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 £35,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 September 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 185 139 173
Rank change year-on-year -46 +34 +80
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 118 219 151
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 1.26% 1.55% 1.63%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.44% 1.64% 1.76%
Number of salaries quoted 79 174 145
10th Percentile £25,750 £25,002 £25,150
25th Percentile £28,250 £28,000 £29,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £33,500 £34,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.48% -1.47% +13.33%
75th Percentile £43,250 £42,500 £43,750
90th Percentile £55,000 £47,500 £59,000
England median annual salary £39,000 £37,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year +5.41% +5.71% -

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 8,185 13,385 8,572
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 87.18% 94.98% 92.64%
Number of salaries quoted 4,393 8,099 6,487
10th Percentile £26,000 £29,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £32,250 £38,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +1.94%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £69,800
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,000 £81,550
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

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

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 14 September 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 14 September 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 +12 78 £33,000 -5.71% 27
North West -76 32 £35,000 +4.48% 33
North East +6 8 £48,750 +50.00% 17
IT Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 14 September 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 95 (80.51%) Windows
2 72 (61.02%) Active Directory
3 68 (57.63%) Firewall
4 54 (45.76%) Microsoft
5 50 (42.37%) Social Skills
6 46 (38.98%) Cybersecurity
7 44 (37.29%) Microsoft 365
8 42 (35.59%) Network Management
9 40 (33.90%) Network Design
10 39 (33.05%) Operational Technology
10 39 (33.05%) Virtual Servers
11 28 (23.73%) Problem-Solving
11 28 (23.73%) Azure
12 23 (19.49%) Microsoft Intune
12 23 (19.49%) Windows Server
13 22 (18.64%) Cisco
14 21 (17.80%) Customer Service
15 19 (16.10%) Migration
16 18 (15.25%) Android
16 18 (15.25%) SaaS
17 17 (14.41%) Manufacturing
18 16 (13.56%) ITIL
18 16 (13.56%) Data Privacy
18 16 (13.56%) Organisational Skills
19 15 (12.71%) Degree
20 14 (11.86%) Continuous Improvement
20 14 (11.86%) Analytical Skills
21 13 (11.02%) Self-Motivation
21 13 (11.02%) AWS
21 13 (11.02%) SQL Server

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 (11.02%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.69%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (1.69%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 44 (37.29%) Microsoft 365
2 28 (23.73%) Azure
3 18 (15.25%) SaaS
4 13 (11.02%) AWS
5 10 (8.47%) Entra ID
6 3 (2.54%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.85%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 68 (57.63%) Firewall
2 11 (9.32%) VLAN
2 11 (9.32%) VoIP
3 10 (8.47%) Network Security
3 10 (8.47%) Wireless
4 7 (5.93%) VPN
4 7 (5.93%) Wi-Fi
5 6 (5.08%) Cisco IOS
5 6 (5.08%) DHCP
5 6 (5.08%) DNS
5 6 (5.08%) Intrusion Detection
5 6 (5.08%) WAN
6 5 (4.24%) LAN
7 4 (3.39%) SAN
8 1 (0.85%) NetScaler
8 1 (0.85%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (11.02%) SQL Server
General
1 50 (42.37%) Social Skills
2 17 (14.41%) Manufacturing
3 16 (13.56%) Organisational Skills
4 14 (11.86%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (5.08%) Pharmaceutical
5 6 (5.08%) Retail
6 4 (3.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.54%) Law
8 1 (0.85%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 39 (33.05%) Operational Technology
2 13 (11.02%) Self-Motivation
3 12 (10.17%) Mobile App
4 7 (5.93%) FMCG
4 7 (5.93%) Social Media
5 6 (5.08%) Onboarding
6 5 (4.24%) Driving Licence
7 3 (2.54%) Data Centre
7 3 (2.54%) Enterprise Storage
8 2 (1.69%) Life Science
8 2 (1.69%) NHS
8 2 (1.69%) PACS
8 2 (1.69%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.85%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 95 (80.51%) Windows
2 23 (19.49%) Windows Server
3 18 (15.25%) Android
4 8 (6.78%) Windows 10
5 2 (1.69%) Mac OS
5 2 (1.69%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.85%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.85%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (38.98%) Cybersecurity
2 42 (35.59%) Network Management
3 40 (33.90%) Network Design
4 28 (23.73%) Problem-Solving
5 21 (17.80%) Customer Service
6 19 (16.10%) Migration
7 16 (13.56%) Data Privacy
7 16 (13.56%) ITIL
8 14 (11.86%) Continuous Improvement
9 12 (10.17%) Analytical Thinking
9 12 (10.17%) CRM
9 12 (10.17%) Exploratory Testing
9 12 (10.17%) Mathematics
9 12 (10.17%) Software Testing
10 11 (9.32%) Disaster Recovery
11 10 (8.47%) Root Cause Analysis
12 9 (7.63%) Project Delivery
13 7 (5.93%) Kalman Filter
13 7 (5.93%) Server Management
13 7 (5.93%) Web Filtering
Programming Languages
1 8 (6.78%) PowerShell
2 1 (0.85%) SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (12.71%) Degree
2 8 (6.78%) DBS Check
3 4 (3.39%) CCNA
3 4 (3.39%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (1.69%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.85%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.08%) GDPR
1 6 (5.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 6 (5.08%) NIST
2 2 (1.69%) SLA
System Software
1 72 (61.02%) Active Directory
2 39 (33.05%) Virtual Servers
3 7 (5.93%) Hyper-V
4 4 (3.39%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.85%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 23 (19.49%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (6.78%) Jamf Pro
3 3 (2.54%) SmoothWall
4 1 (0.85%) SCCM
4 1 (0.85%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 54 (45.76%) Microsoft
2 22 (18.64%) Cisco
3 12 (10.17%) Zoho
4 11 (9.32%) Meraki
5 10 (8.47%) Sophos
6 9 (7.63%) Veeam
7 6 (5.08%) VMware
8 5 (4.24%) ESET
9 4 (3.39%) Aruba
9 4 (3.39%) ConnectWise
9 4 (3.39%) Datto
9 4 (3.39%) Ubiquiti
10 3 (2.54%) Palo Alto
10 3 (2.54%) Zerto
11 2 (1.69%) Apple
12 1 (0.85%) Barracuda Networks
12 1 (0.85%) Citrix
12 1 (0.85%) Google
12 1 (0.85%) HP
12 1 (0.85%) NetApp