Senior IT Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Senior IT Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior IT Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £42,500 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 679 685 783
Rank change year-on-year +6 +98 -168
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior IT Engineer 96 69 89
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.13% 0.12% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.13% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 83 54 86
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,400 £31,125
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,688 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% - +25.00%
75th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £57,188
90th Percentile £63,750 £53,750 £73,625
UK median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% +15.15%

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%

Senior IT Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior IT Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior IT Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Senior IT Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior IT Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Salary histogram for Senior IT Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior IT 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 Senior IT 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
Midlands -8 24 £35,000 -13.58% 3
North of England +63 21 £53,750 +7.50% 11
East Midlands -8 19 £35,000 -24.33%
South West -18 18 £40,000 -1.84% 7
South East +3 17 £43,750 -12.50% 5
Yorkshire +88 11 £55,000 -8.33% 5
North West +13 10 £46,500 +3.33% 6
East of England +1 7 £42,500 -12.19% 1
West Midlands 0 5 £36,000 -11.11% 3
Scotland -58 5 £42,500 +6.25% 3
Wales - 3 £40,000 - 1
Northern Ireland +20 1 £32,500 -
Senior IT Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 28 May 2024, Senior 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 UK excluding London region featuring Senior IT Engineer in the job title.

1 50 (52.08%) Windows
2 37 (38.54%) Azure
3 33 (34.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 32 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
4 32 (33.33%) Windows Server
5 31 (32.29%) VMware
6 30 (31.25%) Firewall
6 30 (31.25%) Active Directory
7 26 (27.08%) Microsoft
8 25 (26.04%) DNS
9 24 (25.00%) DHCP
10 19 (19.79%) Hyper-V
11 17 (17.71%) ITIL
12 16 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
12 16 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
13 15 (15.63%) Driving Licence
13 15 (15.63%) Degree
13 15 (15.63%) Cisco
14 14 (14.58%) Linux
15 12 (12.50%) Entra ID
16 11 (11.46%) TCP/IP
17 10 (10.42%) Finance
17 10 (10.42%) PowerShell
17 10 (10.42%) Microsoft Intune
18 9 (9.38%) Windows 10
18 9 (9.38%) Social Skills
18 9 (9.38%) AWS
18 9 (9.38%) Disaster Recovery
19 8 (8.33%) SAN
19 8 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange

Senior IT 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 8 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (5.21%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.08%) WordPress
4 1 (1.04%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.04%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 37 (38.54%) Azure
2 32 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
3 12 (12.50%) Entra ID
4 9 (9.38%) AWS
5 5 (5.21%) OneDrive
6 3 (3.13%) IaaS
6 3 (3.13%) PaaS
6 3 (3.13%) SaaS
7 2 (2.08%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (1.04%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 30 (31.25%) Firewall
2 25 (26.04%) DNS
3 24 (25.00%) DHCP
4 11 (11.46%) TCP/IP
5 8 (8.33%) SAN
6 7 (7.29%) LAN
6 7 (7.29%) VLAN
6 7 (7.29%) VoIP
6 7 (7.29%) VPN
7 5 (5.21%) Internet
8 4 (4.17%) WAN
8 4 (4.17%) WLAN
9 3 (3.13%) HTTP
9 3 (3.13%) NAS
9 3 (3.13%) Network Security
9 3 (3.13%) Remote Desktop
10 2 (2.08%) DKIM
10 2 (2.08%) DMARC
10 2 (2.08%) Intrusion Detection
10 2 (2.08%) PBX
General
1 10 (10.42%) Finance
2 9 (9.38%) Social Skills
3 6 (6.25%) Aerospace
3 6 (6.25%) Telecoms
4 5 (5.21%) Automotive
5 3 (3.13%) Advertising
5 3 (3.13%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.04%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.08%) CSS
1 2 (2.08%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (15.63%) Driving Licence
2 6 (6.25%) Data Centre
3 4 (4.17%) Public Cloud
4 3 (3.13%) CCTV
5 2 (2.08%) Handset
6 1 (1.04%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 1 (1.04%) Cybercrime
6 1 (1.04%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.04%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.04%) Replication
6 1 (1.04%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (1.04%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 50 (52.08%) Windows
2 32 (33.33%) Windows Server
3 14 (14.58%) Linux
4 9 (9.38%) Windows 10
5 8 (8.33%) Windows Server 2012
6 7 (7.29%) Windows Server 2019
7 6 (6.25%) Windows Server 2016
8 5 (5.21%) Windows 7
9 4 (4.17%) Windows Server 2003
10 2 (2.08%) Mac OS X
11 1 (1.04%) AIX
11 1 (1.04%) Mac OS
11 1 (1.04%) Windows 8
11 1 (1.04%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (34.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 17 (17.71%) ITIL
3 16 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
4 9 (9.38%) Disaster Recovery
5 7 (7.29%) Customer Service
5 7 (7.29%) Migration
6 5 (5.21%) Creative Thinking
6 5 (5.21%) Incident Management
6 5 (5.21%) Infrastructure Maintenance
6 5 (5.21%) Service Management
7 4 (4.17%) High Availability
7 4 (4.17%) Information Security
7 4 (4.17%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (4.17%) Project Delivery
8 3 (3.13%) Business Continuity
8 3 (3.13%) Customer Requirements
8 3 (3.13%) Load Balancing
8 3 (3.13%) Mobile Device Management
8 3 (3.13%) Storage Management
9 2 (2.08%) Data Security
Programming Languages
1 10 (10.42%) PowerShell
2 1 (1.04%) Shell Script
2 1 (1.04%) SQL
2 1 (1.04%) VB
Qualifications
1 15 (15.63%) Degree
2 3 (3.13%) SC Cleared
2 3 (3.13%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.08%) MCP
3 2 (2.08%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (2.08%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 1 (1.04%) CCAA
4 1 (1.04%) CCNA
4 1 (1.04%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.04%) Citrix Certification
4 1 (1.04%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.04%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (1.04%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.17%) GDPR
2 2 (2.08%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (2.08%) SLA
3 1 (1.04%) COBIT
3 1 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.04%) NIST
System Software
1 30 (31.25%) Active Directory
2 19 (19.79%) Hyper-V
3 16 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (7.29%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (5.21%) vSphere
6 3 (3.13%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (2.08%) Terminal Services
7 2 (2.08%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (1.04%) Firmware
8 1 (1.04%) Samba
8 1 (1.04%) Terminal Server
8 1 (1.04%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 10 (10.42%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (3.13%) NetCrunch
2 3 (3.13%) SCCM
2 3 (3.13%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 31 (32.29%) VMware
2 26 (27.08%) Microsoft
3 15 (15.63%) Cisco
4 6 (6.25%) Aruba
4 6 (6.25%) Fortinet
4 6 (6.25%) WatchGuard
5 4 (4.17%) Extreme Networks
6 3 (3.13%) Citrix
6 3 (3.13%) Dell
6 3 (3.13%) Ivanti
6 3 (3.13%) Meraki
6 3 (3.13%) Palo Alto
6 3 (3.13%) Splunk
7 2 (2.08%) Acronis
7 2 (2.08%) ConnectWise
7 2 (2.08%) HP
7 2 (2.08%) Sage
7 2 (2.08%) Veeam
8 1 (1.04%) Sparx
8 1 (1.04%) Ubiquiti