Microsoft Windows
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 15 19 34
Rank change year-on-year +4 +15 -11
Permanent jobs citing Windows 9,284 9,767 13,990
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.36% 9.80% 8.75%
As % of the Operating Systems category 66.53% 61.07% 46.12%
Number of salaries quoted 7,563 6,920 9,850
10th Percentile £25,200 £25,750 £25,000
25th Percentile £29,000 £31,250 £30,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £45,000 £43,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £56,000 £60,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £78,750 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,500 £40,000 £39,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% +2.56% -2.50%

All Operating Systems
UK

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 with a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 13,954 15,994 30,335
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 14.07% 16.04% 18.98%
Number of salaries quoted 10,719 10,739 16,522
10th Percentile £26,000 £27,000 £26,270
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £35,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £71,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £92,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -5.56% - -

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Windows as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Windows in the UK

Windows
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Windows in the UK

Windows
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Windows in the UK

Windows
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows within the UK over the 6 months to 15 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
England +5 8,569 £40,000 -9.09% 1,890
UK excluding London +6 7,117 £37,500 -6.25% 1,528
Work from Home +4 2,742 £49,881 -0.24% 710
South East +3 2,028 £40,000 +6.67% 397
London +7 1,983 £55,000 +4.76% 455
North of England +6 1,564 £37,500 -6.25% 333
Midlands +12 1,230 £35,000 -12.50% 269
South West +5 981 £42,500 +8.17% 241
North West -4 758 £40,000 - 165
East of England +3 748 £32,500 -15.58% 209
West Midlands +15 688 £35,000 -12.50% 150
Yorkshire +19 617 £37,000 -2.63% 140
East Midlands +9 536 £35,000 -8.50% 119
Scotland -45 368 £42,202 -6.22% 86
North East +15 191 £33,000 -17.50% 32
Wales +9 147 £32,500 -5.11% 29
Northern Ireland -9 47 £37,500 -25.00% 17
Isle of Man -4 12 £43,750 +45.83% 1

Windows
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 1,534 (16.52%) Microsoft Exchange
2 977 (10.52%) SharePoint
3 217 (2.34%) IIS
4 139 (1.50%) Apache
5 72 (0.78%) Confluence
6 54 (0.58%) Skype for Business
7 48 (0.52%) CMS
7 48 (0.52%) Exchange Server 2013
8 45 (0.48%) Tomcat
9 43 (0.46%) Exchange Server 2010
10 39 (0.42%) OpenStack
11 22 (0.24%) Exchange Server 2007
11 22 (0.24%) WordPress
12 19 (0.20%) SAS
13 17 (0.18%) SharePoint 2013
14 16 (0.17%) SharePoint 2010
15 15 (0.16%) JBoss
16 10 (0.11%) Umbraco
17 9 (0.097%) nginx
17 9 (0.097%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1,384 (14.91%) Microsoft Office
2 280 (3.02%) Microsoft Excel
3 108 (1.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 35 (0.38%) MS Visio
5 30 (0.32%) AutoCAD
6 22 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
7 18 (0.19%) Trello
8 14 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
9 10 (0.11%) Photoshop
10 9 (0.097%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 9 (0.097%) Revit
11 8 (0.086%) InfoPath
12 7 (0.075%) Adobe Illustrator
13 4 (0.043%) Adobe XD
14 3 (0.032%) Final Cut Pro
14 3 (0.032%) InDesign
14 3 (0.032%) Pro Tools
14 3 (0.032%) Simulink
14 3 (0.032%) SPSS
15 2 (0.022%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 49 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
2 35 (0.38%) NEC Housing
3 19 (0.20%) Unit4 Business World
4 17 (0.18%) Dynamics NAV
5 16 (0.17%) Fidessa
6 10 (0.11%) Remedy ITSM
6 10 (0.11%) SAP ERP
7 9 (0.097%) Teamcenter
8 7 (0.075%) Carpe Diem
8 7 (0.075%) Elite 3E
9 6 (0.065%) Sage 200
10 5 (0.054%) Shopify
10 5 (0.054%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 5 (0.054%) Temenos T24
11 4 (0.043%) Oracle Cash Management
11 4 (0.043%) Salesforce CRM
12 3 (0.032%) Eikon
12 3 (0.032%) JDE EnterpriseOne
12 3 (0.032%) Sage 50
13 2 (0.022%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 4,017 (43.27%) Microsoft 365
2 3,418 (36.82%) Azure
3 1,068 (11.50%) Entra ID
4 887 (9.55%) AWS
5 416 (4.48%) OneDrive
6 304 (3.27%) Azure DevOps
7 303 (3.26%) SaaS
8 238 (2.56%) IBM Cloud
9 227 (2.45%) GCP
10 204 (2.20%) IaaS
11 185 (1.99%) Power Platform
12 184 (1.98%) Serverless
13 141 (1.52%) Azure Logic Apps
14 139 (1.50%) Azure Functions
15 136 (1.46%) Azure API Management
16 135 (1.45%) Azure Service Bus
17 130 (1.40%) Google Workspace
18 128 (1.38%) Cloud Computing
18 128 (1.38%) Mimecast
19 121 (1.30%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1,732 (18.66%) Firewall
2 1,352 (14.56%) DNS
3 971 (10.46%) DHCP
4 868 (9.35%) WAN
5 820 (8.83%) TCP/IP
6 780 (8.40%) LAN
7 733 (7.90%) VPN
8 490 (5.28%) Wi-Fi
8 490 (5.28%) Wireless
9 460 (4.95%) SAN
10 323 (3.48%) VLAN
11 316 (3.40%) VoIP
12 295 (3.18%) Internet
13 218 (2.35%) SD-WAN
14 206 (2.22%) Network Security
15 174 (1.87%) NAS
16 167 (1.80%) Remote Desktop
17 151 (1.63%) Cisco IOS
18 112 (1.21%) SNMP
19 105 (1.13%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 848 (9.13%) SQL Server
2 386 (4.16%) MongoDB
3 326 (3.51%) PostgreSQL
4 296 (3.19%) DB2
5 259 (2.79%) NoSQL
6 243 (2.62%) Relational Database
7 172 (1.85%) MySQL
8 143 (1.54%) Amazon RDS
8 143 (1.54%) Power BI
9 84 (0.90%) Elasticsearch
10 72 (0.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 62 (0.67%) Oracle Database
12 55 (0.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 54 (0.58%) Data Warehouse
14 37 (0.40%) RDBMS
15 32 (0.34%) Azure SQL Database
16 25 (0.27%) Redis
17 22 (0.24%) Big Data
18 21 (0.23%) QlikView
19 20 (0.22%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 232 (2.50%) Git
2 230 (2.48%) JIRA
3 142 (1.53%) Jenkins
4 119 (1.28%) Visual Studio
5 90 (0.97%) GitLab
6 71 (0.76%) Subversion
7 45 (0.48%) Bitbucket
8 37 (0.40%) Eclipse
9 28 (0.30%) CMake
10 25 (0.27%) Ant
11 23 (0.25%) Octopus Deploy
11 23 (0.25%) TeamCity
12 22 (0.24%) Artifactory
12 22 (0.24%) MSI
13 21 (0.23%) LabVIEW
14 20 (0.22%) IBM UrbanCode
15 15 (0.16%) Team Foundation Server
16 13 (0.14%) Postman
17 12 (0.13%) IntelliJ
18 11 (0.12%) Selenium
General
1 2,908 (31.32%) Social Skills
2 1,263 (13.60%) Finance
3 857 (9.23%) Analytical Skills
4 515 (5.55%) Public Sector
5 361 (3.89%) Law
6 349 (3.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 316 (3.40%) Organisational Skills
8 306 (3.30%) Retail
9 293 (3.16%) Telecoms
10 286 (3.08%) Manufacturing
11 258 (2.78%) Legal
12 239 (2.57%) Banking
13 176 (1.90%) Marketing
14 145 (1.56%) Electronics
15 140 (1.51%) Documentation Skills
16 137 (1.48%) Aerospace
17 123 (1.32%) Games
18 100 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
19 89 (0.96%) Automotive
20 77 (0.83%) Military
Job Titles
1 1,582 (17.04%) IT Support
2 1,396 (15.04%) Support Engineer
3 1,200 (12.93%) Analyst
4 1,107 (11.92%) Senior
5 1,088 (11.72%) IT Engineer
6 1,083 (11.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 731 (7.87%) IT Support Engineer
8 540 (5.82%) IT Technician
9 518 (5.58%) Lead
10 493 (5.31%) 2nd Line Support
11 489 (5.27%) Support Analyst
12 479 (5.16%) Developer
13 440 (4.74%) IT Analyst
14 381 (4.10%) Support Technician
15 336 (3.62%) Service Analyst
16 326 (3.51%) 2nd Line Engineer
17 322 (3.47%) Software Engineer
18 310 (3.34%) Service Desk Analyst
19 309 (3.33%) 1st Line Support
19 309 (3.33%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 623 (6.71%) .NET
2 457 (4.92%) HTML
3 400 (4.31%) CSS
4 341 (3.67%) AngularJS
4 341 (3.67%) REST
5 340 (3.66%) React
6 336 (3.62%) ASP.NET
7 323 (3.48%) Web Services
8 289 (3.11%) Vue
9 288 (3.10%) jQuery
10 279 (3.01%) Twitter Bootstrap
11 241 (2.60%) Ember.js
12 240 (2.59%) ASP.NET Core
13 238 (2.56%) Backbone.js
14 162 (1.74%) Node.js
15 142 (1.53%) WPF
16 101 (1.09%) .NET Framework
17 94 (1.01%) XML
18 87 (0.94%) RabbitMQ
19 86 (0.93%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 577 (6.21%) Data Centre
2 450 (4.85%) Driving Licence
3 437 (4.71%) Self-Motivation
4 379 (4.08%) Management Information System
5 306 (3.30%) Hybrid Cloud
6 289 (3.11%) Algorithms
7 252 (2.71%) Public Cloud
8 248 (2.67%) Data Structures
9 238 (2.56%) Blockchain
10 236 (2.54%) Replication
11 235 (2.53%) Video Conferencing
12 193 (2.08%) Onboarding
13 161 (1.73%) Clustering
14 149 (1.60%) PKI
15 127 (1.37%) e-Learning
16 99 (1.07%) Smartphone
17 96 (1.03%) EPoS
18 95 (1.02%) Wiki
19 88 (0.95%) Client/Server
20 80 (0.86%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 3,404 (36.67%) Windows Server
2 2,389 (25.73%) Linux
3 1,894 (20.40%) Windows 10
4 701 (7.55%) Android
5 614 (6.61%) Apple iOS
6 597 (6.43%) Windows Server 2016
7 533 (5.74%) Windows Server 2019
8 505 (5.44%) Windows Server 2012
9 420 (4.52%) Mac OS
10 395 (4.25%) Unix
11 324 (3.49%) Windows 7
12 158 (1.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 158 (1.70%) Ubuntu
13 157 (1.69%) Windows Server 2008
14 125 (1.35%) Windows 8
15 123 (1.32%) CentOS
16 116 (1.25%) VMS
17 92 (0.99%) Mac OS X
18 70 (0.75%) Solaris
19 55 (0.59%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,065 (22.24%) Problem-Solving
2 1,582 (17.04%) ITIL
3 1,472 (15.86%) Customer Service
4 1,389 (14.96%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 999 (10.76%) Cybersecurity
6 826 (8.90%) Agile
7 769 (8.28%) DevOps
8 723 (7.79%) Mentoring
9 565 (6.09%) Computer Science
10 488 (5.26%) Software Engineering
11 471 (5.07%) Disaster Recovery
12 467 (5.03%) Service Management
13 461 (4.97%) Project Management
14 431 (4.64%) Continuous Improvement
15 416 (4.48%) Service Delivery
16 411 (4.43%) User Experience
17 392 (4.22%) ITSM
18 386 (4.16%) Change Management
19 373 (4.02%) Artificial Intelligence
20 366 (3.94%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 1,362 (14.67%) SQL
2 1,272 (13.70%) PowerShell
3 782 (8.42%) Python
4 757 (8.15%) C#
5 519 (5.59%) JavaScript
6 414 (4.46%) Java
7 394 (4.24%) Bash
8 315 (3.39%) C++
9 184 (1.98%) C
10 118 (1.27%) T-SQL
11 106 (1.14%) Perl
12 85 (0.92%) VB
13 58 (0.62%) VBScript
14 52 (0.56%) XAML
15 50 (0.54%) Ruby
16 48 (0.52%) TypeScript
17 46 (0.50%) Shell Script
18 40 (0.43%) PHP
19 35 (0.38%) PL/SQL
20 28 (0.30%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1,529 (16.47%) Degree
2 1,063 (11.45%) Security Cleared
3 600 (6.46%) SC Cleared
4 555 (5.98%) Microsoft Certification
5 460 (4.95%) DV Cleared
6 391 (4.21%) Computer Science Degree
7 321 (3.46%) Cisco Certification
8 252 (2.71%) CCNA
9 249 (2.68%) DBS Check
10 206 (2.22%) MCSE
11 180 (1.94%) A+ Certification
12 160 (1.72%) Master's Degree
13 154 (1.66%) MCP
14 140 (1.51%) Azure Certification
15 124 (1.34%) MCSA
16 109 (1.17%) ITIL Certification
17 98 (1.06%) CISSP
18 97 (1.04%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
19 86 (0.93%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
20 79 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 607 (6.54%) SLA
2 206 (2.22%) GDPR
3 186 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 152 (1.64%) Cyber Essentials
5 144 (1.55%) QA
6 74 (0.80%) PCI DSS
7 71 (0.76%) NIST
8 63 (0.68%) Accessibility
9 33 (0.36%) PMO
10 21 (0.23%) COBIT
10 21 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 20 (0.22%) Data Quality
11 20 (0.22%) ITGC
12 19 (0.20%) GRC
13 18 (0.19%) SOC 2
14 14 (0.15%) ISO 9001
14 14 (0.15%) NCSC
15 11 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 9 (0.097%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
17 8 (0.086%) MISRA
System Software
1 4,132 (44.51%) Active Directory
2 1,530 (16.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1,117 (12.03%) Hyper-V
4 394 (4.24%) VMware ESXi
5 296 (3.19%) Docker
6 247 (2.66%) vSphere
7 225 (2.42%) Virtual Machines
8 196 (2.11%) XenApp
9 178 (1.92%) XenDesktop
10 159 (1.71%) Virtual Desktop
11 123 (1.32%) Firmware
12 102 (1.10%) Microsoft App-V
13 87 (0.94%) Virtual Servers
14 64 (0.69%) KVM
15 53 (0.57%) Terminal Services
16 47 (0.51%) VirtualBox
17 26 (0.28%) VMware Workstation
18 24 (0.26%) VMware NSX
19 22 (0.24%) pfSense
20 21 (0.23%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 959 (10.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 736 (7.93%) SCCM
3 406 (4.37%) Ansible
4 348 (3.75%) Kubernetes
5 299 (3.22%) Terraform
6 244 (2.63%) vCenter Server
7 184 (1.98%) WSUS
8 141 (1.52%) SCOM
9 124 (1.34%) Puppet
10 107 (1.15%) AirWatch
11 105 (1.13%) Single Sign-On
12 97 (1.04%) Jamf Pro
13 83 (0.89%) Prometheus
14 72 (0.78%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 62 (0.67%) FortiGate
15 62 (0.67%) Grafana
16 61 (0.66%) Nagios
17 58 (0.62%) Progress Chef
18 57 (0.61%) Microsoft Clustering
19 53 (0.57%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 4,685 (50.46%) Microsoft
2 2,281 (24.57%) VMware
3 835 (8.99%) Cisco
4 634 (6.83%) Citrix
5 507 (5.46%) Red Hat
6 436 (4.70%) Veeam
7 394 (4.24%) Apple
8 380 (4.09%) IBM
9 321 (3.46%) Dell
10 318 (3.43%) Oracle
11 311 (3.35%) HP
12 290 (3.12%) Google
13 216 (2.33%) NetApp
14 198 (2.13%) ServiceNow
15 169 (1.82%) Meraki
16 135 (1.45%) Palo Alto
17 133 (1.43%) Adobe
18 123 (1.32%) Sophos
18 123 (1.32%) Splunk
19 110 (1.18%) SolarWinds