Windows Server Engineer Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Windows Server Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Windows Server Engineer salary for remote or hybrid work is £50,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 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
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 406 571 660
Rank change year-on-year +165 +89 +166
Permanent jobs requiring a Windows Server Engineer 7 18 11
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.047% 0.053% 0.026%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.052% 0.055% 0.027%
Number of salaries quoted 7 18 11
10th Percentile £41,150 £35,125 £39,250
25th Percentile £45,125 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £72,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -31.03% +31.82% +7.84%
75th Percentile £76,250 £102,500 £61,250
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £57,500 £53,750 £54,500
% change year-on-year +6.98% -1.38% +7.39%

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 13,568 32,486 41,019
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.66% 95.98% 96.07%
Number of salaries quoted 9,888 24,950 29,138
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,116 £36,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £47,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,451 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.29% -9.68% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,900 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% -11.83% -

Windows Server Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

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

Windows Server Engineer
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Windows Server Engineer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Windows Server Engineer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Windows Server Engineer over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Windows Server Engineer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 2 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 jobs with hybrid or remote work options featuring Windows Server Engineer in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) Windows
1 7 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 6 (85.71%) AWS
3 5 (71.43%) Azure
3 5 (71.43%) Cloud Computing
3 5 (71.43%) VMware
3 5 (71.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (71.43%) Microsoft
4 4 (57.14%) Active Directory
4 4 (57.14%) Ansible
4 4 (57.14%) Nutanix
5 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
5 3 (42.86%) Platform Engineering
5 3 (42.86%) Customer Service
5 3 (42.86%) Project Delivery
5 3 (42.86%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (42.86%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (42.86%) Security Hardening
5 3 (42.86%) DevOps
5 3 (42.86%) GCP
5 3 (42.86%) Windows Server 2012
5 3 (42.86%) IaaS
5 3 (42.86%) High Availability
5 3 (42.86%) PowerShell
5 3 (42.86%) Windows Server 2008
5 3 (42.86%) Clustering
5 3 (42.86%) SaaS
5 3 (42.86%) PaaS
5 3 (42.86%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (42.86%) EMC

Windows Server 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 1 (14.29%) Apache
1 1 (14.29%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 6 (85.71%) AWS
2 5 (71.43%) Azure
2 5 (71.43%) Cloud Computing
3 4 (57.14%) Nutanix
4 3 (42.86%) GCP
4 3 (42.86%) IaaS
4 3 (42.86%) PaaS
4 3 (42.86%) SaaS
5 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
5 1 (14.29%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) TCP/IP
2 1 (14.29%) DHCP
2 1 (14.29%) DNS
2 1 (14.29%) Firewall
General
1 3 (42.86%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Clustering
1 3 (42.86%) Replication
2 1 (14.29%) Data Centre
2 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (14.29%) PKI
2 1 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Windows
1 7 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 3 (42.86%) Windows Server 2008
2 3 (42.86%) Windows Server 2012
2 3 (42.86%) Windows Server 2016
2 3 (42.86%) Windows Server 2019
3 2 (28.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
1 3 (42.86%) Customer Service
1 3 (42.86%) DevOps
1 3 (42.86%) Disaster Recovery
1 3 (42.86%) High Availability
1 3 (42.86%) Platform Engineering
1 3 (42.86%) Project Delivery
1 3 (42.86%) Security Hardening
2 2 (28.57%) Asset Management
2 2 (28.57%) Change Control
2 2 (28.57%) Vulnerability Remediation
3 1 (14.29%) Agile
3 1 (14.29%) Computer Science
3 1 (14.29%) Data Protection
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (14.29%) ITIL
3 1 (14.29%) PRINCE2
3 1 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (14.29%) Server Building
3 1 (14.29%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) MCSA
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (14.29%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (71.43%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (57.14%) Active Directory
3 3 (42.86%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (14.29%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Ansible
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Microsoft
1 5 (71.43%) VMware
2 3 (42.86%) EMC
2 3 (42.86%) Oracle
2 3 (42.86%) TOWER Software
3 1 (14.29%) Cisco
3 1 (14.29%) Palo Alto
3 1 (14.29%) SolarWinds