IT Engineer Jobs in the North West

IT Engineer
England > North West

The median IT Engineer salary in the North West is £30,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 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
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 134 173 240
Rank change year-on-year +39 +67 -92
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 170 136 93
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 1.73% 1.74% 1.00%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.83% 1.95% 1.04%
Number of salaries quoted 144 73 86
10th Percentile £22,534 £22,750 £21,250
25th Percentile £24,813 £28,000 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,000 £35,000 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - -6.67%
75th Percentile £40,750 £43,750 £42,500
90th Percentile £50,175 £57,500 £46,250
England median annual salary £33,000 £34,500 £34,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -1.43%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the North West. 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 West with a recognized job title 9,301 6,970 8,953
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.61% 89.02% 95.94%
Number of salaries quoted 7,150 4,060 5,370
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,947
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £81,250 £82,500
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Engineer in the North West

IT Engineer
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for IT Engineer in the North West

IT Engineer
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing IT Engineer in the North West over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for IT Engineer in the North West

IT Engineer
Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 9 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
Manchester +51 77 £30,000 -25.00% 13
Cheshire -8 36 £35,000 -4.11% 12
Lancashire +3 34 £23,076 -5.81% 9
Merseyside -8 14 £27,000 -28.00% 7
Cumbria -8 8 £32,000 -8.57% 3
IT Engineer
England

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

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

1 86 (50.59%) Active Directory
2 78 (45.88%) Microsoft
3 72 (42.35%) Windows
4 68 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
5 60 (35.29%) Social Skills
6 53 (31.18%) Problem-Solving
7 46 (27.06%) ITIL
8 43 (25.29%) Azure
9 35 (20.59%) Firewall
10 33 (19.41%) VMware
11 29 (17.06%) Windows Server
12 28 (16.47%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 26 (15.29%) Finance
14 25 (14.71%) Windows 10
14 25 (14.71%) Analytical Skills
15 24 (14.12%) Project Management
16 23 (13.53%) Microsoft Intune
16 23 (13.53%) VMware Infrastructure
17 22 (12.94%) Microsoft Office
18 21 (12.35%) SQL
18 21 (12.35%) Hyper-V
18 21 (12.35%) Customer Service
19 20 (11.76%) DNS
20 19 (11.18%) PowerShell
20 19 (11.18%) Entra ID
21 18 (10.59%) Cisco
22 17 (10.00%) Migration
23 16 (9.41%) SQL Server
24 15 (8.82%) Stakeholder Management
24 15 (8.82%) Wi-Fi

IT Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 12 (7.06%) SharePoint
2 10 (5.88%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.18%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 1 (0.59%) Site Server
4 1 (0.59%) WordPress
Applications
1 22 (12.94%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.18%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 68 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
2 43 (25.29%) Azure
3 19 (11.18%) Entra ID
4 11 (6.47%) AWS
5 8 (4.71%) OneDrive
6 7 (4.12%) Power Automate
6 7 (4.12%) Power Platform
6 7 (4.12%) PowerApps
7 3 (1.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (1.76%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 3 (1.76%) AWS CloudTrail
7 3 (1.76%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (1.76%) Dropbox
7 3 (1.76%) Google Drive
8 2 (1.18%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (0.59%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 35 (20.59%) Firewall
2 20 (11.76%) DNS
3 15 (8.82%) Wi-Fi
4 13 (7.65%) DHCP
4 13 (7.65%) VoIP
5 8 (4.71%) LAN
5 8 (4.71%) SAN
5 8 (4.71%) Wireless
6 7 (4.12%) Remote Desktop
6 7 (4.12%) VPN
7 6 (3.53%) WLAN
8 5 (2.94%) Internet
8 5 (2.94%) NAS
8 5 (2.94%) VLAN
9 4 (2.35%) Intrusion Detection
9 4 (2.35%) TCP/IP
9 4 (2.35%) WAN
10 3 (1.76%) Network Security
11 2 (1.18%) Cisco ISE
12 1 (0.59%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (9.41%) SQL Server
2 14 (8.24%) MySQL
3 2 (1.18%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (1.18%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
1 2 (1.18%) Visual Studio
General
1 60 (35.29%) Social Skills
2 26 (15.29%) Finance
3 25 (14.71%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (8.24%) Organisational Skills
4 14 (8.24%) Retail
5 8 (4.71%) Manufacturing
6 6 (3.53%) Public Sector
7 5 (2.94%) Pharmaceutical
7 5 (2.94%) Telecoms
8 4 (2.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.35%) Marketing
9 3 (1.76%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.18%) Electronics
10 2 (1.18%) Military
11 1 (0.59%) Advertising
11 1 (0.59%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.59%) Law
11 1 (0.59%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.59%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.88%) EPoS
2 8 (4.71%) Driving Licence
2 8 (4.71%) Management Information System
2 8 (4.71%) Onboarding
3 4 (2.35%) CCTV
3 4 (2.35%) Cyber Threat
3 4 (2.35%) Cyberattack
3 4 (2.35%) Data Centre
3 4 (2.35%) Fat Client
3 4 (2.35%) Public Cloud
3 4 (2.35%) Security Posture
3 4 (2.35%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (2.35%) Thin Client
4 3 (1.76%) iPad
5 2 (1.18%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.59%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (0.59%) Replication
6 1 (0.59%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 72 (42.35%) Windows
2 29 (17.06%) Windows Server
3 25 (14.71%) Windows 10
4 11 (6.47%) Android
4 11 (6.47%) Apple iOS
5 9 (5.29%) Linux
6 7 (4.12%) Windows Server 2012
7 6 (3.53%) Windows Server 2016
8 5 (2.94%) Mac OS
9 4 (2.35%) Debian
9 4 (2.35%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (1.18%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (31.18%) Problem-Solving
2 46 (27.06%) ITIL
3 28 (16.47%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 24 (14.12%) Project Management
5 21 (12.35%) Customer Service
6 17 (10.00%) Migration
7 15 (8.82%) Stakeholder Management
8 14 (8.24%) Service Management
9 13 (7.65%) Infrastructure Management
10 11 (6.47%) CRM
11 10 (5.88%) Disaster Recovery
11 10 (5.88%) Mathematics
12 9 (5.29%) Creative Problem-Solving
12 9 (5.29%) Data Privacy
12 9 (5.29%) Logistics
13 7 (4.12%) Information Security
13 7 (4.12%) SIEM
13 7 (4.12%) Software Testing
13 7 (4.12%) Storage Management
14 6 (3.53%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 21 (12.35%) SQL
2 19 (11.18%) PowerShell
3 9 (5.29%) Swift
4 6 (3.53%) PHP
5 3 (1.76%) Bash
5 3 (1.76%) Python
Qualifications
1 13 (7.65%) Degree
2 12 (7.06%) DBS Check
3 4 (2.35%) AWS Certification
3 4 (2.35%) CISA
3 4 (2.35%) CISSP
3 4 (2.35%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (2.35%) Security Cleared
4 2 (1.18%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.18%) CCNA
4 2 (1.18%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (1.18%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (1.18%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 2 (1.18%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.59%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (2.35%) GDPR
2 4 (2.35%) SOC 2
3 3 (1.76%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (1.76%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 3 (1.76%) NIST
3 3 (1.76%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.59%) ISO 13485
4 1 (0.59%) ISO 9001
4 1 (0.59%) SLA
System Software
1 86 (50.59%) Active Directory
2 23 (13.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (12.35%) Hyper-V
4 10 (5.88%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (1.76%) vSphere
6 2 (1.18%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.59%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 23 (13.53%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (2.35%) Nessus
3 3 (1.76%) SCCM
4 2 (1.18%) Grafana
4 2 (1.18%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.18%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 2 (1.18%) vRealize
Vendors
1 78 (45.88%) Microsoft
2 33 (19.41%) VMware
3 18 (10.59%) Cisco
4 12 (7.06%) Citrix
5 11 (6.47%) Sophos
6 9 (5.29%) Veeam
7 8 (4.71%) ESET
8 7 (4.12%) HP
9 6 (3.53%) Aruba
10 5 (2.94%) Datto
10 5 (2.94%) Ubiquiti
11 4 (2.35%) CA
11 4 (2.35%) Dell
11 4 (2.35%) Extreme Networks
11 4 (2.35%) Fortinet
11 4 (2.35%) Meraki
12 3 (1.76%) ConnectWise
12 3 (1.76%) Draytek
12 3 (1.76%) Google
12 3 (1.76%) SolarWinds