Project Engineer Jobs in the West Midlands

Project Engineer
England > West Midlands

The median Project Engineer salary in the West Midlands is £39,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 152 218 241
Rank change year-on-year +66 +23 -6
Permanent jobs requiring a Project Engineer 48 32 31
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.07% 0.44% 0.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.20% 0.47% 0.52%
Number of salaries quoted 1 22 5
10th Percentile - £35,125 -
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,000 £49,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.41% +8.89% +20.00%
75th Percentile £40,500 £55,000 £48,750
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year - -5.26% +11.76%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 3,992 6,812 5,981
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.37% 94.09% 89.97%
Number of salaries quoted 1,797 5,151 3,348
10th Percentile £28,822 £26,250 £29,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £38,966
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,000 £77,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,773 £60,567
% change year-on-year +6.93% -11.22% +0.95%

Project Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Project Engineer in the West Midlands

Project Engineer
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for Project Engineer in the West Midlands

Project 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 Project Engineer within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 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
Walsall - 12 - - 2
Birmingham +42 11 - - 8
Solihull - 11 - -
Wolverhampton - 11 - -
Staffordshire +16 2 - - 10
Project Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Project 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 Project Engineer in the job title.

1 48 (100.00%) Manufacturing
2 45 (93.75%) Law
2 45 (93.75%) Logistic Engineering
2 45 (93.75%) Analytical Skills
2 45 (93.75%) Requirements Gathering
2 45 (93.75%) Business Case
2 45 (93.75%) Data Management
2 45 (93.75%) Data Analysis
2 45 (93.75%) Logistics
2 45 (93.75%) Degree
3 3 (6.25%) Microsoft
4 2 (4.17%) HP
4 2 (4.17%) Dell
4 2 (4.17%) Apple
4 2 (4.17%) Sophos
4 2 (4.17%) Firewall
4 2 (4.17%) ITIL
4 2 (4.17%) Windows
4 2 (4.17%) SharePoint
4 2 (4.17%) VPN
4 2 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (4.17%) Veeam
4 2 (4.17%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (4.17%) Operational Technology
4 2 (4.17%) Renewable Energy
4 2 (4.17%) Project Delivery
4 2 (4.17%) Windows Server
4 2 (4.17%) FortiGate
4 2 (4.17%) Stakeholder Management

Project 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 2 (4.17%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 2 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.17%) Firewall
1 2 (4.17%) VPN
General
1 48 (100.00%) Manufacturing
2 45 (93.75%) Analytical Skills
2 45 (93.75%) Law
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.17%) Operational Technology
1 2 (4.17%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.17%) Windows
1 2 (4.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (93.75%) Business Case
1 45 (93.75%) Data Analysis
1 45 (93.75%) Data Management
1 45 (93.75%) Logistic Engineering
1 45 (93.75%) Logistics
1 45 (93.75%) Requirements Gathering
2 2 (4.17%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (4.17%) ITIL
2 2 (4.17%) Project Delivery
2 2 (4.17%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 45 (93.75%) Degree
2 1 (2.08%) HNC
System Software
1 2 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (4.17%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 3 (6.25%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.17%) Apple
2 2 (4.17%) Dell
2 2 (4.17%) HP
2 2 (4.17%) Sophos
2 2 (4.17%) Veeam
2 2 (4.17%) VMware