Windows Infrastructure Engineer Jobs

Windows Infrastructure Engineer
UK

The median Windows Infrastructure Engineer salary in the UK is £67,750 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 854 867 1211
Rank change year-on-year +13 +344 -371
Permanent jobs requiring a Windows Infrastructure Engineer 53 80 50
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.050% 0.085% 0.030%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.053% 0.093% 0.031%
Number of salaries quoted 44 50 39
10th Percentile £37,375 £47,375 £33,936
25th Percentile £41,250 £49,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,750 £56,250 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.44% +12.50% +8.70%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,813 £57,500
90th Percentile £124,375 £112,500 £65,050
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £48,375
% change year-on-year -14.29% +8.53% +7.50%

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 99,552 86,380 162,088
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.85% 91.27% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 70,786 55,655 84,889
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £50,244
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.48% +5.78%

Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Windows Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows Infrastructure Engineer over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Windows Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Top 12 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows Infrastructure Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 1 June 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 +8 46 £70,000 +10.24% 7
London +125 30 £72,500 -17.14% 5
Work from Home +37 23 £72,500 +31.82% 2
UK excluding London -72 19 £45,000 -14.29% 4
North of England +36 5 £45,000 -28.00%
South East -29 5 £50,000 -23.08% 2
Yorkshire - 5 £45,000 -
South West -28 4 £37,500 -21.05% 1
Scotland -63 3 £85,000 +61.90% 1
East of England -13 1 £40,000 -20.00% 2
Midlands -16 1 £42,500 -23.42%
West Midlands -17 1 £42,500 -23.42%

Windows Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, Windows Infrastructure 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 Windows Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 53 (100.00%) Windows
2 51 (96.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 33 (62.26%) Windows Server
4 27 (50.94%) Microsoft
5 24 (45.28%) PowerShell
6 20 (37.74%) Azure
6 20 (37.74%) Active Directory
6 20 (37.74%) VMware
7 18 (33.96%) Linux
8 17 (32.08%) VMware Infrastructure
9 14 (26.42%) AWS
10 13 (24.53%) Ansible
10 13 (24.53%) Banking
10 13 (24.53%) DHCP
11 11 (20.75%) DNS
11 11 (20.75%) Configuration Management
11 11 (20.75%) DevOps
12 10 (18.87%) Puppet
13 9 (16.98%) Finance
13 9 (16.98%) SQL Server
13 9 (16.98%) Self-Motivation
13 9 (16.98%) Problem-Solving
14 8 (15.09%) Infrastructure as Code
14 8 (15.09%) Firewall
15 7 (13.21%) Hyper-V
15 7 (13.21%) Capacity Management
16 6 (11.32%) Veeam
16 6 (11.32%) Degree
16 6 (11.32%) Computer Science
16 6 (11.32%) Python

Windows Infrastructure 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 5 (9.43%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 20 (37.74%) Azure
2 14 (26.42%) AWS
3 5 (9.43%) GitHub
3 5 (9.43%) IaaS
3 5 (9.43%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (9.43%) OCI
3 5 (9.43%) Rubrik
4 3 (5.66%) GCP
5 1 (1.89%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.89%) PaaS
5 1 (1.89%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (24.53%) DHCP
2 11 (20.75%) DNS
3 8 (15.09%) Firewall
4 5 (9.43%) SAN
4 5 (9.43%) WAN
5 4 (7.55%) DMZ
5 4 (7.55%) Network Security
5 4 (7.55%) VLAN
5 4 (7.55%) VPN
6 3 (5.66%) SD-WAN
6 3 (5.66%) VoIP
7 2 (3.77%) LAN
7 2 (3.77%) TCP/IP
8 1 (1.89%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (16.98%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (9.43%) Git
1 5 (9.43%) GitLab
2 3 (5.66%) JIRA
3 1 (1.89%) Jenkins
General
1 13 (24.53%) Banking
2 9 (16.98%) Finance
3 5 (9.43%) Investment Banking
3 5 (9.43%) Social Skills
4 4 (7.55%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (7.55%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.89%) Legal
Miscellaneous
1 9 (16.98%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (9.43%) Management Information System
3 4 (7.55%) Client/Server
3 4 (7.55%) Virtual Team
4 3 (5.66%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.89%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 53 (100.00%) Windows
2 33 (62.26%) Windows Server
3 18 (33.96%) Linux
4 5 (9.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (9.43%) Unix
5 4 (7.55%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (5.66%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (3.77%) Windows 10
7 2 (3.77%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (1.89%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (96.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 11 (20.75%) Configuration Management
2 11 (20.75%) DevOps
3 9 (16.98%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (15.09%) Infrastructure as Code
5 7 (13.21%) Capacity Management
6 6 (11.32%) Collaborative Working
6 6 (11.32%) Computer Science
7 5 (9.43%) Agile
7 5 (9.43%) Asset Management
7 5 (9.43%) CI/CD
7 5 (9.43%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (9.43%) Data Management
7 5 (9.43%) Investment Management
7 5 (9.43%) IT Strategy
7 5 (9.43%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 5 (9.43%) Technology Strategy
8 4 (7.55%) Containerisation
8 4 (7.55%) Knowledge Transfer
8 4 (7.55%) Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 24 (45.28%) PowerShell
2 6 (11.32%) Python
3 5 (9.43%) Bash
3 5 (9.43%) Korn
3 5 (9.43%) Perl
3 5 (9.43%) Ruby
4 1 (1.89%) C#
4 1 (1.89%) Rust
Qualifications
1 6 (11.32%) Degree
2 4 (7.55%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.89%) DV Cleared
3 1 (1.89%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.89%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.89%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (1.89%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (1.89%) SLA
System Software
1 20 (37.74%) Active Directory
2 17 (32.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (13.21%) Hyper-V
4 5 (9.43%) DFS Replication
5 4 (7.55%) Docker
6 3 (5.66%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (3.77%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (3.77%) vSphere
8 1 (1.89%) KVM
8 1 (1.89%) QEMU
8 1 (1.89%) Xen
Systems Management
1 13 (24.53%) Ansible
2 10 (18.87%) Puppet
3 5 (9.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 5 (9.43%) NetBackup
3 5 (9.43%) Red Hat Satellite
3 5 (9.43%) Terraform
3 5 (9.43%) vRealize Orchestrator
4 4 (7.55%) Kubernetes
5 2 (3.77%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (1.89%) WSUS
Vendors
1 27 (50.94%) Microsoft
2 20 (37.74%) VMware
3 6 (11.32%) Citrix
3 6 (11.32%) Red Hat
3 6 (11.32%) Veeam
4 5 (9.43%) Cisco
4 5 (9.43%) Oracle
4 5 (9.43%) Sun
4 5 (9.43%) TOWER Software
5 3 (5.66%) Google
5 3 (5.66%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.89%) arcserve
6 1 (1.89%) Dell
6 1 (1.89%) HP
6 1 (1.89%) Intel
6 1 (1.89%) NetApp
6 1 (1.89%) NETGEAR
6 1 (1.89%) SonicWALL