Windows Engineer Job Trends in the South East

Windows Engineer
England > South East

The median Windows Engineer salary in the South East is £56,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 January 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 263 282 241
Rank change year-on-year +19 -41 +155
Permanent jobs requiring a Windows Engineer 4 12 50
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.038% 0.13% 0.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.042% 0.15% 0.60%
Number of salaries quoted 3 10 49
10th Percentile £40,675 £36,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,438 £40,313 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,750 £52,500 £34,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.10% +54.41% -22.29%
75th Percentile £60,125 £56,875 £35,000
90th Percentile - £60,750 £38,750
England median annual salary £70,000 £80,000 £36,250
% change year-on-year -12.50% +120.69% -36.96%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the South East. 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 the South East with a recognized job title 9,579 8,186 8,340
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.98% 91.12% 94.79%
Number of salaries quoted 5,997 4,314 6,003
10th Percentile £28,000 £32,575 £29,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £44,027 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -6.50%

Windows Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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 the South East.

Windows Engineer job vacancy trend in the South East

Windows Engineer
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for Windows Engineer job vacancies in the South East.

Salary distribution trend for Windows Engineer job vacancies in the South East

Windows Engineer
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows Engineer in the South East over the 6 months to 15 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Windows Engineer in the South East

Windows Engineer
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows Engineer within the South East region over the 6 months to 15 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
Kent - 2 £56,750 -
Hampshire +30 1 £40,000 -33.33%
Thames Valley +15 1 - - 1
Oxfordshire - 1 - -
Windows Engineer
England

Windows Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 15 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 South East region featuring Windows Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
2 3 (75.00%) DHCP
2 3 (75.00%) DNS
2 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) Windows Server
3 2 (50.00%) Azure
3 2 (50.00%) Citrix
3 2 (50.00%) Converged Infrastructure
3 2 (50.00%) Dell
3 2 (50.00%) Dell DRAC
3 2 (50.00%) Entra ID
3 2 (50.00%) Information Security
3 2 (50.00%) IT Governance
3 2 (50.00%) ITIL
3 2 (50.00%) Linux
3 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (50.00%) NetApp
3 2 (50.00%) NetScaler
3 2 (50.00%) Patch Management
3 2 (50.00%) PCI DSS
3 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
3 2 (50.00%) Preventative Maintenance
3 2 (50.00%) Problem Management
3 2 (50.00%) Project Delivery
3 2 (50.00%) SAN
3 2 (50.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley

Windows Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) DHCP
1 3 (75.00%) DNS
2 2 (50.00%) NetScaler
2 2 (50.00%) SAN
2 2 (50.00%) VSAN
3 1 (25.00%) Firewall
General
1 2 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Clustering
2 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (25.00%) Driving Licence
2 1 (25.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
2 3 (75.00%) Windows Server
3 2 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Converged Infrastructure
2 2 (50.00%) Information Security
2 2 (50.00%) IT Governance
2 2 (50.00%) ITIL
2 2 (50.00%) Patch Management
2 2 (50.00%) Preventative Maintenance
2 2 (50.00%) Problem Management
2 2 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 2 (50.00%) Service Management
2 2 (50.00%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) PCI DSS
1 2 (50.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (50.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Dell DRAC
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (50.00%) vCenter Server
1 2 (50.00%) VxRail
2 1 (25.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (50.00%) Citrix
2 2 (50.00%) Dell
2 2 (50.00%) NetApp
2 2 (50.00%) Veeam
2 2 (50.00%) VMware