Hybrid/Remote IT Engineer Job Trends

IT Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median IT Engineer salary for remote/hybrid work is £37,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 June 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 166 284 222
Rank change year-on-year +118 -62 +69
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 304 140 480
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.53% 0.91% 1.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.63% 0.99% 1.45%
Number of salaries quoted 286 113 419
10th Percentile £27,563 £27,500 £25,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £29,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £37,500 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +1.35%
75th Percentile £48,750 £52,500 £45,000
90th Percentile £60,000 £57,000 £55,250
UK median annual salary £35,000 £35,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year - +7.69% -5.80%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with remote/hybrid work options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 18,682 14,102 33,200
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.06% 92.10% 96.19%
Number of salaries quoted 13,628 8,606 25,946
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,000 £33,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,938 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%

IT Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Roles

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'IT Engineer' in the job title and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

IT Engineer job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid roles

IT Engineer
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for remote IT Engineer job vacancies.

Salary distribution trend for remote IT Engineer job vacancies

IT Engineer
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing IT Engineer over the 6 months to 15 June 2026.

IT Engineer salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

IT Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs

For the 6 months to 15 June 2026, IT Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent jobs with hybrid/remote work options featuring IT Engineer in the job title.

1 196 (64.47%) Microsoft
2 189 (62.17%) Microsoft 365
3 166 (54.61%) Azure
4 159 (52.30%) Windows
5 145 (47.70%) Active Directory
6 134 (44.08%) Entra ID
7 123 (40.46%) Problem-Solving
8 93 (30.59%) Microsoft Intune
9 92 (30.26%) Customer Service
9 92 (30.26%) Windows Server
10 81 (26.64%) Firewall
11 80 (26.32%) DNS
12 77 (25.33%) Microsoft Exchange
13 72 (23.68%) DHCP
14 69 (22.70%) SharePoint
15 60 (19.74%) Wi-Fi
16 54 (17.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 52 (17.11%) ITIL
18 49 (16.12%) VPN
19 48 (15.79%) Cybersecurity
20 41 (13.49%) Microsoft Certification
20 41 (13.49%) WAN
21 40 (13.16%) Hyper-V
22 39 (12.83%) Mac OS
23 38 (12.50%) TCP/IP
23 38 (12.50%) Windows 10
24 37 (12.17%) Microsoft Office
24 37 (12.17%) PowerShell
25 36 (11.84%) AWS
25 36 (11.84%) Cyber Essentials

IT Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 77 (25.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 69 (22.70%) SharePoint
3 9 (2.96%) Exchange Server 2007
3 9 (2.96%) Exchange Server 2010
3 9 (2.96%) Exchange Server 2013
4 6 (1.97%) Confluence
5 4 (1.32%) IIS
Applications
1 37 (12.17%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 189 (62.17%) Microsoft 365
2 166 (54.61%) Azure
3 134 (44.08%) Entra ID
4 36 (11.84%) AWS
5 24 (7.89%) Google Workspace
6 21 (6.91%) SaaS
7 19 (6.25%) OneDrive
8 9 (2.96%) Power Platform
9 7 (2.30%) Azure Sentinel
9 7 (2.30%) OCI
10 6 (1.97%) Mimecast
11 5 (1.64%) Intacct
12 4 (1.32%) Cloud Computing
13 3 (0.99%) Cloudflare
13 3 (0.99%) Microsoft Copilot
13 3 (0.99%) n8n
13 3 (0.99%) Nutanix
13 3 (0.99%) Power Automate
14 2 (0.66%) IaaS
14 2 (0.66%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 81 (26.64%) Firewall
2 80 (26.32%) DNS
3 72 (23.68%) DHCP
4 60 (19.74%) Wi-Fi
5 49 (16.12%) VPN
6 41 (13.49%) WAN
7 38 (12.50%) TCP/IP
8 36 (11.84%) LAN
9 35 (11.51%) VoIP
10 12 (3.95%) VLAN
11 11 (3.62%) Wireless
12 9 (2.96%) SD-WAN
13 3 (0.99%) NAS
14 2 (0.66%) Cisco ISE
14 2 (0.66%) DMVPN
14 2 (0.66%) Network Security
14 2 (0.66%) Remote Desktop
14 2 (0.66%) SAN
15 1 (0.33%) DKIM
15 1 (0.33%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (2.63%) SQL Server
2 5 (1.64%) MySQL
3 4 (1.32%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (0.99%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 18 (5.92%) JIRA
2 1 (0.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 119 (39.14%) Social Skills
2 28 (9.21%) Organisational Skills
3 18 (5.92%) Finance
4 14 (4.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 14 (4.61%) Legal
5 13 (4.28%) Telecoms
6 11 (3.62%) Law
7 10 (3.29%) Public Sector
8 8 (2.63%) Retail
9 7 (2.30%) Advertising
9 7 (2.30%) Manufacturing
10 6 (1.97%) Analytical Skills
10 6 (1.97%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.32%) Financial Institution
12 3 (0.99%) Games
13 2 (0.66%) Military
14 1 (0.33%) Japanese Language
Miscellaneous
1 51 (16.78%) Driving Licence
2 21 (6.91%) Onboarding
3 9 (2.96%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (2.30%) Linux Command Line
6 6 (1.97%) Clustering
7 5 (1.64%) Raspberry Pi
8 4 (1.32%) Data Centre
8 4 (1.32%) Housing Association
8 4 (1.32%) Social Media
9 3 (0.99%) Reinsurance
9 3 (0.99%) Replication
9 3 (0.99%) Security Posture
10 2 (0.66%) Enterprise Storage
10 2 (0.66%) iSeries
11 1 (0.33%) Fat Client
11 1 (0.33%) Hybrid Cloud
11 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Licensing
11 1 (0.33%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 159 (52.30%) Windows
2 92 (30.26%) Windows Server
3 39 (12.83%) Mac OS
4 38 (12.50%) Windows 10
5 25 (8.22%) Windows Server 2016
6 20 (6.58%) Windows Server 2012
7 16 (5.26%) Linux
7 16 (5.26%) Windows Server 2019
8 9 (2.96%) Windows Server 2008
9 5 (1.64%) Ubuntu
10 3 (0.99%) Android
10 3 (0.99%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.33%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (40.46%) Problem-Solving
2 92 (30.26%) Customer Service
3 54 (17.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 52 (17.11%) ITIL
5 48 (15.79%) Cybersecurity
6 36 (11.84%) Service Delivery
7 25 (8.22%) Continuous Improvement
8 23 (7.57%) Disaster Recovery
9 22 (7.24%) Remote Monitoring and Management
10 19 (6.25%) Change Management
10 19 (6.25%) Mentoring
11 16 (5.26%) Identity Management
11 16 (5.26%) ITSM
12 15 (4.93%) Business Continuity
12 15 (4.93%) Service Management
13 13 (4.28%) Project Delivery
14 12 (3.95%) Root Cause Analysis
15 11 (3.62%) Cloud Security
16 9 (2.96%) Collaborative Culture
16 9 (2.96%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 37 (12.17%) PowerShell
2 9 (2.96%) SQL
3 7 (2.30%) Bash
4 5 (1.64%) Python
4 5 (1.64%) R
5 2 (0.66%) Google Apps Script
6 1 (0.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 41 (13.49%) Microsoft Certification
2 22 (7.24%) Degree
3 15 (4.93%) Azure Certification
3 15 (4.93%) DBS Check
4 11 (3.62%) Cisco Certification
5 10 (3.29%) CCNA
5 10 (3.29%) SC Cleared
5 10 (3.29%) Security Cleared
6 8 (2.63%) Network+ Certification
7 7 (2.30%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (1.64%) HNC
8 5 (1.64%) HND
9 4 (1.32%) A+ Certification
10 3 (0.99%) MCSE
11 2 (0.66%) CCNP
12 1 (0.33%) ACSP
12 1 (0.33%) AWS Certification
12 1 (0.33%) CompTIA Security+
12 1 (0.33%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (11.84%) Cyber Essentials
2 23 (7.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 18 (5.92%) SLA
4 16 (5.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (0.66%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.66%) GDPR
5 2 (0.66%) QA
6 1 (0.33%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.33%) NIST
System Software
1 145 (47.70%) Active Directory
2 40 (13.16%) Hyper-V
3 23 (7.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (2.30%) vSphere
5 5 (1.64%) Terminal Services
5 5 (1.64%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (1.32%) BitLocker
7 2 (0.66%) Firmware
8 1 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 93 (30.59%) Microsoft Intune
2 11 (3.62%) Single Sign-On
3 10 (3.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 8 (2.63%) Jamf Pro
5 7 (2.30%) SCCM
6 4 (1.32%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 196 (64.47%) Microsoft
2 32 (10.53%) VMware
3 25 (8.22%) Google
4 24 (7.89%) Meraki
5 20 (6.58%) Cisco
6 17 (5.59%) Veeam
7 15 (4.93%) Fortinet
7 15 (4.93%) Ubiquiti
8 13 (4.28%) HP
9 10 (3.29%) Dell
10 9 (2.96%) SonicWALL
11 7 (2.30%) Apple
11 7 (2.30%) CyberArk
12 6 (1.97%) Datto
12 6 (1.97%) ServiceNow
13 5 (1.64%) CrowdStrike
13 5 (1.64%) Draytek
13 5 (1.64%) Freshdesk
13 5 (1.64%) Sage
13 5 (1.64%) Synology