Wintel Engineer
UK

The median Wintel Engineer salary in the UK is £49,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 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
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 862 937 1203
Rank change year-on-year +75 +266 -334
Permanent jobs requiring a Wintel Engineer 48 42 34
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.049% 0.041% 0.022%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.051% 0.044% 0.022%
Number of salaries quoted 47 28 28
10th Percentile - £36,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £46,500 £40,000 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £42,500 £46,250
Median % change year-on-year +15.29% -8.11% +2.78%
75th Percentile £58,750 £56,188 £55,625
90th Percentile £85,000 £63,750 £78,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £49,000 £40,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year +22.50% -5.88% +2.41%

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 93,479 94,643 151,222
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.63% 91.52% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 67,031 59,595 85,375
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,611
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,508 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.49% - +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%

Wintel Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Wintel Engineer in the UK

Wintel Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Wintel Engineer in the UK

Wintel Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Wintel Engineer over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Wintel Engineer in the UK

Wintel Engineer
Top 9 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 6 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 +112 48 £49,000 +15.29% 7
UK excluding London -4 39 £49,000 +22.50% 7
South West -6 32 £49,000 -10.91% 4
Work from Home +64 13 £54,000 +35.00% 1
London +129 9 £85,000 +55.96% 1
East of England +19 4 £57,500 +35.29%
South East +13 2 £50,750 +26.88% 2
North of England +49 1 £47,500 +22.58%
North East -8 1 £47,500 +22.58%

Wintel Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 6 May 2024, Wintel 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 Wintel Engineer in the job title.

1 46 (95.83%) Windows
2 41 (85.42%) Active Directory
3 39 (81.25%) VMware
4 37 (77.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 37 (77.08%) PowerShell
4 37 (77.08%) Microsoft
4 37 (77.08%) Windows Server
5 32 (66.67%) SCCM
6 29 (60.42%) Incident Management
6 29 (60.42%) DV Cleared
6 29 (60.42%) Security Cleared
6 29 (60.42%) Hyper-V
7 25 (52.08%) SC Cleared
8 16 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 12 (25.00%) Linux
10 11 (22.92%) SharePoint
10 11 (22.92%) Azure
11 10 (20.83%) SQL
12 8 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
13 7 (14.58%) Skype
13 7 (14.58%) vSphere
13 7 (14.58%) PKI
13 7 (14.58%) Finance
14 6 (12.50%) SQL Server
15 5 (10.42%) Microsoft Exchange
15 5 (10.42%) SLA
15 5 (10.42%) Microsoft Certification
15 5 (10.42%) Social Skills
16 4 (8.33%) Key Management
16 4 (8.33%) Elastic Stack

Wintel 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 11 (22.92%) SharePoint
2 5 (10.42%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (6.25%) Skype for Business
4 1 (2.08%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Cloud Services
1 11 (22.92%) Azure
2 8 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (8.33%) Entra ID
4 2 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (4.17%) Nutanix
5 1 (2.08%) IaaS
5 1 (2.08%) OneDrive
5 1 (2.08%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (14.58%) Skype
2 4 (8.33%) NAS
2 4 (8.33%) SAN
3 2 (4.17%) Unified Communications
3 2 (4.17%) VPN
4 1 (2.08%) DHCP
4 1 (2.08%) DNS
4 1 (2.08%) Firewall
4 1 (2.08%) LAN
4 1 (2.08%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (12.50%) SQL Server
2 4 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
General
1 7 (14.58%) Finance
2 5 (10.42%) Social Skills
3 4 (8.33%) Banking
3 4 (8.33%) Manufacturing
3 4 (8.33%) Military
4 1 (2.08%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (4.17%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 7 (14.58%) PKI
2 4 (8.33%) Clustering
2 4 (8.33%) Fat Client
2 4 (8.33%) Thin Client
3 2 (4.17%) Data Centre
3 2 (4.17%) Smartcard
4 1 (2.08%) Blackberry
4 1 (2.08%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (2.08%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 46 (95.83%) Windows
2 37 (77.08%) Windows Server
3 12 (25.00%) Linux
4 4 (8.33%) Debian
4 4 (8.33%) Windows Server 2012
4 4 (8.33%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (60.42%) Incident Management
2 16 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (8.33%) Batch Processing
3 4 (8.33%) Database Mirroring
3 4 (8.33%) ITIL
3 4 (8.33%) Key Management
3 4 (8.33%) Migration
3 4 (8.33%) Patch Management
3 4 (8.33%) Proactive Monitoring
4 3 (6.25%) Service Delivery
5 2 (4.17%) Configuration Management
5 2 (4.17%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (4.17%) DevOps
5 2 (4.17%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (4.17%) Mentoring
5 2 (4.17%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (4.17%) Security Monitoring
5 2 (4.17%) Security Patching
6 1 (2.08%) Break/Fix
6 1 (2.08%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 37 (77.08%) PowerShell
2 10 (20.83%) SQL
Qualifications
1 29 (60.42%) DV Cleared
1 29 (60.42%) Security Cleared
2 25 (52.08%) SC Cleared
3 5 (10.42%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (8.33%) CCNA
4 4 (8.33%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (8.33%) MCSE
4 4 (8.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 3 (6.25%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.42%) SLA
System Software
1 41 (85.42%) Active Directory
2 37 (77.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 29 (60.42%) Hyper-V
4 7 (14.58%) vSphere
5 4 (8.33%) VMware NSX
6 2 (4.17%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (4.17%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (2.08%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 1 (2.08%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 32 (66.67%) SCCM
2 4 (8.33%) Failover Clustering
2 4 (8.33%) Microsoft Clustering
2 4 (8.33%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
3 2 (4.17%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (2.08%) McAfee ePO
4 1 (2.08%) NetBackup
4 1 (2.08%) OfficeScan
4 1 (2.08%) SCOM
4 1 (2.08%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 39 (81.25%) VMware
2 37 (77.08%) Microsoft
3 3 (6.25%) HP
4 2 (4.17%) Citrix
4 2 (4.17%) Commvault
4 2 (4.17%) SolarWinds
5 1 (2.08%) Altiris
5 1 (2.08%) Dell
5 1 (2.08%) Huawei
5 1 (2.08%) McAfee
5 1 (2.08%) Veritas