Senior IT Engineer Jobs in the North West

Senior IT Engineer
England > North West

The median Senior IT Engineer salary in the North West is £45,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 7 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
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 274 278 303
Rank change year-on-year +4 +25 +35
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior IT Engineer 1 8 3
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.013% 0.082% 0.038%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.014% 0.087% 0.042%
Number of salaries quoted 1 7 3
10th Percentile - £40,400 -
25th Percentile - £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £62,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -28.00% +38.89% -
75th Percentile - £63,750 £71,875
90th Percentile - - £86,500
England median annual salary £51,250 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +2.50% +11.11% -5.26%

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 7,084 9,236 7,083
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.97% 94.64% 89.09%
Number of salaries quoted 4,088 7,094 4,132
10th Percentile £27,500 £27,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,385 £36,250 £40,000
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 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £81,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%

Senior IT Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior IT Engineer in the North West

Senior IT Engineer
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for Senior IT Engineer in the North West

Senior 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 Senior IT Engineer within the North West region over the 6 months to 7 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
Merseyside - 1 £45,000 -
Senior IT Engineer
England

Senior IT Engineer Skill Set
Top 22 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West

For the 6 months to 7 May 2025, Senior 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 Senior IT Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) VoIP
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Presales
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2016
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2019
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills

Senior 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 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) VoIP
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2016
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Presales
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Machines