IT Engineer Jobs in the North East

IT Engineer
England > North East

The median IT Engineer salary in the North East is £37,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 69 94
Rank change year-on-year +11 +25 -4
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 10 49 19
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 1.42% 2.68% 1.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.56% 2.80% 1.86%
Number of salaries quoted 9 46 19
10th Percentile £32,200 £25,750 £29,017
25th Percentile £33,000 £31,250 £31,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £32,500 £33,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -1.52% +13.79%
75th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £35,375
90th Percentile £46,250 £39,500 £37,700
England median annual salary £35,000 £33,000 £34,500
% change year-on-year +6.06% -4.35% +1.47%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the North East. 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 the North East with a recognized job title 642 1,750 1,020
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.19% 95.63% 79.87%
Number of salaries quoted 382 1,410 611
10th Percentile £25,009 £27,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £31,337 £35,920 £36,963
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,500 £47,672
Median % change year-on-year - -0.36% +19.18%
75th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £78,225 £75,752 £73,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,773 £60,567
% change year-on-year +6.93% -11.22% +0.95%

IT Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Engineer in the North East

IT Engineer
Salary Trend in the North East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing IT Engineer in the North East.

Salary trend for IT Engineer in the North East

IT Engineer
Salary Histogram in the North East

Salary distribution for jobs citing IT Engineer in the North East over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for IT Engineer in the North East

IT Engineer
Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IT Engineer within the North East region over the 6 months to 1 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
Tyne and Wear +6 7 £35,750 +10.00% 3
Durham +20 2 £38,750 +22.05% 2
Northumberland - 1 £37,500 - 2
IT Engineer
England

IT Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East

For the 6 months to 1 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 North East region featuring IT Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (60.00%) Windows
1 6 (60.00%) Microsoft
1 6 (60.00%) Microsoft 365
1 6 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (50.00%) Windows Server
2 5 (50.00%) Active Directory
3 4 (40.00%) Firewall
3 4 (40.00%) VMware
3 4 (40.00%) Azure
3 4 (40.00%) Customer Service
3 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (30.00%) Hyper-V
4 3 (30.00%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (20.00%) SAN
5 2 (20.00%) Manufacturing
5 2 (20.00%) VPN
5 2 (20.00%) Cisco
5 2 (20.00%) LAN
5 2 (20.00%) WAN
5 2 (20.00%) Pharmaceutical
5 2 (20.00%) Business Continuity
5 2 (20.00%) PowerShell
5 2 (20.00%) NAS
5 2 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (20.00%) Entra ID
5 2 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (20.00%) Project Delivery

IT Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (10.00%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (60.00%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (40.00%) Azure
3 2 (20.00%) Entra ID
4 1 (10.00%) AWS
4 1 (10.00%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 4 (40.00%) Firewall
2 2 (20.00%) LAN
2 2 (20.00%) NAS
2 2 (20.00%) SAN
2 2 (20.00%) VPN
2 2 (20.00%) WAN
3 1 (10.00%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (10.00%) Network Security
3 1 (10.00%) VLAN
3 1 (10.00%) VoIP
3 1 (10.00%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (10.00%) WLAN
General
1 6 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Manufacturing
2 2 (20.00%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (10.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Marketing
3 1 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (10.00%) Replication
1 1 (10.00%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 6 (60.00%) Windows
2 5 (50.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (10.00%) Linux
3 1 (10.00%) Mac OS
3 1 (10.00%) Ubuntu
3 1 (10.00%) Windows 10
3 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Customer Service
1 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (20.00%) Business Continuity
3 2 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (20.00%) Project Delivery
4 1 (10.00%) BCP
4 1 (10.00%) Business Continuity Planning
4 1 (10.00%) Computer Science
4 1 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (10.00%) Incident Management
4 1 (10.00%) Information Security
4 1 (10.00%) ITIL
4 1 (10.00%) Migration
4 1 (10.00%) Penetration Testing
4 1 (10.00%) Project Management
4 1 (10.00%) SIEM
4 1 (10.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
4 1 (10.00%) Web Design
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (10.00%) Bash
2 1 (10.00%) PHP
2 1 (10.00%) Python
2 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) CCNA
1 1 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
1 1 (10.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
1 1 (10.00%) MCSA
1 1 (10.00%) MCSE
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (10.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (10.00%) GDPR
2 1 (10.00%) ISO 9001
2 1 (10.00%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (30.00%) Hyper-V
2 3 (30.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Ansible
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (10.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (40.00%) VMware
3 2 (20.00%) Cisco
4 1 (10.00%) Veeam