Field Engineer Jobs in Manchester

Field Engineer
North West > Manchester

The median Field Engineer salary in Manchester is £40,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 August 2025.

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

6 months to
13 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 159 190 194
Rank change year-on-year +31 +4 +62
Permanent jobs requiring a Field Engineer 3 12 6
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 0.12% 0.26% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.28% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 3 12 6
10th Percentile £31,600 - £23,750
25th Percentile £34,750 £27,500 £24,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £28,000 £27,250
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% +2.75% -17.42%
75th Percentile - £50,000 £29,875
90th Percentile - - £31,875
North West median annual salary £30,500 £28,000 £25,500
% change year-on-year +8.93% +9.80% -22.14%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Manchester

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Manchester. 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 Manchester with a recognized job title 2,308 4,361 3,248
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.72% 95.07% 91.86%
Number of salaries quoted 1,377 2,891 2,278
10th Percentile £29,500 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £83,125 £83,750
North West median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%

Field Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Field Engineer in Manchester

Field Engineer
Salary Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Field Engineer in Manchester.

Salary trend for Field Engineer in Manchester

Field Engineer
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Field Engineer within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 13 August 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
Bolton - 1 £31,000 - 1
Field Engineer
North West

Field Engineer Skill Set
Top 14 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester

For the 6 months to 13 August 2025, Field 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 Manchester region featuring Field Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (66.67%) CCTV
2 1 (33.33%) Firewall
2 1 (33.33%) VMware
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (33.33%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (33.33%) Hyper-V
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
2 1 (33.33%) Driving Licence
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server

Field Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) CCTV
2 1 (33.33%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Hyper-V
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) VMware