Windows Administrator Jobs in England

Windows Administrator
UK > England

The median Windows Administrator salary in England is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 31 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 668 835 877
Rank change year-on-year +167 +42 +285
Permanent jobs requiring a Windows Administrator 11 15 28
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.022% 0.017% 0.033%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.025% 0.018% 0.036%
Number of salaries quoted 5 12 26
10th Percentile £58,400 - £35,625
25th Percentile £65,000 £31,000 £38,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £32,983 £48,250
Median % change year-on-year +127.39% -31.64% -12.27%
75th Percentile - £33,966 £67,188
90th Percentile £78,000 £56,947 £71,875
UK median annual salary £75,000 £32,983 £48,250
% change year-on-year +127.39% -31.64% -12.27%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 44,774 85,031 77,815
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.79% 94.67% 91.36%
Number of salaries quoted 23,692 62,917 50,230
10th Percentile £29,000 £28,500 £32,750
25th Percentile £41,000 £38,066 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £52,500 £60,567
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -13.32% +0.95%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £96,250 £90,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Windows Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows Administrator in England

Windows Administrator
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Windows Administrator in England

Windows Administrator
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows Administrator in England over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Windows Administrator in England

Windows Administrator
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows Administrator within the England region over the 6 months to 31 May 2025. 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
London +112 8 £65,000 -
East of England - 2 £75,000 -
South West +112 1 - -
Windows Administrator
UK

Windows Administrator Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 31 May 2025, Windows Administrator 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 England region featuring Windows Administrator in the job title.

1 11 (100.00%) Windows
2 9 (81.82%) Active Directory
3 8 (72.73%) Linux
3 8 (72.73%) Windows Server
4 7 (63.64%) Disaster Recovery
4 7 (63.64%) Microsoft
4 7 (63.64%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (63.64%) Data Centre
5 6 (54.55%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (54.55%) VMware
5 6 (54.55%) Cisco
6 5 (45.45%) Management Information System
6 5 (45.45%) Finance
6 5 (45.45%) AIX
6 5 (45.45%) Citrix
6 5 (45.45%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (45.45%) ITIL Certification
6 5 (45.45%) IBM AIX Certification
6 5 (45.45%) ITIL
6 5 (45.45%) SLA
6 5 (45.45%) Problem Management
6 5 (45.45%) SCCM
6 5 (45.45%) Windows 10
6 5 (45.45%) AWS Certification
6 5 (45.45%) AWS
6 5 (45.45%) Virtual Infrastructure
7 4 (36.36%) DevOps
7 4 (36.36%) Firewall
8 3 (27.27%) PowerShell
8 3 (27.27%) Azure

Windows Administrator Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (9.09%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 7 (63.64%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (45.45%) AWS
3 3 (27.27%) Azure
4 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (9.09%) Entra ID
4 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (9.09%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (36.36%) Firewall
2 2 (18.18%) VPN
3 1 (9.09%) DHCP
3 1 (9.09%) DNS
3 1 (9.09%) VLAN
General
1 5 (45.45%) Finance
2 1 (9.09%) Aerospace
2 1 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (9.09%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 7 (63.64%) Data Centre
2 5 (45.45%) Management Information System
3 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
3 1 (9.09%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (9.09%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 11 (100.00%) Windows
2 8 (72.73%) Linux
2 8 (72.73%) Windows Server
3 5 (45.45%) AIX
3 5 (45.45%) Windows 10
4 1 (9.09%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (9.09%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) Disaster Recovery
2 5 (45.45%) ITIL
2 5 (45.45%) Problem Management
2 5 (45.45%) Virtual Infrastructure
3 4 (36.36%) DevOps
4 2 (18.18%) Change Control
4 2 (18.18%) Collaborative Working
4 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (9.09%) Creative Thinking
5 1 (9.09%) Data Protection
5 1 (9.09%) Information Security
5 1 (9.09%) Mentoring
5 1 (9.09%) Migration
5 1 (9.09%) Network Management
5 1 (9.09%) Performance Optimisation
5 1 (9.09%) Platform Engineering
5 1 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) PowerShell
2 2 (18.18%) Bash
2 2 (18.18%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (45.45%) AWS Certification
1 5 (45.45%) Cisco Certification
1 5 (45.45%) IBM AIX Certification
1 5 (45.45%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (45.45%) SLA
2 2 (18.18%) PCI DSS
3 1 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (9.09%) SOC 2
System Software
1 9 (81.82%) Active Directory
2 6 (54.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (9.09%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 5 (45.45%) SCCM
2 1 (9.09%) Ansible
2 1 (9.09%) Graylog
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (9.09%) Nagios
2 1 (9.09%) Opsgenie
2 1 (9.09%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (63.64%) Microsoft
2 6 (54.55%) Cisco
2 6 (54.55%) VMware
3 5 (45.45%) Citrix
4 1 (9.09%) IBM
4 1 (9.09%) Netskope
4 1 (9.09%) Palo Alto