Windows Jobs in Central London

Microsoft Windows
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 16 15 18
Rank change year-on-year -1 +3 +11
Permanent jobs citing Windows 430 628 829
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 11.38% 11.94% 10.31%
As % of the Operating Systems category 78.47% 64.34% 57.89%
Number of salaries quoted 349 544 663
10th Percentile £31,700 £31,250 £29,750
25th Percentile £40,750 £36,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £73,750 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £100,000 £85,000
London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% - -4.55%

All Operating Systems
Central London

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 Central London with a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 548 976 1,432
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 14.50% 18.56% 17.80%
Number of salaries quoted 445 841 1,203
10th Percentile £34,100 £32,500 £33,000
25th Percentile £42,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,140 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.45% -1.32% +4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £90,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £106,250 £110,000 £105,000
London median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - -

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in Central London

Windows
Salary Trend in Central London

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

Salary trend for Windows in Central London

Windows
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows in Central London over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Windows in Central London

Windows
Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows within the Central London region over the 6 months to 4 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
City of London +2 397 £55,000 +4.76% 49
West End of London -10 10 £67,500 +17.39% 3
City of Westminster -18 10 £30,500 -59.33% 1
Southwark +20 3 £35,000 +9.38% 1
Kensington and Chelsea -5 1 £50,000 +17.65%
Camden -12 1 £39,000 -17.89% 1
Windows
London

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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
1 104 (24.19%) Microsoft Exchange
2 59 (13.72%) SharePoint
3 25 (5.81%) Skype for Business
4 12 (2.79%) IIS
5 6 (1.40%) Apache
6 5 (1.16%) Exchange Server 2010
7 3 (0.70%) SAS
7 3 (0.70%) SharePoint 2010
7 3 (0.70%) SharePoint 2013
8 2 (0.47%) CMS
8 2 (0.47%) Exchange Server 2007
8 2 (0.47%) Exchange Server 2013
8 2 (0.47%) WordPress
9 1 (0.23%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
9 1 (0.23%) Confluence
9 1 (0.23%) JBoss
9 1 (0.23%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.23%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.23%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.23%) WildFly
Applications
1 97 (22.56%) Microsoft Office
2 18 (4.19%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (2.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.93%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.47%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 2 (0.47%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 8 (1.86%) Carpe Diem
2 5 (1.16%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.47%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (0.47%) Eikon
3 2 (0.47%) Farmplan
3 2 (0.47%) KEYPrime
4 1 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.23%) Elite 3E
4 1 (0.23%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.23%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 225 (52.33%) Microsoft 365
2 206 (47.91%) Azure
3 85 (19.77%) Entra ID
4 42 (9.77%) AWS
5 25 (5.81%) Azure DevOps
6 24 (5.58%) SaaS
7 18 (4.19%) WhatsApp
8 16 (3.72%) OneDrive
9 13 (3.02%) Google Workspace
10 12 (2.79%) Cloud Computing
10 12 (2.79%) Dynamics 365
11 10 (2.33%) GCP
11 10 (2.33%) Mimecast
12 9 (2.09%) Azure Sentinel
13 8 (1.86%) GitHub
14 7 (1.63%) Azure Storage
14 7 (1.63%) IaaS
14 7 (1.63%) Microsoft Purview
15 6 (1.40%) Azure API Management
15 6 (1.40%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 64 (14.88%) Firewall
2 48 (11.16%) DNS
3 44 (10.23%) LAN
4 34 (7.91%) Skype
5 32 (7.44%) WAN
6 28 (6.51%) Cisco IOS
6 28 (6.51%) Telepresence
7 27 (6.28%) DHCP
8 26 (6.05%) VPN
9 23 (5.35%) Wi-Fi
10 22 (5.12%) Wireless
11 21 (4.88%) SAN
12 18 (4.19%) TCP/IP
13 17 (3.95%) NAS
13 17 (3.95%) Network Security
14 15 (3.49%) SD-WAN
15 12 (2.79%) Internet
16 8 (1.86%) Broadband
17 7 (1.63%) WebEx
17 7 (1.63%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (15.12%) SQL Server
2 12 (2.79%) Relational Database
3 6 (1.40%) Elasticsearch
3 6 (1.40%) MongoDB
3 6 (1.40%) MySQL
4 5 (1.16%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (1.16%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (1.16%) RDBMS
5 4 (0.93%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (0.93%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 3 (0.70%) Oracle Database
6 3 (0.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (0.70%) SQLite
7 2 (0.47%) Metadata
7 2 (0.47%) Power BI
8 1 (0.23%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.23%) InfluxDB
8 1 (0.23%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 31 (7.21%) JIRA
2 10 (2.33%) GitLab
3 9 (2.09%) Jenkins
4 6 (1.40%) Katalon Studio
5 4 (0.93%) Git
6 3 (0.70%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.47%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.47%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (0.47%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.23%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.23%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.23%) JUnit
8 1 (0.23%) MSI
8 1 (0.23%) Postman
8 1 (0.23%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.23%) Zephyr
General
1 148 (34.42%) Social Skills
2 131 (30.47%) Finance
3 61 (14.19%) Analytical Skills
4 51 (11.86%) Law
5 43 (10.00%) Legal
6 30 (6.98%) Telecoms
7 27 (6.28%) Pharmaceutical
8 24 (5.58%) Automotive
9 22 (5.12%) Banking
10 12 (2.79%) Games
11 9 (2.09%) Documentation Skills
11 9 (2.09%) Presentation Skills
12 8 (1.86%) Marketing
12 8 (1.86%) Retail Banking
13 7 (1.63%) Retail
14 6 (1.40%) Advertising
14 6 (1.40%) Organisational Skills
15 5 (1.16%) Manufacturing
16 4 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 4 (0.93%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 84 (19.53%) Senior
2 82 (19.07%) Support Engineer
3 66 (15.35%) Analyst
4 46 (10.70%) IT Support
5 43 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 40 (9.30%) Support Analyst
7 36 (8.37%) Consultant
8 33 (7.67%) Lead
9 30 (6.98%) 2nd Line Engineer
9 30 (6.98%) 2nd Line Support
10 28 (6.51%) IT Analyst
11 25 (5.81%) IT Engineer
11 25 (5.81%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 24 (5.58%) Azure Engineer
12 24 (5.58%) Developer
13 23 (5.35%) IT Support Analyst
13 23 (5.35%) Software Developer
14 19 (4.42%) Team Leader
15 18 (4.19%) Infrastructure Manager
15 18 (4.19%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (7.44%) .NET
2 26 (6.05%) CSS
2 26 (6.05%) HTML
3 23 (5.35%) HTML5
4 21 (4.88%) WPF
5 12 (2.79%) YAML
6 6 (1.40%) RabbitMQ
7 5 (1.16%) REST
7 5 (1.16%) X-Windows
8 4 (0.93%) ASP.NET
8 4 (0.93%) XMPP
9 3 (0.70%) ARM Templates
10 2 (0.47%) .NET Core
10 2 (0.47%) 802.1X
10 2 (0.47%) ASP.NET MVC
10 2 (0.47%) Elastic Stack
10 2 (0.47%) JSON
11 1 (0.23%) .NET Framework
11 1 (0.23%) ADO
11 1 (0.23%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 58 (13.49%) Video Conferencing
2 32 (7.44%) Self-Motivation
3 21 (4.88%) Clustering
4 17 (3.95%) Data Centre
5 15 (3.49%) Greenfield Project
6 12 (2.79%) Onboarding
7 11 (2.56%) Linux Command Line
7 11 (2.56%) Management Information System
8 9 (2.09%) Enterprise Software
9 8 (1.86%) Blackberry
9 8 (1.86%) Public Cloud
9 8 (1.86%) Replication
10 7 (1.63%) PKI
10 7 (1.63%) Security Operations Centre
10 7 (1.63%) Security Posture
11 6 (1.40%) Cloud Security Posture
11 6 (1.40%) Enterprise Cloud
12 5 (1.16%) iPhone
13 4 (0.93%) CCTV
13 4 (0.93%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 183 (42.56%) Windows Server
2 116 (26.98%) Windows 10
3 57 (13.26%) Linux
4 38 (8.84%) Windows 7
5 30 (6.98%) Windows Server 2012
6 29 (6.74%) Windows Server 2016
7 27 (6.28%) Apple iOS
8 24 (5.58%) Mac OS
9 21 (4.88%) Android
10 14 (3.26%) Windows Server 2019
11 12 (2.79%) Mac OS X
12 10 (2.33%) Unix
13 6 (1.40%) Windows Server 2008
14 5 (1.16%) Data ONTAP
14 5 (1.16%) Windows Server 2003
15 3 (0.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 3 (0.70%) Ubuntu
15 3 (0.70%) VMS
16 2 (0.47%) CentOS
17 1 (0.23%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (18.84%) Problem-Solving
2 73 (16.98%) ITIL
3 66 (15.35%) Customer Service
4 58 (13.49%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 49 (11.40%) DevOps
6 47 (10.93%) Continuous Improvement
7 39 (9.07%) ITSM
8 37 (8.60%) Information Security
9 36 (8.37%) Cybersecurity
10 35 (8.14%) Computer Science
10 35 (8.14%) Service Management
11 32 (7.44%) Collaborative Working
12 31 (7.21%) Change Management
13 28 (6.51%) Incident Management
13 28 (6.51%) Project Management
14 25 (5.81%) CI/CD
15 24 (5.58%) Service Delivery
16 23 (5.35%) Agile
16 23 (5.35%) Migration
16 23 (5.35%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 86 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 74 (17.21%) SQL
3 38 (8.84%) C#
4 28 (6.51%) Python
5 27 (6.28%) JavaScript
6 25 (5.81%) Bash
7 8 (1.86%) Java
8 6 (1.40%) C++
9 3 (0.70%) PL/SQL
9 3 (0.70%) SAS Macro
10 2 (0.47%) Perl
10 2 (0.47%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.23%) Go
11 1 (0.23%) PHP
11 1 (0.23%) Ruby
11 1 (0.23%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 85 (19.77%) Degree
2 29 (6.74%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 29 (6.74%) Master's Degree
3 24 (5.58%) MBA
4 17 (3.95%) Microsoft Certification
5 14 (3.26%) Cisco Certification
6 11 (2.56%) Azure Certification
6 11 (2.56%) MCSE
7 10 (2.33%) CEH
8 9 (2.09%) Computer Science Degree
8 9 (2.09%) Security Cleared
9 7 (1.63%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 7 (1.63%) A+ Certification
9 7 (1.63%) CCSP
9 7 (1.63%) CISSP
9 7 (1.63%) SANS
9 7 (1.63%) SSCP
10 6 (1.40%) CCNA
10 6 (1.40%) CompTIA Security+
10 6 (1.40%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (4.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 19 (4.42%) SLA
3 12 (2.79%) PCI DSS
4 11 (2.56%) Cyber Essentials
5 9 (2.09%) NIST
6 8 (1.86%) SOC 2
7 6 (1.40%) QA
8 3 (0.70%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.47%) ITGC
9 2 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.23%) GDPR
10 1 (0.23%) GRC
10 1 (0.23%) PMO
System Software
1 222 (51.63%) Active Directory
2 78 (18.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 37 (8.60%) VMware ESXi
4 18 (4.19%) vSphere
5 16 (3.72%) Virtual Desktop
6 15 (3.49%) Docker
7 14 (3.26%) Hyper-V
8 7 (1.63%) Virtual Machines
8 7 (1.63%) Virtual Servers
9 5 (1.16%) Firmware
10 3 (0.70%) XenApp
10 3 (0.70%) XenDesktop
11 2 (0.47%) DFS Replication
11 2 (0.47%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.23%) Microsoft App-V
12 1 (0.23%) pfSense
12 1 (0.23%) Terminal Services
12 1 (0.23%) Veritas Cluster Server
12 1 (0.23%) VMware NSX
12 1 (0.23%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 63 (14.65%) Microsoft Intune
2 38 (8.84%) vCenter Server
3 35 (8.14%) SCCM
4 31 (7.21%) Single Sign-On
5 20 (4.65%) Kubernetes
6 19 (4.42%) Microsoft Clustering
7 14 (3.26%) Ansible
7 14 (3.26%) Terraform
8 7 (1.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 7 (1.63%) Nmap
9 6 (1.40%) Jamf Pro
9 6 (1.40%) Prometheus
10 5 (1.16%) AirWatch
10 5 (1.16%) SCOM
11 4 (0.93%) Backup Exec
11 4 (0.93%) Puppet
11 4 (0.93%) vRealize Orchestrator
11 4 (0.93%) WSUS
12 3 (0.70%) Grafana
12 3 (0.70%) vRealize
Vendors
1 228 (53.02%) Microsoft
2 116 (26.98%) VMware
3 74 (17.21%) Cisco
4 49 (11.40%) Apple
5 37 (8.60%) Citrix
6 35 (8.14%) ServiceNow
7 30 (6.98%) Commvault
8 24 (5.58%) Polycom
9 23 (5.35%) Bloomberg
10 21 (4.88%) iManage
11 20 (4.65%) Sun
12 19 (4.42%) Google
13 18 (4.19%) HP
14 16 (3.72%) Palo Alto
14 16 (3.72%) SolarWinds
15 14 (3.26%) Veeam
16 13 (3.02%) NetApp
17 10 (2.33%) Splunk
18 9 (2.09%) Qualys
18 9 (2.09%) Remedy