Windows Engineer Jobs in England

Windows Engineer
UK > England

The median Windows Engineer salary in England is £71,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 9 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
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 615 680 713
Rank change year-on-year +65 +33 +258
Permanent jobs requiring a Windows Engineer 56 151 223
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.12% 0.18% 0.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.19% 0.27%
Number of salaries quoted 50 134 180
10th Percentile £36,250 £30,000 £25,675
25th Percentile £49,000 £32,500 £35,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,000 £37,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +89.33% -34.78% +20.42%
75th Percentile £85,938 £70,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £97,750 £98,000 £91,250
UK median annual salary £71,000 £42,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +67.06% -22.73% +15.79%

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 43,417 81,048 82,564
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.53% 94.49% 91.47%
Number of salaries quoted 24,595 60,528 52,373
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £38,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £91,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.52% -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 9 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 9 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 +95 40 £80,000 +10.34% 32
Midlands +53 7 £42,500 +23.19% 1
East Midlands +49 5 £47,500 +7.95%
South East +46 3 £50,000 +47.06% 17
West Midlands +45 2 £37,500 +10.29% 1
East of England +34 2 £46,000 +31.43% 1
North of England +41 1 £65,000 +44.44% 3
North West +11 1 £65,000 +136.36% 2
Windows Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 9 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 56 (100.00%) Windows
2 38 (67.86%) Windows Server
3 32 (57.14%) Azure
4 29 (51.79%) VMware
5 28 (50.00%) Microsoft
5 28 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 26 (46.43%) Active Directory
7 22 (39.29%) AWS
8 21 (37.50%) Linux
8 21 (37.50%) PowerShell
9 20 (35.71%) VMware Infrastructure
9 20 (35.71%) Microsoft 365
10 18 (32.14%) Finance
11 16 (28.57%) Ansible
11 16 (28.57%) DevOps
12 14 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
12 14 (25.00%) Degree
12 14 (25.00%) Social Skills
12 14 (25.00%) CI/CD
13 13 (23.21%) SCCM
13 13 (23.21%) Microsoft Exchange
14 12 (21.43%) Cisco
14 12 (21.43%) Disaster Recovery
14 12 (21.43%) Windows 10
15 11 (19.64%) Problem-Solving
16 10 (17.86%) Terraform
16 10 (17.86%) Firewall
16 10 (17.86%) Microsoft Certification
16 10 (17.86%) DNS
16 10 (17.86%) 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 13 (23.21%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (8.93%) IIS
3 2 (3.57%) Apache
4 1 (1.79%) Confluence
4 1 (1.79%) JBoss
4 1 (1.79%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (10.71%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 32 (57.14%) Azure
2 22 (39.29%) AWS
3 20 (35.71%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (16.07%) Entra ID
4 9 (16.07%) GCP
5 8 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (12.50%) Nutanix
7 6 (10.71%) Cloud Computing
8 5 (8.93%) IaaS
8 5 (8.93%) PaaS
8 5 (8.93%) SaaS
9 4 (7.14%) Mimecast
10 3 (5.36%) Azure Monitor
11 1 (1.79%) Amazon EC2
11 1 (1.79%) Amazon S3
11 1 (1.79%) Cloudflare
11 1 (1.79%) Google Workspace
11 1 (1.79%) OpenShift
11 1 (1.79%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 10 (17.86%) DNS
1 10 (17.86%) Firewall
2 8 (14.29%) DHCP
2 8 (14.29%) TCP/IP
3 3 (5.36%) LAN
3 3 (5.36%) Wireless
4 2 (3.57%) VPN
4 2 (3.57%) WAN
5 1 (1.79%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (1.79%) Internet
5 1 (1.79%) Kerberos
5 1 (1.79%) NAS
5 1 (1.79%) NetScaler
5 1 (1.79%) Network Security
5 1 (1.79%) SAN
5 1 (1.79%) SNMP
5 1 (1.79%) VLAN
5 1 (1.79%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (17.86%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (8.93%) JIRA
2 4 (7.14%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.57%) Git
3 2 (3.57%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (1.79%) Ant
4 1 (1.79%) Artifactory
4 1 (1.79%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (1.79%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.79%) Maven
General
1 18 (32.14%) Finance
2 14 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 7 (12.50%) Banking
4 5 (8.93%) Investment Banking
5 2 (3.57%) Legal
5 2 (3.57%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.79%) Retail
6 1 (1.79%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.36%) ARM Templates
2 2 (3.57%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (1.79%) 802.1X
3 1 (1.79%) Kafka
3 1 (1.79%) LDAP
3 1 (1.79%) Middleware
3 1 (1.79%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 8 (14.29%) Hedge funds
2 6 (10.71%) Management Information System
3 5 (8.93%) Clustering
4 4 (7.14%) Data Centre
4 4 (7.14%) Replication
5 3 (5.36%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (5.36%) Driving Licence
5 3 (5.36%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (3.57%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.79%) Client/Server
7 1 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.79%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.79%) iPad
7 1 (1.79%) PKI
7 1 (1.79%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 56 (100.00%) Windows
2 38 (67.86%) Windows Server
3 21 (37.50%) Linux
4 12 (21.43%) Windows 10
5 9 (16.07%) Windows Server 2012
5 9 (16.07%) Windows Server 2019
6 7 (12.50%) Windows Server 2016
7 6 (10.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (8.93%) Windows Server 2008
9 3 (5.36%) AIX
10 1 (1.79%) Debian
10 1 (1.79%) Mac OS
10 1 (1.79%) Ubuntu
10 1 (1.79%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 16 (28.57%) DevOps
3 14 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 12 (21.43%) Disaster Recovery
5 11 (19.64%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (16.07%) High Availability
6 9 (16.07%) ITIL
7 8 (14.29%) Containerisation
8 7 (12.50%) Patch Management
9 6 (10.71%) Agile
9 6 (10.71%) Customer Service
9 6 (10.71%) Infrastructure as Code
9 6 (10.71%) Security Hardening
10 5 (8.93%) Platform Engineering
10 5 (8.93%) Project Delivery
10 5 (8.93%) Task Automation
10 5 (8.93%) Time Management
11 4 (7.14%) Computer Science
11 4 (7.14%) Service Management
11 4 (7.14%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 21 (37.50%) PowerShell
2 5 (8.93%) Python
3 4 (7.14%) SQL
4 3 (5.36%) Bash
5 1 (1.79%) C#
5 1 (1.79%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 14 (25.00%) Degree
2 10 (17.86%) Microsoft Certification
3 6 (10.71%) Security Cleared
4 5 (8.93%) SC Cleared
5 4 (7.14%) Azure Certification
5 4 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (7.14%) MCSA
6 3 (5.36%) DV Cleared
7 2 (3.57%) A+ Certification
7 2 (3.57%) MCP
7 2 (3.57%) MCSE
8 1 (1.79%) DBS Check
8 1 (1.79%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.93%) SLA
2 4 (7.14%) GDPR
3 3 (5.36%) HIPAA
3 3 (5.36%) SOC 2
4 1 (1.79%) Government Security Classifications
4 1 (1.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 26 (46.43%) Active Directory
2 20 (35.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
4 6 (10.71%) vSphere
5 4 (7.14%) Docker
5 4 (7.14%) Hyper-V
5 4 (7.14%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (3.57%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (1.79%) BitLocker
7 1 (1.79%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 16 (28.57%) Ansible
2 13 (23.21%) SCCM
3 10 (17.86%) Terraform
4 8 (14.29%) Kubernetes
5 5 (8.93%) vCenter Server
6 3 (5.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 3 (5.36%) NetBackup
7 2 (3.57%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (3.57%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (3.57%) WMI
8 1 (1.79%) Nagios
8 1 (1.79%) Packer
8 1 (1.79%) Podman
8 1 (1.79%) Puppet
8 1 (1.79%) WSUS
Vendors
1 29 (51.79%) VMware
2 28 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 12 (21.43%) Cisco
4 8 (14.29%) Citrix
5 5 (8.93%) NetApp
5 5 (8.93%) ServiceNow
6 4 (7.14%) EMC
6 4 (7.14%) Oracle
6 4 (7.14%) TOWER Software
6 4 (7.14%) Zscaler
7 2 (3.57%) arcserve
7 2 (3.57%) Extreme Networks
7 2 (3.57%) Google
7 2 (3.57%) Meraki
7 2 (3.57%) SolarWinds
8 1 (1.79%) Apple
8 1 (1.79%) Imperva
8 1 (1.79%) Palo Alto
8 1 (1.79%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.79%) Splunk