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 29 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 10 13 20
Rank change year-on-year +3 +7 -2
Permanent jobs citing Windows 2,035 1,736 2,121
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 11.60% 12.35% 10.36%
As % of the Operating Systems category 71.53% 65.36% 48.50%
Number of salaries quoted 1,706 1,178 1,690
10th Percentile £25,750 £24,500 £25,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £27,750 £30,000
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 £43,799 £43,000
% change year-on-year -8.67% +1.86% -4.44%

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 2,845 2,656 4,373
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 16.22% 18.90% 21.35%
Number of salaries quoted 2,248 1,837 2,774
10th Percentile £26,000 £25,613 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £30,750 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,000 £43,250 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.58% -8.95% -
75th Percentile £58,750 £61,250 £62,938
90th Percentile £70,300 £77,500 £77,500
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 29 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 29 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
Hampshire +5 652 £45,000 +28.57% 93
Thames Valley +1 650 £40,000 +16.54% 114
Berkshire +5 290 £48,925 +39.79% 45
Surrey 0 267 £43,750 +15.13% 44
Oxfordshire +9 200 £42,000 +20.00% 34
Buckinghamshire -17 160 £38,000 +11.76% 35
Kent -5 156 £37,500 +10.29% 32
East Sussex +19 149 £39,500 -22.93% 15
West Sussex +10 117 £35,000 -33.33% 24
Middlesex 0 24 £41,250 -52.86% 1
Sussex - 21 £35,000 - 1
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
1 269 (13.22%) Microsoft Exchange
2 181 (8.89%) SharePoint
3 47 (2.31%) IIS
4 31 (1.52%) 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 (0.29%) 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 (0.098%) Tomcat
15 1 (0.049%) Oracle Spatial
15 1 (0.049%) WebSphere
Applications
1 288 (14.15%) Microsoft Office
2 87 (4.28%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (0.93%) 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 (0.098%) assyst
3 1 (0.049%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 855 (42.01%) Microsoft 365
2 740 (36.36%) Azure
3 198 (9.73%) Entra ID
4 136 (6.68%) AWS
5 101 (4.96%) OneDrive
6 87 (4.28%) Azure DevOps
7 77 (3.78%) Serverless
8 76 (3.73%) Azure Functions
8 76 (3.73%) IBM Cloud
9 75 (3.69%) Azure Service Bus
10 74 (3.64%) Azure API Management
10 74 (3.64%) Azure Logic Apps
11 61 (3.00%) SaaS
12 43 (2.11%) IaaS
13 28 (1.38%) Power Platform
14 25 (1.23%) Azure Monitor
14 25 (1.23%) Mimecast
15 24 (1.18%) Google Workspace
16 23 (1.13%) Cloud Computing
17 22 (1.08%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 438 (21.52%) Firewall
2 312 (15.33%) DNS
3 204 (10.02%) DHCP
4 169 (8.30%) TCP/IP
5 162 (7.96%) VPN
6 120 (5.90%) Wireless
7 117 (5.75%) LAN
8 113 (5.55%) WAN
9 100 (4.91%) VoIP
10 85 (4.18%) VLAN
10 85 (4.18%) Wi-Fi
11 73 (3.59%) SAN
12 34 (1.67%) Remote Desktop
12 34 (1.67%) SNMP
13 32 (1.57%) Internet
13 32 (1.57%) NAS
14 30 (1.47%) Network Security
15 22 (1.08%) Unified Communications
16 21 (1.03%) FTP
16 21 (1.03%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 123 (6.04%) SQL Server
2 100 (4.91%) Relational Database
3 92 (4.52%) DB2
4 91 (4.47%) PostgreSQL
5 86 (4.23%) MongoDB
6 76 (3.73%) NoSQL
7 38 (1.87%) MySQL
8 35 (1.72%) Amazon RDS
9 17 (0.84%) Power BI
10 8 (0.39%) GIS
11 7 (0.34%) Redis
12 6 (0.29%) Amazon Redshift
12 6 (0.29%) MariaDB
12 6 (0.29%) Oracle Database
13 5 (0.25%) Elasticsearch
13 5 (0.25%) InfluxDB
13 5 (0.25%) SAP HANA
14 1 (0.049%) Azure SQL Database
14 1 (0.049%) Spatial Data
14 1 (0.049%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 79 (3.88%) Git
2 53 (2.60%) Visual Studio
3 36 (1.77%) Subversion
4 30 (1.47%) JIRA
5 23 (1.13%) Jenkins
6 22 (1.08%) Ant
7 15 (0.74%) CMake
8 13 (0.64%) Eclipse
8 13 (0.64%) MSI
9 12 (0.59%) eggPlant
9 12 (0.59%) Team Foundation Server
10 10 (0.49%) GitLab
10 10 (0.49%) Trac
11 6 (0.29%) AdminStudio
11 6 (0.29%) InstallShield
11 6 (0.29%) Robot Framework
11 6 (0.29%) Sonatype Nexus
12 5 (0.25%) Bitbucket
12 5 (0.25%) Selenium
13 4 (0.20%) Hudson
General
1 632 (31.06%) Social Skills
2 163 (8.01%) Finance
3 137 (6.73%) Analytical Skills
4 97 (4.77%) Public Sector
5 89 (4.37%) Organisational Skills
6 72 (3.54%) Telecoms
7 48 (2.36%) Law
8 46 (2.26%) Legal
9 45 (2.21%) Manufacturing
10 44 (2.16%) Retail
11 38 (1.87%) Aerospace
11 38 (1.87%) Military
12 37 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
12 37 (1.82%) Electronics
13 36 (1.77%) Games
14 29 (1.43%) Presentation Skills
15 27 (1.33%) Marketing
16 23 (1.13%) Back Office
17 16 (0.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 14 (0.69%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 334 (16.41%) IT Support
2 314 (15.43%) Support Engineer
3 251 (12.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 239 (11.74%) IT Engineer
5 234 (11.50%) Analyst
6 193 (9.48%) IT Support Engineer
7 185 (9.09%) Senior
8 149 (7.32%) Developer
9 148 (7.27%) Lead
10 143 (7.03%) Software Engineer
11 112 (5.50%) 2nd Line Support
12 110 (5.41%) 3rd Line Support
13 102 (5.01%) Support Analyst
14 98 (4.82%) IT Technician
15 91 (4.47%) IT Analyst
16 84 (4.13%) 1st Line Support
16 84 (4.13%) 3rd Line Engineer
17 81 (3.98%) Support Technician
18 80 (3.93%) Full Stack Developer
18 80 (3.93%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 171 (8.40%) .NET
2 122 (6.00%) HTML
3 119 (5.85%) AngularJS
4 115 (5.65%) CSS
5 111 (5.45%) React
6 99 (4.86%) Web Services
7 97 (4.77%) jQuery
7 97 (4.77%) REST
8 93 (4.57%) Vue
9 90 (4.42%) ASP.NET
10 86 (4.23%) Twitter Bootstrap
11 83 (4.08%) Node.js
12 76 (3.73%) ASP.NET Core
12 76 (3.73%) Backbone.js
12 76 (3.73%) Ember.js
13 51 (2.51%) XML
14 40 (1.97%) WPF
15 38 (1.87%) Qt
16 28 (1.38%) Hibernate
16 28 (1.38%) STL
Miscellaneous
1 115 (5.65%) Data Centre
2 112 (5.50%) Algorithms
3 85 (4.18%) Hybrid Cloud
4 84 (4.13%) Self-Motivation
5 77 (3.78%) Data Structures
6 76 (3.73%) Blockchain
6 76 (3.73%) Driving Licence
7 69 (3.39%) Management Information System
8 62 (3.05%) PKI
9 46 (2.26%) Onboarding
10 44 (2.16%) Replication
11 41 (2.01%) Client/Server
12 39 (1.92%) CMDB
13 33 (1.62%) IoT
14 30 (1.47%) Clustering
15 28 (1.38%) NHS
16 21 (1.03%) Digital Signage
16 21 (1.03%) Smartphone
17 18 (0.88%) Cyber Threat
18 17 (0.84%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 764 (37.54%) Windows Server
2 545 (26.78%) Linux
3 438 (21.52%) Windows 10
4 164 (8.06%) Apple iOS
5 161 (7.91%) Android
6 160 (7.86%) Windows Server 2016
7 142 (6.98%) Windows Server 2019
8 109 (5.36%) Windows Server 2012
9 107 (5.26%) Windows 7
10 58 (2.85%) Mac OS
11 57 (2.80%) Windows 8
12 37 (1.82%) Unix
13 35 (1.72%) Ubuntu
14 27 (1.33%) Windows Server 2008
15 25 (1.23%) CentOS
16 23 (1.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
17 17 (0.84%) Windows XP
18 15 (0.74%) Mac OS X
19 12 (0.59%) Windows NT
20 11 (0.54%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 510 (25.06%) Problem-Solving
2 350 (17.20%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 347 (17.05%) ITIL
4 339 (16.66%) Customer Service
5 228 (11.20%) Agile
6 223 (10.96%) DevOps
7 211 (10.37%) Cybersecurity
8 184 (9.04%) Software Engineering
9 133 (6.54%) Computer Science
10 128 (6.29%) Mentoring
11 119 (5.85%) OO
12 114 (5.60%) Artificial Intelligence
13 108 (5.31%) MVC
14 107 (5.26%) Service Delivery
15 106 (5.21%) Service Management
16 104 (5.11%) MVVM
17 103 (5.06%) Project Management
18 96 (4.72%) OOP
19 94 (4.62%) SOLID
20 91 (4.47%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 297 (14.59%) SQL
2 280 (13.76%) PowerShell
3 231 (11.35%) C#
4 220 (10.81%) Python
5 169 (8.30%) Java
6 167 (8.21%) JavaScript
7 156 (7.67%) C++
8 94 (4.62%) C
9 47 (2.31%) VB
10 35 (1.72%) Bash
11 33 (1.62%) Perl
12 31 (1.52%) VBScript
13 20 (0.98%) XAML
14 18 (0.88%) R
15 17 (0.84%) ActionScript
15 17 (0.84%) Bicep
16 15 (0.74%) Haskell
17 12 (0.59%) Go
18 9 (0.44%) PHP
19 8 (0.39%) Scala
Qualifications
1 369 (18.13%) Security Cleared
2 359 (17.64%) Degree
3 261 (12.83%) SC Cleared
4 187 (9.19%) DV Cleared
5 107 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
6 103 (5.06%) Microsoft Certification
7 73 (3.59%) Cisco Certification
8 54 (2.65%) CCNA
9 43 (2.11%) DBS Check
9 43 (2.11%) MCP
10 36 (1.77%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 35 (1.72%) MCSE
12 29 (1.43%) CCNP
13 25 (1.23%) A+ Certification
13 25 (1.23%) Master's Degree
14 20 (0.98%) CompTIA Security+
15 19 (0.93%) HNC
15 19 (0.93%) Network+ Certification
16 17 (0.84%) CISSP
16 17 (0.84%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 143 (7.03%) SLA
2 66 (3.24%) GDPR
3 46 (2.26%) QA
4 40 (1.97%) Cyber Essentials
5 32 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 14 (0.69%) Data Quality
7 8 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 7 (0.34%) ISO 13485
9 6 (0.29%) GRC
9 6 (0.29%) NIST
10 5 (0.25%) PCI DSS
11 4 (0.20%) COBIT
11 4 (0.20%) HIPAA
11 4 (0.20%) ISO 22301
12 3 (0.15%) Accessibility
13 2 (0.098%) PMO
13 2 (0.098%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 1 (0.049%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 887 (43.59%) Active Directory
2 317 (15.58%) VMware Infrastructure
3 268 (13.17%) Hyper-V
4 71 (3.49%) Virtual Machines
5 67 (3.29%) vSphere
6 62 (3.05%) XenApp
7 53 (2.60%) Docker
7 53 (2.60%) Virtual Desktop
8 52 (2.56%) VMware ESXi
9 48 (2.36%) VirtualBox
10 43 (2.11%) XenDesktop
11 34 (1.67%) Firmware
12 17 (0.84%) Virtual Servers
13 14 (0.69%) KVM
14 13 (0.64%) OpenSSH
15 12 (0.59%) NFS
16 11 (0.54%) pfSense
17 9 (0.44%) Microsoft Virtual Server
18 7 (0.34%) Microsoft App-V
19 6 (0.29%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 199 (9.78%) Microsoft Intune
2 145 (7.13%) SCCM
3 95 (4.67%) WSUS
4 74 (3.64%) vCenter Server
5 69 (3.39%) Kubernetes
6 56 (2.75%) SCOM
7 54 (2.65%) Ansible
8 33 (1.62%) Terraform
9 28 (1.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 23 (1.13%) ZABBIX
11 20 (0.98%) EMC NetWorker
12 18 (0.88%) Puppet
12 18 (0.88%) WMI
13 16 (0.79%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
13 16 (0.79%) SCDPM
14 15 (0.74%) NetBackup
15 14 (0.69%) FortiGate
15 14 (0.69%) Grafana
15 14 (0.69%) IBM BigFix
16 13 (0.64%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 1,012 (49.73%) Microsoft
2 471 (23.14%) VMware
3 166 (8.16%) Cisco
4 149 (7.32%) Citrix
5 117 (5.75%) Red Hat
6 95 (4.67%) Veeam
7 93 (4.57%) IBM
8 57 (2.80%) Apple
9 52 (2.56%) Dell
10 44 (2.16%) Google
10 44 (2.16%) Oracle
11 42 (2.06%) Adobe
12 41 (2.01%) Juniper
13 39 (1.92%) HP
14 32 (1.57%) Palo Alto
15 31 (1.52%) Meraki
16 30 (1.47%) Draytek
16 30 (1.47%) Sophos
17 29 (1.43%) Fortinet
18 28 (1.38%) Splunk