Windows Infrastructure Engineer Jobs

Windows Infrastructure Engineer
UK

The median Windows Infrastructure Engineer salary in the UK is £77,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 17 May 2025.

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

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 712 846 891
Rank change year-on-year +134 +45 +306
Permanent jobs requiring a Windows Infrastructure Engineer 18 53 79
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.032% 0.053% 0.079%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.035% 0.056% 0.087%
Number of salaries quoted 15 47 49
10th Percentile £51,000 £38,500 £45,750
25th Percentile £56,250 £41,250 £49,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £70,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.71% +27.27% +10.00%
75th Percentile £86,250 £93,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £98,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,750 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +19.44% -14.29% +9.38%

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 50,706 94,386 91,123
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.83% 94.69% 91.49%
Number of salaries quoted 27,254 67,482 57,423
10th Percentile £29,750 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £73,886 £71,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,645 £50,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year +3.29% -5.66% +5.64%

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 17 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Windows Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Windows Infrastructure 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 Windows Infrastructure Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 17 May 2025. 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 +111 18 £77,500 +10.71% 5
London +96 14 £85,000 +6.25% 4
UK excluding London +164 4 £53,750 +19.44% 2
Work from Home +108 2 £85,000 +17.24% 1
South East +82 2 £53,750 +7.50% 2
East of England +47 1 £50,000 +25.00%
North of England +38 1 £65,000 +44.44%
North West - 1 £65,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 17 May 2025, 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 18 (100.00%) Windows
1 18 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 13 (72.22%) Windows Server
3 12 (66.67%) VMware
4 11 (61.11%) Microsoft
4 11 (61.11%) Microsoft 365
5 10 (55.56%) Azure
6 9 (50.00%) Linux
7 8 (44.44%) AWS
8 7 (38.89%) Cisco
9 6 (33.33%) ITIL
9 6 (33.33%) Citrix
9 6 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
9 6 (33.33%) SCCM
9 6 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
9 6 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
10 5 (27.78%) Windows 10
10 5 (27.78%) Terraform
10 5 (27.78%) ServiceNow
10 5 (27.78%) PowerShell
10 5 (27.78%) Degree
10 5 (27.78%) Finance
10 5 (27.78%) Active Directory
11 4 (22.22%) Microsoft Exchange
11 4 (22.22%) DevOps
11 4 (22.22%) Patch Management
11 4 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (16.67%) Systems Engineering
12 3 (16.67%) Ansible
12 3 (16.67%) vCenter Server

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 4 (22.22%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (11.11%) IIS
3 1 (5.56%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 11 (61.11%) Microsoft 365
2 10 (55.56%) Azure
3 8 (44.44%) AWS
4 4 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (11.11%) Entra ID
5 2 (11.11%) GCP
5 2 (11.11%) Mimecast
6 1 (5.56%) IaaS
6 1 (5.56%) Nutanix
6 1 (5.56%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (16.67%) Wireless
2 2 (11.11%) DHCP
2 2 (11.11%) DNS
2 2 (11.11%) TCP/IP
3 1 (5.56%) Firewall
3 1 (5.56%) LAN
3 1 (5.56%) NetScaler
3 1 (5.56%) Network Security
3 1 (5.56%) SNMP
3 1 (5.56%) VLAN
3 1 (5.56%) VPN
3 1 (5.56%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (16.67%) JIRA
2 1 (5.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (5.56%) Bitbucket
2 1 (5.56%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 5 (27.78%) Finance
2 2 (11.11%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Legal
3 1 (5.56%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.56%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.56%) Hedge funds
2 1 (5.56%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 18 (100.00%) Windows
2 13 (72.22%) Windows Server
3 9 (50.00%) Linux
4 5 (27.78%) Windows 10
5 3 (16.67%) AIX
6 2 (11.11%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (5.56%) Debian
7 1 (5.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (5.56%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 6 (33.33%) ITIL
2 6 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (22.22%) DevOps
3 4 (22.22%) Patch Management
4 3 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 3 (16.67%) Containerisation
4 3 (16.67%) High Availability
4 3 (16.67%) Systems Engineering
4 3 (16.67%) Time Management
5 2 (11.11%) Antivirus Management
5 2 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (11.11%) Server Migrations
5 2 (11.11%) Vulnerability Management
6 1 (5.56%) API Integration
6 1 (5.56%) Performance Monitoring
6 1 (5.56%) Security Hardening
6 1 (5.56%) Server Building
6 1 (5.56%) Server Patching
Programming Languages
1 5 (27.78%) PowerShell
2 3 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (27.78%) Degree
2 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (11.11%) Security Cleared
3 1 (5.56%) DV Cleared
3 1 (5.56%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (16.67%) SLA
2 1 (5.56%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 6 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (27.78%) Active Directory
3 3 (16.67%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (16.67%) vSphere
4 2 (11.11%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 6 (33.33%) SCCM
2 5 (27.78%) Terraform
3 3 (16.67%) Ansible
3 3 (16.67%) Kubernetes
3 3 (16.67%) vCenter Server
4 2 (11.11%) NetBackup
5 1 (5.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (5.56%) Packer
5 1 (5.56%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (5.56%) WMI
5 1 (5.56%) WSUS
Vendors
1 12 (66.67%) VMware
2 11 (61.11%) Microsoft
3 7 (38.89%) Cisco
4 6 (33.33%) Citrix
5 5 (27.78%) ServiceNow
6 2 (11.11%) Extreme Networks
6 2 (11.11%) Zscaler
7 1 (5.56%) Fortinet
7 1 (5.56%) Meraki
7 1 (5.56%) Red Hat
7 1 (5.56%) SolarWinds
7 1 (5.56%) Tanium