Windows Engineer Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Windows Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Windows Engineer salary for remote or hybrid work is £56,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 379 531 580
Rank change year-on-year +152 +49 +200
Permanent jobs requiring a Windows Engineer 18 61 93
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.12% 0.18% 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.19% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 18 49 86
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £41,063 £41,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £72,500 £56,250
Median % change year-on-year -22.41% +28.89% +10.29%
75th Percentile £76,250 £102,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £86,625 - £91,250
UK median annual salary £72,250 £42,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +70.00% -22.73% +14.58%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 13,554 32,482 41,080
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.64% 95.99% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 9,860 24,960 29,208
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,000 £36,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £47,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -10.40% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,777 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.95% -12.04% -

Windows Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Windows Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Windows Engineer trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Windows Engineer
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Windows Engineer.

Windows Engineer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Windows Engineer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Windows Engineer over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Windows Engineer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Windows Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Windows 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 jobs with hybrid or remote work options featuring Windows Engineer in the job title.

1 18 (100.00%) Windows
2 14 (77.78%) Active Directory
3 13 (72.22%) Microsoft
3 13 (72.22%) Windows Server
4 11 (61.11%) Azure
5 9 (50.00%) AWS
6 8 (44.44%) Ansible
6 8 (44.44%) VMware
7 7 (38.89%) SCCM
7 7 (38.89%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (38.89%) PowerShell
8 6 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
8 6 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
9 5 (27.78%) Cloud Computing
9 5 (27.78%) DevOps
9 5 (27.78%) Windows 10
9 5 (27.78%) Microsoft Office
9 5 (27.78%) Finance
9 5 (27.78%) Disaster Recovery
9 5 (27.78%) Firewall
9 5 (27.78%) Windows Server 2019
9 5 (27.78%) Social Skills
9 5 (27.78%) CI/CD
10 4 (22.22%) Nutanix
10 4 (22.22%) Project Delivery
10 4 (22.22%) Clustering
10 4 (22.22%) Degree
10 4 (22.22%) SQL Server
10 4 (22.22%) Citrix
10 4 (22.22%) GCP

Windows Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 3 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (5.56%) Apache
2 1 (5.56%) IIS
Applications
1 5 (27.78%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 11 (61.11%) Azure
2 9 (50.00%) AWS
3 6 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (27.78%) Cloud Computing
5 4 (22.22%) Entra ID
5 4 (22.22%) GCP
5 4 (22.22%) Nutanix
6 3 (16.67%) IaaS
6 3 (16.67%) PaaS
6 3 (16.67%) SaaS
7 1 (5.56%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 5 (27.78%) Firewall
2 3 (16.67%) DNS
2 3 (16.67%) TCP/IP
3 2 (11.11%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (22.22%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Git
1 1 (5.56%) JIRA
General
1 5 (27.78%) Finance
1 5 (27.78%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.56%) Banking
2 1 (5.56%) Investment Banking
2 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (5.56%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Clustering
2 3 (16.67%) Replication
3 2 (11.11%) Data Centre
3 2 (11.11%) Driving Licence
4 1 (5.56%) Client/Server
4 1 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (5.56%) Management Information System
4 1 (5.56%) PKI
4 1 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 18 (100.00%) Windows
2 13 (72.22%) Windows Server
3 5 (27.78%) Windows 10
3 5 (27.78%) Windows Server 2019
4 4 (22.22%) Windows Server 2008
5 3 (16.67%) Windows Server 2012
5 3 (16.67%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (11.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (27.78%) CI/CD
1 5 (27.78%) DevOps
1 5 (27.78%) Disaster Recovery
2 4 (22.22%) High Availability
2 4 (22.22%) Project Delivery
2 4 (22.22%) Security Hardening
3 3 (16.67%) Customer Service
3 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
4 2 (11.11%) Agile
4 2 (11.11%) Asset Management
4 2 (11.11%) Change Control
4 2 (11.11%) Computer Science
4 2 (11.11%) Task Automation
4 2 (11.11%) Vulnerability Remediation
5 1 (5.56%) Data Protection
5 1 (5.56%) Root Cause Analysis
5 1 (5.56%) Software Deployment
5 1 (5.56%) Time Management
5 1 (5.56%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (38.89%) PowerShell
2 2 (11.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (38.89%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (22.22%) Degree
3 3 (16.67%) MCSA
4 2 (11.11%) A+ Certification
4 2 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (11.11%) SC Cleared
4 2 (11.11%) Security Cleared
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Certification
5 1 (5.56%) DV Cleared
5 1 (5.56%) MCP
5 1 (5.56%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) SLA
2 1 (5.56%) GDPR
2 1 (5.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 14 (77.78%) Active Directory
2 6 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (22.22%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (11.11%) Hyper-V
5 1 (5.56%) Docker
5 1 (5.56%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 8 (44.44%) Ansible
2 7 (38.89%) SCCM
3 3 (16.67%) vCenter Server
4 1 (5.56%) Nagios
Vendors
1 13 (72.22%) Microsoft
2 8 (44.44%) VMware
3 4 (22.22%) Citrix
4 3 (16.67%) EMC
4 3 (16.67%) Oracle
4 3 (16.67%) TOWER Software
5 2 (11.11%) Cisco
6 1 (5.56%) arcserve
6 1 (5.56%) Google
6 1 (5.56%) Palo Alto
6 1 (5.56%) SolarWinds
6 1 (5.56%) Splunk