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 28 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
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 681 634 771
Rank change year-on-year -47 +137 -260
Permanent jobs requiring a Windows Engineer 94 120 101
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.13% 0.21% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.23% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 83 88 85
10th Percentile - £24,500 £22,500
25th Percentile £30,000 £26,250 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £34,000 £40,000 £37,616
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +6.34% -16.41%
75th Percentile £40,000 £53,750 £50,625
90th Percentile £52,000 £61,475 £57,500
UK median annual salary £42,500 £57,472 £50,000
% change year-on-year -26.05% +14.94% +5.26%

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 70,239 51,739 70,521
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.92% 89.07% 95.69%
Number of salaries quoted 49,597 29,705 42,866
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £50,173
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +6.63% +5.63%
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 28 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 28 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 +8 53 £34,000 -15.00% 4
Midlands -5 14 £34,000 -38.18% 2
West Midlands +19 13 £34,000 -38.74% 1
South West -26 11 £37,500 -6.25% 3
North of England +39 8 £45,000 +63.64% 1
Yorkshire +78 5 £45,000 +63.64%
East of England -25 5 £35,000 -30.00% 4
North West -2 3 £27,500 - 1
Scotland -54 3 £85,000 +61.90% 1
East Midlands -24 1 £44,000 -20.00% 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 28 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 94 (100.00%) Windows
2 58 (61.70%) Windows Server
3 36 (38.30%) Security Cleared
4 34 (36.17%) Microsoft
5 33 (35.11%) Active Directory
5 33 (35.11%) SC Cleared
6 26 (27.66%) DV Cleared
6 26 (27.66%) Azure
7 25 (26.60%) Configuration Management
8 22 (23.40%) CMDB
9 20 (21.28%) Linux
9 20 (21.28%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 19 (20.21%) AWS
11 18 (19.15%) Microsoft 365
12 16 (17.02%) DHCP
12 16 (17.02%) DNS
13 15 (15.96%) VMware
14 14 (14.89%) Firewall
14 14 (14.89%) Data Centre
14 14 (14.89%) Social Skills
15 13 (13.83%) VMware Infrastructure
16 12 (12.77%) SCOM
16 12 (12.77%) Windows 10
17 11 (11.70%) Dynatrace
17 11 (11.70%) Problem-Solving
17 11 (11.70%) Waterfall
17 11 (11.70%) Agile
17 11 (11.70%) SNMP
17 11 (11.70%) SQL
17 11 (11.70%) IIS

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 11 (11.70%) IIS
2 5 (5.32%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.06%) Exchange Server 2013
3 1 (1.06%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 26 (27.66%) Azure
2 19 (20.21%) AWS
3 18 (19.15%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (8.51%) Entra ID
5 6 (6.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (3.19%) GCP
7 1 (1.06%) Nutanix
7 1 (1.06%) OneDrive
7 1 (1.06%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (17.02%) DHCP
1 16 (17.02%) DNS
2 14 (14.89%) Firewall
3 11 (11.70%) SNMP
4 4 (4.26%) WAN
5 3 (3.19%) SD-WAN
5 3 (3.19%) TCP/IP
5 3 (3.19%) VoIP
6 1 (1.06%) Internet
6 1 (1.06%) LAN
6 1 (1.06%) SAN
6 1 (1.06%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.26%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (3.19%) JIRA
2 2 (2.13%) Octopus Deploy
2 2 (2.13%) Team Foundation Server
2 2 (2.13%) TeamCity
3 1 (1.06%) Jenkins
General
1 14 (14.89%) Social Skills
2 9 (9.57%) Finance
3 3 (3.19%) Banking
4 2 (2.13%) Games
4 2 (2.13%) Law
4 2 (2.13%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.06%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.13%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 22 (23.40%) CMDB
2 14 (14.89%) Data Centre
3 3 (3.19%) Replication
4 2 (2.13%) Client/Server
4 2 (2.13%) Hedge funds
5 1 (1.06%) PKI
5 1 (1.06%) Sports Betting
5 1 (1.06%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 94 (100.00%) Windows
2 58 (61.70%) Windows Server
3 20 (21.28%) Linux
4 12 (12.77%) Windows 10
5 5 (5.32%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (4.26%) Windows Server 2012
6 4 (4.26%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (3.19%) Windows NT
8 2 (2.13%) Mac OS
9 1 (1.06%) Android
9 1 (1.06%) Ubuntu
9 1 (1.06%) Windows Mobile
9 1 (1.06%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (26.60%) Configuration Management
2 20 (21.28%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 11 (11.70%) Agile
3 11 (11.70%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (11.70%) Waterfall
4 10 (10.64%) Customer Service
5 9 (9.57%) DevOps
5 9 (9.57%) Service Management
6 7 (7.45%) Project Delivery
7 6 (6.38%) Computer Science
7 6 (6.38%) Data Protection
7 6 (6.38%) Root Cause Analysis
8 5 (5.32%) Software Engineering
9 4 (4.26%) Containerisation
9 4 (4.26%) Fintech
9 4 (4.26%) ITIL
10 3 (3.19%) Deployment Automation
10 3 (3.19%) Infrastructure as Code
10 3 (3.19%) Release Management
10 3 (3.19%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 11 (11.70%) SQL
2 7 (7.45%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 36 (38.30%) Security Cleared
2 33 (35.11%) SC Cleared
3 26 (27.66%) DV Cleared
4 8 (8.51%) Degree
5 6 (6.38%) AWS Certification
5 6 (6.38%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.26%) SLA
2 3 (3.19%) QA
System Software
1 33 (35.11%) Active Directory
2 13 (13.83%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (10.64%) Hyper-V
4 6 (6.38%) Docker
5 4 (4.26%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (3.19%) Firmware
7 1 (1.06%) KVM
7 1 (1.06%) QEMU
7 1 (1.06%) Xen
Systems Management
1 12 (12.77%) SCOM
2 8 (8.51%) SCCM
3 6 (6.38%) Kubernetes
4 5 (5.32%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (3.19%) Ansible
5 3 (3.19%) Sysprep
5 3 (3.19%) WSUS
6 1 (1.06%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 34 (36.17%) Microsoft
2 15 (15.96%) VMware
3 11 (11.70%) Dynatrace
4 4 (4.26%) ServiceNow
4 4 (4.26%) Veeam
5 3 (3.19%) Apple
5 3 (3.19%) Google
5 3 (3.19%) HP
6 2 (2.13%) Dell
7 1 (1.06%) Agilent
7 1 (1.06%) Avaya
7 1 (1.06%) Cisco
7 1 (1.06%) Fortinet
7 1 (1.06%) NETGEAR
7 1 (1.06%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.06%) SonicWALL
7 1 (1.06%) Ubiquiti