Technical Engineer Job Trends in Wigan

Technical Engineer
Manchester > Wigan

As of 13 October 2026, there is not enough information available from job vacancies posted within the last 6 months to determine the median Technical Engineer salary in Wigan.

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Wigan 2.50% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 3.23% - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - -
Manchester median annual salary £55,000 £33,750 £38,750
% change year-on-year +62.96% -12.90% +3.33%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Wigan

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Wigan. 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 Wigan with a recognized job title 31 33 48
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 77.50% 66.00% 96.00%
Number of salaries quoted 21 16 22
10th Percentile £27,577 - £26,300
25th Percentile £31,020 £24,930 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £31,151 £38,500
Median % change year-on-year +20.38% -19.09% +13.63%
75th Percentile £60,000 £37,813 £49,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £46,250 £57,125
Manchester median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% -8.33%

Technical Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Wigan

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 Wigan.

Technical Engineer job vacancy trend in Wigan

Technical Engineer Skill Set
Top 20 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wigan

For the 6 months to 13 October 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 Wigan region featuring Technical Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Culture
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) Domain-Driven Design
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Front End Development
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Refactoring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) User Stories

Technical Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wigan 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Culture
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Domain-Driven Design
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Front End Development
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Refactoring
1 1 (100.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes