IT Engineer Jobs in Cheshire

IT Engineer
North West > Cheshire

The median IT Engineer salary in Cheshire is £48,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 91 63 54
Rank change year-on-year -28 -9 +46
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 4 36 36
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 0.51% 2.32% 3.95%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.67% 2.40% 4.42%
Number of salaries quoted 4 24 17
10th Percentile £30,750 £25,000 -
25th Percentile £37,500 £26,750 £14,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,750 £35,000 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year +39.29% - +12.00%
75th Percentile £57,500 £42,375 £38,750
90th Percentile - £48,025 £42,400
North West median annual salary £35,000 £30,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% -14.29% -5.41%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Cheshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Cheshire. 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 Cheshire with a recognized job title 597 1,500 815
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 76.44% 96.84% 89.36%
Number of salaries quoted 264 1,125 476
10th Percentile - £25,000 £25,250
25th Percentile £23,504 £32,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -21.05% - -
75th Percentile £55,000 £60,000 £65,313
90th Percentile £73,000 £72,500 £88,750
North West median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%

IT Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Engineer in Cheshire

IT Engineer
Salary Trend in Cheshire

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

Salary trend for IT Engineer in Cheshire

IT Engineer
Salary Histogram in Cheshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing IT Engineer in Cheshire over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Salary histogram for IT Engineer in Cheshire

IT Engineer
Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IT Engineer within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 16 May 2025. 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
Warrington +23 2 £55,000 +22.22%
Northwich -1 1 £27,500 -23.61%
Winsford - 1 £42,500 -
IT Engineer
North West

IT Engineer Skill Set
Top 17 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire

For the 6 months to 16 May 2025, 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 Cheshire region featuring IT Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (75.00%) Azure
3 2 (50.00%) Driving Licence
3 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (50.00%) Customer Service
4 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (25.00%) Firewall
4 1 (25.00%) Manufacturing
4 1 (25.00%) Business Continuity
4 1 (25.00%) Windows
4 1 (25.00%) Cisco
4 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
4 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
4 1 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (25.00%) IaaS

IT Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (75.00%) Azure
3 1 (25.00%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Manufacturing
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Driving Licence
2 1 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (25.00%) Business Continuity
2 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft