Windows Engineer
UK

The median Windows Engineer salary in the UK is £42,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 722 726 1049
Rank change year-on-year +4 +323 -416
Permanent jobs requiring a Windows Engineer 174 248 183
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.18% 0.24% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.26% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 151 201 162
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £34,000 £32,500 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £55,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +15.79% -2.81%
75th Percentile £71,875 £77,500 £59,875
90th Percentile £102,500 £91,250 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £34,000 £40,000 £36,362
% change year-on-year -15.00% +10.00% -12.38%

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 92,756 95,826 148,057
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.61% 91.56% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 66,592 60,202 85,221
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.42% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

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 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Windows Engineer in the UK

Windows Engineer
Top 15 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 27 April 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 +34 157 £40,000 -28.89% 28
UK excluding London -14 106 £34,000 -15.00% 14
London +82 62 £72,500 -1.69% 14
Work from Home +59 62 £72,500 +26.09% 11
South East +41 53 £34,000 -2.86% 4
Midlands +9 18 £35,000 -31.03% 4
West Midlands +36 17 £34,500 -24.59% 3
Scotland -52 12 £85,000 +61.90%
North of England +33 10 £45,000 +63.64% 2
South West -5 8 £37,500 +11.11% 3
Yorkshire +87 6 £45,000 +63.64%
East of England -13 5 £35,000 -30.00% 1
North West -1 3 £27,500 - 1
East Midlands -23 1 £44,000 -20.00% 1
North East - 1 £50,000 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 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.

1 174 (100.00%) Windows
2 112 (64.37%) Windows Server
3 81 (46.55%) Microsoft
4 69 (39.66%) Active Directory
5 66 (37.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 64 (36.78%) Azure
7 51 (29.31%) PowerShell
7 51 (29.31%) Linux
8 48 (27.59%) VMware
9 43 (24.71%) Configuration Management
10 39 (22.41%) VMware Infrastructure
11 37 (21.26%) Microsoft 365
12 35 (20.11%) AWS
13 34 (19.54%) Security Cleared
14 33 (18.97%) SC Cleared
14 33 (18.97%) DNS
14 33 (18.97%) DHCP
15 30 (17.24%) Finance
16 29 (16.67%) Agile
17 26 (14.94%) CMDB
17 26 (14.94%) DV Cleared
18 24 (13.79%) DevOps
18 24 (13.79%) Problem-Solving
19 23 (13.22%) Firewall
20 21 (12.07%) Banking
20 21 (12.07%) Ansible
20 21 (12.07%) Social Skills
21 19 (10.92%) SCOM
22 18 (10.34%) Microsoft Exchange
23 17 (9.77%) Degree

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 18 (10.34%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (8.62%) IIS
3 10 (5.75%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.57%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 3 (1.72%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (1.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (1.15%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 64 (36.78%) Azure
2 37 (21.26%) Microsoft 365
3 35 (20.11%) AWS
4 17 (9.77%) Entra ID
5 10 (5.75%) GitHub
6 9 (5.17%) SaaS
7 6 (3.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 5 (2.87%) IaaS
8 5 (2.87%) OCI
8 5 (2.87%) Rubrik
9 3 (1.72%) GCP
10 2 (1.15%) OneDrive
11 1 (0.57%) Nutanix
11 1 (0.57%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 33 (18.97%) DHCP
1 33 (18.97%) DNS
2 23 (13.22%) Firewall
3 15 (8.62%) SNMP
4 7 (4.02%) SAN
5 5 (2.87%) TCP/IP
5 5 (2.87%) WAN
6 4 (2.30%) DMZ
6 4 (2.30%) Network Security
6 4 (2.30%) VLAN
6 4 (2.30%) VPN
7 3 (1.72%) SD-WAN
7 3 (1.72%) VoIP
8 2 (1.15%) LAN
9 1 (0.57%) Internet
9 1 (0.57%) NAS
9 1 (0.57%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (7.47%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (5.75%) Git
1 10 (5.75%) GitLab
2 4 (2.30%) JIRA
3 3 (1.72%) Snyk
4 2 (1.15%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (1.15%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (1.15%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.57%) Jenkins
General
1 30 (17.24%) Finance
2 21 (12.07%) Banking
2 21 (12.07%) Social Skills
3 10 (5.75%) Investment Banking
4 6 (3.45%) Law
5 5 (2.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (2.30%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (2.30%) Telecoms
7 3 (1.72%) Legal
8 2 (1.15%) Games
8 2 (1.15%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.57%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.15%) .NET
2 1 (0.57%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 26 (14.94%) CMDB
2 15 (8.62%) Data Centre
3 14 (8.05%) Virtual Team
4 9 (5.17%) Cloud Native
4 9 (5.17%) Self-Motivation
5 7 (4.02%) Management Information System
6 6 (3.45%) Client/Server
7 5 (2.87%) PKI
8 3 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.72%) Replication
9 2 (1.15%) Hedge funds
10 1 (0.57%) Cyber Threat
10 1 (0.57%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.57%) EPoS
10 1 (0.57%) Housing Association
10 1 (0.57%) iPad
10 1 (0.57%) iPhone
10 1 (0.57%) Security Posture
10 1 (0.57%) Smartphone
10 1 (0.57%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 174 (100.00%) Windows
2 112 (64.37%) Windows Server
3 51 (29.31%) Linux
4 14 (8.05%) Windows 10
5 13 (7.47%) Mac OS
6 10 (5.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 8 (4.60%) Unix
8 7 (4.02%) Windows Server 2016
9 6 (3.45%) Windows Server 2012
9 6 (3.45%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.57%) Android
10 1 (0.57%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.57%) Windows Mobile
10 1 (0.57%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (37.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 43 (24.71%) Configuration Management
3 29 (16.67%) Agile
4 24 (13.79%) DevOps
4 24 (13.79%) Problem-Solving
5 15 (8.62%) Waterfall
6 14 (8.05%) Performance Optimisation
7 13 (7.47%) Cybersecurity
8 12 (6.90%) CI/CD
8 12 (6.90%) Computer Science
9 11 (6.32%) Asset Management
9 11 (6.32%) Project Delivery
9 11 (6.32%) Software Engineering
10 10 (5.75%) Continuous Improvement
10 10 (5.75%) Kalman Filter
11 9 (5.17%) Analytics
11 9 (5.17%) Computer Security
11 9 (5.17%) Multithreading
11 9 (5.17%) Reverse Engineering
11 9 (5.17%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 51 (29.31%) PowerShell
2 15 (8.62%) SQL
3 11 (6.32%) Bash
3 11 (6.32%) Python
4 10 (5.75%) Korn
4 10 (5.75%) Perl
4 10 (5.75%) Ruby
5 1 (0.57%) C#
5 1 (0.57%) Rust
Qualifications
1 34 (19.54%) Security Cleared
2 33 (18.97%) SC Cleared
3 26 (14.94%) DV Cleared
4 17 (9.77%) Degree
5 7 (4.02%) Azure Certification
5 7 (4.02%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (3.45%) AWS Certification
7 4 (2.30%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (2.30%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 2 (1.15%) MCSA
8 2 (1.15%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.30%) SLA
2 1 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 69 (39.66%) Active Directory
2 39 (22.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (5.17%) Hyper-V
4 6 (3.45%) DFS Replication
4 6 (3.45%) Docker
4 6 (3.45%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (2.30%) vSphere
6 3 (1.72%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (1.15%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.57%) KVM
8 1 (0.57%) QEMU
8 1 (0.57%) Xen
Systems Management
1 21 (12.07%) Ansible
2 19 (10.92%) SCOM
3 17 (9.77%) SCCM
4 15 (8.62%) Puppet
5 10 (5.75%) Red Hat Satellite
6 6 (3.45%) Kubernetes
6 6 (3.45%) Microsoft Intune
6 6 (3.45%) Terraform
7 5 (2.87%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 5 (2.87%) NetBackup
7 5 (2.87%) vRealize Orchestrator
8 3 (1.72%) Nessus
8 3 (1.72%) Nexpose
9 2 (1.15%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.57%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.57%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.57%) WSUS
Vendors
1 81 (46.55%) Microsoft
2 48 (27.59%) VMware
3 15 (8.62%) Dynatrace
4 12 (6.90%) Dell
5 11 (6.32%) Red Hat
6 10 (5.75%) ServiceNow
6 10 (5.75%) Sun
6 10 (5.75%) TOWER Software
6 10 (5.75%) Veeam
7 8 (4.60%) Citrix
8 6 (3.45%) Cisco
9 5 (2.87%) Oracle
10 4 (2.30%) HP
11 3 (1.72%) Apple
11 3 (1.72%) Google
11 3 (1.72%) Qualys
12 1 (0.57%) Agilent
12 1 (0.57%) Avaya
12 1 (0.57%) Fortinet
12 1 (0.57%) NetApp