IT Support Engineer Jobs in Cheshire

IT Support Engineer
North West > Cheshire

The median IT Support Engineer salary in Cheshire is £26,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 May 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
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 86 81 103
Rank change year-on-year -5 +22 -24
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Support Engineer 15 11 3
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 0.94% 1.22% 0.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.98% 1.37% 0.28%
Number of salaries quoted 13 11 3
10th Percentile £23,200 - £26,000
25th Percentile £25,000 £14,250 £27,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £26,000 £24,000 £30,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -20.00% +3.45%
75th Percentile £34,500 £36,875 -
90th Percentile £36,200 £38,750 -
North West median annual salary £26,000 £33,750 £28,500
% change year-on-year -22.96% +18.42% +3.64%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Cheshire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Cheshire. 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 Cheshire with a recognized job title 1,537 803 1,057
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.67% 89.12% 93.71%
Number of salaries quoted 1,152 472 551
10th Percentile £25,000 £25,267 £24,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £33,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.11% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £71,848 £88,750 £71,250
North West median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%

IT Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Support Engineer in Cheshire

IT Support Engineer
Salary Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing IT Support Engineer in Cheshire.

Salary trend for IT Support Engineer in Cheshire

IT Support Engineer
Salary Histogram in Cheshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing IT Support Engineer in Cheshire over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Salary histogram for IT Support Engineer in Cheshire

IT Support Engineer
Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IT Support Engineer within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 23 May 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
Warrington -25 4 £30,500 +7.96% 3
Middlewich - 3 £26,000 - 3
Chester +3 2 £26,000 +57.58% 1
Northwich -6 1 £36,000 -4.00%
Runcorn - 1 £30,000 -
Macclesfield - 1 £24,000 - 1
Winsford - 1 £23,500 -
IT Support Engineer
North West

IT Support Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire

For the 6 months to 23 May 2024, IT Support 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 Cheshire region featuring IT Support Engineer in the job title.

1 9 (60.00%) Windows
2 8 (53.33%) Microsoft
3 6 (40.00%) Active Directory
4 5 (33.33%) ITIL
4 5 (33.33%) VMware
5 4 (26.67%) VPN
5 4 (26.67%) Driving Licence
5 4 (26.67%) Windows 10
5 4 (26.67%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (20.00%) Windows Server
6 3 (20.00%) Customer Service
6 3 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (13.33%) SQL Server
7 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Office
7 2 (13.33%) VMS
7 2 (13.33%) Military
7 2 (13.33%) Retail
7 2 (13.33%) Software Testing
7 2 (13.33%) TCP/IP
7 2 (13.33%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
7 2 (13.33%) Firewall
7 2 (13.33%) Electronics
7 2 (13.33%) Finance
7 2 (13.33%) Decision-Making
7 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
7 2 (13.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (13.33%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
8 1 (6.67%) Hyper-V

IT Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 3 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (13.33%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (6.67%) Azure
2 1 (6.67%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 4 (26.67%) VPN
2 2 (13.33%) Firewall
2 2 (13.33%) TCP/IP
3 1 (6.67%) DHCP
3 1 (6.67%) DNS
3 1 (6.67%) LAN
3 1 (6.67%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (6.67%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (13.33%) Electronics
1 2 (13.33%) Finance
1 2 (13.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 2 (13.33%) Military
1 2 (13.33%) Retail
1 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Manufacturing
2 1 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Driving Licence
2 1 (6.67%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 9 (60.00%) Windows
2 4 (26.67%) Windows 10
3 3 (20.00%) Windows Server
4 2 (13.33%) VMS
5 1 (6.67%) Android
5 1 (6.67%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (33.33%) ITIL
2 3 (20.00%) Customer Service
3 2 (13.33%) Decision-Making
3 2 (13.33%) Software Testing
4 1 (6.67%) ERP
4 1 (6.67%) Incident Management
4 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Management
4 1 (6.67%) Migration
4 1 (6.67%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (6.67%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) CCNA
2 1 (6.67%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (6.67%) MCP
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (40.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (26.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (13.33%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (6.67%) Hyper-V
4 1 (6.67%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) SCCM
Vendors
1 8 (53.33%) Microsoft
2 5 (33.33%) VMware
3 1 (6.67%) SAP