Engineering Specialist
UK

The median Engineering Specialist salary in the UK is £47,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 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
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 900 931 1219
Rank change year-on-year +31 +288 -304
Permanent jobs requiring an Engineering Specialist 7 29 10
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.007% 0.029% 0.006%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.007% 0.032% 0.006%
Number of salaries quoted 7 19 0
10th Percentile £36,800 £58,250 -
25th Percentile £40,000 £59,375 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £85,000 -
Median % change year-on-year -44.12% - -
75th Percentile £51,250 £91,875 -
90th Percentile £76,750 £111,250 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £43,750 £67,500 -
% change year-on-year -35.19% - -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 94,634 91,081 154,945
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.69% 91.52% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 67,599 57,631 84,466
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,974 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,183 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.98% +6.37% +5.26%

Engineering Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Engineering Specialist in the UK

Engineering Specialist
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Engineering Specialist.

Salary trend for Engineering Specialist in the UK

Engineering Specialist
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Engineering Specialist over the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Engineering Specialist in the UK

Engineering Specialist
Top 7 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Engineering Specialist within the UK over the 6 months to 19 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
England +56 7 £47,500 -44.12% 8
UK excluding London -10 6 £43,750 -35.19% 8
North of England - 6 £43,750 - 2
Yorkshire - 5 £47,500 -
Work from Home +56 4 £47,500 -26.92% 3
London +86 1 £110,000 +10.00%
North West - 1 £32,000 - 2

Engineering Specialist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 19 May 2024, Engineering Specialist 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 featuring Engineering Specialist in the job title.

1 5 (71.43%) Systems Engineering
2 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 4 (57.14%) PowerShell
2 4 (57.14%) Windows
2 4 (57.14%) Linux
2 4 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 4 (57.14%) Azure
2 4 (57.14%) AWS
3 3 (42.86%) Degree
3 3 (42.86%) Enterprise Storage
3 3 (42.86%) High Availability
3 3 (42.86%) Active Directory
3 3 (42.86%) Red Hat
3 3 (42.86%) VBScript
3 3 (42.86%) Change Management
3 3 (42.86%) Clustering
3 3 (42.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (42.86%) Windows Server
3 3 (42.86%) Microsoft Clustering
3 3 (42.86%) Collaborative Working
3 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (42.86%) Deadline-Driven
3 3 (42.86%) Cisco
4 2 (28.57%) VB
5 1 (14.29%) Python
5 1 (14.29%) Marketing
5 1 (14.29%) Back Office
5 1 (14.29%) Finance
5 1 (14.29%) Manufacturing

Engineering Specialist Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) AWS
1 4 (57.14%) Azure
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 3 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Back Office
3 1 (14.29%) Finance
3 1 (14.29%) Manufacturing
3 1 (14.29%) Marketing
3 1 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Clustering
1 3 (42.86%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (14.29%) Hedge funds
2 1 (14.29%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) Linux
1 4 (57.14%) Windows
2 3 (42.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (42.86%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Systems Engineering
2 3 (42.86%) Change Management
2 3 (42.86%) Collaborative Working
2 3 (42.86%) Deadline-Driven
2 3 (42.86%) High Availability
2 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (14.29%) Data Protection
3 1 (14.29%) DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Generative AI
3 1 (14.29%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) PowerShell
2 3 (42.86%) VBScript
3 2 (28.57%) VB
4 1 (14.29%) Bash
4 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Active Directory
2 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft Clustering
2 1 (14.29%) Ansible
2 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 3 (42.86%) Cisco
2 3 (42.86%) Red Hat
3 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow
3 1 (14.29%) VMware