IT Engineer Jobs in the West Midlands

IT Engineer
England > West Midlands

The median IT Engineer salary in the West Midlands is £35,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 95 175 157
Rank change year-on-year +80 -18 -79
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 196 106 127
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.71% 1.57% 1.76%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.88% 1.74% 1.85%
Number of salaries quoted 162 102 120
10th Percentile £25,500 £24,550 £23,500
25th Percentile £26,563 £26,250 £29,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £33,500 £37,750
Median % change year-on-year +4.48% -11.26% +7.86%
75th Percentile £43,750 £43,750 £47,250
90th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £58,193
England median annual salary £33,000 £34,500 £34,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +1.47% -2.86%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands. 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 West Midlands with a recognized job title 6,806 6,079 6,847
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.04% 89.99% 94.68%
Number of salaries quoted 5,153 3,364 4,759
10th Percentile £26,250 £29,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,912 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.82%
75th Percentile £63,500 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £78,750
England median annual salary £54,000 £60,567 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.84% +0.95% +9.09%

IT Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Engineer in the West Midlands

IT Engineer
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for IT Engineer in the West Midlands

IT Engineer
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing IT Engineer in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Salary histogram for IT Engineer in the West Midlands

IT Engineer
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IT Engineer within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 25 April 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
Staffordshire +14 55 £39,503 -12.22% 7
Birmingham +15 47 £32,750 -0.76% 6
Worcestershire -9 19 £30,500 +10.91% 5
Shropshire +5 14 £36,500 +40.38% 3
Warwickshire +56 10 £26,250 -41.67% 3
Wednesbury - 10 £31,250 -
Wolverhampton +20 4 £20,750 -3.49% 4
Solihull 0 4 £26,500 -10.17% 1
Walsall +23 3 - -
Coventry +21 2 £45,000 -2.70% 2
Halesowen -10 2 £27,500 -17.91%
Dudley - 1 £27,500 -
IT Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 25 April 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 West Midlands region featuring IT Engineer in the job title.

1 119 (60.71%) Windows
2 103 (52.55%) Microsoft 365
3 101 (51.53%) Active Directory
4 94 (47.96%) Microsoft
5 90 (45.92%) Azure
6 82 (41.84%) Windows Server
7 58 (29.59%) VMware
8 53 (27.04%) Firewall
8 53 (27.04%) Social Skills
9 48 (24.49%) Entra ID
9 48 (24.49%) Hyper-V
10 43 (21.94%) VMware Infrastructure
11 41 (20.92%) ITIL
11 41 (20.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 40 (20.41%) Cisco
13 37 (18.88%) Microsoft Exchange
14 34 (17.35%) Microsoft Intune
15 32 (16.33%) Windows Server 2012
16 31 (15.82%) Problem-Solving
17 30 (15.31%) DNS
17 30 (15.31%) DHCP
18 27 (13.78%) SCCM
19 25 (12.76%) Windows 10
19 25 (12.76%) Telecoms
19 25 (12.76%) Law
19 25 (12.76%) Customer Service
20 24 (12.24%) Windows Server 2016
20 24 (12.24%) VoIP
20 24 (12.24%) PowerShell
20 24 (12.24%) Continuous Improvement

IT Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 37 (18.88%) Microsoft Exchange
2 23 (11.73%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.02%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 21 (10.71%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.51%) MIS ActiveH
Cloud Services
1 103 (52.55%) Microsoft 365
2 90 (45.92%) Azure
3 48 (24.49%) Entra ID
4 12 (6.12%) AWS
5 4 (2.04%) Google Workspace
6 3 (1.53%) PaaS
7 2 (1.02%) Amazon S3
7 2 (1.02%) Mimecast
7 2 (1.02%) OneDrive
7 2 (1.02%) OpenDNS
8 1 (0.51%) Azure App Service
8 1 (0.51%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 53 (27.04%) Firewall
2 30 (15.31%) DHCP
2 30 (15.31%) DNS
3 24 (12.24%) VoIP
4 23 (11.73%) SAN
5 11 (5.61%) Wi-Fi
6 9 (4.59%) PBX
7 8 (4.08%) TCP/IP
8 7 (3.57%) WAN
9 6 (3.06%) LAN
9 6 (3.06%) Network Security
9 6 (3.06%) VLAN
10 5 (2.55%) VPN
11 4 (2.04%) iSCSI
11 4 (2.04%) Wireshark
12 3 (1.53%) FlexRay
12 3 (1.53%) Internet
12 3 (1.53%) OSPF
12 3 (1.53%) Wireless
13 2 (1.02%) RIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (4.59%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (4.08%) SQL Server
3 3 (1.53%) InfluxDB
4 1 (0.51%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 3 (1.53%) LabVIEW
General
1 53 (27.04%) Social Skills
2 25 (12.76%) Law
2 25 (12.76%) Telecoms
3 11 (5.61%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (5.61%) Finance
4 8 (4.08%) Manufacturing
5 7 (3.57%) Retail
6 6 (3.06%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.02%) Electronics
7 2 (1.02%) Legal
7 2 (1.02%) Social Housing
8 1 (0.51%) Advertising
8 1 (0.51%) Automotive
8 1 (0.51%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.02%) LAMP
1 2 (1.02%) V-Ray
Miscellaneous
1 16 (8.16%) Self-Motivation
2 12 (6.12%) Replication
3 11 (5.61%) Fat Client
3 11 (5.61%) Thin Client
4 9 (4.59%) Driving Licence
5 5 (2.55%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.04%) Clustering
6 4 (2.04%) Data Centre
6 4 (2.04%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.53%) Embedded Systems
7 3 (1.53%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.02%) Housing Association
8 2 (1.02%) IoT
8 2 (1.02%) PKI
8 2 (1.02%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (0.51%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 119 (60.71%) Windows
2 82 (41.84%) Windows Server
3 32 (16.33%) Windows Server 2012
4 25 (12.76%) Windows 10
5 24 (12.24%) Windows Server 2016
6 19 (9.69%) Windows Server 2019
7 14 (7.14%) Linux
8 11 (5.61%) Mac OS
9 5 (2.55%) Unix
10 3 (1.53%) CentOS
11 2 (1.02%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.51%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.51%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.51%) Windows 7
12 1 (0.51%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (20.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 41 (20.92%) ITIL
2 31 (15.82%) Problem-Solving
3 25 (12.76%) Customer Service
4 24 (12.24%) Continuous Improvement
5 21 (10.71%) Service Delivery
6 17 (8.67%) Agile
6 17 (8.67%) Proactive Monitoring
7 13 (6.63%) Asset Management
8 12 (6.12%) Break/Fix
9 11 (5.61%) Change Management
9 11 (5.61%) High Availability
9 11 (5.61%) Project Planning
10 10 (5.10%) Disaster Recovery
10 10 (5.10%) Project Delivery
11 9 (4.59%) Migration
12 8 (4.08%) Server Management
13 7 (3.57%) Customer Requirements
13 7 (3.57%) DevOps
13 7 (3.57%) Preventative Maintenance
Programming Languages
1 24 (12.24%) PowerShell
2 21 (10.71%) SQL
3 9 (4.59%) Python
4 7 (3.57%) JavaScript
5 5 (2.55%) C#
5 5 (2.55%) C++
5 5 (2.55%) Java
6 4 (2.04%) R
7 1 (0.51%) Bash
7 1 (0.51%) Go
Qualifications
1 19 (9.69%) Microsoft Certification
2 10 (5.10%) DBS Check
3 9 (4.59%) Degree
4 7 (3.57%) MCSE
5 5 (2.55%) A+ Certification
5 5 (2.55%) Network+ Certification
6 4 (2.04%) Security Cleared
6 4 (2.04%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 3 (1.53%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.53%) CCNA
7 3 (1.53%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.53%) ITIL Certification
7 3 (1.53%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 3 (1.53%) MCSA
8 2 (1.02%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.51%) HNC
9 1 (0.51%) HND
9 1 (0.51%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (10.20%) SLA
2 11 (5.61%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (2.04%) QA
4 1 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 101 (51.53%) Active Directory
2 48 (24.49%) Hyper-V
3 43 (21.94%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (6.12%) VMware ESXi
5 8 (4.08%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (3.57%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (1.02%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 2 (1.02%) Docker
7 2 (1.02%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 2 (1.02%) pfSense
7 2 (1.02%) Terminal Services
7 2 (1.02%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 34 (17.35%) Microsoft Intune
2 27 (13.78%) SCCM
3 3 (1.53%) Failover Clustering
3 3 (1.53%) Grafana
3 3 (1.53%) SCOM
3 3 (1.53%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (1.02%) Backup Exec
4 2 (1.02%) Jamf Pro
4 2 (1.02%) WSUS
5 1 (0.51%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 94 (47.96%) Microsoft
2 58 (29.59%) VMware
3 40 (20.41%) Cisco
4 20 (10.20%) Veeam
5 17 (8.67%) HP
6 16 (8.16%) Citrix
7 9 (4.59%) Dell
8 7 (3.57%) Fortinet
8 7 (3.57%) Meraki
8 7 (3.57%) Nimble Storage
8 7 (3.57%) Remedy
9 6 (3.06%) Zerto
10 5 (2.55%) ConnectWise
10 5 (2.55%) Mitel
11 4 (2.04%) Acronis
11 4 (2.04%) Apple
11 4 (2.04%) Aruba
11 4 (2.04%) Google
12 3 (1.53%) PagerDuty
12 3 (1.53%) Ruckus Wireless