IT Engineer Job Trends in the North West

IT Engineer
England > North West

The median IT Engineer salary in the North West is £32,940 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 29 June 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 208 125
Rank change year-on-year +128 -83 +51
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 198 33 203
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 1.79% 0.68% 1.88%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.89% 0.76% 1.97%
Number of salaries quoted 180 29 176
10th Percentile £26,000 £27,950 £22,614
25th Percentile £29,750 £29,000 £25,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,940 £32,000 £30,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% +6.67% -20.00%
75th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £42,313
90th Percentile £50,000 £50,500 £50,500
England median annual salary £35,000 £36,500 £33,500
% change year-on-year -4.11% +8.96% -1.47%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 10,450 4,341 10,302
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.43% 89.01% 95.25%
Number of salaries quoted 7,887 2,205 7,860
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £51,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.84% +2.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £71,750 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +9.52% -12.50%

IT Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'IT Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North West.

IT Engineer job vacancy trend in the North West

IT Engineer
Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for IT Engineer job vacancies in the North West.

Salary distribution trend for IT Engineer job vacancies 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 29 June 2026.

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 29 June 2026. 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
Lancashire +67 57 £32,000 -24.71% 7
Manchester +17 47 £35,000 +10.24% 6
Merseyside - 36 £35,500 - 1
Cheshire +33 33 £37,500 -31.82% 3
Cumbria -2 25 £30,000 -6.25%
IT Engineer
England

IT Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West

For the 6 months to 29 June 2026, IT Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the North West region featuring IT Engineer in the job title.

1 96 (48.48%) Microsoft
2 86 (43.43%) Microsoft 365
3 67 (33.84%) Windows
4 55 (27.78%) Azure
5 50 (25.25%) Problem-Solving
6 49 (24.75%) Active Directory
7 42 (21.21%) Customer Service
8 40 (20.20%) Windows Server
9 38 (19.19%) Firewall
10 33 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
11 28 (14.14%) Cybersecurity
11 28 (14.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 28 (14.14%) SharePoint
11 28 (14.14%) Windows 10
12 27 (13.64%) DNS
12 27 (13.64%) Entra ID
13 25 (12.63%) Microsoft Exchange
14 22 (11.11%) DHCP
15 19 (9.60%) ITIL
16 18 (9.09%) VPN
17 16 (8.08%) Remote Monitoring and Management
18 15 (7.58%) Continuous Improvement
18 15 (7.58%) VMware
19 14 (7.07%) VLAN
19 14 (7.07%) VoIP
20 13 (6.57%) Hyper-V
21 12 (6.06%) Mentoring
21 12 (6.06%) User Experience
22 11 (5.56%) Cyber Essentials
22 11 (5.56%) SCCM

IT Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 28 (14.14%) SharePoint
2 25 (12.63%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.51%) Apache
3 1 (0.51%) IIS
Applications
1 10 (5.05%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (3.54%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.51%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 86 (43.43%) Microsoft 365
2 55 (27.78%) Azure
3 27 (13.64%) Entra ID
4 9 (4.55%) OneDrive
5 7 (3.54%) AWS
5 7 (3.54%) Google Workspace
6 6 (3.03%) SaaS
7 5 (2.53%) Intacct
8 4 (2.02%) Azure Sentinel
9 2 (1.01%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 38 (19.19%) Firewall
2 27 (13.64%) DNS
3 22 (11.11%) DHCP
4 18 (9.09%) VPN
5 14 (7.07%) VLAN
5 14 (7.07%) VoIP
6 10 (5.05%) Wi-Fi
7 8 (4.04%) SD-WAN
7 8 (4.04%) WAN
8 7 (3.54%) TCP/IP
9 4 (2.02%) SAN
10 1 (0.51%) Cisco ISE
10 1 (0.51%) DMVPN
10 1 (0.51%) Ethernet
10 1 (0.51%) LAN
10 1 (0.51%) Remote Desktop
10 1 (0.51%) SSL
10 1 (0.51%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.52%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (0.51%) MySQL
2 1 (0.51%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (0.51%) JIRA
General
1 60 (30.30%) Social Skills
2 15 (7.58%) Organisational Skills
3 9 (4.55%) Finance
3 9 (4.55%) Manufacturing
4 7 (3.54%) Retail
5 5 (2.53%) Automotive
5 5 (2.53%) Local Government
5 5 (2.53%) Multimedia
5 5 (2.53%) Public Sector
6 4 (2.02%) Aerospace
6 4 (2.02%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (2.02%) Banking
6 4 (2.02%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.01%) Advertising
8 1 (0.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.51%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.51%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 46 (23.23%) Driving Licence
2 15 (7.58%) Onboarding
3 8 (4.04%) CCTV
4 5 (2.53%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (2.02%) Security Posture
6 3 (1.52%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (1.52%) FMCG
6 3 (1.52%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.01%) Educational Technology
7 2 (1.01%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.01%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.01%) Microsoft Licensing
Operating Systems
1 67 (33.84%) Windows
2 40 (20.20%) Windows Server
3 28 (14.14%) Windows 10
4 7 (3.54%) Mac OS
4 7 (3.54%) Windows 7
4 7 (3.54%) Windows 8
5 4 (2.02%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (1.52%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.51%) Linux
7 1 (0.51%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (25.25%) Problem-Solving
2 42 (21.21%) Customer Service
3 28 (14.14%) Cybersecurity
3 28 (14.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 19 (9.60%) ITIL
5 16 (8.08%) Remote Monitoring and Management
6 15 (7.58%) Continuous Improvement
7 12 (6.06%) Mentoring
7 12 (6.06%) User Experience
8 9 (4.55%) Proactive Maintenance
8 9 (4.55%) Service Management
9 8 (4.04%) Disaster Recovery
9 8 (4.04%) Incident Response
10 7 (3.54%) ITSM
11 6 (3.03%) Agile
11 6 (3.03%) Change Management
11 6 (3.03%) CRM
11 6 (3.03%) Service Delivery
12 5 (2.53%) Active Listening
12 5 (2.53%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 10 (5.05%) PowerShell
2 4 (2.02%) VBScript
3 2 (1.01%) Bash
Qualifications
1 8 (4.04%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (2.53%) Azure Certification
2 5 (2.53%) Degree
3 4 (2.02%) Network+ Certification
3 4 (2.02%) SC Cleared
3 4 (2.02%) Security Cleared
4 2 (1.01%) CISSP
5 1 (0.51%) A+ Certification
5 1 (0.51%) CCA
5 1 (0.51%) CCNA
5 1 (0.51%) CCNP
5 1 (0.51%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (0.51%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.56%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (1.01%) NIST
3 1 (0.51%) SLA
System Software
1 49 (24.75%) Active Directory
2 13 (6.57%) Hyper-V
3 11 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (3.54%) VMware Workstation
5 4 (2.02%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.51%) Firmware
6 1 (0.51%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 33 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 11 (5.56%) SCCM
3 7 (3.54%) Autotask
4 5 (2.53%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (1.01%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.51%) WSUS
Vendors
1 96 (48.48%) Microsoft
2 15 (7.58%) VMware
3 8 (4.04%) Google
4 7 (3.54%) ESET
5 6 (3.03%) ServiceNow
6 5 (2.53%) Cisco
6 5 (2.53%) Fortinet
6 5 (2.53%) Fujitsu
6 5 (2.53%) Sage
6 5 (2.53%) Ubiquiti
6 5 (2.53%) Virgin Media
7 4 (2.02%) CheckPoint
7 4 (2.02%) Draytek
8 3 (1.52%) Meraki
9 2 (1.01%) CyberArk
10 1 (0.51%) BroadSoft
10 1 (0.51%) Freshdesk
10 1 (0.51%) Palo Alto
10 1 (0.51%) SonicWALL
10 1 (0.51%) Veeam