Windows Support Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Windows Support Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Windows Support Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £37,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 575 745 725
Rank change year-on-year +170 -20 +89
Permanent jobs requiring a Windows Support Engineer 4 18 31
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.010% 0.025% 0.052%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.011% 0.027% 0.058%
Number of salaries quoted 4 18 31
10th Percentile £33,625 £25,750 £24,500
25th Percentile £35,313 £26,688 £24,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £33,500 £27,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.94% +21.82% -1.79%
75th Percentile £40,000 £38,063 £28,750
90th Percentile £42,250 £39,125 -
UK median annual salary £37,500 £36,000 £27,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +30.91% -14.73%

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 35,324 67,152 53,648
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.60% 94.79% 89.25%
Number of salaries quoted 18,511 47,504 30,595
10th Percentile £27,000 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,574 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% -5.66% +5.64%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £56,500 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +7.62% -12.50% -

Windows Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows Support Engineer in the UK excluding London

Windows Support Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Windows Support Engineer in the UK excluding London

Windows Support 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 Support Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 14 May 2025. 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
Midlands +57 3 £37,500 +33.93%
East Midlands +34 2 £36,250 -17.61%
South East +96 1 £42,500 +13.33% 1
West Midlands +49 1 £37,500 +37.61%
Windows Support Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 14 May 2025, Windows Support 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 Support Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Windows
1 4 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (75.00%) Firewall
2 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (75.00%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (50.00%) Windows Server
3 2 (50.00%) Entra ID
3 2 (50.00%) Data Centre
3 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (50.00%) Azure
3 2 (50.00%) SCCM
4 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
4 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
4 1 (25.00%) AWS
4 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (25.00%) Degree
4 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
4 1 (25.00%) Client/Server
4 1 (25.00%) DNS
4 1 (25.00%) Cisco
4 1 (25.00%) Service Management
4 1 (25.00%) Driving Licence
4 1 (25.00%) Windows 10
4 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (25.00%) Architecture Roadmap
4 1 (25.00%) Hyper-V

Windows Support 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:

Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (25.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) Firewall
2 1 (25.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (25.00%) Client/Server
2 1 (25.00%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
2 2 (50.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (25.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) Architecture Roadmap
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (25.00%) Customer Service
1 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (25.00%) Service Management
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (25.00%) Degree
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (25.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco