Windows Engineer Jobs in England

Windows Engineer
UK > England

The median Windows Engineer salary in England is £57,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 July 2025.

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

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 644 739 657
Rank change year-on-year +95 -82 +370
Permanent jobs requiring a Windows Engineer 50 130 216
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.098% 0.14% 0.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.15% 0.30%
Number of salaries quoted 45 105 176
10th Percentile £36,250 £30,000 £25,625
25th Percentile £46,250 £34,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £40,000 £53,750
Median % change year-on-year +43.75% -25.58% +15.59%
75th Percentile £78,750 £65,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £96,250 £80,000 £91,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £42,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +35.29% -19.05% +15.38%

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 46,001 89,053 72,349
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.54% 94.65% 91.17%
Number of salaries quoted 25,119 64,627 48,533
10th Percentile £27,750 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £39,000 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -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 1 July 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 1 July 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 +94 32 £72,500 +3.57% 58
South East +45 6 £50,000 +47.06% 15
Midlands +69 5 £51,250 +48.55% 5
East Midlands +47 4 £51,250 - 3
North of England +56 2 £52,500 +16.67% 5
South West +99 1 £37,500 -
West Midlands +58 1 - - 2
Yorkshire +52 1 £40,000 -11.11% 2
East of England +32 1 £42,000 +8.39% 4
North West +16 1 £65,000 +30.00% 3
Windows Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 July 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 50 (100.00%) Windows
2 30 (60.00%) Windows Server
3 28 (56.00%) Azure
4 26 (52.00%) Active Directory
5 25 (50.00%) Microsoft
6 23 (46.00%) VMware
7 18 (36.00%) Linux
7 18 (36.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 17 (34.00%) AWS
8 17 (34.00%) Microsoft 365
9 16 (32.00%) VMware Infrastructure
9 16 (32.00%) PowerShell
10 15 (30.00%) VMware ESXi
10 15 (30.00%) Social Skills
11 14 (28.00%) Ansible
11 14 (28.00%) Finance
12 13 (26.00%) DevOps
12 13 (26.00%) Entra ID
13 12 (24.00%) Microsoft Exchange
13 12 (24.00%) CI/CD
14 11 (22.00%) DNS
14 11 (22.00%) Windows Server 2012
15 10 (20.00%) Hedge funds
15 10 (20.00%) Degree
15 10 (20.00%) DHCP
15 10 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
16 9 (18.00%) Microsoft Certification
16 9 (18.00%) TCP/IP
16 9 (18.00%) Windows Server 2019
17 8 (16.00%) SQL Server

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 12 (24.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (8.00%) Apache
3 2 (4.00%) IIS
3 2 (4.00%) JBoss
3 2 (4.00%) WebSphere
4 1 (2.00%) Confluence
4 1 (2.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 28 (56.00%) Azure
2 17 (34.00%) AWS
2 17 (34.00%) Microsoft 365
3 13 (26.00%) Entra ID
4 7 (14.00%) Nutanix
5 6 (12.00%) Cloud Computing
5 6 (12.00%) IaaS
5 6 (12.00%) PaaS
5 6 (12.00%) SaaS
6 5 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (10.00%) GCP
7 3 (6.00%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (4.00%) OpenShift
9 1 (2.00%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (2.00%) Amazon S3
9 1 (2.00%) Cloudflare
9 1 (2.00%) Google Workspace
9 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (2.00%) Mimecast
9 1 (2.00%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 11 (22.00%) DNS
2 10 (20.00%) DHCP
3 9 (18.00%) TCP/IP
4 8 (16.00%) Firewall
5 5 (10.00%) LAN
6 4 (8.00%) WAN
7 3 (6.00%) Internet
8 2 (4.00%) VPN
8 2 (4.00%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (4.00%) Wireless
9 1 (2.00%) Cisco IOS
9 1 (2.00%) IPv4
9 1 (2.00%) Kerberos
9 1 (2.00%) NAS
9 1 (2.00%) NetScaler
9 1 (2.00%) Network Security
9 1 (2.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (16.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (6.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 5 (10.00%) Jenkins
2 4 (8.00%) JIRA
3 3 (6.00%) Git
3 3 (6.00%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (4.00%) Ant
4 2 (4.00%) Artifactory
4 2 (4.00%) Maven
5 1 (2.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (2.00%) Bitbucket
General
1 15 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 14 (28.00%) Finance
3 7 (14.00%) Banking
4 5 (10.00%) Investment Banking
5 4 (8.00%) Legal
6 2 (4.00%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.00%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.00%) ARM Templates
2 2 (4.00%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (4.00%) Kafka
2 2 (4.00%) Middleware
3 1 (2.00%) .NET
3 1 (2.00%) 802.1X
3 1 (2.00%) LAMP
3 1 (2.00%) LAPP Stack
3 1 (2.00%) LDAP
3 1 (2.00%) Node.js
3 1 (2.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 10 (20.00%) Hedge funds
2 5 (10.00%) Clustering
3 4 (8.00%) Driving Licence
3 4 (8.00%) Replication
4 3 (6.00%) Data Centre
4 3 (6.00%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (6.00%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (6.00%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (6.00%) Management Information System
5 2 (4.00%) Onboarding
5 2 (4.00%) PKI
5 2 (4.00%) Public Cloud
6 1 (2.00%) iPad
6 1 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 50 (100.00%) Windows
2 30 (60.00%) Windows Server
3 18 (36.00%) Linux
4 11 (22.00%) Windows Server 2012
5 9 (18.00%) Windows Server 2019
6 7 (14.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (14.00%) Windows 10
6 7 (14.00%) Windows Server 2016
7 5 (10.00%) Windows Server 2008
8 2 (4.00%) Unix
9 1 (2.00%) AIX
9 1 (2.00%) Debian
9 1 (2.00%) Mac OS
9 1 (2.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (36.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 13 (26.00%) DevOps
3 12 (24.00%) CI/CD
4 10 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 8 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (14.00%) ITIL
7 6 (12.00%) Agile
7 6 (12.00%) Customer Service
7 6 (12.00%) High Availability
7 6 (12.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 6 (12.00%) Patch Management
7 6 (12.00%) Project Delivery
7 6 (12.00%) Security Hardening
7 6 (12.00%) Systems Engineering
8 5 (10.00%) Task Automation
9 4 (8.00%) Collaborative Working
9 4 (8.00%) Configuration Management
9 4 (8.00%) Incident Management
9 4 (8.00%) Microservices
9 4 (8.00%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 16 (32.00%) PowerShell
2 5 (10.00%) Bash
3 4 (8.00%) Python
4 3 (6.00%) SQL
5 2 (4.00%) Groovy
6 1 (2.00%) C++
6 1 (2.00%) Java
6 1 (2.00%) Rust
6 1 (2.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (20.00%) Degree
2 9 (18.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (10.00%) SC Cleared
3 5 (10.00%) Security Cleared
4 4 (8.00%) MCSA
5 3 (6.00%) Azure Certification
6 2 (4.00%) A+ Certification
6 2 (4.00%) DV Cleared
6 2 (4.00%) MCP
6 2 (4.00%) MCSE
7 1 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (2.00%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.00%) GDPR
2 4 (8.00%) SLA
3 3 (6.00%) HIPAA
3 3 (6.00%) SOC 2
4 1 (2.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 26 (52.00%) Active Directory
2 16 (32.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (30.00%) VMware ESXi
4 6 (12.00%) vSphere
5 4 (8.00%) Hyper-V
5 4 (8.00%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (6.00%) Docker
6 3 (6.00%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (2.00%) BitLocker
7 1 (2.00%) KVM
7 1 (2.00%) VMware Workstation
7 1 (2.00%) Xen
Systems Management
1 14 (28.00%) Ansible
2 8 (16.00%) SCCM
2 8 (16.00%) Terraform
3 7 (14.00%) Kubernetes
4 5 (10.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 4 (8.00%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (8.00%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (6.00%) Puppet
6 3 (6.00%) vCenter Server
7 2 (4.00%) Podman
8 1 (2.00%) CFEngine
8 1 (2.00%) Packer
8 1 (2.00%) Progress Chef
8 1 (2.00%) WMI
Vendors
1 25 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 23 (46.00%) VMware
3 6 (12.00%) Cisco
4 5 (10.00%) NetApp
4 5 (10.00%) Oracle
5 4 (8.00%) Citrix
5 4 (8.00%) EMC
5 4 (8.00%) TOWER Software
6 3 (6.00%) ServiceNow
7 2 (4.00%) arcserve
7 2 (4.00%) Bloomberg
7 2 (4.00%) Extreme Networks
7 2 (4.00%) Meraki
7 2 (4.00%) Reuters
7 2 (4.00%) SolarWinds
8 1 (2.00%) Apple
8 1 (2.00%) Draytek
8 1 (2.00%) Fortinet
8 1 (2.00%) Google
8 1 (2.00%) Red Hat