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 1 June 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 667 667 754
Rank change year-on-year 0 +87 -127
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior IT Engineer 101 69 92
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% 0.14% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 86 54 89
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,400 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,688 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -5.26% +31.94%
75th Percentile £53,125 £50,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £63,750 £53,750 £72,950
UK median annual salary £47,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +4.44% -5.26% +11.76%

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 72,166 50,263 70,760
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.99% 88.90% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 50,782 29,433 42,686
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 £50,244
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +6.48% +5.78%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £67,000
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 1 June 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 1 June 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 -16 25 £35,000 -13.58% 2
North of England +50 23 £52,500 +5.00% 5
South West -16 20 £40,000 -1.84% 6
East Midlands -12 19 £35,000 -39.13%
South East -4 17 £43,750 -12.50% 9
Yorkshire +73 12 £55,000 -8.33%
North West +4 11 £45,750 +1.67% 5
East of England +4 7 £42,500 -12.19% 1
West Midlands -23 6 £46,750 +15.43% 2
Scotland -67 5 £42,500 +6.25% 2
Wales - 3 £40,000 - 2
Northern Ireland +21 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 1 June 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 51 (50.50%) Windows
2 38 (37.62%) Azure
3 34 (33.66%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 33 (32.67%) Microsoft 365
4 33 (32.67%) Windows Server
5 32 (31.68%) VMware
6 31 (30.69%) Active Directory
7 30 (29.70%) Firewall
8 27 (26.73%) Microsoft
9 26 (25.74%) DNS
10 25 (24.75%) DHCP
11 19 (18.81%) Hyper-V
11 19 (18.81%) ITIL
12 17 (16.83%) VMware Infrastructure
13 16 (15.84%) Degree
13 16 (15.84%) Cisco
13 16 (15.84%) Cybersecurity
14 15 (14.85%) Driving Licence
15 14 (13.86%) Linux
16 13 (12.87%) Entra ID
17 11 (10.89%) TCP/IP
17 11 (10.89%) Disaster Recovery
18 10 (9.90%) Finance
18 10 (9.90%) PowerShell
18 10 (9.90%) Microsoft Intune
19 9 (8.91%) Windows 10
19 9 (8.91%) Social Skills
19 9 (8.91%) AWS
20 8 (7.92%) SAN
20 8 (7.92%) VPN

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 (7.92%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (4.95%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.98%) WordPress
4 1 (0.99%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (3.96%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.99%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.99%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 38 (37.62%) Azure
2 33 (32.67%) Microsoft 365
3 13 (12.87%) Entra ID
4 9 (8.91%) AWS
5 5 (4.95%) OneDrive
6 3 (2.97%) IaaS
6 3 (2.97%) PaaS
6 3 (2.97%) SaaS
7 2 (1.98%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.99%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 30 (29.70%) Firewall
2 26 (25.74%) DNS
3 25 (24.75%) DHCP
4 11 (10.89%) TCP/IP
5 8 (7.92%) SAN
5 8 (7.92%) VPN
6 7 (6.93%) LAN
6 7 (6.93%) VLAN
6 7 (6.93%) VoIP
7 6 (5.94%) Internet
8 4 (3.96%) Network Security
8 4 (3.96%) WAN
8 4 (3.96%) WLAN
9 3 (2.97%) HTTP
9 3 (2.97%) NAS
9 3 (2.97%) Remote Desktop
9 3 (2.97%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (1.98%) DKIM
10 2 (1.98%) DMARC
10 2 (1.98%) Wireless
General
1 10 (9.90%) Finance
2 9 (8.91%) Social Skills
3 6 (5.94%) Aerospace
3 6 (5.94%) Telecoms
4 5 (4.95%) Automotive
5 3 (2.97%) Advertising
5 3 (2.97%) Manufacturing
6 1 (0.99%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.98%) CSS
1 2 (1.98%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (14.85%) Driving Licence
2 7 (6.93%) Data Centre
3 4 (3.96%) Public Cloud
4 3 (2.97%) CCTV
5 2 (1.98%) Handset
5 2 (1.98%) Replication
6 1 (0.99%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 1 (0.99%) Cybercrime
6 1 (0.99%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.99%) Operational Technology
6 1 (0.99%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (0.99%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.99%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 51 (50.50%) Windows
2 33 (32.67%) Windows Server
3 14 (13.86%) Linux
4 9 (8.91%) Windows 10
5 8 (7.92%) Windows Server 2012
5 8 (7.92%) Windows Server 2019
6 7 (6.93%) Windows Server 2016
7 5 (4.95%) Windows 7
8 4 (3.96%) Windows Server 2003
9 2 (1.98%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.99%) AIX
10 1 (0.99%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.99%) Windows 8
10 1 (0.99%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (33.66%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 19 (18.81%) ITIL
3 16 (15.84%) Cybersecurity
4 11 (10.89%) Disaster Recovery
5 7 (6.93%) Customer Service
5 7 (6.93%) Migration
6 5 (4.95%) Creative Thinking
6 5 (4.95%) Incident Management
6 5 (4.95%) Infrastructure Maintenance
6 5 (4.95%) Service Management
7 4 (3.96%) High Availability
7 4 (3.96%) Information Security
7 4 (3.96%) Mobile Device Management
7 4 (3.96%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (3.96%) Project Delivery
8 3 (2.97%) Business Continuity
8 3 (2.97%) Customer Requirements
8 3 (2.97%) Load Balancing
8 3 (2.97%) Multi-Factor Authentication
8 3 (2.97%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (9.90%) PowerShell
2 1 (0.99%) Shell Script
2 1 (0.99%) SQL
2 1 (0.99%) VB
Qualifications
1 16 (15.84%) Degree
2 4 (3.96%) MCP
3 3 (2.97%) SC Cleared
3 3 (2.97%) Security Cleared
3 3 (2.97%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 2 (1.98%) CCNA
4 2 (1.98%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (1.98%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.99%) CCAA
5 1 (0.99%) Citrix Certification
5 1 (0.99%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.99%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (0.99%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.96%) GDPR
2 3 (2.97%) SLA
3 2 (1.98%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.99%) COBIT
4 1 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.99%) NIST
System Software
1 31 (30.69%) Active Directory
2 19 (18.81%) Hyper-V
3 17 (16.83%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (6.93%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (4.95%) vSphere
6 3 (2.97%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (1.98%) Firmware
7 2 (1.98%) Terminal Services
7 2 (1.98%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.99%) Samba
8 1 (0.99%) Terminal Server
8 1 (0.99%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 10 (9.90%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (2.97%) NetCrunch
2 3 (2.97%) SCCM
2 3 (2.97%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 32 (31.68%) VMware
2 27 (26.73%) Microsoft
3 16 (15.84%) Cisco
4 6 (5.94%) Aruba
4 6 (5.94%) Fortinet
4 6 (5.94%) WatchGuard
5 4 (3.96%) Extreme Networks
6 3 (2.97%) Citrix
6 3 (2.97%) Dell
6 3 (2.97%) Ivanti
6 3 (2.97%) Meraki
6 3 (2.97%) Palo Alto
6 3 (2.97%) Splunk
6 3 (2.97%) Veeam
7 2 (1.98%) Acronis
7 2 (1.98%) Commvault
7 2 (1.98%) ConnectWise
7 2 (1.98%) HP
7 2 (1.98%) Sage
7 2 (1.98%) Zerto