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 26 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 93 173 170
Rank change year-on-year +80 -3 -95
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 193 107 127
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.67% 1.59% 1.76%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.84% 1.76% 1.86%
Number of salaries quoted 160 103 120
10th Percentile £25,450 £24,600 £23,500
25th Percentile £26,438 £26,125 £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 6,800 6,065 6,843
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.04% 90.05% 94.70%
Number of salaries quoted 5,148 3,375 4,753
10th Percentile £26,250 £29,850 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,966 £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 £63,313 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £78,750
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,899 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.15% +1.50% +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 26 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 26 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 +18 56 £40,000 -11.11% 5
Birmingham +19 45 £31,500 -4.55% 4
Worcestershire -9 18 £30,500 +10.91% 5
Shropshire +5 14 £36,500 +40.38% 4
Warwickshire +61 10 £26,250 -41.67% 3
Wednesbury - 10 £31,250 -
Wolverhampton +19 4 £20,750 -3.49% 4
Solihull +1 4 £26,500 -10.17% 1
Walsall +23 3 - -
Halesowen -10 2 £27,500 -17.91%
Coventry +16 1 £45,000 - 2
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 26 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.

1 116 (60.10%) Windows
2 101 (52.33%) Microsoft 365
3 99 (51.30%) Active Directory
4 91 (47.15%) Microsoft
5 87 (45.08%) Azure
6 80 (41.45%) Windows Server
7 57 (29.53%) VMware
8 53 (27.46%) Social Skills
9 52 (26.94%) Firewall
10 47 (24.35%) Entra ID
10 47 (24.35%) Hyper-V
11 44 (22.80%) VMware Infrastructure
12 40 (20.73%) ITIL
13 39 (20.21%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 38 (19.69%) Cisco
15 36 (18.65%) Microsoft Exchange
16 33 (17.10%) Microsoft Intune
17 31 (16.06%) Windows Server 2012
17 31 (16.06%) Problem-Solving
18 29 (15.03%) DNS
18 29 (15.03%) DHCP
19 27 (13.99%) SCCM
20 25 (12.95%) Telecoms
20 25 (12.95%) Customer Service
21 24 (12.44%) Law
21 24 (12.44%) VoIP
21 24 (12.44%) Continuous Improvement
21 24 (12.44%) Windows 10
22 23 (11.92%) PowerShell
22 23 (11.92%) SAN

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 36 (18.65%) Microsoft Exchange
2 21 (10.88%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.04%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 21 (10.88%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.52%) MIS ActiveH
Cloud Services
1 101 (52.33%) Microsoft 365
2 87 (45.08%) Azure
3 47 (24.35%) Entra ID
4 12 (6.22%) AWS
5 4 (2.07%) Google Workspace
6 2 (1.04%) Amazon S3
6 2 (1.04%) Mimecast
6 2 (1.04%) OneDrive
6 2 (1.04%) OpenDNS
6 2 (1.04%) PaaS
7 1 (0.52%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 52 (26.94%) Firewall
2 29 (15.03%) DHCP
2 29 (15.03%) DNS
3 24 (12.44%) VoIP
4 23 (11.92%) SAN
5 10 (5.18%) Wi-Fi
6 9 (4.66%) PBX
7 8 (4.15%) TCP/IP
7 8 (4.15%) WAN
8 7 (3.63%) LAN
9 6 (3.11%) Network Security
9 6 (3.11%) VLAN
9 6 (3.11%) VPN
10 4 (2.07%) iSCSI
10 4 (2.07%) Wireless
10 4 (2.07%) Wireshark
11 3 (1.55%) FlexRay
11 3 (1.55%) Internet
11 3 (1.55%) OSPF
12 2 (1.04%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (4.66%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (3.63%) SQL Server
3 3 (1.55%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 3 (1.55%) LabVIEW
General
1 53 (27.46%) Social Skills
2 25 (12.95%) Telecoms
3 24 (12.44%) Law
4 11 (5.70%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (5.18%) Finance
6 9 (4.66%) Manufacturing
7 7 (3.63%) Retail
8 6 (3.11%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.04%) Electronics
9 2 (1.04%) Legal
9 2 (1.04%) Social Housing
10 1 (0.52%) Advertising
10 1 (0.52%) Automotive
10 1 (0.52%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.04%) LAMP
1 2 (1.04%) V-Ray
Miscellaneous
1 16 (8.29%) Self-Motivation
2 11 (5.70%) Fat Client
2 11 (5.70%) Replication
2 11 (5.70%) Thin Client
3 9 (4.66%) Driving Licence
4 5 (2.59%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.07%) Data Centre
5 4 (2.07%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.55%) Clustering
6 3 (1.55%) Embedded Systems
6 3 (1.55%) IoT
6 3 (1.55%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.04%) Housing Association
7 2 (1.04%) PKI
7 2 (1.04%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (0.52%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 116 (60.10%) Windows
2 80 (41.45%) Windows Server
3 31 (16.06%) Windows Server 2012
4 24 (12.44%) Windows 10
5 22 (11.40%) Windows Server 2016
6 17 (8.81%) Windows Server 2019
7 14 (7.25%) Linux
8 11 (5.70%) Mac OS
9 5 (2.59%) Unix
10 3 (1.55%) CentOS
11 2 (1.04%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.52%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.52%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.52%) Windows 7
12 1 (0.52%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (20.73%) ITIL
2 39 (20.21%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 31 (16.06%) Problem-Solving
4 25 (12.95%) Customer Service
5 24 (12.44%) Continuous Improvement
6 20 (10.36%) Service Delivery
7 17 (8.81%) Agile
7 17 (8.81%) Proactive Monitoring
8 13 (6.74%) Asset Management
9 12 (6.22%) Break/Fix
10 11 (5.70%) Change Management
10 11 (5.70%) Project Planning
11 10 (5.18%) High Availability
11 10 (5.18%) Migration
11 10 (5.18%) Project Delivery
12 9 (4.66%) Disaster Recovery
12 9 (4.66%) Server Management
13 7 (3.63%) Customer Requirements
13 7 (3.63%) Cybersecurity
13 7 (3.63%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 23 (11.92%) PowerShell
2 20 (10.36%) SQL
3 9 (4.66%) Python
4 7 (3.63%) JavaScript
5 5 (2.59%) C#
5 5 (2.59%) C++
5 5 (2.59%) Java
6 4 (2.07%) R
7 1 (0.52%) Bash
7 1 (0.52%) Go
Qualifications
1 20 (10.36%) Microsoft Certification
2 10 (5.18%) DBS Check
3 9 (4.66%) Degree
4 8 (4.15%) MCSE
5 5 (2.59%) A+ Certification
5 5 (2.59%) Network+ Certification
6 4 (2.07%) CCNA
6 4 (2.07%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (2.07%) Security Cleared
6 4 (2.07%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 3 (1.55%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.55%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 3 (1.55%) MCSA
8 2 (1.04%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.04%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.52%) HNC
9 1 (0.52%) HND
9 1 (0.52%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (10.36%) SLA
2 10 (5.18%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (2.07%) QA
System Software
1 99 (51.30%) Active Directory
2 47 (24.35%) Hyper-V
3 44 (22.80%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (6.22%) VMware ESXi
5 8 (4.15%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (3.63%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (1.04%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 2 (1.04%) Docker
7 2 (1.04%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 2 (1.04%) pfSense
7 2 (1.04%) Terminal Services
7 2 (1.04%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 33 (17.10%) Microsoft Intune
2 27 (13.99%) SCCM
3 3 (1.55%) Failover Clustering
3 3 (1.55%) Grafana
3 3 (1.55%) SCOM
4 2 (1.04%) Backup Exec
4 2 (1.04%) Jamf Pro
4 2 (1.04%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (1.04%) WSUS
Vendors
1 91 (47.15%) Microsoft
2 57 (29.53%) VMware
3 38 (19.69%) Cisco
4 20 (10.36%) Veeam
5 18 (9.33%) HP
6 16 (8.29%) Citrix
7 9 (4.66%) Dell
8 7 (3.63%) Meraki
8 7 (3.63%) Nimble Storage
8 7 (3.63%) Remedy
9 6 (3.11%) Fortinet
9 6 (3.11%) Zerto
10 5 (2.59%) ConnectWise
10 5 (2.59%) Mitel
11 4 (2.07%) Acronis
11 4 (2.07%) Apple
11 4 (2.07%) Aruba
11 4 (2.07%) Google
11 4 (2.07%) Ruckus Wireless
12 3 (1.55%) PagerDuty