Windows Engineer Jobs in England

Windows Engineer
UK > England

The median Windows Engineer salary in England is £61,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 19 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
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 634 686 700
Rank change year-on-year +52 +14 +303
Permanent jobs requiring a Windows Engineer 52 147 225
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.11% 0.17% 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.18% 0.28%
Number of salaries quoted 46 129 183
10th Percentile £36,250 £30,000 £25,850
25th Percentile £47,875 £32,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 £40,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +53.13% -30.43% +17.35%
75th Percentile £83,750 £70,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £96,250 £90,500 £91,250
UK median annual salary £61,250 £42,500 £57,472
% change year-on-year +44.12% -26.05% +17.29%

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 44,992 81,767 80,747
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.03% 94.55% 91.53%
Number of salaries quoted 24,381 60,882 51,425
10th Percentile £29,750 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,125 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £53,000 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +5.66% -12.83% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,320 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +5.37% -12.50% -

Windows Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows Engineer in England

Windows Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Windows Engineer in England

Windows Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows Engineer in England over the 6 months to 19 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Windows Engineer in England

Windows Engineer
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 Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 19 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 +93 36 £72,500 - 33
Midlands +62 7 £42,500 +23.19% 1
East Midlands +29 5 £47,500 +7.95%
South East +48 3 £50,000 +47.06% 19
East of England +35 2 £46,000 +22.67% 8
West Midlands +31 2 £37,500 +10.29% 1
North of England +36 1 £65,000 +44.44% 6
North West -7 1 £65,000 +136.36% 5
Windows Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 19 May 2025, 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 England region featuring Windows Engineer in the job title.

1 52 (100.00%) Windows
2 34 (65.38%) Windows Server
3 29 (55.77%) Azure
4 28 (53.85%) VMware
5 27 (51.92%) Microsoft
6 25 (48.08%) Active Directory
7 24 (46.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 21 (40.38%) Linux
9 20 (38.46%) AWS
10 19 (36.54%) Microsoft 365
10 19 (36.54%) VMware Infrastructure
11 18 (34.62%) PowerShell
12 15 (28.85%) Ansible
12 15 (28.85%) Finance
13 14 (26.92%) DevOps
13 14 (26.92%) VMware ESXi
14 13 (25.00%) SCCM
14 13 (25.00%) CI/CD
15 12 (23.08%) Social Skills
15 12 (23.08%) Degree
15 12 (23.08%) Windows 10
16 11 (21.15%) Disaster Recovery
16 11 (21.15%) Microsoft Exchange
17 10 (19.23%) Cisco
17 10 (19.23%) DNS
17 10 (19.23%) SQL Server
17 10 (19.23%) Firewall
17 10 (19.23%) Terraform
18 9 (17.31%) Problem-Solving
18 9 (17.31%) Entra ID

Windows Engineer 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 11 (21.15%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (5.77%) Apache
2 3 (5.77%) IIS
3 1 (1.92%) Confluence
3 1 (1.92%) JBoss
3 1 (1.92%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (11.54%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 29 (55.77%) Azure
2 20 (38.46%) AWS
3 19 (36.54%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (17.31%) Entra ID
5 7 (13.46%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (13.46%) Nutanix
6 6 (11.54%) Cloud Computing
6 6 (11.54%) GCP
6 6 (11.54%) IaaS
6 6 (11.54%) PaaS
6 6 (11.54%) SaaS
7 3 (5.77%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (3.85%) Mimecast
9 1 (1.92%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (1.92%) Amazon S3
9 1 (1.92%) Cloudflare
9 1 (1.92%) Google Workspace
9 1 (1.92%) OpenShift
9 1 (1.92%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 10 (19.23%) DNS
1 10 (19.23%) Firewall
2 8 (15.38%) DHCP
2 8 (15.38%) TCP/IP
3 3 (5.77%) LAN
3 3 (5.77%) Wireless
4 2 (3.85%) VPN
4 2 (3.85%) WAN
5 1 (1.92%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (1.92%) Internet
5 1 (1.92%) Kerberos
5 1 (1.92%) NAS
5 1 (1.92%) NetScaler
5 1 (1.92%) Network Security
5 1 (1.92%) SAN
5 1 (1.92%) SNMP
5 1 (1.92%) VLAN
5 1 (1.92%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (19.23%) SQL Server
2 3 (5.77%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.92%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (7.69%) Jenkins
1 4 (7.69%) JIRA
2 2 (3.85%) Git
2 2 (3.85%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (1.92%) Ant
3 1 (1.92%) Artifactory
3 1 (1.92%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (1.92%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.92%) Maven
General
1 15 (28.85%) Finance
2 12 (23.08%) Social Skills
3 7 (13.46%) Banking
4 5 (9.62%) Investment Banking
5 2 (3.85%) Legal
5 2 (3.85%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.92%) Retail
6 1 (1.92%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.77%) ARM Templates
2 1 (1.92%) .NET
2 1 (1.92%) 802.1X
2 1 (1.92%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (1.92%) Kafka
2 1 (1.92%) LAMP
2 1 (1.92%) LAPP Stack
2 1 (1.92%) LDAP
2 1 (1.92%) Middleware
2 1 (1.92%) Node.js
2 1 (1.92%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 8 (15.38%) Hedge funds
2 5 (9.62%) Clustering
3 4 (7.69%) Data Centre
3 4 (7.69%) Management Information System
3 4 (7.69%) Replication
4 3 (5.77%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (5.77%) Driving Licence
4 3 (5.77%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (3.85%) Onboarding
5 2 (3.85%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.92%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.92%) iPad
6 1 (1.92%) PKI
6 1 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 52 (100.00%) Windows
2 34 (65.38%) Windows Server
3 21 (40.38%) Linux
4 12 (23.08%) Windows 10
5 9 (17.31%) Windows Server 2012
5 9 (17.31%) Windows Server 2019
6 7 (13.46%) Windows Server 2016
7 6 (11.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (9.62%) Windows Server 2008
9 3 (5.77%) AIX
10 2 (3.85%) Unix
11 1 (1.92%) Debian
11 1 (1.92%) Mac OS
11 1 (1.92%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (46.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 14 (26.92%) DevOps
3 13 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 11 (21.15%) Disaster Recovery
5 9 (17.31%) ITIL
5 9 (17.31%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (15.38%) High Availability
7 6 (11.54%) Agile
7 6 (11.54%) Containerisation
7 6 (11.54%) Customer Service
7 6 (11.54%) Infrastructure as Code
7 6 (11.54%) Patch Management
7 6 (11.54%) Security Hardening
8 5 (9.62%) Project Delivery
8 5 (9.62%) Time Management
9 4 (7.69%) Microservices
9 4 (7.69%) Platform Engineering
9 4 (7.69%) SDLC
9 4 (7.69%) Service Management
9 4 (7.69%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 18 (34.62%) PowerShell
2 5 (9.62%) Python
3 4 (7.69%) Bash
3 4 (7.69%) SQL
4 1 (1.92%) Groovy
4 1 (1.92%) Java
4 1 (1.92%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (23.08%) Degree
2 9 (17.31%) Microsoft Certification
3 6 (11.54%) Security Cleared
4 5 (9.62%) SC Cleared
5 4 (7.69%) MCSA
6 3 (5.77%) Azure Certification
6 3 (5.77%) DV Cleared
7 2 (3.85%) A+ Certification
7 2 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (3.85%) MCP
7 2 (3.85%) MCSE
8 1 (1.92%) DBS Check
8 1 (1.92%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.62%) SLA
2 4 (7.69%) GDPR
3 3 (5.77%) HIPAA
3 3 (5.77%) SOC 2
4 1 (1.92%) Government Security Classifications
4 1 (1.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 25 (48.08%) Active Directory
2 19 (36.54%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (26.92%) VMware ESXi
4 6 (11.54%) vSphere
5 4 (7.69%) Hyper-V
5 4 (7.69%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (5.77%) Docker
7 2 (3.85%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (1.92%) BitLocker
8 1 (1.92%) Firmware
8 1 (1.92%) KVM
8 1 (1.92%) Xen
Systems Management
1 15 (28.85%) Ansible
2 13 (25.00%) SCCM
3 10 (19.23%) Terraform
4 8 (15.38%) Kubernetes
5 5 (9.62%) vCenter Server
6 3 (5.77%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (3.85%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (3.85%) Puppet
7 2 (3.85%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (3.85%) WMI
8 1 (1.92%) CFEngine
8 1 (1.92%) NetBackup
8 1 (1.92%) Packer
8 1 (1.92%) Podman
8 1 (1.92%) Progress Chef
8 1 (1.92%) WSUS
Vendors
1 28 (53.85%) VMware
2 27 (51.92%) Microsoft
3 10 (19.23%) Cisco
4 8 (15.38%) Citrix
5 5 (9.62%) NetApp
5 5 (9.62%) Oracle
5 5 (9.62%) ServiceNow
6 4 (7.69%) EMC
6 4 (7.69%) TOWER Software
7 2 (3.85%) arcserve
7 2 (3.85%) Extreme Networks
7 2 (3.85%) Meraki
7 2 (3.85%) SolarWinds
7 2 (3.85%) Zscaler
8 1 (1.92%) Centrify
8 1 (1.92%) CrowdStrike
8 1 (1.92%) Imperva
8 1 (1.92%) Okta
8 1 (1.92%) Palo Alto
8 1 (1.92%) Tanium