Windows Jobs in the South East

Microsoft Windows
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 10 13 20
Rank change year-on-year +3 +7 -2
Permanent jobs citing Windows 2,029 1,763 2,120
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 11.89% 12.45% 10.45%
As % of the Operating Systems category 71.82% 65.20% 48.64%
Number of salaries quoted 1,711 1,194 1,700
10th Percentile £25,750 £24,500 £25,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £27,625 £29,981
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £37,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -11.76% -
75th Percentile £55,000 £53,750 £58,000
90th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £76,250
England median annual salary £40,000 £43,763 £42,551
% change year-on-year -8.60% +2.85% -5.44%

All Operating Systems
South East

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 South East with a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 2,825 2,704 4,359
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 16.55% 19.09% 21.49%
Number of salaries quoted 2,252 1,876 2,784
10th Percentile £26,000 £25,719 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £30,750 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £43,250 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.73% -8.95% -
75th Percentile £58,750 £60,063 £62,500
90th Percentile £71,000 £77,500 £77,350
England median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% - +5.00%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Windows as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Windows in the South East

Windows
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Windows in the South East.

Salary trend for Windows in the South East

Windows
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows in the South East over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Windows in the South East

Windows
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows within the South East 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
Thames Valley +1 652 £40,000 +16.54% 131
Hampshire +5 648 £45,000 +28.57% 100
Berkshire +2 291 £45,000 +28.57% 57
Surrey -3 266 £42,500 +11.84% 46
Oxfordshire +11 203 £42,000 +20.00% 41
Buckinghamshire -15 158 £38,000 +11.76% 33
Kent -7 151 £37,500 +10.29% 35
East Sussex +20 147 £37,500 -31.82% 18
West Sussex +10 119 £35,000 -31.71% 27
Middlesex +3 26 £42,500 -51.43% 1
Sussex - 21 £35,000 - 3
Windows
England

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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
1 268 (13.21%) Microsoft Exchange
2 179 (8.82%) SharePoint
3 47 (2.32%) IIS
4 31 (1.53%) Apache
5 21 (1.03%) OpenStack
6 12 (0.59%) Confluence
7 11 (0.54%) WordPress
8 8 (0.39%) CMS
9 7 (0.34%) nginx
10 6 (0.30%) Exchange Server 2000
11 5 (0.25%) Exchange Server 2013
12 4 (0.20%) ColdFusion
12 4 (0.20%) TWiki
13 3 (0.15%) Exchange Server 2010
13 3 (0.15%) Orchard CMS
13 3 (0.15%) Umbraco
14 2 (0.099%) Tomcat
15 1 (0.049%) Oracle Spatial
15 1 (0.049%) WebSphere
Applications
1 288 (14.19%) Microsoft Office
2 86 (4.24%) Microsoft Excel
3 18 (0.89%) MS Visio
4 17 (0.84%) AutoCAD
5 15 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 7 (0.34%) Photoshop
7 4 (0.20%) Adobe Illustrator
8 3 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.049%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.049%) PTC Creo
9 1 (0.049%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 3 (0.15%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (0.099%) assyst
3 1 (0.049%) iTrent
3 1 (0.049%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 856 (42.19%) Microsoft 365
2 737 (36.32%) Azure
3 193 (9.51%) Entra ID
4 136 (6.70%) AWS
5 100 (4.93%) OneDrive
6 89 (4.39%) Azure DevOps
7 77 (3.79%) Serverless
8 76 (3.75%) Azure Functions
8 76 (3.75%) IBM Cloud
9 75 (3.70%) Azure Service Bus
10 74 (3.65%) Azure API Management
10 74 (3.65%) Azure Logic Apps
11 61 (3.01%) SaaS
12 44 (2.17%) IaaS
13 29 (1.43%) Power Platform
14 25 (1.23%) Mimecast
15 23 (1.13%) Azure Monitor
15 23 (1.13%) Google Workspace
16 22 (1.08%) Azure Sentinel
16 22 (1.08%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 436 (21.49%) Firewall
2 311 (15.33%) DNS
3 203 (10.00%) DHCP
4 166 (8.18%) TCP/IP
5 164 (8.08%) VPN
6 121 (5.96%) LAN
6 121 (5.96%) Wireless
7 117 (5.77%) WAN
8 98 (4.83%) VoIP
9 83 (4.09%) VLAN
9 83 (4.09%) Wi-Fi
10 74 (3.65%) SAN
11 34 (1.68%) Remote Desktop
11 34 (1.68%) SNMP
12 32 (1.58%) NAS
13 30 (1.48%) Network Security
14 29 (1.43%) Internet
15 22 (1.08%) SD-WAN
15 22 (1.08%) Unified Communications
16 21 (1.03%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 124 (6.11%) SQL Server
2 100 (4.93%) Relational Database
3 92 (4.53%) DB2
4 91 (4.48%) PostgreSQL
5 86 (4.24%) MongoDB
6 76 (3.75%) NoSQL
7 38 (1.87%) MySQL
8 34 (1.68%) Amazon RDS
9 18 (0.89%) Power BI
10 8 (0.39%) GIS
11 7 (0.34%) Redis
12 6 (0.30%) Amazon Redshift
12 6 (0.30%) MariaDB
12 6 (0.30%) Oracle Database
13 5 (0.25%) Elasticsearch
13 5 (0.25%) InfluxDB
13 5 (0.25%) SAP HANA
14 2 (0.099%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 1 (0.049%) Azure SQL Database
15 1 (0.049%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 77 (3.79%) Git
2 52 (2.56%) Visual Studio
3 37 (1.82%) Subversion
4 31 (1.53%) JIRA
5 23 (1.13%) Ant
5 23 (1.13%) Jenkins
6 16 (0.79%) CMake
7 14 (0.69%) eggPlant
8 13 (0.64%) Eclipse
9 12 (0.59%) Team Foundation Server
10 11 (0.54%) MSI
11 10 (0.49%) GitLab
11 10 (0.49%) Trac
12 6 (0.30%) Robot Framework
12 6 (0.30%) Sonatype Nexus
13 5 (0.25%) AdminStudio
13 5 (0.25%) Bitbucket
13 5 (0.25%) InstallShield
14 4 (0.20%) Hudson
14 4 (0.20%) Selenium
General
1 632 (31.15%) Social Skills
2 159 (7.84%) Finance
3 137 (6.75%) Analytical Skills
4 97 (4.78%) Public Sector
5 88 (4.34%) Organisational Skills
6 72 (3.55%) Telecoms
7 48 (2.37%) Law
8 47 (2.32%) Legal
9 44 (2.17%) Retail
10 43 (2.12%) Manufacturing
11 39 (1.92%) Military
12 38 (1.87%) Documentation Skills
13 37 (1.82%) Aerospace
13 37 (1.82%) Electronics
14 36 (1.77%) Games
15 28 (1.38%) Presentation Skills
16 27 (1.33%) Marketing
17 24 (1.18%) Back Office
18 15 (0.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 13 (0.64%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 336 (16.56%) IT Support
2 315 (15.52%) Support Engineer
3 250 (12.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 242 (11.93%) IT Engineer
5 237 (11.68%) Analyst
6 194 (9.56%) IT Support Engineer
7 188 (9.27%) Senior
8 150 (7.39%) Developer
9 145 (7.15%) Lead
10 144 (7.10%) Software Engineer
11 113 (5.57%) 2nd Line Support
12 110 (5.42%) 3rd Line Support
13 104 (5.13%) Support Analyst
14 97 (4.78%) IT Technician
15 94 (4.63%) IT Analyst
16 85 (4.19%) 3rd Line Engineer
17 84 (4.14%) 1st Line Support
18 80 (3.94%) Full Stack Developer
18 80 (3.94%) Systems Engineer
19 79 (3.89%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 172 (8.48%) .NET
2 123 (6.06%) HTML
3 120 (5.91%) AngularJS
4 116 (5.72%) CSS
5 111 (5.47%) React
6 100 (4.93%) Web Services
7 98 (4.83%) jQuery
7 98 (4.83%) REST
8 93 (4.58%) Vue
9 91 (4.48%) ASP.NET
10 87 (4.29%) Twitter Bootstrap
11 83 (4.09%) Node.js
12 76 (3.75%) ASP.NET Core
12 76 (3.75%) Backbone.js
12 76 (3.75%) Ember.js
13 53 (2.61%) XML
14 40 (1.97%) WPF
15 38 (1.87%) Qt
16 29 (1.43%) Hibernate
17 28 (1.38%) STL
Miscellaneous
1 115 (5.67%) Data Centre
2 113 (5.57%) Algorithms
3 84 (4.14%) Hybrid Cloud
4 82 (4.04%) Self-Motivation
5 78 (3.84%) Driving Licence
6 77 (3.79%) Data Structures
7 76 (3.75%) Blockchain
8 69 (3.40%) Management Information System
9 57 (2.81%) PKI
10 46 (2.27%) Onboarding
11 45 (2.22%) Replication
12 40 (1.97%) Client/Server
12 40 (1.97%) CMDB
13 33 (1.63%) IoT
14 31 (1.53%) Clustering
15 28 (1.38%) NHS
16 21 (1.03%) Digital Signage
17 19 (0.94%) Smartphone
18 18 (0.89%) Cyber Threat
19 17 (0.84%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 759 (37.41%) Windows Server
2 539 (26.56%) Linux
3 436 (21.49%) Windows 10
4 164 (8.08%) Apple iOS
5 160 (7.89%) Android
6 159 (7.84%) Windows Server 2016
7 141 (6.95%) Windows Server 2019
8 109 (5.37%) Windows 7
9 108 (5.32%) Windows Server 2012
10 58 (2.86%) Mac OS
11 57 (2.81%) Windows 8
12 37 (1.82%) Unix
13 35 (1.72%) Ubuntu
14 26 (1.28%) Windows Server 2008
15 24 (1.18%) CentOS
15 24 (1.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 17 (0.84%) Windows XP
17 15 (0.74%) Mac OS X
18 11 (0.54%) VMS
18 11 (0.54%) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies
1 515 (25.38%) Problem-Solving
2 350 (17.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 345 (17.00%) ITIL
4 339 (16.71%) Customer Service
5 225 (11.09%) Agile
6 223 (10.99%) DevOps
7 211 (10.40%) Cybersecurity
8 183 (9.02%) Software Engineering
9 135 (6.65%) Computer Science
10 129 (6.36%) Mentoring
11 120 (5.91%) OO
12 114 (5.62%) Artificial Intelligence
13 108 (5.32%) MVC
14 107 (5.27%) Service Delivery
15 104 (5.13%) MVVM
16 103 (5.08%) Project Management
17 101 (4.98%) Service Management
18 96 (4.73%) OOP
19 94 (4.63%) SOLID
20 91 (4.48%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 300 (14.79%) SQL
2 279 (13.75%) PowerShell
3 230 (11.34%) C#
4 221 (10.89%) Python
5 170 (8.38%) Java
6 167 (8.23%) JavaScript
7 157 (7.74%) C++
8 95 (4.68%) C
9 43 (2.12%) VB
10 35 (1.72%) Bash
11 33 (1.63%) Perl
12 31 (1.53%) VBScript
13 20 (0.99%) XAML
14 18 (0.89%) R
15 16 (0.79%) ActionScript
16 15 (0.74%) Bicep
16 15 (0.74%) Haskell
17 12 (0.59%) Go
18 9 (0.44%) PHP
19 8 (0.39%) Scala
Qualifications
1 371 (18.28%) Security Cleared
2 355 (17.50%) Degree
3 261 (12.86%) SC Cleared
4 184 (9.07%) DV Cleared
5 109 (5.37%) Computer Science Degree
6 103 (5.08%) Microsoft Certification
7 73 (3.60%) Cisco Certification
8 54 (2.66%) CCNA
9 43 (2.12%) MCP
10 42 (2.07%) DBS Check
11 35 (1.72%) MCSE
12 34 (1.68%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 29 (1.43%) CCNP
14 25 (1.23%) A+ Certification
14 25 (1.23%) Master's Degree
15 20 (0.99%) CompTIA Security+
16 19 (0.94%) HNC
16 19 (0.94%) Network+ Certification
17 17 (0.84%) CISSP
17 17 (0.84%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 143 (7.05%) SLA
2 64 (3.15%) GDPR
3 44 (2.17%) QA
4 38 (1.87%) Cyber Essentials
5 32 (1.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 14 (0.69%) Data Quality
7 8 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 7 (0.34%) ISO 13485
9 6 (0.30%) GRC
10 5 (0.25%) NIST
11 4 (0.20%) COBIT
11 4 (0.20%) ISO 22301
11 4 (0.20%) PCI DSS
12 3 (0.15%) Accessibility
12 3 (0.15%) HIPAA
13 2 (0.099%) PMO
14 1 (0.049%) ISO 9001
14 1 (0.049%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 883 (43.52%) Active Directory
2 317 (15.62%) VMware Infrastructure
3 267 (13.16%) Hyper-V
4 71 (3.50%) Virtual Machines
5 64 (3.15%) vSphere
6 61 (3.01%) XenApp
7 52 (2.56%) Docker
8 51 (2.51%) VMware ESXi
9 50 (2.46%) Virtual Desktop
10 47 (2.32%) VirtualBox
11 43 (2.12%) XenDesktop
12 34 (1.68%) Firmware
13 17 (0.84%) Virtual Servers
14 15 (0.74%) KVM
15 12 (0.59%) NFS
15 12 (0.59%) OpenSSH
16 11 (0.54%) pfSense
17 9 (0.44%) Microsoft Virtual Server
18 6 (0.30%) VMware Server
19 5 (0.25%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 198 (9.76%) Microsoft Intune
2 140 (6.90%) SCCM
3 90 (4.44%) WSUS
4 73 (3.60%) vCenter Server
5 66 (3.25%) Kubernetes
6 54 (2.66%) SCOM
7 53 (2.61%) Ansible
8 32 (1.58%) Terraform
9 27 (1.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 23 (1.13%) ZABBIX
11 19 (0.94%) EMC NetWorker
12 18 (0.89%) Puppet
12 18 (0.89%) WMI
13 16 (0.79%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
13 16 (0.79%) SCDPM
14 15 (0.74%) FortiGate
14 15 (0.74%) NetBackup
15 14 (0.69%) Grafana
16 13 (0.64%) IBM BigFix
17 12 (0.59%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 1,013 (49.93%) Microsoft
2 466 (22.97%) VMware
3 164 (8.08%) Cisco
4 144 (7.10%) Citrix
5 117 (5.77%) Red Hat
6 94 (4.63%) Veeam
7 92 (4.53%) IBM
8 58 (2.86%) Apple
9 52 (2.56%) Dell
10 43 (2.12%) Google
10 43 (2.12%) Oracle
11 42 (2.07%) Adobe
12 41 (2.02%) Juniper
13 40 (1.97%) HP
14 32 (1.58%) Palo Alto
15 30 (1.48%) Draytek
15 30 (1.48%) Meraki
15 30 (1.48%) Sophos
16 29 (1.43%) Fortinet
17 27 (1.33%) Splunk