Windows Server Engineer Jobs

Windows Server Engineer
UK

The median Windows Server Engineer salary in the UK is £57,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 4 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
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 684 862 954
Rank change year-on-year +178 +92 +236
Permanent jobs requiring a Windows Server Engineer 16 42 40
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.030% 0.043% 0.039%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.034% 0.045% 0.042%
Number of salaries quoted 13 42 37
10th Percentile £42,250 £32,500 £24,500
25th Percentile £49,000 £35,000 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £53,750 £54,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.98% -1.38% +7.92%
75th Percentile £76,250 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile - £102,500 £74,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £35,000 £40,250
% change year-on-year +28.57% -13.04% -15.26%

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 47,541 93,322 94,998
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.35% 94.63% 91.54%
Number of salaries quoted 27,467 66,921 59,760
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,550 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.42% -12.42% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -5.66% +6.00%

Windows Server Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server Engineer in the UK

Windows Server Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Windows Server Engineer in the UK

Windows Server Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows Server Engineer over the 6 months to 4 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Windows Server Engineer in the UK

Windows Server Engineer
Top 10 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows Server Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 4 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 +154 16 £57,500 +6.98% 5
London +92 12 £70,000 +3.70% 4
Work from Home +157 7 £50,000 -31.03% 2
UK excluding London +183 4 £45,000 +28.57% 3
South East +98 1 £42,500 +21.43% 2
North of England +69 1 £65,000 +30.00%
East of England +52 1 £42,000 +20.00%
East Midlands - 1 £47,500 - 1
Midlands - 1 £47,500 - 1
North West - 1 £65,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 4 May 2025, Windows Server 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 Server Engineer in the job title.

1 16 (100.00%) Windows
1 16 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 12 (75.00%) VMware
3 11 (68.75%) Microsoft
4 10 (62.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (62.50%) AWS
5 9 (56.25%) Linux
5 9 (56.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 8 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
6 8 (50.00%) Azure
7 7 (43.75%) Degree
7 7 (43.75%) Cisco
8 6 (37.50%) ITIL
8 6 (37.50%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (31.25%) Microsoft 365
9 5 (31.25%) Cloud Computing
9 5 (31.25%) Ansible
9 5 (31.25%) DevOps
9 5 (31.25%) Active Directory
9 5 (31.25%) SLA
10 4 (25.00%) PowerShell
10 4 (25.00%) Finance
10 4 (25.00%) Citrix
10 4 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (25.00%) ServiceNow
10 4 (25.00%) Windows Server 2012
10 4 (25.00%) IaaS
10 4 (25.00%) PaaS
10 4 (25.00%) Windows Server 2016
10 4 (25.00%) Windows Server 2019

Windows Server 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 1 (6.25%) Apache
1 1 (6.25%) IIS
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 10 (62.50%) AWS
2 8 (50.00%) Azure
3 5 (31.25%) Cloud Computing
3 5 (31.25%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (25.00%) IaaS
4 4 (25.00%) Nutanix
4 4 (25.00%) PaaS
5 3 (18.75%) GCP
5 3 (18.75%) SaaS
6 2 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (12.50%) Entra ID
7 1 (6.25%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (6.25%) Cloudflare
7 1 (6.25%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 3 (18.75%) TCP/IP
2 2 (12.50%) Firewall
2 2 (12.50%) Wireless
3 1 (6.25%) DHCP
3 1 (6.25%) DNS
3 1 (6.25%) NAS
3 1 (6.25%) NetScaler
3 1 (6.25%) Network Security
3 1 (6.25%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
1 1 (6.25%) JIRA
General
1 4 (25.00%) Finance
2 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Banking
3 1 (6.25%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Clustering
1 3 (18.75%) Data Centre
1 3 (18.75%) Management Information System
1 3 (18.75%) Replication
2 1 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (6.25%) Driving Licence
2 1 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (6.25%) Hedge funds
2 1 (6.25%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (6.25%) PKI
2 1 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 16 (100.00%) Windows
1 16 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 9 (56.25%) Linux
3 4 (25.00%) Windows Server 2012
3 4 (25.00%) Windows Server 2016
3 4 (25.00%) Windows Server 2019
4 3 (18.75%) AIX
4 3 (18.75%) Windows 10
4 3 (18.75%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (6.25%) Debian
5 1 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (6.25%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (56.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 8 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 6 (37.50%) ITIL
4 5 (31.25%) DevOps
5 4 (25.00%) CI/CD
6 3 (18.75%) Customer Service
6 3 (18.75%) High Availability
6 3 (18.75%) Platform Engineering
6 3 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (18.75%) Project Delivery
6 3 (18.75%) Security Hardening
6 3 (18.75%) Time Management
7 2 (12.50%) Agile
7 2 (12.50%) Asset Management
7 2 (12.50%) Change Control
7 2 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
7 2 (12.50%) Patch Management
7 2 (12.50%) Server Building
7 2 (12.50%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (6.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (43.75%) Degree
2 4 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (12.50%) MCSA
3 2 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 2 (12.50%) Security Cleared
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Certification
4 1 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (6.25%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (31.25%) SLA
2 1 (6.25%) GDPR
2 1 (6.25%) HIPAA
2 1 (6.25%) SOC 2
System Software
1 10 (62.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (37.50%) VMware ESXi
3 5 (31.25%) Active Directory
4 3 (18.75%) vSphere
5 2 (12.50%) Hyper-V
6 1 (6.25%) Docker
6 1 (6.25%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (31.25%) Ansible
2 3 (18.75%) SCCM
3 2 (12.50%) Terraform
4 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 12 (75.00%) VMware
2 11 (68.75%) Microsoft
3 7 (43.75%) Cisco
4 4 (25.00%) Citrix
4 4 (25.00%) ServiceNow
5 3 (18.75%) EMC
5 3 (18.75%) Oracle
5 3 (18.75%) TOWER Software
6 2 (12.50%) Extreme Networks
6 2 (12.50%) SolarWinds
7 1 (6.25%) Fortinet
7 1 (6.25%) Imperva
7 1 (6.25%) Meraki
7 1 (6.25%) NetApp
7 1 (6.25%) Palo Alto
7 1 (6.25%) Red Hat