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 £32,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 4 December 2025.

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

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 162 139 149
Rank change year-on-year -23 +10 +111
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 100 178 130
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.06% 1.59% 1.85%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.21% 1.68% 1.92%
Number of salaries quoted 87 138 127
10th Percentile £25,875 £26,250 £25,950
25th Percentile £28,125 £29,000 £29,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,000 £35,000 £32,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% +7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £42,250 £42,500 £39,750
90th Percentile £56,000 £46,000 £48,750
England median annual salary £33,000 £37,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year -10.81% +5.71% +4.48%

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 8,262 10,570 6,782
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 87.79% 94.23% 96.44%
Number of salaries quoted 4,987 5,458 5,231
10th Percentile £26,500 £30,713 £29,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £40,000 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £82,548
England median annual salary £55,000 £59,430 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.45% -0.95% -

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 4 December 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 4 December 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
North West 0 50 £30,000 -21.05% 35
Yorkshire -12 46 £36,500 +10.61% 49
North East +4 4 £48,125 +34.62% 8
IT Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 4 December 2025, 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 69 (69.00%) Microsoft
1 69 (69.00%) Windows
2 56 (56.00%) Microsoft 365
3 51 (51.00%) Active Directory
4 41 (41.00%) Windows Server
5 37 (37.00%) Firewall
6 32 (32.00%) Problem-Solving
7 28 (28.00%) Windows 10
8 26 (26.00%) Azure
9 24 (24.00%) Customer Service
10 19 (19.00%) VMware
11 17 (17.00%) DNS
11 17 (17.00%) VMware Infrastructure
12 16 (16.00%) Hyper-V
12 16 (16.00%) SharePoint
12 16 (16.00%) VLAN
13 15 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
14 14 (14.00%) DHCP
14 14 (14.00%) Wireless
15 13 (13.00%) Microsoft Exchange
15 13 (13.00%) Veeam
16 12 (12.00%) Cisco
16 12 (12.00%) Disaster Recovery
16 12 (12.00%) VPN
17 11 (11.00%) Asset Management
17 11 (11.00%) Microsoft Office
17 11 (11.00%) Project Delivery
18 10 (10.00%) Mac OS
18 10 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
18 10 (10.00%) Migration

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 16 (16.00%) SharePoint
2 13 (13.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 11 (11.00%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (6.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (2.00%) Acrobat
Cloud Services
1 56 (56.00%) Microsoft 365
2 26 (26.00%) Azure
3 9 (9.00%) SaaS
4 8 (8.00%) Google Workspace
5 6 (6.00%) Entra ID
6 3 (3.00%) AWS
7 2 (2.00%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (2.00%) OneDrive
8 1 (1.00%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (1.00%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (1.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 37 (37.00%) Firewall
2 17 (17.00%) DNS
3 16 (16.00%) VLAN
4 14 (14.00%) DHCP
4 14 (14.00%) Wireless
5 12 (12.00%) VPN
6 10 (10.00%) WAN
6 10 (10.00%) Wi-Fi
7 7 (7.00%) TCP/IP
7 7 (7.00%) VoIP
8 6 (6.00%) LAN
8 6 (6.00%) Network Security
9 4 (4.00%) SAN
9 4 (4.00%) SD-WAN
10 2 (2.00%) Intrusion Detection
11 1 (1.00%) NetScaler
11 1 (1.00%) Remote Desktop
11 1 (1.00%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.00%) SQL Server
General
1 36 (36.00%) Social Skills
2 27 (27.00%) Manufacturing
3 9 (9.00%) Organisational Skills
4 8 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (5.00%) Retail
6 4 (4.00%) Advertising
6 4 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (3.00%) Public Sector
8 2 (2.00%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.00%) Electronics
9 1 (1.00%) Finance
9 1 (1.00%) Fire and Rescue
9 1 (1.00%) Marketing
9 1 (1.00%) Police
9 1 (1.00%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 16 (16.00%) Driving Licence
2 14 (14.00%) Onboarding
3 7 (7.00%) FMCG
4 6 (6.00%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (4.00%) Life Science
6 3 (3.00%) Enterprise Storage
6 3 (3.00%) Mobile App
7 2 (2.00%) Data Centre
7 2 (2.00%) Security Posture
7 2 (2.00%) Social Media
8 1 (1.00%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (1.00%) Educational Technology
8 1 (1.00%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (1.00%) PDA
Operating Systems
1 69 (69.00%) Windows
2 41 (41.00%) Windows Server
3 28 (28.00%) Windows 10
4 10 (10.00%) Mac OS
5 4 (4.00%) Android
5 4 (4.00%) Windows 7
5 4 (4.00%) Windows 8
6 1 (1.00%) Apple iOS
6 1 (1.00%) Linux
6 1 (1.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.00%) Solaris
6 1 (1.00%) Unix
6 1 (1.00%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (1.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (32.00%) Problem-Solving
2 24 (24.00%) Customer Service
3 15 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 12 (12.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 11 (11.00%) Asset Management
5 11 (11.00%) Project Delivery
6 10 (10.00%) Migration
7 9 (9.00%) ITIL
7 9 (9.00%) Remote Monitoring and Management
8 8 (8.00%) Proactive Maintenance
9 7 (7.00%) Critical Thinking
9 7 (7.00%) Cybersecurity
9 7 (7.00%) ERP
9 7 (7.00%) IT Asset Management
9 7 (7.00%) Software Testing
10 6 (6.00%) Data Privacy
10 6 (6.00%) Patch Management
10 6 (6.00%) Process Improvement
10 6 (6.00%) Test Automation
11 5 (5.00%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 8 (8.00%) SQL
2 7 (7.00%) PL/SQL
2 7 (7.00%) VBScript
3 6 (6.00%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.00%) Bash
4 1 (1.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (9.00%) Degree
2 5 (5.00%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (4.00%) CCNA
4 3 (3.00%) Azure Certification
4 3 (3.00%) DBS Check
4 3 (3.00%) Security Cleared
5 2 (2.00%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.00%) A+ Certification
6 1 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.00%) CCNP
6 1 (1.00%) CISSP
6 1 (1.00%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.00%) GDPR
2 3 (3.00%) SLA
3 2 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.00%) NIST
System Software
1 51 (51.00%) Active Directory
2 17 (17.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (16.00%) Hyper-V
4 4 (4.00%) VMware Workstation
5 3 (3.00%) Firmware
6 2 (2.00%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (2.00%) vSphere
6 2 (2.00%) XenDesktop
7 1 (1.00%) Docker
7 1 (1.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 10 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (4.00%) Autotask
3 3 (3.00%) SCCM
4 2 (2.00%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (1.00%) Ansible
5 1 (1.00%) Podman
5 1 (1.00%) SmoothWall
5 1 (1.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 69 (69.00%) Microsoft
2 19 (19.00%) VMware
3 13 (13.00%) Veeam
4 12 (12.00%) Cisco
5 9 (9.00%) Sophos
6 8 (8.00%) Google
7 7 (7.00%) ESET
8 6 (6.00%) Apple
8 6 (6.00%) Citrix
8 6 (6.00%) Meraki
9 5 (5.00%) Adobe
10 4 (4.00%) Aruba
11 3 (3.00%) ConnectWise
11 3 (3.00%) Datto
11 3 (3.00%) Palo Alto
11 3 (3.00%) Ubiquiti
11 3 (3.00%) Zerto
11 3 (3.00%) Zoho
12 2 (2.00%) Dell
12 2 (2.00%) Fortinet