IT Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

IT Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median IT Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £32,500 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 112 202 249
Rank change year-on-year +90 +47 -69
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 1,786 1,007 1,074
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.35% 1.78% 1.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.47% 2.00% 1.52%
Number of salaries quoted 1,525 779 984
10th Percentile £23,500 £25,000 £23,000
25th Percentile £26,250 £27,500 £26,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £32,500 £33,500
Median % change year-on-year - -2.99% +3.08%
75th Percentile £42,500 £42,750 £44,500
90th Percentile £47,500 £53,050 £55,000
UK median annual salary £32,500 £34,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year -5.80% -1.43% -

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%

IT Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Engineer in the UK excluding London

IT Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for IT Engineer in the UK excluding London

IT Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing IT Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for IT Engineer in the UK excluding London

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 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
South East +70 406 £34,000 +6.25% 81
North of England +76 386 £31,500 -8.70% 73
Midlands +65 366 £35,000 +5.68% 34
South West +7 244 £30,000 -7.69% 42
North West +46 187 £30,000 -20.00% 42
West Midlands +40 186 £35,000 +1.45% 13
East of England +50 184 £31,833 +0.26% 28
East Midlands +58 176 £37,250 +33.04% 21
Yorkshire +73 141 £30,250 +0.83% 24
Wales +99 130 £27,500 - 6
Scotland -55 65 £28,500 -22.97% 18
North East +26 57 £32,500 -2.99% 10
Northern Ireland +16 4 £30,000 - 4
Channel Islands - 3 - -
Isle of Man - 1 - - 1
IT Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, 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 IT Engineer in the job title.

1 922 (51.62%) Windows
2 819 (45.86%) Microsoft 365
3 817 (45.74%) Microsoft
4 690 (38.63%) Active Directory
5 590 (33.03%) Azure
6 568 (31.80%) Social Skills
7 495 (27.72%) Windows Server
8 431 (24.13%) Firewall
9 367 (20.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 363 (20.32%) Problem-Solving
11 360 (20.16%) VMware
12 316 (17.69%) Customer Service
13 280 (15.68%) Microsoft Exchange
14 260 (14.56%) Hyper-V
15 241 (13.49%) ITIL
16 234 (13.10%) VMware Infrastructure
17 217 (12.15%) Microsoft Office
18 214 (11.98%) Windows 10
19 208 (11.65%) SharePoint
20 201 (11.25%) Degree
21 196 (10.97%) DNS
22 192 (10.75%) Microsoft Intune
22 192 (10.75%) Entra ID
23 169 (9.46%) DHCP
23 169 (9.46%) Cisco
24 157 (8.79%) Linux
25 154 (8.62%) Driving Licence
26 149 (8.34%) Cybersecurity
27 144 (8.06%) Continuous Improvement
28 143 (8.01%) SQL

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
1 280 (15.68%) Microsoft Exchange
2 208 (11.65%) SharePoint
3 19 (1.06%) IIS
4 14 (0.78%) Exchange Server 2013
5 12 (0.67%) Confluence
6 9 (0.50%) Exchange Server 2010
7 7 (0.39%) Exchange Server 2007
8 6 (0.34%) Exchange Server 2000
9 3 (0.17%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.17%) WordPress
10 2 (0.11%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
10 2 (0.11%) CMS
10 2 (0.11%) Exchange Server 2003
10 2 (0.11%) Skype for Business
11 1 (0.056%) Apache
11 1 (0.056%) Moodle
11 1 (0.056%) Site Server
11 1 (0.056%) Tomcat
Applications
1 217 (12.15%) Microsoft Office
2 51 (2.86%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
4 4 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.056%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.056%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (0.28%) Sage X3
2 3 (0.17%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (0.11%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (0.11%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.056%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.056%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.056%) MIS ActiveH
Cloud Services
1 819 (45.86%) Microsoft 365
2 590 (33.03%) Azure
3 192 (10.75%) Entra ID
4 81 (4.54%) AWS
5 49 (2.74%) OneDrive
6 30 (1.68%) Mimecast
7 28 (1.57%) Google Workspace
8 17 (0.95%) Power Platform
9 12 (0.67%) iTunes
10 11 (0.62%) SaaS
11 10 (0.56%) PowerApps
12 9 (0.50%) Cloud Computing
12 9 (0.50%) Nutanix
12 9 (0.50%) Power Automate
13 7 (0.39%) IaaS
14 6 (0.34%) Serverless
15 5 (0.28%) PaaS
16 3 (0.17%) Amazon GuardDuty
16 3 (0.17%) AWS CloudTrail
16 3 (0.17%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 431 (24.13%) Firewall
2 196 (10.97%) DNS
3 169 (9.46%) DHCP
4 136 (7.61%) Wi-Fi
5 124 (6.94%) VPN
6 115 (6.44%) TCP/IP
7 105 (5.88%) SAN
8 104 (5.82%) WAN
9 96 (5.38%) VoIP
10 92 (5.15%) LAN
11 89 (4.98%) Wireless
12 80 (4.48%) VLAN
13 54 (3.02%) Network Security
14 48 (2.69%) Internet
15 30 (1.68%) NAS
16 29 (1.62%) Remote Desktop
17 19 (1.06%) SD-WAN
17 19 (1.06%) SSL
18 17 (0.95%) Cisco IOS
18 17 (0.95%) PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 115 (6.44%) SQL Server
2 40 (2.24%) Amazon RDS
3 34 (1.90%) MySQL
4 8 (0.45%) MariaDB
5 6 (0.34%) Power BI
6 4 (0.22%) Crystal Reports
6 4 (0.22%) DB2
6 4 (0.22%) InfluxDB
7 3 (0.17%) Metabase
8 2 (0.11%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 24 (1.34%) JIRA
2 4 (0.22%) Visual Studio
3 3 (0.17%) LabVIEW
3 3 (0.17%) Visual Studio Code
4 2 (0.11%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.056%) Jenkins
General
1 568 (31.80%) Social Skills
2 132 (7.39%) Law
3 128 (7.17%) Manufacturing
4 82 (4.59%) Telecoms
5 76 (4.26%) Finance
6 71 (3.98%) Organisational Skills
7 68 (3.81%) Influencing Skills
7 68 (3.81%) Presentation Skills
8 67 (3.75%) Analytical Skills
9 52 (2.91%) Retail
10 35 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 27 (1.51%) Documentation Skills
11 27 (1.51%) Legal
12 25 (1.40%) Marketing
13 20 (1.12%) Public Sector
14 17 (0.95%) Automotive
15 16 (0.90%) Games
16 14 (0.78%) Advertising
17 11 (0.62%) Back Office
18 9 (0.50%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (0.28%) Kafka
2 4 (0.22%) Cocoa
3 3 (0.17%) .NET
3 3 (0.17%) LAMP
4 2 (0.11%) CSS
4 2 (0.11%) HTML
4 2 (0.11%) Software Packaging
4 2 (0.11%) V-Ray
5 1 (0.056%) EDI
5 1 (0.056%) LDAP
5 1 (0.056%) RESTEasy
Miscellaneous
1 154 (8.62%) Driving Licence
2 68 (3.81%) FMCG
3 59 (3.30%) Self-Motivation
4 50 (2.80%) Data Centre
5 49 (2.74%) Management Information System
6 43 (2.41%) Replication
7 31 (1.74%) CCTV
8 30 (1.68%) Onboarding
9 29 (1.62%) Fat Client
9 29 (1.62%) Thin Client
10 27 (1.51%) Enterprise Storage
11 20 (1.12%) iPad
12 13 (0.73%) Public Cloud
13 10 (0.56%) EPoS
13 10 (0.56%) Security Posture
13 10 (0.56%) Social Media
14 8 (0.45%) Client/Server
14 8 (0.45%) Hybrid Cloud
14 8 (0.45%) Operational Technology
15 7 (0.39%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 922 (51.62%) Windows
2 495 (27.72%) Windows Server
3 214 (11.98%) Windows 10
4 157 (8.79%) Linux
5 127 (7.11%) Windows Server 2016
6 96 (5.38%) Windows Server 2019
7 80 (4.48%) Windows Server 2012
8 61 (3.42%) Mac OS
9 53 (2.97%) Android
10 49 (2.74%) Apple iOS
11 36 (2.02%) Windows 7
12 21 (1.18%) Windows 8
13 19 (1.06%) Windows Server 2008
14 11 (0.62%) Mac OS X
15 10 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 10 (0.56%) Unix
16 8 (0.45%) CentOS
16 8 (0.45%) Windows Server 2003
17 5 (0.28%) Debian
18 4 (0.22%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 367 (20.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 363 (20.32%) Problem-Solving
3 316 (17.69%) Customer Service
4 241 (13.49%) ITIL
5 149 (8.34%) Cybersecurity
6 144 (8.06%) Continuous Improvement
7 92 (5.15%) Project Delivery
8 86 (4.82%) Migration
9 85 (4.76%) Disaster Recovery
10 76 (4.26%) Service Delivery
11 68 (3.81%) Benchmarking
11 68 (3.81%) Lean Manufacturing
11 68 (3.81%) Lean Six Sigma
11 68 (3.81%) Order Management
11 68 (3.81%) Six Sigma
12 67 (3.75%) Project Management
13 56 (3.14%) Incident Management
14 50 (2.80%) Agile
15 44 (2.46%) Change Management
16 42 (2.35%) Project Planning
Programming Languages
1 143 (8.01%) SQL
2 118 (6.61%) PowerShell
3 30 (1.68%) Python
4 13 (0.73%) Java
5 10 (0.56%) Swift
6 9 (0.50%) Bash
7 8 (0.45%) C++
7 8 (0.45%) PHP
8 7 (0.39%) JavaScript
9 6 (0.34%) C#
9 6 (0.34%) VB
10 4 (0.22%) R
11 3 (0.17%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.11%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.056%) Go
13 1 (0.056%) Perl
Qualifications
1 201 (11.25%) Degree
2 110 (6.16%) Microsoft Certification
3 68 (3.81%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
4 67 (3.75%) DBS Check
5 65 (3.64%) Cisco Certification
6 54 (3.02%) CCNA
7 42 (2.35%) Network+ Certification
8 33 (1.85%) MCSE
9 32 (1.79%) Security Cleared
10 30 (1.68%) Azure Certification
11 28 (1.57%) A+ Certification
12 22 (1.23%) MCP
13 17 (0.95%) SC Cleared
14 15 (0.84%) CompTIA Security+
14 15 (0.84%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 14 (0.78%) CCNP
15 14 (0.78%) CISSP
16 13 (0.73%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
17 11 (0.62%) ITIL Certification
17 11 (0.62%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (5.10%) SLA
2 36 (2.02%) GDPR
3 29 (1.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 21 (1.18%) Cyber Essentials
5 14 (0.78%) QA
6 7 (0.39%) NIST
7 6 (0.34%) SOC 2
8 4 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 4 (0.22%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 2 (0.11%) NCSC
11 1 (0.056%) Accessibility
11 1 (0.056%) COBIT
11 1 (0.056%) ISO 13485
11 1 (0.056%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 690 (38.63%) Active Directory
2 260 (14.56%) Hyper-V
3 234 (13.10%) VMware Infrastructure
4 42 (2.35%) VMware ESXi
5 25 (1.40%) Virtual Desktop
6 24 (1.34%) vSphere
7 21 (1.18%) Virtual Servers
8 20 (1.12%) Virtual Machines
9 15 (0.84%) Docker
10 8 (0.45%) Firmware
11 6 (0.34%) Terminal Services
12 5 (0.28%) VMware Server
13 4 (0.22%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 2 (0.11%) pfSense
14 2 (0.11%) Samba
14 2 (0.11%) VMware Workstation
15 1 (0.056%) NFS
15 1 (0.056%) Terminal Server
15 1 (0.056%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 192 (10.75%) Microsoft Intune
2 70 (3.92%) SCCM
3 16 (0.90%) WSUS
4 13 (0.73%) Cisco CUCM
4 13 (0.73%) ServiceCenter
5 12 (0.67%) Kubernetes
6 11 (0.62%) SCOM
7 10 (0.56%) Ansible
7 10 (0.56%) Jamf Pro
8 9 (0.50%) vCenter Server
9 7 (0.39%) Grafana
10 6 (0.34%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
10 6 (0.34%) Opsgenie
11 5 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 5 (0.28%) Failover Clustering
11 5 (0.28%) NetCrunch
12 4 (0.22%) Nessus
12 4 (0.22%) Proxmox
13 3 (0.17%) Backup Exec
13 3 (0.17%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 817 (45.74%) Microsoft
2 360 (20.16%) VMware
3 169 (9.46%) Cisco
4 108 (6.05%) Citrix
5 105 (5.88%) Veeam
6 72 (4.03%) Apple
7 71 (3.98%) Meraki
8 67 (3.75%) HP
9 53 (2.97%) Sophos
10 36 (2.02%) Google
11 34 (1.90%) Fortinet
12 28 (1.57%) Dell
12 28 (1.57%) Palo Alto
13 27 (1.51%) Barracuda Networks
13 27 (1.51%) Draytek
14 26 (1.46%) Aruba
15 22 (1.23%) ConnectWise
16 19 (1.06%) Acronis
16 19 (1.06%) WatchGuard
17 11 (0.62%) NetApp