Field Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Field Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Field Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £29,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 573 594 657
Rank change year-on-year +21 +63 -56
Permanent jobs requiring a Field Engineer 207 134 220
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.26% 0.24% 0.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% 0.27% 0.30%
Number of salaries quoted 202 125 196
10th Percentile £25,000 £23,750 £25,000
25th Percentile £26,250 £26,250 £27,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £29,000 £31,000 £31,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.45% - +12.73%
75th Percentile £34,875 £34,750 £33,750
90th Percentile £42,500 £41,000 £37,125
UK median annual salary £30,000 £32,500 £31,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.84% +11.71%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 75,991 49,070 72,896
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.87% 88.81% 95.46%
Number of salaries quoted 53,059 29,227 42,783
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,519 £50,296
Median % change year-on-year -6.58% +6.41% +5.89%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £67,500
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%

Field Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Field Engineer in the UK excluding London

Field Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Field Engineer in the UK excluding London

Field Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Field Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Field Engineer in the UK excluding London

Field 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 Field Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 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 +2 59 £32,500 - 220
North of England +24 50 £32,375 +13.60% 139
South West -16 38 £29,000 +5.45% 96
Midlands -20 35 £28,250 -13.90% 180
North West -8 29 £28,000 +14.29% 55
East of England -14 23 £28,000 -6.67% 117
Yorkshire +63 19 £32,500 +14.04% 68
East Midlands -16 18 £28,500 -12.31% 67
West Midlands -5 17 £28,000 -12.50% 113
Northern Ireland +22 5 £28,000 -8.20% 5
Scotland -80 4 £27,500 -16.67% 61
North East -16 2 £27,500 -20.29% 22
Field Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, Field 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 Field Engineer in the job title.

1 129 (62.32%) Windows
2 90 (43.48%) Active Directory
3 87 (42.03%) Microsoft
4 84 (40.58%) Problem-Solving
5 83 (40.10%) Social Skills
6 77 (37.20%) Customer Service
7 66 (31.88%) Driving Licence
8 53 (25.60%) ITIL
9 50 (24.15%) Retail
10 49 (23.67%) HP
11 47 (22.71%) Microsoft 365
12 46 (22.22%) EPoS
13 42 (20.29%) Self-Motivation
14 40 (19.32%) DBS Check
14 40 (19.32%) Dell
14 40 (19.32%) SLA
15 39 (18.84%) Azure
15 39 (18.84%) Onboarding
16 34 (16.43%) BPSS Clearance
17 33 (15.94%) Analytical Skills
17 33 (15.94%) Organisational Skills
17 33 (15.94%) DNS
18 31 (14.98%) Hyper-V
18 31 (14.98%) Entra ID
18 31 (14.98%) Break/Fix
19 30 (14.49%) Time Management
19 30 (14.49%) Degree
19 30 (14.49%) IBM
19 30 (14.49%) A+ Certification
19 30 (14.49%) Microsoft Office

Field 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 23 (11.11%) SharePoint
2 15 (7.25%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.97%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 30 (14.49%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.93%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.48%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 47 (22.71%) Microsoft 365
2 39 (18.84%) Azure
3 31 (14.98%) Entra ID
4 16 (7.73%) OneDrive
5 14 (6.76%) Power Automate
5 14 (6.76%) Power Platform
5 14 (6.76%) PowerApps
6 4 (1.93%) AWS
6 4 (1.93%) Google Workspace
7 1 (0.48%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 33 (15.94%) DNS
2 29 (14.01%) DHCP
3 26 (12.56%) Network Security
3 26 (12.56%) Wi-Fi
4 21 (10.14%) TCP/IP
5 18 (8.70%) Firewall
5 18 (8.70%) Wireless
6 12 (5.80%) LAN
6 12 (5.80%) WAN
7 11 (5.31%) 4G
8 10 (4.83%) VPN
9 8 (3.86%) DSL
9 8 (3.86%) LTE
10 7 (3.38%) VLAN
11 5 (2.42%) SAN
12 3 (1.45%) 5G
12 3 (1.45%) SSH
12 3 (1.45%) VoIP
13 2 (0.97%) IPsec
13 2 (0.97%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.86%) Amazon RDS
General
1 83 (40.10%) Social Skills
2 50 (24.15%) Retail
3 33 (15.94%) Analytical Skills
3 33 (15.94%) Organisational Skills
4 10 (4.83%) Legal
5 9 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 9 (4.35%) Telecoms
6 8 (3.86%) Manufacturing
7 7 (3.38%) Military
8 6 (2.90%) Public Sector
9 3 (1.45%) Electronics
9 3 (1.45%) Marketing
9 3 (1.45%) Police
10 2 (0.97%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.97%) Publishing
11 1 (0.48%) Aviation
11 1 (0.48%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.48%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 66 (31.88%) Driving Licence
2 46 (22.22%) EPoS
3 42 (20.29%) Self-Motivation
4 39 (18.84%) Onboarding
5 12 (5.80%) Smartphone
6 11 (5.31%) CCTV
7 7 (3.38%) Analogue Electronics
8 5 (2.42%) IoT
8 5 (2.42%) Replication
9 4 (1.93%) Data Centre
9 4 (1.93%) Management Information System
10 3 (1.45%) Analytical Mindset
11 1 (0.48%) iPad
11 1 (0.48%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 1 (0.48%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 129 (62.32%) Windows
2 29 (14.01%) Windows Server
3 24 (11.59%) Mac OS
4 20 (9.66%) Windows 10
5 19 (9.18%) Windows Server 2012
6 16 (7.73%) Windows Server 2016
7 15 (7.25%) Windows Server 2019
8 11 (5.31%) Android
9 8 (3.86%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.97%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (40.58%) Problem-Solving
2 77 (37.20%) Customer Service
3 53 (25.60%) ITIL
4 31 (14.98%) Break/Fix
5 30 (14.49%) Time Management
6 27 (13.04%) Innovative Thinking
7 25 (12.08%) Computer Science
8 14 (6.76%) Migration
8 14 (6.76%) Project Management
9 8 (3.86%) Asset Management
9 8 (3.86%) Logistics
9 8 (3.86%) Proactive Maintenance
10 7 (3.38%) Service Delivery
11 6 (2.90%) Incident Management
12 5 (2.42%) Customer Requirements
12 5 (2.42%) Project Delivery
13 4 (1.93%) Change Control
13 4 (1.93%) Cybersecurity
13 4 (1.93%) Email Filtering
13 4 (1.93%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 15 (7.25%) PowerShell
2 2 (0.97%) SQL
Qualifications
1 40 (19.32%) DBS Check
2 34 (16.43%) BPSS Clearance
3 30 (14.49%) A+ Certification
3 30 (14.49%) Degree
4 28 (13.53%) Microsoft Certification
5 25 (12.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 25 (12.08%) MCP
6 10 (4.83%) Security Cleared
7 6 (2.90%) CCNA
7 6 (2.90%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (1.45%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.45%) MCSE
8 3 (1.45%) Network+ Certification
8 3 (1.45%) SC Cleared
9 2 (0.97%) CCNP
10 1 (0.48%) CTC Cleared
10 1 (0.48%) Server+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (19.32%) SLA
2 6 (2.90%) PCI DSS
3 2 (0.97%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.48%) COSHH
4 1 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (0.48%) GDPR
System Software
1 90 (43.48%) Active Directory
2 31 (14.98%) Hyper-V
3 24 (11.59%) Firmware
4 22 (10.63%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (2.90%) KVM
6 2 (0.97%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (0.97%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 20 (9.66%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (2.42%) WSUS
3 3 (1.45%) SCCM
4 1 (0.48%) Autotask
Vendors
1 87 (42.03%) Microsoft
2 49 (23.67%) HP
3 40 (19.32%) Dell
4 30 (14.49%) IBM
5 25 (12.08%) Citrix
6 24 (11.59%) NetApp
7 23 (11.11%) VMware
8 8 (3.86%) Apple
8 8 (3.86%) Veeam
9 6 (2.90%) Google
10 5 (2.42%) Cisco
10 5 (2.42%) Sophos
11 4 (1.93%) Aruba
12 3 (1.45%) Fortinet
12 3 (1.45%) Ubiquiti
13 2 (0.97%) Datto
13 2 (0.97%) Meraki
13 2 (0.97%) Palo Alto
13 2 (0.97%) Ruckus Wireless
13 2 (0.97%) WatchGuard