Windows Engineer Job Trends in Kent

Windows Engineer
South East > Kent

The median Windows Engineer salary in Kent is £56,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 27 November 2025.

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

6 months to
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 - 59
Rank change year-on-year - - +53
Permanent jobs requiring a Windows Engineer 1 0 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Kent 0.12% - 0.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% - 0.41%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £53,375 - £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,750 - £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £60,125 - £57,500
90th Percentile - - -
South East median annual salary £40,000 £48,925 £34,000
% change year-on-year -18.24% +43.90% -9.33%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Kent

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Kent. 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 Kent with a recognized job title 759 886 485
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 88.67% 96.72% 92.73%
Number of salaries quoted 452 417 375
10th Percentile £26,750 £30,300 £23,108
25th Percentile £29,750 £40,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% - -
75th Percentile £55,000 £65,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £74,500
South East median annual salary £49,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -10.91% +4.76% -4.55%

Windows Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

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

Windows Engineer job vacancy trend in Kent

Windows Engineer
Salary Trend in Kent

Salary distribution trend for Windows Engineer job vacancies in Kent.

Salary distribution trend for Windows Engineer job vacancies in Kent

Windows Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Kent

For the 6 months to 27 November 2025, Windows 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 Kent region featuring Windows Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Citrix
1 1 (100.00%) Converged Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) Dell
1 1 (100.00%) Dell DRAC
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) IT Governance
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (100.00%) NetApp
1 1 (100.00%) NetScaler
1 1 (100.00%) Patch Management
1 1 (100.00%) PCI DSS
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Preventative Maintenance
1 1 (100.00%) Problem Management
1 1 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
1 1 (100.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
1 1 (100.00%) Service Management
1 1 (100.00%) SQL

Windows Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Kent 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 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) NetScaler
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
1 1 (100.00%) VSAN
General
1 1 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Converged Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) IT Governance
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Patch Management
1 1 (100.00%) Preventative Maintenance
1 1 (100.00%) Problem Management
1 1 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Service Management
1 1 (100.00%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) PCI DSS
1 1 (100.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (100.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Dell DRAC
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (100.00%) vCenter Server
1 1 (100.00%) VxRail
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Citrix
1 1 (100.00%) Dell
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) NetApp
1 1 (100.00%) Veeam
1 1 (100.00%) VMware