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 5 July 2025.

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

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 223 117 219
Rank change year-on-year -106 +102 +47
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 134 403 212
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 1.02% 2.07% 1.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.17% 2.17% 1.62%
Number of salaries quoted 89 330 134
10th Percentile £25,750 £22,614 £23,575
25th Percentile £27,750 £26,063 £27,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,000 £32,125 £34,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.72% -6.88% +6.15%
75th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £43,750
90th Percentile £51,500 £48,875 £65,000
England median annual salary £37,000 £33,500 £34,000
% change year-on-year +10.45% -1.47% -2.86%

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 11,445 18,558 13,095
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 87.42% 95.19% 89.23%
Number of salaries quoted 6,104 13,747 7,895
10th Percentile £25,087 £27,000 £30,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £39,544
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -7.41% +8.00%
75th Percentile £64,025 £65,000 £69,574
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

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 5 July 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 5 July 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 -2 88 £30,000 - 85
North West -134 36 £32,000 +6.67% 88
North East +5 10 £48,750 +50.00% 28
IT Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 5 July 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.

1 105 (78.36%) Windows
2 72 (53.73%) Active Directory
3 64 (47.76%) Microsoft
4 60 (44.78%) Firewall
5 52 (38.81%) Social Skills
6 51 (38.06%) Microsoft 365
7 47 (35.07%) Cybersecurity
8 44 (32.84%) Network Management
9 42 (31.34%) Problem-Solving
10 40 (29.85%) Network Design
11 39 (29.10%) Operational Technology
11 39 (29.10%) Virtual Servers
12 29 (21.64%) Customer Service
13 28 (20.90%) Azure
14 26 (19.40%) Windows Server
15 24 (17.91%) Organisational Skills
15 24 (17.91%) Android
16 22 (16.42%) Migration
16 22 (16.42%) Data Privacy
16 22 (16.42%) Analytical Skills
17 21 (15.67%) Microsoft Intune
17 21 (15.67%) SaaS
18 19 (14.18%) AWS
18 19 (14.18%) Cisco
18 19 (14.18%) SQL Server
18 19 (14.18%) Self-Motivation
19 18 (13.43%) Analytical Thinking
19 18 (13.43%) Exploratory Testing
19 18 (13.43%) Zoho
19 18 (13.43%) Mobile App

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 11 (8.21%) SharePoint
2 4 (2.99%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.75%) Confluence
3 1 (0.75%) IIS
Applications
1 5 (3.73%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 51 (38.06%) Microsoft 365
2 28 (20.90%) Azure
3 21 (15.67%) SaaS
4 19 (14.18%) AWS
5 8 (5.97%) Entra ID
6 3 (2.24%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.75%) IaaS
7 1 (0.75%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 60 (44.78%) Firewall
2 11 (8.21%) VoIP
3 9 (6.72%) Network Security
4 7 (5.22%) DNS
4 7 (5.22%) VLAN
4 7 (5.22%) VPN
4 7 (5.22%) Wi-Fi
5 6 (4.48%) Cisco IOS
5 6 (4.48%) DHCP
5 6 (4.48%) Intrusion Detection
5 6 (4.48%) LAN
6 5 (3.73%) WAN
6 5 (3.73%) Wireless
7 2 (1.49%) IPv4
7 2 (1.49%) SAN
8 1 (0.75%) NAS
8 1 (0.75%) NetScaler
8 1 (0.75%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (14.18%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (0.75%) JIRA
General
1 52 (38.81%) Social Skills
2 24 (17.91%) Organisational Skills
3 22 (16.42%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (8.21%) Manufacturing
5 9 (6.72%) Retail
6 6 (4.48%) Law
6 6 (4.48%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (1.49%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.75%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 39 (29.10%) Operational Technology
2 19 (14.18%) Self-Motivation
3 18 (13.43%) Mobile App
4 12 (8.96%) Driving Licence
5 7 (5.22%) Social Media
6 4 (2.99%) Data Centre
6 4 (2.99%) Life Science
7 3 (2.24%) EPoS
7 3 (2.24%) FMCG
7 3 (2.24%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.49%) NHS
8 2 (1.49%) PACS
9 1 (0.75%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 105 (78.36%) Windows
2 26 (19.40%) Windows Server
3 24 (17.91%) Android
4 11 (8.21%) Windows 10
5 5 (3.73%) Linux
5 5 (3.73%) Windows 7
6 2 (1.49%) Mac OS
6 2 (1.49%) Unix
7 1 (0.75%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.75%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.75%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (35.07%) Cybersecurity
2 44 (32.84%) Network Management
3 42 (31.34%) Problem-Solving
4 40 (29.85%) Network Design
5 29 (21.64%) Customer Service
6 22 (16.42%) Data Privacy
6 22 (16.42%) Migration
7 18 (13.43%) Analytical Thinking
7 18 (13.43%) CRM
7 18 (13.43%) Exploratory Testing
7 18 (13.43%) Mathematics
7 18 (13.43%) Software Testing
8 16 (11.94%) ITIL
9 13 (9.70%) Disaster Recovery
10 12 (8.96%) Root Cause Analysis
11 10 (7.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 9 (6.72%) Business Continuity
12 9 (6.72%) Project Delivery
13 7 (5.22%) Identity Access Management
13 7 (5.22%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (5.97%) PowerShell
2 3 (2.24%) SQL
3 1 (0.75%) Bash
3 1 (0.75%) Perl
Qualifications
1 12 (8.96%) Degree
2 6 (4.48%) DBS Check
3 1 (0.75%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 1 (0.75%) SC Cleared
3 1 (0.75%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (4.48%) GDPR
2 6 (4.48%) NIST
2 6 (4.48%) SLA
3 1 (0.75%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 72 (53.73%) Active Directory
2 39 (29.10%) Virtual Servers
3 8 (5.97%) Hyper-V
4 5 (3.73%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.49%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.75%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 21 (15.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (5.22%) Jamf Pro
3 3 (2.24%) SmoothWall
4 1 (0.75%) SCCM
4 1 (0.75%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 64 (47.76%) Microsoft
2 19 (14.18%) Cisco
3 18 (13.43%) Zoho
4 14 (10.45%) VMware
5 9 (6.72%) Veeam
6 7 (5.22%) Sophos
7 6 (4.48%) Meraki
8 5 (3.73%) ESET
9 4 (2.99%) ConnectWise
9 4 (2.99%) Datto
9 4 (2.99%) Ubiquiti
10 1 (0.75%) Apple
10 1 (0.75%) Barracuda Networks
10 1 (0.75%) Citrix
10 1 (0.75%) NetApp