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 20 May 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 726 739 1056
Rank change year-on-year +13 +317 -407
Permanent jobs requiring a Windows Engineer 160 239 187
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.24% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.26% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 137 194 171
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £34,000 £36,375 £33,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £57,472 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year -26.05% +17.29% +0.26%
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 £37,616
% change year-on-year -15.00% +6.34% -16.41%

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 94,627 91,047 156,403
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.71% 91.54% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 67,562 57,571 85,106
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,750 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

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 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Windows Engineer in the UK

Windows Engineer
Top 15 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 20 May 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 +8 146 £38,750 -32.61% 35
UK excluding London -28 101 £34,000 -15.00% 20
London +46 52 £72,500 -1.69% 17
South East +17 51 £34,000 -15.00% 8
Work from Home +44 49 £72,500 +26.09% 5
Midlands -6 15 £34,500 -37.27% 3
West Midlands +23 14 £34,000 -38.74% 2
South West -22 11 £37,500 -6.25% 3
North of England +28 10 £45,000 +63.64% 1
Scotland -57 8 £85,000 +61.90% 1
Yorkshire +81 6 £45,000 +63.64%
East of England -15 6 £37,500 -25.00% 6
North West -9 3 £27,500 - 1
East Midlands -27 1 £44,000 -20.00% 1
North East - 1 £50,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 20 May 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.

1 160 (100.00%) Windows
2 99 (61.88%) Windows Server
3 70 (43.75%) Microsoft
4 61 (38.13%) Active Directory
5 54 (33.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 53 (33.13%) Azure
7 45 (28.13%) PowerShell
8 41 (25.63%) Linux
9 40 (25.00%) Configuration Management
10 39 (24.38%) VMware
11 35 (21.88%) Security Cleared
12 32 (20.00%) AWS
12 32 (20.00%) SC Cleared
13 30 (18.75%) VMware Infrastructure
14 28 (17.50%) Microsoft 365
15 27 (16.88%) DNS
15 27 (16.88%) DHCP
16 25 (15.63%) DV Cleared
17 23 (14.38%) CMDB
17 23 (14.38%) Agile
18 22 (13.75%) Finance
18 22 (13.75%) Social Skills
19 21 (13.13%) Problem-Solving
19 21 (13.13%) DevOps
20 20 (12.50%) Firewall
21 18 (11.25%) SCCM
22 17 (10.63%) Degree
22 17 (10.63%) Ansible
22 17 (10.63%) Banking
23 16 (10.00%) Entra ID

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 12 (7.50%) IIS
2 11 (6.88%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (2.50%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.63%) Exchange Server 2013
4 1 (0.63%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (1.88%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (1.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (1.25%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 53 (33.13%) Azure
2 32 (20.00%) AWS
3 28 (17.50%) Microsoft 365
4 16 (10.00%) Entra ID
5 6 (3.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 6 (3.75%) GitHub
5 6 (3.75%) SaaS
6 5 (3.13%) IaaS
6 5 (3.13%) OCI
6 5 (3.13%) Rubrik
7 3 (1.88%) GCP
7 3 (1.88%) OneDrive
8 1 (0.63%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (0.63%) Dropbox
8 1 (0.63%) Nutanix
8 1 (0.63%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 27 (16.88%) DHCP
1 27 (16.88%) DNS
2 20 (12.50%) Firewall
3 12 (7.50%) SNMP
4 7 (4.38%) SAN
5 6 (3.75%) TCP/IP
6 5 (3.13%) WAN
7 4 (2.50%) DMZ
7 4 (2.50%) Network Security
7 4 (2.50%) VLAN
7 4 (2.50%) VPN
8 3 (1.88%) SD-WAN
8 3 (1.88%) VoIP
9 2 (1.25%) LAN
10 1 (0.63%) Internet
10 1 (0.63%) IP Telephony
10 1 (0.63%) Multicast
10 1 (0.63%) NAS
10 1 (0.63%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (8.13%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (3.75%) Git
1 6 (3.75%) GitLab
2 5 (3.13%) JIRA
3 3 (1.88%) Snyk
4 2 (1.25%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (1.25%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (1.25%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.63%) Jenkins
General
1 22 (13.75%) Finance
1 22 (13.75%) Social Skills
2 17 (10.63%) Banking
3 6 (3.75%) Investment Banking
4 5 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (2.50%) Law
5 4 (2.50%) Telecoms
6 3 (1.88%) Legal
6 3 (1.88%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.25%) Games
7 2 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.63%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.25%) .NET
2 1 (0.63%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 23 (14.38%) CMDB
2 15 (9.38%) Data Centre
3 10 (6.25%) Virtual Team
4 9 (5.63%) Self-Motivation
5 7 (4.38%) Client/Server
5 7 (4.38%) Management Information System
6 5 (3.13%) Cloud Native
7 4 (2.50%) PKI
8 3 (1.88%) Replication
9 2 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.25%) Hedge funds
10 1 (0.63%) Cyber Threat
10 1 (0.63%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.63%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.63%) Housing Association
10 1 (0.63%) iPad
10 1 (0.63%) iPhone
10 1 (0.63%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.63%) Security Posture
10 1 (0.63%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 160 (100.00%) Windows
2 99 (61.88%) Windows Server
3 41 (25.63%) Linux
4 15 (9.38%) Windows 10
5 10 (6.25%) Mac OS
6 8 (5.00%) Unix
6 8 (5.00%) Windows Server 2016
7 6 (3.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (3.75%) Windows Server 2019
8 5 (3.13%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (1.25%) Android
10 1 (0.63%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.63%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.63%) Windows Mobile
10 1 (0.63%) Windows NT
10 1 (0.63%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (33.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 40 (25.00%) Configuration Management
3 23 (14.38%) Agile
4 21 (13.13%) DevOps
4 21 (13.13%) Problem-Solving
5 13 (8.13%) Computer Science
6 12 (7.50%) Waterfall
7 11 (6.88%) Software Engineering
8 10 (6.25%) Customer Service
8 10 (6.25%) Project Delivery
9 9 (5.63%) Continuous Improvement
9 9 (5.63%) Cybersecurity
9 9 (5.63%) Infrastructure as Code
10 8 (5.00%) CI/CD
10 8 (5.00%) Data Protection
11 7 (4.38%) Asset Management
11 7 (4.38%) Kalman Filter
11 7 (4.38%) Performance Optimisation
11 7 (4.38%) Service Management
12 6 (3.75%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 45 (28.13%) PowerShell
2 13 (8.13%) SQL
3 7 (4.38%) Bash
3 7 (4.38%) Python
4 6 (3.75%) Korn
4 6 (3.75%) Perl
4 6 (3.75%) Ruby
5 2 (1.25%) C#
6 1 (0.63%) C
6 1 (0.63%) C++
6 1 (0.63%) Rust
Qualifications
1 35 (21.88%) Security Cleared
2 32 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 25 (15.63%) DV Cleared
4 17 (10.63%) Degree
5 7 (4.38%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (3.75%) AWS Certification
6 6 (3.75%) Azure Certification
7 4 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (2.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 2 (1.25%) MCSA
8 2 (1.25%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.50%) SLA
2 1 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.63%) QA
System Software
1 61 (38.13%) Active Directory
2 30 (18.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (6.25%) Hyper-V
4 6 (3.75%) DFS Replication
4 6 (3.75%) Docker
4 6 (3.75%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (2.50%) vSphere
6 3 (1.88%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (1.25%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.63%) Firmware
8 1 (0.63%) KVM
8 1 (0.63%) QEMU
8 1 (0.63%) Xen
Systems Management
1 18 (11.25%) SCCM
2 17 (10.63%) Ansible
3 16 (10.00%) SCOM
4 11 (6.88%) Puppet
5 6 (3.75%) Kubernetes
5 6 (3.75%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (3.75%) Red Hat Satellite
5 6 (3.75%) Terraform
6 5 (3.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 5 (3.13%) NetBackup
6 5 (3.13%) vRealize Orchestrator
7 3 (1.88%) Nessus
7 3 (1.88%) Nexpose
8 2 (1.25%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (1.25%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (1.25%) WSUS
9 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
9 1 (0.63%) SCDPM
9 1 (0.63%) Sysprep
9 1 (0.63%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 70 (43.75%) Microsoft
2 39 (24.38%) VMware
3 12 (7.50%) Dynatrace
4 10 (6.25%) Veeam
5 9 (5.63%) ServiceNow
6 7 (4.38%) Citrix
6 7 (4.38%) Dell
6 7 (4.38%) Red Hat
7 6 (3.75%) Cisco
7 6 (3.75%) Sun
7 6 (3.75%) TOWER Software
8 5 (3.13%) Oracle
9 4 (2.50%) Apple
10 3 (1.88%) Google
10 3 (1.88%) HP
10 3 (1.88%) Qualys
11 1 (0.63%) Dataiku
11 1 (0.63%) Intel
11 1 (0.63%) Meraki
11 1 (0.63%) Ubiquiti