Windows Jobs in Oxfordshire

Microsoft Windows
South East > Oxfordshire

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Oxfordshire 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 7 18 7
Rank change year-on-year +11 -11 +12
Permanent jobs citing Windows 210 187 301
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 12.49% 11.81% 19.55%
As % of the Operating Systems category 73.43% 69.78% 65.43%
Number of salaries quoted 195 133 251
10th Percentile £24,250 £25,500 £23,500
25th Percentile £31,125 £29,750 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £32,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% -35.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £50,000 £43,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £58,750 £45,200 £100,000
South East median annual salary £40,000 £37,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year +8.11% -12.94% -

All Operating Systems
Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire with a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 286 268 460
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 17.00% 16.93% 29.87%
Number of salaries quoted 267 185 313
10th Percentile £26,043 £22,000 £25,000
25th Percentile £32,000 £29,750 £32,626
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,000 £37,500 £50,845
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -26.25% +7.04%
75th Percentile £55,000 £45,567 £83,750
90th Percentile £63,000 £63,000 £100,000
South East median annual salary £42,500 £42,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year - -10.53% -

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in Oxfordshire

Windows
Salary Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Salary trend for Windows in Oxfordshire

Windows
Salary Histogram in Oxfordshire

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

Salary histogram for Windows in Oxfordshire

Windows
Job Locations in Oxfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows within the Oxfordshire 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
Oxford -3 71 £40,000 - 8
Witney -3 26 £39,000 +34.48% 6
Abingdon +28 20 £40,000 -5.88% 2
Bicester -4 12 £32,000 -24.71% 1
Faringdon - 6 £25,000 -
Eynsham - 5 £42,000 -
Thame +3 3 £47,500 +50.79%
Banbury -8 3 £52,500 +123.40% 2
Kidlington - 3 £49,881 - 3
Wallingford -10 2 £20,500 -45.33%
Windows
South East

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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 35 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 26 (12.38%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.86%) OpenStack
4 3 (1.43%) IIS
5 2 (0.95%) nginx
6 1 (0.48%) Apache
Applications
1 34 (16.19%) Microsoft Office
2 25 (11.90%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.48%) Sage X3
1 1 (0.48%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 114 (54.29%) Microsoft 365
2 48 (22.86%) Azure
3 23 (10.95%) OneDrive
4 18 (8.57%) AWS
5 16 (7.62%) Entra ID
6 13 (6.19%) WhatsApp
7 10 (4.76%) Google Workspace
8 4 (1.90%) Power Platform
9 2 (0.95%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (0.95%) AWS Direct Connect
9 2 (0.95%) Azure Storage
9 2 (0.95%) Google Drive
9 2 (0.95%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (0.95%) OpenShift
9 2 (0.95%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 1 (0.48%) Akamai
10 1 (0.48%) Amazon S3
10 1 (0.48%) Azure Sentinel
10 1 (0.48%) GitHub
10 1 (0.48%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 69 (32.86%) Firewall
2 37 (17.62%) DNS
3 34 (16.19%) Wi-Fi
4 31 (14.76%) DHCP
5 24 (11.43%) TCP/IP
6 21 (10.00%) WAN
7 19 (9.05%) VoIP
7 19 (9.05%) Wireless
8 17 (8.10%) LAN
9 11 (5.24%) VPN
10 10 (4.76%) SAN
11 8 (3.81%) NAS
12 7 (3.33%) VLAN
13 5 (2.38%) SD-WAN
13 5 (2.38%) SSL
14 3 (1.43%) BGP
14 3 (1.43%) Intranet
14 3 (1.43%) OSPF
14 3 (1.43%) Remote Desktop
14 3 (1.43%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (21.90%) SQL Server
2 11 (5.24%) MySQL
3 6 (2.86%) InfluxDB
3 6 (2.86%) MariaDB
3 6 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (1.90%) Oracle Database
4 4 (1.90%) Power BI
4 4 (1.90%) SAP HANA
5 3 (1.43%) DB2
6 1 (0.48%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 5 (2.38%) Git
1 5 (2.38%) Jenkins
2 4 (1.90%) JIRA
General
1 75 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 20 (9.52%) Documentation Skills
3 19 (9.05%) Law
4 10 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (2.86%) Electronics
5 6 (2.86%) Finance
5 6 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (2.38%) Aerospace
6 5 (2.38%) Games
6 5 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (2.38%) Manufacturing
6 5 (2.38%) Retail
7 4 (1.90%) Military
8 3 (1.43%) Legal
9 1 (0.48%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 76 (36.19%) IT Support
2 56 (26.67%) Support Engineer
3 55 (26.19%) IT Engineer
4 53 (25.24%) IT Support Engineer
5 43 (20.48%) 3rd Line Support
6 39 (18.57%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 37 (17.62%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
8 25 (11.90%) IT Technician
9 24 (11.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 22 (10.48%) Analyst
11 21 (10.00%) Senior
12 19 (9.05%) Support Technician
13 18 (8.57%) Software Engineer
14 17 (8.10%) Support Analyst
15 16 (7.62%) IT Support Technician
16 14 (6.67%) 2nd Line Support
17 11 (5.24%) IT Analyst
17 11 (5.24%) Systems Engineer
18 10 (4.76%) 2nd Line Engineer
18 10 (4.76%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (9.05%) WPF
2 16 (7.62%) .NET
3 7 (3.33%) EDI
4 6 (2.86%) HTML
5 4 (1.90%) XML
6 3 (1.43%) AngularJS
6 3 (1.43%) ASP.NET
6 3 (1.43%) ASP.NET MVC
6 3 (1.43%) CSS
6 3 (1.43%) jQuery
6 3 (1.43%) React
6 3 (1.43%) REST
6 3 (1.43%) Tailwind CSS
6 3 (1.43%) Twitter Bootstrap
6 3 (1.43%) Vue
7 2 (0.95%) 802.1X
8 1 (0.48%) ARM Templates
8 1 (0.48%) Azure Blueprints
8 1 (0.48%) STL
Miscellaneous
1 21 (10.00%) Replication
2 13 (6.19%) Self-Motivation
3 10 (4.76%) Management Information System
4 8 (3.81%) Data Centre
4 8 (3.81%) PKI
5 7 (3.33%) Driving Licence
5 7 (3.33%) Onboarding
6 4 (1.90%) Device Driver
6 4 (1.90%) EMC VNX
6 4 (1.90%) Life Science
7 3 (1.43%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.43%) Molecular Biology
8 2 (0.95%) Clustering
8 2 (0.95%) Fibre Optics
8 2 (0.95%) Grid Computing
8 2 (0.95%) iPhone
8 2 (0.95%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (0.95%) Renewable Energy
8 2 (0.95%) Video Conferencing
9 1 (0.48%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 72 (34.29%) Linux
2 68 (32.38%) Windows Server
3 33 (15.71%) Windows 10
4 20 (9.52%) Windows Server 2016
5 18 (8.57%) Apple iOS
5 18 (8.57%) Windows Server 2019
6 14 (6.67%) Mac OS
7 12 (5.71%) Android
8 10 (4.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 10 (4.76%) Windows Server 2012
9 9 (4.29%) CentOS
10 5 (2.38%) Windows 8
11 4 (1.90%) AIX
11 4 (1.90%) Mac OS X
11 4 (1.90%) Windows XP
12 3 (1.43%) Rocky
13 2 (0.95%) SUSE
13 2 (0.95%) Ubuntu
13 2 (0.95%) Unix
13 2 (0.95%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (21.90%) Problem-Solving
2 32 (15.24%) Customer Service
3 29 (13.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 27 (12.86%) Change Control
5 23 (10.95%) Service Management
6 22 (10.48%) Cybersecurity
7 18 (8.57%) Multi-Factor Authentication
7 18 (8.57%) MVC
7 18 (8.57%) Software Engineering
8 17 (8.10%) ITSM
9 15 (7.14%) Multithreaded Programming
9 15 (7.14%) Multithreading
9 15 (7.14%) MVVM
9 15 (7.14%) SOLID
10 13 (6.19%) ITIL
11 11 (5.24%) Migration
11 11 (5.24%) Open Source
12 9 (4.29%) IT Strategy
13 8 (3.81%) Mobile Device Management
13 8 (3.81%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 44 (20.95%) SQL
2 25 (11.90%) C#
3 21 (10.00%) C++
4 18 (8.57%) XAML
5 16 (7.62%) C
6 12 (5.71%) PowerShell
7 10 (4.76%) Python
8 6 (2.86%) Bash
9 5 (2.38%) Perl
9 5 (2.38%) VB.NET
10 4 (1.90%) Java
10 4 (1.90%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.48%) Korn
11 1 (0.48%) PHP
11 1 (0.48%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 45 (21.43%) Degree
2 16 (7.62%) Security Cleared
3 11 (5.24%) SC Cleared
4 10 (4.76%) Cisco Certification
5 9 (4.29%) MCP
5 9 (4.29%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (3.81%) CCNA
6 8 (3.81%) MCSE
7 6 (2.86%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.90%) OCP
8 4 (1.90%) Oracle Certification
9 2 (0.95%) CCIE
9 2 (0.95%) CCNP
9 2 (0.95%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.95%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.95%) HNC
9 2 (0.95%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 1 (0.48%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.48%) JNCIA
10 1 (0.48%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (9.05%) SLA
2 5 (2.38%) QA
3 3 (1.43%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 103 (49.05%) Active Directory
2 69 (32.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 29 (13.81%) Hyper-V
4 6 (2.86%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 6 (2.86%) vSphere
5 4 (1.90%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 4 (1.90%) Virtual Servers
5 4 (1.90%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (1.43%) Firmware
7 2 (0.95%) Docker
7 2 (0.95%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.48%) Lustre
8 1 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 29 (13.81%) Microsoft Intune
2 23 (10.95%) SCCM
3 11 (5.24%) Ansible
3 11 (5.24%) Terraform
4 5 (2.38%) PaperCut
4 5 (2.38%) Puppet
4 5 (2.38%) Red Hat Spacewalk
5 4 (1.90%) EMC NetWorker
5 4 (1.90%) Oracle RMAN
5 4 (1.90%) vCenter Server
6 3 (1.43%) Nagios
7 2 (0.95%) Kubernetes
8 1 (0.48%) Icinga
8 1 (0.48%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Clustering
8 1 (0.48%) WSUS
8 1 (0.48%) ZENworks
Vendors
1 110 (52.38%) Microsoft
2 76 (36.19%) VMware
3 43 (20.48%) Veeam
4 39 (18.57%) Citrix
5 19 (9.05%) Google
6 12 (5.71%) Cisco
7 8 (3.81%) Oracle
8 7 (3.33%) Fortinet
9 6 (2.86%) Dell
9 6 (2.86%) Juniper
9 6 (2.86%) Meraki
9 6 (2.86%) WatchGuard
10 5 (2.38%) Aruba
10 5 (2.38%) Datto
10 5 (2.38%) EMC
10 5 (2.38%) HP
10 5 (2.38%) Red Hat
10 5 (2.38%) Sophos
11 4 (1.90%) Apple
11 4 (1.90%) SAP