IT Engineer Jobs in the North West

IT Engineer
England > North West

The median IT Engineer salary in the North West is £30,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 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
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 128 175 250
Rank change year-on-year +47 +75 -89
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 203 119 93
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 1.78% 1.64% 0.94%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.87% 1.83% 0.98%
Number of salaries quoted 174 63 87
10th Percentile £22,614 £23,750 £23,079
25th Percentile £25,000 £25,875 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,000 £37,500 £35,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +5.63% -5.33%
75th Percentile £41,750 £47,500 £44,000
90th Percentile £50,250 £73,000 £51,250
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
North West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the North West. 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 North West with a recognized job title 10,836 6,498 9,523
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.00% 89.52% 95.96%
Number of salaries quoted 8,080 3,977 5,427
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,500 £28,250
25th Percentile £36,500 £41,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,500 £81,250 £81,250
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 North West

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Engineer in the North West

IT Engineer
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for IT Engineer in the North West

IT Engineer
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing IT Engineer in the North West over the 6 months to 13 June 2024.

Salary histogram for IT Engineer in the North West

IT Engineer
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IT Engineer within the North West region over the 6 months to 13 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
Manchester +60 83 £31,000 -22.50% 13
Lancashire +8 46 £24,000 -2.04% 10
Cheshire -5 46 £35,000 -6.67% 14
Merseyside -1 17 £27,500 -29.49% 10
Cumbria -5 10 £33,500 -4.29% 1
IT Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 13 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 North West region featuring IT Engineer in the job title.

1 86 (42.36%) Active Directory
2 81 (39.90%) Microsoft
3 72 (35.47%) Windows
4 68 (33.50%) Microsoft 365
5 61 (30.05%) Social Skills
6 53 (26.11%) Problem-Solving
7 50 (24.63%) Azure
8 45 (22.17%) ITIL
9 42 (20.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 36 (17.73%) VMware
11 35 (17.24%) Firewall
12 28 (13.79%) Windows Server
13 25 (12.32%) Microsoft Intune
13 25 (12.32%) Windows 10
13 25 (12.32%) Project Management
13 25 (12.32%) Finance
14 24 (11.82%) Analytical Skills
15 23 (11.33%) VMware Infrastructure
16 22 (10.84%) Microsoft Office
16 22 (10.84%) Cisco
17 21 (10.34%) SQL
17 21 (10.34%) Hyper-V
17 21 (10.34%) Customer Service
18 20 (9.85%) Entra ID
19 18 (8.87%) DNS
20 17 (8.37%) Migration
20 17 (8.37%) PowerShell
20 17 (8.37%) Organisational Skills
21 15 (7.39%) Stakeholder Management
21 15 (7.39%) Wi-Fi

IT Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 11 (5.42%) SharePoint
2 9 (4.43%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.99%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 1 (0.49%) Site Server
4 1 (0.49%) WordPress
Applications
1 22 (10.84%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.99%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 68 (33.50%) Microsoft 365
2 50 (24.63%) Azure
3 20 (9.85%) Entra ID
4 11 (5.42%) AWS
5 10 (4.93%) Power Platform
5 10 (4.93%) PowerApps
6 7 (3.45%) OneDrive
6 7 (3.45%) Power Automate
7 3 (1.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (1.48%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 3 (1.48%) AWS CloudTrail
7 3 (1.48%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (1.48%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (1.48%) Dropbox
7 3 (1.48%) Google Drive
8 2 (0.99%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (0.49%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 35 (17.24%) Firewall
2 18 (8.87%) DNS
3 15 (7.39%) Wi-Fi
4 13 (6.40%) VoIP
5 12 (5.91%) DHCP
6 10 (4.93%) SAN
7 8 (3.94%) LAN
7 8 (3.94%) Wireless
8 7 (3.45%) Remote Desktop
8 7 (3.45%) VPN
9 6 (2.96%) NAS
9 6 (2.96%) WLAN
10 5 (2.46%) Internet
11 4 (1.97%) Intrusion Detection
11 4 (1.97%) TCP/IP
11 4 (1.97%) VLAN
11 4 (1.97%) WAN
12 3 (1.48%) MPLS
12 3 (1.48%) Network Security
13 2 (0.99%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (7.39%) SQL Server
2 12 (5.91%) MySQL
3 2 (0.99%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (0.99%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
1 2 (0.99%) Visual Studio
General
1 61 (30.05%) Social Skills
2 25 (12.32%) Finance
3 24 (11.82%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (8.37%) Organisational Skills
5 15 (7.39%) Retail
6 9 (4.43%) Manufacturing
7 6 (2.96%) Public Sector
8 5 (2.46%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.97%) Marketing
9 4 (1.97%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (1.48%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.99%) Electronics
11 2 (0.99%) Military
12 1 (0.49%) Advertising
12 1 (0.49%) Law
12 1 (0.49%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.49%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 10 (4.93%) EPoS
2 9 (4.43%) Driving Licence
3 8 (3.94%) Data Centre
3 8 (3.94%) Management Information System
3 8 (3.94%) Onboarding
4 4 (1.97%) CCTV
4 4 (1.97%) Cyber Threat
4 4 (1.97%) Cyberattack
4 4 (1.97%) Public Cloud
4 4 (1.97%) Security Posture
4 4 (1.97%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (1.48%) Fat Client
5 3 (1.48%) iPad
5 3 (1.48%) Thin Client
6 2 (0.99%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.49%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (0.49%) Replication
7 1 (0.49%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 72 (35.47%) Windows
2 28 (13.79%) Windows Server
3 25 (12.32%) Windows 10
4 11 (5.42%) Android
4 11 (5.42%) Apple iOS
5 9 (4.43%) Linux
6 6 (2.96%) Windows Server 2012
6 6 (2.96%) Windows Server 2016
7 5 (2.46%) Mac OS
8 4 (1.97%) Debian
8 4 (1.97%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.99%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (26.11%) Problem-Solving
2 45 (22.17%) ITIL
3 42 (20.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 25 (12.32%) Project Management
5 21 (10.34%) Customer Service
6 17 (8.37%) Migration
7 15 (7.39%) Stakeholder Management
8 14 (6.90%) Service Management
9 13 (6.40%) Infrastructure Management
10 11 (5.42%) CRM
11 10 (4.93%) Disaster Recovery
11 10 (4.93%) Information Security
11 10 (4.93%) Mathematics
12 9 (4.43%) Creative Problem-Solving
12 9 (4.43%) Data Privacy
12 9 (4.43%) Logistics
13 8 (3.94%) Cybersecurity
13 8 (3.94%) IT Strategy
13 8 (3.94%) Storage Management
14 7 (3.45%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 21 (10.34%) SQL
2 17 (8.37%) PowerShell
3 9 (4.43%) Swift
4 6 (2.96%) PHP
5 3 (1.48%) Bash
5 3 (1.48%) Python
Qualifications
1 12 (5.91%) DBS Check
1 12 (5.91%) Degree
2 5 (2.46%) Security Cleared
3 4 (1.97%) AWS Certification
3 4 (1.97%) CISA
3 4 (1.97%) CISSP
3 4 (1.97%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (1.48%) SC Cleared
5 2 (0.99%) Azure Certification
5 2 (0.99%) CCNA
5 2 (0.99%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (0.99%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.49%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (0.49%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (1.97%) GDPR
2 4 (1.97%) SOC 2
3 3 (1.48%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (1.48%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 3 (1.48%) NIST
3 3 (1.48%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.49%) ISO 13485
4 1 (0.49%) ISO 9001
4 1 (0.49%) SLA
System Software
1 86 (42.36%) Active Directory
2 23 (11.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (10.34%) Hyper-V
4 10 (4.93%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (1.48%) vSphere
6 2 (0.99%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.49%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 25 (12.32%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (1.97%) Nessus
3 3 (1.48%) SCCM
4 2 (0.99%) Grafana
4 2 (0.99%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.99%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 2 (0.99%) vRealize
Vendors
1 81 (39.90%) Microsoft
2 36 (17.73%) VMware
3 22 (10.84%) Cisco
4 12 (5.91%) Citrix
4 12 (5.91%) Sophos
4 12 (5.91%) Veeam
5 9 (4.43%) ESET
6 7 (3.45%) HP
7 6 (2.96%) Aruba
7 6 (2.96%) Dell
8 5 (2.46%) Datto
8 5 (2.46%) NetApp
8 5 (2.46%) Ubiquiti
9 4 (1.97%) CA
9 4 (1.97%) Extreme Networks
9 4 (1.97%) Fortinet
9 4 (1.97%) Meraki
10 3 (1.48%) Draytek
10 3 (1.48%) Google
10 3 (1.48%) SolarWinds