Windows Jobs with Work from Home Options

Microsoft Windows
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 24 30 41
Rank change year-on-year +6 +11 -9
Permanent jobs citing Windows 2,724 3,294 5,587
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 7.91% 8.31% 7.64%
As % of the Operating Systems category 58.83% 54.09% 42.70%
Number of salaries quoted 2,209 2,561 3,877
10th Percentile £28,500 £27,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,000 £34,373
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,500 £50,000 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% +2.04% +3.16%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £40,000 £45,000 £44,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +2.27% -2.22%

All Operating Systems
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 4,630 6,090 13,084
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.45% 15.37% 17.89%
Number of salaries quoted 3,546 4,435 7,466
10th Percentile £30,406 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £39,000 £41,250 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £66,813 £75,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £95,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% - +5.00%

Windows
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Windows as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Windows trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Windows.

Windows salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Windows
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Windows over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Windows salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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
1 441 (16.19%) Microsoft Exchange
2 251 (9.21%) SharePoint
3 111 (4.07%) IIS
4 95 (3.49%) Apache
5 37 (1.36%) Tomcat
6 25 (0.92%) OpenStack
7 19 (0.70%) CMS
8 18 (0.66%) Confluence
9 11 (0.40%) Exchange Server 2013
10 8 (0.29%) nginx
10 8 (0.29%) Umbraco
11 6 (0.22%) Exchange Server 2000
12 5 (0.18%) SAS
13 4 (0.15%) WordPress
14 3 (0.11%) Apache Solr
14 3 (0.11%) CloudStack
14 3 (0.11%) Exchange Server 2007
14 3 (0.11%) GlassFish
14 3 (0.11%) JBoss
14 3 (0.11%) Orchard CMS
Applications
1 273 (10.02%) Microsoft Office
2 52 (1.91%) Microsoft Excel
3 20 (0.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (0.40%) MS Visio
5 9 (0.33%) Trello
6 5 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
8 3 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 3 (0.11%) AutoCAD
8 3 (0.11%) Simulink
8 3 (0.11%) SPSS
9 2 (0.073%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.073%) CATIA
9 2 (0.073%) NASTRAN
9 2 (0.073%) Sketch
10 1 (0.037%) 1Password
10 1 (0.037%) Adobe After Effects
10 1 (0.037%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.037%) InDesign
10 1 (0.037%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 38 (1.40%) NEC Housing
2 25 (0.92%) Dynamics CRM
3 13 (0.48%) Unit4 Business World
4 9 (0.33%) Dynamics NAV
5 8 (0.29%) Remedy ITSM
6 5 (0.18%) Elite 3E
6 5 (0.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 4 (0.15%) Carpe Diem
8 2 (0.073%) NetSuite
8 2 (0.073%) Sage 200
8 2 (0.073%) Sage 50
8 2 (0.073%) Teamcenter
9 1 (0.037%) Dynamics AX
9 1 (0.037%) Dynamics GP
9 1 (0.037%) Endur
9 1 (0.037%) Findur
9 1 (0.037%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 1,164 (42.73%) Azure
2 1,093 (40.12%) Microsoft 365
3 429 (15.75%) Entra ID
4 319 (11.71%) AWS
5 131 (4.81%) SaaS
6 104 (3.82%) IaaS
7 92 (3.38%) Azure DevOps
8 86 (3.16%) Amazon S3
9 85 (3.12%) OneDrive
10 79 (2.90%) GCP
11 78 (2.86%) GitHub
12 76 (2.79%) Power Platform
13 62 (2.28%) Cloud Computing
14 43 (1.58%) Nutanix
15 39 (1.43%) Azure Monitor
16 37 (1.36%) PaaS
17 34 (1.25%) WhatsApp
18 31 (1.14%) Azure Storage
19 27 (0.99%) Azure Sentinel
19 27 (0.99%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 585 (21.48%) Firewall
2 447 (16.41%) DNS
3 292 (10.72%) DHCP
4 245 (8.99%) WAN
5 243 (8.92%) VPN
6 234 (8.59%) TCP/IP
7 215 (7.89%) LAN
8 181 (6.64%) Internet
9 152 (5.58%) SAN
10 135 (4.96%) Wi-Fi
11 110 (4.04%) Wireless
12 90 (3.30%) VLAN
13 79 (2.90%) Network Security
14 72 (2.64%) VoIP
15 71 (2.61%) SNMP
16 56 (2.06%) IPsec
17 55 (2.02%) Remote Desktop
18 53 (1.95%) NAS
19 48 (1.76%) SD-WAN
20 40 (1.47%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 353 (12.96%) SQL Server
2 101 (3.71%) MongoDB
3 74 (2.72%) Elasticsearch
4 70 (2.57%) Relational Database
5 67 (2.46%) MySQL
6 63 (2.31%) Power BI
7 56 (2.06%) Amazon RDS
7 56 (2.06%) Oracle Database
8 51 (1.87%) DB2
9 33 (1.21%) Data Warehouse
9 33 (1.21%) PostgreSQL
10 32 (1.17%) RDBMS
10 32 (1.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 23 (0.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 21 (0.77%) Azure SQL Database
13 15 (0.55%) Redis
14 14 (0.51%) QlikView
15 13 (0.48%) BusinessObjects
16 12 (0.44%) BigQuery
16 12 (0.44%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 98 (3.60%) Git
2 94 (3.45%) JIRA
3 56 (2.06%) Jenkins
4 49 (1.80%) Visual Studio
5 42 (1.54%) GitLab
6 26 (0.95%) Subversion
7 21 (0.77%) Artifactory
7 21 (0.77%) CMake
7 21 (0.77%) Eclipse
8 16 (0.59%) Octopus Deploy
9 15 (0.55%) IBM UrbanCode
9 15 (0.55%) Team Foundation Server
10 13 (0.48%) Bitbucket
11 10 (0.37%) MSI
11 10 (0.37%) Trac
12 9 (0.33%) InstallShield
13 8 (0.29%) TeamCity
14 7 (0.26%) CircleCI
14 7 (0.26%) Postman
14 7 (0.26%) Selenium
General
1 798 (29.30%) Social Skills
2 577 (21.18%) Finance
3 282 (10.35%) Analytical Skills
4 153 (5.62%) Public Sector
5 106 (3.89%) Banking
6 98 (3.60%) Law
7 96 (3.52%) Retail
8 90 (3.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 86 (3.16%) Legal
10 76 (2.79%) Marketing
11 75 (2.75%) Telecoms
12 61 (2.24%) Organisational Skills
13 51 (1.87%) Electronics
14 50 (1.84%) Games
15 43 (1.58%) Manufacturing
15 43 (1.58%) Police
16 37 (1.36%) Local Government
17 36 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
17 36 (1.32%) Military
18 32 (1.17%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 464 (17.03%) Senior
2 409 (15.01%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 340 (12.48%) Analyst
4 296 (10.87%) Support Engineer
5 275 (10.10%) IT Engineer
6 273 (10.02%) IT Support
7 195 (7.16%) Lead
8 157 (5.76%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 156 (5.73%) Consultant
9 156 (5.73%) Developer
10 153 (5.62%) IT Support Engineer
11 133 (4.88%) Support Analyst
12 126 (4.63%) Software Engineer
13 118 (4.33%) IT Analyst
14 112 (4.11%) 3rd Line Support
15 88 (3.23%) IT Manager
16 84 (3.08%) Applications Support
17 82 (3.01%) Administrator
18 81 (2.97%) DevOps Engineer
19 77 (2.83%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 170 (6.24%) .NET
2 103 (3.78%) HTML
3 78 (2.86%) CSS
4 76 (2.79%) RabbitMQ
5 63 (2.31%) YAML
6 60 (2.20%) .NET Framework
7 58 (2.13%) ASP.NET
8 55 (2.02%) AngularJS
9 54 (1.98%) WPF
10 51 (1.87%) REST
10 51 (1.87%) Web Services
11 47 (1.73%) React
11 47 (1.73%) WinForms
12 38 (1.40%) ASP.NET MVC
12 38 (1.40%) XML
13 33 (1.21%) RESTful
14 32 (1.17%) Vue
15 31 (1.14%) jQuery
15 31 (1.14%) Twitter Bootstrap
16 29 (1.06%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 256 (9.40%) Data Centre
2 191 (7.01%) Self-Motivation
3 146 (5.36%) Public Cloud
4 134 (4.92%) Management Information System
5 77 (2.83%) Driving Licence
6 71 (2.61%) PKI
7 68 (2.50%) Onboarding
8 64 (2.35%) Clustering
9 55 (2.02%) Replication
10 48 (1.76%) Cyberattack
11 40 (1.47%) Hybrid Cloud
12 37 (1.36%) Client/Server
12 37 (1.36%) Cyber Threat
12 37 (1.36%) Mobile App
13 35 (1.28%) Private Cloud
14 34 (1.25%) Cloud Native
15 32 (1.17%) Video Conferencing
16 31 (1.14%) IoT
17 28 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
17 28 (1.03%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1,076 (39.50%) Windows Server
2 830 (30.47%) Linux
3 475 (17.44%) Windows 10
4 216 (7.93%) Unix
5 188 (6.90%) Windows Server 2016
6 166 (6.09%) Windows Server 2012
7 157 (5.76%) Windows Server 2019
8 148 (5.43%) Apple iOS
9 117 (4.30%) Android
10 85 (3.12%) Mac OS
10 85 (3.12%) Windows 7
11 69 (2.53%) VMS
12 64 (2.35%) Ubuntu
13 54 (1.98%) Data ONTAP
13 54 (1.98%) Windows 8
14 48 (1.76%) Windows Server 2008
15 45 (1.65%) Solaris
16 43 (1.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
17 30 (1.10%) Mac OS X
18 24 (0.88%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 523 (19.20%) ITIL
2 516 (18.94%) Problem-Solving
3 501 (18.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 359 (13.18%) Agile
5 338 (12.41%) Customer Service
6 324 (11.89%) DevOps
7 316 (11.60%) Cybersecurity
8 259 (9.51%) Mentoring
9 188 (6.90%) Software Engineering
10 182 (6.68%) CI/CD
11 181 (6.64%) Change Management
11 181 (6.64%) Project Management
12 169 (6.20%) Migration
13 165 (6.06%) Service Management
14 163 (5.98%) Disaster Recovery
15 161 (5.91%) Continuous Improvement
16 153 (5.62%) Roadmaps
17 144 (5.29%) Actionable Insight
18 142 (5.21%) Computer Science
19 134 (4.92%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 450 (16.52%) PowerShell
2 412 (15.12%) SQL
3 236 (8.66%) Python
4 231 (8.48%) C#
5 114 (4.19%) Bash
6 88 (3.23%) C++
6 88 (3.23%) Java
7 76 (2.79%) JavaScript
8 64 (2.35%) T-SQL
9 52 (1.91%) VB
10 42 (1.54%) VBScript
11 39 (1.43%) C
12 37 (1.36%) Perl
13 33 (1.21%) Shell Script
14 27 (0.99%) TypeScript
15 25 (0.92%) PL/SQL
16 22 (0.81%) PHP
16 22 (0.81%) VB.NET
17 21 (0.77%) Bicep
18 19 (0.70%) XAML
Qualifications
1 510 (18.72%) Degree
2 291 (10.68%) Security Cleared
3 153 (5.62%) SC Cleared
4 146 (5.36%) Microsoft Certification
5 105 (3.85%) DV Cleared
6 89 (3.27%) Computer Science Degree
7 68 (2.50%) Cisco Certification
8 62 (2.28%) Azure Certification
9 58 (2.13%) CISSP
10 50 (1.84%) MCP
11 49 (1.80%) CCNA
12 42 (1.54%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 37 (1.36%) MCSE
14 32 (1.17%) AWS Certification
14 32 (1.17%) CISM
15 25 (0.92%) A+ Certification
15 25 (0.92%) DBS Check
16 24 (0.88%) ITIL Certification
17 18 (0.66%) CCSP
18 17 (0.62%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (3.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 89 (3.27%) SLA
3 73 (2.68%) QA
4 62 (2.28%) Cyber Essentials
5 41 (1.51%) Accessibility
6 38 (1.40%) NIST
7 23 (0.84%) PCI DSS
8 16 (0.59%) Data Quality
8 16 (0.59%) PMO
9 15 (0.55%) ITGC
10 14 (0.51%) GDPR
10 14 (0.51%) SOC 2
11 11 (0.40%) GRC
12 9 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 9 (0.33%) ISO 9001
13 8 (0.29%) MISRA
14 6 (0.22%) ISO 9000
15 5 (0.18%) ISO 22301
15 5 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 5 (0.18%) NCSC
System Software
1 1,230 (45.15%) Active Directory
2 553 (20.30%) VMware Infrastructure
3 382 (14.02%) Hyper-V
4 175 (6.42%) Docker
5 131 (4.81%) Virtual Machines
6 103 (3.78%) Virtual Desktop
7 98 (3.60%) VMware ESXi
8 86 (3.16%) vSphere
9 56 (2.06%) XenApp
10 44 (1.62%) XenDesktop
11 28 (1.03%) VirtualBox
12 25 (0.92%) Firmware
13 19 (0.70%) NFS
14 17 (0.62%) Terminal Services
15 15 (0.55%) Virtual Servers
16 14 (0.51%) VMware Workstation
17 12 (0.44%) OpenSSH
18 11 (0.40%) pfSense
19 9 (0.33%) Forefront TMG
20 8 (0.29%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 373 (13.69%) Microsoft Intune
2 238 (8.74%) Ansible
3 212 (7.78%) SCCM
4 198 (7.27%) Kubernetes
5 181 (6.64%) Terraform
6 133 (4.88%) vCenter Server
7 85 (3.12%) WSUS
8 65 (2.39%) Prometheus
9 60 (2.20%) SCOM
9 60 (2.20%) Single Sign-On
10 56 (2.06%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 44 (1.62%) Grafana
12 41 (1.51%) Puppet
13 36 (1.32%) Nagios
14 34 (1.25%) Microsoft Clustering
15 27 (0.99%) ZABBIX
16 18 (0.66%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
16 18 (0.66%) Progress Chef
17 17 (0.62%) Jamf Pro
18 16 (0.59%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 1,338 (49.12%) Microsoft
2 804 (29.52%) VMware
3 174 (6.39%) Citrix
4 162 (5.95%) Cisco
5 146 (5.36%) Oracle
6 116 (4.26%) Apple
7 96 (3.52%) Red Hat
8 91 (3.34%) NetApp
8 91 (3.34%) Veeam
9 81 (2.97%) Dell
10 73 (2.68%) ServiceNow
11 72 (2.64%) HP
12 71 (2.61%) IBM
13 67 (2.46%) Adobe
14 64 (2.35%) Meraki
14 64 (2.35%) Palo Alto
15 60 (2.20%) Google
16 54 (1.98%) SolidFire
17 48 (1.76%) SAP
17 48 (1.76%) Splunk