IT Engineer Jobs in the West Midlands

IT Engineer
England > West Midlands

The median IT Engineer salary in the West Midlands is £35,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 20 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 96 159 157
Rank change year-on-year +63 -2 -72
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 186 113 140
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.48% 1.81% 1.89%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.63% 2.01% 1.99%
Number of salaries quoted 153 109 132
10th Percentile £25,000 £25,500 £23,550
25th Percentile £26,500 £26,250 £30,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £34,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.45% -13.75% +14.29%
75th Percentile £43,750 £43,750 £47,250
90th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £58,193
England median annual salary £32,500 £34,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year -5.80% -1.43% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 7,068 5,623 7,051
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.39% 90.14% 94.98%
Number of salaries quoted 5,273 3,232 4,781
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,966 £37,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,500 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £78,750
England median annual salary £53,000 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.83% +1.33% +9.09%

IT Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Engineer in the West Midlands

IT Engineer
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for IT Engineer in the West Midlands

IT Engineer
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing IT Engineer in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for IT Engineer in the West Midlands

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 IT Engineer within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 20 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
Staffordshire +4 55 £40,000 -9.60% 4
Birmingham +10 44 £30,250 -9.70% 6
Worcestershire -9 16 £30,500 +10.91% 2
Shropshire -5 14 £36,500 +40.38%
Warwickshire +43 11 £27,500 -38.89% 4
Wednesbury - 7 £30,000 -
Wolverhampton +22 4 £20,750 -3.49% 2
Walsall +18 3 - -
Coventry +11 2 £34,500 -25.41% 2
Solihull 0 2 £26,500 -10.17%
Halesowen -11 2 £27,500 -17.91%
Dudley - 1 £27,500 -
IT Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 20 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 West Midlands region featuring IT Engineer in the job title.

1 115 (61.83%) Windows
2 101 (54.30%) Microsoft 365
3 99 (53.23%) Active Directory
4 85 (45.70%) Microsoft
5 84 (45.16%) Azure
6 79 (42.47%) Windows Server
7 55 (29.57%) Social Skills
8 54 (29.03%) VMware
9 50 (26.88%) Firewall
10 46 (24.73%) Entra ID
11 45 (24.19%) Hyper-V
12 41 (22.04%) VMware Infrastructure
12 41 (22.04%) ITIL
13 37 (19.89%) Cisco
13 37 (19.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 34 (18.28%) Microsoft Exchange
15 33 (17.74%) Microsoft Intune
16 30 (16.13%) Problem-Solving
17 29 (15.59%) Windows Server 2012
18 28 (15.05%) SCCM
18 28 (15.05%) DHCP
18 28 (15.05%) DNS
19 26 (13.98%) Telecoms
19 26 (13.98%) Continuous Improvement
20 23 (12.37%) Windows 10
20 23 (12.37%) Law
20 23 (12.37%) Customer Service
21 22 (11.83%) VoIP
21 22 (11.83%) PowerShell
22 21 (11.29%) Veeam

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 34 (18.28%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (9.14%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.08%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 21 (11.29%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.54%) MIS ActiveH
Cloud Services
1 101 (54.30%) Microsoft 365
2 84 (45.16%) Azure
3 46 (24.73%) Entra ID
4 12 (6.45%) AWS
5 4 (2.15%) Google Workspace
6 2 (1.08%) Amazon S3
6 2 (1.08%) Mimecast
6 2 (1.08%) OneDrive
6 2 (1.08%) OpenDNS
7 1 (0.54%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 50 (26.88%) Firewall
2 28 (15.05%) DHCP
2 28 (15.05%) DNS
3 22 (11.83%) VoIP
4 19 (10.22%) SAN
5 12 (6.45%) Wi-Fi
6 10 (5.38%) PBX
7 8 (4.30%) TCP/IP
7 8 (4.30%) WAN
8 7 (3.76%) LAN
9 6 (3.23%) VLAN
9 6 (3.23%) VPN
10 5 (2.69%) Network Security
11 4 (2.15%) Wireshark
12 3 (1.61%) FlexRay
12 3 (1.61%) Internet
12 3 (1.61%) OSPF
13 2 (1.08%) EIGRP
13 2 (1.08%) IPsec
13 2 (1.08%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (4.84%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (2.69%) SQL Server
3 4 (2.15%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 3 (1.61%) LabVIEW
General
1 55 (29.57%) Social Skills
2 26 (13.98%) Telecoms
3 23 (12.37%) Law
4 11 (5.91%) Finance
5 10 (5.38%) Manufacturing
6 8 (4.30%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (2.69%) Public Sector
7 5 (2.69%) Retail
8 2 (1.08%) Electronics
8 2 (1.08%) Legal
8 2 (1.08%) Social Housing
9 1 (0.54%) Advertising
9 1 (0.54%) Automotive
9 1 (0.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.54%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.08%) LAMP
1 2 (1.08%) V-Ray
Miscellaneous
1 16 (8.60%) Self-Motivation
2 12 (6.45%) Replication
3 11 (5.91%) Fat Client
3 11 (5.91%) Thin Client
4 9 (4.84%) Driving Licence
5 5 (2.69%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.15%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.61%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.61%) Embedded Systems
7 3 (1.61%) IoT
7 3 (1.61%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.08%) Clustering
8 2 (1.08%) Housing Association
8 2 (1.08%) PKI
8 2 (1.08%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (0.54%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 115 (61.83%) Windows
2 79 (42.47%) Windows Server
3 29 (15.59%) Windows Server 2012
4 23 (12.37%) Windows 10
5 21 (11.29%) Windows Server 2016
6 16 (8.60%) Windows Server 2019
7 14 (7.53%) Linux
8 9 (4.84%) Mac OS
9 4 (2.15%) Unix
10 3 (1.61%) CentOS
11 1 (0.54%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.54%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.54%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.54%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (22.04%) ITIL
2 37 (19.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 30 (16.13%) Problem-Solving
4 26 (13.98%) Continuous Improvement
5 23 (12.37%) Customer Service
6 20 (10.75%) Service Delivery
7 18 (9.68%) Agile
7 18 (9.68%) Proactive Monitoring
8 11 (5.91%) Break/Fix
8 11 (5.91%) Change Management
8 11 (5.91%) Migration
8 11 (5.91%) Project Planning
9 10 (5.38%) Asset Management
9 10 (5.38%) High Availability
9 10 (5.38%) Project Delivery
10 8 (4.30%) Server Management
10 8 (4.30%) Time Management
11 7 (3.76%) Cybersecurity
11 7 (3.76%) DevOps
11 7 (3.76%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 22 (11.83%) PowerShell
2 17 (9.14%) SQL
3 10 (5.38%) Python
4 7 (3.76%) JavaScript
5 5 (2.69%) C#
5 5 (2.69%) C++
5 5 (2.69%) Java
6 4 (2.15%) R
7 1 (0.54%) Bash
7 1 (0.54%) Go
Qualifications
1 21 (11.29%) Microsoft Certification
2 10 (5.38%) DBS Check
3 9 (4.84%) Degree
3 9 (4.84%) MCSE
4 5 (2.69%) A+ Certification
4 5 (2.69%) CCNA
4 5 (2.69%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (2.69%) Network+ Certification
5 3 (1.61%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 2 (1.08%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.08%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (1.08%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 2 (1.08%) MCSA
7 1 (0.54%) CCNP
7 1 (0.54%) HNC
7 1 (0.54%) HND
7 1 (0.54%) MCP
7 1 (0.54%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.54%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (8.60%) SLA
2 10 (5.38%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (2.15%) QA
System Software
1 99 (53.23%) Active Directory
2 45 (24.19%) Hyper-V
3 41 (22.04%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (6.99%) VMware ESXi
5 8 (4.30%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (2.69%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (1.08%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 2 (1.08%) Docker
7 2 (1.08%) pfSense
7 2 (1.08%) Terminal Services
7 2 (1.08%) VMware Workstation
8 1 (0.54%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 33 (17.74%) Microsoft Intune
2 28 (15.05%) SCCM
3 4 (2.15%) Grafana
4 2 (1.08%) Backup Exec
4 2 (1.08%) Failover Clustering
4 2 (1.08%) SCOM
Vendors
1 85 (45.70%) Microsoft
2 54 (29.03%) VMware
3 37 (19.89%) Cisco
4 21 (11.29%) Veeam
5 16 (8.60%) Citrix
6 15 (8.06%) HP
7 7 (3.76%) Nimble Storage
7 7 (3.76%) Remedy
8 6 (3.23%) Dell
8 6 (3.23%) Fortinet
8 6 (3.23%) Zerto
9 5 (2.69%) ConnectWise
9 5 (2.69%) Meraki
9 5 (2.69%) Mitel
10 4 (2.15%) Acronis
10 4 (2.15%) Aruba
10 4 (2.15%) Dynatrace
10 4 (2.15%) Google
10 4 (2.15%) PagerDuty
10 4 (2.15%) Ruckus Wireless