Windows Server Engineer Jobs

Windows Server Engineer
UK

The median Windows Server Engineer salary in the UK is £50,000 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 863 956 1164
Rank change year-on-year +93 +208 -328
Permanent jobs requiring a Windows Server Engineer 45 42 41
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.046% 0.039% 0.027%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.049% 0.043% 0.028%
Number of salaries quoted 45 38 35
10th Percentile £32,500 £24,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £27,875 £36,730
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +4.90% +20.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £62,375 £60,625
90th Percentile £102,500 £68,250 £72,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £35,000 £40,250 £47,500
% change year-on-year -13.04% -15.26% +18.75%

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 Server Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server Engineer in the UK

Windows Server Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Windows Server Engineer in the UK

Windows Server Engineer
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for Windows Server Engineer in the UK

Windows Server Engineer
Top 10 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows Server 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 +135 45 £50,000 -6.54% 1
London +160 25 £65,000 +15.56%
Work from Home +110 22 £72,500 +51.83% 1
UK excluding London +12 20 £35,000 -13.04% 1
South East +3 13 £35,000 +40.00%
South West -6 4 £37,500 +15.38% 1
North of England +56 2 £50,000 -5.21%
Yorkshire +99 1 £50,000 +23.46%
East of England +29 1 £35,000 -39.13%
North East - 1 £50,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 19 April 2024, Windows Server 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 Server Engineer in the job title.

1 45 (100.00%) Windows
1 45 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 26 (57.78%) Microsoft
3 24 (53.33%) Active Directory
3 24 (53.33%) AWS
4 19 (42.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 17 (37.78%) DevOps
5 17 (37.78%) PowerShell
6 16 (35.56%) Banking
7 14 (31.11%) Azure
7 14 (31.11%) Microsoft 365
8 13 (28.89%) Data Centre
9 12 (26.67%) Finance
10 11 (24.44%) TOWER Software
10 11 (24.44%) VMware
10 11 (24.44%) Red Hat
10 11 (24.44%) Sun
10 11 (24.44%) Python
10 11 (24.44%) Linux
10 11 (24.44%) Perl
10 11 (24.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 11 (24.44%) Git
10 11 (24.44%) Asset Management
10 11 (24.44%) Investment Banking
10 11 (24.44%) Ruby
10 11 (24.44%) Korn
10 11 (24.44%) GitLab
10 11 (24.44%) Red Hat Satellite
10 11 (24.44%) Bash
10 11 (24.44%) Puppet

Windows Server 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 4 (8.89%) SharePoint
2 3 (6.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (4.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 24 (53.33%) AWS
2 14 (31.11%) Azure
2 14 (31.11%) Microsoft 365
3 11 (24.44%) GitHub
4 7 (15.56%) Entra ID
5 6 (13.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 4 (8.89%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.67%) SD-WAN
1 3 (6.67%) VoIP
1 3 (6.67%) WAN
2 1 (2.22%) Firewall
2 1 (2.22%) NAS
2 1 (2.22%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (17.78%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (24.44%) Git
1 11 (24.44%) GitLab
General
1 16 (35.56%) Banking
2 12 (26.67%) Finance
3 11 (24.44%) Investment Banking
4 2 (4.44%) Law
5 1 (2.22%) Legal
5 1 (2.22%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 13 (28.89%) Data Centre
2 3 (6.67%) PKI
3 1 (2.22%) Housing Association
Operating Systems
1 45 (100.00%) Windows
1 45 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 11 (24.44%) Linux
2 11 (24.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (13.33%) Windows Server 2012
4 5 (11.11%) Windows 10
4 5 (11.11%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (8.89%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (42.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 17 (37.78%) DevOps
3 11 (24.44%) Asset Management
3 11 (24.44%) CI/CD
4 9 (20.00%) Project Delivery
5 6 (13.33%) Computer Science
5 6 (13.33%) Customer Service
5 6 (13.33%) Data Protection
5 6 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (13.33%) Root Cause Analysis
5 6 (13.33%) Service Management
6 4 (8.89%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (8.89%) Service Delivery
7 3 (6.67%) Change Management
7 3 (6.67%) ITIL
7 3 (6.67%) Project Management
7 3 (6.67%) Service Desk Management
8 2 (4.44%) Virtual Infrastructure
9 1 (2.22%) Customer-Centric Approach
9 1 (2.22%) Customer-Centricity
Programming Languages
1 17 (37.78%) PowerShell
2 11 (24.44%) Bash
2 11 (24.44%) Korn
2 11 (24.44%) Perl
2 11 (24.44%) Python
2 11 (24.44%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 9 (20.00%) Degree
2 6 (13.33%) AWS Certification
2 6 (13.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 6 (13.33%) SC Cleared
2 6 (13.33%) Security Cleared
3 4 (8.89%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (8.89%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 3 (6.67%) Azure Certification
5 2 (4.44%) MCSA
5 2 (4.44%) MCSE
System Software
1 24 (53.33%) Active Directory
2 8 (17.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (8.89%) Hyper-V
3 4 (8.89%) vSphere
4 3 (6.67%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (2.22%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (2.22%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 11 (24.44%) Ansible
1 11 (24.44%) Puppet
1 11 (24.44%) Red Hat Satellite
2 5 (11.11%) SCCM
3 2 (4.44%) SCOM
4 1 (2.22%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 26 (57.78%) Microsoft
2 11 (24.44%) Red Hat
2 11 (24.44%) Sun
2 11 (24.44%) TOWER Software
2 11 (24.44%) VMware
3 4 (8.89%) Oracle
3 4 (8.89%) ServiceNow