IT Technician Jobs in Cheshire

IT Technician
North West > Cheshire

The median IT Technician salary in Cheshire is £29,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 9 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
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 77 83 42
Rank change year-on-year +6 -41 +16
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Technician 4 21 59
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 0.56% 1.36% 6.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.76% 1.40% 7.16%
Number of salaries quoted 2 19 0
10th Percentile £26,275 - -
25th Percentile £27,063 £22,000 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £29,250 £27,500 -
Median % change year-on-year +6.36% - -
75th Percentile £31,563 £28,750 -
90th Percentile £32,425 £31,750 -
North West median annual salary £30,000 £27,500 £27,234
% change year-on-year +9.09% +0.98% +8.94%

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 528 1,496 824
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 73.95% 96.89% 89.66%
Number of salaries quoted 268 1,124 482
10th Percentile £23,503 £25,000 £25,420
25th Percentile £23,504 £32,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £47,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.21% -1.05% -
75th Percentile £55,000 £60,000 £67,188
90th Percentile £77,150 £72,324 £88,750
North West median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%

IT Technician
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Technician in Cheshire

IT Technician
Salary Trend in Cheshire

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

Salary trend for IT Technician in Cheshire

IT Technician
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 Technician within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 9 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
Nantwich - 2 - -
IT Technician
North West

IT Technician Skill Set
Top 24 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire

For the 6 months to 9 May 2025, IT Technician 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 Technician in the job title.

1 2 (50.00%) Windows
1 2 (50.00%) Mathematics
1 2 (50.00%) Computer Science
1 2 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 2 (50.00%) Management Information System
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (50.00%) DBS Check
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) VMware
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (25.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (25.00%) DHCP
2 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (25.00%) DNS
2 1 (25.00%) SLA
2 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (25.00%) Citrix

IT Technician 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) DHCP
1 1 (25.00%) DNS
1 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
1 2 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Computer Science
1 2 (50.00%) Mathematics
1 2 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (25.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Citrix
1 1 (25.00%) VMware