Windows Jobs in Cambridgeshire

Microsoft Windows
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Cambridgeshire 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 15 15 20
Rank change year-on-year 0 +5 +1
Permanent jobs citing Windows 159 179 265
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 10.29% 11.97% 11.01%
As % of the Operating Systems category 48.92% 53.43% 42.20%
Number of salaries quoted 118 108 160
10th Percentile £24,240 £25,250 £24,950
25th Percentile £26,000 £28,250 £30,782
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £38,500 £42,250
Median % change year-on-year -2.60% -8.88% +2.42%
75th Percentile £43,750 £60,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £53,750 £66,250 £63,875
East of England median annual salary £32,500 £39,113 £38,500
% change year-on-year -16.91% +1.59% -7.23%

All Operating Systems
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire with a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 325 335 628
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 21.04% 22.41% 26.09%
Number of salaries quoted 253 169 236
10th Percentile £25,000 £26,200 £26,500
25th Percentile £36,000 £32,500 £34,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £66,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £75,750 £75,625
East of England median annual salary £38,000 £47,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year -20.00% +11.76% -10.53%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in Cambridgeshire

Windows
Salary Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Salary trend for Windows in Cambridgeshire

Windows
Salary Histogram in Cambridgeshire

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

Salary histogram for Windows in Cambridgeshire

Windows
Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 28 April 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
Cambridge +13 119 £38,000 +8.57% 43
Peterborough -14 13 £45,000 -18.18% 11
Ely - 12 £26,000 - 1
St Neots - 6 - - 3
Huntingdon -13 3 £25,000 -27.01% 8
Windows
East of England

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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 24 (15.09%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (10.69%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.26%) WordPress
4 1 (0.63%) IIS
Applications
1 7 (4.40%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (1.89%) Sage 200
1 3 (1.89%) Sage 50
2 1 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 51 (32.08%) Microsoft 365
2 46 (28.93%) Azure
3 31 (19.50%) AWS
4 8 (5.03%) Entra ID
4 8 (5.03%) GCP
5 6 (3.77%) Serverless
6 3 (1.89%) Apigee
6 3 (1.89%) Azure API Management
6 3 (1.89%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (1.89%) Azure Service Fabric
6 3 (1.89%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (1.89%) Google Workspace
6 3 (1.89%) Rubrik
7 2 (1.26%) IaaS
7 2 (1.26%) OneDrive
7 2 (1.26%) PaaS
7 2 (1.26%) SaaS
8 1 (0.63%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (0.63%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 34 (21.38%) SAN
2 33 (20.75%) Firewall
3 17 (10.69%) Wi-Fi
4 13 (8.18%) DHCP
4 13 (8.18%) DNS
5 11 (6.92%) TCP/IP
6 10 (6.29%) Bluetooth
7 9 (5.66%) NAS
7 9 (5.66%) VPN
8 7 (4.40%) 3G
8 7 (4.40%) 4G
8 7 (4.40%) GPRS
8 7 (4.40%) GSM
8 7 (4.40%) LTE
8 7 (4.40%) VLAN
9 5 (3.14%) Remote Desktop
10 4 (2.52%) LAN
11 3 (1.89%) Intranet
11 3 (1.89%) NetScaler
12 2 (1.26%) IP Telephony
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (6.92%) SQL Server
2 4 (2.52%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (1.89%) Data Lake
3 3 (1.89%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (1.26%) MS Access
5 1 (0.63%) Power BI
5 1 (0.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 8 (5.03%) Appium
1 8 (5.03%) UI Automator
2 3 (1.89%) Git
3 1 (0.63%) Bugzilla
3 1 (0.63%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.63%) JIRA
3 1 (0.63%) LoadRunner
General
1 58 (36.48%) Social Skills
2 15 (9.43%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (7.55%) Finance
4 10 (6.29%) Automotive
4 10 (6.29%) Manufacturing
5 7 (4.40%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (2.52%) Public Sector
7 3 (1.89%) Electronics
8 2 (1.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.26%) Retail
8 2 (1.26%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.63%) Advertising
9 1 (0.63%) Law
Job Titles
1 33 (20.75%) Support Engineer
2 29 (18.24%) Administrator
3 23 (14.47%) IT Support
4 22 (13.84%) IT Engineer
5 21 (13.21%) IT Administrator
5 21 (13.21%) Server Administrator
6 17 (10.69%) IT Support Engineer
7 14 (8.81%) IT Technician
7 14 (8.81%) Senior
8 13 (8.18%) Mobile Engineer
9 12 (7.55%) Technical Support
10 11 (6.92%) Analyst
10 11 (6.92%) Technical Engineer
11 9 (5.66%) Test Engineer
12 8 (5.03%) Desktop Support
12 8 (5.03%) Junior
13 7 (4.40%) 1st Line Support
13 7 (4.40%) Desktop Support Engineer
13 7 (4.40%) Senior Systems Engineer
13 7 (4.40%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.89%) ARM Templates
1 3 (1.89%) JSON
2 2 (1.26%) iOS SDK
2 2 (1.26%) PyQt
2 2 (1.26%) scikit-learn
2 2 (1.26%) XML
3 1 (0.63%) .NET
3 1 (0.63%) .NET Framework
3 1 (0.63%) Flask
3 1 (0.63%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 26 (16.35%) Self-Motivation
2 24 (15.09%) Data Centre
3 20 (12.58%) Driving Licence
4 9 (5.66%) Smartphone
5 8 (5.03%) Mobile App
6 7 (4.40%) iPad
7 6 (3.77%) Public Cloud
8 5 (3.14%) Client/Server
8 5 (3.14%) Embedded Systems
8 5 (3.14%) Life Science
8 5 (3.14%) Management Information System
8 5 (3.14%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.89%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (1.26%) IoT
10 2 (1.26%) NHS
10 2 (1.26%) Robotics
10 2 (1.26%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 1 (0.63%) e-Learning
11 1 (0.63%) FPGA
11 1 (0.63%) LIMS
Operating Systems
1 73 (45.91%) Windows Server
2 72 (45.28%) Linux
3 23 (14.47%) Mac OS
4 20 (12.58%) Windows 10
5 11 (6.92%) Android
6 9 (5.66%) Windows Server 2019
7 7 (4.40%) Unix
7 7 (4.40%) Windows 7
7 7 (4.40%) Windows Server 2016
8 6 (3.77%) Apple iOS
9 4 (2.52%) Mac OS X
10 3 (1.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (1.89%) Windows Server 2003
10 3 (1.89%) Windows Server 2012
11 2 (1.26%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (23.90%) Problem-Solving
2 23 (14.47%) Infrastructure Maintenance
3 22 (13.84%) Server Management
4 21 (13.21%) Benchmarking
4 21 (13.21%) Data Centre Operations
4 21 (13.21%) Performance Monitoring
4 21 (13.21%) Vulnerability Management
5 16 (10.06%) Computer Science
6 14 (8.81%) Asset Management
6 14 (8.81%) Proactive Maintenance
7 13 (8.18%) Customer Service
8 11 (6.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 11 (6.92%) ITIL
9 10 (6.29%) Agile
9 10 (6.29%) Project Management
9 10 (6.29%) Test Automation
10 8 (5.03%) Manual Testing
11 7 (4.40%) Mentoring
11 7 (4.40%) Software Engineering
12 6 (3.77%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 37 (23.27%) PowerShell
2 11 (6.92%) Python
3 10 (6.29%) SQL
4 8 (5.03%) Bash
5 4 (2.52%) Java
6 2 (1.26%) C
6 2 (1.26%) C#
6 2 (1.26%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.26%) Kotlin
6 2 (1.26%) Objective-C
6 2 (1.26%) Rust
6 2 (1.26%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.63%) C++
7 1 (0.63%) Embedded C
7 1 (0.63%) Perl
Qualifications
1 43 (27.04%) Security Cleared
2 37 (23.27%) Degree
3 21 (13.21%) SC Cleared
4 17 (10.69%) Microsoft Certification
5 14 (8.81%) BPSS Clearance
6 12 (7.55%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (4.40%) CCNA
7 7 (4.40%) Cisco Certification
7 7 (4.40%) MCSE
8 6 (3.77%) MCSA
9 3 (1.89%) A+ Certification
9 3 (1.89%) DBS Check
9 3 (1.89%) Master's Degree
10 2 (1.26%) Azure Certification
10 2 (1.26%) Network+ Certification
10 2 (1.26%) PhD
11 1 (0.63%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.63%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.63%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (10.69%) SLA
2 14 (8.81%) PCI DSS
3 9 (5.66%) QA
4 5 (3.14%) GDPR
5 3 (1.89%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (1.26%) Data Quality
System Software
1 66 (41.51%) Active Directory
2 31 (19.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (13.21%) Hyper-V
4 14 (8.81%) KVM
5 6 (3.77%) Virtual Servers
6 4 (2.52%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (1.89%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (1.89%) vSphere
8 1 (0.63%) Docker
8 1 (0.63%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (1.89%) Kubernetes
1 3 (1.89%) Terraform
2 2 (1.26%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (1.26%) NetCrunch
3 1 (0.63%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (0.63%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (0.63%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 95 (59.75%) Microsoft
2 58 (36.48%) VMware
3 28 (17.61%) Citrix
4 21 (13.21%) NetApp
5 17 (10.69%) Dell
6 7 (4.40%) HP
7 5 (3.14%) Veeam
8 4 (2.52%) Google
9 3 (1.89%) Apple
9 3 (1.89%) CheckPoint
9 3 (1.89%) Cisco
9 3 (1.89%) Databricks
9 3 (1.89%) Draytek
9 3 (1.89%) Red Hat
9 3 (1.89%) Sage
9 3 (1.89%) Splunk
10 2 (1.26%) ConnectWise
10 2 (1.26%) MikroTik
10 2 (1.26%) Ubiquiti
10 2 (1.26%) Xero