Windows Engineer Job Trends

Windows Engineer
UK

The median Windows Engineer salary in the UK is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 23 January 2026.

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

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 616 601 564
Rank change year-on-year -15 -37 +234
Permanent jobs requiring a Windows Engineer 37 92 194
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.059% 0.17% 0.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.065% 0.19% 0.32%
Number of salaries quoted 31 72 178
10th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £25,750
25th Percentile £54,188 £51,875 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £80,000 £36,250
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +120.69% -36.96%
75th Percentile £78,750 £100,000 £58,750
90th Percentile - £130,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,750 £41,250 £34,000
% change year-on-year +37.58% +21.32% -26.49%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 56,506 49,067 60,891
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.75% 92.30% 95.18%
Number of salaries quoted 35,084 25,365 47,305
10th Percentile £28,750 £33,500 £29,800
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% -4.94%

Windows Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Windows Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Windows Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK

Windows Engineer
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for Windows Engineer job vacancies in the UK.

Salary distribution trend for Windows Engineer job vacancies in the UK

Windows Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows Engineer over the 6 months to 23 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Windows Engineer in the UK

Windows Engineer
Top 11 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 23 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
England +11 37 £70,000 -12.50% 42
UK excluding London +21 19 £56,750 +37.58% 43
London +5 18 £77,500 -11.43% 2
East of England +24 7 £70,000 +64.71% 6
North West +16 5 £48,750 -33.67% 2
North of England +11 5 £48,750 -33.67% 7
Work from Home +33 4 £57,500 -23.33%
South East +19 4 £56,750 +22.70% 12
West Midlands +22 3 - - 3
Midlands +19 3 - - 8
Scotland -8 1 - - 1

Windows Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 23 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 featuring Windows Engineer in the job title.

1 37 (100.00%) Windows
2 20 (54.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 20 (54.05%) Microsoft
2 20 (54.05%) Microsoft 365
3 19 (51.35%) Active Directory
3 19 (51.35%) Windows Server
4 15 (40.54%) DNS
4 15 (40.54%) Entra ID
5 14 (37.84%) Microsoft Exchange
6 13 (35.14%) TCP/IP
7 12 (32.43%) PowerShell
8 11 (29.73%) Azure
8 11 (29.73%) DHCP
8 11 (29.73%) Linux
9 9 (24.32%) Patch Management
9 9 (24.32%) VPN
10 8 (21.62%) Microsoft Intune
10 8 (21.62%) Single Sign-On
11 7 (18.92%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 7 (18.92%) Batch Scripting
11 7 (18.92%) Bloomberg
11 7 (18.92%) C++
11 7 (18.92%) Collaborative Working
11 7 (18.92%) LAN
11 7 (18.92%) Reuters
11 7 (18.92%) Software Engineering
11 7 (18.92%) Systems Engineering
11 7 (18.92%) Task Automation
11 7 (18.92%) WAN
11 7 (18.92%) Windows Server 2012

Windows Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 14 (37.84%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (13.51%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.70%) Apache
3 1 (2.70%) Confluence
3 1 (2.70%) JBoss
3 1 (2.70%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (5.41%) AutoCAD
1 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 20 (54.05%) Microsoft 365
2 15 (40.54%) Entra ID
3 11 (29.73%) Azure
4 5 (13.51%) AWS
5 1 (2.70%) GCP
5 1 (2.70%) Mimecast
5 1 (2.70%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 15 (40.54%) DNS
2 13 (35.14%) TCP/IP
3 11 (29.73%) DHCP
4 9 (24.32%) VPN
5 7 (18.92%) LAN
5 7 (18.92%) WAN
6 3 (8.11%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (5.41%) Ethernet
7 2 (5.41%) Firewall
7 2 (5.41%) NetScaler
7 2 (5.41%) SAN
7 2 (5.41%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.11%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (5.41%) JIRA
2 1 (2.70%) Ant
2 1 (2.70%) Artifactory
2 1 (2.70%) Git
2 1 (2.70%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.70%) Maven
2 1 (2.70%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 18 (48.65%) Social Skills
2 15 (40.54%) Finance
3 12 (32.43%) Legal
4 4 (10.81%) Law
5 2 (5.41%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (5.41%) Telecoms
6 1 (2.70%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.70%) Banking
6 1 (2.70%) Front Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.70%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (2.70%) Kafka
1 1 (2.70%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 8 (21.62%) Hedge funds
2 7 (18.92%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (10.81%) Data Centre
4 2 (5.41%) Clustering
5 1 (2.70%) Driving Licence
5 1 (2.70%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.70%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.70%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 37 (100.00%) Windows
2 19 (51.35%) Windows Server
3 11 (29.73%) Linux
4 7 (18.92%) Windows Server 2012
5 6 (16.22%) Windows 10
6 3 (8.11%) Debian
7 1 (2.70%) Mac OS
7 1 (2.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (54.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 9 (24.32%) Patch Management
3 7 (18.92%) Batch Scripting
3 7 (18.92%) Collaborative Working
3 7 (18.92%) Software Engineering
3 7 (18.92%) Systems Engineering
3 7 (18.92%) Task Automation
4 4 (10.81%) Business Continuity
4 4 (10.81%) Disaster Recovery
4 4 (10.81%) Migration
4 4 (10.81%) Root Cause Analysis
4 4 (10.81%) Vulnerability Remediation
5 3 (8.11%) Agile
5 3 (8.11%) Information Security
5 3 (8.11%) ITIL
5 3 (8.11%) Low Latency
5 3 (8.11%) Storage Management
5 3 (8.11%) Test Automation
6 2 (5.41%) Kalman Filter
6 2 (5.41%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (32.43%) PowerShell
2 7 (18.92%) C++
3 3 (8.11%) Bash
3 3 (8.11%) C
3 3 (8.11%) C#
4 2 (5.41%) Python
4 2 (5.41%) SQL
5 1 (2.70%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 2 (5.41%) Degree
1 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (2.70%) CISA
2 1 (2.70%) CISSP
2 1 (2.70%) CompTIA CySA+
2 1 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (2.70%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.41%) PCI DSS
1 2 (5.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
1 2 (5.41%) SLA
2 1 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.70%) NIST
System Software
1 19 (51.35%) Active Directory
2 4 (10.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (5.41%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (5.41%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (5.41%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 8 (21.62%) Microsoft Intune
1 8 (21.62%) Single Sign-On
2 7 (18.92%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 2 (5.41%) Dell DRAC
3 2 (5.41%) vCenter Server
3 2 (5.41%) VxRail
4 1 (2.70%) Ansible
4 1 (2.70%) FortiGate
4 1 (2.70%) Kubernetes
4 1 (2.70%) Podman
4 1 (2.70%) Puppet
4 1 (2.70%) SCCM
Vendors
1 20 (54.05%) Microsoft
2 7 (18.92%) Bloomberg
2 7 (18.92%) Reuters
3 6 (16.22%) VMware
4 2 (5.41%) Citrix
4 2 (5.41%) Dell
4 2 (5.41%) NetApp
4 2 (5.41%) ServiceNow
4 2 (5.41%) Veeam
5 1 (2.70%) Salesforce