Windows Jobs in the Midlands

Microsoft Windows
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring Windows skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Windows over the 6 months leading up to 10 November 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Nov 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 11 11 19
Rank change year-on-year 0 +8 -4
Permanent jobs citing Windows 897 702 1,166
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 9.73% 13.03% 10.33%
As % of the Operating Systems category 77.13% 74.76% 60.89%
Number of salaries quoted 331 562 927
10th Percentile £26,250 £25,500 £24,250
25th Percentile £30,625 £29,000 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £40,128 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.55% -5.58% +13.33%
75th Percentile £52,500 £53,750 £53,750
90th Percentile £68,000 £63,750 £60,750
England median annual salary £45,000 £44,655 £45,000
% change year-on-year +0.77% -0.77% +5.88%

All Operating Systems
Midlands

Windows falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring operating system skills in the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 1,163 939 1,915
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 12.62% 17.42% 16.97%
Number of salaries quoted 459 732 1,288
10th Percentile £27,400 £25,750 £25,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.78% - +5.88%
75th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £67,500 £66,250
England median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in the Midlands

Windows
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for Windows in the Midlands

Windows
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows in the Midlands over the 6 months to 10 November 2024.

Salary histogram for Windows in the Midlands

Windows
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 10 November 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
West Midlands +2 571 £42,500 +6.25% 121
East Midlands -7 323 £33,250 -24.43% 80
Windows
England

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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
1 111 (12.37%) Microsoft Exchange
2 105 (11.71%) SharePoint
3 13 (1.45%) IIS
4 6 (0.67%) Skype for Business
5 4 (0.45%) Umbraco
6 3 (0.33%) Confluence
6 3 (0.33%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.22%) Apache
7 2 (0.22%) CMS
7 2 (0.22%) Site Server
7 2 (0.22%) Tuxedo
8 1 (0.11%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 105 (11.71%) Microsoft Office
2 37 (4.12%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.45%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 25 (2.79%) NEC Housing
2 7 (0.78%) Dynamics NAV
3 3 (0.33%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.11%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.11%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 287 (32.00%) Microsoft 365
2 244 (27.20%) Azure
3 71 (7.92%) Entra ID
4 67 (7.47%) AWS
5 39 (4.35%) SaaS
6 32 (3.57%) Google Workspace
7 18 (2.01%) Azure DevOps
8 17 (1.90%) OneDrive
9 15 (1.67%) IaaS
10 12 (1.34%) Serverless
11 11 (1.23%) GCP
12 10 (1.11%) PaaS
13 9 (1.00%) Mimecast
14 4 (0.45%) Dynamics 365
14 4 (0.45%) Figma
14 4 (0.45%) Power Automate
15 3 (0.33%) Amazon ECS
15 3 (0.33%) Amazon EKS
15 3 (0.33%) Azure AKS
15 3 (0.33%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 231 (25.75%) Network Security
2 224 (24.97%) WLAN
3 211 (23.52%) Internet
4 153 (17.06%) DNS
5 148 (16.50%) Firewall
6 135 (15.05%) DHCP
7 91 (10.14%) TCP/IP
8 78 (8.70%) WAN
9 70 (7.80%) LAN
10 63 (7.02%) VPN
11 58 (6.47%) VLAN
12 57 (6.35%) Wireless
13 46 (5.13%) SAN
14 45 (5.02%) Wi-Fi
15 27 (3.01%) BGP
16 21 (2.34%) OSPF
17 12 (1.34%) NAS
18 11 (1.23%) Remote Desktop
18 11 (1.23%) Skype
19 10 (1.11%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (9.70%) SQL Server
2 26 (2.90%) MySQL
3 20 (2.23%) BusinessObjects
4 8 (0.89%) DB2
5 6 (0.67%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (0.56%) Oracle Database
6 5 (0.56%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (0.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (0.45%) UniData
8 3 (0.33%) Relational Database
8 3 (0.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (0.22%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.22%) SQLite
10 1 (0.11%) Data Mining
10 1 (0.11%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.11%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.11%) Electronic Patient Records
10 1 (0.11%) Redis
10 1 (0.11%) SAP Data Services
10 1 (0.11%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 14 (1.56%) Git
2 8 (0.89%) Jenkins
2 8 (0.89%) LabVIEW
2 8 (0.89%) Visual Studio Code
3 7 (0.78%) JIRA
4 5 (0.56%) Visual Studio
5 4 (0.45%) Maven
5 4 (0.45%) Team Foundation Server
5 4 (0.45%) Visual Studio Team System
6 3 (0.33%) Axure RP
6 3 (0.33%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.33%) Chocolatey
6 3 (0.33%) GitLab
6 3 (0.33%) Subversion
7 1 (0.11%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 246 (27.42%) Social Skills
2 58 (6.47%) Finance
3 49 (5.46%) Retail
4 44 (4.91%) Public Sector
5 42 (4.68%) Legal
6 41 (4.57%) Automotive
7 40 (4.46%) Analytical Skills
7 40 (4.46%) Manufacturing
8 33 (3.68%) Law
9 31 (3.46%) Telecoms
10 30 (3.34%) Police
11 25 (2.79%) Local Government
12 18 (2.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 10 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
14 9 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
14 9 (1.00%) Marketing
15 7 (0.78%) Back Office
16 6 (0.67%) Aerospace
16 6 (0.67%) Presentation Skills
17 5 (0.56%) Games
Job Titles
1 317 (35.34%) IT Support
2 288 (32.11%) IT Engineer
3 245 (27.31%) Support Engineer
4 216 (24.08%) IT Support Engineer
5 103 (11.48%) Analyst
6 87 (9.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 65 (7.25%) Senior
8 49 (5.46%) Support Analyst
9 46 (5.13%) Administrator
10 42 (4.68%) Systems Engineer
11 40 (4.46%) IT Analyst
12 39 (4.35%) 2nd Line Support
13 36 (4.01%) Service Analyst
14 34 (3.79%) Service Desk Analyst
15 33 (3.68%) 1st Line Support
16 29 (3.23%) Software Engineer
17 27 (3.01%) Applications Support
17 27 (3.01%) Developer
18 26 (2.90%) Consultant
18 26 (2.90%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (3.46%) .NET
2 25 (2.79%) HTML
3 18 (2.01%) WinForms
4 14 (1.56%) WPF
5 10 (1.11%) Node.js
6 8 (0.89%) 802.1X
6 8 (0.89%) Vue
6 8 (0.89%) Web Services
7 7 (0.78%) ASP.NET
7 7 (0.78%) CSS
8 6 (0.67%) .NET Core
8 6 (0.67%) HTML5
8 6 (0.67%) JSON
8 6 (0.67%) LDAP
8 6 (0.67%) REST
9 5 (0.56%) .NET Framework
9 5 (0.56%) ADO
9 5 (0.56%) Middleware
9 5 (0.56%) XML
10 4 (0.45%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 227 (25.31%) Driving Licence
2 76 (8.47%) Onboarding
3 47 (5.24%) Management Information System
4 35 (3.90%) Self-Motivation
5 32 (3.57%) Data Centre
6 21 (2.34%) Smartphone
7 17 (1.90%) Public Cloud
8 12 (1.34%) Social Media
9 11 (1.23%) CCTV
9 11 (1.23%) Clustering
10 9 (1.00%) Video Conferencing
11 8 (0.89%) CMDB
11 8 (0.89%) iSeries
11 8 (0.89%) Replication
11 8 (0.89%) Robotics
11 8 (0.89%) Security Posture
12 7 (0.78%) Cyber Threat
12 7 (0.78%) SCADA
13 6 (0.67%) Wiki
14 5 (0.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 390 (43.48%) Linux
2 301 (33.56%) Windows Server
3 175 (19.51%) Windows 10
4 81 (9.03%) Windows Server 2019
5 74 (8.25%) Windows Server 2016
6 34 (3.79%) Windows Server 2012
7 29 (3.23%) Mac OS
7 29 (3.23%) Ubuntu
8 24 (2.68%) Solaris
9 23 (2.56%) Mac OS X
10 22 (2.45%) Unix
11 20 (2.23%) Android
11 20 (2.23%) Windows Server 2008
12 19 (2.12%) Apple iOS
13 13 (1.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 12 (1.34%) Windows Vista
15 11 (1.23%) Windows 7
16 5 (0.56%) AIX
17 4 (0.45%) VMS
18 3 (0.33%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 371 (41.36%) Problem-Solving
2 287 (32.00%) ITIL
3 261 (29.10%) Computer Science
4 217 (24.19%) Mentoring
5 207 (23.08%) Network Management
6 206 (22.97%) Asset Management
7 195 (21.74%) IT Asset Management
8 124 (13.82%) Customer Service
9 94 (10.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 79 (8.81%) Cybersecurity
11 57 (6.35%) Disaster Recovery
12 39 (4.35%) DevOps
12 39 (4.35%) ITSM
12 39 (4.35%) Service Management
13 38 (4.24%) Project Delivery
14 32 (3.57%) Agile
15 30 (3.34%) Business Case
15 30 (3.34%) Continuous Improvement
15 30 (3.34%) Server Management
15 30 (3.34%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 153 (17.06%) SQL
2 96 (10.70%) PowerShell
3 40 (4.46%) C#
4 29 (3.23%) Python
5 26 (2.90%) Bash
6 23 (2.56%) JavaScript
7 22 (2.45%) C++
8 14 (1.56%) PHP
9 12 (1.34%) C
10 10 (1.11%) VB.NET
11 9 (1.00%) RPG
11 9 (1.00%) RPG IV
11 9 (1.00%) Shell Script
12 8 (0.89%) Perl
12 8 (0.89%) VB
13 7 (0.78%) Java
14 6 (0.67%) XAML
15 4 (0.45%) Embedded C
15 4 (0.45%) Embedded C++
15 4 (0.45%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 313 (34.89%) Degree
2 282 (31.44%) Microsoft Certification
3 249 (27.76%) MCSE
4 239 (26.64%) Cisco Certification
5 237 (26.42%) CCNA
6 235 (26.20%) Computer Science Degree
7 211 (23.52%) MCP
8 204 (22.74%) CCNP
9 195 (21.74%) LPIC
10 57 (6.35%) Security Cleared
11 52 (5.80%) DBS Check
12 30 (3.34%) A+ Certification
13 25 (2.79%) HND
13 25 (2.79%) SC Cleared
14 24 (2.68%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 23 (2.56%) HNC
16 19 (2.12%) Network+ Certification
17 17 (1.90%) Azure Certification
18 13 (1.45%) AWS Certification
19 11 (1.23%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (3.46%) Accessibility
2 30 (3.34%) SLA
3 20 (2.23%) ISO 9001
4 16 (1.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 13 (1.45%) Cyber Essentials
6 10 (1.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 8 (0.89%) NIST
8 6 (0.67%) NIST 800
9 5 (0.56%) GDPR
9 5 (0.56%) QA
10 1 (0.11%) Def Stans
10 1 (0.11%) GPG13
10 1 (0.11%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.11%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 1 (0.11%) JSP 440
10 1 (0.11%) JTAG
10 1 (0.11%) MISRA
10 1 (0.11%) NCSC
10 1 (0.11%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 281 (31.33%) Active Directory
2 149 (16.61%) VMware Infrastructure
3 102 (11.37%) Hyper-V
4 22 (2.45%) vSphere
5 21 (2.34%) VMware ESXi
6 18 (2.01%) Virtual Desktop
7 17 (1.90%) Docker
8 11 (1.23%) XenDesktop
9 10 (1.11%) Virtual Servers
10 9 (1.00%) Firmware
11 8 (0.89%) Virtual Machines
12 7 (0.78%) Terminal Services
12 7 (0.78%) XenApp
13 5 (0.56%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 5 (0.56%) VMware NSX
14 3 (0.33%) vCloud
15 1 (0.11%) EMC RecoverPoint
15 1 (0.11%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 64 (7.13%) Microsoft Intune
2 41 (4.57%) SCCM
3 25 (2.79%) Kubernetes
4 19 (2.12%) SCOM
5 18 (2.01%) vCenter Server
6 13 (1.45%) Single Sign-On
6 13 (1.45%) Terraform
7 10 (1.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 9 (1.00%) Puppet
9 8 (0.89%) Ansible
9 8 (0.89%) Progress Chef
10 7 (0.78%) Microsoft Clustering
10 7 (0.78%) VxRail
11 5 (0.56%) EMC NetWorker
12 4 (0.45%) Jamf Pro
12 4 (0.45%) WSUS
13 3 (0.33%) Prometheus
14 2 (0.22%) Backup Exec
14 2 (0.22%) Data Guard
14 2 (0.22%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 579 (64.55%) Microsoft
2 276 (30.77%) Cisco
3 207 (23.08%) VMware
4 52 (5.80%) Dell
5 47 (5.24%) Apple
5 47 (5.24%) Citrix
6 43 (4.79%) Google
7 37 (4.12%) ServiceNow
8 28 (3.12%) Fortinet
9 25 (2.79%) NEC
9 25 (2.79%) Ubiquiti
10 24 (2.68%) HP
11 19 (2.12%) Oracle
11 19 (2.12%) Veeam
12 18 (2.01%) EMC
13 14 (1.56%) IBM
13 14 (1.56%) Red Hat
14 13 (1.45%) Meraki
15 11 (1.23%) Sophos
15 11 (1.23%) Zscaler