IT Engineer Job Trends in the West Midlands

IT Engineer
England > West Midlands

The median IT Engineer salary in the West Midlands is £34,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 6 October 2026.

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

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 143 102
Rank change year-on-year +64 -41 -8
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 154 33 124
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 1.71% 1.01% 2.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.84% 1.10% 2.30%
Number of salaries quoted 133 27 60
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,050 £26,750
25th Percentile £30,000 £38,125 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £34,500 £47,500 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.37% +35.71% -9.68%
75th Percentile £45,000 £80,000 £50,000
90th Percentile £62,500 - £58,000
England median annual salary £35,000 £37,500 £36,750
% change year-on-year -6.67% +2.04% +5.00%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
West Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 8,356 3,011 5,402
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 92.11% 94.79%
Number of salaries quoted 6,047 1,938 2,937
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,875 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £59,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.18% - -8.33%

IT Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

IT Engineer job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

IT Engineer
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary distribution trend for IT Engineer job vacancies 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 6 October 2026.

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 6 October 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
Warwickshire +13 36 £33,250 +3.91% 5
Birmingham -7 33 £45,000 +5.88% 5
Worcestershire -7 25 £30,000 -62.50% 8
Staffordshire +20 20 £38,500 -18.95% 7
Shropshire - 8 £45,000 - 3
Walsall - 5 £29,000 - 1
Wolverhampton - 4 £60,000 - 2
Coventry -18 3 £60,000 +62.16% 1
Sutton Coldfield - 2 £42,500 -
Willenhall - 1 - -
Dudley - 1 £40,000 -
Brierley Hill - 1 £45,000 -
IT Engineer
England

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

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

1 86 (55.84%) Microsoft
2 74 (48.05%) Microsoft 365
3 73 (47.40%) Windows
4 53 (34.42%) Active Directory
5 48 (31.17%) Problem-Solving
6 46 (29.87%) Windows Server
7 43 (27.92%) Azure
8 35 (22.73%) Entra ID
9 33 (21.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 32 (20.78%) Customer Service
11 31 (20.13%) Microsoft Exchange
12 29 (18.83%) DNS
12 29 (18.83%) VMware
12 29 (18.83%) VMware Infrastructure
12 29 (18.83%) VPN
13 27 (17.53%) Cybersecurity
13 27 (17.53%) DHCP
14 26 (16.88%) Continuous Improvement
14 26 (16.88%) Hyper-V
15 24 (15.58%) Microsoft Intune
16 22 (14.29%) SharePoint
17 16 (10.39%) Google
17 16 (10.39%) Google Workspace
17 16 (10.39%) TCP/IP
18 15 (9.74%) Windows 10
19 14 (9.09%) ERP
19 14 (9.09%) Firewall
20 13 (8.44%) Business Continuity
20 13 (8.44%) LAN
20 13 (8.44%) WAN

IT Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 31 (20.13%) Microsoft Exchange
2 22 (14.29%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.30%) IIS
Applications
1 5 (3.25%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (2.60%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.30%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (1.30%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 74 (48.05%) Microsoft 365
2 43 (27.92%) Azure
3 35 (22.73%) Entra ID
4 16 (10.39%) Google Workspace
5 9 (5.84%) OneDrive
6 2 (1.30%) AWS
6 2 (1.30%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (1.30%) Nutanix
6 2 (1.30%) PaaS
6 2 (1.30%) Power Platform
6 2 (1.30%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 29 (18.83%) DNS
1 29 (18.83%) VPN
2 27 (17.53%) DHCP
3 16 (10.39%) TCP/IP
4 14 (9.09%) Firewall
5 13 (8.44%) LAN
5 13 (8.44%) WAN
6 10 (6.49%) Wi-Fi
7 8 (5.19%) SAN
8 6 (3.90%) VLAN
9 5 (3.25%) Network Security
10 2 (1.30%) Wireless
11 1 (0.65%) Cisco IOS
11 1 (0.65%) Remote Desktop
11 1 (0.65%) SD-WAN
11 1 (0.65%) Structured Cabling
11 1 (0.65%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (5.84%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.30%) MySQL
3 1 (0.65%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 2 (1.30%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 1 (0.65%) Carbide.c++
General
1 60 (38.96%) Social Skills
2 15 (9.74%) Legal
3 11 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (5.84%) Law
5 5 (3.25%) Manufacturing
5 5 (3.25%) Telecoms
6 4 (2.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (1.95%) Automotive
7 3 (1.95%) Public Sector
7 3 (1.95%) Retail
8 2 (1.30%) Advertising
8 2 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.65%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.65%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.30%) CSS
1 2 (1.30%) HTML
1 2 (1.30%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 22 (14.29%) Driving Licence
2 11 (7.14%) Onboarding
2 11 (7.14%) Operational Technology
3 9 (5.84%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (2.60%) Data Centre
5 3 (1.95%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (1.95%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (1.95%) Management Information System
5 3 (1.95%) Replication
6 2 (1.30%) CCTV
6 2 (1.30%) Clustering
6 2 (1.30%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.30%) SCADA
6 2 (1.30%) Social Media
6 2 (1.30%) Video Conferencing
7 1 (0.65%) CMDB
7 1 (0.65%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 73 (47.40%) Windows
2 46 (29.87%) Windows Server
3 15 (9.74%) Windows 10
4 8 (5.19%) Linux
4 8 (5.19%) Mac OS
5 5 (3.25%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (1.95%) Apple iOS
6 3 (1.95%) Windows Server 2012
6 3 (1.95%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (1.30%) Android
8 1 (0.65%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (31.17%) Problem-Solving
2 33 (21.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 32 (20.78%) Customer Service
4 27 (17.53%) Cybersecurity
5 26 (16.88%) Continuous Improvement
6 14 (9.09%) ERP
7 13 (8.44%) Business Continuity
8 12 (7.79%) ITIL
8 12 (7.79%) Service Delivery
9 11 (7.14%) Root Cause Analysis
9 11 (7.14%) Stakeholder Management
10 10 (6.49%) Disaster Recovery
11 9 (5.84%) ITSM
11 9 (5.84%) Platform Engineering
12 6 (3.90%) Mentoring
12 6 (3.90%) Service Management
13 5 (3.25%) Project Delivery
13 5 (3.25%) User Experience
14 4 (2.60%) Presales
14 4 (2.60%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 10 (6.49%) PowerShell
2 8 (5.19%) SQL
3 2 (1.30%) JavaScript
3 2 (1.30%) PHP
3 2 (1.30%) T-SQL
3 2 (1.30%) VBA
Qualifications
1 9 (5.84%) Degree
2 6 (3.90%) Network+ Certification
3 5 (3.25%) A+ Certification
4 4 (2.60%) CCNA
4 4 (2.60%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (2.60%) SC Cleared
4 4 (2.60%) Security Cleared
5 3 (1.95%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.30%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (0.65%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.65%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.65%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (2.60%) SLA
3 3 (1.95%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (1.30%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.65%) Accessibility
System Software
1 53 (34.42%) Active Directory
2 29 (18.83%) VMware Infrastructure
3 26 (16.88%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.65%) BitLocker
4 1 (0.65%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 24 (15.58%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (3.25%) Jamf Pro
2 5 (3.25%) SmoothWall
3 3 (1.95%) Backup Exec
3 3 (1.95%) SCCM
4 2 (1.30%) WSUS
Vendors
1 86 (55.84%) Microsoft
2 29 (18.83%) VMware
3 16 (10.39%) Google
4 9 (5.84%) Cisco
5 5 (3.25%) Meraki
5 5 (3.25%) QAD
5 5 (3.25%) TOWER Software
6 4 (2.60%) Remedy
6 4 (2.60%) Veeam
7 3 (1.95%) Apple
7 3 (1.95%) Datto
7 3 (1.95%) Fortinet
7 3 (1.95%) NetApp
7 3 (1.95%) Nimble Storage
8 2 (1.30%) Dell
8 2 (1.30%) Palo Alto
8 2 (1.30%) Sage
8 2 (1.30%) SonicWALL
8 2 (1.30%) Sophos
8 2 (1.30%) WatchGuard