IT Engineer Jobs in Manchester

IT Engineer
North West > Manchester

The median IT Engineer salary in Manchester is £30,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 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
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 147 201 205
Rank change year-on-year +54 +4 -53
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 78 41 56
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 1.44% 0.88% 0.98%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.52% 0.95% 1.01%
Number of salaries quoted 75 35 50
10th Percentile £24,250 £25,800 £23,900
25th Percentile £27,750 £32,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £40,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.75% - +6.67%
75th Percentile £45,000 £51,125 £44,725
90th Percentile £62,500 £71,000 £49,000
North West median annual salary £30,000 £37,500 £35,500
% change year-on-year -20.00% +5.63% -5.33%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Manchester

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Manchester. 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 Manchester with a recognized job title 5,115 4,304 5,539
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.58% 92.06% 96.87%
Number of salaries quoted 3,925 2,573 3,614
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £31,588
25th Percentile £40,988 £42,874 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,159 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.55% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £81,150 £82,500 £85,000
North West median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%

IT Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Engineer in Manchester

IT Engineer
Salary Trend in Manchester

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

Salary trend for IT Engineer in Manchester

IT Engineer
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing IT Engineer in Manchester over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for IT Engineer in Manchester

IT Engineer
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IT Engineer within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 28 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
Stockport +31 10 £60,000 +77.78% 1
Wigan +9 5 £25,000 -41.18%
Salford +17 1 £28,500 -5.00%
Bury - 1 £16,700 -
IT Engineer
North West

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

For the 6 months to 28 May 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 Manchester region featuring IT Engineer in the job title.

1 45 (57.69%) Active Directory
2 44 (56.41%) Microsoft 365
3 37 (47.44%) Microsoft
4 34 (43.59%) Windows
5 31 (39.74%) Social Skills
6 27 (34.62%) Azure
7 22 (28.21%) Firewall
8 21 (26.92%) VMware
9 19 (24.36%) Windows 10
9 19 (24.36%) Problem-Solving
9 19 (24.36%) Microsoft Intune
10 18 (23.08%) ITIL
11 16 (20.51%) Hyper-V
11 16 (20.51%) VMware Infrastructure
12 14 (17.95%) Project Management
12 14 (17.95%) Windows Server
13 13 (16.67%) Entra ID
13 13 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
13 13 (16.67%) Cisco
14 12 (15.38%) Wi-Fi
15 11 (14.10%) Finance
15 11 (14.10%) Citrix
15 11 (14.10%) PowerShell
15 11 (14.10%) AWS
16 10 (12.82%) Degree
16 10 (12.82%) EPoS
16 10 (12.82%) Customer Service
16 10 (12.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 9 (11.54%) Sophos
17 9 (11.54%) Microsoft Office

IT Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 7 (8.97%) SharePoint
2 4 (5.13%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.28%) Site Server
Applications
1 9 (11.54%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.28%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 44 (56.41%) Microsoft 365
2 27 (34.62%) Azure
3 13 (16.67%) Entra ID
4 11 (14.10%) AWS
5 7 (8.97%) Power Automate
5 7 (8.97%) Power Platform
5 7 (8.97%) PowerApps
6 4 (5.13%) OneDrive
7 3 (3.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (3.85%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 3 (3.85%) AWS CloudTrail
8 2 (2.56%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (1.28%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (1.28%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 22 (28.21%) Firewall
2 12 (15.38%) Wi-Fi
3 8 (10.26%) SAN
4 7 (8.97%) DNS
5 6 (7.69%) NAS
6 5 (6.41%) LAN
7 4 (5.13%) VLAN
7 4 (5.13%) WLAN
8 3 (3.85%) DHCP
8 3 (3.85%) Remote Desktop
8 3 (3.85%) Wireless
9 2 (2.56%) Internet
9 2 (2.56%) TCP/IP
10 1 (1.28%) Network Security
10 1 (1.28%) Unified Communications
10 1 (1.28%) VPN
10 1 (1.28%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.69%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.56%) Amazon RDS
General
1 31 (39.74%) Social Skills
2 13 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
3 11 (14.10%) Finance
4 9 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.85%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.28%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.28%) Marketing
7 1 (1.28%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.28%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.82%) EPoS
2 8 (10.26%) Onboarding
3 6 (7.69%) Management Information System
4 4 (5.13%) Public Cloud
4 4 (5.13%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (3.85%) Data Centre
6 2 (2.56%) CCTV
6 2 (2.56%) Driving Licence
7 1 (1.28%) Replication
7 1 (1.28%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 34 (43.59%) Windows
2 19 (24.36%) Windows 10
3 14 (17.95%) Windows Server
4 5 (6.41%) Linux
4 5 (6.41%) Mac OS
5 4 (5.13%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (1.28%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (1.28%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (24.36%) Problem-Solving
2 18 (23.08%) ITIL
3 14 (17.95%) Project Management
4 10 (12.82%) Customer Service
4 10 (12.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 8 (10.26%) CRM
6 7 (8.97%) Migration
7 6 (7.69%) Antivirus Management
7 6 (7.69%) Data Privacy
7 6 (7.69%) Incident Response
7 6 (7.69%) Information Security
7 6 (7.69%) Risk Management
7 6 (7.69%) Security Operations
7 6 (7.69%) Server Management
7 6 (7.69%) Storage Management
8 5 (6.41%) Service Management
9 4 (5.13%) Biometrics
9 4 (5.13%) Disaster Recovery
9 4 (5.13%) High Availability
9 4 (5.13%) Kalman Filter
Programming Languages
1 11 (14.10%) PowerShell
2 6 (7.69%) PHP
2 6 (7.69%) SQL
3 3 (3.85%) Bash
3 3 (3.85%) Python
Qualifications
1 10 (12.82%) Degree
2 4 (5.13%) AWS Certification
2 4 (5.13%) DBS Check
3 1 (1.28%) CCNA
3 1 (1.28%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (1.28%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 1 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (5.13%) GDPR
3 3 (3.85%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 3 (3.85%) NIST
3 3 (3.85%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.28%) ISO 13485
4 1 (1.28%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 45 (57.69%) Active Directory
2 16 (20.51%) Hyper-V
2 16 (20.51%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (5.13%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (2.56%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (1.28%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 19 (24.36%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (2.56%) Grafana
2 2 (2.56%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.28%) SCCM
Vendors
1 37 (47.44%) Microsoft
2 21 (26.92%) VMware
3 13 (16.67%) Cisco
4 11 (14.10%) Citrix
5 9 (11.54%) Sophos
6 8 (10.26%) Veeam
7 6 (7.69%) Aruba
7 6 (7.69%) ESET
8 4 (5.13%) Dell
8 4 (5.13%) Extreme Networks
8 4 (5.13%) Fortinet
8 4 (5.13%) Meraki
9 3 (3.85%) NetApp
10 2 (2.56%) CheckPoint
10 2 (2.56%) F5
10 2 (2.56%) HP
10 2 (2.56%) Ruckus Wireless
10 2 (2.56%) Ubiquiti
10 2 (2.56%) WatchGuard
10 2 (2.56%) Zscaler