Windows Systems Engineer Job Trends

Windows System Engineer
UK

The median Windows System Engineer salary in the UK is £77,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 January 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 641 706 694
Rank change year-on-year +65 -12 +305
Permanent jobs requiring a Windows Systems Engineer 10 6 43
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.017% 0.011% 0.077%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.018% 0.012% 0.081%
Number of salaries quoted 10 5 43
10th Percentile £56,250 - £30,000
25th Percentile £76,250 £55,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £80,000 £34,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% +135.29% -57.50%
75th Percentile £78,750 £86,250 -
90th Percentile - £93,000 £45,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £34,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% +61.76% -40.87%

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 54,089 49,558 53,300
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.68% 92.89% 95.26%
Number of salaries quoted 33,489 25,634 41,126
10th Percentile £28,500 £33,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,750 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -5.66%

Windows Systems Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Windows Systems Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK

Windows Systems Engineer
Salary Trend

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

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

Windows Systems Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows Systems Engineer over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Windows Systems Engineer in the UK

Windows Systems Engineer
Top 6 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows Systems Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 13 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 +75 10 £77,500 -3.13%
London +60 8 £77,500 -6.06%
UK excluding London +66 2 £57,500 +4.55%
Work from Home +62 2 £57,500 -28.13%
North West - 2 £57,500 -
North of England - 2 £57,500 -

Windows Systems Engineer Skill Set
Top 27 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 13 January 2026, Windows Systems 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 Systems Engineer in the job title.

1 10 (100.00%) Windows
2 8 (80.00%) Active Directory
2 8 (80.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 8 (80.00%) Batch Scripting
2 8 (80.00%) Bloomberg
2 8 (80.00%) Collaborative Working
2 8 (80.00%) DHCP
2 8 (80.00%) DNS
2 8 (80.00%) Entra ID
2 8 (80.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 8 (80.00%) LAN
2 8 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 8 (80.00%) Microsoft 365
2 8 (80.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (80.00%) Patch Management
2 8 (80.00%) PowerShell
2 8 (80.00%) Reuters
2 8 (80.00%) Single Sign-On
2 8 (80.00%) Systems Engineering
2 8 (80.00%) Task Automation
2 8 (80.00%) TCP/IP
2 8 (80.00%) WAN
2 8 (80.00%) Windows Server
2 8 (80.00%) Windows Server 2012
3 2 (20.00%) Bash
3 2 (20.00%) Linux
3 2 (20.00%) Virtual Machines

Windows Systems 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 8 (80.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 8 (80.00%) Entra ID
1 8 (80.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 8 (80.00%) DHCP
1 8 (80.00%) DNS
1 8 (80.00%) LAN
1 8 (80.00%) TCP/IP
1 8 (80.00%) WAN
General
1 8 (80.00%) Finance
1 8 (80.00%) Legal
1 8 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 8 (80.00%) Enterprise Software
1 8 (80.00%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 10 (100.00%) Windows
2 8 (80.00%) Windows Server
2 8 (80.00%) Windows Server 2012
3 2 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) Batch Scripting
1 8 (80.00%) Collaborative Working
1 8 (80.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 8 (80.00%) Patch Management
1 8 (80.00%) Systems Engineering
1 8 (80.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 8 (80.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (20.00%) Bash
System Software
1 8 (80.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (80.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 8 (80.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (80.00%) Bloomberg
1 8 (80.00%) Microsoft
1 8 (80.00%) Reuters