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 £34,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 12 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
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 657 633 754
Rank change year-on-year -24 +121 -245
Permanent jobs requiring a Windows Engineer 104 122 98
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.15% 0.20% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.23% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 88 88 86
10th Percentile - £24,500 £22,500
25th Percentile £30,000 £26,250 £26,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £34,000 £40,000 £36,931
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +8.31% -13.10%
75th Percentile £40,938 £53,750 £50,000
90th Percentile £52,500 £61,250 £55,625
UK median annual salary £42,500 £56,222 £48,375
% change year-on-year -24.41% +16.22% -3.25%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 67,306 53,672 68,079
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.79% 89.22% 95.76%
Number of salaries quoted 47,632 30,597 42,434
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
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 May 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 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
South East +15 51 £34,000 -15.00% 7
Midlands -1 17 £34,500 -37.27% 4
West Midlands +36 16 £34,000 -38.74% 3
Scotland -43 11 £85,000 +61.90% 2
North of England +41 10 £45,000 +63.64% 1
South West -24 10 £37,500 -6.25% 4
Yorkshire +78 6 £45,000 +63.64%
East of England -10 5 £35,000 -30.00% 6
North West -4 3 £27,500 - 1
East Midlands -19 1 £44,000 -20.00% 1
North East - 1 £50,000 -
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 May 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.

1 104 (100.00%) Windows
2 59 (56.73%) Windows Server
3 39 (37.50%) Microsoft
4 34 (32.69%) Active Directory
5 33 (31.73%) Security Cleared
6 31 (29.81%) SC Cleared
7 30 (28.85%) Linux
8 28 (26.92%) Azure
9 27 (25.96%) Configuration Management
10 24 (23.08%) DV Cleared
10 24 (23.08%) CMDB
11 21 (20.19%) Agile
11 21 (20.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 19 (18.27%) AWS
12 19 (18.27%) DNS
12 19 (18.27%) DHCP
13 17 (16.35%) Microsoft 365
14 16 (15.38%) SCOM
15 15 (14.42%) Firewall
15 15 (14.42%) VMware
16 14 (13.46%) VMware Infrastructure
16 14 (13.46%) Data Centre
17 13 (12.50%) Dynatrace
17 13 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
17 13 (12.50%) Social Skills
17 13 (12.50%) Waterfall
17 13 (12.50%) SNMP
17 13 (12.50%) SQL
17 13 (12.50%) IIS
18 12 (11.54%) Software Engineering

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 13 (12.50%) IIS
2 5 (4.81%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.96%) Exchange Server 2013
3 1 (0.96%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.96%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 28 (26.92%) Azure
2 19 (18.27%) AWS
3 17 (16.35%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (8.65%) Entra ID
4 9 (8.65%) SaaS
5 6 (5.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (2.88%) GCP
7 1 (0.96%) Nutanix
7 1 (0.96%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 19 (18.27%) DHCP
1 19 (18.27%) DNS
2 15 (14.42%) Firewall
3 13 (12.50%) SNMP
4 4 (3.85%) WAN
5 3 (2.88%) SD-WAN
5 3 (2.88%) TCP/IP
5 3 (2.88%) VoIP
6 1 (0.96%) Internet
6 1 (0.96%) LAN
6 1 (0.96%) SAN
6 1 (0.96%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.85%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (2.88%) JIRA
2 2 (1.92%) Octopus Deploy
2 2 (1.92%) Team Foundation Server
2 2 (1.92%) TeamCity
3 1 (0.96%) Jenkins
General
1 13 (12.50%) Social Skills
2 6 (5.77%) Finance
2 6 (5.77%) Law
3 4 (3.85%) Banking
4 3 (2.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (1.92%) Games
5 2 (1.92%) Public Sector
6 1 (0.96%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.92%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 24 (23.08%) CMDB
2 14 (13.46%) Data Centre
3 9 (8.65%) Virtual Team
4 8 (7.69%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.88%) Replication
6 2 (1.92%) Client/Server
6 2 (1.92%) Hedge funds
6 2 (1.92%) PKI
7 1 (0.96%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 104 (100.00%) Windows
2 59 (56.73%) Windows Server
3 30 (28.85%) Linux
4 10 (9.62%) Mac OS
5 9 (8.65%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.96%) Android
6 1 (0.96%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.96%) Windows Mobile
6 1 (0.96%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (0.96%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.96%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.96%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (25.96%) Configuration Management
2 21 (20.19%) Agile
2 21 (20.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 13 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
3 13 (12.50%) Waterfall
4 12 (11.54%) Software Engineering
5 11 (10.58%) Performance Optimisation
6 10 (9.62%) Cybersecurity
7 9 (8.65%) DevOps
8 8 (7.69%) Component Testing
8 8 (7.69%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
8 8 (7.69%) Data Science
8 8 (7.69%) Kalman Filter
8 8 (7.69%) Multithreading
8 8 (7.69%) Security Analytics
8 8 (7.69%) TDD
8 8 (7.69%) Technical Leadership
8 8 (7.69%) Threat Analysis
8 8 (7.69%) Threat Detection
8 8 (7.69%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 13 (12.50%) SQL
2 7 (6.73%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 33 (31.73%) Security Cleared
2 31 (29.81%) SC Cleared
3 24 (23.08%) DV Cleared
4 8 (7.69%) Degree
5 6 (5.77%) AWS Certification
5 6 (5.77%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.92%) MCSA
6 2 (1.92%) MCSE
6 2 (1.92%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.85%) SLA
System Software
1 34 (32.69%) Active Directory
2 14 (13.46%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (8.65%) Hyper-V
4 6 (5.77%) Docker
5 4 (3.85%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.96%) KVM
6 1 (0.96%) QEMU
6 1 (0.96%) Xen
Systems Management
1 16 (15.38%) SCOM
2 7 (6.73%) SCCM
3 6 (5.77%) Kubernetes
4 4 (3.85%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (2.88%) Ansible
6 2 (1.92%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 39 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 15 (14.42%) VMware
3 13 (12.50%) Dynatrace
4 11 (10.58%) Dell
5 4 (3.85%) HP
5 4 (3.85%) ServiceNow
5 4 (3.85%) Veeam
6 3 (2.88%) Apple
6 3 (2.88%) Google
7 1 (0.96%) Agilent
7 1 (0.96%) Avaya
7 1 (0.96%) Cisco
7 1 (0.96%) Fortinet
7 1 (0.96%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.96%) Ubiquiti