IT Engineer Jobs in the West Midlands

IT Engineer
England > West Midlands

The median IT Engineer salary in the West Midlands is £35,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 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
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 90 167 164
Rank change year-on-year +77 -3 -84
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 192 109 132
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.65% 1.66% 1.81%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.81% 1.84% 1.91%
Number of salaries quoted 159 105 125
10th Percentile £25,000 £25,200 £23,500
25th Percentile £26,250 £26,250 £29,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £33,500 £39,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.48% -14.10% +11.43%
75th Percentile £43,750 £43,750 £47,250
90th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £58,193
England median annual salary £33,000 £34,500 £34,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -1.43%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands. 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 West Midlands with a recognized job title 6,830 5,921 6,909
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.10% 90.12% 94.75%
Number of salaries quoted 5,165 3,354 4,789
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,974 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,250 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £78,750
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 West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Engineer in the West Midlands

IT Engineer
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for IT Engineer in the West Midlands

IT Engineer
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing IT Engineer in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Salary histogram for IT Engineer in the West Midlands

IT Engineer
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IT Engineer within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 5 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
Staffordshire +3 56 £40,000 -1.84% 3
Birmingham +14 44 £30,250 -9.70% 6
Worcestershire -7 17 £30,500 +10.91% 4
Shropshire 0 14 £36,500 +40.38% 2
Warwickshire +52 11 £27,500 -38.89% 3
Wednesbury - 9 £30,000 -
Wolverhampton +16 4 £20,750 -3.49% 1
Solihull +2 4 £26,500 -10.17%
Walsall +20 3 - -
Coventry +17 2 £34,500 -27.37% 3
Halesowen -10 2 £27,500 -17.91%
Dudley - 1 £27,500 -
IT Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 5 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 West Midlands region featuring IT Engineer in the job title.

1 117 (60.94%) Windows
2 101 (52.60%) Microsoft 365
3 98 (51.04%) Active Directory
4 89 (46.35%) Microsoft
5 85 (44.27%) Azure
6 80 (41.67%) Windows Server
7 56 (29.17%) VMware
8 53 (27.60%) Social Skills
9 51 (26.56%) Firewall
10 46 (23.96%) Entra ID
10 46 (23.96%) Hyper-V
11 43 (22.40%) VMware Infrastructure
12 41 (21.35%) ITIL
13 38 (19.79%) Cisco
13 38 (19.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 35 (18.23%) Microsoft Exchange
15 32 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
16 30 (15.63%) Windows Server 2012
16 30 (15.63%) Problem-Solving
17 28 (14.58%) DNS
17 28 (14.58%) DHCP
18 27 (14.06%) SCCM
19 25 (13.02%) Continuous Improvement
19 25 (13.02%) Telecoms
20 24 (12.50%) Law
20 24 (12.50%) Customer Service
21 23 (11.98%) Windows 10
21 23 (11.98%) PowerShell
21 23 (11.98%) VoIP
22 22 (11.46%) SAN

IT Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 35 (18.23%) Microsoft Exchange
2 19 (9.90%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.04%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 21 (10.94%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.52%) MIS ActiveH
Cloud Services
1 101 (52.60%) Microsoft 365
2 85 (44.27%) Azure
3 46 (23.96%) Entra ID
4 12 (6.25%) AWS
5 4 (2.08%) Google Workspace
6 2 (1.04%) Amazon S3
6 2 (1.04%) Mimecast
6 2 (1.04%) OneDrive
6 2 (1.04%) OpenDNS
7 1 (0.52%) Nutanix
7 1 (0.52%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 51 (26.56%) Firewall
2 28 (14.58%) DHCP
2 28 (14.58%) DNS
3 23 (11.98%) VoIP
4 22 (11.46%) SAN
5 10 (5.21%) Wi-Fi
6 9 (4.69%) PBX
7 8 (4.17%) TCP/IP
7 8 (4.17%) WAN
8 7 (3.65%) LAN
9 6 (3.13%) Network Security
9 6 (3.13%) VLAN
9 6 (3.13%) VPN
10 4 (2.08%) Wireshark
11 3 (1.56%) FlexRay
11 3 (1.56%) Internet
11 3 (1.56%) iSCSI
11 3 (1.56%) OSPF
11 3 (1.56%) Wireless
12 2 (1.04%) RIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (4.69%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (3.13%) SQL Server
3 4 (2.08%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 3 (1.56%) LabVIEW
General
1 53 (27.60%) Social Skills
2 25 (13.02%) Telecoms
3 24 (12.50%) Law
4 11 (5.73%) Finance
5 10 (5.21%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (5.21%) Manufacturing
6 7 (3.65%) Retail
7 6 (3.13%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.04%) Electronics
8 2 (1.04%) Legal
8 2 (1.04%) Social Housing
9 1 (0.52%) Advertising
9 1 (0.52%) Automotive
9 1 (0.52%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.04%) LAMP
1 2 (1.04%) V-Ray
Miscellaneous
1 16 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
2 11 (5.73%) Fat Client
2 11 (5.73%) Replication
2 11 (5.73%) Thin Client
3 10 (5.21%) Driving Licence
4 5 (2.60%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.08%) Data Centre
5 4 (2.08%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.56%) Clustering
6 3 (1.56%) Embedded Systems
6 3 (1.56%) IoT
6 3 (1.56%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.04%) Housing Association
7 2 (1.04%) PKI
7 2 (1.04%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (0.52%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 117 (60.94%) Windows
2 80 (41.67%) Windows Server
3 30 (15.63%) Windows Server 2012
4 23 (11.98%) Windows 10
5 22 (11.46%) Windows Server 2016
6 17 (8.85%) Windows Server 2019
7 14 (7.29%) Linux
8 10 (5.21%) Mac OS
9 5 (2.60%) Unix
10 3 (1.56%) CentOS
11 1 (0.52%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.52%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.52%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.52%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.52%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (21.35%) ITIL
2 38 (19.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 30 (15.63%) Problem-Solving
4 25 (13.02%) Continuous Improvement
5 24 (12.50%) Customer Service
6 20 (10.42%) Service Delivery
7 18 (9.38%) Agile
7 18 (9.38%) Proactive Monitoring
8 12 (6.25%) Asset Management
8 12 (6.25%) Break/Fix
9 11 (5.73%) Change Management
9 11 (5.73%) Project Delivery
9 11 (5.73%) Project Planning
10 10 (5.21%) High Availability
10 10 (5.21%) Migration
11 9 (4.69%) Server Management
12 8 (4.17%) Disaster Recovery
12 8 (4.17%) Time Management
13 7 (3.65%) Cybersecurity
13 7 (3.65%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 23 (11.98%) PowerShell
2 19 (9.90%) SQL
3 10 (5.21%) Python
4 7 (3.65%) JavaScript
5 5 (2.60%) C#
5 5 (2.60%) C++
5 5 (2.60%) Java
6 4 (2.08%) R
7 1 (0.52%) Bash
7 1 (0.52%) Go
Qualifications
1 20 (10.42%) Microsoft Certification
2 10 (5.21%) DBS Check
3 9 (4.69%) Degree
4 8 (4.17%) MCSE
5 5 (2.60%) A+ Certification
5 5 (2.60%) Network+ Certification
6 4 (2.08%) CCNA
6 4 (2.08%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (2.08%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 3 (1.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 3 (1.56%) MCSA
7 3 (1.56%) Security Cleared
8 2 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.04%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.04%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.52%) HNC
9 1 (0.52%) HND
9 1 (0.52%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (9.90%) SLA
2 10 (5.21%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (2.08%) QA
System Software
1 98 (51.04%) Active Directory
2 46 (23.96%) Hyper-V
3 43 (22.40%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (6.25%) VMware ESXi
5 8 (4.17%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (3.13%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (1.04%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 2 (1.04%) Docker
7 2 (1.04%) pfSense
7 2 (1.04%) Terminal Services
7 2 (1.04%) VMware Workstation
8 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 32 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 27 (14.06%) SCCM
3 4 (2.08%) Grafana
4 3 (1.56%) Failover Clustering
4 3 (1.56%) SCOM
5 2 (1.04%) Backup Exec
6 1 (0.52%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.52%) WSUS
Vendors
1 89 (46.35%) Microsoft
2 56 (29.17%) VMware
3 38 (19.79%) Cisco
4 20 (10.42%) Veeam
5 18 (9.38%) HP
6 16 (8.33%) Citrix
7 9 (4.69%) Dell
8 7 (3.65%) Nimble Storage
8 7 (3.65%) Remedy
9 6 (3.13%) Fortinet
9 6 (3.13%) Meraki
9 6 (3.13%) Zerto
10 5 (2.60%) ConnectWise
10 5 (2.60%) Mitel
11 4 (2.08%) Acronis
11 4 (2.08%) Apple
11 4 (2.08%) Aruba
11 4 (2.08%) Dynatrace
11 4 (2.08%) PagerDuty
11 4 (2.08%) Ruckus Wireless