IT Engineer Jobs in Manchester

IT Engineer
North West > Manchester

The median IT Engineer salary in Manchester is £40,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 6 November 2024.

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

6 months to
6 Nov 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 134 149 212
Rank change year-on-year +15 +63 -24
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 37 22 44
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 1.01% 0.83% 0.80%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.06% 0.86% 0.82%
Number of salaries quoted 27 21 32
10th Percentile £28,750 £28,500 £25,500
25th Percentile £30,875 £29,000 £26,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £30,000 £33,500
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -10.45% +10.74%
75th Percentile £42,500 £32,500 £49,063
90th Percentile £45,750 £38,750 £53,500
North West median annual salary £35,000 £33,500 £30,000
% change year-on-year +4.48% +11.67% -

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 3,502 2,568 5,352
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.19% 96.87% 97.08%
Number of salaries quoted 1,765 1,905 3,511
10th Percentile £33,500 £34,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £58,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.17% +5.45% +4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £84,750 £84,056 £85,000
North West median annual salary £50,803 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -7.63% +4.76% +5.00%

IT Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Engineer in Manchester

IT Engineer
Salary Trend in Manchester

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

Salary trend for IT Engineer in Manchester

IT Engineer
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing IT Engineer in Manchester over the 6 months to 6 November 2024.

Salary histogram for IT Engineer in Manchester

IT 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 IT Engineer within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 6 November 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
Bolton -15 3 £29,500 - 1
Wigan - 1 £27,500 - 2
IT Engineer
North West

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

For the 6 months to 6 November 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 Manchester region featuring IT Engineer in the job title.

1 26 (70.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 21 (56.76%) Veeam
3 18 (48.65%) Cisco
4 17 (45.95%) Azure
5 13 (35.14%) VMware
6 12 (32.43%) Hyper-V
6 12 (32.43%) LAN
6 12 (32.43%) WAN
6 12 (32.43%) Windows
6 12 (32.43%) Data Centre
6 12 (32.43%) Technology Strategy
7 11 (29.73%) IT Strategy
7 11 (29.73%) Microsoft 365
7 11 (29.73%) E-Commerce
8 10 (27.03%) NetApp
8 10 (27.03%) Active Directory
8 10 (27.03%) Dell
8 10 (27.03%) Bill of Materials
9 9 (24.32%) SharePoint
9 9 (24.32%) Microsoft
10 8 (21.62%) VPN
10 8 (21.62%) VMware Infrastructure
10 8 (21.62%) Disaster Recovery
10 8 (21.62%) Social Skills
11 7 (18.92%) Cyber Essentials
11 7 (18.92%) Microsoft Intune
11 7 (18.92%) Firewall
11 7 (18.92%) DNS
12 6 (16.22%) DHCP
12 6 (16.22%) TCP/IP

IT 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 9 (24.32%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 17 (45.95%) Azure
2 11 (29.73%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (16.22%) AWS
4 5 (13.51%) OneDrive
5 1 (2.70%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 12 (32.43%) LAN
1 12 (32.43%) WAN
2 8 (21.62%) VPN
3 7 (18.92%) DNS
3 7 (18.92%) Firewall
4 6 (16.22%) DHCP
4 6 (16.22%) TCP/IP
4 6 (16.22%) VLAN
4 6 (16.22%) Wireless
5 1 (2.70%) NAS
5 1 (2.70%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.70%) SQL Server
General
1 8 (21.62%) Social Skills
2 3 (8.11%) Finance
3 1 (2.70%) Manufacturing
Miscellaneous
1 12 (32.43%) Data Centre
2 6 (16.22%) CCTV
2 6 (16.22%) IoT
3 3 (8.11%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.70%) Driving Licence
4 1 (2.70%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 12 (32.43%) Windows
2 6 (16.22%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.70%) Linux
3 1 (2.70%) Windows 10
3 1 (2.70%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (70.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 12 (32.43%) Technology Strategy
3 11 (29.73%) E-Commerce
3 11 (29.73%) IT Strategy
4 10 (27.03%) Bill of Materials
5 8 (21.62%) Disaster Recovery
6 6 (16.22%) Penetration Testing
7 5 (13.51%) Migration
7 5 (13.51%) Project Delivery
8 3 (8.11%) Problem-Solving
9 2 (5.41%) Break/Fix
9 2 (5.41%) ITIL
9 2 (5.41%) Service Delivery
10 1 (2.70%) BCP
10 1 (2.70%) Business Continuity
10 1 (2.70%) Change Management
10 1 (2.70%) ITSM
10 1 (2.70%) Project Management
10 1 (2.70%) Risk Management
10 1 (2.70%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.70%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (2.70%) CCNA
1 1 (2.70%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (2.70%) Degree
1 1 (2.70%) MCP
1 1 (2.70%) MCSE
1 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (2.70%) SC Cleared
1 1 (2.70%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (18.92%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (2.70%) COBIT
2 1 (2.70%) NIST
2 1 (2.70%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (32.43%) Hyper-V
2 10 (27.03%) Active Directory
3 8 (21.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (13.51%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (13.51%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (18.92%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (13.51%) vCenter Server
3 1 (2.70%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 21 (56.76%) Veeam
2 18 (48.65%) Cisco
3 13 (35.14%) VMware
4 10 (27.03%) Dell
4 10 (27.03%) NetApp
5 9 (24.32%) Microsoft
6 5 (13.51%) CheckPoint
6 5 (13.51%) Juniper
7 1 (2.70%) ESET
7 1 (2.70%) Meraki
7 1 (2.70%) Sophos