IT Engineer Jobs in Birmingham

IT Engineer
West Midlands > Birmingham

The median IT Engineer salary in Birmingham is £31,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 16 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
16 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 98 120 145
Rank change year-on-year +22 +25 -54
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 46 25 47
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 1.71% 1.23% 1.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.81% 1.31% 1.53%
Number of salaries quoted 43 25 44
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,000 £23,500
25th Percentile £25,875 £27,500 £30,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,500 £32,500 £35,700
Median % change year-on-year -3.08% -8.96% -16.00%
75th Percentile £49,375 £34,750 £42,655
90th Percentile £50,000 £42,750 £58,750
West Midlands median annual salary £35,000 £33,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year +4.48% -10.67% +7.14%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Birmingham

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Birmingham. 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 Birmingham with a recognized job title 2,536 1,909 3,070
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.10% 93.67% 95.82%
Number of salaries quoted 2,074 1,449 2,410
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £84,964 £82,500 £85,000
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +7.12%

IT Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Engineer in Birmingham

IT Engineer
Salary Trend in Birmingham

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

Salary trend for IT Engineer in Birmingham

IT Engineer
Salary Histogram in Birmingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing IT Engineer in Birmingham over the 6 months to 16 April 2024.

Salary histogram for IT Engineer in Birmingham

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

For the 6 months to 16 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 Birmingham region featuring IT Engineer in the job title.

1 37 (80.43%) Windows
2 36 (78.26%) Microsoft 365
3 32 (69.57%) Azure
4 28 (60.87%) Active Directory
5 26 (56.52%) Microsoft
5 26 (56.52%) Windows Server
6 21 (45.65%) Entra ID
7 19 (41.30%) Windows Server 2012
7 19 (41.30%) Microsoft Intune
7 19 (41.30%) Telecoms
8 18 (39.13%) Firewall
9 17 (36.96%) Hyper-V
10 16 (34.78%) Microsoft Exchange
11 14 (30.43%) VMware Infrastructure
11 14 (30.43%) VMware
11 14 (30.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 13 (28.26%) DHCP
12 13 (28.26%) DNS
12 13 (28.26%) Veeam
12 13 (28.26%) Windows 10
13 12 (26.09%) SCCM
13 12 (26.09%) SharePoint
13 12 (26.09%) Windows Server 2016
13 12 (26.09%) Windows Server 2019
14 11 (23.91%) Wi-Fi
14 11 (23.91%) VMware ESXi
14 11 (23.91%) Replication
15 10 (21.74%) DBS Check
15 10 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
16 9 (19.57%) Social Skills

IT Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 16 (34.78%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (26.09%) SharePoint
3 2 (4.35%) Exchange Server 2010
Cloud Services
1 36 (78.26%) Microsoft 365
2 32 (69.57%) Azure
3 21 (45.65%) Entra ID
4 3 (6.52%) PaaS
5 2 (4.35%) Amazon S3
5 2 (4.35%) AWS
5 2 (4.35%) Mimecast
5 2 (4.35%) OneDrive
5 2 (4.35%) OpenDNS
6 1 (2.17%) Azure App Service
6 1 (2.17%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 18 (39.13%) Firewall
2 13 (28.26%) DHCP
2 13 (28.26%) DNS
3 11 (23.91%) Wi-Fi
4 7 (15.22%) PBX
5 3 (6.52%) TCP/IP
6 2 (4.35%) EIGRP
6 2 (4.35%) HSRP
6 2 (4.35%) IPsec
6 2 (4.35%) iSCSI
6 2 (4.35%) OSPF
6 2 (4.35%) RIP
6 2 (4.35%) SAN
6 2 (4.35%) VLAN
6 2 (4.35%) VPN
6 2 (4.35%) VRRP
6 2 (4.35%) X.509
7 1 (2.17%) IP Telephony
7 1 (2.17%) SD-WAN
7 1 (2.17%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.70%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.17%) Azure SQL Database
General
1 19 (41.30%) Telecoms
2 9 (19.57%) Social Skills
3 4 (8.70%) Law
4 3 (6.52%) Finance
5 2 (4.35%) Legal
6 1 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.35%) LAMP
1 2 (4.35%) V-Ray
Miscellaneous
1 11 (23.91%) Replication
2 2 (4.35%) Management Information System
2 2 (4.35%) PKI
3 1 (2.17%) Clustering
3 1 (2.17%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.17%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 37 (80.43%) Windows
2 26 (56.52%) Windows Server
3 19 (41.30%) Windows Server 2012
4 13 (28.26%) Windows 10
5 12 (26.09%) Windows Server 2016
5 12 (26.09%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (4.35%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (30.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 10 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (15.22%) Communications Security
3 7 (15.22%) Service Delivery
4 6 (13.04%) Virtual Environments
5 5 (10.87%) Server Migrations
6 3 (6.52%) Customer Service
6 3 (6.52%) Database Migration
6 3 (6.52%) Web SSO
7 2 (4.35%) Disaster Recovery
7 2 (4.35%) Identity Management
7 2 (4.35%) Migration
7 2 (4.35%) Proactive Management
7 2 (4.35%) Project Delivery
7 2 (4.35%) Server Management
7 2 (4.35%) Service Management
7 2 (4.35%) Software Deployment
7 2 (4.35%) Storage Management
8 1 (2.17%) Asset Management
8 1 (2.17%) Network Design
Programming Languages
1 5 (10.87%) PowerShell
2 4 (8.70%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (21.74%) DBS Check
2 1 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (2.17%) Degree
2 1 (2.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 28 (60.87%) Active Directory
2 17 (36.96%) Hyper-V
3 14 (30.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (23.91%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (4.35%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 2 (4.35%) Docker
5 2 (4.35%) pfSense
5 2 (4.35%) Terminal Services
5 2 (4.35%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 19 (41.30%) Microsoft Intune
2 12 (26.09%) SCCM
3 3 (6.52%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (4.35%) Backup Exec
5 1 (2.17%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 26 (56.52%) Microsoft
2 14 (30.43%) VMware
3 13 (28.26%) Veeam
4 8 (17.39%) Cisco
5 4 (8.70%) Acronis
5 4 (8.70%) Aruba
6 3 (6.52%) HP
6 3 (6.52%) Meraki
7 2 (4.35%) Citrix
7 2 (4.35%) SonicWALL
7 2 (4.35%) Sophos
7 2 (4.35%) Veritas
7 2 (4.35%) WatchGuard
8 1 (2.17%) Apple
8 1 (2.17%) Avaya
8 1 (2.17%) Commvault
8 1 (2.17%) Dell
8 1 (2.17%) Fortinet
8 1 (2.17%) Ubiquiti
8 1 (2.17%) Zerto