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 £32,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 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
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 251 129 195
Rank change year-on-year -122 +66 +51
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 89 362 279
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.77% 2.06% 1.64%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.83% 2.17% 1.83%
Number of salaries quoted 81 302 143
10th Percentile £25,750 £22,511 £23,750
25th Percentile £26,250 £26,000 £26,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £31,500 £34,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.17% -8.70% +2.22%
75th Percentile £40,000 £39,688 £42,500
90th Percentile £44,250 £48,750 £57,500
England median annual salary £35,000 £33,000 £34,500
% change year-on-year +6.06% -4.35% -1.43%

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 10,709 16,656 15,224
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.10% 94.98% 89.50%
Number of salaries quoted 5,748 12,889 8,062
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £36,250 £39,544
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -6.54% +7.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £69,649
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £81,250
England median annual salary £57,000 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +6.54% -12.01% +1.33%

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

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 16 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 16 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 -3 49 £30,000 - 58
North West -123 33 £35,000 +16.67% 45
North East 0 7 £37,500 +15.38% 7
IT Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 16 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 64 (71.91%) Windows
2 60 (67.42%) Microsoft
3 59 (66.29%) Microsoft 365
4 47 (52.81%) Social Skills
5 46 (51.69%) Problem-Solving
6 39 (43.82%) Active Directory
7 34 (38.20%) Customer Service
8 28 (31.46%) Azure
9 22 (24.72%) Android
9 22 (24.72%) SQL Server
9 22 (24.72%) ITIL
9 22 (24.72%) Organisational Skills
9 22 (24.72%) Self-Motivation
10 21 (23.60%) Windows Server
10 21 (23.60%) Analytical Skills
11 20 (22.47%) Microsoft Intune
12 17 (19.10%) Data Privacy
12 17 (19.10%) Cisco
12 17 (19.10%) CRM
13 16 (17.98%) Migration
13 16 (17.98%) AWS
13 16 (17.98%) SaaS
13 16 (17.98%) Software Testing
13 16 (17.98%) Mathematics
13 16 (17.98%) Mobile App
13 16 (17.98%) Zoho
13 16 (17.98%) Exploratory Testing
13 16 (17.98%) Analytical Thinking
14 15 (16.85%) Firewall
15 14 (15.73%) Infrastructure Engineering

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 7 (7.87%) Microsoft Exchange
1 7 (7.87%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.12%) Confluence
2 1 (1.12%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (6.74%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 59 (66.29%) Microsoft 365
2 28 (31.46%) Azure
3 16 (17.98%) AWS
3 16 (17.98%) SaaS
4 13 (14.61%) Entra ID
5 3 (3.37%) Power Platform
6 2 (2.25%) Microsoft Copilot
6 2 (2.25%) Mimecast
7 1 (1.12%) IaaS
7 1 (1.12%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 15 (16.85%) Firewall
2 9 (10.11%) DNS
2 9 (10.11%) LAN
3 8 (8.99%) DHCP
4 6 (6.74%) Cisco IOS
4 6 (6.74%) VLAN
5 5 (5.62%) IPv4
5 5 (5.62%) VoIP
6 4 (4.49%) VPN
6 4 (4.49%) WAN
6 4 (4.49%) Wi-Fi
6 4 (4.49%) Wireless
7 3 (3.37%) SAN
8 2 (2.25%) IP Telephony
8 2 (2.25%) TCP/IP
9 1 (1.12%) Intrusion Detection
9 1 (1.12%) NAS
9 1 (1.12%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (24.72%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.37%) Power BI
3 2 (2.25%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (1.12%) JIRA
1 1 (1.12%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 47 (52.81%) Social Skills
2 22 (24.72%) Organisational Skills
3 21 (23.60%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (13.48%) Retail
5 5 (5.62%) Law
6 3 (3.37%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.25%) Local Government
7 2 (2.25%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (2.25%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.12%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.25%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 22 (24.72%) Self-Motivation
2 16 (17.98%) Mobile App
3 11 (12.36%) Driving Licence
4 6 (6.74%) Social Media
5 5 (5.62%) Virtual Team
6 3 (3.37%) Data Centre
6 3 (3.37%) EPoS
6 3 (3.37%) Life Science
7 2 (2.25%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (2.25%) HP Storage
7 2 (2.25%) NHS
7 2 (2.25%) Onboarding
7 2 (2.25%) PACS
8 1 (1.12%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 64 (71.91%) Windows
2 22 (24.72%) Android
3 21 (23.60%) Windows Server
4 11 (12.36%) Windows 10
5 8 (8.99%) Linux
6 5 (5.62%) Unix
6 5 (5.62%) Windows 7
7 3 (3.37%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (2.25%) Mac OS
8 2 (2.25%) Windows Server 2008
8 2 (2.25%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (1.12%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (51.69%) Problem-Solving
2 34 (38.20%) Customer Service
3 22 (24.72%) ITIL
4 17 (19.10%) CRM
4 17 (19.10%) Data Privacy
5 16 (17.98%) Analytical Thinking
5 16 (17.98%) Exploratory Testing
5 16 (17.98%) Mathematics
5 16 (17.98%) Migration
5 16 (17.98%) Software Testing
6 14 (15.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 8 (8.99%) Business Continuity
7 8 (8.99%) Disaster Recovery
7 8 (8.99%) Incident Management
7 8 (8.99%) Root Cause Analysis
8 7 (7.87%) Preventative Maintenance
9 6 (6.74%) Project Delivery
9 6 (6.74%) Vulnerability Management
10 5 (5.62%) Continuous Improvement
10 5 (5.62%) Network Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (7.87%) PowerShell
1 7 (7.87%) SQL
2 1 (1.12%) Bash
2 1 (1.12%) Perl
Qualifications
1 12 (13.48%) Degree
2 7 (7.87%) SC Cleared
2 7 (7.87%) Security Cleared
3 6 (6.74%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (5.62%) DBS Check
5 1 (1.12%) CCNA
5 1 (1.12%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.12%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (1.12%) MCSA
5 1 (1.12%) MCSE
5 1 (1.12%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.87%) SLA
2 2 (2.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.12%) GDPR
3 1 (1.12%) ISO 9001
3 1 (1.12%) NIST
System Software
1 39 (43.82%) Active Directory
2 11 (12.36%) Hyper-V
3 5 (5.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.12%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.12%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.12%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 20 (22.47%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (5.62%) Jamf Pro
3 2 (2.25%) SmoothWall
4 1 (1.12%) SCCM
Vendors
1 60 (67.42%) Microsoft
2 17 (19.10%) Cisco
3 16 (17.98%) Zoho
4 13 (14.61%) VMware
5 11 (12.36%) Veeam
6 5 (5.62%) Meraki
7 2 (2.25%) Avaya
7 2 (2.25%) Dell
7 2 (2.25%) ESET
7 2 (2.25%) HP
7 2 (2.25%) Oracle
7 2 (2.25%) ServiceNow
7 2 (2.25%) SonicWALL
8 1 (1.12%) Datto
8 1 (1.12%) F5
8 1 (1.12%) Intapp
8 1 (1.12%) McAfee
8 1 (1.12%) Sophos
8 1 (1.12%) Tripwire
8 1 (1.12%) Ubiquiti