Technical Engineer Job Trends in the North West

Technical Engineer
England > North West

The median Technical Engineer salary in the North West is £37,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 January 2026.

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

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 137 187 193
Rank change year-on-year +50 +6 +86
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Engineer 49 18 10
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.77% 0.36% 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.89% 0.39% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 35 10 10
10th Percentile £26,250 £29,025 £24,700
25th Percentile £31,000 £29,250 £27,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £30,500 £28,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.95% +8.93% -11.11%
75th Percentile £47,500 £41,250 £37,063
90th Percentile £50,000 £45,125 £39,250
England median annual salary £37,250 £42,250 £40,000
% change year-on-year -11.83% +5.63% -5.88%

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 5,478 4,660 4,269
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 85.98% 92.20% 95.33%
Number of salaries quoted 3,043 2,452 3,359
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £38,734
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -5.87%
75th Percentile £67,500 £66,113 £67,500
90th Percentile £81,250 £78,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -6.50%

Technical Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Technical Engineer job vacancy trend in the North West

Technical Engineer
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary distribution trend for Technical Engineer job vacancies in the North West

Technical Engineer
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Technical Engineer in the North West over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Technical Engineer in the North West

Technical 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 Technical Engineer within the North West region over the 6 months to 14 January 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
Manchester +40 25 £35,625 -5.00% 9
Lancashire +12 7 £26,500 -13.11% 4
Merseyside +2 7 £40,000 -
Cheshire - 7 £50,000 - 3
Cumbria +13 3 £57,500 +4.55%
Technical Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 14 January 2026, Technical 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 Technical Engineer in the job title.

1 17 (34.69%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (30.61%) Microsoft
3 14 (28.57%) Customer Service
4 13 (26.53%) Continuous Improvement
5 12 (24.49%) SQL
6 10 (20.41%) Windows
7 9 (18.37%) CCNA
7 9 (18.37%) Cisco Certification
7 9 (18.37%) Veeam
8 7 (14.29%) AWS
8 7 (14.29%) Azure
8 7 (14.29%) Critical Thinking
8 7 (14.29%) ERP
8 7 (14.29%) Firewall
8 7 (14.29%) Mac OS
8 7 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
8 7 (14.29%) PL/SQL
8 7 (14.29%) VBScript
8 7 (14.29%) VMware
8 7 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
8 7 (14.29%) Windows 10
9 6 (12.24%) Mentoring
10 5 (10.20%) Active Directory
10 5 (10.20%) Entra ID
10 5 (10.20%) Hyper-V
10 5 (10.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 5 (10.20%) Microsoft 365
10 5 (10.20%) Microsoft Intune
10 5 (10.20%) Preventative Maintenance
10 5 (10.20%) Siemens

Technical 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:

Applications
1 7 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 7 (14.29%) AWS
1 7 (14.29%) Azure
2 5 (10.20%) Entra ID
2 5 (10.20%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (4.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (4.08%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (4.08%) OpenShift
3 2 (4.08%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (14.29%) Firewall
2 2 (4.08%) Wireless
3 1 (2.04%) LAN
3 1 (2.04%) WAN
Development Applications
1 2 (4.08%) GitLab
1 2 (4.08%) Jenkins
1 2 (4.08%) SonarQube
General
1 14 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 5 (10.20%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (10.20%) Manufacturing
3 4 (8.16%) Avionics
3 4 (8.16%) Electronics
4 2 (4.08%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (4.08%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.04%) Finance
5 1 (2.04%) Financial Institution
Miscellaneous
1 12 (24.49%) Self-Motivation
2 10 (20.41%) Driving Licence
3 5 (10.20%) Analytical Mindset
3 5 (10.20%) CCTV
3 5 (10.20%) Cloud Native
4 3 (6.12%) Home Automation
4 3 (6.12%) Renewable Energy
4 3 (6.12%) Solar Energy
4 3 (6.12%) Virtual Team
5 2 (4.08%) Onboarding
5 2 (4.08%) Security Posture
6 1 (2.04%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 10 (20.41%) Windows
2 7 (14.29%) Mac OS
2 7 (14.29%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (34.69%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (28.57%) Customer Service
3 13 (26.53%) Continuous Improvement
4 7 (14.29%) Critical Thinking
4 7 (14.29%) ERP
5 6 (12.24%) Mentoring
6 5 (10.20%) Preventative Maintenance
7 4 (8.16%) Agile
7 4 (8.16%) Coaching
7 4 (8.16%) Root Cause Analysis
8 3 (6.12%) CRM
8 3 (6.12%) Customer Experience
9 2 (4.08%) CI/CD
9 2 (4.08%) Collaborative Working
9 2 (4.08%) Compliance Audit
9 2 (4.08%) DevOps
9 2 (4.08%) Infrastructure as Code
9 2 (4.08%) Observability
9 2 (4.08%) SDLC
9 2 (4.08%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 12 (24.49%) SQL
2 7 (14.29%) PL/SQL
2 7 (14.29%) VBScript
3 3 (6.12%) Ladder Logic
4 2 (4.08%) Go
4 2 (4.08%) Java
Qualifications
1 9 (18.37%) CCNA
1 9 (18.37%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (6.12%) Degree
2 3 (6.12%) NVQ Level 4
3 2 (4.08%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (4.08%) QA
System Software
1 7 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (10.20%) Active Directory
2 5 (10.20%) Hyper-V
3 2 (4.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (10.20%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (4.08%) Kubernetes
2 2 (4.08%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (30.61%) Microsoft
2 9 (18.37%) Veeam
3 7 (14.29%) VMware
4 5 (10.20%) Siemens
5 2 (4.08%) AppDynamics
5 2 (4.08%) Aruba
5 2 (4.08%) Cisco
5 2 (4.08%) Meraki
5 2 (4.08%) Palo Alto
5 2 (4.08%) Zerto