Windows Engineer Jobs in England

Windows Engineer
UK > England

The median Windows Engineer salary in England is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 20 September 2024.

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

6 months to
20 Sep 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 654 556 905
Rank change year-on-year -98 +349 -191
Permanent jobs requiring a Windows Engineer 103 187 219
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.14% 0.33% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.35% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 78 162 160
10th Percentile £36,250 £25,750 £24,925
25th Percentile £42,188 £32,500 £37,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £42,048 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year +30.80% -18.35% +21.18%
75th Percentile £75,250 £74,688 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,500 £90,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £43,750 £51,835
% change year-on-year +25.71% -15.60% +21.96%

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 69,088 53,050 124,485
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.38% 94.36% 95.61%
Number of salaries quoted 39,631 39,423 73,022
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £44,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%

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 20 September 2024.

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 20 September 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
London -24 39 £70,000 - 12
South East -47 21 £48,925 +48.26%
North of England +6 16 £73,500 +167.27% 1
North West -5 16 £73,500 +167.27% 1
South West -5 9 £28,243 -32.83% 1
East of England -32 9 £38,750 +37.17% 1
Midlands -38 9 £50,000 +88.68% 1
West Midlands -17 7 £50,000 +25.00%
East Midlands -46 2 - - 1
Windows Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 20 September 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 across the England region featuring Windows Engineer in the job title.

1 103 (100.00%) Windows
2 63 (61.17%) Windows Server
3 51 (49.51%) Active Directory
4 42 (40.78%) Microsoft
4 42 (40.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 38 (36.89%) VMware
6 35 (33.98%) Azure
7 34 (33.01%) Security Cleared
8 28 (27.18%) PowerShell
9 27 (26.21%) Finance
10 26 (25.24%) SC Cleared
11 25 (24.27%) VMware Infrastructure
11 25 (24.27%) Microsoft 365
12 24 (23.30%) Social Skills
13 23 (22.33%) Windows 10
14 22 (21.36%) SCCM
15 20 (19.42%) Windows Server 2016
16 18 (17.48%) Windows Server 2019
16 18 (17.48%) DV Cleared
17 17 (16.50%) AWS
17 17 (16.50%) Python
18 15 (14.56%) ITIL
18 15 (14.56%) Customer Service
19 14 (13.59%) Windows Server 2012
20 13 (12.62%) Service Management
21 12 (11.65%) Banking
21 12 (11.65%) Software Engineering
21 12 (11.65%) Problem-Solving
22 11 (10.68%) Hyper-V
23 10 (9.71%) Ansible

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 6 (5.83%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (4.85%) SharePoint
3 4 (3.88%) Apache
4 2 (1.94%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (0.97%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 35 (33.98%) Azure
2 25 (24.27%) Microsoft 365
3 17 (16.50%) AWS
4 6 (5.83%) Entra ID
5 5 (4.85%) OCI
6 4 (3.88%) IaaS
6 4 (3.88%) Nutanix
6 4 (3.88%) OneDrive
6 4 (3.88%) PaaS
7 2 (1.94%) Azure AKS
8 1 (0.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (0.97%) Dropbox
Communications & Networking
1 10 (9.71%) DHCP
1 10 (9.71%) TCP/IP
2 8 (7.77%) DNS
3 5 (4.85%) LAN
3 5 (4.85%) WAN
4 3 (2.91%) SNMP
5 2 (1.94%) HTTP
5 2 (1.94%) IP Telephony
5 2 (1.94%) Network Security
5 2 (1.94%) SAN
5 2 (1.94%) VPN
6 1 (0.97%) Firewall
6 1 (0.97%) ISDN
6 1 (0.97%) Multicast
6 1 (0.97%) NAS
6 1 (0.97%) Unified Communications
6 1 (0.97%) VLAN
6 1 (0.97%) WebEx
6 1 (0.97%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.91%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.94%) MySQL
2 2 (1.94%) SQLite
3 1 (0.97%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 4 (3.88%) JIRA
2 3 (2.91%) Git
2 3 (2.91%) Visual Studio
3 2 (1.94%) Subversion
4 1 (0.97%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (0.97%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (0.97%) TeamCity
General
1 27 (26.21%) Finance
2 24 (23.30%) Social Skills
3 12 (11.65%) Banking
4 4 (3.88%) Police
5 2 (1.94%) Legal
5 2 (1.94%) Public Sector
6 1 (0.97%) Games
6 1 (0.97%) Investment Banking
6 1 (0.97%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.85%) WPF
2 3 (2.91%) WCF
3 2 (1.94%) .NET
3 2 (1.94%) WinForms
4 1 (0.97%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (0.97%) JSON
4 1 (0.97%) XMPP
4 1 (0.97%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (8.74%) Data Centre
2 5 (4.85%) Greenfield Project
3 4 (3.88%) Clustering
3 4 (3.88%) Distributed Computing
4 3 (2.91%) Derivative
4 3 (2.91%) Replication
5 2 (1.94%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.94%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.94%) Hedge funds
5 2 (1.94%) iPad
5 2 (1.94%) iPhone
5 2 (1.94%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.94%) Smartphone
6 1 (0.97%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (0.97%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.97%) Housing Association
6 1 (0.97%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.97%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.97%) PKI
6 1 (0.97%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 103 (100.00%) Windows
2 63 (61.17%) Windows Server
3 23 (22.33%) Windows 10
4 20 (19.42%) Windows Server 2016
5 18 (17.48%) Windows Server 2019
6 14 (13.59%) Windows Server 2012
7 9 (8.74%) Windows NT
8 7 (6.80%) Linux
9 4 (3.88%) Mac OS
10 2 (1.94%) Android
10 2 (1.94%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (40.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 15 (14.56%) Customer Service
2 15 (14.56%) ITIL
3 13 (12.62%) Service Management
4 12 (11.65%) Problem-Solving
4 12 (11.65%) Software Engineering
5 10 (9.71%) Computer Science
6 9 (8.74%) Deployment Automation
6 9 (8.74%) DevOps
6 9 (8.74%) Infrastructure as Code
6 9 (8.74%) Release Management
6 9 (8.74%) User Acceptance Testing
7 6 (5.83%) Cloud Security
7 6 (5.83%) Fintech
7 6 (5.83%) Incident Management
7 6 (5.83%) Low Latency
8 5 (4.85%) Continuous Improvement
8 5 (4.85%) Data Protection
8 5 (4.85%) Patch Management
8 5 (4.85%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 28 (27.18%) PowerShell
2 17 (16.50%) Python
3 7 (6.80%) C#
3 7 (6.80%) C++
4 3 (2.91%) C
5 2 (1.94%) Embedded C
5 2 (1.94%) Embedded C++
5 2 (1.94%) Perl
5 2 (1.94%) SQL
5 2 (1.94%) XAML
Qualifications
1 34 (33.01%) Security Cleared
2 26 (25.24%) SC Cleared
3 18 (17.48%) DV Cleared
4 8 (7.77%) Degree
5 7 (6.80%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.91%) Azure Certification
6 3 (2.91%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.94%) Microsoft Certified Master
8 1 (0.97%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.97%) CCNA
8 1 (0.97%) CCNP
8 1 (0.97%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.97%) JNCIA
8 1 (0.97%) JNCIE
8 1 (0.97%) JNCIP
8 1 (0.97%) JNCIS
8 1 (0.97%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.74%) QA
2 4 (3.88%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.94%) SLA
4 1 (0.97%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 51 (49.51%) Active Directory
2 25 (24.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (10.68%) Hyper-V
4 9 (8.74%) Firmware
5 6 (5.83%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (3.88%) vSphere
7 3 (2.91%) Docker
7 3 (2.91%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.97%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.97%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 22 (21.36%) SCCM
2 10 (9.71%) Ansible
2 10 (9.71%) WSUS
3 9 (8.74%) Sysprep
4 4 (3.88%) Grafana
4 4 (3.88%) IBM BigFix
4 4 (3.88%) Prometheus
4 4 (3.88%) Terraform
5 3 (2.91%) Kubernetes
5 3 (2.91%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (1.94%) Jamf Pro
6 2 (1.94%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
6 2 (1.94%) SCDPM
7 1 (0.97%) Cisco Prime
7 1 (0.97%) Nagios
7 1 (0.97%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.97%) Puppet
7 1 (0.97%) SCOM
7 1 (0.97%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.97%) WMI
Vendors
1 42 (40.78%) Microsoft
2 38 (36.89%) VMware
3 6 (5.83%) ServiceNow
4 5 (4.85%) Oracle
5 4 (3.88%) Cisco
6 3 (2.91%) Citrix
6 3 (2.91%) Veeam
7 2 (1.94%) Apple
7 2 (1.94%) Meraki
7 2 (1.94%) Parasoft
8 1 (0.97%) Dell
8 1 (0.97%) HP
8 1 (0.97%) Juniper
8 1 (0.97%) NETGEAR
8 1 (0.97%) SonicWALL
8 1 (0.97%) Splunk