Windows Jobs in Birmingham

Microsoft Windows
West Midlands > Birmingham

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Birmingham 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 22 22 22
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 -6
Permanent jobs citing Windows 207 171 294
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 7.64% 8.54% 9.38%
As % of the Operating Systems category 78.11% 66.80% 60.00%
Number of salaries quoted 182 155 253
10th Percentile £25,525 £25,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £28,500 £27,750 £35,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,000 £38,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.30% -14.44% -4.76%
75th Percentile £56,250 £55,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £66,000 £66,250 £74,500
West Midlands median annual salary £35,000 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - -

All Operating Systems
Birmingham

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 Birmingham with a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 265 256 490
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 9.77% 12.79% 15.63%
Number of salaries quoted 217 222 394
10th Percentile £25,750 £25,000 £30,500
25th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £60,000 £59,375 £63,750
90th Percentile £68,750 £75,225 £81,750
West Midlands median annual salary £37,500 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -16.67% +5.88% -

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in Birmingham

Windows
Salary Trend in Birmingham

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

Salary trend for Windows in Birmingham

Windows
Salary Histogram in Birmingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows in Birmingham over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Windows in Birmingham

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 47 (22.71%) Microsoft Exchange
2 38 (18.36%) SharePoint
3 11 (5.31%) IIS
4 4 (1.93%) Apache
4 4 (1.93%) Exchange Server 2010
4 4 (1.93%) Tomcat
Applications
1 16 (7.73%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.93%) Spreadsheet
2 4 (1.93%) Trello
3 2 (0.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.97%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.97%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.93%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 118 (57.00%) Microsoft 365
2 91 (43.96%) Azure
3 62 (29.95%) Entra ID
4 17 (8.21%) OneDrive
5 15 (7.25%) SaaS
6 13 (6.28%) AWS
7 10 (4.83%) GCP
7 10 (4.83%) IaaS
8 7 (3.38%) Azure Sentinel
8 7 (3.38%) Power Automate
8 7 (3.38%) Power Platform
9 6 (2.90%) PaaS
10 5 (2.42%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (1.93%) Google Docs
11 4 (1.93%) Google Sheets
12 3 (1.45%) Azure Stack
12 3 (1.45%) GitHub
13 2 (0.97%) Amazon S3
13 2 (0.97%) Mimecast
13 2 (0.97%) OpenDNS
Communications & Networking
1 68 (32.85%) Firewall
2 43 (20.77%) DNS
3 39 (18.84%) DHCP
4 30 (14.49%) TCP/IP
5 22 (10.63%) WAN
6 15 (7.25%) LAN
7 14 (6.76%) Wi-Fi
8 12 (5.80%) PBX
8 12 (5.80%) SAN
9 11 (5.31%) iSCSI
10 8 (3.86%) VLAN
11 6 (2.90%) SNMP
11 6 (2.90%) Wireless
12 5 (2.42%) NGFW
12 5 (2.42%) SSL
12 5 (2.42%) Unified Communications
12 5 (2.42%) VoIP
13 4 (1.93%) Fibre Channel
13 4 (1.93%) SD-WAN
13 4 (1.93%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (10.14%) SQL Server
2 9 (4.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 9 (4.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 7 (3.38%) Power BI
4 4 (1.93%) Metadata
4 4 (1.93%) Oracle Database
5 3 (1.45%) InterSystems Cache
6 2 (0.97%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.97%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (1.93%) Octopus Deploy
1 4 (1.93%) TeamCity
2 3 (1.45%) IBM UrbanCode
2 3 (1.45%) Jenkins
General
1 65 (31.40%) Social Skills
2 21 (10.14%) Telecoms
3 17 (8.21%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (8.21%) Finance
4 10 (4.83%) Local Government
5 9 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 9 (4.35%) Manufacturing
5 9 (4.35%) Marketing
5 9 (4.35%) Police
6 6 (2.90%) Fire and Rescue
6 6 (2.90%) Legal
6 6 (2.90%) Retail
7 5 (2.42%) Public Sector
8 4 (1.93%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.93%) Law
9 3 (1.45%) Banking
10 2 (0.97%) Advertising
10 2 (0.97%) Digital Healthcare
10 2 (0.97%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.48%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 49 (23.67%) Support Engineer
2 37 (17.87%) IT Engineer
2 37 (17.87%) IT Support
3 32 (15.46%) Senior
4 28 (13.53%) IT Support Engineer
5 20 (9.66%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 17 (8.21%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 17 (8.21%) 3rd Line Support
7 12 (5.80%) 2nd Line Support
7 12 (5.80%) Implementation Engineer
7 12 (5.80%) Senior Implementation Engineer
8 10 (4.83%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
8 10 (4.83%) Analyst
8 10 (4.83%) IT Technician
9 9 (4.35%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
9 9 (4.35%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
9 9 (4.35%) Lead
10 8 (3.86%) Azure Engineer
11 7 (3.38%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
11 7 (3.38%) Windows Server Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.38%) Web Services
2 6 (2.90%) AngularJS
2 6 (2.90%) jQuery
2 6 (2.90%) Middleware
2 6 (2.90%) React
3 4 (1.93%) CSS
3 4 (1.93%) HTML
4 3 (1.45%) .NET
4 3 (1.45%) ASP.NET
4 3 (1.45%) ASP.NET MVC
4 3 (1.45%) REST
4 3 (1.45%) Tailwind CSS
4 3 (1.45%) Twitter Bootstrap
4 3 (1.45%) Vue
4 3 (1.45%) WPF
5 2 (0.97%) LAMP
5 2 (0.97%) V-Ray
6 1 (0.48%) JWT
6 1 (0.48%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 27 (13.04%) Replication
2 21 (10.14%) Data Centre
3 18 (8.70%) Management Information System
4 12 (5.80%) Driving Licence
4 12 (5.80%) Public Cloud
5 10 (4.83%) Cloud Native
6 9 (4.35%) Private Cloud
7 8 (3.86%) Self-Motivation
8 7 (3.38%) PKI
8 7 (3.38%) Security Operations Centre
9 4 (1.93%) Photography
9 4 (1.93%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 3 (1.45%) NHS
10 3 (1.45%) Onboarding
11 2 (0.97%) BYOD
11 2 (0.97%) Cyber Threat
11 2 (0.97%) EFT
11 2 (0.97%) Smartphone
12 1 (0.48%) Digital Signage
12 1 (0.48%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 91 (43.96%) Windows Server
2 62 (29.95%) Windows 10
3 32 (15.46%) Windows Server 2012
4 31 (14.98%) Linux
5 19 (9.18%) Windows Server 2016
5 19 (9.18%) Windows Server 2019
6 15 (7.25%) Unix
7 10 (4.83%) Solaris
7 10 (4.83%) Ubuntu
8 8 (3.86%) VMS
9 7 (3.38%) Mac OS
9 7 (3.38%) Windows 7
10 6 (2.90%) Windows Server 2008
11 4 (1.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 3 (1.45%) SUSE
12 3 (1.45%) Windows Server 2003
13 2 (0.97%) Android
13 2 (0.97%) Apple iOS
13 2 (0.97%) Windows 8
14 1 (0.48%) Scientific Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (28.02%) Problem-Solving
2 44 (21.26%) Cybersecurity
3 32 (15.46%) Customer Service
3 32 (15.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 26 (12.56%) ITIL
5 20 (9.66%) Agile
6 17 (8.21%) Software Licensing
7 16 (7.73%) Project Management
7 16 (7.73%) Server Management
8 15 (7.25%) Information Security
8 15 (7.25%) Presales
9 13 (6.28%) Computer Science
9 13 (6.28%) Continuous Improvement
10 11 (5.31%) Line Management
10 11 (5.31%) Performance Tuning
10 11 (5.31%) Service Delivery
11 10 (4.83%) Identity Access Management
12 9 (4.35%) Application Security
12 9 (4.35%) Data Security
12 9 (4.35%) IT Strategy
Programming Languages
1 25 (12.08%) SQL
2 14 (6.76%) PowerShell
3 8 (3.86%) T-SQL
4 7 (3.38%) Python
5 4 (1.93%) Shell Script
6 3 (1.45%) C#
6 3 (1.45%) Java
6 3 (1.45%) TypeScript
6 3 (1.45%) XAML
7 2 (0.97%) Bash
7 2 (0.97%) Bicep
8 1 (0.48%) C++
8 1 (0.48%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.48%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 37 (17.87%) Degree
2 15 (7.25%) Microsoft Certification
2 15 (7.25%) Security Cleared
3 14 (6.76%) Azure Certification
3 14 (6.76%) DBS Check
4 11 (5.31%) SC Cleared
5 9 (4.35%) MCP
6 7 (3.38%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (2.90%) AWS Certification
7 6 (2.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (1.93%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.93%) MCSA
9 2 (0.97%) CEH
9 2 (0.97%) CISSP
9 2 (0.97%) GCFA
9 2 (0.97%) GCFE
9 2 (0.97%) GCIH
9 2 (0.97%) GREM
9 2 (0.97%) OSCP
9 2 (0.97%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.35%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (1.93%) Accessibility
2 4 (1.93%) QA
3 3 (1.45%) NIST
4 2 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.48%) GRC
5 1 (0.48%) NCSC
5 1 (0.48%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 113 (54.59%) Active Directory
2 53 (25.60%) Hyper-V
3 50 (24.15%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (9.66%) VMware ESXi
5 7 (3.38%) vSphere
6 6 (2.90%) pfSense
7 5 (2.42%) Docker
7 5 (2.42%) NFS
8 2 (0.97%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 2 (0.97%) Terminal Services
8 2 (0.97%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 48 (23.19%) Microsoft Intune
2 26 (12.56%) SCCM
3 4 (1.93%) Kubernetes
4 3 (1.45%) SCVMM
4 3 (1.45%) Terraform
4 3 (1.45%) Trend Micro Deep Security
5 2 (0.97%) Backup Exec
5 2 (0.97%) CSIRT
5 2 (0.97%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.48%) Ansible
6 1 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.48%) WSUS
Vendors
1 121 (58.45%) Microsoft
2 67 (32.37%) VMware
3 32 (15.46%) Veeam
4 23 (11.11%) Adobe
5 22 (10.63%) Apple
6 18 (8.70%) Cisco
7 12 (5.80%) Citrix
8 11 (5.31%) Dell
9 9 (4.35%) Fortinet
10 8 (3.86%) Aruba
10 8 (3.86%) HP
10 8 (3.86%) Sophos
11 7 (3.38%) Google
12 5 (2.42%) Oracle
12 5 (2.42%) Ubiquiti
12 5 (2.42%) WatchGuard
12 5 (2.42%) Zerto
13 4 (1.93%) Acronis
13 4 (1.93%) Dell Compellent
13 4 (1.93%) QNAP