Windows Jobs in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Windows
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 12 18 19
Rank change year-on-year +6 +1 -4
Permanent jobs citing Windows 7,123 6,416 7,849
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 9.82% 10.92% 10.79%
As % of the Operating Systems category 67.48% 66.27% 52.41%
Number of salaries quoted 5,829 4,199 5,914
10th Percentile £24,500 £24,500 £23,500
25th Percentile £27,500 £28,500 £27,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £40,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% - -
75th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £53,000
90th Percentile £62,500 £66,250 £66,750
UK median annual salary £40,000 £45,000 £44,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +2.27% -2.22%

All Operating Systems
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 10,555 9,682 14,976
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.55% 16.48% 20.58%
Number of salaries quoted 8,138 6,054 9,305
10th Percentile £25,500 £25,500 £25,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% - -
75th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £68,750 £73,750 £73,675
UK median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% - +5.00%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Windows as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Windows in the UK excluding London

Windows
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Windows in the UK excluding London

Windows
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Windows in the UK excluding London

Windows
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 within the UK excluding London 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
South East +3 2,029 £40,000 +6.67% 568
North of England +6 1,554 £37,500 -6.25% 369
Midlands +10 1,233 £35,000 -12.50% 291
South West +5 999 £42,000 +5.00% 251
North West -4 757 £40,000 -4.76% 184
East of England +2 748 £32,500 -14.47% 238
West Midlands +15 692 £35,000 -12.11% 165
Yorkshire +19 610 £36,128 -3.66% 155
East Midlands +9 535 £35,000 -10.71% 120
Scotland -45 366 £42,202 -6.22% 99
North East +13 189 £33,000 -17.50% 35
Wales +8 145 £32,500 -7.14% 34
Northern Ireland -11 45 £36,250 -27.50% 16
Isle of Man -2 12 £43,750 +45.83% 1
Windows
UK

Windows
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 1,057 (14.84%) Microsoft Exchange
2 730 (10.25%) SharePoint
3 148 (2.08%) IIS
4 117 (1.64%) Apache
5 53 (0.74%) Confluence
6 39 (0.55%) CMS
7 34 (0.48%) OpenStack
8 32 (0.45%) Exchange Server 2013
9 26 (0.37%) Exchange Server 2010
9 26 (0.37%) Skype for Business
10 23 (0.32%) Tomcat
11 20 (0.28%) Exchange Server 2007
12 15 (0.21%) WordPress
13 12 (0.17%) SharePoint 2010
13 12 (0.17%) SharePoint 2013
14 11 (0.15%) Umbraco
15 7 (0.098%) ArcGIS
15 7 (0.098%) CloudStack
15 7 (0.098%) nginx
16 6 (0.084%) Exchange Server 2000
Applications
1 1,034 (14.52%) Microsoft Office
2 210 (2.95%) Microsoft Excel
3 77 (1.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 27 (0.38%) MS Visio
5 21 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
6 17 (0.24%) AutoCAD
7 16 (0.22%) Trello
8 11 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
9 8 (0.11%) InfoPath
9 8 (0.11%) Photoshop
10 5 (0.070%) Adobe Illustrator
10 5 (0.070%) Adobe XD
11 3 (0.042%) Final Cut Pro
11 3 (0.042%) Pro Tools
11 3 (0.042%) Simulink
12 2 (0.028%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 2 (0.028%) CATIA
12 2 (0.028%) NASTRAN
12 2 (0.028%) Sketch
13 1 (0.014%) 1Password
Business Applications
1 20 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
2 16 (0.22%) NEC Housing
3 15 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
4 12 (0.17%) Unit4 Business World
5 9 (0.13%) SAP ERP
6 6 (0.084%) Sage 200
7 5 (0.070%) Shopify
8 3 (0.042%) JDE EnterpriseOne
8 3 (0.042%) Sage 50
8 3 (0.042%) Salesforce CRM
9 2 (0.028%) assyst
9 2 (0.028%) Remedy ITSM
9 2 (0.028%) SAP S/4HANA
9 2 (0.028%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 2 (0.028%) Teamcenter
10 1 (0.014%) iTrent
10 1 (0.014%) Magento
10 1 (0.014%) SAP CRM
10 1 (0.014%) SAP GRC
10 1 (0.014%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 3,057 (42.92%) Microsoft 365
2 2,613 (36.68%) Azure
3 824 (11.57%) Entra ID
4 616 (8.65%) AWS
5 321 (4.51%) OneDrive
6 231 (3.24%) Azure DevOps
7 228 (3.20%) IBM Cloud
8 215 (3.02%) SaaS
9 148 (2.08%) GCP
10 141 (1.98%) IaaS
11 135 (1.90%) Serverless
12 130 (1.83%) Azure Logic Apps
13 123 (1.73%) Azure Service Bus
14 121 (1.70%) Azure Functions
15 119 (1.67%) Azure API Management
16 105 (1.47%) Power Platform
17 94 (1.32%) Google Workspace
18 91 (1.28%) Cloud Computing
19 86 (1.21%) Mimecast
20 71 (1.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1,348 (18.92%) Firewall
2 1,042 (14.63%) DNS
3 798 (11.20%) DHCP
4 675 (9.48%) TCP/IP
5 595 (8.35%) WAN
6 585 (8.21%) LAN
7 554 (7.78%) VPN
8 391 (5.49%) Wi-Fi
9 356 (5.00%) SAN
10 316 (4.44%) Wireless
11 268 (3.76%) VoIP
12 265 (3.72%) VLAN
13 207 (2.91%) Internet
14 152 (2.13%) Network Security
15 137 (1.92%) Remote Desktop
16 132 (1.85%) NAS
17 95 (1.33%) SD-WAN
18 94 (1.32%) SNMP
19 88 (1.24%) HTTP
20 68 (0.95%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 563 (7.90%) SQL Server
2 341 (4.79%) MongoDB
3 273 (3.83%) PostgreSQL
4 269 (3.78%) DB2
5 243 (3.41%) NoSQL
6 205 (2.88%) Relational Database
7 122 (1.71%) MySQL
8 112 (1.57%) Amazon RDS
9 82 (1.15%) Power BI
10 67 (0.94%) Elasticsearch
11 34 (0.48%) Data Warehouse
11 34 (0.48%) Oracle Database
12 33 (0.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 32 (0.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 27 (0.38%) RDBMS
15 25 (0.35%) Redis
16 24 (0.34%) Azure SQL Database
17 20 (0.28%) QlikView
18 19 (0.27%) MariaDB
19 16 (0.22%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 173 (2.43%) Git
2 137 (1.92%) JIRA
3 112 (1.57%) Visual Studio
4 68 (0.95%) Jenkins
5 65 (0.91%) Subversion
6 55 (0.77%) GitLab
7 36 (0.51%) Eclipse
8 23 (0.32%) Ant
9 21 (0.29%) Artifactory
10 20 (0.28%) CMake
10 20 (0.28%) IBM UrbanCode
11 19 (0.27%) MSI
12 18 (0.25%) LabVIEW
13 16 (0.22%) Bitbucket
14 15 (0.21%) Team Foundation Server
15 14 (0.20%) eggPlant
15 14 (0.20%) Octopus Deploy
16 10 (0.14%) AdminStudio
16 10 (0.14%) InstallShield
16 10 (0.14%) Trac
General
1 2,175 (30.53%) Social Skills
2 695 (9.76%) Finance
3 592 (8.31%) Analytical Skills
4 428 (6.01%) Public Sector
5 278 (3.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 274 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
7 253 (3.55%) Manufacturing
8 241 (3.38%) Law
9 233 (3.27%) Retail
10 216 (3.03%) Telecoms
11 130 (1.83%) Aerospace
12 129 (1.81%) Legal
12 129 (1.81%) Marketing
13 128 (1.80%) Electronics
14 109 (1.53%) Documentation Skills
15 85 (1.19%) Games
16 78 (1.10%) Presentation Skills
17 77 (1.08%) Military
18 64 (0.90%) Automotive
19 56 (0.79%) Police
Job Titles
1 1,262 (17.72%) IT Support
2 1,130 (15.86%) Support Engineer
3 930 (13.06%) IT Engineer
4 887 (12.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 809 (11.36%) Analyst
6 777 (10.91%) Senior
7 647 (9.08%) IT Support Engineer
8 491 (6.89%) IT Technician
9 403 (5.66%) Developer
10 400 (5.62%) Lead
11 397 (5.57%) 2nd Line Support
12 361 (5.07%) Support Technician
13 305 (4.28%) Software Engineer
14 301 (4.23%) IT Analyst
15 298 (4.18%) Support Analyst
16 293 (4.11%) IT Support Technician
17 260 (3.65%) 1st Line Support
18 258 (3.62%) Administrator
19 254 (3.57%) Service Analyst
20 249 (3.50%) 2nd Line Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 525 (7.37%) .NET
2 399 (5.60%) HTML
3 349 (4.90%) CSS
4 317 (4.45%) AngularJS
5 311 (4.37%) ASP.NET
5 311 (4.37%) React
6 306 (4.30%) REST
7 292 (4.10%) Web Services
8 278 (3.90%) Vue
9 276 (3.87%) jQuery
10 269 (3.78%) Twitter Bootstrap
11 230 (3.23%) ASP.NET Core
12 228 (3.20%) Backbone.js
12 228 (3.20%) Ember.js
13 150 (2.11%) Node.js
14 112 (1.57%) WPF
15 88 (1.24%) .NET Framework
16 85 (1.19%) XML
17 76 (1.07%) RabbitMQ
18 59 (0.83%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 460 (6.46%) Data Centre
2 439 (6.16%) Driving Licence
3 357 (5.01%) Self-Motivation
4 282 (3.96%) Hybrid Cloud
5 278 (3.90%) Algorithms
6 267 (3.75%) Management Information System
7 235 (3.30%) Data Structures
8 228 (3.20%) Blockchain
9 188 (2.64%) Public Cloud
10 168 (2.36%) Replication
11 140 (1.97%) Onboarding
12 114 (1.60%) e-Learning
13 110 (1.54%) Clustering
13 110 (1.54%) PKI
14 77 (1.08%) EPoS
15 67 (0.94%) Smartphone
16 64 (0.90%) Client/Server
17 58 (0.81%) CMDB
18 55 (0.77%) NHS
19 54 (0.76%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2,714 (38.10%) Windows Server
2 1,889 (26.52%) Linux
3 1,364 (19.15%) Windows 10
4 526 (7.38%) Android
5 503 (7.06%) Windows Server 2016
6 493 (6.92%) Apple iOS
7 462 (6.49%) Windows Server 2019
8 417 (5.85%) Windows Server 2012
9 289 (4.06%) Mac OS
10 266 (3.73%) Windows 7
11 250 (3.51%) Unix
12 124 (1.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 120 (1.68%) Windows 8
14 119 (1.67%) Windows Server 2008
15 88 (1.24%) CentOS
16 75 (1.05%) Ubuntu
17 61 (0.86%) VMS
18 57 (0.80%) Mac OS X
19 50 (0.70%) Data ONTAP
20 34 (0.48%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,694 (23.78%) Problem-Solving
2 1,228 (17.24%) ITIL
3 1,210 (16.99%) Customer Service
4 1,140 (16.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 719 (10.09%) Cybersecurity
6 626 (8.79%) Agile
7 610 (8.56%) Mentoring
8 573 (8.04%) DevOps
9 432 (6.06%) Software Engineering
10 374 (5.25%) User Experience
11 366 (5.14%) Computer Science
12 355 (4.98%) Project Management
13 346 (4.86%) Service Management
14 325 (4.56%) Artificial Intelligence
15 324 (4.55%) MVC
16 319 (4.48%) OO
17 312 (4.38%) Service Delivery
18 307 (4.31%) Disaster Recovery
19 299 (4.20%) Continuous Improvement
20 295 (4.14%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 999 (14.02%) SQL
2 869 (12.20%) PowerShell
3 624 (8.76%) C#
4 592 (8.31%) Python
5 429 (6.02%) JavaScript
6 357 (5.01%) Java
7 303 (4.25%) C++
8 243 (3.41%) Bash
9 175 (2.46%) C
10 85 (1.19%) VB
11 59 (0.83%) T-SQL
12 56 (0.79%) VBScript
13 53 (0.74%) Perl
14 51 (0.72%) XAML
15 35 (0.49%) TypeScript
16 34 (0.48%) PHP
17 32 (0.45%) Shell Script
18 28 (0.39%) VB.NET
19 27 (0.38%) R
20 23 (0.32%) Go
Qualifications
1 1,064 (14.94%) Degree
2 896 (12.58%) Security Cleared
3 527 (7.40%) SC Cleared
4 437 (6.14%) Microsoft Certification
5 390 (5.48%) DV Cleared
6 263 (3.69%) Computer Science Degree
7 258 (3.62%) Cisco Certification
8 221 (3.10%) CCNA
9 217 (3.05%) DBS Check
10 147 (2.06%) MCP
10 147 (2.06%) MCSE
11 145 (2.04%) A+ Certification
12 93 (1.31%) Azure Certification
13 86 (1.21%) ITIL Certification
14 81 (1.14%) MCSA
15 79 (1.11%) BPSS Clearance
16 66 (0.93%) CCNP
17 65 (0.91%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
18 58 (0.81%) AWS Certification
18 58 (0.81%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 459 (6.44%) SLA
2 164 (2.30%) GDPR
3 120 (1.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 113 (1.59%) QA
5 110 (1.54%) Cyber Essentials
6 54 (0.76%) PCI DSS
7 43 (0.60%) NIST
8 34 (0.48%) Accessibility
9 19 (0.27%) Data Quality
10 17 (0.24%) PMO
11 14 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 12 (0.17%) ITGC
13 11 (0.15%) ISO 9001
14 8 (0.11%) ISO 13485
14 8 (0.11%) MISRA
15 7 (0.098%) SOC 2
16 6 (0.084%) GRC
16 6 (0.084%) ISO 22301
16 6 (0.084%) ISO 9000
17 5 (0.070%) ISO 14001
System Software
1 3,097 (43.48%) Active Directory
2 1,183 (16.61%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1,022 (14.35%) Hyper-V
4 225 (3.16%) Docker
5 211 (2.96%) VMware ESXi
6 199 (2.79%) vSphere
7 181 (2.54%) Virtual Machines
8 114 (1.60%) Virtual Desktop
9 104 (1.46%) Firmware
10 89 (1.25%) XenApp
11 70 (0.98%) XenDesktop
12 63 (0.88%) KVM
13 47 (0.66%) Virtual Servers
13 47 (0.66%) VirtualBox
14 44 (0.62%) Terminal Services
15 22 (0.31%) pfSense
16 21 (0.29%) VMware Server
17 20 (0.28%) Embedded Firmware
17 20 (0.28%) VMware NSX
17 20 (0.28%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 735 (10.32%) Microsoft Intune
2 463 (6.50%) SCCM
3 266 (3.73%) Ansible
4 252 (3.54%) Kubernetes
5 181 (2.54%) vCenter Server
6 161 (2.26%) WSUS
7 151 (2.12%) Terraform
8 118 (1.66%) SCOM
9 81 (1.14%) Puppet
10 68 (0.95%) Prometheus
11 53 (0.74%) FortiGate
12 52 (0.73%) Jamf Pro
13 47 (0.66%) ZABBIX
14 45 (0.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 42 (0.59%) Progress Chef
16 41 (0.58%) Nagios
17 36 (0.51%) EMC NetWorker
17 36 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
18 35 (0.49%) Failover Clustering
19 34 (0.48%) Grafana
Vendors
1 3,600 (50.54%) Microsoft
2 1,782 (25.02%) VMware
3 531 (7.45%) Cisco
4 440 (6.18%) Red Hat
5 404 (5.67%) Citrix
6 347 (4.87%) Veeam
7 337 (4.73%) IBM
8 279 (3.92%) Dell
9 275 (3.86%) Apple
10 237 (3.33%) HP
11 213 (2.99%) Google
12 194 (2.72%) Oracle
13 175 (2.46%) NetApp
14 125 (1.75%) ServiceNow
15 124 (1.74%) Meraki
16 114 (1.60%) Sophos
17 98 (1.38%) Adobe
18 85 (1.19%) Splunk
19 81 (1.14%) Palo Alto
19 81 (1.14%) SolarWinds