Technical Engineer Jobs in the West Midlands

Technical Engineer
England > West Midlands

The median Technical Engineer salary in the West Midlands is £35,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 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
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 170 263 263
Rank change year-on-year +93 0 -50
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Engineer 72 10 19
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.00% 0.15% 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.07% 0.16% 0.28%
Number of salaries quoted 60 7 17
10th Percentile £28,000 £32,350 £26,250
25th Percentile £30,000 £34,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -17.65% - +25.00%
75th Percentile £47,500 £56,250 £43,750
90th Percentile £57,500 £60,250 £48,750
England median annual salary £35,000 £45,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year -22.22% +28.57% -6.67%

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 6,759 6,072 6,871
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.02% 89.93% 94.68%
Number of salaries quoted 5,145 3,346 4,793
10th Percentile £26,250 £29,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.82%
75th Percentile £63,117 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £78,750
England median annual salary £54,000 £60,567 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.84% +0.95% +9.09%

Technical Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Engineer in the West Midlands

Technical Engineer
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for Technical Engineer in the West Midlands

Technical Engineer
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Technical Engineer in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Technical Engineer in the West Midlands

Technical 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 Technical Engineer within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 24 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
Warwickshire - 23 £35,000 - 2
Birmingham +16 17 £35,000 +1.45% 5
Staffordshire 0 14 £50,000 +12.99% 2
Worcestershire - 10 £35,000 - 2
Solihull -1 2 £46,250 +8.82%
Kingswinford - 1 - -
Technical Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 24 April 2024, 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 across the West Midlands region featuring Technical Engineer in the job title.

1 22 (30.56%) Microsoft
2 16 (22.22%) Windows
3 13 (18.06%) Azure
3 13 (18.06%) Customer Service
4 12 (16.67%) Social Skills
4 12 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
5 11 (15.28%) Windows Server
5 11 (15.28%) Active Directory
5 11 (15.28%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (12.50%) Decision-Making
6 9 (12.50%) HNC
6 9 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 9 (12.50%) Degree
7 8 (11.11%) VMware
8 7 (9.72%) Microsoft Exchange
8 7 (9.72%) ITIL
8 7 (9.72%) DHCP
8 7 (9.72%) DNS
8 7 (9.72%) SAN
8 7 (9.72%) Entra ID
9 6 (8.33%) SCOM
9 6 (8.33%) SaaS
9 6 (8.33%) Siemens
9 6 (8.33%) TCP/IP
9 6 (8.33%) WAN
9 6 (8.33%) Retail
9 6 (8.33%) Firewall
10 5 (6.94%) Finance
10 5 (6.94%) Project Management
10 5 (6.94%) Stakeholder Management

Technical 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 7 (9.72%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (5.56%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.39%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.39%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 13 (18.06%) Azure
2 12 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (9.72%) Entra ID
4 6 (8.33%) SaaS
5 4 (5.56%) OneDrive
6 2 (2.78%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (1.39%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 7 (9.72%) DHCP
1 7 (9.72%) DNS
1 7 (9.72%) SAN
2 6 (8.33%) Firewall
2 6 (8.33%) TCP/IP
2 6 (8.33%) WAN
3 5 (6.94%) VLAN
4 4 (5.56%) iSCSI
5 3 (4.17%) Wireless
6 2 (2.78%) LAN
7 1 (1.39%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.17%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (2.78%) JIRA
General
1 12 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 6 (8.33%) Retail
3 5 (6.94%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (6.94%) Documentation Skills
3 5 (6.94%) Finance
4 3 (4.17%) Electronics
4 3 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (4.17%) Manufacturing
5 2 (2.78%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.39%) Marketing
6 1 (1.39%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.17%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 3 (4.17%) CCTV
1 3 (4.17%) Clustering
1 3 (4.17%) Data Centre
1 3 (4.17%) Renewable Energy
2 1 (1.39%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (1.39%) Robotics
2 1 (1.39%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (22.22%) Windows
2 11 (15.28%) Windows Server
3 5 (6.94%) Mac OS
4 3 (4.17%) Unix
5 1 (1.39%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (18.06%) Customer Service
2 11 (15.28%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (12.50%) Decision-Making
3 9 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 7 (9.72%) ITIL
5 5 (6.94%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (6.94%) Project Management
5 5 (6.94%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (5.56%) CRM
6 4 (5.56%) Customer Requirements
6 4 (5.56%) Preventative Maintenance
6 4 (5.56%) Proactive Monitoring
6 4 (5.56%) Telematics
7 3 (4.17%) Cloud Security
7 3 (4.17%) Computer Science
7 3 (4.17%) Customer Engagement
7 3 (4.17%) Mathematics
7 3 (4.17%) Problem Management
7 3 (4.17%) Server Management
7 3 (4.17%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (6.94%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (12.50%) Degree
1 9 (12.50%) HNC
2 4 (5.56%) MCSE
2 4 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (5.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 3 (4.17%) HND
3 3 (4.17%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 3 (4.17%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.17%) QA
1 3 (4.17%) SLA
2 1 (1.39%) GDPR
2 1 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 15288
System Software
1 11 (15.28%) Active Directory
2 4 (5.56%) Hyper-V
2 4 (5.56%) NFS
2 4 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (8.33%) SCOM
2 5 (6.94%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (4.17%) Cisco Prime
3 3 (4.17%) Failover Clustering
3 3 (4.17%) McAfee ePO
3 3 (4.17%) SCCM
Vendors
1 22 (30.56%) Microsoft
2 8 (11.11%) VMware
3 6 (8.33%) Siemens
4 4 (5.56%) Cisco
5 3 (4.17%) McAfee
5 3 (4.17%) Salesforce
5 3 (4.17%) SolarWinds
6 2 (2.78%) Apple
7 1 (1.39%) CheckPoint
7 1 (1.39%) Forcepoint
7 1 (1.39%) HP
7 1 (1.39%) Oracle
7 1 (1.39%) SAP