IT Engineer Job Trends in the North West

IT Engineer
England > North West

The median IT Engineer salary in the North West is £32,940 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 July 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 201 114
Rank change year-on-year +115 -87 +61
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 200 35 191
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 1.78% 0.68% 1.86%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.87% 0.76% 1.95%
Number of salaries quoted 181 33 165
10th Percentile £26,000 £28,000 £22,614
25th Percentile £29,750 £29,500 £25,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,940 £32,500 £30,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.35% +8.33% -20.53%
75th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £42,500
90th Percentile £50,000 £55,750 £50,550
England median annual salary £35,000 £37,500 £33,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +11.94% -2.19%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 10,681 4,615 9,785
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.83% 89.65% 95.29%
Number of salaries quoted 8,039 2,411 7,372
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,055 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.88% +0.11% -9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £53,123
% change year-on-year +4.55% +3.53% -11.46%

IT Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'IT Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North West.

IT Engineer job vacancy trend in the North West

IT Engineer
Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for IT Engineer job vacancies in the North West.

Salary distribution trend for IT Engineer job vacancies 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 12 July 2026.

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 12 July 2026. 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
Lancashire +63 63 £32,000 -8.57% 8
Manchester +25 48 £35,000 +7.69% 3
Merseyside - 36 £35,500 - 1
Cheshire +33 28 £37,500 -31.82%
Cumbria 0 25 £30,000 -6.25% 1
IT Engineer
England

IT Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West

For the 6 months to 12 July 2026, IT Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the North West region featuring IT Engineer in the job title.

1 102 (51.00%) Microsoft
2 89 (44.50%) Microsoft 365
3 71 (35.50%) Windows
4 55 (27.50%) Azure
5 53 (26.50%) Active Directory
6 52 (26.00%) Problem-Solving
7 49 (24.50%) Customer Service
8 40 (20.00%) Windows Server
9 38 (19.00%) Firewall
10 33 (16.50%) Cybersecurity
10 33 (16.50%) Microsoft Intune
11 28 (14.00%) DNS
11 28 (14.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 28 (14.00%) SharePoint
12 26 (13.00%) Entra ID
12 26 (13.00%) Microsoft Exchange
12 26 (13.00%) Windows 10
13 23 (11.50%) DHCP
14 21 (10.50%) ITIL
15 20 (10.00%) VPN
16 17 (8.50%) Remote Monitoring and Management
17 16 (8.00%) Continuous Improvement
17 16 (8.00%) VoIP
18 15 (7.50%) VLAN
18 15 (7.50%) VMware
19 12 (6.00%) Cyber Essentials
19 12 (6.00%) Mentoring
19 12 (6.00%) Microsoft Office
19 12 (6.00%) User Experience
19 12 (6.00%) Wi-Fi

IT Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 28 (14.00%) SharePoint
2 26 (13.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.50%) Apache
3 3 (1.50%) IIS
Applications
1 12 (6.00%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (3.50%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.00%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.50%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 89 (44.50%) Microsoft 365
2 55 (27.50%) Azure
3 26 (13.00%) Entra ID
4 10 (5.00%) OneDrive
5 7 (3.50%) AWS
5 7 (3.50%) Google Workspace
6 6 (3.00%) SaaS
7 5 (2.50%) Intacct
8 4 (2.00%) Azure Sentinel
9 2 (1.00%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 38 (19.00%) Firewall
2 28 (14.00%) DNS
3 23 (11.50%) DHCP
4 20 (10.00%) VPN
5 16 (8.00%) VoIP
6 15 (7.50%) VLAN
7 12 (6.00%) Wi-Fi
8 10 (5.00%) TCP/IP
9 8 (4.00%) SD-WAN
9 8 (4.00%) WAN
10 4 (2.00%) SAN
11 2 (1.00%) Wireless
12 1 (0.50%) Cisco ISE
12 1 (0.50%) DMVPN
12 1 (0.50%) Ethernet
12 1 (0.50%) LAN
12 1 (0.50%) Remote Desktop
12 1 (0.50%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.50%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (1.50%) MySQL
1 3 (1.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (0.50%) JIRA
General
1 65 (32.50%) Social Skills
2 15 (7.50%) Organisational Skills
3 9 (4.50%) Finance
3 9 (4.50%) Manufacturing
4 7 (3.50%) Retail
5 5 (2.50%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (2.50%) Automotive
5 5 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (2.50%) Local Government
5 5 (2.50%) Multimedia
5 5 (2.50%) Public Sector
6 4 (2.00%) Aerospace
6 4 (2.00%) Banking
7 3 (1.50%) Advertising
8 1 (0.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.50%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.50%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 49 (24.50%) Driving Licence
2 16 (8.00%) Onboarding
3 8 (4.00%) CCTV
4 5 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (2.00%) Security Posture
6 3 (1.50%) FMCG
6 3 (1.50%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (1.50%) Microsoft Licensing
7 2 (1.00%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.00%) Educational Technology
7 2 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 71 (35.50%) Windows
2 40 (20.00%) Windows Server
3 26 (13.00%) Windows 10
4 7 (3.50%) Mac OS
4 7 (3.50%) Windows 7
4 7 (3.50%) Windows 8
5 6 (3.00%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (1.50%) Linux
6 3 (1.50%) Ubuntu
6 3 (1.50%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (26.00%) Problem-Solving
2 49 (24.50%) Customer Service
3 33 (16.50%) Cybersecurity
4 28 (14.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 21 (10.50%) ITIL
6 17 (8.50%) Remote Monitoring and Management
7 16 (8.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 12 (6.00%) Mentoring
8 12 (6.00%) User Experience
9 10 (5.00%) Proactive Maintenance
10 9 (4.50%) Incident Response
10 9 (4.50%) ITSM
10 9 (4.50%) Service Management
11 8 (4.00%) Change Management
11 8 (4.00%) Disaster Recovery
11 8 (4.00%) Service Delivery
12 6 (3.00%) Agile
12 6 (3.00%) Antivirus Management
12 6 (3.00%) CRM
12 6 (3.00%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 10 (5.00%) PowerShell
2 4 (2.00%) VBScript
3 2 (1.00%) Bash
Qualifications
1 10 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (2.50%) Azure Certification
2 5 (2.50%) Degree
3 4 (2.00%) Network+ Certification
3 4 (2.00%) SC Cleared
3 4 (2.00%) Security Cleared
4 2 (1.00%) CISSP
5 1 (0.50%) A+ Certification
5 1 (0.50%) CCA
5 1 (0.50%) CCNA
5 1 (0.50%) CCNP
5 1 (0.50%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (0.50%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (1.00%) NIST
3 1 (0.50%) SLA
System Software
1 53 (26.50%) Active Directory
2 11 (5.50%) Hyper-V
2 11 (5.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (3.50%) VMware Workstation
4 4 (2.00%) BitLocker
5 3 (1.50%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.50%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 33 (16.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 11 (5.50%) SCCM
3 7 (3.50%) Autotask
4 5 (2.50%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (1.50%) WSUS
6 1 (0.50%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 102 (51.00%) Microsoft
2 15 (7.50%) VMware
3 8 (4.00%) Google
4 7 (3.50%) ESET
5 6 (3.00%) CheckPoint
5 6 (3.00%) ServiceNow
6 5 (2.50%) Cisco
6 5 (2.50%) Fortinet
6 5 (2.50%) Fujitsu
6 5 (2.50%) Sage
6 5 (2.50%) Ubiquiti
6 5 (2.50%) Virgin Media
7 4 (2.00%) Draytek
8 3 (1.50%) Dell
8 3 (1.50%) HP
8 3 (1.50%) Meraki
8 3 (1.50%) NetApp
8 3 (1.50%) Palo Alto
8 3 (1.50%) SonicWALL
8 3 (1.50%) Veeam