Windows Server Engineer Jobs in England

Windows Server Engineer
UK > England

The median Windows Server Engineer salary in England is £61,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 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
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 674 800 881
Rank change year-on-year +126 +81 +244
Permanent jobs requiring a Windows Server Engineer 17 39 41
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.035% 0.045% 0.046%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.038% 0.048% 0.050%
Number of salaries quoted 14 39 38
10th Percentile £42,750 £32,500 £24,500
25th Percentile £49,000 £35,000 £39,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 £50,000 £54,500
Median % change year-on-year +22.50% -8.26% +6.86%
75th Percentile £76,250 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile - £102,500 £73,375
UK median annual salary £61,250 £50,000 £54,500
% change year-on-year +22.50% -8.26% +7.92%

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 44,402 81,024 81,740
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.75% 94.51% 91.54%
Number of salaries quoted 24,215 60,436 51,956
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £53,500 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +6.54% -12.01% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £91,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -12.50% -

Windows Server Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server Engineer in England

Windows Server Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Windows Server Engineer in England

Windows Server Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows Server Engineer in England over the 6 months to 15 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Windows Server Engineer in England

Windows Server 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 Server Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 15 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 +98 13 £71,250 +9.62% 6
South East +84 1 £42,500 +21.43% 6
North of England +55 1 £65,000 +30.00%
East of England +42 1 £42,000 +20.00%
East Midlands - 1 £47,500 -
Midlands - 1 £47,500 -
North West - 1 £65,000 -
Windows Server Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 15 May 2025, Windows Server 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 Server Engineer in the job title.

1 17 (100.00%) Windows
1 17 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 13 (76.47%) VMware
3 12 (70.59%) Microsoft
4 11 (64.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (64.71%) AWS
5 9 (52.94%) Azure
5 9 (52.94%) Linux
5 9 (52.94%) Disaster Recovery
5 9 (52.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 7 (41.18%) Degree
6 7 (41.18%) Cisco
6 7 (41.18%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (35.29%) Ansible
7 6 (35.29%) DevOps
7 6 (35.29%) Cloud Computing
7 6 (35.29%) ITIL
8 5 (29.41%) Nutanix
8 5 (29.41%) CI/CD
8 5 (29.41%) Windows Server 2016
8 5 (29.41%) Windows Server 2019
8 5 (29.41%) Active Directory
8 5 (29.41%) SLA
8 5 (29.41%) Finance
8 5 (29.41%) PowerShell
8 5 (29.41%) PaaS
8 5 (29.41%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (29.41%) Windows Server 2012
8 5 (29.41%) IaaS
9 4 (23.53%) High Availability

Windows Server 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 1 (5.88%) Apache
1 1 (5.88%) IIS
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 11 (64.71%) AWS
2 9 (52.94%) Azure
3 6 (35.29%) Cloud Computing
4 5 (29.41%) IaaS
4 5 (29.41%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (29.41%) Nutanix
4 5 (29.41%) PaaS
5 4 (23.53%) GCP
5 4 (23.53%) SaaS
6 2 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (11.76%) Entra ID
7 1 (5.88%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (5.88%) Cloudflare
7 1 (5.88%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 4 (23.53%) TCP/IP
2 2 (11.76%) Firewall
2 2 (11.76%) Wireless
3 1 (5.88%) DHCP
3 1 (5.88%) DNS
3 1 (5.88%) NAS
3 1 (5.88%) NetScaler
3 1 (5.88%) Network Security
3 1 (5.88%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Jenkins
1 1 (5.88%) JIRA
General
1 5 (29.41%) Finance
2 2 (11.76%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Banking
3 1 (5.88%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.88%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Clustering
1 4 (23.53%) Replication
2 3 (17.65%) Data Centre
2 3 (17.65%) Management Information System
3 1 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (5.88%) Driving Licence
3 1 (5.88%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (5.88%) Hedge funds
3 1 (5.88%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (5.88%) PKI
3 1 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 17 (100.00%) Windows
1 17 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 9 (52.94%) Linux
3 5 (29.41%) Windows Server 2012
3 5 (29.41%) Windows Server 2016
3 5 (29.41%) Windows Server 2019
4 4 (23.53%) Windows Server 2008
5 3 (17.65%) AIX
5 3 (17.65%) Windows 10
6 1 (5.88%) Debian
6 1 (5.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (5.88%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (52.94%) Disaster Recovery
1 9 (52.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (35.29%) DevOps
2 6 (35.29%) ITIL
3 5 (29.41%) CI/CD
4 4 (23.53%) High Availability
4 4 (23.53%) Platform Engineering
4 4 (23.53%) Project Delivery
4 4 (23.53%) Security Hardening
5 3 (17.65%) Customer Service
5 3 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (17.65%) Time Management
6 2 (11.76%) Agile
6 2 (11.76%) Antivirus Management
6 2 (11.76%) Asset Management
6 2 (11.76%) Change Control
6 2 (11.76%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (11.76%) Systems Engineering
6 2 (11.76%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 5 (29.41%) PowerShell
2 1 (5.88%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (41.18%) Degree
2 4 (23.53%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (11.76%) MCSA
3 2 (11.76%) SC Cleared
3 2 (11.76%) Security Cleared
4 1 (5.88%) Azure Certification
4 1 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (5.88%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (29.41%) SLA
2 1 (5.88%) GDPR
2 1 (5.88%) HIPAA
2 1 (5.88%) SOC 2
System Software
1 11 (64.71%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (41.18%) VMware ESXi
3 5 (29.41%) Active Directory
4 3 (17.65%) vSphere
5 2 (11.76%) Hyper-V
6 1 (5.88%) Docker
6 1 (5.88%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (35.29%) Ansible
2 3 (17.65%) SCCM
3 2 (11.76%) Terraform
4 1 (5.88%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 13 (76.47%) VMware
2 12 (70.59%) Microsoft
3 7 (41.18%) Cisco
4 4 (23.53%) Citrix
4 4 (23.53%) EMC
4 4 (23.53%) Oracle
4 4 (23.53%) ServiceNow
4 4 (23.53%) TOWER Software
5 2 (11.76%) Extreme Networks
5 2 (11.76%) SolarWinds
6 1 (5.88%) Fortinet
6 1 (5.88%) Imperva
6 1 (5.88%) Meraki
6 1 (5.88%) NetApp
6 1 (5.88%) Palo Alto
6 1 (5.88%) Red Hat