Project Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Project Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Project Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £47,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 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
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 481 630 700
Rank change year-on-year +149 +70 -107
Permanent jobs requiring a Project Engineer 309 124 173
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.42% 0.21% 0.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.44% 0.24% 0.25%
Number of salaries quoted 237 47 104
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £35,038
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £35,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% +28.57%
75th Percentile £56,000 £53,750 £48,000
90th Percentile £65,000 £57,500 £57,500
UK median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £45,500
% change year-on-year - +4.40% +21.33%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 excluding London with a recognized job title 70,239 51,739 70,521
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.92% 89.07% 95.69%
Number of salaries quoted 49,597 29,705 42,866
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £50,173
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +6.63% +5.63%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Project Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Project Engineer in the UK excluding London

Project Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Project Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Project Engineer in the UK excluding London

Project Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Project Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Project Engineer in the UK excluding London

Project Engineer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 28 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 +70 108 £45,000 -10.00% 42
North of England +95 63 £55,000 +15.79% 63
Midlands +20 58 £50,000 +11.11% 72
South West -5 41 £37,500 -6.25% 47
North West +31 29 £61,185 +61.01% 30
West Midlands +17 29 £49,000 +8.89% 39
East Midlands +3 29 £50,000 - 33
Yorkshire +94 27 £47,500 - 23
Northern Ireland - 15 £50,000 - 1
East of England -1 13 £45,000 -11.76% 24
Scotland -53 8 £45,000 -18.18% 37
North East - 7 £54,000 - 10
Wales - 3 £26,000 - 6
Project Engineer
UK

Project Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 28 May 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 across the UK excluding London region featuring Project Engineer in the job title.

1 79 (25.57%) Project Management
2 69 (22.33%) Microsoft 365
3 63 (20.39%) Microsoft
4 59 (19.09%) Active Directory
5 55 (17.80%) Degree
6 52 (16.83%) Hyper-V
7 51 (16.50%) Firewall
7 51 (16.50%) VMware
8 49 (15.86%) Azure
8 49 (15.86%) Problem-Solving
9 47 (15.21%) Project Delivery
9 47 (15.21%) Windows
10 44 (14.24%) Cisco
11 37 (11.97%) VMware Infrastructure
11 37 (11.97%) Windows Server
12 32 (10.36%) Microsoft Exchange
13 31 (10.03%) Social Skills
14 30 (9.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 30 (9.71%) SharePoint
15 27 (8.74%) Finance
15 27 (8.74%) Customer Service
16 26 (8.41%) Cisco Certification
17 25 (8.09%) VPN
17 25 (8.09%) Manufacturing
17 25 (8.09%) Entra ID
17 25 (8.09%) Fortinet
17 25 (8.09%) Microsoft Intune
18 24 (7.77%) Palo Alto
19 23 (7.44%) DNS
19 23 (7.44%) Network Security

Project Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 32 (10.36%) Microsoft Exchange
2 30 (9.71%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.65%) CMS
4 1 (0.32%) Apache
4 1 (0.32%) Exchange Server 2010
4 1 (0.32%) nginx
Applications
1 15 (4.85%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (4.21%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (3.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.32%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 3 (0.97%) Sage X3
2 2 (0.65%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 69 (22.33%) Microsoft 365
2 49 (15.86%) Azure
3 25 (8.09%) Entra ID
4 18 (5.83%) Power Platform
5 14 (4.53%) Power Automate
5 14 (4.53%) PowerApps
6 12 (3.88%) iTunes
7 5 (1.62%) OneDrive
8 2 (0.65%) AWS
9 1 (0.32%) Akamai
9 1 (0.32%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (0.32%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (0.32%) Dropbox
9 1 (0.32%) GCP
9 1 (0.32%) GitHub
9 1 (0.32%) Google Drive
9 1 (0.32%) Google Sheets
9 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (0.32%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 51 (16.50%) Firewall
2 25 (8.09%) VPN
3 23 (7.44%) DNS
3 23 (7.44%) Network Security
4 20 (6.47%) LAN
5 17 (5.50%) DHCP
6 16 (5.18%) WAN
7 14 (4.53%) VLAN
8 12 (3.88%) SSL
9 10 (3.24%) Cisco ISE
10 9 (2.91%) VoIP
11 7 (2.27%) Wireless
12 6 (1.94%) DKIM
12 6 (1.94%) DMARC
13 5 (1.62%) PBX
13 5 (1.62%) TCP/IP
14 4 (1.29%) BGP
14 4 (1.29%) IPv4
14 4 (1.29%) IPv6
14 4 (1.29%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.62%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (0.97%) Power BI
3 1 (0.32%) MySQL
3 1 (0.32%) SQL Server
General
1 31 (10.03%) Social Skills
2 30 (9.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 27 (8.74%) Finance
4 25 (8.09%) Manufacturing
5 17 (5.50%) Retail
6 14 (4.53%) Pharmaceutical
7 13 (4.21%) Legal
8 11 (3.56%) Aerospace
8 11 (3.56%) Analytical Skills
9 10 (3.24%) Telecoms
10 5 (1.62%) Automotive
11 4 (1.29%) Electronics
11 4 (1.29%) Public Sector
12 3 (0.97%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (0.97%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.32%) Aviation
13 1 (0.32%) Games
13 1 (0.32%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.32%) ARM Templates
1 1 (0.32%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 19 (6.15%) Driving Licence
2 17 (5.50%) Onboarding
3 16 (5.18%) Renewable Energy
4 6 (1.94%) NHS
4 6 (1.94%) SCADA
5 5 (1.62%) CCTV
5 5 (1.62%) Data Centre
6 4 (1.29%) Management Information System
6 4 (1.29%) Robotics
7 3 (0.97%) Clustering
8 2 (0.65%) Digital Signage
8 2 (0.65%) IPTV
9 1 (0.32%) IoT
9 1 (0.32%) PMI
9 1 (0.32%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 47 (15.21%) Windows
2 37 (11.97%) Windows Server
3 8 (2.59%) Windows 10
4 6 (1.94%) Linux
5 3 (0.97%) Android
5 3 (0.97%) Windows 7
5 3 (0.97%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.65%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.32%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.32%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.32%) Windows Mobile
7 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (25.57%) Project Management
2 49 (15.86%) Problem-Solving
3 47 (15.21%) Project Delivery
4 27 (8.74%) Customer Service
5 20 (6.47%) Logistics
6 19 (6.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 19 (6.15%) ITIL
6 19 (6.15%) Migration
7 17 (5.50%) Presales
7 17 (5.50%) Project Planning
7 17 (5.50%) Risk Management
8 16 (5.18%) Cybersecurity
9 15 (4.85%) Business Case
10 14 (4.53%) Line Management
10 14 (4.53%) Process Improvement
11 12 (3.88%) Data Integration
11 12 (3.88%) Lean Manufacturing
12 10 (3.24%) Change Control
12 10 (3.24%) Change Management
12 10 (3.24%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 22 (7.12%) PowerShell
2 16 (5.18%) SQL
3 12 (3.88%) C#
4 8 (2.59%) Java
4 8 (2.59%) Python
5 4 (1.29%) C
5 4 (1.29%) Ladder Logic
5 4 (1.29%) VB
5 4 (1.29%) VBA
6 1 (0.32%) Bash
6 1 (0.32%) Korn
6 1 (0.32%) PHP
Qualifications
1 55 (17.80%) Degree
2 26 (8.41%) Cisco Certification
3 16 (5.18%) CCNA
4 14 (4.53%) CCNP
4 14 (4.53%) JNCIA
4 14 (4.53%) JNCIP
5 6 (1.94%) CCIE
6 4 (1.29%) DBS Check
6 4 (1.29%) HND
6 4 (1.29%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (0.97%) MCP
7 3 (0.97%) MCSA
7 3 (0.97%) MCSE
7 3 (0.97%) Security Cleared
8 2 (0.65%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.65%) SC Cleared
9 1 (0.32%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.32%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.32%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.32%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (1.94%) ISO 9001
2 3 (0.97%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (0.97%) HAZOP
3 1 (0.32%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.32%) NEBOSH
3 1 (0.32%) PMO
3 1 (0.32%) QA
3 1 (0.32%) SLA
System Software
1 59 (19.09%) Active Directory
2 52 (16.83%) Hyper-V
3 37 (11.97%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (2.27%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (1.62%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (1.29%) vCloud
7 2 (0.65%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.32%) Firmware
8 1 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 25 (8.09%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (1.94%) Ansible
3 3 (0.97%) FortiGate
4 2 (0.65%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 63 (20.39%) Microsoft
2 51 (16.50%) VMware
3 44 (14.24%) Cisco
4 25 (8.09%) Fortinet
5 24 (7.77%) Palo Alto
6 19 (6.15%) Aruba
7 16 (5.18%) Citrix
8 14 (4.53%) Juniper
9 10 (3.24%) HP
10 9 (2.91%) Google
10 9 (2.91%) SAP
11 7 (2.27%) Meraki
12 6 (1.94%) QinetiQ
12 6 (1.94%) Rockwell
12 6 (1.94%) Siemens
13 5 (1.62%) Allen-Bradley
13 5 (1.62%) WatchGuard
14 4 (1.29%) Apple
14 4 (1.29%) Draytek
15 3 (0.97%) Sage