IT Engineer Jobs in the North of England

IT Engineer
England > North of England

The median IT Engineer salary in the North of England is £33,000 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 211 128 195
Rank change year-on-year -83 +67 +43
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 97 349 285
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.89% 2.02% 1.64%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.97% 2.13% 1.83%
Number of salaries quoted 88 289 149
10th Percentile £25,750 £22,500 £23,700
25th Percentile £26,250 £26,000 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,000 £31,000 £34,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.45% -10.14% +6.15%
75th Percentile £42,313 £38,750 £42,500
90th Percentile £44,475 £48,750 £57,500
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 of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the North of England. 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 of England with a recognized job title 10,008 16,414 15,566
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.35% 94.99% 89.42%
Number of salaries quoted 5,788 12,702 8,239
10th Percentile £26,000 £27,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £39,500 £36,250 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -5.66% +6.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £69,125
90th Percentile £78,678 £78,725 £82,500
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 of England

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Engineer in the North of England

IT Engineer
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

Salary trend for IT Engineer in the North of England

IT Engineer
Salary Histogram in the North of England

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

Salary histogram for IT Engineer in the North of England

IT Engineer
Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England 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
Yorkshire +8 52 £29,250 -2.50% 46
North West -89 35 £35,000 +16.67% 46
North East +11 10 £37,500 +15.38% 12
IT Engineer
England

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

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 of England region featuring IT Engineer in the job title.

1 72 (74.23%) Windows
2 67 (69.07%) Microsoft
2 67 (69.07%) Microsoft 365
3 51 (52.58%) Problem-Solving
4 46 (47.42%) Social Skills
5 43 (44.33%) Active Directory
6 35 (36.08%) Customer Service
7 32 (32.99%) Azure
8 28 (28.87%) Windows Server
9 24 (24.74%) Self-Motivation
10 22 (22.68%) Analytical Skills
10 22 (22.68%) SQL Server
10 22 (22.68%) Android
11 20 (20.62%) Organisational Skills
11 20 (20.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 19 (19.59%) ITIL
13 18 (18.56%) Firewall
14 17 (17.53%) Migration
14 17 (17.53%) CRM
14 17 (17.53%) VMware
14 17 (17.53%) AWS
15 16 (16.49%) Microsoft Intune
15 16 (16.49%) Data Privacy
15 16 (16.49%) Zoho
15 16 (16.49%) Mobile App
15 16 (16.49%) Analytical Thinking
15 16 (16.49%) Exploratory Testing
15 16 (16.49%) Software Testing
15 16 (16.49%) Mathematics
15 16 (16.49%) SaaS

IT Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 13 (13.40%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (5.15%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.03%) Confluence
3 1 (1.03%) IIS
3 1 (1.03%) nginx
Applications
1 7 (7.22%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 67 (69.07%) Microsoft 365
2 32 (32.99%) Azure
3 17 (17.53%) AWS
4 16 (16.49%) SaaS
5 14 (14.43%) Entra ID
6 3 (3.09%) Power Platform
7 2 (2.06%) Microsoft Copilot
7 2 (2.06%) Mimecast
8 1 (1.03%) IaaS
8 1 (1.03%) Power Automate
8 1 (1.03%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 18 (18.56%) Firewall
2 13 (13.40%) DNS
3 12 (12.37%) DHCP
4 11 (11.34%) LAN
5 9 (9.28%) VLAN
6 7 (7.22%) IPv4
7 6 (6.19%) Cisco IOS
8 5 (5.15%) VPN
9 4 (4.12%) SAN
9 4 (4.12%) TCP/IP
9 4 (4.12%) WAN
9 4 (4.12%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (3.09%) VoIP
10 3 (3.09%) Wireless
11 2 (2.06%) IP Telephony
11 2 (2.06%) NAS
12 1 (1.03%) Intrusion Detection
12 1 (1.03%) Network Security
12 1 (1.03%) VSAN
12 1 (1.03%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (22.68%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.09%) Power BI
3 2 (2.06%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (1.03%) JIRA
1 1 (1.03%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 46 (47.42%) Social Skills
2 22 (22.68%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (20.62%) Organisational Skills
4 14 (14.43%) Retail
5 5 (5.15%) Law
6 3 (3.09%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.06%) Local Government
7 2 (2.06%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (2.06%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.03%) Finance
8 1 (1.03%) Marketing
8 1 (1.03%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.06%) Middleware
2 1 (1.03%) LAMP
2 1 (1.03%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 24 (24.74%) Self-Motivation
2 16 (16.49%) Mobile App
3 10 (10.31%) Driving Licence
4 7 (7.22%) Virtual Team
5 5 (5.15%) Data Centre
6 3 (3.09%) EPoS
7 2 (2.06%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (2.06%) HP Storage
7 2 (2.06%) Life Science
7 2 (2.06%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.03%) CCTV
8 1 (1.03%) Management Information System
8 1 (1.03%) Replication
8 1 (1.03%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 72 (74.23%) Windows
2 28 (28.87%) Windows Server
3 22 (22.68%) Android
4 12 (12.37%) Windows 10
5 11 (11.34%) Linux
6 7 (7.22%) Unix
7 5 (5.15%) Windows 7
7 5 (5.15%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (4.12%) Windows Server 2008
8 4 (4.12%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (1.03%) Apple iOS
9 1 (1.03%) Mac OS
9 1 (1.03%) Ubuntu
9 1 (1.03%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (52.58%) Problem-Solving
2 35 (36.08%) Customer Service
3 20 (20.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 19 (19.59%) ITIL
5 17 (17.53%) CRM
5 17 (17.53%) Migration
6 16 (16.49%) Analytical Thinking
6 16 (16.49%) Data Privacy
6 16 (16.49%) Exploratory Testing
6 16 (16.49%) Mathematics
6 16 (16.49%) Software Testing
7 10 (10.31%) Business Continuity
7 10 (10.31%) Incident Management
8 9 (9.28%) Disaster Recovery
9 8 (8.25%) Project Delivery
10 7 (7.22%) Creative Problem-Solving
10 7 (7.22%) Preventative Maintenance
10 7 (7.22%) Ticket Management
11 6 (6.19%) User Experience
11 6 (6.19%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (10.31%) PowerShell
2 7 (7.22%) SQL
3 2 (2.06%) Bash
4 1 (1.03%) Perl
4 1 (1.03%) PHP
4 1 (1.03%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (9.28%) Degree
1 9 (9.28%) SC Cleared
1 9 (9.28%) Security Cleared
2 8 (8.25%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.03%) A+ Certification
3 1 (1.03%) CCNA
3 1 (1.03%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (1.03%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.03%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 1 (1.03%) MCSA
3 1 (1.03%) MCSE
3 1 (1.03%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.19%) SLA
2 2 (2.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.03%) GDPR
3 1 (1.03%) ISO 9001
3 1 (1.03%) NIST
System Software
1 43 (44.33%) Active Directory
2 14 (14.43%) Hyper-V
3 7 (7.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (2.06%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (2.06%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.03%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 16 (16.49%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (1.03%) Ansible
2 1 (1.03%) SCCM
Vendors
1 67 (69.07%) Microsoft
2 17 (17.53%) VMware
3 16 (16.49%) Zoho
4 13 (13.40%) Veeam
5 11 (11.34%) Cisco
6 2 (2.06%) Avaya
6 2 (2.06%) Dell
6 2 (2.06%) HP
6 2 (2.06%) Oracle
6 2 (2.06%) ServiceNow
6 2 (2.06%) SonicWALL
7 1 (1.03%) F5
7 1 (1.03%) Intapp
7 1 (1.03%) McAfee
7 1 (1.03%) Tripwire