Senior Windows Engineer Jobs

Senior Windows Engineer
UK

The median Senior Windows Engineer salary in the UK is £59,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 852 908 1211
Rank change year-on-year +56 +303 -342
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Windows Engineer 26 64 26
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.026% 0.063% 0.016%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.028% 0.069% 0.017%
Number of salaries quoted 14 61 26
10th Percentile £50,125 £52,500 £31,680
25th Percentile £56,250 £62,500 £34,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £77,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -23.87% +24.00% +19.05%
75th Percentile £118,750 £91,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £133,750 £100,000 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £63,500 £32,429
% change year-on-year -21.26% +95.82% -35.14%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 UK with a recognized job title 93,699 92,665 152,640
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.54% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 67,079 58,510 84,912
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,611
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £80,719 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,173
% change year-on-year -5.66% +5.64% +5.63%

Senior Windows Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Windows Engineer in the UK

Senior Windows Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Senior Windows Engineer in the UK

Senior Windows Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Windows Engineer over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Windows Engineer in the UK

Senior Windows Engineer
Top 8 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Windows Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 13 May 2024. 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
England +60 18 £59,000 -23.87% 4
UK excluding London -10 15 £50,000 -21.26% 3
Work from Home +79 14 £127,500 +45.71%
London +78 11 £59,500 -23.23% 1
Scotland - 8 - -
South West - 5 £67,500 -
West Midlands +16 2 £50,000 -19.35% 3
Midlands -2 2 £50,000 -19.35% 3

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

For the 6 months to 13 May 2024, Senior 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 featuring Senior Windows Engineer in the job title.

1 26 (100.00%) Windows
2 13 (50.00%) Windows Server
2 13 (50.00%) Active Directory
3 12 (46.15%) Software Engineering
3 12 (46.15%) Virtual Team
4 11 (42.31%) PowerShell
4 11 (42.31%) Microsoft
5 9 (34.62%) Linux
5 9 (34.62%) Cybersecurity
5 9 (34.62%) Kalman Filter
6 8 (30.77%) Threat Detection
6 8 (30.77%) Cloud Native
6 8 (30.77%) Threat Analysis
6 8 (30.77%) Analytics
6 8 (30.77%) Performance Optimisation
6 8 (30.77%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
6 8 (30.77%) Threat Intelligence
6 8 (30.77%) Component Testing
6 8 (30.77%) Data Science
6 8 (30.77%) Technical Leadership
6 8 (30.77%) Security Analytics
6 8 (30.77%) Agile
6 8 (30.77%) TDD
6 8 (30.77%) Dell
6 8 (30.77%) VMware
6 8 (30.77%) Mac OS
6 8 (30.77%) Reverse Engineering
6 8 (30.77%) Test Automation
6 8 (30.77%) Azure
6 8 (30.77%) SaaS

Senior Windows Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (7.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 8 (30.77%) Azure
1 8 (30.77%) SaaS
2 7 (26.92%) Entra ID
3 6 (23.08%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (3.85%) AWS
4 1 (3.85%) IaaS
4 1 (3.85%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (15.38%) DHCP
1 4 (15.38%) DNS
2 1 (3.85%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (19.23%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Octopus Deploy
1 1 (3.85%) Team Foundation Server
1 1 (3.85%) TeamCity
General
1 4 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (3.85%) Finance
2 1 (3.85%) Games
2 1 (3.85%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 12 (46.15%) Virtual Team
2 8 (30.77%) Cloud Native
3 4 (15.38%) Client/Server
4 3 (11.54%) PKI
5 1 (3.85%) Hedge funds
5 1 (3.85%) Housing Association
5 1 (3.85%) Management Information System
5 1 (3.85%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 26 (100.00%) Windows
2 13 (50.00%) Windows Server
3 9 (34.62%) Linux
4 8 (30.77%) Mac OS
5 4 (15.38%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (15.38%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (11.54%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (3.85%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (46.15%) Software Engineering
2 9 (34.62%) Cybersecurity
2 9 (34.62%) Kalman Filter
3 8 (30.77%) Agile
3 8 (30.77%) Analytics
3 8 (30.77%) Component Testing
3 8 (30.77%) Computer Security
3 8 (30.77%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 8 (30.77%) Data Science
3 8 (30.77%) Multithreading
3 8 (30.77%) Performance Optimisation
3 8 (30.77%) Reverse Engineering
3 8 (30.77%) Security Analytics
3 8 (30.77%) TDD
3 8 (30.77%) Technical Leadership
3 8 (30.77%) Test Automation
3 8 (30.77%) Threat Analysis
3 8 (30.77%) Threat Detection
3 8 (30.77%) Threat Intelligence
4 5 (19.23%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 11 (42.31%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (30.77%) Degree
2 3 (11.54%) Azure Certification
2 3 (11.54%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.85%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (3.85%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 13 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 5 (19.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (11.54%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (11.54%) vSphere
4 1 (3.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (11.54%) SCCM
2 1 (3.85%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (3.85%) WSUS
Vendors
1 11 (42.31%) Microsoft
2 8 (30.77%) Dell
2 8 (30.77%) VMware
3 4 (15.38%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.85%) arcserve
4 1 (3.85%) Veeam