Siemens SIMATIC WinCC
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring WinCC skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited WinCC over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 667 885 987
Rank change year-on-year +218 +102 +205
Permanent jobs citing WinCC 25 11 2
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.048% 0.011% 0.002%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.56% 0.10% 0.017%
Number of salaries quoted 5 11 2
10th Percentile - - £47,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £48,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% - -
75th Percentile £67,500 £55,000 £51,875
90th Percentile - £68,750 £52,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%

All Application Platform Skills
UK

WinCC falls under the Application Platforms category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring application platform skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 4,427 10,766 11,936
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.51% 10.93% 11.48%
Number of salaries quoted 3,045 7,116 7,895
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £34,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +1.85%
75th Percentile £75,000 £68,563 £77,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £92,500 £96,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,628 £42,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +7.36% -10.53% +5.56%

WinCC
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing WinCC as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for WinCC in the UK

WinCC
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing WinCC.

Salary trend for WinCC in the UK

WinCC
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing WinCC over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for WinCC in the UK

WinCC
Top 9 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WinCC within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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
England +184 21 £65,000 +30.00% 27
UK excluding London +218 18 £50,000 - 33
North of England +99 15 £50,000 +11.11% 10
Yorkshire +90 15 £50,000 +11.11% 5
London +111 3 £65,000 +4.00% 1
Midlands +79 2 - - 12
South East +107 1 £50,000 - 1
West Midlands +46 1 - - 6
East Midlands - 1 - - 6

WinCC
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 1 (4.00%) FactoryTalk
Applications
1 14 (56.00%) EPLAN
Communications & Networking
1 19 (76.00%) Ethernet
1 19 (76.00%) Profibus
2 14 (56.00%) Modbus
2 14 (56.00%) RS-485
General
1 14 (56.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 14 (56.00%) Retail
2 5 (20.00%) Advertising
2 5 (20.00%) Pharmaceutical
3 2 (8.00%) German Language
3 2 (8.00%) Manufacturing
3 2 (8.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 23 (92.00%) Systems Engineer
2 14 (56.00%) Process Engineer
3 9 (36.00%) Control Systems Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Automation Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Senior
4 2 (8.00%) Senior Automation Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 23 (92.00%) SCADA
2 5 (20.00%) Fibre Optics
3 2 (8.00%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 3 (12.00%) Linux
1 3 (12.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (56.00%) CAD
2 9 (36.00%) Software Testing
3 3 (12.00%) Customer Requirements
3 3 (12.00%) Systems Engineering
4 2 (8.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (8.00%) Project Management
4 2 (8.00%) Test Automation
5 1 (4.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 5 (20.00%) C#
1 5 (20.00%) C++
2 3 (12.00%) SQL
2 3 (12.00%) VB
3 2 (8.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 14 (56.00%) HNC
2 3 (12.00%) SC Cleared
2 3 (12.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.00%) IEC 61131
1 1 (4.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 14 (56.00%) Wonderware InTouch
2 3 (12.00%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 25 (100.00%) Siemens
2 14 (56.00%) Allen-Bradley
2 14 (56.00%) Google
2 14 (56.00%) Wonderware
3 6 (24.00%) Rockwell
4 5 (20.00%) AVEVA
5 3 (12.00%) Oracle
5 3 (12.00%) Red Hat