IT Engineer Jobs

IT Engineer
UK

The median IT Engineer salary in the UK is £32,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 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
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 136 254 411
Rank change year-on-year +118 +157 -133
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 2,203 1,382 1,549
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.03% 1.48% 0.90%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.14% 1.63% 0.94%
Number of salaries quoted 1,768 1,110 1,331
10th Percentile £24,000 £25,738 £23,750
25th Percentile £26,500 £28,000 £27,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £34,500 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.80% -1.43% -
75th Percentile £43,000 £45,000 £47,500
90th Percentile £50,000 £58,875 £58,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £32,500 £32,500 £33,500
% change year-on-year - -2.99% -

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 102,753 84,908 164,946
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.75% 91.21% 95.96%
Number of salaries quoted 72,538 55,143 85,388
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,524 £45,000 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £50,296
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.37% +5.89%

IT Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Engineer in the UK

IT Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for IT Engineer in the UK

IT Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing IT Engineer over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Salary histogram for IT Engineer in the UK

IT Engineer
Top 19 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 9 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
England +101 1,923 £33,000 -4.35% 313
UK excluding London +83 1,893 £32,500 - 302
Work from Home +79 481 £37,500 +2.74% 79
Midlands +65 437 £35,000 +7.69% 38
South East +77 417 £34,000 +7.94% 84
North of England +72 400 £31,750 -7.97% 79
South West +7 248 £30,000 -7.69% 48
West Midlands +60 236 £35,000 +4.48% 15
London -23 227 £40,000 +5.26% 33
East Midlands +59 197 £37,250 +33.04% 23
North West +48 197 £30,000 -20.00% 49
East of England +38 187 £31,833 +0.26% 27
Yorkshire +72 147 £30,000 -6.98% 24
Wales +100 130 £27,500 - 7
Scotland -52 68 £28,500 -22.97% 21
North East +19 55 £32,500 -2.99% 8
Northern Ireland +13 4 £30,000 - 6
Channel Islands - 3 - -
Isle of Man - 2 - -

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

For the 6 months to 9 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 featuring IT Engineer in the job title.

1 1,166 (52.93%) Windows
2 1,029 (46.71%) Microsoft
3 963 (43.71%) Microsoft 365
4 817 (37.09%) Active Directory
5 714 (32.41%) Azure
6 701 (31.82%) Social Skills
7 570 (25.87%) Windows Server
8 531 (24.10%) Problem-Solving
9 487 (22.11%) Firewall
10 420 (19.06%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 402 (18.25%) VMware
12 373 (16.93%) Customer Service
13 352 (15.98%) ITIL
14 342 (15.52%) Degree
15 320 (14.53%) Microsoft Exchange
16 280 (12.71%) Hyper-V
17 270 (12.26%) Windows 10
18 257 (11.67%) VMware Infrastructure
19 255 (11.58%) Microsoft Office
19 255 (11.58%) Cisco
20 248 (11.26%) Linux
21 238 (10.80%) SharePoint
22 232 (10.53%) Entra ID
23 224 (10.17%) Microsoft Intune
23 224 (10.17%) DNS
24 223 (10.12%) Driving Licence
25 198 (8.99%) Continuous Improvement
26 192 (8.72%) DHCP
27 190 (8.62%) Wi-Fi
28 189 (8.58%) Law

IT 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
1 320 (14.53%) Microsoft Exchange
2 238 (10.80%) SharePoint
3 20 (0.91%) IIS
4 19 (0.86%) Exchange Server 2013
5 14 (0.64%) Confluence
6 11 (0.50%) Exchange Server 2010
7 9 (0.41%) Exchange Server 2007
8 6 (0.27%) Exchange Server 2000
9 5 (0.23%) SAS
10 4 (0.18%) Jupyter
11 3 (0.14%) CMS
11 3 (0.14%) WordPress
12 2 (0.091%) Apache
12 2 (0.091%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
12 2 (0.091%) Exchange Server 2003
12 2 (0.091%) Skype for Business
13 1 (0.045%) Moodle
13 1 (0.045%) nginx
13 1 (0.045%) Site Server
13 1 (0.045%) Tomcat
Applications
1 255 (11.58%) Microsoft Office
2 52 (2.36%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
4 4 (0.18%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.14%) SPSS
6 1 (0.045%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.045%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.045%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (0.23%) Sage X3
2 3 (0.14%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (0.091%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (0.091%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.045%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.045%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.045%) Elite 3E
4 1 (0.045%) MIS ActiveH
4 1 (0.045%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 963 (43.71%) Microsoft 365
2 714 (32.41%) Azure
3 232 (10.53%) Entra ID
4 111 (5.04%) AWS
5 58 (2.63%) OneDrive
6 36 (1.63%) Mimecast
7 32 (1.45%) Google Workspace
8 20 (0.91%) Power Platform
9 19 (0.86%) SaaS
10 15 (0.68%) Cloud Computing
11 13 (0.59%) IaaS
12 12 (0.54%) Amazon EC2
12 12 (0.54%) iTunes
13 11 (0.50%) PaaS
13 11 (0.50%) PowerApps
14 10 (0.45%) Nutanix
14 10 (0.45%) Power Automate
15 8 (0.36%) Azure Storage
16 7 (0.32%) Microsoft Purview
16 7 (0.32%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 487 (22.11%) Firewall
2 224 (10.17%) DNS
3 192 (8.72%) DHCP
4 190 (8.62%) Wi-Fi
5 148 (6.72%) VPN
6 142 (6.45%) TCP/IP
7 130 (5.90%) WAN
8 129 (5.86%) Network Security
9 123 (5.58%) Internet
10 117 (5.31%) LAN
11 112 (5.08%) SAN
12 105 (4.77%) Wireless
13 104 (4.72%) VoIP
14 91 (4.13%) VLAN
15 82 (3.72%) WLAN
16 31 (1.41%) Remote Desktop
17 30 (1.36%) NAS
18 24 (1.09%) SD-WAN
19 21 (0.95%) SSL
20 19 (0.86%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 127 (5.76%) SQL Server
2 43 (1.95%) Amazon RDS
3 34 (1.54%) MySQL
4 9 (0.41%) Power BI
5 8 (0.36%) MariaDB
6 4 (0.18%) Crystal Reports
6 4 (0.18%) DB2
6 4 (0.18%) InfluxDB
6 4 (0.18%) Metabase
6 4 (0.18%) Oracle Database
7 3 (0.14%) Big Data
7 3 (0.14%) EDRMS
8 2 (0.091%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.045%) BusinessObjects
9 1 (0.045%) Electronic Patient Records
9 1 (0.045%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 28 (1.27%) JIRA
2 5 (0.23%) Visual Studio Code
3 4 (0.18%) Visual Studio
4 3 (0.14%) LabVIEW
5 2 (0.091%) MSI
5 2 (0.091%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.045%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.045%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.045%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.045%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 701 (31.82%) Social Skills
2 189 (8.58%) Law
3 178 (8.08%) Manufacturing
4 121 (5.49%) Influencing Skills
5 116 (5.27%) Presentation Skills
6 101 (4.58%) Finance
7 95 (4.31%) Analytical Skills
8 89 (4.04%) Organisational Skills
9 87 (3.95%) Telecoms
10 55 (2.50%) Retail
11 46 (2.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 37 (1.68%) Legal
13 29 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
14 25 (1.13%) Banking
14 25 (1.13%) Marketing
15 23 (1.04%) Public Sector
16 22 (1.00%) Games
17 16 (0.73%) Automotive
18 15 (0.68%) Advertising
19 11 (0.50%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (0.36%) LDAP
2 7 (0.32%) ADSI
3 5 (0.23%) Kafka
4 4 (0.18%) Cocoa
5 3 (0.14%) .NET
5 3 (0.14%) LAMP
6 2 (0.091%) CSS
6 2 (0.091%) HTML
6 2 (0.091%) Software Packaging
6 2 (0.091%) V-Ray
7 1 (0.045%) ARM Templates
7 1 (0.045%) Azure Blueprints
7 1 (0.045%) EDI
7 1 (0.045%) Loki
7 1 (0.045%) RESTEasy
7 1 (0.045%) SAML
7 1 (0.045%) WSH
7 1 (0.045%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 223 (10.12%) Driving Licence
2 115 (5.22%) FMCG
3 105 (4.77%) Onboarding
4 67 (3.04%) Data Centre
4 67 (3.04%) Self-Motivation
5 57 (2.59%) Management Information System
6 44 (2.00%) Replication
7 33 (1.50%) CCTV
8 29 (1.32%) Fat Client
8 29 (1.32%) Thin Client
9 28 (1.27%) EPoS
10 26 (1.18%) Enterprise Storage
11 22 (1.00%) iPad
12 14 (0.64%) Cyberattack
12 14 (0.64%) Public Cloud
12 14 (0.64%) Social Media
13 13 (0.59%) Security Posture
14 12 (0.54%) Video Conferencing
15 10 (0.45%) Operational Technology
16 9 (0.41%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 1,166 (52.93%) Windows
2 570 (25.87%) Windows Server
3 270 (12.26%) Windows 10
4 248 (11.26%) Linux
5 137 (6.22%) Windows Server 2016
6 103 (4.68%) Windows Server 2019
7 92 (4.18%) Windows Server 2012
8 80 (3.63%) Mac OS
9 65 (2.95%) Android
10 61 (2.77%) Apple iOS
11 37 (1.68%) Windows 7
12 25 (1.13%) Mac OS X
13 23 (1.04%) Windows Server 2008
14 20 (0.91%) Windows 8
15 17 (0.77%) Unix
16 14 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
17 9 (0.41%) CentOS
17 9 (0.41%) Windows Server 2003
18 6 (0.27%) Ubuntu
19 5 (0.23%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 531 (24.10%) Problem-Solving
2 420 (19.06%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 373 (16.93%) Customer Service
4 352 (15.98%) ITIL
5 198 (8.99%) Continuous Improvement
6 188 (8.53%) Cybersecurity
7 115 (5.22%) Benchmarking
7 115 (5.22%) Lean Manufacturing
7 115 (5.22%) Lean Six Sigma
7 115 (5.22%) Order Management
7 115 (5.22%) Six Sigma
8 114 (5.17%) Asset Management
9 109 (4.95%) Mentoring
10 102 (4.63%) Migration
11 101 (4.58%) Project Delivery
12 99 (4.49%) Disaster Recovery
13 91 (4.13%) Computer Science
14 88 (3.99%) Service Delivery
15 80 (3.63%) Network Management
16 73 (3.31%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 153 (6.95%) SQL
2 150 (6.81%) PowerShell
3 44 (2.00%) Python
4 14 (0.64%) Bash
5 13 (0.59%) Java
6 10 (0.45%) Swift
7 9 (0.41%) PHP
8 8 (0.36%) C++
9 7 (0.32%) JavaScript
10 6 (0.27%) C#
10 6 (0.27%) Perl
10 6 (0.27%) VB
11 5 (0.23%) Ruby
12 4 (0.18%) R
13 3 (0.14%) PL/SQL
13 3 (0.14%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.045%) Go
14 1 (0.045%) Korn
14 1 (0.045%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 342 (15.52%) Degree
2 180 (8.17%) Microsoft Certification
3 149 (6.76%) Cisco Certification
4 128 (5.81%) CCNA
5 115 (5.22%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
6 103 (4.68%) MCSE
7 92 (4.18%) CCNP
8 89 (4.04%) MCP
9 79 (3.59%) Computer Science Degree
10 74 (3.36%) DBS Check
11 67 (3.04%) LPIC
12 46 (2.09%) Network+ Certification
13 39 (1.77%) Security Cleared
14 35 (1.59%) Azure Certification
15 32 (1.45%) A+ Certification
16 26 (1.18%) CISSP
17 23 (1.04%) SC Cleared
18 20 (0.91%) CompTIA Security+
19 15 (0.68%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
20 14 (0.64%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (4.54%) SLA
2 41 (1.86%) GDPR
3 38 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 30 (1.36%) Cyber Essentials
5 15 (0.68%) QA
6 12 (0.54%) NIST
7 9 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 7 (0.32%) SOC 2
9 5 (0.23%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 3 (0.14%) COBIT
12 2 (0.091%) ISO 9001
13 1 (0.045%) Accessibility
13 1 (0.045%) ISO 13485
13 1 (0.045%) NCSC
13 1 (0.045%) PMO
System Software
1 817 (37.09%) Active Directory
2 280 (12.71%) Hyper-V
3 257 (11.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 47 (2.13%) VMware ESXi
5 30 (1.36%) vSphere
6 26 (1.18%) Virtual Desktop
7 25 (1.13%) Virtual Machines
8 22 (1.00%) Virtual Servers
9 15 (0.68%) Docker
10 10 (0.45%) Terminal Services
11 9 (0.41%) Firmware
12 5 (0.23%) VMware Server
13 4 (0.18%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 4 (0.18%) XenApp
14 3 (0.14%) Xen
15 2 (0.091%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 2 (0.091%) pfSense
15 2 (0.091%) Samba
15 2 (0.091%) VMware Workstation
16 1 (0.045%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 224 (10.17%) Microsoft Intune
2 92 (4.18%) SCCM
3 17 (0.77%) WSUS
4 15 (0.68%) Jamf Pro
5 13 (0.59%) Cisco CUCM
5 13 (0.59%) Kubernetes
5 13 (0.59%) ServiceCenter
6 11 (0.50%) Ansible
7 10 (0.45%) SCOM
7 10 (0.45%) vCenter Server
8 7 (0.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 7 (0.32%) Grafana
8 7 (0.32%) Nessus
9 6 (0.27%) FortiGate
9 6 (0.27%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
9 6 (0.27%) Opsgenie
10 5 (0.23%) NetCrunch
10 5 (0.23%) Proxmox
11 4 (0.18%) Backup Exec
11 4 (0.18%) CASB
Vendors
1 1,029 (46.71%) Microsoft
2 402 (18.25%) VMware
3 255 (11.58%) Cisco
4 130 (5.90%) Citrix
5 111 (5.04%) Veeam
6 90 (4.09%) Apple
7 79 (3.59%) HP
8 78 (3.54%) Meraki
9 57 (2.59%) Sophos
10 42 (1.91%) Dell
10 42 (1.91%) Google
11 37 (1.68%) Fortinet
12 31 (1.41%) Palo Alto
13 28 (1.27%) ConnectWise
14 27 (1.23%) Aruba
14 27 (1.23%) Barracuda Networks
14 27 (1.23%) Draytek
15 21 (0.95%) Acronis
15 21 (0.95%) WatchGuard
16 19 (0.86%) Oracle