IT Engineer Jobs in England

IT Engineer
UK > England

The median IT Engineer salary in England is £32,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 14 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
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 139 241 363
Rank change year-on-year +102 +122 -97
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 1,744 1,351 1,382
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 2.03% 1.51% 1.03%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.15% 1.65% 1.07%
Number of salaries quoted 1,560 1,075 1,225
10th Percentile £24,000 £25,500 £23,500
25th Percentile £26,500 £27,750 £27,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £34,500 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.80% -1.43% -
75th Percentile £43,000 £45,000 £46,250
90th Percentile £50,000 £60,150 £57,500
UK median annual salary £32,500 £34,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year -5.80% -1.43% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 81,017 81,732 129,546
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.50% 91.52% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 60,430 51,948 75,224
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

IT Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Engineer in England

IT Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for IT Engineer in England

IT Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing IT Engineer in England over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Salary histogram for IT Engineer in England

IT Engineer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IT Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 14 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
South East +68 409 £34,000 +7.94% 72
North of England +67 356 £31,500 -8.70% 77
Midlands +79 354 £35,000 +7.69% 62
South West +7 226 £30,000 -7.69% 52
London -6 209 £40,000 +5.26% 82
West Midlands +60 188 £34,000 - 28
East of England +60 182 £31,833 +1.46% 25
North West +30 170 £30,000 -14.29% 38
East Midlands +54 161 £37,500 +33.93% 34
Yorkshire +86 133 £30,000 +5.26% 30
North East +28 52 £32,500 -2.26% 12
IT Engineer
UK

IT Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 14 May 2024, IT 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 across the England region featuring IT Engineer in the job title.

1 1,020 (58.49%) Windows
2 920 (52.75%) Microsoft 365
3 884 (50.69%) Microsoft
4 782 (44.84%) Active Directory
5 656 (37.61%) Azure
6 536 (30.73%) Social Skills
7 534 (30.62%) Windows Server
8 463 (26.55%) Firewall
9 375 (21.50%) VMware
10 351 (20.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 318 (18.23%) Microsoft Exchange
12 317 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
13 316 (18.12%) Customer Service
14 277 (15.88%) ITIL
15 273 (15.65%) Hyper-V
16 269 (15.42%) Windows 10
17 246 (14.11%) VMware Infrastructure
18 242 (13.88%) Microsoft Office
19 227 (13.02%) SharePoint
20 221 (12.67%) DNS
21 216 (12.39%) Entra ID
22 215 (12.33%) Microsoft Intune
23 186 (10.67%) DHCP
24 179 (10.26%) Wi-Fi
25 176 (10.09%) Cybersecurity
26 173 (9.92%) Cisco
27 162 (9.29%) Degree
28 157 (9.00%) Linux
29 155 (8.89%) Driving Licence
30 154 (8.83%) PowerShell

IT Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 318 (18.23%) Microsoft Exchange
2 227 (13.02%) SharePoint
3 19 (1.09%) Exchange Server 2013
4 16 (0.92%) IIS
5 11 (0.63%) Exchange Server 2010
6 9 (0.52%) Confluence
6 9 (0.52%) Exchange Server 2007
7 6 (0.34%) Exchange Server 2000
8 4 (0.23%) CMS
9 3 (0.17%) SAS
9 3 (0.17%) WordPress
10 2 (0.11%) Apache
10 2 (0.11%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
10 2 (0.11%) Exchange Server 2003
10 2 (0.11%) Skype for Business
11 1 (0.057%) Moodle
11 1 (0.057%) nginx
11 1 (0.057%) Site Server
11 1 (0.057%) Tomcat
Applications
1 242 (13.88%) Microsoft Office
2 45 (2.58%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
4 4 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.17%) SPSS
6 2 (0.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.057%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.057%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.057%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (0.29%) Sage X3
2 3 (0.17%) Dynamics NAV
2 3 (0.17%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.11%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.057%) Carpe Diem
4 1 (0.057%) Elite 3E
4 1 (0.057%) MIS ActiveH
4 1 (0.057%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 920 (52.75%) Microsoft 365
2 656 (37.61%) Azure
3 216 (12.39%) Entra ID
4 97 (5.56%) AWS
5 56 (3.21%) OneDrive
6 33 (1.89%) Mimecast
7 31 (1.78%) Google Workspace
8 18 (1.03%) SaaS
9 13 (0.75%) IaaS
10 12 (0.69%) iTunes
10 12 (0.69%) Power Platform
11 10 (0.57%) PaaS
12 9 (0.52%) Amazon EC2
12 9 (0.52%) GCP
12 9 (0.52%) Nutanix
12 9 (0.52%) Power Automate
13 8 (0.46%) Cloud Computing
13 8 (0.46%) WhatsApp
14 7 (0.40%) Azure Storage
14 7 (0.40%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 463 (26.55%) Firewall
2 221 (12.67%) DNS
3 186 (10.67%) DHCP
4 179 (10.26%) Wi-Fi
5 147 (8.43%) VPN
6 130 (7.45%) TCP/IP
7 128 (7.34%) WAN
8 114 (6.54%) LAN
9 107 (6.14%) VoIP
10 102 (5.85%) SAN
11 99 (5.68%) Wireless
12 95 (5.45%) VLAN
13 57 (3.27%) Network Security
14 45 (2.58%) Internet
15 31 (1.78%) Remote Desktop
16 26 (1.49%) NAS
16 26 (1.49%) SD-WAN
17 19 (1.09%) SSL
18 18 (1.03%) Cisco IOS
18 18 (1.03%) PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 122 (7.00%) SQL Server
2 45 (2.58%) Amazon RDS
3 35 (2.01%) MySQL
4 8 (0.46%) MariaDB
5 5 (0.29%) Power BI
6 4 (0.23%) Crystal Reports
6 4 (0.23%) DB2
6 4 (0.23%) InfluxDB
7 3 (0.17%) Big Data
7 3 (0.17%) EDRMS
8 2 (0.11%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.057%) Electronic Patient Records
9 1 (0.057%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 22 (1.26%) JIRA
2 4 (0.23%) Visual Studio
3 3 (0.17%) LabVIEW
4 2 (0.11%) MSI
4 2 (0.11%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.057%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.057%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.057%) Jenkins
General
1 536 (30.73%) Social Skills
2 101 (5.79%) Finance
3 88 (5.05%) Analytical Skills
4 82 (4.70%) Law
5 78 (4.47%) Organisational Skills
5 78 (4.47%) Telecoms
6 60 (3.44%) Manufacturing
7 48 (2.75%) Retail
8 41 (2.35%) Legal
9 33 (1.89%) Documentation Skills
9 33 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 27 (1.55%) Marketing
11 25 (1.43%) Banking
12 24 (1.38%) Public Sector
13 19 (1.09%) Games
14 17 (0.97%) Automotive
15 15 (0.86%) Advertising
16 14 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
17 11 (0.63%) Back Office
18 9 (0.52%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (0.46%) ADSI
1 8 (0.46%) LDAP
2 5 (0.29%) Kafka
3 4 (0.23%) Cocoa
4 3 (0.17%) .NET
4 3 (0.17%) LAMP
5 2 (0.11%) CSS
5 2 (0.11%) HTML
5 2 (0.11%) V-Ray
6 1 (0.057%) ARM Templates
6 1 (0.057%) Azure Blueprints
6 1 (0.057%) EDI
6 1 (0.057%) RESTEasy
6 1 (0.057%) SAML
6 1 (0.057%) Software Packaging
6 1 (0.057%) WSH
Miscellaneous
1 155 (8.89%) Driving Licence
2 63 (3.61%) Self-Motivation
3 59 (3.38%) Data Centre
4 46 (2.64%) Management Information System
4 46 (2.64%) Replication
5 33 (1.89%) Onboarding
6 30 (1.72%) Fat Client
6 30 (1.72%) Thin Client
7 28 (1.61%) EPoS
8 26 (1.49%) CCTV
8 26 (1.49%) Enterprise Storage
9 18 (1.03%) iPad
10 15 (0.86%) Public Cloud
11 14 (0.80%) Social Media
11 14 (0.80%) Video Conferencing
12 13 (0.75%) Cyberattack
12 13 (0.75%) Security Posture
13 9 (0.52%) Analytical Mindset
13 9 (0.52%) Life Science
13 9 (0.52%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 1,020 (58.49%) Windows
2 534 (30.62%) Windows Server
3 269 (15.42%) Windows 10
4 157 (9.00%) Linux
5 138 (7.91%) Windows Server 2016
6 103 (5.91%) Windows Server 2019
7 91 (5.22%) Windows Server 2012
8 80 (4.59%) Mac OS
9 68 (3.90%) Android
10 66 (3.78%) Apple iOS
11 34 (1.95%) Windows 7
12 25 (1.43%) Windows Server 2008
13 24 (1.38%) Mac OS X
14 23 (1.32%) Windows 8
15 16 (0.92%) Unix
16 13 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
17 10 (0.57%) Windows Server 2003
18 9 (0.52%) CentOS
19 5 (0.29%) Debian
19 5 (0.29%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 351 (20.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 317 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
3 316 (18.12%) Customer Service
4 277 (15.88%) ITIL
5 176 (10.09%) Cybersecurity
6 98 (5.62%) Migration
7 92 (5.28%) Disaster Recovery
8 90 (5.16%) Project Delivery
9 79 (4.53%) Continuous Improvement
9 79 (4.53%) Service Delivery
10 69 (3.96%) Project Management
11 54 (3.10%) Incident Management
12 53 (3.04%) Agile
13 48 (2.75%) Asset Management
14 47 (2.69%) Service Management
15 44 (2.52%) Change Management
16 43 (2.47%) Project Planning
16 43 (2.47%) Time Management
17 41 (2.35%) Customer Experience
18 40 (2.29%) Remote Monitoring and Management
Programming Languages
1 154 (8.83%) PowerShell
2 143 (8.20%) SQL
3 43 (2.47%) Python
4 19 (1.09%) Bash
5 12 (0.69%) Java
6 10 (0.57%) Swift
7 9 (0.52%) C++
7 9 (0.52%) PHP
8 7 (0.40%) JavaScript
9 6 (0.34%) C#
9 6 (0.34%) VB
10 5 (0.29%) Perl
11 4 (0.23%) R
11 4 (0.23%) Ruby
12 2 (0.11%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.057%) Go
13 1 (0.057%) Korn
13 1 (0.057%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.057%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 162 (9.29%) Degree
2 112 (6.42%) Microsoft Certification
3 82 (4.70%) Cisco Certification
4 69 (3.96%) DBS Check
5 61 (3.50%) CCNA
6 47 (2.69%) Network+ Certification
7 34 (1.95%) Azure Certification
7 34 (1.95%) Security Cleared
8 33 (1.89%) MCSE
9 29 (1.66%) A+ Certification
10 25 (1.43%) CISSP
11 23 (1.32%) CCNP
12 21 (1.20%) MCP
13 20 (1.15%) CompTIA Security+
14 19 (1.09%) SC Cleared
15 15 (0.86%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 14 (0.80%) ITIL Certification
17 12 (0.69%) Computer Science Degree
17 12 (0.69%) MCSA
18 11 (0.63%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (5.39%) SLA
2 37 (2.12%) GDPR
3 30 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 23 (1.32%) Cyber Essentials
5 16 (0.92%) QA
6 9 (0.52%) NIST
7 5 (0.29%) PCI DSS
7 5 (0.29%) SOC 2
8 4 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 3 (0.17%) COBIT
9 3 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.057%) ISO 13485
10 1 (0.057%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.057%) NCSC
System Software
1 782 (44.84%) Active Directory
2 273 (15.65%) Hyper-V
3 246 (14.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 46 (2.64%) VMware ESXi
5 28 (1.61%) vSphere
6 25 (1.43%) Virtual Desktop
7 20 (1.15%) Virtual Servers
8 19 (1.09%) Virtual Machines
9 15 (0.86%) Docker
10 10 (0.57%) Terminal Services
11 6 (0.34%) Firmware
12 5 (0.29%) VMware Server
12 5 (0.29%) XenApp
13 4 (0.23%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 3 (0.17%) Xen
15 2 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
15 2 (0.11%) pfSense
15 2 (0.11%) Samba
15 2 (0.11%) VMware Workstation
16 1 (0.057%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 215 (12.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 84 (4.82%) SCCM
3 17 (0.97%) WSUS
4 13 (0.75%) Cisco CUCM
4 13 (0.75%) Jamf Pro
4 13 (0.75%) ServiceCenter
5 12 (0.69%) Kubernetes
5 12 (0.69%) SCOM
6 10 (0.57%) Ansible
7 9 (0.52%) FortiGate
7 9 (0.52%) vCenter Server
8 8 (0.46%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 7 (0.40%) Grafana
10 6 (0.34%) Failover Clustering
10 6 (0.34%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
10 6 (0.34%) Opsgenie
11 5 (0.29%) NetCrunch
11 5 (0.29%) Proxmox
12 4 (0.23%) Backup Exec
12 4 (0.23%) Nessus
Vendors
1 884 (50.69%) Microsoft
2 375 (21.50%) VMware
3 173 (9.92%) Cisco
4 133 (7.63%) Citrix
5 102 (5.85%) Veeam
6 82 (4.70%) Apple
7 81 (4.64%) HP
8 66 (3.78%) Meraki
9 58 (3.33%) Sophos
10 41 (2.35%) Google
11 37 (2.12%) Dell
12 35 (2.01%) Fortinet
13 33 (1.89%) Palo Alto
14 28 (1.61%) Aruba
14 28 (1.61%) ConnectWise
14 28 (1.61%) Draytek
15 27 (1.55%) Barracuda Networks
16 22 (1.26%) Acronis
17 20 (1.15%) WatchGuard
18 15 (0.86%) Oracle