Windows Infrastructure Engineer Jobs

Windows Infrastructure Engineer
UK

The median Windows Infrastructure Engineer salary in the UK is £67,750 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 7 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
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 851 917 1188
Rank change year-on-year +66 +271 -359
Permanent jobs requiring a Windows Infrastructure Engineer 56 78 47
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.057% 0.077% 0.030%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.060% 0.084% 0.031%
Number of salaries quoted 50 48 40
10th Percentile £40,750 £45,500 £31,968
25th Percentile £42,188 £49,000 £42,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,750 £55,000 £48,875
Median % change year-on-year +23.18% +12.53% +1.82%
75th Percentile £98,125 £70,625 £57,500
90th Percentile £105,625 £91,250 £65,025
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% +10.53% +5.56%

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 93,191 92,882 151,282
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.63% 91.46% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 66,790 58,425 84,716
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,517
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +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 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Windows Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows Infrastructure Engineer over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Windows Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Top 12 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows Infrastructure Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 7 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 +66 49 £70,000 +21.74% 6
London +138 32 £80,000 -8.57% 4
Work from Home +73 26 £72,500 +36.79% 2
UK excluding London -50 20 £45,000 -14.29% 4
North of England +45 6 £45,000 -25.00%
Yorkshire +85 5 £45,000 +11.11%
South East -1 4 £50,000 -16.67% 1
South West -32 4 £37,500 -21.05% 1
West Midlands +16 3 £42,500 -23.42%
Midlands +1 3 £42,500 -23.42%
Scotland -60 3 £85,000 +61.90% 1
North East - 1 £50,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 7 May 2024, Windows Infrastructure 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 Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 56 (100.00%) Windows
2 54 (96.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 40 (71.43%) Windows Server
4 30 (53.57%) Microsoft
5 27 (48.21%) PowerShell
6 25 (44.64%) Active Directory
7 22 (39.29%) Azure
8 20 (35.71%) Linux
8 20 (35.71%) VMware
9 19 (33.93%) VMware Infrastructure
10 17 (30.36%) AWS
11 16 (28.57%) Ansible
11 16 (28.57%) Banking
12 14 (25.00%) Finance
12 14 (25.00%) DevOps
13 13 (23.21%) Puppet
14 12 (21.43%) DNS
14 12 (21.43%) DHCP
15 11 (19.64%) Configuration Management
15 11 (19.64%) Problem-Solving
16 9 (16.07%) Self-Motivation
16 9 (16.07%) Red Hat
16 9 (16.07%) SQL Server
16 9 (16.07%) Python
17 8 (14.29%) Bash
17 8 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
17 8 (14.29%) Git
17 8 (14.29%) Korn
17 8 (14.29%) GitLab
17 8 (14.29%) Red Hat Satellite

Windows Infrastructure 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 7 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (3.57%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 22 (39.29%) Azure
2 17 (30.36%) AWS
3 8 (14.29%) GitHub
4 6 (10.71%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (8.93%) IaaS
5 5 (8.93%) OCI
5 5 (8.93%) Rubrik
6 3 (5.36%) GCP
7 1 (1.79%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.79%) PaaS
7 1 (1.79%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (21.43%) DHCP
1 12 (21.43%) DNS
2 7 (12.50%) Firewall
3 5 (8.93%) SAN
3 5 (8.93%) WAN
4 4 (7.14%) DMZ
4 4 (7.14%) Network Security
4 4 (7.14%) VLAN
4 4 (7.14%) VPN
5 3 (5.36%) SD-WAN
5 3 (5.36%) VoIP
6 2 (3.57%) LAN
6 2 (3.57%) TCP/IP
7 1 (1.79%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (16.07%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (14.29%) Git
1 8 (14.29%) GitLab
2 3 (5.36%) JIRA
3 1 (1.79%) Jenkins
General
1 16 (28.57%) Banking
2 14 (25.00%) Finance
3 8 (14.29%) Investment Banking
4 7 (12.50%) Social Skills
5 4 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (7.14%) Telecoms
6 3 (5.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.79%) Law
7 1 (1.79%) Legal
Miscellaneous
1 9 (16.07%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (8.93%) Management Information System
3 4 (7.14%) Client/Server
3 4 (7.14%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.79%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.79%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 56 (100.00%) Windows
2 40 (71.43%) Windows Server
3 20 (35.71%) Linux
4 8 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (8.93%) Unix
6 1 (1.79%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.79%) Windows 10
6 1 (1.79%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (1.79%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (96.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 14 (25.00%) DevOps
3 11 (19.64%) Configuration Management
3 11 (19.64%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (14.29%) Asset Management
4 8 (14.29%) CI/CD
4 8 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
5 6 (10.71%) Collaborative Working
5 6 (10.71%) Computer Science
6 5 (8.93%) Agile
6 5 (8.93%) Capacity Management
6 5 (8.93%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (8.93%) Data Management
6 5 (8.93%) Investment Management
6 5 (8.93%) IT Strategy
6 5 (8.93%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 5 (8.93%) Technology Strategy
7 4 (7.14%) Containerisation
7 4 (7.14%) Knowledge Transfer
7 4 (7.14%) Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 27 (48.21%) PowerShell
2 9 (16.07%) Python
3 8 (14.29%) Bash
3 8 (14.29%) Korn
3 8 (14.29%) Perl
3 8 (14.29%) Ruby
4 1 (1.79%) C#
4 1 (1.79%) Rust
Qualifications
1 6 (10.71%) Degree
2 4 (7.14%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.79%) MCSA
3 1 (1.79%) MCSE
3 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.79%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (1.79%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 25 (44.64%) Active Directory
2 19 (33.93%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (8.93%) DFS Replication
4 4 (7.14%) Docker
4 4 (7.14%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.79%) KVM
5 1 (1.79%) QEMU
5 1 (1.79%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.79%) Xen
Systems Management
1 16 (28.57%) Ansible
2 13 (23.21%) Puppet
3 8 (14.29%) Red Hat Satellite
4 5 (8.93%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 5 (8.93%) NetBackup
4 5 (8.93%) Terraform
4 5 (8.93%) vRealize Orchestrator
5 4 (7.14%) Kubernetes
6 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (1.79%) SCCM
6 1 (1.79%) SCOM
6 1 (1.79%) WSUS
Vendors
1 30 (53.57%) Microsoft
2 20 (35.71%) VMware
3 9 (16.07%) Red Hat
4 8 (14.29%) Sun
4 8 (14.29%) TOWER Software
5 6 (10.71%) Veeam
6 5 (8.93%) Cisco
6 5 (8.93%) Citrix
6 5 (8.93%) Oracle
7 3 (5.36%) Google
7 3 (5.36%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.79%) arcserve
8 1 (1.79%) Intel
8 1 (1.79%) NetApp