Wintel Engineer Job Trends

Wintel Engineer
UK

The median Wintel Engineer salary in the UK is £52,647 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 10 December 2025.

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

6 months to
10 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 644 696 640
Rank change year-on-year +52 -56 +407
Permanent jobs requiring a Wintel Engineer 10 46 70
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.018% 0.074% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.020% 0.079% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 10 40 68
10th Percentile £48,250 £42,238 £42,798
25th Percentile £48,815 £42,434 £46,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,647 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.28% +5.00% -8.26%
75th Percentile £61,146 £57,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £74,500 - £73,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £49,000
% change year-on-year - +7.14% +53.13%

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 50,704 58,391 48,070
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.90% 94.00% 95.24%
Number of salaries quoted 31,404 32,367 37,457
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £58,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.17% -3.33% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.52% - -

Wintel Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Wintel Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK

Wintel Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary distribution trend for Wintel Engineer job vacancies in the UK

Wintel Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Wintel Engineer over the 6 months to 10 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Wintel Engineer in the UK

Wintel 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 Wintel Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 10 December 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 +65 9 £52,500 - 2
UK excluding London +60 8 £52,500 - 2
East of England +30 6 £52,000 -3.70%
London +69 2 £92,500 -
Work from Home +62 1 £52,794 +19.24%
Midlands +33 1 £65,000 +44.44%
West Midlands +32 1 £65,000 +44.44%
Wales - 1 £52,794 -

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

For the 6 months to 10 December 2025, Wintel 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 Wintel Engineer in the job title.

1 9 (90.00%) Windows
2 8 (80.00%) Windows Server
3 7 (70.00%) Active Directory
4 6 (60.00%) Microsoft
4 6 (60.00%) PowerShell
4 6 (60.00%) SC Cleared
4 6 (60.00%) Security Cleared
5 5 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 5 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (50.00%) SCOM
5 5 (50.00%) Skype
5 5 (50.00%) Skype for Business
5 5 (50.00%) SQL Server
5 5 (50.00%) VMware
5 5 (50.00%) WSUS
6 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (20.00%) Ansible
7 2 (20.00%) Azure
7 2 (20.00%) Cohesity
7 2 (20.00%) DV Cleared
7 2 (20.00%) GitLab
7 2 (20.00%) HP
7 2 (20.00%) Linux
7 2 (20.00%) Red Hat
7 2 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (20.00%) VSAN
7 2 (20.00%) vSphere
8 1 (10.00%) AWS
8 1 (10.00%) Change Control

Wintel 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 5 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 5 (50.00%) Skype for Business
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) Azure
1 2 (20.00%) Cohesity
2 1 (10.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (50.00%) Skype
2 2 (20.00%) VSAN
3 1 (10.00%) Firewall
3 1 (10.00%) NetScaler
3 1 (10.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) GitLab
General
1 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Aerospace
3 1 (10.00%) Advertising
3 1 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Blackberry
1 2 (20.00%) PKI
1 2 (20.00%) RSA SecurID
2 1 (10.00%) Clustering
2 1 (10.00%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 9 (90.00%) Windows
2 8 (80.00%) Windows Server
3 2 (20.00%) Linux
3 2 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (10.00%) Change Control
3 1 (10.00%) Change Management
3 1 (10.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (10.00%) Incident Management
3 1 (10.00%) Problem Management
3 1 (10.00%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (20.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (10.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (70.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (20.00%) vSphere
3 1 (10.00%) Hyper-V
3 1 (10.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 5 (50.00%) SCOM
1 5 (50.00%) WSUS
2 2 (20.00%) Ansible
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (10.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (50.00%) VMware
3 2 (20.00%) HP
3 2 (20.00%) Red Hat
4 1 (10.00%) CheckPoint
4 1 (10.00%) Cisco
4 1 (10.00%) Citrix
4 1 (10.00%) Meraki