IT Engineer Jobs in the North West

IT Engineer
England > North West

The median IT Engineer salary in the North West is £32,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 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
16 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 241 123 188
Rank change year-on-year -118 +65 +68
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 35 192 88
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.45% 1.81% 1.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.51% 1.90% 1.45%
Number of salaries quoted 34 166 60
10th Percentile £28,000 £22,614 £23,750
25th Percentile £29,500 £25,313 £28,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,250 £30,000 £38,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% -21.05% +13.43%
75th Percentile £40,938 £42,500 £47,813
90th Percentile £57,500 £50,500 £75,254
England median annual salary £37,500 £33,500 £34,500
% change year-on-year +11.94% -2.90% -1.43%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the North West. 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 West with a recognized job title 6,908 10,131 6,050
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.78% 95.40% 89.78%
Number of salaries quoted 3,674 7,397 3,915
10th Percentile £26,500 £27,500 £30,250
25th Percentile £39,500 £37,500 £40,834
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £61,250 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £76,250 £80,000 £81,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £52,900 £60,000
% change year-on-year +3.97% -11.83% -

IT Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings that featured IT Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for IT Engineer in the North West

IT Engineer
Salary Trend in the North West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing IT Engineer in the North West.

Salary trend for IT Engineer in the North West

IT Engineer
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing IT Engineer in the North West over the 6 months to 16 July 2025.

Salary histogram for IT Engineer in the North West

IT Engineer
Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 16 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
Manchester -2 14 £31,750 -2.31% 28
Lancashire -78 10 £35,000 +45.83% 31
Cumbria -59 8 £32,000 -8.57% 6
Cheshire -39 3 £55,000 +57.14% 3
IT Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 16 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 West region featuring IT Engineer in the job title.

1 24 (68.57%) Microsoft 365
2 22 (62.86%) Microsoft
3 18 (51.43%) Windows
4 17 (48.57%) Active Directory
4 17 (48.57%) Azure
4 17 (48.57%) Social Skills
5 13 (37.14%) Cisco
6 10 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (28.57%) Windows Server
6 10 (28.57%) Customer Service
7 9 (25.71%) Microsoft Intune
7 9 (25.71%) Driving Licence
7 9 (25.71%) Firewall
7 9 (25.71%) VMware
7 9 (25.71%) Veeam
8 8 (22.86%) ITIL
8 8 (22.86%) VoIP
8 8 (22.86%) Meraki
9 7 (20.00%) SharePoint
9 7 (20.00%) Degree
10 6 (17.14%) Hyper-V
10 6 (17.14%) Wireless
10 6 (17.14%) Disaster Recovery
10 6 (17.14%) Web Filtering
10 6 (17.14%) Kalman Filter
10 6 (17.14%) DBS Check
10 6 (17.14%) Jamf Pro
10 6 (17.14%) Social Media
11 5 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
11 5 (14.29%) Entra ID

IT Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (20.00%) SharePoint
2 4 (11.43%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.86%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (8.57%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 24 (68.57%) Microsoft 365
2 17 (48.57%) Azure
3 5 (14.29%) Entra ID
4 1 (2.86%) IaaS
4 1 (2.86%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 9 (25.71%) Firewall
2 8 (22.86%) VoIP
3 6 (17.14%) Wireless
4 4 (11.43%) LAN
4 4 (11.43%) WAN
5 2 (5.71%) DHCP
5 2 (5.71%) DNS
5 2 (5.71%) VLAN
6 1 (2.86%) IPv4
6 1 (2.86%) NetScaler
6 1 (2.86%) SAN
6 1 (2.86%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.86%) SQL Server
General
1 17 (48.57%) Social Skills
2 3 (8.57%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (5.71%) Manufacturing
4 1 (2.86%) Law
4 1 (2.86%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 9 (25.71%) Driving Licence
2 6 (17.14%) Social Media
3 2 (5.71%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.86%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.86%) Life Science
4 1 (2.86%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 18 (51.43%) Windows
2 10 (28.57%) Windows Server
3 3 (8.57%) Linux
4 2 (5.71%) Windows 10
4 2 (5.71%) Windows 7
5 1 (2.86%) Apple iOS
5 1 (2.86%) Unix
5 1 (2.86%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (28.57%) Customer Service
1 10 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (22.86%) ITIL
3 6 (17.14%) Disaster Recovery
3 6 (17.14%) Kalman Filter
3 6 (17.14%) Web Filtering
4 5 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
4 5 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
5 4 (11.43%) Data Privacy
5 4 (11.43%) Project Delivery
6 3 (8.57%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (8.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 3 (8.57%) Network Management
6 3 (8.57%) Server Management
7 2 (5.71%) Agile
7 2 (5.71%) ERP
7 2 (5.71%) Incident Management
7 2 (5.71%) User Experience
8 1 (2.86%) Iteration Planning
8 1 (2.86%) Server Building
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.86%) PowerShell
1 1 (2.86%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (20.00%) Degree
2 6 (17.14%) DBS Check
3 2 (5.71%) CCNA
3 2 (5.71%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (2.86%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.57%) SLA
System Software
1 17 (48.57%) Active Directory
2 6 (17.14%) Hyper-V
3 4 (11.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (5.71%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (2.86%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (2.86%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (25.71%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (17.14%) Jamf Pro
3 3 (8.57%) SmoothWall
4 1 (2.86%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 22 (62.86%) Microsoft
2 13 (37.14%) Cisco
3 9 (25.71%) Veeam
3 9 (25.71%) VMware
4 8 (22.86%) Meraki
5 4 (11.43%) ConnectWise
5 4 (11.43%) Datto
5 4 (11.43%) ESET
5 4 (11.43%) Sophos
5 4 (11.43%) Ubiquiti
6 2 (5.71%) Aruba
6 2 (5.71%) Palo Alto
6 2 (5.71%) Zerto
7 1 (2.86%) Apple
7 1 (2.86%) Barracuda Networks
7 1 (2.86%) Citrix
7 1 (2.86%) NetApp