Windows Engineer Job Trends in London

Windows Engineer
England > London

The median Windows Engineer salary in London is £77,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 January 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 355 377 393
Rank change year-on-year +22 +16 +185
Permanent jobs requiring a Windows Engineer 19 56 59
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.14% 0.36% 0.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.39% 0.34%
Number of salaries quoted 17 50 59
10th Percentile £55,000 £74,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £45,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £87,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.43% +45.83% -11.11%
75th Percentile £78,750 £117,500 £102,500
90th Percentile - £130,000 -
England median annual salary £70,000 £80,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year -12.50% +113.33% -34.78%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 12,668 14,309 17,494
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.10% 92.69% 95.21%
Number of salaries quoted 8,385 8,261 14,080
10th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £41,216
25th Percentile £50,000 £56,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £96,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £113,750 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,965
% change year-on-year -8.33% +3.51% -5.75%

Windows Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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 London.

Windows Engineer job vacancy trend in London

Windows Engineer
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for Windows Engineer job vacancies in London.

Salary distribution trend for Windows Engineer job vacancies in London

Windows Engineer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows Engineer in London over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Windows Engineer in London

Windows Engineer
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 12 January 2026. 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
Central London +44 14 £77,500 +3.33% 1
Windows Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 12 January 2026, 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 London region featuring Windows Engineer in the job title.

1 19 (100.00%) Windows
2 16 (84.21%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 16 (84.21%) Microsoft
2 16 (84.21%) Microsoft 365
3 15 (78.95%) Active Directory
3 15 (78.95%) Windows Server
4 14 (73.68%) DNS
4 14 (73.68%) Entra ID
4 14 (73.68%) Microsoft Exchange
5 13 (68.42%) TCP/IP
6 12 (63.16%) PowerShell
7 10 (52.63%) DHCP
8 9 (47.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 9 (47.37%) Batch Scripting
8 9 (47.37%) Bloomberg
8 9 (47.37%) Collaborative Working
8 9 (47.37%) LAN
8 9 (47.37%) Patch Management
8 9 (47.37%) Reuters
8 9 (47.37%) Single Sign-On
8 9 (47.37%) Systems Engineering
8 9 (47.37%) Task Automation
8 9 (47.37%) WAN
8 9 (47.37%) Windows Server 2012
9 8 (42.11%) Azure
10 5 (26.32%) Microsoft Intune
10 5 (26.32%) SharePoint
11 4 (21.05%) Business Continuity
11 4 (21.05%) Disaster Recovery
11 4 (21.05%) Migration

Windows Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 14 (73.68%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (26.32%) SharePoint
3 1 (5.26%) Apache
3 1 (5.26%) Confluence
3 1 (5.26%) JBoss
3 1 (5.26%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 16 (84.21%) Microsoft 365
2 14 (73.68%) Entra ID
3 8 (42.11%) Azure
4 2 (10.53%) AWS
5 1 (5.26%) GCP
5 1 (5.26%) Mimecast
5 1 (5.26%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 14 (73.68%) DNS
2 13 (68.42%) TCP/IP
3 10 (52.63%) DHCP
4 9 (47.37%) LAN
4 9 (47.37%) WAN
5 4 (21.05%) VPN
6 1 (5.26%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 2 (10.53%) JIRA
2 1 (5.26%) Ant
2 1 (5.26%) Artifactory
2 1 (5.26%) Git
2 1 (5.26%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.26%) Maven
2 1 (5.26%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 16 (84.21%) Social Skills
2 14 (73.68%) Legal
3 12 (63.16%) Finance
4 4 (21.05%) Law
5 1 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (5.26%) Banking
5 1 (5.26%) Front Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.26%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (5.26%) Kafka
1 1 (5.26%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 10 (52.63%) Hedge funds
2 9 (47.37%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (5.26%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 19 (100.00%) Windows
2 15 (78.95%) Windows Server
3 9 (47.37%) Windows Server 2012
4 3 (15.79%) Linux
5 1 (5.26%) Mac OS
5 1 (5.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (5.26%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (84.21%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 9 (47.37%) Batch Scripting
2 9 (47.37%) Collaborative Working
2 9 (47.37%) Patch Management
2 9 (47.37%) Systems Engineering
2 9 (47.37%) Task Automation
3 4 (21.05%) Business Continuity
3 4 (21.05%) Disaster Recovery
3 4 (21.05%) Migration
3 4 (21.05%) Root Cause Analysis
3 4 (21.05%) Vulnerability Remediation
4 2 (10.53%) Computer Science
4 2 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (5.26%) CI/CD
5 1 (5.26%) Customer Experience
5 1 (5.26%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (5.26%) DevOps
5 1 (5.26%) Incident Response
5 1 (5.26%) Regulatory Change
5 1 (5.26%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (63.16%) PowerShell
2 2 (10.53%) Python
3 1 (5.26%) Bash
3 1 (5.26%) C
3 1 (5.26%) C#
3 1 (5.26%) C++
3 1 (5.26%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 2 (10.53%) Degree
2 1 (5.26%) CISA
2 1 (5.26%) CISSP
2 1 (5.26%) CompTIA CySA+
2 1 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (5.26%) NIST
System Software
1 15 (78.95%) Active Directory
2 4 (21.05%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (47.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 9 (47.37%) Single Sign-On
2 5 (26.32%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (5.26%) Ansible
3 1 (5.26%) FortiGate
3 1 (5.26%) Kubernetes
3 1 (5.26%) Podman
3 1 (5.26%) Puppet
Vendors
1 16 (84.21%) Microsoft
2 9 (47.37%) Bloomberg
2 9 (47.37%) Reuters
3 4 (21.05%) VMware
4 1 (5.26%) Salesforce