Windows Engineer Jobs in England

Windows Engineer
UK > England

The median Windows Engineer salary in England is £40,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 680 719 959
Rank change year-on-year +39 +240 -357
Permanent jobs requiring a Windows Engineer 157 233 159
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.18% 0.25% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.27% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 143 190 139
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £33,250 £32,500 £31,680
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £57,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -30.43% +21.05% -5.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £78,750 £64,375
90th Percentile £102,500 £91,250 £78,000
UK median annual salary £42,500 £55,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -22.73% +15.79% -2.81%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 80,250 85,781 125,417
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.48% 91.57% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 60,143 54,189 75,436
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £60,567 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.84% +0.95% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,375 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,923 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.80% - +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 25 April 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 25 April 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 +77 62 £72,500 -3.33% 14
South East +33 53 £34,000 -2.86% 3
Midlands +9 18 £35,000 -31.03% 4
West Midlands +29 17 £34,500 -24.59% 3
North of England +23 10 £45,000 +63.64% 2
South West -23 8 £37,500 +36.36% 3
Yorkshire +81 6 £45,000 +63.64%
East of England +2 5 £35,000 -30.00% 1
North West -1 3 £27,500 - 1
East Midlands -24 1 £44,000 -20.00% 1
North East - 1 £50,000 - 1
Windows Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 25 April 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.

1 157 (100.00%) Windows
2 108 (68.79%) Windows Server
3 76 (48.41%) Microsoft
4 68 (43.31%) Active Directory
5 59 (37.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 56 (35.67%) Azure
7 48 (30.57%) VMware
8 47 (29.94%) PowerShell
9 39 (24.84%) Configuration Management
9 39 (24.84%) VMware Infrastructure
10 38 (24.20%) Linux
11 36 (22.93%) Microsoft 365
12 34 (21.66%) Security Cleared
13 33 (21.02%) SC Cleared
14 32 (20.38%) DNS
14 32 (20.38%) DHCP
15 31 (19.75%) AWS
16 27 (17.20%) Finance
17 26 (16.56%) DV Cleared
17 26 (16.56%) CMDB
18 24 (15.29%) DevOps
19 20 (12.74%) Agile
20 19 (12.10%) Firewall
20 19 (12.10%) Problem-Solving
21 18 (11.46%) Ansible
21 18 (11.46%) Microsoft Exchange
21 18 (11.46%) Banking
21 18 (11.46%) SCOM
22 17 (10.83%) SCCM
22 17 (10.83%) Degree

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 18 (11.46%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (9.55%) IIS
3 10 (6.37%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.64%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 3 (1.91%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (1.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (1.27%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 56 (35.67%) Azure
2 36 (22.93%) Microsoft 365
3 31 (19.75%) AWS
4 17 (10.83%) Entra ID
5 10 (6.37%) GitHub
6 6 (3.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 5 (3.18%) OCI
7 5 (3.18%) Rubrik
8 2 (1.27%) OneDrive
9 1 (0.64%) IaaS
9 1 (0.64%) Nutanix
9 1 (0.64%) PaaS
9 1 (0.64%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 32 (20.38%) DHCP
1 32 (20.38%) DNS
2 19 (12.10%) Firewall
3 15 (9.55%) SNMP
4 7 (4.46%) SAN
5 5 (3.18%) TCP/IP
5 5 (3.18%) WAN
6 3 (1.91%) SD-WAN
6 3 (1.91%) VoIP
7 2 (1.27%) LAN
8 1 (0.64%) Internet
8 1 (0.64%) NAS
8 1 (0.64%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (5.73%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (6.37%) Git
1 10 (6.37%) GitLab
2 3 (1.91%) Snyk
3 2 (1.27%) Octopus Deploy
3 2 (1.27%) Team Foundation Server
3 2 (1.27%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.64%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.64%) JIRA
General
1 27 (17.20%) Finance
2 18 (11.46%) Banking
3 17 (10.83%) Social Skills
4 10 (6.37%) Investment Banking
5 6 (3.82%) Law
6 5 (3.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.55%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (1.91%) Legal
9 2 (1.27%) Games
9 2 (1.27%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.27%) .NET
2 1 (0.64%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 26 (16.56%) CMDB
2 14 (8.92%) Data Centre
3 7 (4.46%) Management Information System
4 6 (3.82%) Client/Server
5 5 (3.18%) PKI
5 5 (3.18%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (3.18%) Virtual Team
6 3 (1.91%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (1.91%) Replication
7 2 (1.27%) Hedge funds
8 1 (0.64%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (0.64%) EPoS
8 1 (0.64%) Housing Association
8 1 (0.64%) iPad
8 1 (0.64%) iPhone
8 1 (0.64%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.64%) Smartphone
8 1 (0.64%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 157 (100.00%) Windows
2 108 (68.79%) Windows Server
3 38 (24.20%) Linux
4 14 (8.92%) Windows 10
5 10 (6.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (5.10%) Unix
7 7 (4.46%) Windows Server 2016
8 6 (3.82%) Windows Server 2012
8 6 (3.82%) Windows Server 2019
9 4 (2.55%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.64%) Android
10 1 (0.64%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.64%) Windows Mobile
10 1 (0.64%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (37.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 39 (24.84%) Configuration Management
3 24 (15.29%) DevOps
4 20 (12.74%) Agile
5 19 (12.10%) Problem-Solving
6 15 (9.55%) Waterfall
7 12 (7.64%) CI/CD
7 12 (7.64%) Computer Science
8 11 (7.01%) Asset Management
8 11 (7.01%) Project Delivery
9 10 (6.37%) Continuous Improvement
10 9 (5.73%) Customer Service
10 9 (5.73%) Data Protection
11 8 (5.10%) Migration
12 6 (3.82%) Collaborative Working
12 6 (3.82%) Infrastructure as Code
12 6 (3.82%) Root Cause Analysis
12 6 (3.82%) Service Management
13 5 (3.18%) IT Strategy
13 5 (3.18%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 47 (29.94%) PowerShell
2 15 (9.55%) SQL
3 11 (7.01%) Bash
3 11 (7.01%) Python
4 10 (6.37%) Korn
4 10 (6.37%) Perl
4 10 (6.37%) Ruby
5 1 (0.64%) C#
5 1 (0.64%) Rust
Qualifications
1 34 (21.66%) Security Cleared
2 33 (21.02%) SC Cleared
3 26 (16.56%) DV Cleared
4 17 (10.83%) Degree
5 7 (4.46%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (3.82%) AWS Certification
7 4 (2.55%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (2.55%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 3 (1.91%) Azure Certification
9 2 (1.27%) MCSA
9 2 (1.27%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.55%) SLA
2 1 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 68 (43.31%) Active Directory
2 39 (24.84%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (5.73%) Hyper-V
4 6 (3.82%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (3.18%) DFS Replication
6 4 (2.55%) vSphere
7 3 (1.91%) Docker
7 3 (1.91%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (1.27%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.64%) KVM
9 1 (0.64%) QEMU
9 1 (0.64%) Xen
Systems Management
1 18 (11.46%) Ansible
1 18 (11.46%) SCOM
2 17 (10.83%) SCCM
3 15 (9.55%) Puppet
4 10 (6.37%) Red Hat Satellite
5 6 (3.82%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (3.82%) Terraform
6 5 (3.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 5 (3.18%) NetBackup
6 5 (3.18%) vRealize Orchestrator
7 3 (1.91%) Kubernetes
7 3 (1.91%) Nessus
7 3 (1.91%) Nexpose
8 2 (1.27%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.64%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.64%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.64%) WSUS
Vendors
1 76 (48.41%) Microsoft
2 48 (30.57%) VMware
3 15 (9.55%) Dynatrace
4 11 (7.01%) Red Hat
5 10 (6.37%) Sun
5 10 (6.37%) TOWER Software
5 10 (6.37%) Veeam
6 8 (5.10%) Citrix
7 7 (4.46%) ServiceNow
8 5 (3.18%) Oracle
9 4 (2.55%) HP
10 3 (1.91%) Apple
10 3 (1.91%) Dell
10 3 (1.91%) Qualys
11 2 (1.27%) Cisco
12 1 (0.64%) arcserve
12 1 (0.64%) Avaya
12 1 (0.64%) Fortinet
12 1 (0.64%) Intel
12 1 (0.64%) NetApp