Technical Engineer
UK

The median Technical Engineer salary in the UK is £35,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 May 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
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 411 637 860
Rank change year-on-year +226 +223 -180
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Engineer 618 358 381
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.62% 0.35% 0.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.66% 0.39% 0.25%
Number of salaries quoted 520 211 270
10th Percentile £25,000 £29,500 £23,750
25th Percentile £29,035 £33,500 £27,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £45,000 £34,500
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +30.43% -4.83%
75th Percentile £47,500 £58,750 £46,250
90th Percentile £65,000 £78,000 £67,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £35,000 £37,500 £32,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +15.38% -4.41%

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 93,776 92,678 150,788
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.45% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 67,209 58,362 84,200
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

Technical Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Engineer in the UK

Technical Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Technical Engineer in the UK

Technical Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Technical Engineer over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Technical Engineer in the UK

Technical Engineer
Top 18 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 9 May 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 +253 568 £35,000 -22.22% 197
UK excluding London +172 534 £35,000 -6.67% 193
South East +71 159 £35,750 -15.88% 43
Midlands +104 128 £35,000 -33.33% 39
Work from Home +56 102 £42,500 -5.56% 50
North of England +77 90 £31,500 -4.55% 47
West Midlands +78 75 £35,000 -17.65% 17
London +90 74 £60,000 +4.35% 18
South West +10 72 £36,000 -2.70% 32
East Midlands +34 53 £27,500 -50.00% 22
Yorkshire +99 45 £31,000 -11.43% 12
East of England +40 42 £35,000 -6.67% 22
North West +26 41 £30,000 -2.25% 32
Scotland -77 14 £26,500 -41.11% 3
Wales +12 12 £32,640 -6.74% 12
Northern Ireland +24 9 £34,500 -1.43% 6
Isle of Man - 8 £45,000 -
North East -2 4 £34,500 -37.56% 3

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

For the 6 months to 9 May 2024, 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 Technical Engineer in the job title.

1 173 (27.99%) Microsoft
2 171 (27.67%) Windows
3 141 (22.82%) Customer Service
4 138 (22.33%) Social Skills
5 104 (16.83%) Problem-Solving
5 104 (16.83%) Active Directory
6 92 (14.89%) Microsoft 365
7 90 (14.56%) Azure
8 82 (13.27%) Windows Server
9 78 (12.62%) Degree
10 67 (10.84%) Finance
11 63 (10.19%) SQL
12 62 (10.03%) Manufacturing
13 60 (9.71%) SharePoint
13 60 (9.71%) Security Cleared
14 58 (9.39%) Firewall
15 57 (9.22%) Python
16 56 (9.06%) SLA
17 54 (8.74%) Telecoms
18 53 (8.58%) Mentoring
19 51 (8.25%) VMware
19 51 (8.25%) Asset Management
20 49 (7.93%) Entra ID
20 49 (7.93%) Driving Licence
21 47 (7.61%) Linux
22 45 (7.28%) TCP/IP
22 45 (7.28%) Hyper-V
23 42 (6.80%) HNC
24 39 (6.31%) ITIL
24 39 (6.31%) Project Management

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 60 (9.71%) SharePoint
2 38 (6.15%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.32%) IIS
3 2 (0.32%) WordPress
Applications
1 14 (2.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (2.10%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (1.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.97%) Revit
5 3 (0.49%) AutoCAD
5 3 (0.49%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.32%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.16%) JDE EnterpriseOne
2 1 (0.16%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 92 (14.89%) Microsoft 365
2 90 (14.56%) Azure
3 49 (7.93%) Entra ID
4 33 (5.34%) OneDrive
5 18 (2.91%) AWS
6 13 (2.10%) IBM Cloud
7 10 (1.62%) SaaS
8 8 (1.29%) Cloud Computing
9 7 (1.13%) GCP
10 6 (0.97%) Azure Monitor
10 6 (0.97%) Dynamics 365
10 6 (0.97%) Mimecast
11 5 (0.81%) Power Platform
12 3 (0.49%) PaaS
13 2 (0.32%) Amazon Kinesis
13 2 (0.32%) IaaS
13 2 (0.32%) Oracle CX
14 1 (0.16%) Azure DevOps
14 1 (0.16%) PowerApps
14 1 (0.16%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 58 (9.39%) Firewall
2 45 (7.28%) TCP/IP
3 35 (5.66%) DNS
4 30 (4.85%) Wireless
5 26 (4.21%) LAN
6 25 (4.05%) VoIP
6 25 (4.05%) WAN
7 24 (3.88%) SAN
8 23 (3.72%) DHCP
9 21 (3.40%) Wi-Fi
10 19 (3.07%) SNMP
11 18 (2.91%) LTE
12 16 (2.59%) 3G
12 16 (2.59%) Ethernet
13 14 (2.27%) 4G
14 13 (2.10%) SSH
15 10 (1.62%) GPRS
15 10 (1.62%) VLAN
15 10 (1.62%) VSAT
16 9 (1.46%) SDH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (4.53%) MySQL
2 24 (3.88%) SQL Server
3 16 (2.59%) Relational Database
4 3 (0.49%) GIS
4 3 (0.49%) Power BI
5 2 (0.32%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (0.32%) Crystal Reports
5 2 (0.32%) DynamoDB
5 2 (0.32%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.32%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (0.32%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (0.32%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.16%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.16%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.16%) Big Data
6 1 (0.16%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 1 (0.16%) Power Query
6 1 (0.16%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (0.16%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 13 (2.10%) Eclipse
1 13 (2.10%) JIRA
2 1 (0.16%) Gatling
2 1 (0.16%) Git
2 1 (0.16%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.16%) JUnit
2 1 (0.16%) LoadRunner
2 1 (0.16%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 138 (22.33%) Social Skills
2 67 (10.84%) Finance
3 62 (10.03%) Manufacturing
4 54 (8.74%) Telecoms
5 30 (4.85%) Military
6 28 (4.53%) Electronics
7 24 (3.88%) Analytical Skills
8 23 (3.72%) Banking
9 22 (3.56%) Back Office
9 22 (3.56%) Front Office
9 22 (3.56%) Organisational Skills
10 19 (3.07%) Marketing
10 19 (3.07%) Retail
11 17 (2.75%) Public Sector
12 16 (2.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 14 (2.27%) Police
14 13 (2.10%) Documentation Skills
15 10 (1.62%) Local Government
16 7 (1.13%) Games
16 7 (1.13%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (3.56%) CSS
2 18 (2.91%) REST
3 16 (2.59%) HTML
3 16 (2.59%) XML
4 15 (2.43%) Web Services
5 13 (2.10%) Ajax
5 13 (2.10%) AngularJS
5 13 (2.10%) JDBC
5 13 (2.10%) ODBC
5 13 (2.10%) SOAP
5 13 (2.10%) XHTML
6 3 (0.49%) EDI
6 3 (0.49%) Fluent Bit
6 3 (0.49%) JSON
6 3 (0.49%) Lightning Web Components
7 2 (0.32%) .NET
7 2 (0.32%) http4s
7 2 (0.32%) Middleware
7 2 (0.32%) Scalaz
7 2 (0.32%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 49 (7.93%) Driving Licence
2 22 (3.56%) Derivative
2 22 (3.56%) Hedge funds
3 16 (2.59%) Self-Motivation
4 15 (2.43%) CCTV
5 14 (2.27%) Data Centre
5 14 (2.27%) Hybrid Cloud
6 13 (2.10%) Blockchain
6 13 (2.10%) CMDB
7 8 (1.29%) Fat Client
7 8 (1.29%) Linux Command Line
7 8 (1.29%) Thin Client
8 7 (1.13%) Fibre Optics
8 7 (1.13%) Management Information System
9 6 (0.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 5 (0.81%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (0.81%) Robotics
10 5 (0.81%) Smartphone
11 4 (0.65%) Clustering
11 4 (0.65%) EPoS
Operating Systems
1 171 (27.67%) Windows
2 82 (13.27%) Windows Server
3 47 (7.61%) Linux
4 20 (3.24%) Windows 10
5 18 (2.91%) Unix
6 17 (2.75%) Mac OS
7 11 (1.78%) Windows Server 2012
8 6 (0.97%) Android
9 5 (0.81%) VMS
10 3 (0.49%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.49%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.32%) Solaris
11 2 (0.32%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.16%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (22.82%) Customer Service
2 104 (16.83%) Problem-Solving
3 53 (8.58%) Mentoring
4 51 (8.25%) Asset Management
5 39 (6.31%) ITIL
5 39 (6.31%) Project Management
6 36 (5.83%) Continuous Improvement
7 33 (5.34%) Customer Experience
8 32 (5.18%) Coaching
9 26 (4.21%) Cybersecurity
10 25 (4.05%) Investment Management
11 23 (3.72%) Commercial Awareness
12 22 (3.56%) Business Intelligence
13 20 (3.24%) CRM
14 18 (2.91%) DevOps
15 17 (2.75%) Proactive Maintenance
15 17 (2.75%) Time Management
16 16 (2.59%) Creative Problem-Solving
16 16 (2.59%) Customer Requirements
16 16 (2.59%) Network Management
Programming Languages
1 63 (10.19%) SQL
2 57 (9.22%) Python
3 37 (5.99%) C#
4 33 (5.34%) Java
5 26 (4.21%) PowerShell
6 20 (3.24%) JavaScript
7 13 (2.10%) Perl
7 13 (2.10%) PL/SQL
8 4 (0.65%) Bash
8 4 (0.65%) C++
8 4 (0.65%) T-SQL
8 4 (0.65%) VBA
8 4 (0.65%) VBScript
9 3 (0.49%) Apex Code
9 3 (0.49%) Scala
10 2 (0.32%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (0.32%) Rust
11 1 (0.16%) Go
11 1 (0.16%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 78 (12.62%) Degree
2 60 (9.71%) Security Cleared
3 42 (6.80%) HNC
4 35 (5.66%) Microsoft Certification
5 22 (3.56%) SC Cleared
6 19 (3.07%) Cisco Certification
7 18 (2.91%) A+ Certification
7 18 (2.91%) CCNA
7 18 (2.91%) DV Cleared
8 14 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
8 14 (2.27%) HND
9 13 (2.10%) MCP
10 8 (1.29%) Computer Science Degree
11 7 (1.13%) Network+ Certification
12 6 (0.97%) GCSC
12 6 (0.97%) ITIL Certification
12 6 (0.97%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 5 (0.81%) CompTIA Security+
13 5 (0.81%) MCSA
13 5 (0.81%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (9.06%) SLA
2 14 (2.27%) PCI DSS
3 7 (1.13%) GDPR
4 4 (0.65%) QA
5 3 (0.49%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.32%) GRC
6 2 (0.32%) ISO 14001
6 2 (0.32%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 15288
7 1 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 104 (16.83%) Active Directory
2 45 (7.28%) Hyper-V
3 37 (5.99%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (2.27%) KVM
5 5 (0.81%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.65%) NFS
6 4 (0.65%) Terminal Services
6 4 (0.65%) XenApp
6 4 (0.65%) XenDesktop
7 2 (0.32%) Docker
7 2 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.32%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (0.32%) vSphere
8 1 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 31 (5.02%) Microsoft Intune
2 26 (4.21%) SCCM
3 13 (2.10%) WMI
4 11 (1.78%) SCOM
5 3 (0.49%) Cisco Prime
5 3 (0.49%) Failover Clustering
5 3 (0.49%) Fluentd
5 3 (0.49%) Functional Safety
5 3 (0.49%) Kubernetes
5 3 (0.49%) logstash
5 3 (0.49%) McAfee ePO
6 2 (0.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (0.32%) Terraform
7 1 (0.16%) Autotask
7 1 (0.16%) Istio
7 1 (0.16%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.16%) PaperCut
Vendors
1 173 (27.99%) Microsoft
2 51 (8.25%) VMware
3 31 (5.02%) Cisco
4 19 (3.07%) Citrix
4 19 (3.07%) Oracle
5 17 (2.75%) Dell
6 16 (2.59%) HP
6 16 (2.59%) Splunk
7 14 (2.27%) Salesforce
8 13 (2.10%) IBM
9 11 (1.78%) SAP
10 6 (0.97%) Acronis
10 6 (0.97%) Siemens
11 5 (0.81%) NetApp
12 4 (0.65%) Bloomberg
12 4 (0.65%) ConnectWise
13 3 (0.49%) Apple
13 3 (0.49%) Aruba
13 3 (0.49%) McAfee
13 3 (0.49%) SolarWinds