Windows Engineer Jobs with Work from Home Options

Windows Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Windows Engineer salary for remote or hybrid work is £71,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 560 541 825
Rank change year-on-year -19 +284 -297
Permanent jobs requiring a Windows Engineer 42 92 76
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.12% 0.25% 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.26% 0.10%
Number of salaries quoted 38 85 72
10th Percentile £35,875 £37,265 £31,680
25th Percentile £36,438 £43,750 £35,508
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,250 £57,500 £51,250
Median % change year-on-year +23.91% +12.20% +2.50%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £111,875 £95,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £40,000 £55,000 £49,342
% change year-on-year -27.27% +11.47% +5.54%

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 34,224 35,954 73,616
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.28% 95.93% 97.29%
Number of salaries quoted 25,903 26,270 42,683
10th Percentile £33,250 £36,875 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,447 £45,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Windows Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Windows Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Windows Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Windows Engineer
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Windows Engineer.

Windows Engineer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Windows Engineer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Windows Engineer over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Windows Engineer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 12 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 jobs with remote work options featuring Windows Engineer in the job title.

1 42 (100.00%) Windows
2 27 (64.29%) Windows Server
3 23 (54.76%) Microsoft
4 22 (52.38%) PowerShell
5 21 (50.00%) Active Directory
5 21 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 19 (45.24%) VMware
7 17 (40.48%) AWS
8 15 (35.71%) Azure
9 14 (33.33%) DevOps
10 12 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
11 11 (26.19%) DHCP
11 11 (26.19%) Problem-Solving
12 10 (23.81%) Microsoft 365
12 10 (23.81%) DNS
12 10 (23.81%) Degree
12 10 (23.81%) Computer Science
13 9 (21.43%) Linux
13 9 (21.43%) Finance
13 9 (21.43%) Ansible
14 8 (19.05%) Unix
14 8 (19.05%) Citrix
14 8 (19.05%) Configuration Management
14 8 (19.05%) Puppet
15 7 (16.67%) SCCM
15 7 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
15 7 (16.67%) Data Centre
16 6 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
16 6 (14.29%) Terraform
16 6 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code

Windows 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 7 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.38%) Exchange Server 2013
2 1 (2.38%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 17 (40.48%) AWS
2 15 (35.71%) Azure
3 10 (23.81%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (11.90%) Rubrik
5 4 (9.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (7.14%) Entra ID
6 3 (7.14%) GitHub
7 1 (2.38%) IaaS
7 1 (2.38%) OneDrive
7 1 (2.38%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (26.19%) DHCP
2 10 (23.81%) DNS
3 5 (11.90%) SAN
4 4 (9.52%) WAN
5 3 (7.14%) SD-WAN
5 3 (7.14%) TCP/IP
5 3 (7.14%) VoIP
6 2 (4.76%) Firewall
7 1 (2.38%) LAN
7 1 (2.38%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.52%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (7.14%) Git
1 3 (7.14%) GitLab
1 3 (7.14%) Snyk
2 2 (4.76%) Octopus Deploy
2 2 (4.76%) Team Foundation Server
2 2 (4.76%) TeamCity
3 1 (2.38%) JIRA
General
1 9 (21.43%) Finance
2 6 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 4 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (7.14%) Banking
4 3 (7.14%) Investment Banking
5 2 (4.76%) Games
5 2 (4.76%) Legal
6 1 (2.38%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.38%) JSON
1 1 (2.38%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 7 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 6 (14.29%) Client/Server
3 5 (11.90%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (9.52%) Virtual Team
5 2 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (4.76%) Hedge funds
6 1 (2.38%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (2.38%) Data Structures
6 1 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (2.38%) EPoS
6 1 (2.38%) iPad
6 1 (2.38%) iPhone
6 1 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (2.38%) Management Information System
6 1 (2.38%) Security Posture
6 1 (2.38%) Smartphone
6 1 (2.38%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 42 (100.00%) Windows
2 27 (64.29%) Windows Server
3 9 (21.43%) Linux
4 8 (19.05%) Unix
5 3 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (7.14%) Windows 10
5 3 (7.14%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (7.14%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (4.76%) Mac OS
6 2 (4.76%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 14 (33.33%) DevOps
3 11 (26.19%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (23.81%) Computer Science
5 8 (19.05%) Configuration Management
6 6 (14.29%) Agile
6 6 (14.29%) Capacity Management
6 6 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
6 6 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (14.29%) Customer Service
6 6 (14.29%) Data Protection
6 6 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
7 5 (11.90%) CI/CD
7 5 (11.90%) Data Management
7 5 (11.90%) Investment Management
7 5 (11.90%) IT Strategy
7 5 (11.90%) Low Latency
7 5 (11.90%) Project Delivery
7 5 (11.90%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 5 (11.90%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 22 (52.38%) PowerShell
2 4 (9.52%) Bash
2 4 (9.52%) Python
3 3 (7.14%) Korn
3 3 (7.14%) Perl
3 3 (7.14%) Ruby
4 1 (2.38%) C
4 1 (2.38%) C#
4 1 (2.38%) C++
Qualifications
1 10 (23.81%) Degree
2 5 (11.90%) SC Cleared
2 5 (11.90%) Security Cleared
3 4 (9.52%) AWS Certification
3 4 (9.52%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.38%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (2.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 21 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 12 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (14.29%) DFS Replication
4 5 (11.90%) Hyper-V
5 2 (4.76%) Docker
5 2 (4.76%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (2.38%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (2.38%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (2.38%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (2.38%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (21.43%) Ansible
2 8 (19.05%) Puppet
3 7 (16.67%) SCCM
4 6 (14.29%) Terraform
5 5 (11.90%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 5 (11.90%) NetBackup
5 5 (11.90%) vRealize Orchestrator
6 3 (7.14%) Nessus
6 3 (7.14%) Nexpose
6 3 (7.14%) Red Hat Satellite
7 2 (4.76%) Kubernetes
7 2 (4.76%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (4.76%) SCOM
8 1 (2.38%) Grafana
8 1 (2.38%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (2.38%) Prometheus
8 1 (2.38%) WSUS
Vendors
1 23 (54.76%) Microsoft
2 19 (45.24%) VMware
3 8 (19.05%) Citrix
4 6 (14.29%) Veeam
5 3 (7.14%) Qualys
5 3 (7.14%) Red Hat
5 3 (7.14%) Sun
5 3 (7.14%) TOWER Software
6 1 (2.38%) arcserve
6 1 (2.38%) Cisco
6 1 (2.38%) Dell
6 1 (2.38%) HP
6 1 (2.38%) Intel
6 1 (2.38%) NetApp