IT Engineer Jobs in the North West

IT Engineer
England > North West

The median IT Engineer salary in the North West is £32,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 July 2024.

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

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 136 190 245
Rank change year-on-year +54 +55 -89
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 149 80 96
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 1.61% 1.24% 0.95%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.68% 1.38% 0.99%
Number of salaries quoted 126 62 90
10th Percentile £24,000 £23,750 £23,132
25th Percentile £27,000 £28,813 £27,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,000 £37,500 £33,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.67% +11.94% +3.08%
75th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £44,125
90th Percentile £50,125 £74,375 £51,250
England median annual salary £35,000 £34,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year +1.45% -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 8,848 5,805 9,684
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.54% 89.71% 95.86%
Number of salaries quoted 6,232 3,732 5,883
10th Percentile £29,000 £30,500 £28,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £41,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%

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 26 July 2024.

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 26 July 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
Cheshire -7 47 £35,000 -7.89% 7
Manchester +23 46 £32,001 -11.72% 9
Lancashire -5 28 £24,000 -2.04% 10
Merseyside +24 15 £30,000 -41.46% 1
Cumbria +7 12 £33,500 +2.26% 3
IT Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 26 July 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 West region featuring IT Engineer in the job title.

1 56 (37.58%) Microsoft
2 49 (32.89%) Active Directory
3 44 (29.53%) Windows
4 41 (27.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 38 (25.50%) Problem-Solving
5 38 (25.50%) Microsoft 365
6 37 (24.83%) Azure
7 34 (22.82%) Social Skills
8 29 (19.46%) ITIL
9 24 (16.11%) Firewall
10 23 (15.44%) VMware
11 19 (12.75%) Cisco
12 17 (11.41%) Windows Server
13 16 (10.74%) Microsoft Intune
13 16 (10.74%) Project Management
14 15 (10.07%) SQL
14 15 (10.07%) Stakeholder Management
14 15 (10.07%) Finance
14 15 (10.07%) Entra ID
14 15 (10.07%) Windows 10
15 14 (9.40%) Hyper-V
16 13 (8.72%) Microsoft Office
16 13 (8.72%) VMware Infrastructure
16 13 (8.72%) Migration
16 13 (8.72%) Infrastructure Management
17 12 (8.05%) Service Management
18 11 (7.38%) DNS
18 11 (7.38%) Android
18 11 (7.38%) Veeam
18 11 (7.38%) Apple iOS

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 9 (6.04%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (2.01%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.34%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 1 (0.67%) Site Server
Applications
1 13 (8.72%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.67%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 38 (25.50%) Microsoft 365
2 37 (24.83%) Azure
3 15 (10.07%) Entra ID
4 6 (4.03%) Power Platform
4 6 (4.03%) PowerApps
5 5 (3.36%) AWS
6 3 (2.01%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (2.01%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (2.01%) Dropbox
6 3 (2.01%) Google Drive
6 3 (2.01%) OneDrive
6 3 (2.01%) Power Automate
7 2 (1.34%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (0.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (0.67%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 1 (0.67%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 24 (16.11%) Firewall
2 11 (7.38%) DNS
3 9 (6.04%) DHCP
4 8 (5.37%) VPN
5 7 (4.70%) Internet
5 7 (4.70%) LAN
5 7 (4.70%) VoIP
5 7 (4.70%) Wi-Fi
5 7 (4.70%) Wireless
6 6 (4.03%) SAN
7 5 (3.36%) Remote Desktop
8 4 (2.68%) Intrusion Detection
8 4 (2.68%) NAS
8 4 (2.68%) TCP/IP
8 4 (2.68%) VLAN
8 4 (2.68%) WAN
8 4 (2.68%) WLAN
9 3 (2.01%) MPLS
9 3 (2.01%) Network Security
10 1 (0.67%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (6.04%) MySQL
1 9 (6.04%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.34%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (0.67%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
1 1 (0.67%) Visual Studio
General
1 34 (22.82%) Social Skills
2 15 (10.07%) Finance
3 9 (6.04%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (4.70%) Manufacturing
4 7 (4.70%) Retail
5 6 (4.03%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (3.36%) Public Sector
7 4 (2.68%) Telecoms
8 3 (2.01%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (2.01%) Legal
8 3 (2.01%) Marketing
9 2 (1.34%) Electronics
9 2 (1.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.34%) Military
10 1 (0.67%) Law
Miscellaneous
1 10 (6.71%) Driving Licence
2 8 (5.37%) Data Centre
3 6 (4.03%) Cyber Threat
4 4 (2.68%) Cyberattack
4 4 (2.68%) Security Posture
5 3 (2.01%) EPoS
5 3 (2.01%) iPad
5 3 (2.01%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.34%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.34%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.34%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.67%) Replication
7 1 (0.67%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 44 (29.53%) Windows
2 17 (11.41%) Windows Server
3 15 (10.07%) Windows 10
4 11 (7.38%) Android
4 11 (7.38%) Apple iOS
5 7 (4.70%) Linux
6 5 (3.36%) Mac OS
6 5 (3.36%) Windows Server 2012
6 5 (3.36%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (3.36%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (2.01%) Debian
8 2 (1.34%) VMS
8 2 (1.34%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.67%) Unix
9 1 (0.67%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (27.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 38 (25.50%) Problem-Solving
3 29 (19.46%) ITIL
4 16 (10.74%) Project Management
5 15 (10.07%) Stakeholder Management
6 13 (8.72%) Infrastructure Management
6 13 (8.72%) Migration
7 12 (8.05%) Service Management
8 10 (6.71%) Customer Service
8 10 (6.71%) Cybersecurity
8 10 (6.71%) Mathematics
9 9 (6.04%) Creative Problem-Solving
9 9 (6.04%) IT Strategy
9 9 (6.04%) Logistics
10 8 (5.37%) Disaster Recovery
11 7 (4.70%) E-Commerce
12 6 (4.03%) CRM
12 6 (4.03%) Incident Management
12 6 (4.03%) Information Security
12 6 (4.03%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 15 (10.07%) SQL
2 9 (6.04%) Swift
3 8 (5.37%) PowerShell
4 1 (0.67%) Bash
4 1 (0.67%) PHP
4 1 (0.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (3.36%) Security Cleared
2 4 (2.68%) CISA
2 4 (2.68%) CISSP
2 4 (2.68%) Degree
2 4 (2.68%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (2.01%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.34%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.34%) DBS Check
5 1 (0.67%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.67%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (0.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (2.68%) SOC 2
3 2 (1.34%) SLA
4 1 (0.67%) COBIT
4 1 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.67%) GDPR
4 1 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 1 (0.67%) NIST
4 1 (0.67%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 49 (32.89%) Active Directory
2 14 (9.40%) Hyper-V
3 13 (8.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (4.70%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (1.34%) vSphere
6 1 (0.67%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 16 (10.74%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (2.68%) Nessus
3 3 (2.01%) SCCM
4 1 (0.67%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 1 (0.67%) vRealize
Vendors
1 56 (37.58%) Microsoft
2 23 (15.44%) VMware
3 19 (12.75%) Cisco
4 11 (7.38%) Veeam
5 8 (5.37%) Sophos
6 7 (4.70%) Dell
6 7 (4.70%) ESET
7 6 (4.03%) NetApp
8 5 (3.36%) Citrix
8 5 (3.36%) HP
9 3 (2.01%) ConnectWise
9 3 (2.01%) CrowdStrike
9 3 (2.01%) Datto
9 3 (2.01%) Draytek
9 3 (2.01%) Google
9 3 (2.01%) SolarWinds
9 3 (2.01%) Ubiquiti
10 2 (1.34%) Extreme Networks
10 2 (1.34%) Meraki
10 2 (1.34%) Zscaler