Windows Infrastructure Engineer Jobs in England

Windows Infrastructure Engineer
UK > England

The median Windows Infrastructure Engineer salary in England is £85,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 8 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
8 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 657 785 854
Rank change year-on-year +128 +69 +278
Permanent jobs requiring a Windows Infrastructure Engineer 20 49 75
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.042% 0.057% 0.082%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.046% 0.061% 0.090%
Number of salaries quoted 17 43 45
10th Percentile £51,500 £37,250 £44,750
25th Percentile £56,250 £45,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.43% +16.67% +25.65%
75th Percentile £87,500 £102,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £127,500 £91,250
UK median annual salary £85,000 £67,750 £55,000
% change year-on-year +25.46% +23.18% +12.53%

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 43,278 80,816 83,674
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.37% 94.49% 91.51%
Number of salaries quoted 24,456 60,386 53,004
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 £71,991 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £91,125 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,501 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.52% -12.50% -

Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows Infrastructure Engineer in England

Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Windows Infrastructure Engineer in England

Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows Infrastructure Engineer in England over the 6 months to 8 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Windows Infrastructure Engineer in England

Windows Infrastructure 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 Infrastructure Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 8 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 +90 16 £85,000 +6.25% 5
South East +105 2 £53,750 +7.50% 3
North of England +65 1 £65,000 +44.44%
East of England - 1 £50,000 -
North West - 1 £65,000 -
Windows Infrastructure Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 8 May 2025, Windows Infrastructure 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 Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 20 (100.00%) Windows
1 20 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 14 (70.00%) Windows Server
3 13 (65.00%) VMware
4 12 (60.00%) Azure
4 12 (60.00%) Microsoft 365
5 11 (55.00%) Microsoft
6 9 (45.00%) Linux
6 9 (45.00%) AWS
7 8 (40.00%) Cisco
8 7 (35.00%) VMware Infrastructure
8 7 (35.00%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (30.00%) Terraform
9 6 (30.00%) SCCM
9 6 (30.00%) PowerShell
9 6 (30.00%) ITIL
9 6 (30.00%) Citrix
9 6 (30.00%) Finance
9 6 (30.00%) Disaster Recovery
10 5 (25.00%) Active Directory
10 5 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
10 5 (25.00%) Degree
10 5 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (25.00%) Windows 10
10 5 (25.00%) ServiceNow
10 5 (25.00%) DevOps
11 4 (20.00%) Patch Management
11 4 (20.00%) Kubernetes
11 4 (20.00%) High Availability
11 4 (20.00%) CI/CD

Windows Infrastructure 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 5 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (15.00%) IIS
3 1 (5.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 12 (60.00%) Azure
1 12 (60.00%) Microsoft 365
2 9 (45.00%) AWS
3 5 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (15.00%) GCP
4 3 (15.00%) Mimecast
5 2 (10.00%) Entra ID
6 1 (5.00%) IaaS
6 1 (5.00%) Nutanix
6 1 (5.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.00%) Wireless
2 2 (10.00%) DHCP
2 2 (10.00%) DNS
2 2 (10.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (5.00%) Firewall
3 1 (5.00%) LAN
3 1 (5.00%) NetScaler
3 1 (5.00%) Network Security
3 1 (5.00%) SNMP
3 1 (5.00%) VLAN
3 1 (5.00%) VPN
3 1 (5.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (15.00%) JIRA
2 1 (5.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (5.00%) Bitbucket
2 1 (5.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 6 (30.00%) Finance
2 2 (10.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Legal
3 1 (5.00%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.00%) Hedge funds
2 1 (5.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 20 (100.00%) Windows
2 14 (70.00%) Windows Server
3 9 (45.00%) Linux
4 5 (25.00%) Windows 10
5 3 (15.00%) AIX
6 2 (10.00%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (5.00%) Debian
7 1 (5.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (5.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 7 (35.00%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (30.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 6 (30.00%) ITIL
4 5 (25.00%) DevOps
5 4 (20.00%) CI/CD
5 4 (20.00%) Containerisation
5 4 (20.00%) High Availability
5 4 (20.00%) Patch Management
6 3 (15.00%) Server Migrations
6 3 (15.00%) Systems Engineering
6 3 (15.00%) Time Management
7 2 (10.00%) Antivirus Management
7 2 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (10.00%) Vulnerability Management
8 1 (5.00%) BCP
8 1 (5.00%) ITSM
8 1 (5.00%) Performance Monitoring
8 1 (5.00%) Security Hardening
8 1 (5.00%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (30.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (15.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (25.00%) Degree
2 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (10.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (5.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (5.00%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) SLA
2 1 (5.00%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 7 (35.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (25.00%) Active Directory
3 3 (15.00%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (15.00%) vSphere
4 2 (10.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 6 (30.00%) SCCM
1 6 (30.00%) Terraform
2 4 (20.00%) Kubernetes
3 3 (15.00%) Ansible
3 3 (15.00%) NetBackup
3 3 (15.00%) vCenter Server
4 1 (5.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (5.00%) Packer
4 1 (5.00%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (5.00%) WMI
4 1 (5.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 13 (65.00%) VMware
2 11 (55.00%) Microsoft
3 8 (40.00%) Cisco
4 6 (30.00%) Citrix
5 5 (25.00%) ServiceNow
6 3 (15.00%) Zscaler
7 2 (10.00%) Extreme Networks
8 1 (5.00%) Fortinet
8 1 (5.00%) Meraki
8 1 (5.00%) Red Hat
8 1 (5.00%) SolarWinds
8 1 (5.00%) Tanium