IT Engineer Jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne

IT Engineer
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The median IT Engineer salary in Newcastle upon Tyne is £35,750 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 43 48 77
Rank change year-on-year +5 +29 -8
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 4 35 8
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 1.30% 3.42% 1.03%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.36% 3.52% 1.22%
Number of salaries quoted 4 32 8
10th Percentile £30,200 - £28,158
25th Percentile £32,000 £31,250 £31,083
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,750 £32,500 £33,124
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -1.88% +20.45%
75th Percentile £44,375 £33,750 £36,500
90th Percentile £54,500 £39,725 £39,800
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £34,000 £32,500 £33,500
% change year-on-year +4.62% -2.99% +21.82%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Newcastle upon Tyne

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Newcastle upon Tyne. 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 Newcastle upon Tyne with a recognized job title 294 995 656
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.45% 97.26% 84.75%
Number of salaries quoted 220 837 404
10th Percentile £28,900 £30,000 £31,613
25th Percentile £40,866 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £48,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.58% -8.57% +7.28%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,603 £63,938
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £75,000
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £49,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +3.16% -9.52% +16.67%

IT Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Engineer in Newcastle upon Tyne

IT Engineer
Salary Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing IT Engineer in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Salary trend for IT Engineer in Newcastle upon Tyne

IT Engineer
Salary Histogram in Newcastle upon Tyne

Salary distribution for jobs citing IT Engineer in Newcastle upon Tyne over the 6 months to 9 May 2025.

Salary histogram for IT Engineer in Newcastle upon Tyne

IT Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne

For the 6 months to 9 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 Newcastle upon Tyne region featuring IT Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (50.00%) Windows
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (50.00%) Business Continuity
1 2 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) NIST
2 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (25.00%) GDPR
2 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (25.00%) VMware
2 1 (25.00%) Network Security
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (25.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (25.00%) NAS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Social Media
2 1 (25.00%) SIEM
2 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (25.00%) Business Continuity Planning
2 1 (25.00%) Mentoring

IT Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne 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 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (25.00%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (25.00%) NAS
2 1 (25.00%) Network Security
2 1 (25.00%) SAN
2 1 (25.00%) VPN
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (25.00%) Pharmaceutical
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Business Continuity
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) BCP
2 1 (25.00%) Business Continuity Planning
2 1 (25.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (25.00%) Penetration Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) SIEM
2 1 (25.00%) User Experience
2 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
2 1 (25.00%) Web Design
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (25.00%) GDPR
2 1 (25.00%) ISO 9001
2 1 (25.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco
2 1 (25.00%) VMware