Senior Technical Engineer Jobs

Senior Technical Engineer
UK

The median Senior Technical Engineer salary in the UK is £52,500 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 833 918 1267
Rank change year-on-year +85 +349 -348
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Technical Engineer 89 27 14
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.082% 0.029% 0.008%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.087% 0.032% 0.008%
Number of salaries quoted 81 23 9
10th Percentile £33,000 £52,500 £35,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £55,625 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £46,444
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +23.81% +9.28%
75th Percentile £72,500 £67,500 £50,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £137,500 £57,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +17.65% +44.07%

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%

Senior Technical Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Technical Engineer in the UK

Senior Technical Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Senior Technical Engineer in the UK

Senior Technical Engineer
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for Senior Technical Engineer in the UK

Senior Technical Engineer
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Technical 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 +66 66 £60,000 +4.35% 7
UK excluding London -6 61 £45,000 -10.00% 4
Work from Home +83 35 £80,000 -36.00% 2
London +69 25 £105,000 +82.61% 3
South East +6 16 £60,000 -
North of England +38 14 £37,500 -25.00% 1
North West +4 13 £37,500 -25.00% 1
Wales - 12 £32,640 -
Midlands - 9 £45,000 - 2
West Midlands - 8 £45,000 - 1
Isle of Man - 4 £52,500 -
Scotland - 4 - -
East of England - 1 - - 1
Yorkshire - 1 £33,000 -
East Midlands - 1 £52,500 - 1
South West - 1 £50,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 9 June 2024, Senior 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 Senior Technical Engineer in the job title.

1 48 (53.93%) Windows
2 34 (38.20%) Microsoft
3 33 (37.08%) Mentoring
4 31 (34.83%) Python
5 25 (28.09%) Azure
6 24 (26.97%) Active Directory
7 22 (24.72%) TCP/IP
7 22 (24.72%) SQL
7 22 (24.72%) ITIL
8 20 (22.47%) Microsoft Exchange
8 20 (22.47%) Customer Service
9 19 (21.35%) Microsoft 365
9 19 (21.35%) Windows Server
9 19 (21.35%) Investment Management
9 19 (21.35%) VMware
9 19 (21.35%) Finance
10 18 (20.22%) Front Office
10 18 (20.22%) Back Office
10 18 (20.22%) Banking
10 18 (20.22%) Asset Management
10 18 (20.22%) Derivative
10 18 (20.22%) C#
10 18 (20.22%) Hedge funds
11 17 (19.10%) Linux
12 16 (17.98%) Degree
13 15 (16.85%) WAN
13 15 (16.85%) Entra ID
14 14 (15.73%) Network Management
14 14 (15.73%) Hyper-V
14 14 (15.73%) DNS

Senior 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 20 (22.47%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (14.61%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 25 (28.09%) Azure
2 19 (21.35%) Microsoft 365
3 15 (16.85%) Entra ID
4 13 (14.61%) OneDrive
5 7 (7.87%) GCP
6 5 (5.62%) Azure Monitor
6 5 (5.62%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (3.37%) AWS
8 2 (2.25%) PaaS
8 2 (2.25%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 22 (24.72%) TCP/IP
2 15 (16.85%) WAN
3 14 (15.73%) DNS
3 14 (15.73%) Firewall
3 14 (15.73%) SNMP
4 13 (14.61%) SSH
5 12 (13.48%) SAN
6 9 (10.11%) DHCP
7 7 (7.87%) LAN
8 5 (5.62%) Extranet
8 5 (5.62%) Internet
8 5 (5.62%) Unified Communications
8 5 (5.62%) VoIP
9 4 (4.49%) iSCSI
9 4 (4.49%) VLAN
10 2 (2.25%) Network Security
10 2 (2.25%) SD-WAN
10 2 (2.25%) Wi-Fi
11 1 (1.12%) GPON
11 1 (1.12%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (14.61%) MySQL
1 13 (14.61%) Relational Database
2 1 (1.12%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (14.61%) Eclipse
General
1 19 (21.35%) Finance
2 18 (20.22%) Back Office
2 18 (20.22%) Banking
2 18 (20.22%) Front Office
3 13 (14.61%) Social Skills
4 12 (13.48%) Police
5 10 (11.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 10 (11.24%) Local Government
6 7 (7.87%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (5.62%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (5.62%) Telecoms
8 4 (4.49%) Billing
8 4 (4.49%) Electronics
8 4 (4.49%) Public Sector
9 2 (2.25%) Japanese Language
9 2 (2.25%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.12%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (14.61%) Ajax
1 13 (14.61%) AngularJS
1 13 (14.61%) CSS
1 13 (14.61%) HTML
1 13 (14.61%) JDBC
1 13 (14.61%) ODBC
1 13 (14.61%) REST
1 13 (14.61%) SOAP
1 13 (14.61%) Web Services
1 13 (14.61%) XHTML
1 13 (14.61%) XML
2 2 (2.25%) Middleware
2 2 (2.25%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 18 (20.22%) Derivative
1 18 (20.22%) Hedge funds
2 13 (14.61%) CMDB
3 9 (10.11%) Data Centre
3 9 (10.11%) Driving Licence
4 5 (5.62%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (5.62%) Fat Client
4 5 (5.62%) Management Information System
4 5 (5.62%) Smartphone
4 5 (5.62%) Thin Client
5 3 (3.37%) Robotics
6 2 (2.25%) Device Driver
6 2 (2.25%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.12%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.12%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 48 (53.93%) Windows
2 19 (21.35%) Windows Server
3 17 (19.10%) Linux
4 13 (14.61%) Unix
5 9 (10.11%) Windows 10
6 5 (5.62%) Android
6 5 (5.62%) VMS
7 4 (4.49%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (37.08%) Mentoring
2 22 (24.72%) ITIL
3 20 (22.47%) Customer Service
4 19 (21.35%) Investment Management
5 18 (20.22%) Asset Management
6 14 (15.73%) Network Management
7 13 (14.61%) Business Intelligence
7 13 (14.61%) Cybersecurity
7 13 (14.61%) Data Extraction
7 13 (14.61%) Database Tuning
7 13 (14.61%) ITSM
7 13 (14.61%) OO
7 13 (14.61%) OOP
8 10 (11.24%) Disaster Recovery
9 9 (10.11%) CRM
9 9 (10.11%) Problem-Solving
10 6 (6.74%) Business Continuity
11 5 (5.62%) Customer-Centricity
11 5 (5.62%) Data Protection
11 5 (5.62%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 31 (34.83%) Python
2 22 (24.72%) SQL
3 18 (20.22%) C#
4 13 (14.61%) Java
4 13 (14.61%) JavaScript
4 13 (14.61%) Perl
4 13 (14.61%) PowerShell
5 2 (2.25%) C++
5 2 (2.25%) Rust
Qualifications
1 16 (17.98%) Degree
2 9 (10.11%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (5.62%) CCNA
3 5 (5.62%) Cisco Certification
3 5 (5.62%) ITIL Certification
4 4 (4.49%) Azure Certification
4 4 (4.49%) CESG Certified Professional
4 4 (4.49%) Citrix Certification
4 4 (4.49%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (4.49%) MCITP
4 4 (4.49%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (1.12%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.62%) GDPR
2 4 (4.49%) SLA
System Software
1 24 (26.97%) Active Directory
2 14 (15.73%) Hyper-V
3 9 (10.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (4.49%) NFS
4 4 (4.49%) vSphere
4 4 (4.49%) XenApp
4 4 (4.49%) XenDesktop
5 1 (1.12%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 13 (14.61%) WMI
2 9 (10.11%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (5.62%) SCCM
3 5 (5.62%) SCOM
4 2 (2.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 34 (38.20%) Microsoft
2 19 (21.35%) VMware
3 13 (14.61%) Oracle
3 13 (14.61%) Splunk
4 10 (11.24%) Citrix
5 6 (6.74%) Cisco
6 5 (5.62%) HP
6 5 (5.62%) NetApp
7 4 (4.49%) ConnectWise
7 4 (4.49%) Google
7 4 (4.49%) Salesforce
8 2 (2.25%) NVIDIA
9 1 (1.12%) Bloomberg
9 1 (1.12%) Facebook