Windows Server Engineer Jobs

Windows Server Engineer
UK

The median Windows Server Engineer salary in the UK is £37,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 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
24 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 873 920 1233
Rank change year-on-year +47 +313 -395
Permanent jobs requiring a Windows Server Engineer 35 43 36
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.035% 0.044% 0.022%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.036% 0.048% 0.023%
Number of salaries quoted 34 39 29
10th Percentile £32,500 £24,500 £33,284
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £35,960
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £54,500 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year -31.19% +6.86% +16.57%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £53,750
90th Percentile £102,500 £72,250 £65,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £35,000 £47,000 £48,000
% change year-on-year -25.53% -2.08% +20.00%

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 95,996 89,726 157,614
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.76% 91.49% 96.07%
Number of salaries quoted 68,581 56,645 84,697
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 £70,001 £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 Server Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server Engineer in the UK

Windows Server Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Windows Server Engineer in the UK

Windows Server Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows Server Engineer over the 6 months to 24 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Windows Server Engineer in the UK

Windows Server Engineer
Top 7 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows Server Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 24 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 +75 35 £37,500 -31.82% 1
UK excluding London -34 19 £35,000 -25.53% 1
London +93 16 £67,500 +17.39%
South East +21 14 £35,000 +40.00%
Work from Home +84 13 £37,500 -25.00%
South West -19 4 £37,500 -6.25%
East of England +9 1 £35,000 -39.13% 1

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

For the 6 months to 24 May 2024, Windows Server 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 Server Engineer in the job title.

1 35 (100.00%) Windows
1 35 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 19 (54.29%) AWS
3 16 (45.71%) Active Directory
4 15 (42.86%) Microsoft
5 14 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 13 (37.14%) Data Centre
7 12 (34.29%) DevOps
8 11 (31.43%) Banking
9 10 (28.57%) PowerShell
9 10 (28.57%) Azure
9 10 (28.57%) VMware
9 10 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
10 8 (22.86%) Project Delivery
10 8 (22.86%) Degree
11 7 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
11 7 (20.00%) Finance
11 7 (20.00%) SQL Server
12 6 (17.14%) Perl
12 6 (17.14%) Linux
12 6 (17.14%) Python
12 6 (17.14%) Sun
12 6 (17.14%) TOWER Software
12 6 (17.14%) Red Hat
12 6 (17.14%) Service Management
12 6 (17.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 6 (17.14%) Git
12 6 (17.14%) Bash
12 6 (17.14%) Puppet
12 6 (17.14%) Root Cause Analysis

Windows Server 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 1 (2.86%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 19 (54.29%) AWS
2 10 (28.57%) Azure
2 10 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (17.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 6 (17.14%) GitHub
4 5 (14.29%) Entra ID
4 5 (14.29%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.57%) SD-WAN
1 3 (8.57%) VoIP
1 3 (8.57%) WAN
2 2 (5.71%) Firewall
3 1 (2.86%) DHCP
3 1 (2.86%) DNS
3 1 (2.86%) NAS
3 1 (2.86%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (17.14%) Git
1 6 (17.14%) GitLab
General
1 11 (31.43%) Banking
2 7 (20.00%) Finance
3 6 (17.14%) Investment Banking
4 1 (2.86%) Legal
4 1 (2.86%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 13 (37.14%) Data Centre
2 2 (5.71%) PKI
3 1 (2.86%) Housing Association
Operating Systems
1 35 (100.00%) Windows
1 35 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 6 (17.14%) Linux
2 6 (17.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (11.43%) Windows Server 2016
3 4 (11.43%) Windows Server 2019
4 3 (8.57%) Windows 10
5 2 (5.71%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 12 (34.29%) DevOps
3 8 (22.86%) Project Delivery
4 6 (17.14%) Asset Management
4 6 (17.14%) CI/CD
4 6 (17.14%) Computer Science
4 6 (17.14%) Customer Service
4 6 (17.14%) Data Protection
4 6 (17.14%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (17.14%) Root Cause Analysis
4 6 (17.14%) Service Management
5 3 (8.57%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (8.57%) Service Delivery
6 2 (5.71%) Change Management
6 2 (5.71%) ITIL
6 2 (5.71%) Project Management
7 1 (2.86%) Customer-Centric Approach
7 1 (2.86%) Cybersecurity
7 1 (2.86%) Multi-Factor Authentication
7 1 (2.86%) Two-Factor Authentication
Programming Languages
1 10 (28.57%) PowerShell
2 6 (17.14%) Bash
2 6 (17.14%) Korn
2 6 (17.14%) Perl
2 6 (17.14%) Python
2 6 (17.14%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 8 (22.86%) Degree
2 6 (17.14%) AWS Certification
2 6 (17.14%) Computer Science Degree
2 6 (17.14%) SC Cleared
2 6 (17.14%) Security Cleared
3 3 (8.57%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 2 (5.71%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 16 (45.71%) Active Directory
2 7 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (14.29%) Hyper-V
4 3 (8.57%) vSphere
5 2 (5.71%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (2.86%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (2.86%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 6 (17.14%) Ansible
1 6 (17.14%) Puppet
1 6 (17.14%) Red Hat Satellite
2 2 (5.71%) SCCM
3 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (2.86%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 15 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 10 (28.57%) VMware
3 6 (17.14%) Red Hat
3 6 (17.14%) Sun
3 6 (17.14%) TOWER Software
4 5 (14.29%) Oracle
5 3 (8.57%) ServiceNow
6 1 (2.86%) NETGEAR
6 1 (2.86%) SonicWALL