Windows Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Windows Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Windows Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £35,000 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 685 609 779
Rank change year-on-year -76 +170 -255
Permanent jobs requiring a Windows Engineer 95 119 95
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.12% 0.22% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.24% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 84 89 78
10th Percentile - £24,500 £22,500
25th Percentile £30,000 £26,250 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £39,744 £36,931
Median % change year-on-year -11.94% +7.62% -15.59%
75th Percentile £40,000 £52,500 £50,000
90th Percentile £51,750 £61,400 £57,500
UK median annual salary £40,000 £55,000 £49,342
% change year-on-year -27.27% +11.47% +5.54%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 75,991 49,070 72,896
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.87% 88.81% 95.46%
Number of salaries quoted 53,059 29,227 42,783
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,519 £50,296
Median % change year-on-year -6.58% +6.41% +5.89%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Windows Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Windows Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Windows Engineer in the UK excluding London

Windows Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Windows Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Windows Engineer in the UK excluding London

Windows Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Windows Engineer in the UK excluding London

Windows Engineer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows Engineer within the UK excluding London 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
South East -23 53 £34,000 -12.26% 5
Midlands -36 13 £34,000 -35.24% 1
West Midlands -1 12 £34,000 -38.74%
South West -39 11 £37,500 -6.25%
North of England +2 9 £45,000 +63.64% 1
East of England -27 6 £36,250 -21.62% 2
Yorkshire +65 5 £45,000 +63.64%
North West -31 4 £38,750 +40.91% 1
Scotland -65 3 £85,000 +61.90% 1
East Midlands -37 1 - - 1
Windows Engineer
UK

Windows Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, Windows 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 UK excluding London region featuring Windows Engineer in the job title.

1 95 (100.00%) Windows
2 57 (60.00%) Windows Server
3 39 (41.05%) Security Cleared
4 35 (36.84%) SC Cleared
5 30 (31.58%) Active Directory
5 30 (31.58%) Microsoft
6 29 (30.53%) DV Cleared
7 25 (26.32%) Azure
8 23 (24.21%) Configuration Management
9 21 (22.11%) AWS
10 20 (21.05%) CMDB
10 20 (21.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 18 (18.95%) Linux
12 17 (17.89%) Microsoft 365
13 16 (16.84%) Social Skills
14 15 (15.79%) VMware
15 14 (14.74%) Data Centre
16 13 (13.68%) Windows 10
16 13 (13.68%) Problem-Solving
16 13 (13.68%) VMware Infrastructure
17 12 (12.63%) Firewall
17 12 (12.63%) Finance
17 12 (12.63%) DHCP
17 12 (12.63%) DNS
17 12 (12.63%) Customer Service
18 11 (11.58%) Service Management
18 11 (11.58%) Hyper-V
19 10 (10.53%) SCCM
19 10 (10.53%) SCOM
19 10 (10.53%) SNMP

Windows Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 9 (9.47%) IIS
2 5 (5.26%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.05%) Exchange Server 2013
3 1 (1.05%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 25 (26.32%) Azure
2 21 (22.11%) AWS
3 17 (17.89%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (6.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 6 (6.32%) Entra ID
5 3 (3.16%) GCP
6 1 (1.05%) Nutanix
6 1 (1.05%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (12.63%) DHCP
1 12 (12.63%) DNS
1 12 (12.63%) Firewall
2 10 (10.53%) SNMP
3 4 (4.21%) WAN
4 3 (3.16%) SD-WAN
4 3 (3.16%) TCP/IP
4 3 (3.16%) VoIP
5 1 (1.05%) HTTP
5 1 (1.05%) Internet
5 1 (1.05%) LAN
5 1 (1.05%) Network Security
5 1 (1.05%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.21%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.05%) MySQL
2 1 (1.05%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 3 (3.16%) JIRA
2 2 (2.11%) Octopus Deploy
2 2 (2.11%) Team Foundation Server
2 2 (2.11%) TeamCity
3 1 (1.05%) Git
3 1 (1.05%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.05%) Subversion
General
1 16 (16.84%) Social Skills
2 12 (12.63%) Finance
3 3 (3.16%) Banking
4 2 (2.11%) Games
4 2 (2.11%) Law
4 2 (2.11%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.05%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.16%) .NET
2 1 (1.05%) JSON
2 1 (1.05%) WinForms
2 1 (1.05%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 20 (21.05%) CMDB
2 14 (14.74%) Data Centre
3 3 (3.16%) Replication
4 2 (2.11%) Client/Server
4 2 (2.11%) Hedge funds
5 1 (1.05%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 95 (100.00%) Windows
2 57 (60.00%) Windows Server
3 18 (18.95%) Linux
4 13 (13.68%) Windows 10
5 8 (8.42%) Windows Server 2019
6 7 (7.37%) Windows Server 2012
6 7 (7.37%) Windows Server 2016
7 5 (5.26%) Windows NT
8 2 (2.11%) Mac OS
9 1 (1.05%) Android
9 1 (1.05%) Ubuntu
9 1 (1.05%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (24.21%) Configuration Management
2 20 (21.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 13 (13.68%) Problem-Solving
4 12 (12.63%) Customer Service
5 11 (11.58%) Service Management
6 9 (9.47%) Agile
6 9 (9.47%) DevOps
6 9 (9.47%) Waterfall
7 7 (7.37%) Computer Science
8 6 (6.32%) Data Protection
8 6 (6.32%) Project Delivery
8 6 (6.32%) Root Cause Analysis
8 6 (6.32%) Software Engineering
9 5 (5.26%) Deployment Automation
9 5 (5.26%) ITIL
9 5 (5.26%) Release Management
9 5 (5.26%) User Acceptance Testing
10 4 (4.21%) Containerisation
10 4 (4.21%) Fintech
10 4 (4.21%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 10 (10.53%) SQL
2 9 (9.47%) PowerShell
3 2 (2.11%) Python
4 1 (1.05%) C
4 1 (1.05%) C#
4 1 (1.05%) C++
4 1 (1.05%) Embedded C
4 1 (1.05%) Embedded C++
4 1 (1.05%) Perl
4 1 (1.05%) XAML
Qualifications
1 39 (41.05%) Security Cleared
2 35 (36.84%) SC Cleared
3 29 (30.53%) DV Cleared
4 7 (7.37%) Degree
5 6 (6.32%) AWS Certification
5 6 (6.32%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.26%) QA
1 5 (5.26%) SLA
System Software
1 30 (31.58%) Active Directory
2 13 (13.68%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (11.58%) Hyper-V
4 6 (6.32%) Docker
5 5 (5.26%) Firmware
6 3 (3.16%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (1.05%) KVM
7 1 (1.05%) QEMU
7 1 (1.05%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (1.05%) Xen
Systems Management
1 10 (10.53%) SCCM
1 10 (10.53%) SCOM
2 6 (6.32%) Kubernetes
3 5 (5.26%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (5.26%) Sysprep
3 5 (5.26%) WSUS
4 4 (4.21%) Ansible
5 1 (1.05%) Grafana
5 1 (1.05%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.05%) Terraform
Vendors
1 30 (31.58%) Microsoft
2 15 (15.79%) VMware
3 9 (9.47%) Dynatrace
4 4 (4.21%) Veeam
5 3 (3.16%) Apple
5 3 (3.16%) Google
5 3 (3.16%) ServiceNow
6 2 (2.11%) Dell
6 2 (2.11%) HP
7 1 (1.05%) Avaya
7 1 (1.05%) Cisco
7 1 (1.05%) Fortinet
7 1 (1.05%) NETGEAR
7 1 (1.05%) Parasoft
7 1 (1.05%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.05%) SonicWALL
7 1 (1.05%) Ubiquiti