Windows Jobs in Northern Ireland

Microsoft Windows
UK > Northern Ireland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 29 17 15
Rank change year-on-year -12 -2 +10
Permanent jobs citing Windows 48 135 74
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 6.96% 15.59% 11.03%
As % of the Operating Systems category 55.81% 69.95% 38.34%
Number of salaries quoted 32 73 47
10th Percentile £27,625 £28,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £27,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £50,000 £36,500
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +36.99% +7.35%
75th Percentile £47,500 £65,000 £46,875
90th Percentile £93,500 £67,000 £59,250
UK median annual salary £40,000 £45,000 £43,876
% change year-on-year -11.11% +2.56% -2.50%

All Operating Systems
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland with a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 86 193 193
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 12.46% 22.29% 28.76%
Number of salaries quoted 44 101 79
10th Percentile £28,750 £28,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £32,750 £32,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,750 £50,000 £40,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.50% +23.46% -4.71%
75th Percentile £77,500 £65,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £77,500 £70,250
UK median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% - +5.00%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in Northern Ireland

Windows
Salary Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Salary trend for Windows in Northern Ireland

Windows
Salary Histogram in Northern Ireland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows in Northern Ireland over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Windows in Northern Ireland

Windows
Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 27 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
County Antrim -18 39 £37,500 -25.00% 20
County Down +4 7 £37,500 - 2
Newry - 1 £42,500 - 1
Windows
UK

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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 14 (29.17%) SharePoint
2 5 (10.42%) Apache
3 4 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (8.33%) MQSeries
4 3 (6.25%) Confluence
5 2 (4.17%) IIS
5 2 (4.17%) OpenStack
Applications
1 8 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (14.58%) InfoPath
2 7 (14.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (14.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 17 (35.42%) Microsoft 365
2 13 (27.08%) AWS
3 11 (22.92%) OneDrive
4 9 (18.75%) Azure
5 8 (16.67%) Amazon S3
6 5 (10.42%) GCP
7 4 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (6.25%) Amazon ElastiCache
8 3 (6.25%) Azure AKS
8 3 (6.25%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (6.25%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 3 (6.25%) Route 53
8 3 (6.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 2 (4.17%) IaaS
10 1 (2.08%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (2.08%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 14 (29.17%) Firewall
2 10 (20.83%) VPN
3 8 (16.67%) Internet
4 7 (14.58%) FTP
4 7 (14.58%) HTTP
5 5 (10.42%) IPsec
5 5 (10.42%) LAN
5 5 (10.42%) SNMP
6 4 (8.33%) Network Security
6 4 (8.33%) Wireless
7 3 (6.25%) DHCP
7 3 (6.25%) WAN
7 3 (6.25%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (4.17%) DNS
8 2 (4.17%) Remote Desktop
8 2 (4.17%) Software-Defined Networking
8 2 (4.17%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.42%) Elasticsearch
1 5 (10.42%) MongoDB
1 5 (10.42%) MySQL
2 3 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (6.25%) RDBMS
2 3 (6.25%) Relational Database
3 2 (4.17%) Big Data
4 1 (2.08%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 4 (8.33%) IntelliJ
1 4 (8.33%) JIRA
2 2 (4.17%) GitLab
3 1 (2.08%) Burp Suite
3 1 (2.08%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.08%) Metasploit
3 1 (2.08%) SonarQube
General
1 24 (50.00%) Finance
2 18 (37.50%) Social Skills
3 10 (20.83%) Telecoms
4 7 (14.58%) Electronics
4 7 (14.58%) Manufacturing
4 7 (14.58%) Marketing
4 7 (14.58%) Public Sector
5 5 (10.42%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (8.33%) Retail
7 3 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (6.25%) Law
8 2 (4.17%) Financial Institution
9 1 (2.08%) Front Office
9 1 (2.08%) Games
Job Titles
1 10 (20.83%) Support Engineer
2 8 (16.67%) Senior
3 7 (14.58%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
4 5 (10.42%) Consultant
4 5 (10.42%) NetApp Consultant
4 5 (10.42%) Technical Engineer
4 5 (10.42%) Technical Support
4 5 (10.42%) Technical Support Engineer
5 4 (8.33%) Field Engineer
5 4 (8.33%) Field Service Engineer
5 4 (8.33%) Java Engineer
5 4 (8.33%) Senior Field Engineer
5 4 (8.33%) Senior Field Service Engineer
6 3 (6.25%) 2nd Line Engineer
6 3 (6.25%) AWS Architect
6 3 (6.25%) AWS Solution Architect
6 3 (6.25%) Development Engineer
6 3 (6.25%) IT Technician
6 3 (6.25%) Kubernetes Engineer
6 3 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (14.58%) COM
1 7 (14.58%) HTML
1 7 (14.58%) HTML5
2 5 (10.42%) RabbitMQ
2 5 (10.42%) YAML
3 4 (8.33%) Hibernate
3 4 (8.33%) JSON
3 4 (8.33%) Spring
4 1 (2.08%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (2.08%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 7 (14.58%) EPoS
2 6 (12.50%) Data Centre
2 6 (12.50%) Onboarding
3 5 (10.42%) Cloud Native
3 5 (10.42%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (10.42%) Management Information System
3 5 (10.42%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (8.33%) Driving Licence
4 4 (8.33%) Fixed Income
5 3 (6.25%) Distributed Applications
5 3 (6.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (6.25%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 16 (33.33%) Linux
2 6 (12.50%) Mac OS
2 6 (12.50%) Unix
2 6 (12.50%) Windows Server
3 5 (10.42%) Data ONTAP
3 5 (10.42%) Windows 10
4 3 (6.25%) Windows Server 2012
4 3 (6.25%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (4.17%) Mesosphere
5 2 (4.17%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (2.08%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (39.58%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (27.08%) Computer Science
3 10 (20.83%) Business Intelligence
4 8 (16.67%) Actionable Insight
4 8 (16.67%) Fintech
4 8 (16.67%) Microservices
4 8 (16.67%) Release Management
5 7 (14.58%) Customer Service
5 7 (14.58%) Digital Marketing
5 7 (14.58%) OO
5 7 (14.58%) OOP
5 7 (14.58%) Process Improvement
5 7 (14.58%) Programme Management
6 6 (12.50%) ITIL
7 5 (10.42%) DevOps
7 5 (10.42%) Infrastructure Management
7 5 (10.42%) Migration
7 5 (10.42%) Project Management
7 5 (10.42%) Project Planning
7 5 (10.42%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (16.67%) JavaScript
1 8 (16.67%) PowerShell
1 8 (16.67%) Python
2 6 (12.50%) Java
3 4 (8.33%) Bash
3 4 (8.33%) R
4 1 (2.08%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 15 (31.25%) Degree
2 10 (20.83%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (10.42%) AWS Certification
3 5 (10.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 4 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (6.25%) Azure Certification
5 3 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (4.17%) HNC
6 2 (4.17%) HND
6 2 (4.17%) SC Cleared
6 2 (4.17%) Security Cleared
7 1 (2.08%) CREST Certified
7 1 (2.08%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.33%) SLA
2 3 (6.25%) GDPR
3 2 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (4.17%) QA
System Software
1 15 (31.25%) Docker
2 9 (18.75%) Active Directory
3 8 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (10.42%) Firmware
5 4 (8.33%) Hyper-V
6 2 (4.17%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (4.17%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (25.00%) Ansible
1 12 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 7 (14.58%) Prometheus
3 5 (10.42%) vCenter Server
4 4 (8.33%) Terraform
5 2 (4.17%) Docker Swarm
5 2 (4.17%) Grafana
5 2 (4.17%) Progress Chef
5 2 (4.17%) Puppet
5 2 (4.17%) SCCM
6 1 (2.08%) Kibana
6 1 (2.08%) Nessus
6 1 (2.08%) Nmap
6 1 (2.08%) WSUS
Vendors
1 22 (45.83%) Microsoft
2 13 (27.08%) VMware
3 9 (18.75%) NetApp
4 7 (14.58%) SAP
5 6 (12.50%) Apple
6 5 (10.42%) Palo Alto
6 5 (10.42%) Red Hat
6 5 (10.42%) SolidFire
7 4 (8.33%) Dell
7 4 (8.33%) HP
7 4 (8.33%) IBM
7 4 (8.33%) Solace
7 4 (8.33%) TIBCO
8 3 (6.25%) Atlassian
8 3 (6.25%) Google
9 1 (2.08%) Oracle
9 1 (2.08%) Veeam