IT Engineer Jobs in Cheshire

IT Engineer
North West > Cheshire

The median IT Engineer salary in Cheshire is £35,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 71 58 93
Rank change year-on-year -13 +35 -22
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 35 34 9
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 2.29% 3.66% 0.86%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.36% 4.10% 0.92%
Number of salaries quoted 23 15 9
10th Percentile £25,000 - £27,450
25th Percentile £26,500 £14,250 £27,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £36,500 £30,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.11% +21.67% +3.45%
75th Percentile £41,000 £38,875 £33,750
90th Percentile £47,500 £44,100 £39,950
North West median annual salary £30,000 £35,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% +7.69% -13.33%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Cheshire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Cheshire. 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 Cheshire with a recognized job title 1,485 829 982
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 97.00% 89.24% 93.97%
Number of salaries quoted 1,116 477 530
10th Percentile £25,000 £25,250 £24,963
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,074 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £72,500 £88,750 £72,500
North West median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%

IT Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Engineer in Cheshire

IT Engineer
Salary Trend in Cheshire

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

Salary trend for IT Engineer in Cheshire

IT Engineer
Salary Histogram in Cheshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing IT Engineer in Cheshire over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for IT Engineer in Cheshire

IT Engineer
Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IT Engineer within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Chester +11 12 £26,000 +57.58% 3
Warrington -24 8 £45,000 +30.43% 1
Knutsford -9 4 £35,000 -62.16%
Runcorn +8 3 £39,000 +2.63% 1
Middlewich - 3 £26,000 - 1
Northwich -6 1 £36,000 -4.00% 1
Macclesfield - 1 £24,000 - 1
IT Engineer
North West

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 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 Cheshire region featuring IT Engineer in the job title.

1 21 (60.00%) ITIL
1 21 (60.00%) Microsoft
1 21 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (34.29%) Stakeholder Management
2 12 (34.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 11 (31.43%) MySQL
4 10 (28.57%) Windows
4 10 (28.57%) Migration
4 10 (28.57%) Android
4 10 (28.57%) Apple iOS
4 10 (28.57%) Infrastructure Management
5 9 (25.71%) Creative Problem-Solving
5 9 (25.71%) Swift
5 9 (25.71%) Azure
5 9 (25.71%) Logistics
5 9 (25.71%) Mathematics
5 9 (25.71%) Service Management
5 9 (25.71%) SQL
5 9 (25.71%) Active Directory
6 7 (20.00%) Social Skills
7 6 (17.14%) Project Management
7 6 (17.14%) Firewall
7 6 (17.14%) VMware
8 5 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
8 5 (14.29%) PowerShell
8 5 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
8 5 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (14.29%) Windows Server
9 4 (11.43%) Identity Access Management
9 4 (11.43%) Secure Coding

IT Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 5 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (5.71%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 2 (5.71%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 9 (25.71%) Azure
2 5 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (8.57%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 6 (17.14%) Firewall
2 4 (11.43%) DHCP
2 4 (11.43%) DNS
2 4 (11.43%) Intrusion Detection
2 4 (11.43%) VPN
3 2 (5.71%) TCP/IP
4 1 (2.86%) LAN
4 1 (2.86%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (2.86%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (31.43%) MySQL
2 4 (11.43%) SQL Server
General
1 7 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (8.57%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (8.57%) Manufacturing
3 2 (5.71%) Electronics
3 2 (5.71%) Finance
3 2 (5.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (5.71%) Military
3 2 (5.71%) Public Sector
3 2 (5.71%) Retail
4 1 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (2.86%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.86%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.43%) Cyber Threat
1 4 (11.43%) Cyberattack
1 4 (11.43%) Security Posture
2 3 (8.57%) Driving Licence
3 2 (5.71%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.86%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (2.86%) Fat Client
4 1 (2.86%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 10 (28.57%) Android
1 10 (28.57%) Apple iOS
1 10 (28.57%) Windows
2 5 (14.29%) Windows Server
3 3 (8.57%) Windows 10
4 2 (5.71%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (60.00%) ITIL
1 21 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (34.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 12 (34.29%) Stakeholder Management
3 10 (28.57%) Infrastructure Management
3 10 (28.57%) Migration
4 9 (25.71%) Creative Problem-Solving
4 9 (25.71%) Logistics
4 9 (25.71%) Mathematics
4 9 (25.71%) Service Management
5 6 (17.14%) Project Management
6 4 (11.43%) Cybersecurity
6 4 (11.43%) Identity Access Management
6 4 (11.43%) Release Management
6 4 (11.43%) Secure Coding
6 4 (11.43%) SIEM
6 4 (11.43%) Threat Modelling
6 4 (11.43%) Vulnerability Management
6 4 (11.43%) Vulnerability Scanning
7 3 (8.57%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 9 (25.71%) SQL
1 9 (25.71%) Swift
2 5 (14.29%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (11.43%) CISA
1 4 (11.43%) CISSP
1 4 (11.43%) Security Cleared
2 3 (8.57%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (5.71%) Azure Certification
3 2 (5.71%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.86%) CCNA
4 1 (2.86%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (2.86%) Degree
4 1 (2.86%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (2.86%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (11.43%) SOC 2
2 1 (2.86%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (25.71%) Active Directory
2 5 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (5.71%) Hyper-V
3 2 (5.71%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (2.86%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 4 (11.43%) Nessus
2 2 (5.71%) SCCM
Vendors
1 21 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (17.14%) VMware
3 1 (2.86%) Citrix
3 1 (2.86%) SAP