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 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 832 896 1193
Rank change year-on-year +64 +297 -348
Permanent jobs requiring a Windows Infrastructure Engineer 52 79 49
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.052% 0.079% 0.030%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.055% 0.087% 0.031%
Number of salaries quoted 46 49 40
10th Percentile £38,125 £47,250 £34,218
25th Percentile £41,250 £49,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,750 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.83% +15.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £118,125 £98,500 £65,025
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £52,750 £48,000
% change year-on-year -14.69% +9.90% +4.92%

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 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 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Windows Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Top 13 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 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 +56 45 £70,000 +10.24% 7
London +118 28 £80,000 -8.57% 2
Work from Home +78 23 £72,500 +31.82% 1
UK excluding London -46 20 £45,000 -14.69% 7
North of England +40 6 £45,000 -28.00%
Yorkshire - 5 £45,000 -
South East -12 4 £50,000 -23.08% 3
South West -24 4 £37,500 -21.05% 1
Scotland -62 3 £85,000 +61.90% 1
West Midlands +11 2 £42,500 -23.42%
Midlands -9 2 £42,500 -23.42%
East of England -6 1 £40,000 -20.00% 4
North East - 1 £50,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 20 May 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 52 (100.00%) Windows
2 50 (96.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 35 (67.31%) Windows Server
4 27 (51.92%) Microsoft
5 25 (48.08%) PowerShell
6 22 (42.31%) Active Directory
7 20 (38.46%) Azure
8 18 (34.62%) Linux
9 17 (32.69%) VMware
10 16 (30.77%) VMware Infrastructure
11 15 (28.85%) AWS
12 14 (26.92%) Ansible
12 14 (26.92%) Banking
13 12 (23.08%) DevOps
14 11 (21.15%) Configuration Management
14 11 (21.15%) DHCP
14 11 (21.15%) DNS
14 11 (21.15%) Puppet
15 10 (19.23%) Finance
15 10 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
16 9 (17.31%) Self-Motivation
16 9 (17.31%) SQL Server
17 8 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
18 7 (13.46%) Python
18 7 (13.46%) Red Hat
18 7 (13.46%) Firewall
19 6 (11.54%) TOWER Software
19 6 (11.54%) Investment Banking
19 6 (11.54%) Ruby
19 6 (11.54%) Asset Management

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 (9.62%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 20 (38.46%) Azure
2 15 (28.85%) AWS
3 6 (11.54%) GitHub
4 5 (9.62%) IaaS
4 5 (9.62%) OCI
4 5 (9.62%) Rubrik
5 4 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (5.77%) GCP
7 1 (1.92%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.92%) PaaS
7 1 (1.92%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (21.15%) DHCP
1 11 (21.15%) DNS
2 7 (13.46%) Firewall
3 5 (9.62%) SAN
3 5 (9.62%) WAN
4 4 (7.69%) DMZ
4 4 (7.69%) Network Security
4 4 (7.69%) VLAN
4 4 (7.69%) VPN
5 3 (5.77%) SD-WAN
5 3 (5.77%) VoIP
6 2 (3.85%) LAN
6 2 (3.85%) TCP/IP
7 1 (1.92%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (17.31%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (11.54%) Git
1 6 (11.54%) GitLab
2 3 (5.77%) JIRA
3 1 (1.92%) Jenkins
General
1 14 (26.92%) Banking
2 10 (19.23%) Finance
3 6 (11.54%) Investment Banking
3 6 (11.54%) Social Skills
4 4 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (7.69%) Telecoms
5 2 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.92%) Law
6 1 (1.92%) Legal
Miscellaneous
1 9 (17.31%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (9.62%) Management Information System
3 4 (7.69%) Client/Server
3 4 (7.69%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.92%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.92%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 52 (100.00%) Windows
2 35 (67.31%) Windows Server
3 18 (34.62%) Linux
4 6 (11.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (9.62%) Unix
6 1 (1.92%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.92%) Windows 10
6 1 (1.92%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (1.92%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (96.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 12 (23.08%) DevOps
3 11 (21.15%) Configuration Management
4 10 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
6 6 (11.54%) Asset Management
6 6 (11.54%) CI/CD
6 6 (11.54%) Collaborative Working
6 6 (11.54%) Computer Science
7 5 (9.62%) Agile
7 5 (9.62%) Capacity Management
7 5 (9.62%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (9.62%) Data Management
7 5 (9.62%) Investment Management
7 5 (9.62%) IT Strategy
7 5 (9.62%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 5 (9.62%) Technology Strategy
8 4 (7.69%) Containerisation
8 4 (7.69%) Knowledge Transfer
8 4 (7.69%) Quantitative Trading
Programming Languages
1 25 (48.08%) PowerShell
2 7 (13.46%) Python
3 6 (11.54%) Bash
3 6 (11.54%) Korn
3 6 (11.54%) Perl
3 6 (11.54%) Ruby
4 1 (1.92%) C#
4 1 (1.92%) Rust
Qualifications
1 6 (11.54%) Degree
2 4 (7.69%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.92%) DV Cleared
3 1 (1.92%) MCSA
3 1 (1.92%) MCSE
3 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.92%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.92%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.92%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (1.92%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (1.92%) SLA
System Software
1 22 (42.31%) Active Directory
2 16 (30.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (9.62%) DFS Replication
4 4 (7.69%) Docker
4 4 (7.69%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.92%) KVM
5 1 (1.92%) QEMU
5 1 (1.92%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.92%) Xen
Systems Management
1 14 (26.92%) Ansible
2 11 (21.15%) Puppet
3 6 (11.54%) Red Hat Satellite
4 5 (9.62%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 5 (9.62%) NetBackup
4 5 (9.62%) Terraform
4 5 (9.62%) vRealize Orchestrator
5 4 (7.69%) Kubernetes
6 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (1.92%) SCCM
6 1 (1.92%) SCOM
6 1 (1.92%) WSUS
Vendors
1 27 (51.92%) Microsoft
2 17 (32.69%) VMware
3 7 (13.46%) Red Hat
4 6 (11.54%) Sun
4 6 (11.54%) TOWER Software
4 6 (11.54%) Veeam
5 5 (9.62%) Cisco
5 5 (9.62%) Citrix
5 5 (9.62%) Oracle
6 3 (5.77%) Google
6 3 (5.77%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.92%) arcserve
7 1 (1.92%) Intel
7 1 (1.92%) NetApp