Windows Engineer Jobs

Windows Engineer
UK

The median Windows Engineer salary in the UK is £42,500 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 754 713 1069
Rank change year-on-year -41 +356 -431
Permanent jobs requiring a Windows Engineer 154 237 193
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.25% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.27% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 132 194 172
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £33,625 £35,313 £33,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £56,222 £49,342
Median % change year-on-year -24.41% +13.94% +7.26%
75th Percentile £70,000 £78,750 £58,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £91,250 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £34,000 £40,000 £37,558
% change year-on-year -15.00% +6.50% -11.63%

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 Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows Engineer in the UK

Windows Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Windows Engineer in the UK

Windows Engineer
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for Windows Engineer in the UK

Windows Engineer
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows 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 -40 145 £37,500 -34.78% 25
UK excluding London -59 93 £34,000 -15.00% 12
London +53 54 £72,500 -3.33% 15
South East -2 52 £34,000 -15.00% 5
Work from Home -1 43 £72,500 +26.09% 5
Midlands -13 14 £34,000 -38.18% 3
West Midlands -5 13 £34,000 -38.74% 2
South West -25 11 £37,500 -6.25% 1
North of England +24 8 £45,000 +63.64%
Yorkshire +62 5 £45,000 +63.64%
East of England -21 5 £35,000 -30.00% 2
North West -12 3 £27,500 -
Scotland -63 3 £85,000 +61.90% 1
East Midlands -27 1 £44,000 -20.00% 1

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

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

1 154 (100.00%) Windows
2 96 (62.34%) Windows Server
3 68 (44.16%) Microsoft
4 58 (37.66%) Active Directory
5 55 (35.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 50 (32.47%) Azure
7 43 (27.92%) PowerShell
8 41 (26.62%) VMware
9 38 (24.68%) Configuration Management
10 35 (22.73%) Security Cleared
11 34 (22.08%) Linux
12 32 (20.78%) SC Cleared
13 31 (20.13%) VMware Infrastructure
13 31 (20.13%) AWS
14 28 (18.18%) Microsoft 365
15 27 (17.53%) DHCP
16 25 (16.23%) DNS
16 25 (16.23%) DV Cleared
17 23 (14.94%) Finance
17 23 (14.94%) Social Skills
18 21 (13.64%) CMDB
19 20 (12.99%) DevOps
19 20 (12.99%) Problem-Solving
20 19 (12.34%) Windows 10
20 19 (12.34%) Firewall
21 18 (11.69%) SCCM
22 17 (11.04%) Data Centre
23 16 (10.39%) Ansible
23 16 (10.39%) Agile
23 16 (10.39%) Degree

Windows 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 (7.14%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (6.49%) IIS
3 4 (2.60%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.65%) Exchange Server 2013
4 1 (0.65%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (1.30%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.30%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 50 (32.47%) Azure
2 31 (20.13%) AWS
3 28 (18.18%) Microsoft 365
4 14 (9.09%) Entra ID
5 6 (3.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 5 (3.25%) GitHub
6 5 (3.25%) IaaS
6 5 (3.25%) OCI
6 5 (3.25%) Rubrik
7 3 (1.95%) GCP
7 3 (1.95%) OneDrive
8 1 (0.65%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.65%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (0.65%) Dropbox
8 1 (0.65%) Nutanix
8 1 (0.65%) PaaS
8 1 (0.65%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 27 (17.53%) DHCP
2 25 (16.23%) DNS
3 19 (12.34%) Firewall
4 10 (6.49%) SNMP
5 7 (4.55%) SAN
6 6 (3.90%) TCP/IP
7 5 (3.25%) WAN
8 4 (2.60%) DMZ
8 4 (2.60%) Network Security
8 4 (2.60%) VLAN
8 4 (2.60%) VPN
9 3 (1.95%) SD-WAN
9 3 (1.95%) VoIP
10 2 (1.30%) IP Telephony
10 2 (1.30%) LAN
11 1 (0.65%) Internet
11 1 (0.65%) Multicast
11 1 (0.65%) NAS
11 1 (0.65%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (8.44%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (3.25%) Git
1 5 (3.25%) GitLab
1 5 (3.25%) JIRA
2 3 (1.95%) Snyk
3 2 (1.30%) Octopus Deploy
3 2 (1.30%) Team Foundation Server
3 2 (1.30%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.65%) Jenkins
General
1 23 (14.94%) Finance
1 23 (14.94%) Social Skills
2 15 (9.74%) Banking
3 5 (3.25%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (3.25%) Investment Banking
4 4 (2.60%) Public Sector
4 4 (2.60%) Telecoms
5 3 (1.95%) Legal
6 2 (1.30%) Games
6 2 (1.30%) Law
7 1 (0.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.65%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.30%) .NET
2 1 (0.65%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 21 (13.64%) CMDB
2 17 (11.04%) Data Centre
3 9 (5.84%) Self-Motivation
4 7 (4.55%) Client/Server
4 7 (4.55%) Management Information System
5 5 (3.25%) Virtual Team
6 3 (1.95%) PKI
6 3 (1.95%) Replication
7 2 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.30%) Hedge funds
8 1 (0.65%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (0.65%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.65%) Derivative
8 1 (0.65%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.65%) EPoS
8 1 (0.65%) iPad
8 1 (0.65%) iPhone
8 1 (0.65%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.65%) Smartphone
8 1 (0.65%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 154 (100.00%) Windows
2 96 (62.34%) Windows Server
3 34 (22.08%) Linux
4 19 (12.34%) Windows 10
5 13 (8.44%) Windows Server 2016
6 11 (7.14%) Windows Server 2019
7 9 (5.84%) Windows Server 2012
8 8 (5.19%) Unix
9 6 (3.90%) Mac OS
10 5 (3.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 3 (1.95%) Android
11 3 (1.95%) Windows NT
12 2 (1.30%) Apple iOS
13 1 (0.65%) Ubuntu
13 1 (0.65%) Windows Mobile
13 1 (0.65%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (35.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 38 (24.68%) Configuration Management
3 20 (12.99%) DevOps
3 20 (12.99%) Problem-Solving
4 16 (10.39%) Agile
5 13 (8.44%) Computer Science
6 12 (7.79%) Customer Service
7 10 (6.49%) Project Delivery
7 10 (6.49%) Waterfall
8 9 (5.84%) Continuous Improvement
8 9 (5.84%) Infrastructure as Code
8 9 (5.84%) Service Management
9 8 (5.19%) Data Protection
10 7 (4.55%) Capacity Management
10 7 (4.55%) CI/CD
10 7 (4.55%) ITIL
11 6 (3.90%) Asset Management
11 6 (3.90%) Collaborative Working
11 6 (3.90%) Root Cause Analysis
11 6 (3.90%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 43 (27.92%) PowerShell
2 11 (7.14%) SQL
3 6 (3.90%) Bash
3 6 (3.90%) Python
4 5 (3.25%) Korn
4 5 (3.25%) Perl
4 5 (3.25%) Ruby
5 2 (1.30%) C#
6 1 (0.65%) C
6 1 (0.65%) C++
6 1 (0.65%) Rust
Qualifications
1 35 (22.73%) Security Cleared
2 32 (20.78%) SC Cleared
3 25 (16.23%) DV Cleared
4 16 (10.39%) Degree
5 7 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (3.90%) AWS Certification
6 6 (3.90%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.95%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.60%) SLA
2 3 (1.95%) QA
3 1 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 58 (37.66%) Active Directory
2 31 (20.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (8.44%) Hyper-V
4 8 (5.19%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (3.90%) DFS Replication
5 6 (3.90%) Docker
6 5 (3.25%) vSphere
7 4 (2.60%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (1.95%) Firmware
9 2 (1.30%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.65%) KVM
10 1 (0.65%) QEMU
10 1 (0.65%) Xen
Systems Management
1 18 (11.69%) SCCM
2 16 (10.39%) Ansible
3 12 (7.79%) SCOM
4 10 (6.49%) Puppet
5 7 (4.55%) Microsoft Intune
6 6 (3.90%) Kubernetes
6 6 (3.90%) Terraform
7 5 (3.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 5 (3.25%) NetBackup
7 5 (3.25%) Red Hat Satellite
7 5 (3.25%) vRealize Orchestrator
8 4 (2.60%) WSUS
9 3 (1.95%) Jamf Pro
9 3 (1.95%) Nessus
9 3 (1.95%) Nexpose
9 3 (1.95%) Sysprep
10 2 (1.30%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
10 2 (1.30%) SCDPM
11 1 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.65%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 68 (44.16%) Microsoft
2 41 (26.62%) VMware
3 10 (6.49%) Dynatrace
3 10 (6.49%) Veeam
4 9 (5.84%) ServiceNow
5 8 (5.19%) Citrix
6 6 (3.90%) Cisco
6 6 (3.90%) Red Hat
7 5 (3.25%) Apple
7 5 (3.25%) Oracle
7 5 (3.25%) Sun
7 5 (3.25%) TOWER Software
8 4 (2.60%) HP
9 3 (1.95%) Dell
9 3 (1.95%) Google
9 3 (1.95%) Qualys
10 2 (1.30%) Meraki
11 1 (0.65%) Agilent
11 1 (0.65%) NETGEAR
11 1 (0.65%) SonicWALL