Windows Engineer Jobs

Windows Engineer
UK

The median Windows Engineer salary in the UK is £50,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 July 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 735 665 1046
Rank change year-on-year -70 +381 -346
Permanent jobs requiring a Windows Engineer 107 225 229
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.28% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.30% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 85 184 187
10th Percentile £31,250 £26,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £37,000 £32,500 £33,284
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £51,250 £48,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +6.77% +6.67%
75th Percentile £65,000 £77,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £91,250 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £44,713 £33,000 £37,616
% change year-on-year +35.49% -12.27% -14.02%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 85,709 74,085 167,386
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.83% 91.81% 95.50%
Number of salaries quoted 58,134 51,472 87,435
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,800 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +1.92% +9.47%

Windows Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows Engineer in the UK

Windows Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Windows Engineer in the UK

Windows Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows Engineer over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Windows Engineer in the UK

Windows Engineer
Top 13 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 26 July 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 -79 100 £50,000 -4.76% 12
UK excluding London -81 63 £44,713 +35.49% 10
London +12 38 £65,000 -10.34% 2
Work from Home -4 34 £58,750 +10.85% 7
South East -23 24 £44,463 +34.73% 3
North of England +6 12 £50,000 +81.82% 4
North West -5 12 £50,000 +81.82% 4
East of England -11 9 £37,500 +20.97% 1
South West -8 8 £67,500 +68.75% 2
Midlands -23 8 £35,000 -17.65% 1
West Midlands +1 7 £35,000 -28.57%
Scotland -41 2 £85,000 +61.90%
East Midlands -34 1 - - 1

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

For the 6 months to 26 July 2024, 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 Windows Engineer in the job title.

1 107 (100.00%) Windows
2 67 (62.62%) Windows Server
3 44 (41.12%) Microsoft
4 40 (37.38%) Active Directory
4 40 (37.38%) Azure
5 37 (34.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 34 (31.78%) VMware
6 34 (31.78%) PowerShell
7 30 (28.04%) Security Cleared
8 28 (26.17%) Social Skills
9 26 (24.30%) SC Cleared
10 25 (23.36%) VMware Infrastructure
11 24 (22.43%) Finance
12 23 (21.50%) DV Cleared
12 23 (21.50%) Windows 10
13 22 (20.56%) Microsoft 365
14 20 (18.69%) SCCM
15 19 (17.76%) Windows Server 2016
16 17 (15.89%) Problem-Solving
16 17 (15.89%) Configuration Management
16 17 (15.89%) AWS
17 16 (14.95%) Windows Server 2019
18 15 (14.02%) DHCP
18 15 (14.02%) ITIL
19 14 (13.08%) Windows Server 2012
20 13 (12.15%) Hyper-V
20 13 (12.15%) Linux
20 13 (12.15%) DNS
21 12 (11.21%) Ansible
21 12 (11.21%) Customer Service

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:

Application Platforms
1 8 (7.48%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (4.67%) SharePoint
3 4 (3.74%) Apache
3 4 (3.74%) IIS
4 1 (0.93%) Exchange Server 2013
4 1 (0.93%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 40 (37.38%) Azure
2 22 (20.56%) Microsoft 365
3 17 (15.89%) AWS
4 7 (6.54%) Entra ID
4 7 (6.54%) IaaS
5 5 (4.67%) OCI
6 4 (3.74%) Nutanix
6 4 (3.74%) OneDrive
6 4 (3.74%) PaaS
7 2 (1.87%) GCP
8 1 (0.93%) Azure AKS
8 1 (0.93%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.93%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (0.93%) Dropbox
8 1 (0.93%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (14.02%) DHCP
2 13 (12.15%) DNS
3 11 (10.28%) TCP/IP
4 8 (7.48%) WAN
5 7 (6.54%) Firewall
5 7 (6.54%) LAN
6 4 (3.74%) Network Security
7 3 (2.80%) DMZ
7 3 (2.80%) SNMP
7 3 (2.80%) VLAN
7 3 (2.80%) VPN
8 2 (1.87%) IP Telephony
9 1 (0.93%) HTTP
9 1 (0.93%) Internet
9 1 (0.93%) Multicast
9 1 (0.93%) NAS
9 1 (0.93%) SAN
9 1 (0.93%) SD-WAN
9 1 (0.93%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (6.54%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.93%) MySQL
2 1 (0.93%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 5 (4.67%) JIRA
2 2 (1.87%) Git
2 2 (1.87%) Octopus Deploy
2 2 (1.87%) Team Foundation Server
2 2 (1.87%) TeamCity
3 1 (0.93%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.93%) Subversion
General
1 28 (26.17%) Social Skills
2 24 (22.43%) Finance
3 8 (7.48%) Banking
4 4 (3.74%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (2.80%) Legal
5 3 (2.80%) Telecoms
6 2 (1.87%) Games
6 2 (1.87%) Police
6 2 (1.87%) Public Sector
7 1 (0.93%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.93%) .NET
1 1 (0.93%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (0.93%) JSON
1 1 (0.93%) Software Packaging
1 1 (0.93%) WinForms
1 1 (0.93%) WPF
1 1 (0.93%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (7.48%) CMDB
2 7 (6.54%) Data Centre
3 5 (4.67%) Client/Server
3 5 (4.67%) Management Information System
4 4 (3.74%) Clustering
4 4 (3.74%) Distributed Computing
4 4 (3.74%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (2.80%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.80%) Hedge funds
5 3 (2.80%) Replication
5 3 (2.80%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.87%) Derivative
6 2 (1.87%) iPad
6 2 (1.87%) iPhone
6 2 (1.87%) Smartphone
7 1 (0.93%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.93%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.93%) EPoS
7 1 (0.93%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 107 (100.00%) Windows
2 67 (62.62%) Windows Server
3 23 (21.50%) Windows 10
4 19 (17.76%) Windows Server 2016
5 16 (14.95%) Windows Server 2019
6 14 (13.08%) Windows Server 2012
7 13 (12.15%) Linux
8 9 (8.41%) Windows NT
9 5 (4.67%) Mac OS
10 3 (2.80%) Android
11 2 (1.87%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.93%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.93%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (34.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 17 (15.89%) Configuration Management
2 17 (15.89%) Problem-Solving
3 15 (14.02%) ITIL
4 12 (11.21%) Customer Service
5 10 (9.35%) Computer Science
6 9 (8.41%) Deployment Automation
6 9 (8.41%) Release Management
6 9 (8.41%) Service Management
6 9 (8.41%) User Acceptance Testing
7 7 (6.54%) Software Engineering
8 6 (5.61%) Infrastructure as Code
9 5 (4.67%) DevOps
9 5 (4.67%) Knowledge Transfer
9 5 (4.67%) Migration
9 5 (4.67%) Open Source
10 4 (3.74%) Continuous Improvement
10 4 (3.74%) Low Latency
10 4 (3.74%) Service Delivery
10 4 (3.74%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 34 (31.78%) PowerShell
2 11 (10.28%) Python
3 4 (3.74%) SQL
4 3 (2.80%) C#
5 2 (1.87%) C
5 2 (1.87%) C++
6 1 (0.93%) Bash
6 1 (0.93%) Embedded C
6 1 (0.93%) Embedded C++
6 1 (0.93%) Perl
6 1 (0.93%) Rust
6 1 (0.93%) XAML
Qualifications
1 30 (28.04%) Security Cleared
2 26 (24.30%) SC Cleared
3 23 (21.50%) DV Cleared
4 10 (9.35%) Degree
5 6 (5.61%) Azure Certification
6 5 (4.67%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.93%) CCNA
7 1 (0.93%) CCNP
7 1 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.93%) JNCIA
7 1 (0.93%) JNCIE
7 1 (0.93%) JNCIP
7 1 (0.93%) JNCIS
7 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.93%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.41%) QA
2 2 (1.87%) PCI DSS
2 2 (1.87%) SLA
System Software
1 40 (37.38%) Active Directory
2 25 (23.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (12.15%) Hyper-V
4 9 (8.41%) Firmware
5 7 (6.54%) VMware ESXi
6 6 (5.61%) Docker
7 4 (3.74%) vSphere
8 3 (2.80%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (1.87%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.93%) DFS Replication
10 1 (0.93%) KVM
10 1 (0.93%) QEMU
10 1 (0.93%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.93%) Xen
Systems Management
1 20 (18.69%) SCCM
2 12 (11.21%) Ansible
3 9 (8.41%) Sysprep
3 9 (8.41%) WSUS
4 6 (5.61%) Kubernetes
5 5 (4.67%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (3.74%) Grafana
6 4 (3.74%) IBM BigFix
6 4 (3.74%) Prometheus
6 4 (3.74%) SCOM
6 4 (3.74%) Terraform
7 3 (2.80%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (1.87%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
8 2 (1.87%) SCDPM
9 1 (0.93%) Nagios
9 1 (0.93%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.93%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 44 (41.12%) Microsoft
2 34 (31.78%) VMware
3 9 (8.41%) ServiceNow
4 6 (5.61%) Cisco
5 5 (4.67%) Oracle
6 3 (2.80%) Apple
6 3 (2.80%) Veeam
7 2 (1.87%) Citrix
7 2 (1.87%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.87%) Google
7 2 (1.87%) Meraki
8 1 (0.93%) Dataiku
8 1 (0.93%) Dell
8 1 (0.93%) HP
8 1 (0.93%) Intel
8 1 (0.93%) Juniper
8 1 (0.93%) NetApp
8 1 (0.93%) NETGEAR
8 1 (0.93%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.93%) SonicWALL