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 28 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
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 763 716 1041
Rank change year-on-year -47 +325 -415
Permanent jobs requiring a Windows Engineer 151 238 196
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.24% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.27% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 131 194 176
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £33,250 £36,250 £33,284
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £57,472 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -26.05% +14.94% +5.26%
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 97,260 88,990 160,374
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.78% 91.41% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 69,382 56,369 85,188
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,663
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 £50,173
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.63% +5.63%

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 28 May 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 28 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 -9 142 £37,500 -34.78% 28
UK excluding London -47 94 £34,000 -15.00% 13
South East +8 53 £34,000 -15.00% 4
London +79 50 £72,500 -3.33% 15
Work from Home +18 41 £72,500 +26.09% 7
Midlands -5 14 £34,000 -38.18% 2
West Midlands +19 13 £34,000 -38.74% 1
South West -26 11 £37,500 -6.25% 3
North of England +39 8 £45,000 +63.64% 1
Yorkshire +78 5 £45,000 +63.64%
East of England -25 5 £35,000 -30.00% 4
North West -2 3 £27,500 - 1
Scotland -54 3 £85,000 +61.90% 1
East Midlands -24 1 £44,000 -20.00% 1

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

For the 6 months to 28 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.

1 151 (100.00%) Windows
2 96 (63.58%) Windows Server
3 66 (43.71%) Microsoft
4 58 (38.41%) Active Directory
5 52 (34.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 51 (33.77%) Azure
7 43 (28.48%) PowerShell
8 39 (25.83%) Configuration Management
9 38 (25.17%) VMware
10 36 (23.84%) Security Cleared
11 34 (22.52%) Linux
12 33 (21.85%) SC Cleared
13 31 (20.53%) AWS
14 29 (19.21%) VMware Infrastructure
15 28 (18.54%) Microsoft 365
16 26 (17.22%) DV Cleared
16 26 (17.22%) DNS
16 26 (17.22%) DHCP
17 23 (15.23%) Finance
17 23 (15.23%) Social Skills
18 22 (14.57%) CMDB
19 20 (13.25%) DevOps
19 20 (13.25%) Firewall
19 20 (13.25%) Problem-Solving
20 18 (11.92%) Windows 10
21 17 (11.26%) SCCM
21 17 (11.26%) Agile
22 16 (10.60%) Degree
22 16 (10.60%) Ansible
23 15 (9.93%) Data Centre

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 (7.28%) IIS
1 11 (7.28%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (2.65%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.66%) Exchange Server 2013
3 1 (0.66%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (1.32%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.32%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 51 (33.77%) Azure
2 31 (20.53%) AWS
3 28 (18.54%) Microsoft 365
4 14 (9.27%) Entra ID
5 6 (3.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 5 (3.31%) GitHub
6 5 (3.31%) IaaS
6 5 (3.31%) OCI
6 5 (3.31%) Rubrik
7 3 (1.99%) GCP
7 3 (1.99%) OneDrive
8 1 (0.66%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.66%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (0.66%) Dropbox
8 1 (0.66%) Nutanix
8 1 (0.66%) PaaS
8 1 (0.66%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 26 (17.22%) DHCP
1 26 (17.22%) DNS
2 20 (13.25%) Firewall
3 11 (7.28%) SNMP
4 7 (4.64%) SAN
5 6 (3.97%) TCP/IP
6 5 (3.31%) WAN
7 4 (2.65%) DMZ
7 4 (2.65%) Network Security
7 4 (2.65%) VLAN
7 4 (2.65%) VPN
8 3 (1.99%) SD-WAN
8 3 (1.99%) VoIP
9 2 (1.32%) LAN
10 1 (0.66%) Internet
10 1 (0.66%) IP Telephony
10 1 (0.66%) Multicast
10 1 (0.66%) NAS
10 1 (0.66%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (8.61%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (3.31%) Git
1 5 (3.31%) GitLab
1 5 (3.31%) JIRA
2 3 (1.99%) Snyk
3 2 (1.32%) Octopus Deploy
3 2 (1.32%) Team Foundation Server
3 2 (1.32%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.66%) Jenkins
General
1 23 (15.23%) Finance
1 23 (15.23%) Social Skills
2 15 (9.93%) Banking
3 5 (3.31%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (3.31%) Investment Banking
4 4 (2.65%) Telecoms
5 3 (1.99%) Legal
5 3 (1.99%) Public Sector
6 2 (1.32%) Games
6 2 (1.32%) Law
7 1 (0.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.66%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.32%) .NET
2 1 (0.66%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 22 (14.57%) CMDB
2 15 (9.93%) Data Centre
3 9 (5.96%) Self-Motivation
4 7 (4.64%) Client/Server
4 7 (4.64%) Management Information System
5 5 (3.31%) Virtual Team
6 3 (1.99%) PKI
6 3 (1.99%) Replication
7 2 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.32%) Hedge funds
8 1 (0.66%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (0.66%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.66%) Derivative
8 1 (0.66%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.66%) EPoS
8 1 (0.66%) Housing Association
8 1 (0.66%) iPad
8 1 (0.66%) iPhone
8 1 (0.66%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.66%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 151 (100.00%) Windows
2 96 (63.58%) Windows Server
3 34 (22.52%) Linux
4 18 (11.92%) Windows 10
5 10 (6.62%) Windows Server 2016
6 9 (5.96%) Windows Server 2019
7 8 (5.30%) Unix
8 7 (4.64%) Windows Server 2012
9 5 (3.31%) Mac OS
9 5 (3.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (1.99%) Windows NT
11 2 (1.32%) Android
12 1 (0.66%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.66%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.66%) Windows Mobile
12 1 (0.66%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (34.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 39 (25.83%) Configuration Management
3 20 (13.25%) DevOps
3 20 (13.25%) Problem-Solving
4 17 (11.26%) Agile
5 13 (8.61%) Computer Science
6 12 (7.95%) Customer Service
7 11 (7.28%) Waterfall
8 10 (6.62%) Project Delivery
9 9 (5.96%) Continuous Improvement
9 9 (5.96%) Infrastructure as Code
9 9 (5.96%) Service Management
10 8 (5.30%) Data Protection
11 7 (4.64%) CI/CD
11 7 (4.64%) ITIL
12 6 (3.97%) Asset Management
12 6 (3.97%) Collaborative Working
12 6 (3.97%) Root Cause Analysis
12 6 (3.97%) Software Engineering
13 5 (3.31%) Investment Management
Programming Languages
1 43 (28.48%) PowerShell
2 12 (7.95%) SQL
3 6 (3.97%) Bash
3 6 (3.97%) Python
4 5 (3.31%) Korn
4 5 (3.31%) Perl
4 5 (3.31%) Ruby
5 2 (1.32%) C#
6 1 (0.66%) C
6 1 (0.66%) C++
6 1 (0.66%) Rust
Qualifications
1 36 (23.84%) Security Cleared
2 33 (21.85%) SC Cleared
3 26 (17.22%) DV Cleared
4 16 (10.60%) Degree
5 7 (4.64%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (3.97%) AWS Certification
6 6 (3.97%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.99%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.65%) SLA
2 3 (1.99%) QA
3 1 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 58 (38.41%) Active Directory
2 29 (19.21%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (7.28%) Hyper-V
4 6 (3.97%) DFS Replication
4 6 (3.97%) Docker
4 6 (3.97%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (1.99%) Firmware
5 3 (1.99%) vSphere
6 2 (1.32%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (1.32%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.66%) KVM
7 1 (0.66%) QEMU
7 1 (0.66%) Xen
Systems Management
1 17 (11.26%) SCCM
2 16 (10.60%) Ansible
3 13 (8.61%) SCOM
4 10 (6.62%) Puppet
5 7 (4.64%) Microsoft Intune
6 6 (3.97%) Kubernetes
6 6 (3.97%) Terraform
7 5 (3.31%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 5 (3.31%) NetBackup
7 5 (3.31%) Red Hat Satellite
7 5 (3.31%) vRealize Orchestrator
8 4 (2.65%) WSUS
9 3 (1.99%) Nessus
9 3 (1.99%) Nexpose
9 3 (1.99%) Sysprep
10 2 (1.32%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
11 1 (0.66%) SCDPM
11 1 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.66%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 66 (43.71%) Microsoft
2 38 (25.17%) VMware
3 11 (7.28%) Dynatrace
4 10 (6.62%) Veeam
5 9 (5.96%) ServiceNow
6 7 (4.64%) Citrix
7 6 (3.97%) Cisco
7 6 (3.97%) Red Hat
8 5 (3.31%) Oracle
8 5 (3.31%) Sun
8 5 (3.31%) TOWER Software
9 4 (2.65%) Apple
10 3 (1.99%) Google
10 3 (1.99%) HP
10 3 (1.99%) Qualys
11 2 (1.32%) Dell
12 1 (0.66%) arcserve
12 1 (0.66%) Avaya
12 1 (0.66%) Intel
12 1 (0.66%) NetApp