Windows Administrator Jobs

Windows Administrator
UK

The median Windows Administrator salary in the UK is £32,983 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 June 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
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 906 919 1258
Rank change year-on-year +13 +339 -335
Permanent jobs requiring a Windows Administrator 16 26 23
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.015% 0.028% 0.013%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.016% 0.031% 0.014%
Number of salaries quoted 12 25 20
10th Percentile - £35,000 £38,559
25th Percentile £31,000 £38,750 £43,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,983 £46,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -29.07% -15.45% +22.22%
75th Percentile £33,966 £66,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £56,947 £69,500 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £32,000 £46,500 £53,750
% change year-on-year -31.18% -13.49% +19.44%

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 102,753 84,908 164,946
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.75% 91.21% 95.96%
Number of salaries quoted 72,538 55,143 85,388
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,524 £45,000 £42,750
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 £50,296
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.37% +5.89%

Windows Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows Administrator in the UK

Windows Administrator
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Windows Administrator in the UK

Windows Administrator
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows Administrator over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Windows Administrator in the UK

Windows Administrator
Top 8 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 9 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
England +17 16 £32,983 -29.07% 1
UK excluding London -53 15 £32,000 -31.18%
Midlands -20 14 £32,000 -29.28%
West Midlands -3 10 £32,000 -29.28%
Work from Home +51 6 £33,966 -20.08%
East Midlands - 4 £33,966 -
London +47 1 £65,000 +40.54% 1
South West -30 1 £58,000 -14.07%

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

For the 6 months to 9 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 featuring Windows Administrator in the job title.

1 16 (100.00%) Windows
2 13 (81.25%) Active Directory
3 9 (56.25%) DHCP
3 9 (56.25%) DNS
3 9 (56.25%) Microsoft
3 9 (56.25%) Windows Server
4 6 (37.50%) Data Centre
4 6 (37.50%) PowerShell
4 6 (37.50%) TCP/IP
4 6 (37.50%) LAN
4 6 (37.50%) WAN
4 6 (37.50%) Platform Engineering
5 5 (31.25%) Knowledge Transfer
5 5 (31.25%) Virtual Servers
5 5 (31.25%) Information Security
5 5 (31.25%) Azure
5 5 (31.25%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (31.25%) Patch Management
5 5 (31.25%) Cyberattack
6 4 (25.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
6 4 (25.00%) Entra ID
6 4 (25.00%) ServiceNow
6 4 (25.00%) Mentoring
6 4 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (25.00%) High Availability
6 4 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (25.00%) SCCM
6 4 (25.00%) SCOM
6 4 (25.00%) SC Cleared
6 4 (25.00%) Security Cleared

Windows Administrator 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 3 (18.75%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 5 (31.25%) Azure
2 4 (25.00%) Entra ID
2 4 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (6.25%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (56.25%) DHCP
1 9 (56.25%) DNS
2 6 (37.50%) LAN
2 6 (37.50%) TCP/IP
2 6 (37.50%) WAN
3 2 (12.50%) Firewall
4 1 (6.25%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (6.25%) SAN
4 1 (6.25%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Git
General
1 5 (31.25%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (37.50%) Data Centre
2 5 (31.25%) Cyberattack
3 4 (25.00%) Management Information System
3 4 (25.00%) PKI
3 4 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (18.75%) Virtual Team
5 1 (6.25%) Cloud Native
5 1 (6.25%) Clustering
5 1 (6.25%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (6.25%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 16 (100.00%) Windows
2 9 (56.25%) Windows Server
3 3 (18.75%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (6.25%) Windows 10
4 1 (6.25%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (6.25%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (6.25%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (37.50%) Platform Engineering
2 5 (31.25%) Information Security
2 5 (31.25%) Knowledge Transfer
2 5 (31.25%) Patch Management
3 4 (25.00%) High Availability
3 4 (25.00%) Incident Management
3 4 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 4 (25.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
3 4 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (25.00%) Project Management
3 4 (25.00%) Requirements Gathering
4 3 (18.75%) Change Management
4 3 (18.75%) ITIL
4 3 (18.75%) Problem Management
4 3 (18.75%) Project Delivery
5 2 (12.50%) DevOps
6 1 (6.25%) CI/CD
6 1 (6.25%) Customer Experience
6 1 (6.25%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 6 (37.50%) PowerShell
2 1 (6.25%) Bash
2 1 (6.25%) Python
2 1 (6.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (18.75%) Degree
3 1 (6.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 13 (81.25%) Active Directory
2 5 (31.25%) Virtual Servers
3 4 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (6.25%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (6.25%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 4 (25.00%) SCCM
1 4 (25.00%) SCOM
1 4 (25.00%) WSUS
2 1 (6.25%) Ansible
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Clustering
2 1 (6.25%) Terraform
2 1 (6.25%) vCenter Server
2 1 (6.25%) VxRail
Vendors
1 9 (56.25%) Microsoft
2 4 (25.00%) Dell
2 4 (25.00%) ServiceNow
2 4 (25.00%) VMware
3 1 (6.25%) EMC
3 1 (6.25%) Veeam