Windows Engineer Jobs in London

Windows Engineer
England > London

The median Windows Engineer salary in London is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 11 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
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 353 445 510
Rank change year-on-year +92 +65 +302
Permanent jobs requiring a Windows Engineer 40 58 109
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.31% 0.25% 0.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.35% 0.26% 0.33%
Number of salaries quoted 35 50 101
10th Percentile £50,400 £54,375 £40,000
25th Percentile £64,375 £61,625 £60,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% -3.33% +25.00%
75th Percentile £95,625 £102,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £114,625 £100,000
England median annual salary £71,000 £37,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +89.33% -34.78% +17.95%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 11,585 22,238 32,603
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.14% 94.13% 95.02%
Number of salaries quoted 7,454 16,672 24,036
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%

Windows Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows Engineer in London

Windows Engineer
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Windows Engineer in London

Windows Engineer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows Engineer in London over the 6 months to 11 May 2025.

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 11 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
Central London +30 7 £57,500 -1.71% 2
Windows Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 11 May 2025, 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 London region featuring Windows Engineer in the job title.

1 40 (100.00%) Windows
2 30 (75.00%) Windows Server
3 27 (67.50%) Azure
4 23 (57.50%) VMware
4 23 (57.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 21 (52.50%) Microsoft
5 21 (52.50%) PowerShell
6 20 (50.00%) AWS
7 18 (45.00%) Finance
8 16 (40.00%) Linux
8 16 (40.00%) DevOps
9 15 (37.50%) Microsoft 365
9 15 (37.50%) VMware Infrastructure
9 15 (37.50%) Active Directory
10 14 (35.00%) Ansible
10 14 (35.00%) CI/CD
11 13 (32.50%) Degree
12 11 (27.50%) Windows 10
12 11 (27.50%) VMware ESXi
12 11 (27.50%) Disaster Recovery
13 10 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
14 9 (22.50%) Terraform
14 9 (22.50%) GCP
14 9 (22.50%) Cisco
14 9 (22.50%) Microsoft Exchange
14 9 (22.50%) High Availability
14 9 (22.50%) SCCM
15 8 (20.00%) Hedge funds
15 8 (20.00%) Citrix
15 8 (20.00%) Kubernetes

Windows Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 9 (22.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (10.00%) IIS
3 1 (2.50%) Apache
3 1 (2.50%) JBoss
3 1 (2.50%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (7.50%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 27 (67.50%) Azure
2 20 (50.00%) AWS
3 15 (37.50%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (22.50%) GCP
5 8 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (15.00%) Cloud Computing
6 6 (15.00%) Nutanix
7 5 (12.50%) Entra ID
7 5 (12.50%) IaaS
7 5 (12.50%) PaaS
7 5 (12.50%) SaaS
8 3 (7.50%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (7.50%) Mimecast
9 1 (2.50%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (2.50%) Amazon S3
9 1 (2.50%) Google Workspace
9 1 (2.50%) OpenShift
9 1 (2.50%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 7 (17.50%) TCP/IP
2 5 (12.50%) DNS
3 4 (10.00%) DHCP
4 3 (7.50%) Firewall
4 3 (7.50%) LAN
5 2 (5.00%) WAN
5 2 (5.00%) Wireless
6 1 (2.50%) Cisco IOS
6 1 (2.50%) Internet
6 1 (2.50%) Kerberos
6 1 (2.50%) NAS
6 1 (2.50%) NetScaler
6 1 (2.50%) Network Security
6 1 (2.50%) SAN
6 1 (2.50%) VPN
6 1 (2.50%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (10.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (7.50%) JIRA
3 2 (5.00%) Git
4 1 (2.50%) Ant
4 1 (2.50%) Artifactory
4 1 (2.50%) Maven
4 1 (2.50%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 18 (45.00%) Finance
2 8 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 7 (17.50%) Banking
4 5 (12.50%) Investment Banking
5 2 (5.00%) Legal
6 1 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.50%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.50%) ARM Templates
2 2 (5.00%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (2.50%) 802.1X
3 1 (2.50%) Kafka
3 1 (2.50%) LDAP
3 1 (2.50%) Middleware
3 1 (2.50%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 8 (20.00%) Hedge funds
2 6 (15.00%) Management Information System
3 5 (12.50%) Clustering
4 4 (10.00%) Replication
5 3 (7.50%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (7.50%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (2.50%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (2.50%) iPad
6 1 (2.50%) Onboarding
6 1 (2.50%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 40 (100.00%) Windows
2 30 (75.00%) Windows Server
3 16 (40.00%) Linux
4 11 (27.50%) Windows 10
5 8 (20.00%) Windows Server 2012
6 6 (15.00%) Windows Server 2016
6 6 (15.00%) Windows Server 2019
7 5 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (12.50%) Windows Server 2008
8 3 (7.50%) AIX
9 1 (2.50%) Mac OS
9 1 (2.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (57.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 16 (40.00%) DevOps
3 14 (35.00%) CI/CD
4 11 (27.50%) Disaster Recovery
5 10 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (22.50%) High Availability
7 8 (20.00%) Containerisation
8 6 (15.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 6 (15.00%) Patch Management
9 5 (12.50%) Agile
9 5 (12.50%) ITIL
9 5 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
9 5 (12.50%) Project Delivery
9 5 (12.50%) Security Hardening
9 5 (12.50%) Task Automation
10 4 (10.00%) Systems Engineering
10 4 (10.00%) Vulnerability Management
11 3 (7.50%) Analytics
11 3 (7.50%) Continuous Improvement
11 3 (7.50%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 21 (52.50%) PowerShell
2 4 (10.00%) Python
2 4 (10.00%) SQL
3 3 (7.50%) Bash
4 1 (2.50%) C#
4 1 (2.50%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 13 (32.50%) Degree
2 5 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (10.00%) Azure Certification
4 3 (7.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (5.00%) A+ Certification
5 2 (5.00%) MCSA
6 1 (2.50%) DBS Check
6 1 (2.50%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (12.50%) SLA
2 4 (10.00%) GDPR
3 3 (7.50%) HIPAA
3 3 (7.50%) SOC 2
4 1 (2.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 15 (37.50%) Active Directory
1 15 (37.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (27.50%) VMware ESXi
3 5 (12.50%) vSphere
4 4 (10.00%) Docker
5 3 (7.50%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (2.50%) BitLocker
6 1 (2.50%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 14 (35.00%) Ansible
2 9 (22.50%) SCCM
2 9 (22.50%) Terraform
3 8 (20.00%) Kubernetes
4 3 (7.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 3 (7.50%) NetBackup
5 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (5.00%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (5.00%) vCenter Server
6 1 (2.50%) Nagios
6 1 (2.50%) Podman
6 1 (2.50%) Puppet
6 1 (2.50%) WMI
Vendors
1 23 (57.50%) VMware
2 21 (52.50%) Microsoft
3 9 (22.50%) Cisco
4 8 (20.00%) Citrix
5 5 (12.50%) NetApp
6 4 (10.00%) EMC
6 4 (10.00%) Oracle
6 4 (10.00%) ServiceNow
6 4 (10.00%) TOWER Software
6 4 (10.00%) Zscaler
7 2 (5.00%) Extreme Networks
7 2 (5.00%) Google
7 2 (5.00%) Meraki
8 1 (2.50%) Apple
8 1 (2.50%) Centrify
8 1 (2.50%) Fortinet
8 1 (2.50%) Okta
8 1 (2.50%) Qualys
8 1 (2.50%) SolarWinds
8 1 (2.50%) Splunk