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 £30,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 124 195 243
Rank change year-on-year +71 +48 -60
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 347 286 235
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 2.01% 1.63% 1.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.11% 1.82% 1.36%
Number of salaries quoted 287 150 219
10th Percentile £22,500 £23,500 £22,050
25th Percentile £26,000 £26,250 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £34,500 £32,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.59% +6.15% -4.41%
75th Percentile £38,750 £43,438 £42,000
90th Percentile £48,750 £58,250 £48,750
England median annual salary £33,000 £34,500 £34,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +1.47% -2.86%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 16,421 15,679 17,326
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.07% 89.49% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 12,705 8,279 11,135
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,500 £28,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £39,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +7.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £69,650 £65,225
90th Percentile £78,750 £82,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,899 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.15% +1.50% +9.09%

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 26 April 2024.

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 26 April 2024. 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 +33 165 £30,000 -14.29% 41
Yorkshire +88 132 £30,000 +5.26% 23
North East +30 49 £32,500 -1.52% 10
IT Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, 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.

1 172 (49.57%) Microsoft
2 163 (46.97%) Active Directory
3 154 (44.38%) Windows
4 129 (37.18%) Microsoft 365
5 113 (32.56%) Azure
6 108 (31.12%) Social Skills
7 89 (25.65%) ITIL
8 84 (24.21%) Problem-Solving
8 84 (24.21%) Windows Server
9 82 (23.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 71 (20.46%) VMware
10 71 (20.46%) Hyper-V
11 68 (19.60%) Firewall
12 47 (13.54%) SQL Server
13 43 (12.39%) SAN
14 41 (11.82%) Microsoft Intune
14 41 (11.82%) Organisational Skills
14 41 (11.82%) Customer Service
15 39 (11.24%) Windows 10
15 39 (11.24%) Cisco
16 36 (10.37%) PowerShell
17 35 (10.09%) VMware Infrastructure
17 35 (10.09%) Microsoft Office
18 34 (9.80%) Microsoft Exchange
19 33 (9.51%) Linux
20 32 (9.22%) DNS
20 32 (9.22%) Driving Licence
21 29 (8.36%) SQL
21 29 (8.36%) Wi-Fi
22 28 (8.07%) Project Management

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 34 (9.80%) Microsoft Exchange
2 26 (7.49%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.58%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 1 (0.29%) Site Server
4 1 (0.29%) WordPress
Applications
1 35 (10.09%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.44%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.58%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.58%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 129 (37.18%) Microsoft 365
2 113 (32.56%) Azure
3 25 (7.20%) Entra ID
4 19 (5.48%) AWS
5 11 (3.17%) OneDrive
6 7 (2.02%) Power Automate
6 7 (2.02%) Power Platform
6 7 (2.02%) PowerApps
7 6 (1.73%) Google Workspace
8 4 (1.15%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (0.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (0.86%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 3 (0.86%) AWS CloudTrail
9 3 (0.86%) Dropbox
9 3 (0.86%) Google Drive
10 2 (0.58%) Amazon EC2
11 1 (0.29%) GCP
11 1 (0.29%) IaaS
11 1 (0.29%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 68 (19.60%) Firewall
2 43 (12.39%) SAN
3 32 (9.22%) DNS
4 29 (8.36%) Wi-Fi
5 26 (7.49%) LAN
5 26 (7.49%) VoIP
5 26 (7.49%) WAN
6 25 (7.20%) DHCP
7 20 (5.76%) VPN
8 13 (3.75%) Network Security
8 13 (3.75%) Wireless
9 11 (3.17%) VLAN
9 11 (3.17%) WLAN
10 10 (2.88%) Cisco IOS
10 10 (2.88%) Cisco Nexus
11 9 (2.59%) NAS
11 9 (2.59%) TCP/IP
12 6 (1.73%) Internet
12 6 (1.73%) Remote Desktop
13 5 (1.44%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (13.54%) SQL Server
2 15 (4.32%) Amazon RDS
3 14 (4.03%) MySQL
4 4 (1.15%) DB2
Development Applications
1 2 (0.58%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
1 2 (0.58%) Visual Studio
General
1 108 (31.12%) Social Skills
2 41 (11.82%) Organisational Skills
3 26 (7.49%) Finance
4 25 (7.20%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (6.63%) Retail
6 21 (6.05%) Manufacturing
7 12 (3.46%) Marketing
8 9 (2.59%) Automotive
9 7 (2.02%) Public Sector
10 5 (1.44%) Advertising
10 5 (1.44%) Law
10 5 (1.44%) Pharmaceutical
10 5 (1.44%) Telecoms
11 4 (1.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.58%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.58%) Electronics
12 2 (0.58%) Military
13 1 (0.29%) Back Office
13 1 (0.29%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.29%) .NET
1 1 (0.29%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 32 (9.22%) Driving Licence
2 23 (6.63%) Enterprise Storage
3 15 (4.32%) Fat Client
3 15 (4.32%) Thin Client
4 11 (3.17%) EPoS
5 10 (2.88%) Data Centre
6 9 (2.59%) Onboarding
6 9 (2.59%) Replication
7 8 (2.31%) Management Information System
8 7 (2.02%) Cyber Threat
9 6 (1.73%) Client/Server
9 6 (1.73%) Public Cloud
10 4 (1.15%) CCTV
10 4 (1.15%) Cyberattack
10 4 (1.15%) IoT
10 4 (1.15%) Security Posture
10 4 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (0.86%) Clustering
11 3 (0.86%) iPad
11 3 (0.86%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 154 (44.38%) Windows
2 84 (24.21%) Windows Server
3 39 (11.24%) Windows 10
4 33 (9.51%) Linux
5 14 (4.03%) Mac OS
6 13 (3.75%) Apple iOS
7 12 (3.46%) Android
7 12 (3.46%) Windows Server 2016
8 11 (3.17%) Windows Server 2019
9 10 (2.88%) Windows Server 2012
10 9 (2.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 4 (1.15%) Debian
12 3 (0.86%) CentOS
12 3 (0.86%) VMS
13 2 (0.58%) Ubuntu
13 2 (0.58%) Unix
13 2 (0.58%) Windows 7
14 1 (0.29%) Windows Server 2003
14 1 (0.29%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (25.65%) ITIL
2 84 (24.21%) Problem-Solving
3 82 (23.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 41 (11.82%) Customer Service
5 28 (8.07%) Project Management
6 27 (7.78%) Incident Management
7 23 (6.63%) Desktop Virtualisation
7 23 (6.63%) Migration
7 23 (6.63%) Stakeholder Management
8 21 (6.05%) Disaster Recovery
9 18 (5.19%) Continuous Improvement
9 18 (5.19%) Service Management
10 15 (4.32%) Asset Management
10 15 (4.32%) Cybersecurity
10 15 (4.32%) Infrastructure Management
10 15 (4.32%) Service Delivery
11 13 (3.75%) Agile
11 13 (3.75%) Storage Management
12 12 (3.46%) Change Management
13 11 (3.17%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 36 (10.37%) PowerShell
2 29 (8.36%) SQL
3 10 (2.88%) Python
4 9 (2.59%) Swift
5 7 (2.02%) PHP
6 3 (0.86%) Bash
7 1 (0.29%) C#
Qualifications
1 27 (7.78%) Microsoft Certification
2 23 (6.63%) Azure Certification
3 18 (5.19%) DBS Check
4 17 (4.90%) Degree
5 14 (4.03%) CISSP
6 12 (3.46%) Cisco Certification
7 10 (2.88%) CCIE
7 10 (2.88%) CCNP
8 7 (2.02%) Security Cleared
9 5 (1.44%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 4 (1.15%) AWS Certification
10 4 (1.15%) CISA
11 2 (0.58%) CCNA
11 2 (0.58%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.58%) SC Cleared
12 1 (0.29%) Computer Science Degree
12 1 (0.29%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (6.05%) SLA
2 11 (3.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (2.31%) QA
4 4 (1.15%) GDPR
4 4 (1.15%) SOC 2
5 3 (0.86%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 3 (0.86%) NIST
5 3 (0.86%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.29%) ISO 13485
6 1 (0.29%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 163 (46.97%) Active Directory
2 71 (20.46%) Hyper-V
3 35 (10.09%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (4.03%) VMware ESXi
5 7 (2.02%) Virtual Servers
6 6 (1.73%) vSphere
7 4 (1.15%) Docker
7 4 (1.15%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.29%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.29%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 41 (11.82%) Microsoft Intune
2 22 (6.34%) SCCM
3 10 (2.88%) SCOM
4 8 (2.31%) WSUS
5 6 (1.73%) Ansible
5 6 (1.73%) Kubernetes
5 6 (1.73%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
6 4 (1.15%) Nessus
6 4 (1.15%) Proxmox
7 3 (0.86%) Failover Clustering
7 3 (0.86%) Jamf Pro
7 3 (0.86%) vCenter Server
8 2 (0.58%) Grafana
8 2 (0.58%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.58%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 2 (0.58%) vRealize
9 1 (0.29%) Autotask
9 1 (0.29%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 172 (49.57%) Microsoft
2 71 (20.46%) VMware
3 39 (11.24%) Cisco
4 19 (5.48%) Citrix
5 14 (4.03%) Meraki
5 14 (4.03%) Sophos
6 11 (3.17%) Veeam
7 10 (2.88%) Apple
7 10 (2.88%) Palo Alto
8 9 (2.59%) Google
8 9 (2.59%) Red Hat
9 7 (2.02%) ESET
10 6 (1.73%) Aruba
10 6 (1.73%) Dell
10 6 (1.73%) HP
10 6 (1.73%) Oracle
11 5 (1.44%) CheckPoint
11 5 (1.44%) Fortinet
12 4 (1.15%) CA
12 4 (1.15%) IBM