) Citrix
5 5 (5.62%) HP
5 5 (5.62%) NetApp
6 4 (4.49%) ConnectWise
6 4 (4.49%) Salesforce
7 2 (2.25%) NVIDIA
8 1 (1.12%) Bloomberg