Technical Engineer Jobs in the West Midlands

Technical Engineer
England > West Midlands

The median Technical Engineer salary in the West Midlands is £35,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 June 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
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 180 239 275
Rank change year-on-year +59 +36 -47
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Engineer 78 9 15
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.97% 0.15% 0.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.03% 0.17% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 65 9 13
10th Percentile £27,500 - £32,097
25th Percentile £29,000 £26,500 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £34,500 £43,118
Median % change year-on-year +1.45% -19.99% +26.82%
75th Percentile £47,500 £53,750 £48,750
90th Percentile £61,250 £59,500 -
England median annual salary £35,000 £45,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year -22.22% +28.57% -4.11%

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 7,595 5,244 7,218
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.57% 89.96% 94.97%
Number of salaries quoted 5,608 3,236 4,815
10th Percentile £26,250 £29,750 £29,453
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,756
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 £60,567 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.32% +0.95% +9.09%

Technical Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Engineer in the West Midlands

Technical Engineer
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for Technical Engineer in the West Midlands

Technical Engineer
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Technical Engineer in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Technical Engineer in the West Midlands

Technical 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 Technical Engineer within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 2 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
Warwickshire - 28 £35,000 - 3
Birmingham -3 21 £45,000 +30.43% 5
Staffordshire -12 13 £42,500 +57.41% 7
Worcestershire - 9 £35,000 - 6
Solihull -5 1 £65,000 +52.94%
Kingswinford - 1 - -
Technical Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 2 June 2024, Technical 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 Technical Engineer in the job title.

1 24 (30.77%) Microsoft
2 16 (20.51%) Windows
2 16 (20.51%) Customer Service
3 14 (17.95%) Azure
4 12 (15.38%) Microsoft 365
4 12 (15.38%) Social Skills
5 11 (14.10%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (14.10%) Active Directory
6 9 (11.54%) HNC
6 9 (11.54%) Decision-Making
6 9 (11.54%) Windows Server
6 9 (11.54%) Degree
7 8 (10.26%) VMware
7 8 (10.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 7 (8.97%) Finance
8 7 (8.97%) ITIL
8 7 (8.97%) DNS
8 7 (8.97%) DHCP
9 6 (7.69%) WAN
9 6 (7.69%) TCP/IP
9 6 (7.69%) Siemens
9 6 (7.69%) Hyper-V
9 6 (7.69%) SaaS
10 5 (6.41%) Continuous Improvement
10 5 (6.41%) VLAN
10 5 (6.41%) Mac OS
10 5 (6.41%) Entra ID
10 5 (6.41%) Microsoft Intune
10 5 (6.41%) Cybersecurity
10 5 (6.41%) Analytical Skills

Technical 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 5 (6.41%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (5.13%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (3.85%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.28%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.28%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 14 (17.95%) Azure
2 12 (15.38%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (7.69%) SaaS
4 5 (6.41%) Entra ID
5 4 (5.13%) OneDrive
6 2 (2.56%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (2.56%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 7 (8.97%) DHCP
1 7 (8.97%) DNS
2 6 (7.69%) TCP/IP
2 6 (7.69%) WAN
3 5 (6.41%) Firewall
3 5 (6.41%) SAN
3 5 (6.41%) VLAN
4 4 (5.13%) iSCSI
5 3 (3.85%) Wireless
6 2 (2.56%) LAN
7 1 (1.28%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.85%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (2.56%) JIRA
General
1 12 (15.38%) Social Skills
2 7 (8.97%) Finance
3 5 (6.41%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (6.41%) Documentation Skills
3 5 (6.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (5.13%) Retail
5 3 (3.85%) Electronics
5 3 (3.85%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.56%) Aerospace
6 2 (2.56%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.85%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 3 (3.85%) CCTV
1 3 (3.85%) Data Centre
1 3 (3.85%) Renewable Energy
2 1 (1.28%) Clustering
2 1 (1.28%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (1.28%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 16 (20.51%) Windows
2 9 (11.54%) Windows Server
3 5 (6.41%) Mac OS
4 1 (1.28%) Unix
4 1 (1.28%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (20.51%) Customer Service
2 11 (14.10%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (11.54%) Decision-Making
4 8 (10.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 7 (8.97%) ITIL
6 5 (6.41%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (6.41%) Cybersecurity
6 5 (6.41%) Project Management
6 5 (6.41%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (5.13%) Customer Requirements
7 4 (5.13%) Preventative Maintenance
7 4 (5.13%) Proactive Monitoring
7 4 (5.13%) Telematics
8 3 (3.85%) Agile
8 3 (3.85%) Cloud Security
8 3 (3.85%) Customer Engagement
8 3 (3.85%) Data Security
8 3 (3.85%) Mathematics
8 3 (3.85%) Service Management
8 3 (3.85%) Ticket Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (6.41%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (11.54%) Degree
1 9 (11.54%) HNC
2 4 (5.13%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (5.13%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 3 (3.85%) HND
4 2 (2.56%) Azure Certification
4 2 (2.56%) CESG Certified Professional
4 2 (2.56%) Citrix Certification
4 2 (2.56%) MCITP
4 2 (2.56%) MCSE
5 1 (1.28%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (1.28%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.85%) QA
1 3 (3.85%) SLA
2 1 (1.28%) GDPR
2 1 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 15288
System Software
1 11 (14.10%) Active Directory
2 6 (7.69%) Hyper-V
3 4 (5.13%) NFS
3 4 (5.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (5.13%) XenApp
3 4 (5.13%) XenDesktop
4 2 (2.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (6.41%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (5.13%) SCOM
3 3 (3.85%) Cisco Prime
3 3 (3.85%) McAfee ePO
4 2 (2.56%) Terraform
5 1 (1.28%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (1.28%) SCCM
Vendors
1 24 (30.77%) Microsoft
2 8 (10.26%) VMware
3 6 (7.69%) Siemens
4 4 (5.13%) Citrix
5 3 (3.85%) Cisco
5 3 (3.85%) McAfee
5 3 (3.85%) Salesforce
5 3 (3.85%) SolarWinds
6 2 (2.56%) Apple
6 2 (2.56%) Google
7 1 (1.28%) HP
7 1 (1.28%) Oracle
7 1 (1.28%) SAP