Windows Jobs in the North of England

Microsoft Windows
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for Windows skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Windows over the 6 months to 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 18 24 18
Rank change year-on-year +6 -6 -5
Permanent jobs citing Windows 1,554 1,619 2,033
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 8.69% 9.62% 11.12%
As % of the Operating Systems category 69.53% 69.40% 54.03%
Number of salaries quoted 1,267 1,100 1,570
10th Percentile £24,400 £23,975 £22,113
25th Percentile £27,000 £28,000 £26,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £40,000 £37,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +8.11% -7.50%
75th Percentile £52,500 £53,750 £47,500
90th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £62,600
England median annual salary £40,000 £43,763 £42,551
% change year-on-year -8.60% +2.85% -5.44%

All Operating Systems
North of England

Windows is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 2,235 2,333 3,763
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 12.50% 13.86% 20.58%
Number of salaries quoted 1,744 1,468 2,442
10th Percentile £25,000 £25,000 £24,000
25th Percentile £29,000 £31,250 £29,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.56%
75th Percentile £56,250 £58,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £67,968 £72,500 £68,750
England median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% - +5.00%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Windows as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Windows in the North of England

Windows
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Windows in the North of England.

Salary trend for Windows in the North of England

Windows
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows in the North of England over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Windows in the North of England

Windows
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows within the North of England region over the 6 months to 23 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
North West -4 757 £40,000 -4.76% 182
Yorkshire +19 610 £36,128 -3.66% 155
North East +13 189 £33,000 -17.50% 29
Windows
England

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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
1 238 (15.32%) Microsoft Exchange
2 127 (8.17%) SharePoint
3 32 (2.06%) Apache
4 30 (1.93%) IIS
5 8 (0.51%) CMS
5 8 (0.51%) Tomcat
6 7 (0.45%) ArcGIS
7 6 (0.39%) Apache Solr
8 4 (0.26%) CloudStack
8 4 (0.26%) Confluence
8 4 (0.26%) Umbraco
9 2 (0.13%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
9 2 (0.13%) Resin
9 2 (0.13%) SAS
10 1 (0.064%) Exchange Server 2013
10 1 (0.064%) Site Server
Applications
1 255 (16.41%) Microsoft Office
2 33 (2.12%) Microsoft Excel
3 17 (1.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.32%) Microsoft Project
4 5 (0.32%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.13%) Adobe XD
5 2 (0.13%) Sketch
5 2 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (0.58%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.51%) NEC Housing
3 5 (0.32%) SAP ERP
4 3 (0.19%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.064%) Magento
5 1 (0.064%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 648 (41.70%) Microsoft 365
2 639 (41.12%) Azure
3 208 (13.38%) Entra ID
4 156 (10.04%) AWS
5 93 (5.98%) Azure DevOps
6 78 (5.02%) IBM Cloud
7 68 (4.38%) OneDrive
8 51 (3.28%) Serverless
9 48 (3.09%) Azure Service Bus
10 46 (2.96%) Azure Logic Apps
11 43 (2.77%) Azure Functions
12 42 (2.70%) Azure API Management
12 42 (2.70%) IaaS
13 40 (2.57%) GCP
14 36 (2.32%) Google Workspace
15 32 (2.06%) SaaS
16 28 (1.80%) Cloud Computing
17 23 (1.48%) Power Platform
18 17 (1.09%) Amazon S3
19 15 (0.97%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 285 (18.34%) Firewall
2 206 (13.26%) DNS
3 189 (12.16%) LAN
4 176 (11.33%) WAN
5 166 (10.68%) DHCP
6 133 (8.56%) VPN
7 121 (7.79%) TCP/IP
8 81 (5.21%) Wi-Fi
9 78 (5.02%) Wireless
10 77 (4.95%) SAN
11 66 (4.25%) VoIP
12 61 (3.93%) VLAN
13 49 (3.15%) Network Security
14 44 (2.83%) Internet
14 44 (2.83%) NAS
15 34 (2.19%) WLAN
16 30 (1.93%) Remote Desktop
17 21 (1.35%) SSL
18 16 (1.03%) SNMP
19 15 (0.97%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 161 (10.36%) SQL Server
2 105 (6.76%) MongoDB
3 92 (5.92%) NoSQL
3 92 (5.92%) PostgreSQL
4 89 (5.73%) DB2
5 63 (4.05%) Relational Database
6 28 (1.80%) MySQL
7 27 (1.74%) Amazon RDS
7 27 (1.74%) Elasticsearch
8 26 (1.67%) Data Warehouse
9 17 (1.09%) Power BI
10 14 (0.90%) Redis
11 12 (0.77%) Azure SQL Database
11 12 (0.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 11 (0.71%) Oracle Database
13 9 (0.58%) RDBMS
13 9 (0.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 7 (0.45%) Geospatial Data
14 7 (0.45%) GIS
15 6 (0.39%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 30 (1.93%) Git
2 25 (1.61%) GitLab
3 21 (1.35%) Artifactory
4 18 (1.16%) JIRA
5 14 (0.90%) Jenkins
6 12 (0.77%) Visual Studio
7 11 (0.71%) IBM UrbanCode
8 8 (0.51%) Eclipse
9 6 (0.39%) Dreamweaver
9 6 (0.39%) MSI
10 5 (0.32%) AdminStudio
10 5 (0.32%) InstallShield
10 5 (0.32%) Octopus Deploy
10 5 (0.32%) Subversion
11 4 (0.26%) Bitbucket
12 3 (0.19%) CMake
12 3 (0.19%) GCC
12 3 (0.19%) GDB
12 3 (0.19%) Postman
13 2 (0.13%) webpack
General
1 495 (31.85%) Social Skills
2 189 (12.16%) Finance
3 145 (9.33%) Analytical Skills
4 140 (9.01%) Public Sector
5 81 (5.21%) Law
6 74 (4.76%) Retail
7 61 (3.93%) Organisational Skills
8 57 (3.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 51 (3.28%) Manufacturing
10 43 (2.77%) Marketing
11 28 (1.80%) Telecoms
12 26 (1.67%) Legal
13 20 (1.29%) Games
14 19 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
15 13 (0.84%) Banking
16 12 (0.77%) Documentation Skills
17 11 (0.71%) Local Government
18 10 (0.64%) Police
19 9 (0.58%) Military
20 7 (0.45%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 254 (16.34%) IT Support
2 211 (13.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 208 (13.38%) Support Engineer
4 207 (13.32%) Analyst
5 164 (10.55%) IT Engineer
6 150 (9.65%) Senior
7 126 (8.11%) IT Technician
8 122 (7.85%) Developer
9 108 (6.95%) IT Support Engineer
10 106 (6.82%) Lead
11 97 (6.24%) Support Technician
12 82 (5.28%) Service Analyst
13 78 (5.02%) Service Desk Analyst
14 77 (4.95%) IT Support Technician
15 73 (4.70%) 2nd Line Support
16 64 (4.12%) IT Analyst
17 61 (3.93%) Cloud Engineer
18 59 (3.80%) Azure Engineer
19 58 (3.73%) 1st Line Support
19 58 (3.73%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 140 (9.01%) .NET
2 108 (6.95%) HTML
3 104 (6.69%) ASP.NET
3 104 (6.69%) React
4 103 (6.63%) CSS
5 100 (6.44%) REST
6 98 (6.31%) AngularJS
7 94 (6.05%) Web Services
8 90 (5.79%) Vue
9 87 (5.60%) jQuery
9 87 (5.60%) Twitter Bootstrap
10 78 (5.02%) ASP.NET Core
10 78 (5.02%) Backbone.js
10 78 (5.02%) Ember.js
11 64 (4.12%) Node.js
12 26 (1.67%) .NET Core
12 26 (1.67%) RabbitMQ
13 19 (1.22%) WPF
14 15 (0.97%) YAML
15 13 (0.84%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 122 (7.85%) Data Centre
2 105 (6.76%) Hybrid Cloud
3 94 (6.05%) Management Information System
3 94 (6.05%) Public Cloud
4 91 (5.86%) Driving Licence
5 87 (5.60%) Algorithms
6 81 (5.21%) Data Structures
7 78 (5.02%) Blockchain
8 47 (3.02%) Self-Motivation
9 37 (2.38%) e-Learning
10 29 (1.87%) EPoS
11 26 (1.67%) Replication
12 24 (1.54%) Onboarding
13 20 (1.29%) Life Science
13 20 (1.29%) Private Cloud
14 18 (1.16%) SCADA
15 17 (1.09%) Clustering
16 16 (1.03%) Cyberattack
16 16 (1.03%) Operational Technology
17 14 (0.90%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 597 (38.42%) Windows Server
2 418 (26.90%) Linux
3 268 (17.25%) Windows 10
4 122 (7.85%) Android
5 119 (7.66%) Apple iOS
6 94 (6.05%) Windows Server 2012
7 91 (5.86%) Windows Server 2016
8 78 (5.02%) Windows Server 2019
9 75 (4.83%) Mac OS
10 64 (4.12%) Unix
11 32 (2.06%) Windows 7
12 31 (1.99%) Windows Server 2008
13 22 (1.42%) Windows Vista
14 17 (1.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 16 (1.03%) Windows 8
16 15 (0.97%) Data ONTAP
17 14 (0.90%) VMS
18 9 (0.58%) Solaris
18 9 (0.58%) Windows Phone
19 7 (0.45%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 411 (26.45%) Problem-Solving
2 321 (20.66%) ITIL
3 282 (18.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 268 (17.25%) Customer Service
5 186 (11.97%) Mentoring
6 143 (9.20%) DevOps
7 139 (8.94%) Cybersecurity
8 131 (8.43%) Agile
9 128 (8.24%) User Experience
10 125 (8.04%) Coaching
11 105 (6.76%) Disaster Recovery
11 105 (6.76%) MVC
12 101 (6.50%) Artificial Intelligence
12 101 (6.50%) OO
13 96 (6.18%) Migration
14 95 (6.11%) Full Stack Development
14 95 (6.11%) Service Management
15 92 (5.92%) Web Development
16 90 (5.79%) OOP
17 89 (5.73%) MVVM
Programming Languages
1 253 (16.28%) SQL
2 144 (9.27%) C#
2 144 (9.27%) PowerShell
3 129 (8.30%) Python
4 114 (7.34%) JavaScript
5 58 (3.73%) Java
6 28 (1.80%) C++
7 27 (1.74%) Bash
8 24 (1.54%) VBScript
9 19 (1.22%) C
10 15 (0.97%) VB
11 13 (0.84%) XAML
12 12 (0.77%) TypeScript
13 11 (0.71%) Delphi
13 11 (0.71%) Groovy
13 11 (0.71%) T-SQL
14 10 (0.64%) Shell Script
15 6 (0.39%) Embedded C
15 6 (0.39%) PHP
16 5 (0.32%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 205 (13.19%) Degree
2 113 (7.27%) Microsoft Certification
3 53 (3.41%) DBS Check
3 53 (3.41%) Security Cleared
4 46 (2.96%) Cisco Certification
5 37 (2.38%) CCNA
6 35 (2.25%) Computer Science Degree
7 34 (2.19%) MCP
8 33 (2.12%) ITIL Certification
8 33 (2.12%) MCSE
9 31 (1.99%) MCSA
10 26 (1.67%) SC Cleared
11 25 (1.61%) Azure Certification
12 22 (1.42%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 20 (1.29%) A+ Certification
14 19 (1.22%) CISSP
15 15 (0.97%) BPSS Clearance
15 15 (0.97%) HNC
15 15 (0.97%) HND
16 13 (0.84%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 124 (7.98%) SLA
2 46 (2.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 21 (1.35%) NIST
4 18 (1.16%) Cyber Essentials
4 18 (1.16%) GDPR
5 16 (1.03%) PCI DSS
6 10 (0.64%) Accessibility
6 10 (0.64%) QA
7 6 (0.39%) ISO 9000
8 5 (0.32%) ISO 9001
9 4 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 3 (0.19%) PMO
11 2 (0.13%) Data Quality
11 2 (0.13%) ISO 14001
11 2 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 1 (0.064%) ISO 13485
12 1 (0.064%) NCSC
12 1 (0.064%) SOC 2
System Software
1 666 (42.86%) Active Directory
2 227 (14.61%) Hyper-V
3 192 (12.36%) VMware Infrastructure
4 48 (3.09%) VMware ESXi
5 37 (2.38%) Virtual Machines
6 31 (1.99%) Docker
7 28 (1.80%) vSphere
8 25 (1.61%) Terminal Services
9 19 (1.22%) Virtual Desktop
10 14 (0.90%) Firmware
11 10 (0.64%) Virtual Servers
12 7 (0.45%) KVM
13 6 (0.39%) Microsoft App-V
13 6 (0.39%) VMware Server
14 3 (0.19%) VMware Workstation
15 1 (0.064%) DFS Replication
15 1 (0.064%) Dovecot
15 1 (0.064%) Postfix
15 1 (0.064%) Terminal Server
15 1 (0.064%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 192 (12.36%) Microsoft Intune
2 74 (4.76%) SCCM
3 59 (3.80%) Ansible
4 49 (3.15%) Terraform
5 43 (2.77%) Kubernetes
6 37 (2.38%) vCenter Server
7 28 (1.80%) WSUS
8 26 (1.67%) SCOM
9 24 (1.54%) Prometheus
10 18 (1.16%) Jamf Pro
11 15 (0.97%) Progress Chef
12 14 (0.90%) Failover Clustering
13 13 (0.84%) FortiGate
14 12 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
15 9 (0.58%) AirWatch
15 9 (0.58%) Autotask
15 9 (0.58%) Grafana
16 8 (0.51%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
17 7 (0.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
18 6 (0.39%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 755 (48.58%) Microsoft
2 339 (21.81%) VMware
3 125 (8.04%) IBM
4 108 (6.95%) Red Hat
5 101 (6.50%) Cisco
6 83 (5.34%) Citrix
7 76 (4.89%) Apple
8 64 (4.12%) Veeam
9 55 (3.54%) Google
10 45 (2.90%) Oracle
11 41 (2.64%) Dell
11 41 (2.64%) NetApp
12 35 (2.25%) Splunk
13 31 (1.99%) HP
13 31 (1.99%) SolarWinds
14 28 (1.80%) ServiceNow
15 25 (1.61%) Adobe
16 18 (1.16%) Sophos
17 17 (1.09%) Dynatrace
17 17 (1.09%) SAP