Windows Administrator Jobs in the UK excluding London

Windows Administrator
UK > UK excluding London

The median Windows Administrator salary in the UK excluding London is £32,000 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 765 722 859
Rank change year-on-year -43 +137 -177
Permanent jobs requiring a Windows Administrator 15 6 15
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.019% 0.011% 0.020%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.020% 0.012% 0.021%
Number of salaries quoted 11 5 12
10th Percentile - £35,550 £37,641
25th Percentile £31,000 £42,000 £48,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,000 £46,500 £53,750
Median % change year-on-year -31.18% -13.49% +19.44%
75th Percentile £33,966 £68,750 £58,750
90th Percentile - - £62,500
UK median annual salary £32,983 £46,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -29.07% -15.45% +22.22%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 excluding London with a recognized job title 75,991 49,070 72,896
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.87% 88.81% 95.46%
Number of salaries quoted 53,059 29,227 42,783
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,519 £50,296
Median % change year-on-year -6.58% +6.41% +5.89%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Windows Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Windows Administrator in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Windows Administrator in the UK excluding London

Windows Administrator
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Windows Administrator in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Windows Administrator in the UK excluding London

Windows Administrator
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows Administrator in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Windows Administrator in the UK excluding London

Windows Administrator
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows Administrator within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 June 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
Midlands -26 14 £32,000 -29.28%
West Midlands -3 10 £32,000 -29.28%
East Midlands - 4 £33,966 -
South West -41 1 £58,000 -14.07%
Windows Administrator
UK

Windows Administrator Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, Windows Administrator 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 across the UK excluding London region featuring Windows Administrator in the job title.

1 15 (100.00%) Windows
2 13 (86.67%) Active Directory
3 9 (60.00%) Windows Server
3 9 (60.00%) DHCP
3 9 (60.00%) DNS
3 9 (60.00%) Microsoft
4 6 (40.00%) TCP/IP
4 6 (40.00%) LAN
4 6 (40.00%) WAN
4 6 (40.00%) Data Centre
5 5 (33.33%) Cyberattack
5 5 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (33.33%) Virtual Servers
5 5 (33.33%) PowerShell
5 5 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
5 5 (33.33%) Knowledge Transfer
5 5 (33.33%) Patch Management
6 4 (26.67%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (26.67%) Requirements Gathering
6 4 (26.67%) SC Cleared
6 4 (26.67%) Security Cleared
6 4 (26.67%) Azure
6 4 (26.67%) High Availability
6 4 (26.67%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (26.67%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (26.67%) ServiceNow
6 4 (26.67%) Multi-Factor Authentication
6 4 (26.67%) Entra ID
6 4 (26.67%) Mentoring

Windows Administrator Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 3 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 4 (26.67%) Azure
1 4 (26.67%) Entra ID
1 4 (26.67%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 9 (60.00%) DHCP
1 9 (60.00%) DNS
2 6 (40.00%) LAN
2 6 (40.00%) TCP/IP
2 6 (40.00%) WAN
3 2 (13.33%) Firewall
4 1 (6.67%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (6.67%) SAN
4 1 (6.67%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Git
General
1 5 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (40.00%) Data Centre
2 5 (33.33%) Cyberattack
3 4 (26.67%) Management Information System
3 4 (26.67%) PKI
3 4 (26.67%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (20.00%) Virtual Team
5 1 (6.67%) Clustering
5 1 (6.67%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 15 (100.00%) Windows
2 9 (60.00%) Windows Server
3 3 (20.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (6.67%) Windows 10
4 1 (6.67%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (6.67%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (6.67%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (33.33%) Knowledge Transfer
1 5 (33.33%) Patch Management
1 5 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
2 4 (26.67%) High Availability
2 4 (26.67%) Incident Management
2 4 (26.67%) Information Security
2 4 (26.67%) Mentoring
2 4 (26.67%) Multi-Factor Authentication
2 4 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (26.67%) Project Management
2 4 (26.67%) Requirements Gathering
3 3 (20.00%) Change Management
3 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (20.00%) ITIL
3 3 (20.00%) Problem Management
3 3 (20.00%) Project Delivery
4 1 (6.67%) CI/CD
4 1 (6.67%) Customer Experience
4 1 (6.67%) Customer Service
4 1 (6.67%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 5 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 1 (6.67%) Bash
2 1 (6.67%) Python
2 1 (6.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (26.67%) SC Cleared
1 4 (26.67%) Security Cleared
2 3 (20.00%) Degree
3 1 (6.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 13 (86.67%) Active Directory
2 5 (33.33%) Virtual Servers
3 4 (26.67%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (6.67%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (6.67%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 4 (26.67%) SCCM
1 4 (26.67%) SCOM
1 4 (26.67%) WSUS
2 1 (6.67%) Ansible
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Clustering
2 1 (6.67%) vCenter Server
2 1 (6.67%) VxRail
Vendors
1 9 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (26.67%) Dell
2 4 (26.67%) ServiceNow
2 4 (26.67%) VMware
3 1 (6.67%) EMC
3 1 (6.67%) Veeam