IT Engineer Jobs in the North of England

IT Engineer
England > North of England

The median IT Engineer salary in the North of England is £31,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 May 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
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 131 205 256
Rank change year-on-year +74 +51 -73
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 355 281 216
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 2.03% 1.63% 1.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.14% 1.83% 1.25%
Number of salaries quoted 295 145 201
10th Percentile £22,500 £23,750 £21,250
25th Percentile £26,000 £26,250 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,500 £34,500 £33,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +2.99% -4.29%
75th Percentile £38,750 £42,500 £43,500
90th Percentile £48,750 £57,500 £50,000
England median annual salary £33,000 £34,500 £34,726
% change year-on-year -4.35% -0.65% -0.78%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the North of England. 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 North of England with a recognized job title 16,604 15,375 17,254
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.91% 89.40% 96.11%
Number of salaries quoted 12,851 8,152 10,928
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,500 £27,875
25th Percentile £36,250 £39,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £69,537 £65,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £81,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%

IT Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Engineer in the North of England

IT Engineer
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing IT Engineer in the North of England.

Salary trend for IT Engineer in the North of England

IT Engineer
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing IT Engineer in the North of England over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Salary histogram for IT Engineer in the North of England

IT Engineer
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IT Engineer within the North of England region over the 6 months to 10 May 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
North West +27 170 £30,000 -14.29% 31
Yorkshire +89 133 £30,000 +5.26% 29
North East +27 51 £32,500 -2.26% 13
IT Engineer
England

IT Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 10 May 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 North of England region featuring IT Engineer in the job title.

1 175 (49.30%) Microsoft
2 168 (47.32%) Active Directory
3 158 (44.51%) Windows
4 130 (36.62%) Microsoft 365
5 116 (32.68%) Azure
6 112 (31.55%) Social Skills
7 89 (25.07%) ITIL
8 87 (24.51%) Windows Server
9 85 (23.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 84 (23.66%) Problem-Solving
11 74 (20.85%) Hyper-V
12 73 (20.56%) VMware
13 69 (19.44%) Firewall
14 47 (13.24%) SQL Server
15 46 (12.96%) SAN
16 41 (11.55%) Microsoft Intune
16 41 (11.55%) Cisco
17 40 (11.27%) Organisational Skills
17 40 (11.27%) Customer Service
18 39 (10.99%) Windows 10
19 37 (10.42%) VMware Infrastructure
20 36 (10.14%) Microsoft Office
21 35 (9.86%) PowerShell
21 35 (9.86%) Driving Licence
22 34 (9.58%) Microsoft Exchange
23 33 (9.30%) Linux
23 33 (9.30%) DNS
24 31 (8.73%) SQL
25 30 (8.45%) Wi-Fi
26 28 (7.89%) Project Management

IT Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 34 (9.58%) Microsoft Exchange
2 26 (7.32%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.56%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 1 (0.28%) Site Server
4 1 (0.28%) WordPress
Applications
1 36 (10.14%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.41%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.56%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 130 (36.62%) Microsoft 365
2 116 (32.68%) Azure
3 25 (7.04%) Entra ID
4 19 (5.35%) AWS
5 11 (3.10%) OneDrive
6 7 (1.97%) Power Automate
6 7 (1.97%) Power Platform
6 7 (1.97%) PowerApps
7 6 (1.69%) Google Workspace
8 4 (1.13%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (0.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (0.85%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 3 (0.85%) AWS CloudTrail
9 3 (0.85%) Dropbox
9 3 (0.85%) Google Drive
10 2 (0.56%) Amazon EC2
11 1 (0.28%) GCP
11 1 (0.28%) IaaS
11 1 (0.28%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 69 (19.44%) Firewall
2 46 (12.96%) SAN
3 33 (9.30%) DNS
4 30 (8.45%) Wi-Fi
5 27 (7.61%) VoIP
6 26 (7.32%) DHCP
6 26 (7.32%) LAN
7 25 (7.04%) WAN
8 20 (5.63%) VPN
9 14 (3.94%) Wireless
10 13 (3.66%) Network Security
11 11 (3.10%) WLAN
12 10 (2.82%) Cisco IOS
12 10 (2.82%) Cisco Nexus
12 10 (2.82%) VLAN
13 9 (2.54%) NAS
13 9 (2.54%) TCP/IP
14 7 (1.97%) Internet
14 7 (1.97%) Remote Desktop
15 4 (1.13%) Unicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (13.24%) SQL Server
2 15 (4.23%) Amazon RDS
3 14 (3.94%) MySQL
4 4 (1.13%) DB2
Development Applications
1 2 (0.56%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
1 2 (0.56%) Visual Studio
General
1 112 (31.55%) Social Skills
2 40 (11.27%) Organisational Skills
3 26 (7.32%) Finance
4 25 (7.04%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (6.48%) Retail
6 21 (5.92%) Manufacturing
7 12 (3.38%) Marketing
8 9 (2.54%) Automotive
9 8 (2.25%) Public Sector
10 6 (1.69%) Telecoms
11 5 (1.41%) Advertising
11 5 (1.41%) Law
11 5 (1.41%) Pharmaceutical
12 4 (1.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.56%) Electronics
14 2 (0.56%) Military
15 1 (0.28%) Back Office
15 1 (0.28%) Financial Institution
15 1 (0.28%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.28%) .NET
1 1 (0.28%) EDI
1 1 (0.28%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 35 (9.86%) Driving Licence
2 25 (7.04%) Enterprise Storage
3 15 (4.23%) Fat Client
3 15 (4.23%) Thin Client
4 11 (3.10%) Data Centre
4 11 (3.10%) EPoS
5 9 (2.54%) Onboarding
5 9 (2.54%) Replication
6 8 (2.25%) Management Information System
7 7 (1.97%) Cyber Threat
8 6 (1.69%) Client/Server
8 6 (1.69%) Public Cloud
9 4 (1.13%) CCTV
9 4 (1.13%) Cyberattack
9 4 (1.13%) IoT
9 4 (1.13%) Security Posture
9 4 (1.13%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (0.85%) Clustering
10 3 (0.85%) iPad
10 3 (0.85%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 158 (44.51%) Windows
2 87 (24.51%) Windows Server
3 39 (10.99%) Windows 10
4 33 (9.30%) Linux
5 13 (3.66%) Mac OS
5 13 (3.66%) Windows Server 2016
6 12 (3.38%) Apple iOS
6 12 (3.38%) Windows Server 2019
7 11 (3.10%) Android
8 10 (2.82%) Windows Server 2012
9 9 (2.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 4 (1.13%) Debian
11 3 (0.85%) CentOS
11 3 (0.85%) VMS
12 2 (0.56%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.56%) Unix
12 2 (0.56%) Windows 7
13 1 (0.28%) Windows Server 2003
13 1 (0.28%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (25.07%) ITIL
2 85 (23.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 84 (23.66%) Problem-Solving
4 40 (11.27%) Customer Service
5 28 (7.89%) Incident Management
5 28 (7.89%) Project Management
6 23 (6.48%) Desktop Virtualisation
6 23 (6.48%) Migration
6 23 (6.48%) Stakeholder Management
7 22 (6.20%) Disaster Recovery
8 18 (5.07%) Continuous Improvement
9 17 (4.79%) Service Management
10 15 (4.23%) Asset Management
10 15 (4.23%) Cybersecurity
10 15 (4.23%) Service Delivery
11 14 (3.94%) Infrastructure Management
12 13 (3.66%) Agile
12 13 (3.66%) Storage Management
13 11 (3.10%) Containerisation
13 11 (3.10%) Patch Management
Programming Languages
1 35 (9.86%) PowerShell
2 31 (8.73%) SQL
3 10 (2.82%) Python
4 9 (2.54%) Swift
5 7 (1.97%) PHP
6 3 (0.85%) Bash
7 1 (0.28%) C#
Qualifications
1 28 (7.89%) Microsoft Certification
2 23 (6.48%) Azure Certification
3 18 (5.07%) DBS Check
4 16 (4.51%) Degree
5 14 (3.94%) CISSP
6 12 (3.38%) Cisco Certification
7 10 (2.82%) CCIE
7 10 (2.82%) CCNP
8 7 (1.97%) Security Cleared
9 5 (1.41%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 4 (1.13%) AWS Certification
10 4 (1.13%) CISA
11 2 (0.56%) CCNA
11 2 (0.56%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.56%) SC Cleared
12 1 (0.28%) Computer Science Degree
12 1 (0.28%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (5.63%) SLA
2 11 (3.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (2.25%) QA
4 4 (1.13%) GDPR
4 4 (1.13%) SOC 2
5 3 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 3 (0.85%) NIST
5 3 (0.85%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.28%) ISO 13485
6 1 (0.28%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 168 (47.32%) Active Directory
2 74 (20.85%) Hyper-V
3 37 (10.42%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (3.94%) VMware ESXi
5 7 (1.97%) Virtual Servers
6 6 (1.69%) vSphere
7 4 (1.13%) Docker
7 4 (1.13%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.28%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.28%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 41 (11.55%) Microsoft Intune
2 22 (6.20%) SCCM
3 10 (2.82%) SCOM
4 8 (2.25%) WSUS
5 6 (1.69%) Ansible
5 6 (1.69%) Kubernetes
5 6 (1.69%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
6 4 (1.13%) Nessus
6 4 (1.13%) Proxmox
7 3 (0.85%) Failover Clustering
7 3 (0.85%) Jamf Pro
7 3 (0.85%) vCenter Server
8 2 (0.56%) Grafana
8 2 (0.56%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.56%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 2 (0.56%) vRealize
9 1 (0.28%) Autotask
9 1 (0.28%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 175 (49.30%) Microsoft
2 73 (20.56%) VMware
3 41 (11.55%) Cisco
4 19 (5.35%) Citrix
5 15 (4.23%) Sophos
6 14 (3.94%) Meraki
7 12 (3.38%) Veeam
8 10 (2.82%) Apple
8 10 (2.82%) Palo Alto
9 9 (2.54%) Google
9 9 (2.54%) Red Hat
10 8 (2.25%) ESET
11 7 (1.97%) Dell
11 7 (1.97%) HP
12 6 (1.69%) Aruba
12 6 (1.69%) Oracle
13 5 (1.41%) CheckPoint
13 5 (1.41%) Datto
13 5 (1.41%) Ubiquiti
14 4 (1.13%) Extreme Networks