Windows Engineer
UK

The median Windows Engineer salary in the UK is £42,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 April 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
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 731 754 1026
Rank change year-on-year +23 +272 -385
Permanent jobs requiring a Windows Engineer 177 245 179
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.18% 0.23% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.25% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 155 198 159
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £34,000 £32,125 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £55,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +15.79% -2.81%
75th Percentile £71,875 £78,750 £61,375
90th Percentile £102,500 £91,250 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £34,000 £35,000 £34,500
% change year-on-year -2.86% +1.45% -17.37%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 91,989 97,583 147,027
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.63% 91.61% 96.02%
Number of salaries quoted 66,379 61,119 85,881
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

Windows Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows Engineer in the UK

Windows Engineer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Windows Engineer.

Salary trend for Windows Engineer in the UK

Windows Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows Engineer over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Windows Engineer in the UK

Windows Engineer
Top 15 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 19 April 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
England +59 160 £39,000 -32.17% 25
UK excluding London -2 107 £34,000 -2.86% 13
London +103 64 £72,500 -6.45% 11
Work from Home +72 64 £72,500 +26.09% 9
South East +18 54 £34,000 -2.86% 4
Midlands +16 18 £35,000 -31.03% 5
West Midlands +43 17 £34,500 -24.59% 3
Scotland -49 12 £85,000 +61.90%
North of England +37 11 £45,000 +63.64% 2
South West -8 7 £37,500 +36.36% 2
Yorkshire +92 6 £45,000 +63.64%
East of England +8 5 £35,000 -30.00%
North West +2 4 £33,250 +20.91% 1
East Midlands -24 1 £44,000 -20.00% 2
North East - 1 £50,000 - 1

Windows Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 19 April 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 featuring Windows Engineer in the job title.

1 177 (100.00%) Windows
2 115 (64.97%) Windows Server
3 84 (47.46%) Microsoft
4 73 (41.24%) Active Directory
5 67 (37.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 65 (36.72%) Azure
7 54 (30.51%) Linux
7 54 (30.51%) PowerShell
8 50 (28.25%) VMware
9 44 (24.86%) Configuration Management
10 39 (22.03%) VMware Infrastructure
11 38 (21.47%) Microsoft 365
12 36 (20.34%) AWS
13 35 (19.77%) Security Cleared
13 35 (19.77%) DNS
13 35 (19.77%) DHCP
14 34 (19.21%) SC Cleared
15 32 (18.08%) Finance
16 30 (16.95%) Agile
17 27 (15.25%) DV Cleared
17 27 (15.25%) CMDB
18 26 (14.69%) Problem-Solving
19 25 (14.12%) DevOps
19 25 (14.12%) Firewall
20 23 (12.99%) Social Skills
21 22 (12.43%) Ansible
21 22 (12.43%) Banking
22 21 (11.86%) SCOM
23 19 (10.73%) Microsoft Exchange
24 18 (10.17%) Degree

Windows Engineer Skill Set
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 19 (10.73%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (9.60%) IIS
3 11 (6.21%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.56%) Confluence
4 1 (0.56%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 3 (1.69%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (1.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (1.13%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 65 (36.72%) Azure
2 38 (21.47%) Microsoft 365
3 36 (20.34%) AWS
4 17 (9.60%) Entra ID
5 11 (6.21%) GitHub
6 9 (5.08%) SaaS
7 6 (3.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 5 (2.82%) IaaS
8 5 (2.82%) Rubrik
9 4 (2.26%) OCI
10 3 (1.69%) GCP
11 2 (1.13%) OneDrive
12 1 (0.56%) Nutanix
12 1 (0.56%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 35 (19.77%) DHCP
1 35 (19.77%) DNS
2 25 (14.12%) Firewall
3 16 (9.04%) SNMP
4 7 (3.95%) SAN
5 5 (2.82%) TCP/IP
5 5 (2.82%) WAN
6 4 (2.26%) DMZ
6 4 (2.26%) Network Security
6 4 (2.26%) VLAN
6 4 (2.26%) VPN
7 3 (1.69%) SD-WAN
7 3 (1.69%) VoIP
8 2 (1.13%) LAN
9 1 (0.56%) Internet
9 1 (0.56%) NAS
9 1 (0.56%) PBX
9 1 (0.56%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (7.34%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.56%) MySQL
2 1 (0.56%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (6.21%) Git
1 11 (6.21%) GitLab
2 5 (2.82%) JIRA
3 3 (1.69%) Snyk
4 2 (1.13%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.13%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (1.13%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (1.13%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.56%) Bitbucket
General
1 32 (18.08%) Finance
2 23 (12.99%) Social Skills
3 22 (12.43%) Banking
4 11 (6.21%) Investment Banking
5 6 (3.39%) Law
6 5 (2.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.26%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (2.26%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.69%) Legal
9 2 (1.13%) Games
9 2 (1.13%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.56%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.13%) .NET
2 1 (0.56%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 27 (15.25%) CMDB
2 15 (8.47%) Data Centre
3 14 (7.91%) Virtual Team
4 9 (5.08%) Cloud Native
4 9 (5.08%) Self-Motivation
5 7 (3.95%) Management Information System
6 6 (3.39%) Client/Server
7 5 (2.82%) PKI
8 3 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.69%) Replication
9 2 (1.13%) Hedge funds
10 1 (0.56%) Cyber Threat
10 1 (0.56%) Derivative
10 1 (0.56%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.56%) EPoS
10 1 (0.56%) Housing Association
10 1 (0.56%) iPad
10 1 (0.56%) iPhone
10 1 (0.56%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.56%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 177 (100.00%) Windows
2 115 (64.97%) Windows Server
3 54 (30.51%) Linux
4 16 (9.04%) Windows 10
5 14 (7.91%) Mac OS
6 11 (6.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 8 (4.52%) Unix
7 8 (4.52%) Windows Server 2012
7 8 (4.52%) Windows Server 2016
8 7 (3.95%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.56%) Android
9 1 (0.56%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.56%) Windows Mobile
9 1 (0.56%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (37.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 44 (24.86%) Configuration Management
3 30 (16.95%) Agile
4 26 (14.69%) Problem-Solving
5 25 (14.12%) DevOps
6 16 (9.04%) Waterfall
7 14 (7.91%) CI/CD
7 14 (7.91%) Performance Optimisation
8 13 (7.34%) Computer Science
8 13 (7.34%) Cybersecurity
9 12 (6.78%) Asset Management
10 11 (6.21%) Project Delivery
11 10 (5.65%) Continuous Improvement
11 10 (5.65%) Kalman Filter
11 10 (5.65%) Software Engineering
12 9 (5.08%) Analytics
12 9 (5.08%) Computer Security
12 9 (5.08%) Data Protection
12 9 (5.08%) Multithreading
12 9 (5.08%) Reverse Engineering
Programming Languages
1 54 (30.51%) PowerShell
2 16 (9.04%) SQL
3 13 (7.34%) Bash
4 12 (6.78%) Python
5 11 (6.21%) Korn
5 11 (6.21%) Perl
5 11 (6.21%) Ruby
6 1 (0.56%) C#
6 1 (0.56%) Rust
Qualifications
1 35 (19.77%) Security Cleared
2 34 (19.21%) SC Cleared
3 27 (15.25%) DV Cleared
4 18 (10.17%) Degree
5 8 (4.52%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (3.95%) Azure Certification
7 6 (3.39%) AWS Certification
8 5 (2.82%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (2.82%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 3 (1.69%) MCSA
9 3 (1.69%) MCSE
10 1 (0.56%) CCNA
10 1 (0.56%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.26%) SLA
2 1 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 73 (41.24%) Active Directory
2 39 (22.03%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (5.65%) Hyper-V
4 7 (3.95%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (3.39%) DFS Replication
5 6 (3.39%) Docker
6 4 (2.26%) vSphere
7 3 (1.69%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (1.13%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.56%) KVM
9 1 (0.56%) QEMU
9 1 (0.56%) Xen
Systems Management
1 22 (12.43%) Ansible
2 21 (11.86%) SCOM
3 18 (10.17%) SCCM
4 16 (9.04%) Puppet
5 11 (6.21%) Red Hat Satellite
6 6 (3.39%) Kubernetes
6 6 (3.39%) Microsoft Intune
6 6 (3.39%) Terraform
7 5 (2.82%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 5 (2.82%) NetBackup
7 5 (2.82%) vRealize Orchestrator
8 3 (1.69%) Nessus
8 3 (1.69%) Nexpose
9 2 (1.13%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.56%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.56%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.56%) WSUS
Vendors
1 84 (47.46%) Microsoft
2 50 (28.25%) VMware
3 16 (9.04%) Dynatrace
4 12 (6.78%) Dell
4 12 (6.78%) Red Hat
5 11 (6.21%) Sun
5 11 (6.21%) TOWER Software
6 10 (5.65%) ServiceNow
6 10 (5.65%) Veeam
7 8 (4.52%) Citrix
8 6 (3.39%) Cisco
9 4 (2.26%) HP
9 4 (2.26%) Oracle
10 3 (1.69%) Apple
10 3 (1.69%) Google
10 3 (1.69%) Qualys
11 1 (0.56%) Agilent
11 1 (0.56%) Fortinet
11 1 (0.56%) Palo Alto
11 1 (0.56%) Ubiquiti