IT Engineer Job Trends in Merseyside

IT Engineer
North West > Merseyside

The median IT Engineer salary in Merseyside is £30,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 March 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 46 64
Rank change year-on-year +10 +18 +3
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 29 9 9
As % of all permanent jobs in Merseyside 3.84% 2.06% 0.97%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.37% 2.95% 1.03%
Number of salaries quoted 27 7 9
10th Percentile £27,250 £29,800 £24,150
25th Percentile £29,000 £30,000 £25,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,000 £32,000 £27,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +18.52% -36.47%
75th Percentile £37,050 £34,750 £29,000
90th Percentile £37,730 £39,000 £50,250
North West median annual salary £30,000 £36,750 £30,000
% change year-on-year -18.37% +22.50% -14.29%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Merseyside

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Merseyside. 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 Merseyside with a recognized job title 663 305 875
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 87.70% 69.95% 94.29%
Number of salaries quoted 423 184 728
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,000 £26,000
25th Percentile £29,000 £31,250 £33,181
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £42,500 £44,753
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -5.03% -0.55%
75th Percentile £55,000 £58,750 £58,750
90th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £76,291
North West median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -7.41%

IT Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'IT Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Merseyside.

IT Engineer job vacancy trend in Merseyside

IT Engineer
Salary Trend in Merseyside

Salary distribution trend for IT Engineer job vacancies in Merseyside.

Salary distribution trend for IT Engineer job vacancies in Merseyside

IT Engineer
Salary Histogram in Merseyside

Salary distribution for jobs citing IT Engineer in Merseyside over the 6 months to 2 March 2026.

Salary histogram for IT Engineer in Merseyside

IT Engineer
Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IT Engineer within the Merseyside region over the 6 months to 2 March 2026. 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
Liverpool +2 19 £30,000 -9.09% 4
Wirral - 7 £30,000 -
Birkenhead -5 1 - -
IT Engineer
North West

IT Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Merseyside

For the 6 months to 2 March 2026, IT Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Merseyside region featuring IT Engineer in the job title.

1 20 (68.97%) Microsoft 365
2 15 (51.72%) Microsoft
3 14 (48.28%) Problem-Solving
4 13 (44.83%) Windows
5 11 (37.93%) Windows Server
6 8 (27.59%) Customer Service
6 8 (27.59%) Firewall
7 7 (24.14%) Azure
7 7 (24.14%) Entra ID
7 7 (24.14%) Microsoft Intune
8 6 (20.69%) Active Directory
8 6 (20.69%) Agile
8 6 (20.69%) DHCP
8 6 (20.69%) DNS
8 6 (20.69%) Hyper-V
8 6 (20.69%) Proactive Maintenance
8 6 (20.69%) Remote Monitoring and Management
8 6 (20.69%) TCP/IP
8 6 (20.69%) VPN
8 6 (20.69%) Wireless
9 5 (17.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 5 (17.24%) Windows 10
10 3 (10.34%) E-Commerce
11 2 (6.90%) Antivirus Management
11 2 (6.90%) Continuous Improvement
11 2 (6.90%) Data Loss Prevention
11 2 (6.90%) Disaster Recovery
11 2 (6.90%) Fortinet
11 2 (6.90%) Fujitsu
11 2 (6.90%) Mac OS

IT Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Merseyside by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (6.90%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 20 (68.97%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (24.14%) Azure
2 7 (24.14%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 8 (27.59%) Firewall
2 6 (20.69%) DHCP
2 6 (20.69%) DNS
2 6 (20.69%) TCP/IP
2 6 (20.69%) VPN
2 6 (20.69%) Wireless
General
1 7 (24.14%) Social Skills
2 3 (10.34%) Retail
3 2 (6.90%) Multimedia
4 1 (3.45%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 15 (51.72%) Driving Licence
2 8 (27.59%) Onboarding
3 5 (17.24%) CCTV
4 2 (6.90%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (6.90%) Security Posture
5 1 (3.45%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 13 (44.83%) Windows
2 11 (37.93%) Windows Server
3 5 (17.24%) Windows 10
4 2 (6.90%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (48.28%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (27.59%) Customer Service
3 6 (20.69%) Agile
3 6 (20.69%) Proactive Maintenance
3 6 (20.69%) Remote Monitoring and Management
4 5 (17.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (10.34%) E-Commerce
6 2 (6.90%) Antivirus Management
6 2 (6.90%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (6.90%) Data Loss Prevention
6 2 (6.90%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (6.90%) Mentoring
6 2 (6.90%) Systems Engineering
System Software
1 6 (20.69%) Active Directory
1 6 (20.69%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 7 (24.14%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 15 (51.72%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.90%) Fortinet
2 2 (6.90%) Fujitsu
2 2 (6.90%) Virgin Media