Senior IT Engineer Jobs in the West Midlands

Senior IT Engineer
England > West Midlands

The median Senior IT Engineer salary in the West Midlands is £46,750 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 257 239 294
Rank change year-on-year -18 +55 -56
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior IT Engineer 6 14 14
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.070% 0.24% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.075% 0.27% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 6 14 13
10th Percentile £32,000 £30,277 £33,500
25th Percentile £34,000 £38,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,750 £40,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.43% -26.36% +29.41%
75th Percentile £61,563 £43,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £63,125 £47,500 £83,000
England median annual salary £47,500 £46,250 £48,000
% change year-on-year +2.70% -3.65% +12.94%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the West 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 West Midlands with a recognized job title 8,050 5,197 7,395
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.91% 89.93% 94.70%
Number of salaries quoted 5,794 3,200 4,854
10th Percentile £26,500 £30,000 £29,256
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,713 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.53% +1.19% +9.09%

Senior IT Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior IT Engineer in the West Midlands

Senior IT Engineer
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for Senior IT Engineer in the West Midlands

Senior IT Engineer
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Salary histogram for Senior IT Engineer in the West Midlands

Senior IT Engineer
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior IT Engineer within the West 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
Birmingham -18 5 £57,500 +41.98%
Senior IT Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, Senior 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 West Midlands region featuring Senior IT Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Azure
2 5 (83.33%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (83.33%) Microsoft
3 4 (66.67%) Active Directory
3 4 (66.67%) DHCP
3 4 (66.67%) DNS
3 4 (66.67%) Windows
3 4 (66.67%) Windows Server
3 4 (66.67%) Windows Server 2016
3 4 (66.67%) Windows Server 2019
4 3 (50.00%) Customer Service
4 3 (50.00%) Entra ID
4 3 (50.00%) VMware
4 3 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (33.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 2 (33.33%) Logistics
5 2 (33.33%) WatchGuard
5 2 (33.33%) SCCM
5 2 (33.33%) Service Management
5 2 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (33.33%) SharePoint
5 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (33.33%) Cisco
5 2 (33.33%) Commvault
5 2 (33.33%) Data Centre
5 2 (33.33%) Windows 10
5 2 (33.33%) Multi-Factor Authentication
5 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (33.33%) Meraki

Senior IT Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West 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 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (33.33%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) Azure
2 5 (83.33%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (50.00%) Entra ID
4 2 (33.33%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 4 (66.67%) DHCP
1 4 (66.67%) DNS
2 1 (16.67%) Network Security
2 1 (16.67%) SD-WAN
2 1 (16.67%) WAN
2 1 (16.67%) Wi-Fi
General
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Data Centre
1 2 (33.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Windows
1 4 (66.67%) Windows Server
1 4 (66.67%) Windows Server 2016
1 4 (66.67%) Windows Server 2019
2 2 (33.33%) Windows 10
2 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Customer Service
2 2 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (33.33%) Logistics
2 2 (33.33%) Multi-Factor Authentication
2 2 (33.33%) Project Delivery
2 2 (33.33%) Service Management
3 1 (16.67%) Business Strategy
3 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
3 1 (16.67%) Data Security
3 1 (16.67%) Network Architecture
3 1 (16.67%) Network Design
3 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (16.67%) Degree
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 3 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (16.67%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (33.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Microsoft
2 3 (50.00%) VMware
3 2 (33.33%) Acronis
3 2 (33.33%) Aruba
3 2 (33.33%) Cisco
3 2 (33.33%) Commvault
3 2 (33.33%) Meraki
3 2 (33.33%) Veeam
3 2 (33.33%) WatchGuard
3 2 (33.33%) Zerto
4 1 (16.67%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (16.67%) Okta