Windows Specialist Jobs in England

Windows Specialist
UK > England

The median Windows Specialist salary in England is £75,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 829 927 1109
Rank change year-on-year +98 +182 -258
Permanent jobs requiring a Windows Specialist 18 5 32
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.021% 0.006% 0.024%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.022% 0.006% 0.025%
Number of salaries quoted 13 2 31
10th Percentile - £62,300 £60,000
25th Percentile £33,966 £62,750 £91,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £63,500 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.11% -36.50% +33.33%
75th Percentile - £64,250 -
90th Percentile - £64,700 -
UK median annual salary £75,000 £62,000 £100,000
% change year-on-year +20.97% -38.00% +33.33%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in England with a recognized job title 81,185 82,540 127,939
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.48% 91.53% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 60,576 52,509 74,661
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,288 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,822 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Windows Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Windows Specialist in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Windows Specialist in England

Windows Specialist
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Windows Specialist in England

Windows Specialist
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows Specialist in England over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Windows Specialist in England

Windows Specialist
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows Specialist within the England region over the 6 months to 12 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
London +138 14 £75,000 +15.38%
Midlands -1 4 £33,966 -45.22%
East Midlands - 4 £33,966 -
Windows Specialist
UK

Windows Specialist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 12 May 2024, Windows Specialist job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region featuring Windows Specialist in the job title.

1 18 (100.00%) Windows
2 17 (94.44%) Microsoft
3 12 (66.67%) Unix
3 12 (66.67%) Linux
3 12 (66.67%) Finance
3 12 (66.67%) VMware
3 12 (66.67%) Qualys
3 12 (66.67%) SCCM
3 12 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (66.67%) Threat Management
4 9 (50.00%) Management Information System
5 7 (38.89%) Patch Management
5 7 (38.89%) Banking
5 7 (38.89%) Penetration Testing
5 7 (38.89%) Incident Response
6 6 (33.33%) Azure
7 5 (27.78%) Vulnerability Management
7 5 (27.78%) Entra ID
7 5 (27.78%) Configuration Management
7 5 (27.78%) Active Directory
8 4 (22.22%) Requirements Gathering
8 4 (22.22%) Project Management
8 4 (22.22%) Information Security
8 4 (22.22%) High Availability
8 4 (22.22%) Data Centre
8 4 (22.22%) Mentoring
8 4 (22.22%) PKI
8 4 (22.22%) WSUS
8 4 (22.22%) Windows Server
8 4 (22.22%) Self-Motivation

Windows Specialist Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 2 (11.11%) SharePoint
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Adobe Creative Suite
Cloud Services
1 6 (33.33%) Azure
2 5 (27.78%) Entra ID
3 3 (16.67%) AWS
4 2 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (5.56%) Slack
General
1 12 (66.67%) Finance
2 7 (38.89%) Banking
3 1 (5.56%) Social Science
Miscellaneous
1 9 (50.00%) Management Information System
2 4 (22.22%) Data Centre
2 4 (22.22%) PKI
2 4 (22.22%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 18 (100.00%) Windows
2 12 (66.67%) Linux
2 12 (66.67%) Unix
3 4 (22.22%) Windows Server
4 1 (5.56%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (66.67%) Threat Management
2 7 (38.89%) Incident Response
2 7 (38.89%) Patch Management
2 7 (38.89%) Penetration Testing
3 5 (27.78%) Configuration Management
3 5 (27.78%) Vulnerability Management
4 4 (22.22%) High Availability
4 4 (22.22%) Information Security
4 4 (22.22%) Mentoring
4 4 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (22.22%) Project Management
4 4 (22.22%) Requirements Gathering
5 3 (16.67%) ITIL
5 3 (16.67%) ITSM
6 1 (5.56%) Migration
6 1 (5.56%) Performance Optimisation
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (16.67%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (27.78%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 12 (66.67%) SCCM
2 4 (22.22%) WSUS
3 3 (16.67%) Nessus
4 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (5.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 17 (94.44%) Microsoft
2 12 (66.67%) Qualys
2 12 (66.67%) VMware
3 1 (5.56%) Adobe
3 1 (5.56%) DocuSign
3 1 (5.56%) Salesforce