Wintel Engineer Job Trends in England

Wintel Engineer
UK > England

The median Wintel Engineer salary in England is £52,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 December 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 592 645 606
Rank change year-on-year +53 -39 +374
Permanent jobs requiring a Wintel Engineer 9 42 75
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.018% 0.082% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.019% 0.087% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 9 36 74
10th Percentile £48,250 - £45,450
25th Percentile £49,750 £42,238 £46,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -10.09%
75th Percentile £62,500 £57,000 £54,109
90th Percentile £81,500 - £72,500
UK median annual salary £52,794 £52,500 £49,000
% change year-on-year +0.56% +7.14% -10.09%

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 46,413 48,190 41,376
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.39% 93.64% 95.08%
Number of salaries quoted 29,005 26,207 32,361
10th Percentile £28,500 £33,000 £31,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

Wintel Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Wintel Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Wintel Engineer job vacancy trend in England

Wintel Engineer
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for Wintel Engineer job vacancies in England.

Salary distribution trend for Wintel Engineer job vacancies in England

Wintel Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Wintel Engineer in England over the 6 months to 16 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Wintel Engineer in England

Wintel 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 Wintel Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 16 December 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
East of England +27 6 £52,000 -3.70%
London +49 2 £92,500 -
Midlands +23 1 £65,000 +44.44%
West Midlands +21 1 £65,000 +44.44%
Wintel Engineer
UK

Wintel Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 16 December 2025, Wintel Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region featuring Wintel Engineer in the job title.

1 8 (88.89%) Windows
2 7 (77.78%) Active Directory
2 7 (77.78%) Windows Server
3 6 (66.67%) Microsoft
3 6 (66.67%) PowerShell
3 6 (66.67%) SC Cleared
3 6 (66.67%) Security Cleared
4 5 (55.56%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (55.56%) SCOM
4 5 (55.56%) Skype
4 5 (55.56%) Skype for Business
4 5 (55.56%) SQL Server
4 5 (55.56%) WSUS
5 4 (44.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 4 (44.44%) VMware
6 2 (22.22%) Ansible
6 2 (22.22%) Azure
6 2 (22.22%) Cohesity
6 2 (22.22%) DV Cleared
6 2 (22.22%) GitLab
6 2 (22.22%) HP
6 2 (22.22%) Linux
6 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (22.22%) Red Hat
6 2 (22.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (22.22%) VSAN
6 2 (22.22%) vSphere
7 1 (11.11%) AWS
7 1 (11.11%) Change Control
7 1 (11.11%) Change Management

Wintel Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 5 (55.56%) Microsoft Exchange
1 5 (55.56%) Skype for Business
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) Azure
1 2 (22.22%) Cohesity
2 1 (11.11%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (55.56%) Skype
2 2 (22.22%) VSAN
3 1 (11.11%) Firewall
3 1 (11.11%) NetScaler
3 1 (11.11%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (55.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) GitLab
General
1 2 (22.22%) Aerospace
1 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Advertising
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Blackberry
1 2 (22.22%) PKI
1 2 (22.22%) RSA SecurID
2 1 (11.11%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 8 (88.89%) Windows
2 7 (77.78%) Windows Server
3 2 (22.22%) Linux
3 2 (22.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (11.11%) Change Control
3 1 (11.11%) Change Management
3 1 (11.11%) Computer Science
3 1 (11.11%) Incident Management
3 1 (11.11%) Problem Management
3 1 (11.11%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 6 (66.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 6 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (22.22%) DV Cleared
3 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (11.11%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (77.78%) Active Directory
2 2 (22.22%) vSphere
3 1 (11.11%) Hyper-V
3 1 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (55.56%) SCOM
1 5 (55.56%) WSUS
2 2 (22.22%) Ansible
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (11.11%) SCCM
Vendors
1 6 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 4 (44.44%) VMware
3 2 (22.22%) HP
3 2 (22.22%) Red Hat
4 1 (11.11%) CheckPoint
4 1 (11.11%) Cisco
4 1 (11.11%) Citrix
4 1 (11.11%) Meraki