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 11 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
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 680 600 764
Rank change year-on-year -80 +164 -228
Permanent jobs requiring a Windows Engineer 94 119 95
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.12% 0.21% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.24% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 83 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% -17.93%
75th Percentile £40,000 £52,500 £50,000
90th Percentile £50,000 £61,400 £57,500
UK median annual salary £40,000 £55,000 £49,342
% change year-on-year -27.27% +11.47% +3.88%

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 75,674 49,280 72,604
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.86% 88.84% 95.48%
Number of salaries quoted 52,932 29,318 42,781
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 £50,296
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +6.37% +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 11 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 11 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 -21 53 £34,000 -12.26% 4
West Midlands -3 13 £34,000 -38.74%
Midlands -23 13 £34,000 -35.24% 1
South West -28 11 £37,500 -6.25%
North of England +12 8 £45,000 +63.64% 1
East of England -24 6 £36,250 -21.62% 2
Yorkshire +57 5 £45,000 +63.64%
North West -28 3 £27,500 - 1
Scotland -60 3 £85,000 +61.90% 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 11 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 94 (100.00%) Windows
2 57 (60.64%) Windows Server
3 39 (41.49%) Security Cleared
4 36 (38.30%) SC Cleared
5 31 (32.98%) Microsoft
5 31 (32.98%) Active Directory
6 28 (29.79%) DV Cleared
7 24 (25.53%) Azure
8 23 (24.47%) Configuration Management
9 21 (22.34%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 20 (21.28%) AWS
10 20 (21.28%) CMDB
11 18 (19.15%) Linux
11 18 (19.15%) Microsoft 365
12 15 (15.96%) VMware
12 15 (15.96%) Social Skills
13 14 (14.89%) Data Centre
14 13 (13.83%) Windows 10
14 13 (13.83%) DHCP
14 13 (13.83%) DNS
14 13 (13.83%) VMware Infrastructure
15 12 (12.77%) Firewall
15 12 (12.77%) Customer Service
16 11 (11.70%) Problem-Solving
16 11 (11.70%) Finance
16 11 (11.70%) Service Management
16 11 (11.70%) SCCM
16 11 (11.70%) SCOM
17 10 (10.64%) Hyper-V
18 9 (9.57%) Dynatrace

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 (9.57%) IIS
2 6 (6.38%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.06%) Exchange Server 2013
3 1 (1.06%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 24 (25.53%) Azure
2 20 (21.28%) AWS
3 18 (19.15%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (6.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 6 (6.38%) Entra ID
5 3 (3.19%) GCP
6 1 (1.06%) Nutanix
6 1 (1.06%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (13.83%) DHCP
1 13 (13.83%) DNS
2 12 (12.77%) Firewall
3 9 (9.57%) 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%) 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 15 (15.96%) Social Skills
2 11 (11.70%) 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%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.13%) .NET
2 1 (1.06%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 20 (21.28%) 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%) Sports Betting
5 1 (1.06%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 94 (100.00%) Windows
2 57 (60.64%) Windows Server
3 18 (19.15%) Linux
4 13 (13.83%) Windows 10
5 8 (8.51%) Windows Server 2019
6 7 (7.45%) Windows Server 2012
6 7 (7.45%) Windows Server 2016
7 5 (5.32%) 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 23 (24.47%) Configuration Management
2 21 (22.34%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 12 (12.77%) Customer Service
4 11 (11.70%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (11.70%) Service Management
5 9 (9.57%) Agile
5 9 (9.57%) DevOps
5 9 (9.57%) Waterfall
6 7 (7.45%) Project Delivery
7 6 (6.38%) Computer Science
7 6 (6.38%) Data Protection
7 6 (6.38%) ITIL
7 6 (6.38%) Root Cause Analysis
8 5 (5.32%) Deployment Automation
8 5 (5.32%) Release Management
8 5 (5.32%) Software Engineering
8 5 (5.32%) User Acceptance Testing
9 4 (4.26%) Containerisation
9 4 (4.26%) Fintech
10 3 (3.19%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 9 (9.57%) SQL
2 8 (8.51%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 39 (41.49%) Security Cleared
2 36 (38.30%) SC Cleared
3 28 (29.79%) DV Cleared
4 8 (8.51%) Degree
5 6 (6.38%) AWS Certification
5 6 (6.38%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.32%) QA
1 5 (5.32%) SLA
System Software
1 31 (32.98%) Active Directory
2 13 (13.83%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (10.64%) Hyper-V
4 6 (6.38%) Docker
5 5 (5.32%) Firmware
6 4 (4.26%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (1.06%) KVM
7 1 (1.06%) QEMU
7 1 (1.06%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (1.06%) Xen
Systems Management
1 11 (11.70%) SCCM
1 11 (11.70%) SCOM
2 6 (6.38%) Kubernetes
3 5 (5.32%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (5.32%) Sysprep
3 5 (5.32%) WSUS
4 3 (3.19%) Ansible
Vendors
1 31 (32.98%) Microsoft
2 15 (15.96%) VMware
3 9 (9.57%) Dynatrace
4 4 (4.26%) ServiceNow
4 4 (4.26%) Veeam
5 3 (3.19%) Apple
5 3 (3.19%) Google
6 2 (2.13%) Dell
6 2 (2.13%) HP
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