IT Engineer Job Trends in the North of England

IT Engineer
England > North of England

The median IT Engineer salary in the North of England is £34,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 29 September 2026.

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

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 138 183 130
Rank change year-on-year +45 -53 +33
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 264 115 208
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.10% 1.22% 1.52%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.18% 1.39% 1.61%
Number of salaries quoted 241 76 164
10th Percentile £27,625 £25,750 £25,008
25th Percentile £30,000 £28,375 £28,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £34,000 £35,000 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% - +4.48%
75th Percentile £40,000 £44,625 £42,500
90th Percentile £45,000 £55,000 £47,350
England median annual salary £35,000 £38,500 £37,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.05% +5.71%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 22,401 8,261 12,951
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.05% 87.29% 94.90%
Number of salaries quoted 16,323 4,277 7,331
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,250 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -7.62%
75th Percentile £72,500 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £78,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%

IT Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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 the North of England.

IT Engineer job vacancy trend in the North of England

IT Engineer
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for IT Engineer job vacancies in the North of England.

Salary distribution trend for IT Engineer job vacancies 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 29 September 2026.

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 29 September 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
North West +78 150 £35,000 - 39
Yorkshire -15 92 £30,000 -9.09% 21
North East -51 22 £40,000 -17.95% 10
IT Engineer
England

IT Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 29 September 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 North of England region featuring IT Engineer in the job title.

1 139 (52.65%) Microsoft
2 130 (49.24%) Windows
3 120 (45.45%) Microsoft 365
4 97 (36.74%) Active Directory
5 89 (33.71%) Windows Server
6 75 (28.41%) Azure
7 63 (23.86%) Problem-Solving
8 62 (23.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 58 (21.97%) Customer Service
10 57 (21.59%) Firewall
11 55 (20.83%) Microsoft Intune
12 46 (17.42%) Cybersecurity
13 45 (17.05%) Entra ID
14 39 (14.77%) SharePoint
15 38 (14.39%) Hyper-V
16 37 (14.02%) DNS
17 36 (13.64%) Continuous Improvement
18 35 (13.26%) Microsoft Exchange
18 35 (13.26%) TCP/IP
19 34 (12.88%) Wi-Fi
20 33 (12.50%) DHCP
21 31 (11.74%) VoIP
22 29 (10.98%) VPN
23 28 (10.61%) ITIL
24 24 (9.09%) Cyber Essentials
25 23 (8.71%) SonicWALL
25 23 (8.71%) VMware
25 23 (8.71%) Windows 10
26 22 (8.33%) VLAN
27 18 (6.82%) PowerShell

IT Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 39 (14.77%) SharePoint
2 35 (13.26%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (2.27%) Apache
3 6 (2.27%) IIS
4 1 (0.38%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (2.27%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.76%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 120 (45.45%) Microsoft 365
2 75 (28.41%) Azure
3 45 (17.05%) Entra ID
4 13 (4.92%) OneDrive
5 11 (4.17%) AWS
6 5 (1.89%) Power Platform
7 3 (1.14%) IaaS
8 2 (0.76%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (0.76%) Google Workspace
8 2 (0.76%) OCI
9 1 (0.38%) ChatGPT
9 1 (0.38%) GCP
9 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Copilot
9 1 (0.38%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 57 (21.59%) Firewall
2 37 (14.02%) DNS
3 35 (13.26%) TCP/IP
4 34 (12.88%) Wi-Fi
5 33 (12.50%) DHCP
6 31 (11.74%) VoIP
7 29 (10.98%) VPN
8 22 (8.33%) VLAN
9 14 (5.30%) Wireless
10 12 (4.55%) LAN
11 10 (3.79%) WAN
12 6 (2.27%) Structured Cabling
13 5 (1.89%) SAN
14 3 (1.14%) SSL
15 2 (0.76%) WLAN
16 1 (0.38%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (2.65%) SQL Server
2 6 (2.27%) MySQL
3 3 (1.14%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (0.76%) JIRA
General
1 60 (22.73%) Social Skills
2 19 (7.20%) Manufacturing
3 11 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (3.79%) Advertising
5 7 (2.65%) Finance
5 7 (2.65%) Organisational Skills
6 6 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (1.89%) Automotive
7 5 (1.89%) Public Sector
8 4 (1.52%) Aerospace
8 4 (1.52%) Banking
9 3 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.14%) Local Government
10 2 (0.76%) Law
10 2 (0.76%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.38%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.52%) HTML
1 4 (1.52%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 39 (14.77%) Driving Licence
2 17 (6.44%) Self-Motivation
3 16 (6.06%) Onboarding
4 14 (5.30%) CCTV
5 9 (3.41%) Security Posture
6 4 (1.52%) Housing Association
7 3 (1.14%) FMCG
7 3 (1.14%) Microsoft Licensing
7 3 (1.14%) Operational Technology
8 2 (0.76%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.76%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.38%) Life Science
9 1 (0.38%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 130 (49.24%) Windows
2 89 (33.71%) Windows Server
3 23 (8.71%) Windows 10
4 15 (5.68%) Linux
5 11 (4.17%) Windows Server 2016
6 9 (3.41%) Windows Server 2019
7 8 (3.03%) Android
8 7 (2.65%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.76%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (23.86%) Problem-Solving
2 62 (23.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 58 (21.97%) Customer Service
4 46 (17.42%) Cybersecurity
5 36 (13.64%) Continuous Improvement
6 28 (10.61%) ITIL
7 16 (6.06%) ITSM
8 15 (5.68%) Disaster Recovery
9 14 (5.30%) Change Management
9 14 (5.30%) User Experience
10 12 (4.55%) Mentoring
11 11 (4.17%) Remote Monitoring and Management
11 11 (4.17%) Service Management
12 10 (3.79%) Collaborative Culture
12 10 (3.79%) Infrastructure Maintenance
12 10 (3.79%) Virtual Environments
13 9 (3.41%) Business Continuity
13 9 (3.41%) Vulnerability Remediation
14 8 (3.03%) Identity Management
15 7 (2.65%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 18 (6.82%) PowerShell
2 5 (1.89%) SQL
3 4 (1.52%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 15 (5.68%) Microsoft Certification
2 9 (3.41%) Degree
3 6 (2.27%) SC Cleared
3 6 (2.27%) Security Cleared
4 5 (1.89%) Azure Certification
4 5 (1.89%) CCNA
4 5 (1.89%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (0.76%) CISSP
5 2 (0.76%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.38%) A+ Certification
6 1 (0.38%) CCA
6 1 (0.38%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (9.09%) Cyber Essentials
2 7 (2.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (2.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (0.76%) NIST
5 1 (0.38%) SLA
System Software
1 97 (36.74%) Active Directory
2 38 (14.39%) Hyper-V
3 11 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (2.27%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (1.52%) BitLocker
6 2 (0.76%) Terminal Services
7 1 (0.38%) Firmware
7 1 (0.38%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 55 (20.83%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (3.03%) WSUS
3 7 (2.65%) SCCM
4 3 (1.14%) Jamf Pro
5 2 (0.76%) Kubernetes
5 2 (0.76%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
5 2 (0.76%) SCOM
5 2 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.38%) Autotask
Vendors
1 139 (52.65%) Microsoft
2 23 (8.71%) SonicWALL
2 23 (8.71%) VMware
3 18 (6.82%) Veeam
4 10 (3.79%) Palo Alto
5 9 (3.41%) CheckPoint
5 9 (3.41%) Draytek
6 7 (2.65%) Meraki
7 6 (2.27%) Aruba
7 6 (2.27%) Cisco
7 6 (2.27%) Dell
7 6 (2.27%) Fortinet
7 6 (2.27%) HP
7 6 (2.27%) NetApp
8 5 (1.89%) Apple
8 5 (1.89%) Juniper
8 5 (1.89%) ServiceNow
9 4 (1.52%) Google
10 2 (0.76%) Oracle
10 2 (0.76%) Red Hat