Wintel Engineer
UK

The median Wintel Engineer salary in the UK is £49,000 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 845 935 1209
Rank change year-on-year +90 +274 -327
Permanent jobs requiring a Wintel Engineer 39 40 33
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.039% 0.040% 0.020%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.041% 0.044% 0.021%
Number of salaries quoted 38 26 26
10th Percentile £46,425 £36,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £46,500 £40,000 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.29% -5.56% -
75th Percentile £58,750 £57,063 £54,688
90th Percentile £85,000 £63,750 £78,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £49,000 £40,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year +22.50% -5.88% -

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%

Wintel Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Wintel Engineer in the UK

Wintel Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Wintel Engineer in the UK

Wintel Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Wintel Engineer over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Wintel Engineer in the UK

Wintel Engineer
Top 8 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Wintel 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 +87 39 £49,000 +15.29% 13
UK excluding London -8 32 £49,000 +22.50% 13
South West -2 26 £49,000 -10.91% 7
Work from Home +66 8 £85,000 +112.50% 1
London +111 7 £85,000 +55.96% 1
East of England +9 5 £57,500 +35.29% 1
North of England +31 1 £47,500 +18.75% 2
North East -1 1 £47,500 +18.75%

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

For the 6 months to 20 May 2024, Wintel 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 Wintel Engineer in the job title.

1 37 (94.87%) Windows
2 33 (84.62%) Active Directory
3 30 (76.92%) Microsoft
4 29 (74.36%) VMware
5 28 (71.79%) PowerShell
5 28 (71.79%) Windows Server
6 27 (69.23%) VMware Infrastructure
7 25 (64.10%) SCCM
8 24 (61.54%) Security Cleared
9 22 (56.41%) SC Cleared
9 22 (56.41%) DV Cleared
9 22 (56.41%) Hyper-V
10 21 (53.85%) Incident Management
11 11 (28.21%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 10 (25.64%) Linux
13 7 (17.95%) SQL
13 7 (17.95%) ITIL
13 7 (17.95%) SharePoint
13 7 (17.95%) Microsoft Certification
13 7 (17.95%) Finance
13 7 (17.95%) Azure
14 6 (15.38%) PKI
14 6 (15.38%) MCSE
14 6 (15.38%) Skype
14 6 (15.38%) Social Skills
15 5 (12.82%) SLA
15 5 (12.82%) Microsoft Exchange
15 5 (12.82%) Degree
16 4 (10.26%) Banking
16 4 (10.26%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)

Wintel 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 7 (17.95%) SharePoint
2 5 (12.82%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (7.69%) Skype for Business
4 1 (2.56%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 7 (17.95%) Azure
2 2 (5.13%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (5.13%) Nutanix
3 1 (2.56%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 6 (15.38%) Skype
2 2 (5.13%) Unified Communications
3 1 (2.56%) DHCP
3 1 (2.56%) DNS
3 1 (2.56%) NAS
3 1 (2.56%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.26%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (10.26%) SQL Server
General
1 7 (17.95%) Finance
2 6 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 4 (10.26%) Banking
3 4 (10.26%) Manufacturing
4 2 (5.13%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.56%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.26%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.38%) PKI
2 2 (5.13%) Data Centre
2 2 (5.13%) Smartcard
3 1 (2.56%) Algorithms
3 1 (2.56%) Blackberry
3 1 (2.56%) Clustering
3 1 (2.56%) Fat Client
3 1 (2.56%) Replication
3 1 (2.56%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 37 (94.87%) Windows
2 28 (71.79%) Windows Server
3 10 (25.64%) Linux
4 4 (10.26%) Debian
4 4 (10.26%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (5.13%) Windows 10
5 2 (5.13%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (2.56%) Unix
6 1 (2.56%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (2.56%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (53.85%) Incident Management
2 11 (28.21%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 7 (17.95%) ITIL
4 4 (10.26%) Batch Processing
4 4 (10.26%) Proactive Monitoring
5 3 (7.69%) Migration
5 3 (7.69%) Service Management
6 2 (5.13%) Configuration Management
6 2 (5.13%) Critical Thinking
6 2 (5.13%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (5.13%) Mentoring
6 2 (5.13%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (5.13%) Security Monitoring
6 2 (5.13%) Security Patching
6 2 (5.13%) System Testing
7 1 (2.56%) Break/Fix
7 1 (2.56%) Database Mirroring
7 1 (2.56%) Patch Management
7 1 (2.56%) Portfolio Management
7 1 (2.56%) Software License Management
Programming Languages
1 28 (71.79%) PowerShell
2 7 (17.95%) SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (61.54%) Security Cleared
2 22 (56.41%) DV Cleared
2 22 (56.41%) SC Cleared
3 7 (17.95%) Microsoft Certification
4 6 (15.38%) MCSE
5 5 (12.82%) Degree
6 4 (10.26%) CCNA
6 4 (10.26%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (10.26%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (12.82%) SLA
System Software
1 33 (84.62%) Active Directory
2 27 (69.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (56.41%) Hyper-V
4 4 (10.26%) vSphere
5 2 (5.13%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (2.56%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 1 (2.56%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (2.56%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 25 (64.10%) SCCM
2 2 (5.13%) SCOM
2 2 (5.13%) WSUS
3 1 (2.56%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (2.56%) McAfee ePO
3 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Clustering
3 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
3 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (2.56%) NetBackup
3 1 (2.56%) OfficeScan
3 1 (2.56%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 30 (76.92%) Microsoft
2 29 (74.36%) VMware
3 2 (5.13%) Commvault
3 2 (5.13%) McAfee
4 1 (2.56%) Altiris
4 1 (2.56%) Dell
4 1 (2.56%) HP
4 1 (2.56%) Huawei
4 1 (2.56%) Veritas