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 9 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
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 733 740 1046
Rank change year-on-year +7 +306 -407
Permanent jobs requiring a Windows Engineer 169 234 183
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.17% 0.23% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.25% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 143 189 165
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,150 £26,250
25th Percentile £34,000 £36,250 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £55,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +15.79% -5.00%
75th Percentile £71,875 £78,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £87,000 £91,250 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £34,000 £40,000 £36,362
% change year-on-year -15.00% +10.00% -14.44%

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 93,776 92,678 150,788
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.45% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 67,209 58,362 84,200
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +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 9 May 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 9 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
England +32 151 £37,500 -34.78% 28
UK excluding London -14 105 £34,000 -15.00% 18
London +53 57 £72,500 -3.33% 13
Work from Home +41 57 £72,500 +26.09% 8
South East +9 51 £34,000 -12.26% 6
Midlands -7 17 £34,500 -37.27% 3
West Midlands +24 16 £34,000 -38.74% 2
Scotland -54 12 £85,000 +61.90% 2
North of England +41 10 £45,000 +63.64% 1
South West -22 10 £37,500 -6.25% 4
Yorkshire +86 6 £45,000 +63.64%
East of England -4 5 £35,000 -30.00% 4
North West +4 3 £27,500 - 1
East Midlands -25 1 £44,000 -20.00% 1
North East - 1 £50,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 9 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 featuring Windows Engineer in the job title.

1 169 (100.00%) Windows
2 104 (61.54%) Windows Server
3 77 (45.56%) Microsoft
4 65 (38.46%) Active Directory
5 57 (33.73%) Azure
5 57 (33.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 49 (28.99%) PowerShell
7 48 (28.40%) Linux
8 42 (24.85%) VMware
9 41 (24.26%) Configuration Management
10 34 (20.12%) AWS
11 33 (19.53%) Security Cleared
11 33 (19.53%) VMware Infrastructure
12 32 (18.93%) Microsoft 365
13 31 (18.34%) SC Cleared
14 29 (17.16%) DNS
14 29 (17.16%) DHCP
15 27 (15.98%) Agile
16 24 (14.20%) Finance
16 24 (14.20%) DV Cleared
16 24 (14.20%) CMDB
17 23 (13.61%) DevOps
18 22 (13.02%) Problem-Solving
19 21 (12.43%) Social Skills
19 21 (12.43%) Firewall
20 19 (11.24%) Banking
20 19 (11.24%) Ansible
21 18 (10.65%) SCCM
22 17 (10.06%) SCOM
22 17 (10.06%) Entra ID

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 13 (7.69%) IIS
1 13 (7.69%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (3.55%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.59%) Exchange Server 2013
3 1 (0.59%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (1.78%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (1.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (1.18%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 57 (33.73%) Azure
2 34 (20.12%) AWS
3 32 (18.93%) Microsoft 365
4 17 (10.06%) Entra ID
5 9 (5.33%) SaaS
6 8 (4.73%) GitHub
7 6 (3.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 5 (2.96%) IaaS
8 5 (2.96%) OCI
8 5 (2.96%) Rubrik
9 3 (1.78%) GCP
9 3 (1.78%) OneDrive
10 1 (0.59%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (0.59%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 1 (0.59%) Dropbox
10 1 (0.59%) Nutanix
10 1 (0.59%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 29 (17.16%) DHCP
1 29 (17.16%) DNS
2 21 (12.43%) Firewall
3 13 (7.69%) SNMP
4 7 (4.14%) SAN
5 5 (2.96%) TCP/IP
5 5 (2.96%) WAN
6 4 (2.37%) DMZ
6 4 (2.37%) Network Security
6 4 (2.37%) VLAN
6 4 (2.37%) VPN
7 3 (1.78%) SD-WAN
7 3 (1.78%) VoIP
8 2 (1.18%) LAN
9 1 (0.59%) Internet
9 1 (0.59%) IP Telephony
9 1 (0.59%) NAS
9 1 (0.59%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (8.28%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (4.73%) Git
1 8 (4.73%) GitLab
2 5 (2.96%) JIRA
3 3 (1.78%) Snyk
4 2 (1.18%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (1.18%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (1.18%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.59%) Jenkins
General
1 24 (14.20%) Finance
2 21 (12.43%) Social Skills
3 19 (11.24%) Banking
4 8 (4.73%) Investment Banking
5 6 (3.55%) Law
6 5 (2.96%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (2.37%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.78%) Legal
8 3 (1.78%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.18%) Games
10 1 (0.59%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.18%) .NET
2 1 (0.59%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 24 (14.20%) CMDB
2 15 (8.88%) Data Centre
3 14 (8.28%) Virtual Team
4 9 (5.33%) Cloud Native
4 9 (5.33%) Self-Motivation
5 7 (4.14%) Management Information System
6 6 (3.55%) Client/Server
7 5 (2.96%) PKI
8 3 (1.78%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.78%) Replication
9 2 (1.18%) Hedge funds
10 1 (0.59%) Cyber Threat
10 1 (0.59%) Derivative
10 1 (0.59%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.59%) EPoS
10 1 (0.59%) Housing Association
10 1 (0.59%) iPad
10 1 (0.59%) iPhone
10 1 (0.59%) Security Posture
10 1 (0.59%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 169 (100.00%) Windows
2 104 (61.54%) Windows Server
3 48 (28.40%) Linux
4 16 (9.47%) Windows 10
5 14 (8.28%) Mac OS
6 8 (4.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (4.73%) Unix
6 8 (4.73%) Windows Server 2016
7 6 (3.55%) Windows Server 2012
7 6 (3.55%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (1.18%) Android
9 1 (0.59%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.59%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.59%) Windows Mobile
9 1 (0.59%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (33.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 41 (24.26%) Configuration Management
3 27 (15.98%) Agile
4 23 (13.61%) DevOps
5 22 (13.02%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (7.69%) Cybersecurity
6 13 (7.69%) Software Engineering
6 13 (7.69%) Waterfall
7 12 (7.10%) Computer Science
7 12 (7.10%) Performance Optimisation
8 11 (6.51%) Kalman Filter
8 11 (6.51%) Project Delivery
9 10 (5.92%) Analytics
9 10 (5.92%) CI/CD
9 10 (5.92%) Continuous Improvement
10 9 (5.33%) Customer Service
10 9 (5.33%) Data Science
10 9 (5.33%) Infrastructure as Code
10 9 (5.33%) Security Analytics
10 9 (5.33%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 49 (28.99%) PowerShell
2 14 (8.28%) SQL
3 9 (5.33%) Bash
3 9 (5.33%) Python
4 8 (4.73%) Korn
4 8 (4.73%) Perl
4 8 (4.73%) Ruby
5 1 (0.59%) C#
5 1 (0.59%) Rust
Qualifications
1 33 (19.53%) Security Cleared
2 31 (18.34%) SC Cleared
3 24 (14.20%) DV Cleared
4 17 (10.06%) Degree
5 7 (4.14%) Azure Certification
5 7 (4.14%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (3.55%) AWS Certification
7 4 (2.37%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (2.37%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 2 (1.18%) MCSA
8 2 (1.18%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.37%) SLA
2 1 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 65 (38.46%) Active Directory
2 33 (19.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (5.92%) Hyper-V
4 6 (3.55%) DFS Replication
4 6 (3.55%) Docker
4 6 (3.55%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (2.37%) vSphere
6 3 (1.78%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (1.18%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.59%) KVM
8 1 (0.59%) QEMU
8 1 (0.59%) Xen
Systems Management
1 19 (11.24%) Ansible
2 18 (10.65%) SCCM
3 17 (10.06%) SCOM
4 13 (7.69%) Puppet
5 8 (4.73%) Red Hat Satellite
6 6 (3.55%) Kubernetes
6 6 (3.55%) Microsoft Intune
6 6 (3.55%) Terraform
7 5 (2.96%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 5 (2.96%) NetBackup
7 5 (2.96%) vRealize Orchestrator
8 3 (1.78%) Nessus
8 3 (1.78%) Nexpose
9 2 (1.18%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (1.18%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
10 1 (0.59%) SCDPM
10 1 (0.59%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.59%) WSUS
Vendors
1 77 (45.56%) Microsoft
2 42 (24.85%) VMware
3 13 (7.69%) Dynatrace
4 12 (7.10%) Dell
5 10 (5.92%) ServiceNow
5 10 (5.92%) Veeam
6 9 (5.33%) Red Hat
7 8 (4.73%) Citrix
7 8 (4.73%) Sun
7 8 (4.73%) TOWER Software
8 6 (3.55%) Cisco
9 5 (2.96%) Oracle
10 4 (2.37%) Apple
10 4 (2.37%) HP
11 3 (1.78%) Google
11 3 (1.78%) Qualys
12 1 (0.59%) Agilent
12 1 (0.59%) Fortinet
12 1 (0.59%) Meraki
12 1 (0.59%) NetApp