IT Engineer Jobs in the Midlands

IT Engineer
England > Midlands

The median IT Engineer salary in the Midlands is £35,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 79 147 169
Rank change year-on-year +68 +22 -44
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 440 178 220
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 3.13% 2.10% 1.90%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.33% 2.34% 2.01%
Number of salaries quoted 310 148 209
10th Percentile £24,000 £25,500 £22,950
25th Percentile £27,500 £26,250 £29,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £32,500 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -13.33% +7.14%
75th Percentile £43,750 £42,750 £47,500
90th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £57,500
England median annual salary £33,000 £34,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% -1.43% -0.71%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the 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 Midlands with a recognized job title 13,212 7,602 10,970
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.08% 89.51% 94.90%
Number of salaries quoted 9,398 4,488 7,088
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,750 £27,750
25th Percentile £34,834 £37,500 £37,371
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +9.89%
75th Percentile £60,741 £67,200 £63,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,713 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.53% +1.19% +9.09%

IT Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Engineer in the Midlands

IT Engineer
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for IT Engineer in the Midlands

IT Engineer
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing IT Engineer in the Midlands over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for IT Engineer in the Midlands

IT Engineer
Job Locations in the 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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 12 June 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
West Midlands +65 236 £35,000 +1.45% 25
East Midlands +57 200 £37,250 +33.04% 28
IT Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 12 June 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 Midlands region featuring IT Engineer in the job title.

1 277 (62.95%) Windows
2 208 (47.27%) Microsoft
3 173 (39.32%) Microsoft 365
4 165 (37.50%) Active Directory
5 138 (31.36%) Windows Server
5 138 (31.36%) Problem-Solving
6 137 (31.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 136 (30.91%) Azure
8 122 (27.73%) ITIL
9 119 (27.05%) Cisco
10 97 (22.05%) VMware
11 91 (20.68%) Microsoft Certification
12 90 (20.45%) Linux
13 87 (19.77%) Social Skills
14 86 (19.55%) Driving Licence
15 78 (17.73%) Degree
16 77 (17.50%) MCSE
16 77 (17.50%) Internet
17 75 (17.05%) Asset Management
18 74 (16.82%) Network Security
18 74 (16.82%) Cisco Certification
18 74 (16.82%) CCNA
19 73 (16.59%) Firewall
20 71 (16.14%) Entra ID
21 70 (15.91%) Onboarding
22 69 (15.68%) Computer Science
23 68 (15.45%) Hyper-V
24 67 (15.23%) Network Management
24 67 (15.23%) VMware Infrastructure
24 67 (15.23%) Computer Science Degree

IT Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the 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 52 (11.82%) Microsoft Exchange
2 44 (10.00%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.68%) IIS
4 2 (0.45%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 33 (7.50%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.23%) MIS ActiveH
Cloud Services
1 173 (39.32%) Microsoft 365
2 136 (30.91%) Azure
3 71 (16.14%) Entra ID
4 15 (3.41%) AWS
5 9 (2.05%) Mimecast
6 8 (1.82%) Nutanix
7 6 (1.36%) Google Workspace
8 3 (0.68%) OneDrive
9 2 (0.45%) Amazon S3
9 2 (0.45%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (0.45%) ClickUp
9 2 (0.45%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (0.45%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (0.45%) OpenDNS
Communications & Networking
1 77 (17.50%) Internet
2 74 (16.82%) Network Security
3 73 (16.59%) Firewall
4 66 (15.00%) DNS
4 66 (15.00%) WLAN
5 58 (13.18%) DHCP
6 42 (9.55%) Wi-Fi
7 37 (8.41%) TCP/IP
8 22 (5.00%) VoIP
8 22 (5.00%) WAN
9 21 (4.77%) SAN
9 21 (4.77%) VLAN
10 14 (3.18%) LAN
11 10 (2.27%) Wireless
12 9 (2.05%) PBX
12 9 (2.05%) VPN
13 8 (1.82%) SD-WAN
14 5 (1.14%) Broadband
15 4 (0.91%) Wireshark
16 3 (0.68%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (2.05%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (1.14%) SQL Server
3 4 (0.91%) InfluxDB
4 1 (0.23%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (0.68%) LabVIEW
2 2 (0.45%) JIRA
2 2 (0.45%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 87 (19.77%) Social Skills
2 34 (7.73%) Telecoms
3 23 (5.23%) Law
4 19 (4.32%) Finance
5 14 (3.18%) Manufacturing
6 13 (2.95%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (1.36%) Automotive
8 5 (1.14%) Aerospace
8 5 (1.14%) Public Sector
8 5 (1.14%) Retail
9 4 (0.91%) Legal
10 3 (0.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.45%) Electronics
11 2 (0.45%) Games
11 2 (0.45%) Marketing
11 2 (0.45%) Social Housing
12 1 (0.23%) Advertising
12 1 (0.23%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (0.45%) LAMP
1 2 (0.45%) Loki
1 2 (0.45%) V-Ray
1 2 (0.45%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 86 (19.55%) Driving Licence
2 70 (15.91%) Onboarding
3 26 (5.91%) Data Centre
4 20 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
5 17 (3.86%) CCTV
6 12 (2.73%) Replication
7 11 (2.50%) Fat Client
7 11 (2.50%) Thin Client
8 5 (1.14%) Management Information System
9 4 (0.91%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (0.68%) Embedded Systems
10 3 (0.68%) IoT
10 3 (0.68%) Operational Technology
11 2 (0.45%) Housing Association
11 2 (0.45%) PKI
11 2 (0.45%) Renewable Energy
12 1 (0.23%) Educational Technology
12 1 (0.23%) Enterprise Cloud
12 1 (0.23%) Hybrid Cloud
12 1 (0.23%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 277 (62.95%) Windows
2 138 (31.36%) Windows Server
3 90 (20.45%) Linux
4 33 (7.50%) Windows Server 2016
5 29 (6.59%) Windows Server 2012
6 26 (5.91%) Windows 10
6 26 (5.91%) Windows Server 2019
7 9 (2.05%) Mac OS
8 4 (0.91%) CentOS
9 2 (0.45%) Unix
9 2 (0.45%) VMS
10 1 (0.23%) Android
10 1 (0.23%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.23%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.23%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.23%) Windows 7
10 1 (0.23%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 138 (31.36%) Problem-Solving
2 137 (31.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 122 (27.73%) ITIL
4 75 (17.05%) Asset Management
5 69 (15.68%) Computer Science
6 67 (15.23%) Network Management
7 66 (15.00%) IT Asset Management
8 65 (14.77%) Mentoring
9 54 (12.27%) Customer Service
10 52 (11.82%) Cybersecurity
11 36 (8.18%) Continuous Improvement
12 26 (5.91%) Migration
13 24 (5.45%) Disaster Recovery
14 22 (5.00%) Agile
15 21 (4.77%) Service Delivery
16 20 (4.55%) Proactive Monitoring
17 14 (3.18%) Change Management
18 13 (2.95%) Preventative Maintenance
19 12 (2.73%) ERP
19 12 (2.73%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 23 (5.23%) PowerShell
2 19 (4.32%) SQL
3 14 (3.18%) Python
4 8 (1.82%) C++
4 8 (1.82%) Java
5 7 (1.59%) JavaScript
6 5 (1.14%) C#
7 4 (0.91%) R
8 3 (0.68%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.23%) Bash
9 1 (0.23%) Go
9 1 (0.23%) Perl
9 1 (0.23%) Swift
Qualifications
1 91 (20.68%) Microsoft Certification
2 78 (17.73%) Degree
3 77 (17.50%) MCSE
4 74 (16.82%) CCNA
4 74 (16.82%) Cisco Certification
5 67 (15.23%) Computer Science Degree
6 66 (15.00%) CCNP
6 66 (15.00%) MCP
7 65 (14.77%) LPIC
8 12 (2.73%) DBS Check
9 6 (1.36%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 5 (1.14%) A+ Certification
10 5 (1.14%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 5 (1.14%) Network+ Certification
11 4 (0.91%) Azure Certification
12 2 (0.45%) CCA
12 2 (0.45%) CCDA
12 2 (0.45%) Citrix Certification
12 2 (0.45%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.23%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (3.86%) SLA
2 12 (2.73%) Cyber Essentials
3 6 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (0.91%) QA
5 2 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (0.45%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.23%) GDPR
6 1 (0.23%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 165 (37.50%) Active Directory
2 68 (15.45%) Hyper-V
3 67 (15.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (2.73%) VMware ESXi
5 11 (2.50%) Virtual Machines
6 9 (2.05%) Virtual Servers
7 6 (1.36%) vSphere
8 4 (0.91%) Terminal Services
9 2 (0.45%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 2 (0.45%) Docker
9 2 (0.45%) pfSense
9 2 (0.45%) VMware Workstation
10 1 (0.23%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 59 (13.41%) Microsoft Intune
2 32 (7.27%) SCCM
3 4 (0.91%) Grafana
4 2 (0.45%) Backup Exec
4 2 (0.45%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.45%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.45%) Terraform
5 1 (0.23%) Check_MK
5 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Clustering
5 1 (0.23%) SCOM
Vendors
1 208 (47.27%) Microsoft
2 119 (27.05%) Cisco
3 97 (22.05%) VMware
4 36 (8.18%) Veeam
5 18 (4.09%) Meraki
6 17 (3.86%) HP
7 15 (3.41%) Citrix
8 14 (3.18%) Acronis
9 8 (1.82%) Dell
9 8 (1.82%) Fortinet
10 7 (1.59%) Apple
10 7 (1.59%) Nasuni
10 7 (1.59%) Nimble Storage
10 7 (1.59%) Rapid7
10 7 (1.59%) Remedy
10 7 (1.59%) Zerto
11 6 (1.36%) Google
12 5 (1.14%) Aruba
12 5 (1.14%) ConnectWise
12 5 (1.14%) Mitel