Windows Systems Engineer Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Windows System Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Windows System Engineer salary for remote or hybrid work is £75,000 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 395 591 665
Rank change year-on-year +196 +74 +180
Permanent jobs requiring a Windows Systems Engineer 2 1 8
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.013% 0.003% 0.019%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.015% 0.003% 0.019%
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 8
10th Percentile £65,250 - -
25th Percentile £67,500 - £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -9.09% -29.03%
75th Percentile £82,500 - £74,688
90th Percentile £84,750 - £88,750
UK median annual salary £73,750 £34,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +116.91% -47.69% +18.18%

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 Systems Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

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

Windows Systems Engineer
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Windows Systems Engineer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Windows Systems Engineer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Windows Systems Engineer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Windows Systems 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 Systems 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 Systems Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Task Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (50.00%) GDPR
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Server Management
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2019
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (50.00%) Software Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Security Hardening
2 1 (50.00%) Patch Management
2 1 (50.00%) API Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (50.00%) Active Directory

Windows Systems 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Investment Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (50.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Clustering
1 1 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (100.00%) Task Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Security Hardening
2 1 (50.00%) Server Management
2 1 (50.00%) Software Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Software Deployment
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (50.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
1 1 (50.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
2 1 (50.00%) Nagios
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Google
2 1 (50.00%) Splunk