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 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 14 19 27
Rank change year-on-year +5 +8 -6
Permanent jobs citing Windows 8,673 9,117 12,111
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.18% 9.89% 9.14%
As % of the Operating Systems category 69.07% 61.47% 47.59%
Number of salaries quoted 7,133 6,560 9,063
10th Percentile £25,000 £25,750 £25,000
25th Percentile £29,290 £31,250 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,144 £43,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.72% +2.35% -5.56%
75th Percentile £56,250 £60,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £78,750 £76,250
UK median annual salary £40,000 £44,833 £43,500
% change year-on-year -10.78% +3.06% -3.33%

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 12,557 14,832 25,446
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 14.74% 16.08% 19.21%
Number of salaries quoted 9,951 10,188 15,157
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 4 May 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 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
South East +2 2,077 £40,000 +9.59% 378
London +11 2,019 £55,000 +4.76% 469
North of England +10 1,560 £37,500 -6.25% 333
Midlands +12 1,239 £35,000 -12.50% 273
South West +5 992 £42,500 +11.84% 242
East of England +3 753 £32,500 -15.58% 205
North West -4 752 £40,000 - 182
West Midlands +13 696 £35,000 -12.50% 155
Yorkshire +20 620 £37,000 -2.63% 119
East Midlands +8 537 £34,000 -11.69% 118
North East +14 190 £34,500 -13.75% 38
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 1,504 (17.34%) Microsoft Exchange
2 935 (10.78%) SharePoint
3 196 (2.26%) IIS
4 106 (1.22%) Apache
5 64 (0.74%) Confluence
6 53 (0.61%) Skype for Business
7 49 (0.56%) Exchange Server 2013
8 47 (0.54%) Exchange Server 2010
9 45 (0.52%) CMS
10 33 (0.38%) Tomcat
11 26 (0.30%) OpenStack
12 22 (0.25%) Exchange Server 2007
12 22 (0.25%) WordPress
13 18 (0.21%) SAS
14 15 (0.17%) JBoss
15 14 (0.16%) SharePoint 2010
15 14 (0.16%) SharePoint 2013
16 11 (0.13%) nginx
17 10 (0.12%) Umbraco
18 8 (0.092%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1,324 (15.27%) Microsoft Office
2 241 (2.78%) Microsoft Excel
3 80 (0.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 32 (0.37%) AutoCAD
5 30 (0.35%) MS Visio
6 23 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
7 18 (0.21%) Trello
8 15 (0.17%) 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 50 (0.58%) Dynamics CRM
2 24 (0.28%) NEC Housing
3 17 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
4 15 (0.17%) Fidessa
5 10 (0.12%) SAP ERP
6 9 (0.10%) Carpe Diem
6 9 (0.10%) Teamcenter
7 8 (0.092%) Remedy ITSM
8 7 (0.081%) Elite 3E
8 7 (0.081%) Unit4 Business World
9 5 (0.058%) Shopify
9 5 (0.058%) Temenos T24
10 4 (0.046%) Sage 200
10 4 (0.046%) Salesforce CRM
11 3 (0.035%) Eikon
11 3 (0.035%) JDE EnterpriseOne
11 3 (0.035%) Oracle Cash Management
11 3 (0.035%) Sage 50
12 2 (0.023%) assyst
12 2 (0.023%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 3,827 (44.13%) Microsoft 365
2 3,218 (37.10%) Azure
3 985 (11.36%) Entra ID
4 812 (9.36%) AWS
5 374 (4.31%) OneDrive
6 299 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
7 256 (2.95%) SaaS
8 238 (2.74%) IBM Cloud
9 185 (2.13%) GCP
10 184 (2.12%) Serverless
11 179 (2.06%) Power Platform
12 177 (2.04%) IaaS
13 144 (1.66%) Azure Logic Apps
14 138 (1.59%) Azure Functions
15 135 (1.56%) Azure API Management
15 135 (1.56%) Azure Service Bus
16 128 (1.48%) Google Workspace
16 128 (1.48%) Mimecast
17 105 (1.21%) Cloud Computing
18 104 (1.20%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1,632 (18.82%) Firewall
2 1,308 (15.08%) DNS
3 942 (10.86%) DHCP
4 843 (9.72%) WAN
5 772 (8.90%) TCP/IP
6 761 (8.77%) LAN
7 686 (7.91%) VPN
8 500 (5.77%) Wireless
9 464 (5.35%) Wi-Fi
10 432 (4.98%) SAN
11 330 (3.80%) VLAN
12 299 (3.45%) VoIP
13 252 (2.91%) Internet
14 213 (2.46%) SD-WAN
15 187 (2.16%) Network Security
16 167 (1.93%) NAS
17 154 (1.78%) Cisco IOS
18 145 (1.67%) Remote Desktop
19 113 (1.30%) WebEx
20 93 (1.07%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 789 (9.10%) SQL Server
2 354 (4.08%) MongoDB
3 324 (3.74%) PostgreSQL
4 283 (3.26%) DB2
5 256 (2.95%) NoSQL
6 230 (2.65%) Relational Database
7 155 (1.79%) MySQL
8 140 (1.61%) Amazon RDS
9 139 (1.60%) Power BI
10 71 (0.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 63 (0.73%) Elasticsearch
12 53 (0.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 47 (0.54%) Data Warehouse
14 43 (0.50%) Oracle Database
15 28 (0.32%) Azure SQL Database
15 28 (0.32%) RDBMS
16 24 (0.28%) Redis
17 20 (0.23%) MariaDB
17 20 (0.23%) QlikView
18 18 (0.21%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 228 (2.63%) Git
2 199 (2.29%) JIRA
3 140 (1.61%) Jenkins
4 98 (1.13%) Visual Studio
5 81 (0.93%) GitLab
6 73 (0.84%) Subversion
7 44 (0.51%) Bitbucket
8 34 (0.39%) Eclipse
9 28 (0.32%) CMake
10 25 (0.29%) Ant
11 24 (0.28%) Octopus Deploy
11 24 (0.28%) TeamCity
12 22 (0.25%) Artifactory
12 22 (0.25%) LabVIEW
13 21 (0.24%) MSI
14 19 (0.22%) IBM UrbanCode
15 15 (0.17%) Team Foundation Server
16 11 (0.13%) SonarQube
17 10 (0.12%) Selenium
17 10 (0.12%) Trac
General
1 2,715 (31.30%) Social Skills
2 1,122 (12.94%) Finance
3 800 (9.22%) Analytical Skills
4 462 (5.33%) Public Sector
5 339 (3.91%) Law
6 298 (3.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 297 (3.42%) Retail
8 290 (3.34%) Organisational Skills
9 261 (3.01%) Telecoms
10 252 (2.91%) Manufacturing
11 240 (2.77%) Legal
12 230 (2.65%) Banking
13 155 (1.79%) Marketing
14 131 (1.51%) Documentation Skills
15 125 (1.44%) Aerospace
16 117 (1.35%) Electronics
16 117 (1.35%) Games
17 94 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
18 87 (1.00%) Automotive
19 67 (0.77%) Military
Job Titles
1 1,496 (17.25%) IT Support
2 1,320 (15.22%) Support Engineer
3 1,118 (12.89%) Analyst
4 1,060 (12.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1,036 (11.95%) IT Engineer
6 999 (11.52%) Senior
7 700 (8.07%) IT Support Engineer
8 502 (5.79%) Lead
9 501 (5.78%) IT Technician
10 464 (5.35%) 2nd Line Support
11 454 (5.23%) Developer
12 447 (5.15%) Support Analyst
13 395 (4.55%) IT Analyst
14 355 (4.09%) Support Technician
15 328 (3.78%) 2nd Line Engineer
16 314 (3.62%) Service Analyst
17 294 (3.39%) 1st Line Support
18 292 (3.37%) Administrator
18 292 (3.37%) IT Support Technician
19 289 (3.33%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 571 (6.58%) .NET
2 430 (4.96%) HTML
3 379 (4.37%) CSS
4 335 (3.86%) REST
5 333 (3.84%) React
6 330 (3.80%) ASP.NET
7 329 (3.79%) AngularJS
8 307 (3.54%) Web Services
9 287 (3.31%) Vue
10 286 (3.30%) jQuery
11 277 (3.19%) Twitter Bootstrap
12 241 (2.78%) ASP.NET Core
13 238 (2.74%) Backbone.js
13 238 (2.74%) Ember.js
14 162 (1.87%) Node.js
15 125 (1.44%) WPF
16 94 (1.08%) XML
17 78 (0.90%) .NET Framework
18 67 (0.77%) RabbitMQ
19 65 (0.75%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 511 (5.89%) Data Centre
2 419 (4.83%) Self-Motivation
3 405 (4.67%) Driving Licence
4 354 (4.08%) Management Information System
5 304 (3.51%) Hybrid Cloud
6 288 (3.32%) Algorithms
7 248 (2.86%) Data Structures
8 239 (2.76%) Video Conferencing
9 238 (2.74%) Blockchain
10 216 (2.49%) Public Cloud
11 205 (2.36%) Replication
12 171 (1.97%) Onboarding
13 157 (1.81%) Clustering
14 150 (1.73%) PKI
15 129 (1.49%) e-Learning
16 104 (1.20%) Wiki
17 92 (1.06%) Smartphone
18 80 (0.92%) Client/Server
18 80 (0.92%) EPoS
19 73 (0.84%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 3,220 (37.13%) Windows Server
2 2,178 (25.11%) Linux
3 1,822 (21.01%) Windows 10
4 666 (7.68%) Android
5 584 (6.73%) Windows Server 2016
6 579 (6.68%) Apple iOS
7 516 (5.95%) Windows Server 2019
8 487 (5.62%) Windows Server 2012
9 379 (4.37%) Mac OS
10 320 (3.69%) Windows 7
11 314 (3.62%) Unix
12 169 (1.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 154 (1.78%) Windows Server 2008
14 153 (1.76%) Ubuntu
15 131 (1.51%) Windows 8
16 111 (1.28%) VMS
17 110 (1.27%) CentOS
18 77 (0.89%) Mac OS X
19 54 (0.62%) Solaris
20 40 (0.46%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,926 (22.21%) Problem-Solving
2 1,490 (17.18%) ITIL
3 1,351 (15.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1,338 (15.43%) Customer Service
5 920 (10.61%) Cybersecurity
6 768 (8.86%) Agile
7 727 (8.38%) DevOps
8 674 (7.77%) Mentoring
9 537 (6.19%) Computer Science
10 453 (5.22%) Service Management
11 446 (5.14%) Software Engineering
12 439 (5.06%) Disaster Recovery
13 409 (4.72%) Project Management
14 405 (4.67%) Continuous Improvement
15 403 (4.65%) User Experience
16 376 (4.34%) ITSM
17 362 (4.17%) Change Management
18 352 (4.06%) Artificial Intelligence
18 352 (4.06%) Service Delivery
19 350 (4.04%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 1,279 (14.75%) PowerShell
2 1,267 (14.61%) SQL
3 761 (8.77%) Python
4 711 (8.20%) C#
5 493 (5.68%) JavaScript
6 388 (4.47%) Bash
7 385 (4.44%) Java
8 280 (3.23%) C++
9 176 (2.03%) C
10 108 (1.25%) Perl
11 107 (1.23%) T-SQL
12 80 (0.92%) VB
13 60 (0.69%) VBScript
14 52 (0.60%) XAML
15 50 (0.58%) Ruby
16 41 (0.47%) TypeScript
17 37 (0.43%) PHP
18 31 (0.36%) PL/SQL
19 29 (0.33%) Shell Script
20 28 (0.32%) Go
Qualifications
1 1,392 (16.05%) Degree
2 992 (11.44%) Security Cleared
3 571 (6.58%) SC Cleared
4 534 (6.16%) Microsoft Certification
5 447 (5.15%) DV Cleared
6 366 (4.22%) Computer Science Degree
7 291 (3.36%) Cisco Certification
8 246 (2.84%) DBS Check
9 225 (2.59%) CCNA
10 186 (2.14%) MCSE
11 176 (2.03%) A+ Certification
12 169 (1.95%) Master's Degree
13 146 (1.68%) MCP
14 124 (1.43%) Azure Certification
15 118 (1.36%) MCSA
16 102 (1.18%) ITIL Certification
17 91 (1.05%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
18 86 (0.99%) Network+ Certification
19 84 (0.97%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
20 77 (0.89%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 578 (6.66%) SLA
2 181 (2.09%) GDPR
3 168 (1.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 138 (1.59%) Cyber Essentials
5 115 (1.33%) QA
6 66 (0.76%) PCI DSS
7 60 (0.69%) NIST
8 49 (0.56%) Accessibility
9 22 (0.25%) Data Quality
10 21 (0.24%) PMO
11 19 (0.22%) COBIT
12 18 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 17 (0.20%) GRC
13 17 (0.20%) SOC 2
14 13 (0.15%) ISO 9001
15 12 (0.14%) NCSC
16 9 (0.10%) ITGC
17 8 (0.092%) ISO 13485
17 8 (0.092%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
17 8 (0.092%) MISRA
System Software
1 3,971 (45.79%) Active Directory
2 1,470 (16.95%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1,088 (12.54%) Hyper-V
4 399 (4.60%) VMware ESXi
5 258 (2.97%) Docker
6 238 (2.74%) vSphere
7 219 (2.53%) Virtual Machines
8 201 (2.32%) XenApp
9 181 (2.09%) XenDesktop
10 152 (1.75%) Virtual Desktop
11 110 (1.27%) Microsoft App-V
12 109 (1.26%) Firmware
13 87 (1.00%) 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%) NFS
19 19 (0.22%) pfSense
Systems Management
1 909 (10.48%) Microsoft Intune
2 715 (8.24%) SCCM
3 345 (3.98%) Ansible
4 306 (3.53%) Kubernetes
5 264 (3.04%) Terraform
6 226 (2.61%) vCenter Server
7 180 (2.08%) WSUS
8 135 (1.56%) SCOM
9 123 (1.42%) Puppet
10 118 (1.36%) AirWatch
11 96 (1.11%) Single Sign-On
12 91 (1.05%) Jamf Pro
13 71 (0.82%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 63 (0.73%) Grafana
14 63 (0.73%) Prometheus
15 61 (0.70%) Nagios
16 57 (0.66%) Microsoft Clustering
17 51 (0.59%) FortiGate
18 49 (0.56%) Failover Clustering
19 42 (0.48%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 4,424 (51.01%) Microsoft
2 2,153 (24.82%) VMware
3 794 (9.15%) Cisco
4 612 (7.06%) Citrix
5 488 (5.63%) Red Hat
6 415 (4.78%) Veeam
7 371 (4.28%) Apple
8 366 (4.22%) IBM
9 314 (3.62%) HP
10 273 (3.15%) Dell
11 271 (3.12%) Google
11 271 (3.12%) Oracle
12 189 (2.18%) ServiceNow
13 169 (1.95%) Meraki
14 163 (1.88%) NetApp
15 129 (1.49%) Adobe
16 118 (1.36%) Splunk
17 117 (1.35%) Palo Alto
17 117 (1.35%) SolarWinds
18 116 (1.34%) Sophos