Technical Engineer
UK

The median Technical Engineer salary in the UK is £35,000 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 408 638 867
Rank change year-on-year +230 +229 -181
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Engineer 614 353 383
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.62% 0.35% 0.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.66% 0.38% 0.25%
Number of salaries quoted 516 211 268
10th Percentile £25,000 £29,750 £23,750
25th Percentile £29,035 £33,875 £27,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £45,000 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +28.57% -3.45%
75th Percentile £47,500 £58,750 £46,563
90th Percentile £65,000 £78,000 £65,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £35,000 £37,500 £32,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +15.38% -4.41%

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 93,739 91,836 153,630
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.65% 91.52% 96.11%
Number of salaries quoted 67,104 57,926 84,939
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,604
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £80,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

Technical Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Engineer in the UK

Technical Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Technical Engineer in the UK

Technical Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Technical Engineer over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Technical Engineer in the UK

Technical Engineer
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Engineer within the UK 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
England +228 564 £35,000 -22.22% 195
UK excluding London +157 531 £35,000 -6.67% 184
South East +80 158 £35,000 -20.00% 41
Midlands +119 127 £35,000 -34.88% 38
Work from Home +58 100 £42,500 -5.56% 55
North of England +57 90 £31,500 -4.55% 47
London +113 74 £60,000 +4.35% 24
West Midlands +72 74 £35,000 -17.65% 16
South West +7 71 £36,000 -1.37% 27
East Midlands +33 53 £27,500 -50.00% 22
Yorkshire +97 45 £31,000 -11.43% 15
East of England +25 42 £35,000 -6.67% 26
North West +16 41 £30,000 -2.25% 30
Scotland -66 14 £26,500 -41.11% 3
Wales +21 12 £32,640 -6.74% 9
Northern Ireland +29 9 £34,500 -8.00% 3
Isle of Man - 8 £45,000 -
North East -4 4 £34,500 -37.56% 2

Technical Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 14 May 2024, Technical 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 featuring Technical Engineer in the job title.

1 171 (27.85%) Microsoft
2 169 (27.52%) Windows
3 141 (22.96%) Customer Service
4 138 (22.48%) Social Skills
5 104 (16.94%) Problem-Solving
6 103 (16.78%) Active Directory
7 89 (14.50%) Microsoft 365
8 87 (14.17%) Azure
9 81 (13.19%) Windows Server
10 76 (12.38%) Degree
11 66 (10.75%) Finance
12 61 (9.93%) Manufacturing
12 61 (9.93%) SQL
13 60 (9.77%) Security Cleared
14 59 (9.61%) SharePoint
15 58 (9.45%) Firewall
16 57 (9.28%) Python
17 55 (8.96%) SLA
18 53 (8.63%) Telecoms
18 53 (8.63%) Mentoring
19 51 (8.31%) Asset Management
20 50 (8.14%) VMware
21 49 (7.98%) Driving Licence
22 48 (7.82%) Entra ID
23 46 (7.49%) Linux
24 45 (7.33%) TCP/IP
24 45 (7.33%) Hyper-V
25 42 (6.84%) HNC
26 39 (6.35%) Project Management
27 37 (6.03%) ITIL

Technical Engineer 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:

Application Platforms
1 59 (9.61%) SharePoint
2 36 (5.86%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.33%) IIS
3 2 (0.33%) WordPress
Applications
1 13 (2.12%) Microsoft Excel
1 13 (2.12%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (1.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (0.98%) Revit
4 3 (0.49%) AutoCAD
4 3 (0.49%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.33%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.16%) JDE EnterpriseOne
2 1 (0.16%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 89 (14.50%) Microsoft 365
2 87 (14.17%) Azure
3 48 (7.82%) Entra ID
4 32 (5.21%) OneDrive
5 18 (2.93%) AWS
6 13 (2.12%) IBM Cloud
7 10 (1.63%) SaaS
8 8 (1.30%) Cloud Computing
9 7 (1.14%) GCP
10 6 (0.98%) Azure Monitor
10 6 (0.98%) Dynamics 365
10 6 (0.98%) Mimecast
11 3 (0.49%) PaaS
11 3 (0.49%) Power Platform
12 2 (0.33%) Amazon Kinesis
12 2 (0.33%) IaaS
12 2 (0.33%) Oracle CX
13 1 (0.16%) Azure DevOps
13 1 (0.16%) Azure Sentinel
13 1 (0.16%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 58 (9.45%) Firewall
2 45 (7.33%) TCP/IP
3 35 (5.70%) DNS
4 30 (4.89%) Wireless
5 26 (4.23%) LAN
6 25 (4.07%) VoIP
6 25 (4.07%) WAN
7 23 (3.75%) DHCP
7 23 (3.75%) SAN
8 21 (3.42%) Wi-Fi
9 19 (3.09%) SNMP
10 18 (2.93%) LTE
11 16 (2.61%) 3G
11 16 (2.61%) Ethernet
12 14 (2.28%) 4G
13 13 (2.12%) SSH
14 10 (1.63%) GPRS
14 10 (1.63%) VLAN
14 10 (1.63%) VSAT
15 9 (1.47%) SDH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (4.40%) MySQL
2 23 (3.75%) SQL Server
3 16 (2.61%) Relational Database
4 3 (0.49%) GIS
5 2 (0.33%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (0.33%) Crystal Reports
5 2 (0.33%) DynamoDB
5 2 (0.33%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.33%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (0.33%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (0.33%) Power BI
5 2 (0.33%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.16%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.16%) Big Data
6 1 (0.16%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 13 (2.12%) Eclipse
1 13 (2.12%) JIRA
2 1 (0.16%) Gatling
2 1 (0.16%) Git
2 1 (0.16%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.16%) JUnit
2 1 (0.16%) LoadRunner
2 1 (0.16%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 138 (22.48%) Social Skills
2 66 (10.75%) Finance
3 61 (9.93%) Manufacturing
4 53 (8.63%) Telecoms
5 30 (4.89%) Military
6 27 (4.40%) Electronics
7 24 (3.91%) Analytical Skills
8 23 (3.75%) Banking
9 22 (3.58%) Back Office
9 22 (3.58%) Front Office
9 22 (3.58%) Organisational Skills
10 18 (2.93%) Marketing
10 18 (2.93%) Retail
11 16 (2.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 16 (2.61%) Public Sector
12 14 (2.28%) Police
13 13 (2.12%) Documentation Skills
14 10 (1.63%) Local Government
15 7 (1.14%) Games
15 7 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (3.58%) CSS
2 18 (2.93%) REST
3 16 (2.61%) HTML
3 16 (2.61%) XML
4 15 (2.44%) Web Services
5 13 (2.12%) Ajax
5 13 (2.12%) AngularJS
5 13 (2.12%) JDBC
5 13 (2.12%) ODBC
5 13 (2.12%) SOAP
5 13 (2.12%) XHTML
6 3 (0.49%) EDI
6 3 (0.49%) Fluent Bit
6 3 (0.49%) JSON
6 3 (0.49%) Lightning Web Components
7 2 (0.33%) GraphQL
7 2 (0.33%) http4s
7 2 (0.33%) Middleware
7 2 (0.33%) React
7 2 (0.33%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 49 (7.98%) Driving Licence
2 22 (3.58%) Derivative
2 22 (3.58%) Hedge funds
3 16 (2.61%) Self-Motivation
4 15 (2.44%) CCTV
5 14 (2.28%) Hybrid Cloud
6 13 (2.12%) Blockchain
6 13 (2.12%) CMDB
6 13 (2.12%) Data Centre
7 8 (1.30%) Fat Client
7 8 (1.30%) Linux Command Line
7 8 (1.30%) Thin Client
8 7 (1.14%) Fibre Optics
8 7 (1.14%) Management Information System
9 6 (0.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 5 (0.81%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (0.81%) Robotics
10 5 (0.81%) Smartphone
11 4 (0.65%) EPoS
11 4 (0.65%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 169 (27.52%) Windows
2 81 (13.19%) Windows Server
3 46 (7.49%) Linux
4 19 (3.09%) Windows 10
5 17 (2.77%) Mac OS
5 17 (2.77%) Unix
6 11 (1.79%) Windows Server 2012
7 6 (0.98%) Android
8 5 (0.81%) VMS
9 3 (0.49%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.49%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.33%) Solaris
10 2 (0.33%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.16%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (22.96%) Customer Service
2 104 (16.94%) Problem-Solving
3 53 (8.63%) Mentoring
4 51 (8.31%) Asset Management
5 39 (6.35%) Project Management
6 37 (6.03%) ITIL
7 36 (5.86%) Continuous Improvement
8 33 (5.37%) Customer Experience
9 32 (5.21%) Coaching
10 26 (4.23%) Cybersecurity
11 25 (4.07%) Investment Management
12 23 (3.75%) Commercial Awareness
13 21 (3.42%) Business Intelligence
14 20 (3.26%) CRM
15 18 (2.93%) DevOps
16 17 (2.77%) Proactive Maintenance
16 17 (2.77%) Time Management
17 16 (2.61%) Creative Problem-Solving
17 16 (2.61%) Customer Requirements
17 16 (2.61%) Network Management
Programming Languages
1 61 (9.93%) SQL
2 57 (9.28%) Python
3 37 (6.03%) C#
4 33 (5.37%) Java
5 25 (4.07%) PowerShell
6 20 (3.26%) JavaScript
7 13 (2.12%) Perl
8 12 (1.95%) PL/SQL
9 4 (0.65%) Bash
9 4 (0.65%) C++
9 4 (0.65%) T-SQL
9 4 (0.65%) VBA
9 4 (0.65%) VBScript
10 3 (0.49%) Apex Code
10 3 (0.49%) Scala
11 2 (0.33%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.33%) Rust
12 1 (0.16%) Go
12 1 (0.16%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 76 (12.38%) Degree
2 60 (9.77%) Security Cleared
3 42 (6.84%) HNC
4 34 (5.54%) Microsoft Certification
5 22 (3.58%) SC Cleared
6 19 (3.09%) Cisco Certification
7 18 (2.93%) A+ Certification
7 18 (2.93%) CCNA
7 18 (2.93%) DV Cleared
8 14 (2.28%) BPSS Clearance
8 14 (2.28%) HND
9 13 (2.12%) MCP
10 8 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
11 7 (1.14%) Network+ Certification
12 6 (0.98%) GCSC
12 6 (0.98%) ITIL Certification
13 5 (0.81%) Azure Certification
13 5 (0.81%) CompTIA Security+
13 5 (0.81%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 4 (0.65%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (8.96%) SLA
2 14 (2.28%) PCI DSS
3 7 (1.14%) GDPR
4 4 (0.65%) QA
5 3 (0.49%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.33%) GRC
6 2 (0.33%) ISO 14001
6 2 (0.33%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 15288
7 1 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 103 (16.78%) Active Directory
2 45 (7.33%) Hyper-V
3 36 (5.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (2.28%) KVM
5 5 (0.81%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.65%) NFS
6 4 (0.65%) Terminal Services
6 4 (0.65%) XenApp
6 4 (0.65%) XenDesktop
7 2 (0.33%) Docker
7 2 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.33%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (0.33%) vSphere
8 1 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 31 (5.05%) Microsoft Intune
2 25 (4.07%) SCCM
3 13 (2.12%) WMI
4 10 (1.63%) SCOM
5 3 (0.49%) Cisco Prime
5 3 (0.49%) Fluentd
5 3 (0.49%) Functional Safety
5 3 (0.49%) Kubernetes
5 3 (0.49%) logstash
5 3 (0.49%) McAfee ePO
6 2 (0.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (0.33%) Failover Clustering
6 2 (0.33%) Terraform
7 1 (0.16%) Autotask
7 1 (0.16%) Istio
7 1 (0.16%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.16%) PaperCut
Vendors
1 171 (27.85%) Microsoft
2 50 (8.14%) VMware
3 31 (5.05%) Cisco
4 19 (3.09%) Citrix
4 19 (3.09%) Oracle
5 17 (2.77%) Dell
6 16 (2.61%) HP
6 16 (2.61%) Splunk
7 14 (2.28%) Salesforce
8 13 (2.12%) IBM
9 10 (1.63%) SAP
10 6 (0.98%) Acronis
10 6 (0.98%) Siemens
11 5 (0.81%) NetApp
12 4 (0.65%) Bloomberg
12 4 (0.65%) ConnectWise
13 3 (0.49%) Apple
13 3 (0.49%) Aruba
13 3 (0.49%) McAfee
13 3 (0.49%) SolarWinds