Windows Jobs in England

Microsoft Windows
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England 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 13 19 26
Rank change year-on-year +6 +7 -6
Permanent jobs citing Windows 8,694 9,169 12,041
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.24% 9.90% 9.20%
As % of the Operating Systems category 69.21% 61.44% 47.91%
Number of salaries quoted 7,165 6,581 9,080
10th Percentile £25,000 £25,750 £25,000
25th Percentile £29,290 £31,250 £30,424
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,132 £43,823 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.42% +3.11% -5.56%
75th Percentile £56,250 £60,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £78,750 £77,500
UK median annual salary £40,000 £45,000 £44,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +2.27% -2.22%

All Operating Systems
England

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 England with a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 12,562 14,923 25,132
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 14.80% 16.11% 19.20%
Number of salaries quoted 9,967 10,231 15,201
10th Percentile £25,750 £26,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £72,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £95,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% - +5.00%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in England

Windows
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Windows in England

Windows
Salary Histogram in England

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

Salary histogram for Windows in England

Windows
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 within the England 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
South East +3 2,083 £40,000 +7.38% 374
London +12 2,035 £55,000 +4.76% 433
North of England +9 1,565 £37,500 -5.06% 331
Midlands +11 1,228 £35,000 -12.50% 271
South West +5 997 £42,500 +11.84% 217
North West -2 760 £40,000 - 186
East of England +2 756 £32,500 -16.91% 196
West Midlands +13 691 £35,000 -12.50% 164
Yorkshire +19 620 £37,250 -1.97% 114
East Midlands +10 531 £34,000 -15.00% 107
North East +11 187 £34,500 -13.75% 36
Windows
UK

Windows
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 1,521 (17.49%) Microsoft Exchange
2 937 (10.78%) SharePoint
3 197 (2.27%) IIS
4 106 (1.22%) Apache
5 64 (0.74%) Confluence
6 53 (0.61%) Skype for Business
7 49 (0.56%) Exchange Server 2010
7 49 (0.56%) Exchange Server 2013
8 43 (0.49%) CMS
9 33 (0.38%) Tomcat
10 26 (0.30%) OpenStack
11 22 (0.25%) Exchange Server 2007
11 22 (0.25%) WordPress
12 18 (0.21%) SAS
13 15 (0.17%) JBoss
14 12 (0.14%) SharePoint 2010
14 12 (0.14%) SharePoint 2013
15 11 (0.13%) nginx
16 10 (0.12%) Umbraco
17 8 (0.092%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1,340 (15.41%) Microsoft Office
2 237 (2.73%) Microsoft Excel
3 79 (0.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 32 (0.37%) AutoCAD
5 29 (0.33%) MS Visio
6 23 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
7 18 (0.21%) Trello
8 14 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
9 10 (0.12%) Photoshop
9 10 (0.12%) Revit
10 9 (0.10%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 7 (0.081%) Adobe Illustrator
12 4 (0.046%) Adobe XD
13 3 (0.035%) Final Cut Pro
13 3 (0.035%) InDesign
13 3 (0.035%) Pro Tools
13 3 (0.035%) Simulink
13 3 (0.035%) SPSS
14 2 (0.023%) InCopy
14 2 (0.023%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 51 (0.59%) Dynamics CRM
2 25 (0.29%) NEC Housing
3 16 (0.18%) Fidessa
4 15 (0.17%) Dynamics NAV
5 11 (0.13%) SAP ERP
6 9 (0.10%) Carpe Diem
6 9 (0.10%) Teamcenter
7 7 (0.081%) Elite 3E
7 7 (0.081%) Remedy ITSM
7 7 (0.081%) Unit4 Business World
8 5 (0.058%) Shopify
8 5 (0.058%) Temenos T24
9 4 (0.046%) Sage 200
9 4 (0.046%) Salesforce CRM
10 3 (0.035%) assyst
10 3 (0.035%) Eikon
10 3 (0.035%) JDE EnterpriseOne
10 3 (0.035%) Oracle Cash Management
10 3 (0.035%) Sage 50
11 2 (0.023%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 3,849 (44.27%) Microsoft 365
2 3,208 (36.90%) Azure
3 981 (11.28%) Entra ID
4 807 (9.28%) AWS
5 374 (4.30%) OneDrive
6 294 (3.38%) Azure DevOps
7 256 (2.94%) SaaS
8 223 (2.56%) IBM Cloud
9 184 (2.12%) IaaS
10 181 (2.08%) GCP
11 180 (2.07%) Power Platform
12 177 (2.04%) Serverless
13 139 (1.60%) Azure Logic Apps
14 131 (1.51%) Azure Functions
15 130 (1.50%) Mimecast
16 128 (1.47%) Azure API Management
16 128 (1.47%) Azure Service Bus
17 127 (1.46%) Google Workspace
18 109 (1.25%) Cloud Computing
19 106 (1.22%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1,636 (18.82%) Firewall
2 1,308 (15.04%) DNS
3 948 (10.90%) DHCP
4 858 (9.87%) WAN
5 774 (8.90%) TCP/IP
6 771 (8.87%) LAN
7 699 (8.04%) VPN
8 508 (5.84%) Wireless
9 466 (5.36%) Wi-Fi
10 434 (4.99%) SAN
11 344 (3.96%) VLAN
12 300 (3.45%) VoIP
13 250 (2.88%) Internet
14 219 (2.52%) SD-WAN
15 190 (2.19%) Network Security
16 171 (1.97%) NAS
17 161 (1.85%) Cisco IOS
18 144 (1.66%) Remote Desktop
19 120 (1.38%) WebEx
20 94 (1.08%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 792 (9.11%) SQL Server
2 338 (3.89%) MongoDB
3 310 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
4 267 (3.07%) DB2
5 241 (2.77%) NoSQL
6 223 (2.56%) Relational Database
7 157 (1.81%) MySQL
8 145 (1.67%) Amazon RDS
9 140 (1.61%) Power BI
10 74 (0.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 62 (0.71%) Elasticsearch
12 53 (0.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 48 (0.55%) Data Warehouse
14 43 (0.49%) Oracle Database
15 28 (0.32%) Azure SQL Database
16 26 (0.30%) RDBMS
17 24 (0.28%) Redis
18 21 (0.24%) MariaDB
19 20 (0.23%) QlikView
20 17 (0.20%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 225 (2.59%) Git
2 197 (2.27%) JIRA
3 137 (1.58%) Jenkins
4 98 (1.13%) Visual Studio
5 81 (0.93%) GitLab
6 73 (0.84%) Subversion
7 46 (0.53%) Bitbucket
8 34 (0.39%) Eclipse
9 28 (0.32%) CMake
10 25 (0.29%) Ant
10 25 (0.29%) TeamCity
11 23 (0.26%) LabVIEW
11 23 (0.26%) Octopus Deploy
12 22 (0.25%) Artifactory
13 21 (0.24%) MSI
14 19 (0.22%) IBM UrbanCode
15 15 (0.17%) Team Foundation Server
16 10 (0.12%) Selenium
16 10 (0.12%) SonarQube
16 10 (0.12%) Trac
General
1 2,727 (31.37%) Social Skills
2 1,132 (13.02%) Finance
3 805 (9.26%) Analytical Skills
4 445 (5.12%) Public Sector
5 338 (3.89%) Law
6 303 (3.49%) Retail
7 294 (3.38%) Organisational Skills
8 290 (3.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 262 (3.01%) Telecoms
10 250 (2.88%) Manufacturing
11 247 (2.84%) Legal
12 239 (2.75%) Banking
13 153 (1.76%) Marketing
14 132 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
15 125 (1.44%) Aerospace
16 119 (1.37%) Games
17 116 (1.33%) Electronics
18 94 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
19 88 (1.01%) Automotive
20 65 (0.75%) Military
Job Titles
1 1,504 (17.30%) IT Support
2 1,327 (15.26%) Support Engineer
3 1,125 (12.94%) Analyst
4 1,067 (12.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1,042 (11.99%) IT Engineer
6 1,008 (11.59%) Senior
7 706 (8.12%) IT Support Engineer
8 501 (5.76%) Lead
9 500 (5.75%) IT Technician
10 468 (5.38%) 2nd Line Support
11 450 (5.18%) Support Analyst
12 442 (5.08%) Developer
13 398 (4.58%) IT Analyst
14 351 (4.04%) Support Technician
15 331 (3.81%) 2nd Line Engineer
16 323 (3.72%) Service Analyst
17 296 (3.40%) Service Desk Analyst
18 294 (3.38%) Administrator
19 291 (3.35%) 1st Line Support
20 289 (3.32%) IT Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 553 (6.36%) .NET
2 414 (4.76%) HTML
3 361 (4.15%) CSS
4 317 (3.65%) REST
5 314 (3.61%) AngularJS
5 314 (3.61%) React
6 313 (3.60%) ASP.NET
7 291 (3.35%) Web Services
8 272 (3.13%) Vue
9 271 (3.12%) jQuery
10 262 (3.01%) Twitter Bootstrap
11 226 (2.60%) ASP.NET Core
12 223 (2.56%) Backbone.js
12 223 (2.56%) Ember.js
13 154 (1.77%) Node.js
14 124 (1.43%) WPF
15 95 (1.09%) XML
16 75 (0.86%) .NET Framework
17 66 (0.76%) JSON
17 66 (0.76%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 515 (5.92%) Data Centre
2 418 (4.81%) Self-Motivation
3 407 (4.68%) Driving Licence
4 355 (4.08%) Management Information System
5 286 (3.29%) Hybrid Cloud
6 274 (3.15%) Algorithms
7 245 (2.82%) Video Conferencing
8 234 (2.69%) Data Structures
9 223 (2.56%) Blockchain
10 217 (2.50%) Public Cloud
11 208 (2.39%) Replication
12 170 (1.96%) Onboarding
13 158 (1.82%) Clustering
14 154 (1.77%) PKI
15 120 (1.38%) e-Learning
16 110 (1.27%) Wiki
17 100 (1.15%) Smartphone
18 81 (0.93%) EPoS
19 79 (0.91%) Client/Server
20 73 (0.84%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 3,236 (37.22%) Windows Server
2 2,156 (24.80%) Linux
3 1,838 (21.14%) Windows 10
4 657 (7.56%) Android
5 579 (6.66%) Windows Server 2016
6 565 (6.50%) Apple iOS
7 517 (5.95%) Windows Server 2019
8 490 (5.64%) Windows Server 2012
9 379 (4.36%) Mac OS
10 327 (3.76%) Windows 7
11 315 (3.62%) Unix
12 170 (1.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 160 (1.84%) Windows Server 2008
14 153 (1.76%) Ubuntu
15 133 (1.53%) Windows 8
16 111 (1.28%) VMS
17 110 (1.27%) CentOS
18 79 (0.91%) Mac OS X
19 56 (0.64%) Solaris
20 41 (0.47%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,934 (22.25%) Problem-Solving
2 1,501 (17.26%) ITIL
3 1,359 (15.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1,349 (15.52%) Customer Service
5 915 (10.52%) Cybersecurity
6 754 (8.67%) Agile
7 714 (8.21%) DevOps
8 659 (7.58%) Mentoring
9 541 (6.22%) Computer Science
10 463 (5.33%) Service Management
11 440 (5.06%) Disaster Recovery
11 440 (5.06%) Software Engineering
12 407 (4.68%) Project Management
13 405 (4.66%) Continuous Improvement
14 389 (4.47%) User Experience
15 375 (4.31%) ITSM
16 365 (4.20%) Change Management
17 359 (4.13%) Service Delivery
18 353 (4.06%) Migration
19 338 (3.89%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 1,292 (14.86%) PowerShell
2 1,258 (14.47%) SQL
3 758 (8.72%) Python
4 694 (7.98%) C#
5 476 (5.48%) JavaScript
6 389 (4.47%) Bash
7 376 (4.32%) Java
8 276 (3.17%) C++
9 171 (1.97%) C
10 110 (1.27%) Perl
11 109 (1.25%) T-SQL
12 79 (0.91%) VB
13 59 (0.68%) VBScript
14 54 (0.62%) Ruby
15 51 (0.59%) XAML
16 41 (0.47%) TypeScript
17 37 (0.43%) PHP
18 30 (0.35%) PL/SQL
19 29 (0.33%) Shell Script
20 28 (0.32%) Go
Qualifications
1 1,407 (16.18%) Degree
2 989 (11.38%) Security Cleared
3 577 (6.64%) SC Cleared
4 532 (6.12%) Microsoft Certification
5 448 (5.15%) DV Cleared
6 373 (4.29%) Computer Science Degree
7 295 (3.39%) Cisco Certification
8 246 (2.83%) DBS Check
9 230 (2.65%) CCNA
10 185 (2.13%) MCSE
11 180 (2.07%) A+ Certification
12 176 (2.02%) Master's Degree
13 145 (1.67%) MCP
14 123 (1.41%) Azure Certification
15 120 (1.38%) MCSA
16 105 (1.21%) ITIL Certification
17 91 (1.05%) Network+ Certification
18 90 (1.04%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
19 86 (0.99%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
20 74 (0.85%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 586 (6.74%) SLA
2 184 (2.12%) GDPR
3 170 (1.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 141 (1.62%) Cyber Essentials
5 114 (1.31%) QA
6 69 (0.79%) PCI DSS
7 60 (0.69%) NIST
8 49 (0.56%) Accessibility
9 22 (0.25%) Data Quality
10 20 (0.23%) PMO
11 18 (0.21%) COBIT
11 18 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 18 (0.21%) GRC
12 16 (0.18%) SOC 2
13 13 (0.15%) ISO 9001
14 12 (0.14%) NCSC
15 9 (0.10%) ITGC
16 8 (0.092%) ISO 13485
16 8 (0.092%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 8 (0.092%) MISRA
System Software
1 4,014 (46.17%) Active Directory
2 1,485 (17.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1,095 (12.59%) Hyper-V
4 404 (4.65%) VMware ESXi
5 256 (2.94%) Docker
6 240 (2.76%) vSphere
7 220 (2.53%) Virtual Machines
8 202 (2.32%) XenApp
9 179 (2.06%) XenDesktop
10 153 (1.76%) Virtual Desktop
11 116 (1.33%) Microsoft App-V
12 111 (1.28%) Firmware
13 89 (1.02%) Virtual Servers
14 53 (0.61%) KVM
15 50 (0.58%) VirtualBox
16 48 (0.55%) Terminal Services
17 26 (0.30%) VMware Workstation
18 22 (0.25%) VMware Server
19 19 (0.22%) pfSense
20 18 (0.21%) NFS
Systems Management
1 916 (10.54%) Microsoft Intune
2 726 (8.35%) SCCM
3 343 (3.95%) Ansible
4 306 (3.52%) Kubernetes
5 260 (2.99%) Terraform
6 226 (2.60%) vCenter Server
7 184 (2.12%) WSUS
8 139 (1.60%) SCOM
9 125 (1.44%) AirWatch
9 125 (1.44%) Puppet
10 95 (1.09%) Single Sign-On
11 92 (1.06%) Jamf Pro
12 70 (0.81%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 64 (0.74%) Grafana
14 63 (0.72%) Prometheus
15 61 (0.70%) Nagios
16 57 (0.66%) Microsoft Clustering
17 53 (0.61%) FortiGate
18 51 (0.59%) Failover Clustering
19 42 (0.48%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 4,455 (51.24%) Microsoft
2 2,166 (24.91%) VMware
3 807 (9.28%) Cisco
4 611 (7.03%) Citrix
5 471 (5.42%) Red Hat
6 416 (4.78%) Veeam
7 372 (4.28%) Apple
8 352 (4.05%) IBM
9 318 (3.66%) HP
10 273 (3.14%) Dell
10 273 (3.14%) Oracle
11 266 (3.06%) Google
12 192 (2.21%) ServiceNow
13 176 (2.02%) Meraki
14 163 (1.87%) NetApp
15 130 (1.50%) Adobe
16 122 (1.40%) SolarWinds
17 119 (1.37%) Sophos
18 118 (1.36%) Palo Alto
19 117 (1.35%) Splunk