Windows Jobs in the South East

Microsoft Windows
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 8 11 20
Rank change year-on-year +3 +9 -3
Permanent jobs citing Windows 2,093 1,919 2,103
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 12.58% 12.72% 10.67%
As % of the Operating Systems category 72.55% 65.29% 49.95%
Number of salaries quoted 1,797 1,301 1,698
10th Percentile £25,500 £24,500 £25,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £29,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £36,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.59% -14.12% -
75th Percentile £53,750 £53,750 £58,750
90th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £40,000 £43,823 £42,500
% change year-on-year -8.72% +3.11% -5.56%

All Operating Systems
South East

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 the South East with a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 2,885 2,939 4,210
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 17.34% 19.48% 21.36%
Number of salaries quoted 2,334 2,017 2,770
10th Percentile £25,750 £25,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £42,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - -10.53% -
75th Percentile £58,750 £60,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £77,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% - +5.00%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in the South East

Windows
Salary Trend in the South East

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

Salary trend for Windows in the South East

Windows
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows in the South East over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Windows in the South East

Windows
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows within the South East region over the 6 months to 26 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
Thames Valley +3 703 £40,000 +21.21% 111
Hampshire +8 655 £44,200 +26.29% 100
Berkshire +5 323 £44,400 +26.86% 41
Surrey 0 270 £45,000 +21.62% 37
Oxfordshire +11 211 £40,000 +23.08% 38
Buckinghamshire -15 169 £38,000 +13.43% 32
Kent -7 163 £34,000 -15.00% 39
East Sussex +18 138 £38,500 -30.00% 16
West Sussex +12 121 £35,000 -33.33% 29
Middlesex +2 25 £42,500 -51.43% 1
Sussex - 21 £35,000 -
Windows
England

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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
1 272 (13.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 177 (8.46%) SharePoint
3 51 (2.44%) IIS
4 31 (1.48%) Apache
5 23 (1.10%) OpenStack
6 11 (0.53%) Confluence
7 10 (0.48%) WordPress
8 8 (0.38%) CMS
8 8 (0.38%) nginx
9 6 (0.29%) Exchange Server 2000
10 5 (0.24%) Exchange Server 2013
11 4 (0.19%) ColdFusion
11 4 (0.19%) TWiki
12 3 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2010
12 3 (0.14%) Orchard CMS
12 3 (0.14%) Umbraco
13 2 (0.096%) Tomcat
14 1 (0.048%) Oracle Spatial
14 1 (0.048%) WebSphere
Applications
1 304 (14.52%) Microsoft Office
2 84 (4.01%) Microsoft Excel
3 18 (0.86%) AutoCAD
4 16 (0.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 16 (0.76%) MS Visio
5 7 (0.33%) Photoshop
6 4 (0.19%) Adobe Illustrator
7 3 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.048%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.048%) PTC Creo
8 1 (0.048%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 3 (0.14%) assyst
1 3 (0.14%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (0.14%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.048%) Sage X3
2 1 (0.048%) SAP Business One
2 1 (0.048%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 906 (43.29%) Microsoft 365
2 738 (35.26%) Azure
3 191 (9.13%) Entra ID
4 132 (6.31%) AWS
5 96 (4.59%) OneDrive
6 82 (3.92%) Azure DevOps
7 71 (3.39%) Serverless
8 70 (3.34%) Azure Functions
8 70 (3.34%) IBM Cloud
9 69 (3.30%) Azure Service Bus
10 68 (3.25%) Azure API Management
10 68 (3.25%) Azure Logic Apps
11 58 (2.77%) SaaS
12 46 (2.20%) IaaS
13 30 (1.43%) Power Platform
14 27 (1.29%) Mimecast
15 24 (1.15%) Google Workspace
16 23 (1.10%) Cloud Computing
17 22 (1.05%) Azure Monitor
17 22 (1.05%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 447 (21.36%) Firewall
2 322 (15.38%) DNS
3 215 (10.27%) DHCP
4 174 (8.31%) TCP/IP
5 171 (8.17%) VPN
6 146 (6.98%) LAN
7 140 (6.69%) WAN
8 135 (6.45%) Wireless
9 109 (5.21%) VLAN
10 100 (4.78%) VoIP
11 88 (4.20%) Wi-Fi
12 73 (3.49%) SAN
13 39 (1.86%) SNMP
14 35 (1.67%) Remote Desktop
15 34 (1.62%) Broadband
16 31 (1.48%) Network Security
17 30 (1.43%) Internet
17 30 (1.43%) NAS
18 24 (1.15%) SD-WAN
19 22 (1.05%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 125 (5.97%) SQL Server
2 96 (4.59%) Relational Database
3 87 (4.16%) PostgreSQL
4 82 (3.92%) DB2
5 80 (3.82%) MongoDB
6 72 (3.44%) NoSQL
7 39 (1.86%) MySQL
8 32 (1.53%) Amazon RDS
9 19 (0.91%) Power BI
10 8 (0.38%) GIS
10 8 (0.38%) Oracle Database
11 7 (0.33%) Amazon Redshift
11 7 (0.33%) InfluxDB
11 7 (0.33%) Redis
11 7 (0.33%) SAP HANA
11 7 (0.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 6 (0.29%) MariaDB
13 5 (0.24%) Elasticsearch
14 2 (0.096%) Tableau
15 1 (0.048%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 77 (3.68%) Git
2 50 (2.39%) Visual Studio
3 38 (1.82%) Subversion
4 33 (1.58%) JIRA
5 24 (1.15%) Ant
5 24 (1.15%) Jenkins
6 17 (0.81%) CMake
7 13 (0.62%) Eclipse
8 12 (0.57%) Team Foundation Server
9 11 (0.53%) GitLab
10 10 (0.48%) MSI
10 10 (0.48%) Trac
11 9 (0.43%) eggPlant
12 8 (0.38%) Robot Framework
12 8 (0.38%) Selenium
13 6 (0.29%) Sonatype Nexus
14 5 (0.24%) Bitbucket
15 4 (0.19%) AdminStudio
15 4 (0.19%) Hudson
15 4 (0.19%) InstallShield
General
1 646 (30.86%) Social Skills
2 155 (7.41%) Finance
3 144 (6.88%) Analytical Skills
4 96 (4.59%) Organisational Skills
5 93 (4.44%) Public Sector
6 84 (4.01%) Telecoms
7 47 (2.25%) Law
7 47 (2.25%) Legal
8 44 (2.10%) Retail
9 43 (2.05%) Documentation Skills
10 40 (1.91%) Manufacturing
10 40 (1.91%) Military
11 37 (1.77%) Electronics
12 36 (1.72%) Games
13 28 (1.34%) Aerospace
13 28 (1.34%) Marketing
14 27 (1.29%) Presentation Skills
15 26 (1.24%) Back Office
16 15 (0.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 12 (0.57%) Police
Job Titles
1 346 (16.53%) IT Support
1 346 (16.53%) Support Engineer
2 258 (12.33%) Analyst
2 258 (12.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 256 (12.23%) IT Engineer
4 198 (9.46%) IT Support Engineer
5 194 (9.27%) Senior
6 145 (6.93%) Developer
7 141 (6.74%) Software Engineer
8 140 (6.69%) Lead
9 127 (6.07%) 2nd Line Support
10 116 (5.54%) 3rd Line Support
11 111 (5.30%) Support Analyst
12 99 (4.73%) IT Technician
13 96 (4.59%) IT Analyst
14 90 (4.30%) 1st Line Support
15 89 (4.25%) 3rd Line Engineer
16 85 (4.06%) Systems Engineer
17 77 (3.68%) Support Technician
18 74 (3.54%) Full Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 167 (7.98%) .NET
2 122 (5.83%) HTML
3 114 (5.45%) AngularJS
4 110 (5.26%) CSS
5 104 (4.97%) React
6 96 (4.59%) Web Services
7 93 (4.44%) jQuery
8 92 (4.40%) REST
9 88 (4.20%) ASP.NET
10 87 (4.16%) Vue
11 81 (3.87%) Twitter Bootstrap
12 77 (3.68%) Node.js
13 71 (3.39%) ASP.NET Core
14 70 (3.34%) Backbone.js
14 70 (3.34%) Ember.js
15 59 (2.82%) XML
16 39 (1.86%) Qt
17 37 (1.77%) WPF
18 29 (1.39%) STL
19 26 (1.24%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 120 (5.73%) Data Centre
2 108 (5.16%) Algorithms
3 83 (3.97%) Driving Licence
4 81 (3.87%) Self-Motivation
5 78 (3.73%) Hybrid Cloud
6 74 (3.54%) Data Structures
7 70 (3.34%) Blockchain
8 66 (3.15%) Management Information System
9 64 (3.06%) PKI
10 52 (2.48%) Onboarding
11 45 (2.15%) CMDB
12 44 (2.10%) Replication
13 35 (1.67%) Client/Server
13 35 (1.67%) IoT
14 29 (1.39%) Clustering
15 28 (1.34%) NHS
16 21 (1.00%) Digital Signage
17 18 (0.86%) CCTV
17 18 (0.86%) Cyber Threat
18 16 (0.76%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 798 (38.13%) Windows Server
2 535 (25.56%) Linux
3 462 (22.07%) Windows 10
4 169 (8.07%) Windows Server 2016
5 159 (7.60%) Apple iOS
6 151 (7.21%) Windows Server 2019
7 149 (7.12%) Android
8 119 (5.69%) Windows 7
9 109 (5.21%) Windows Server 2012
10 68 (3.25%) Windows 8
11 60 (2.87%) Mac OS
12 35 (1.67%) Unix
13 33 (1.58%) Ubuntu
14 32 (1.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 24 (1.15%) CentOS
16 20 (0.96%) Windows Server 2008
17 18 (0.86%) Mac OS X
17 18 (0.86%) Windows XP
18 15 (0.72%) Windows NT
19 11 (0.53%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 517 (24.70%) Problem-Solving
2 368 (17.58%) Customer Service
3 360 (17.20%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 351 (16.77%) ITIL
5 220 (10.51%) Agile
6 216 (10.32%) Cybersecurity
7 215 (10.27%) DevOps
8 181 (8.65%) Software Engineering
9 138 (6.59%) Computer Science
10 126 (6.02%) Mentoring
11 118 (5.64%) OO
12 108 (5.16%) Artificial Intelligence
13 107 (5.11%) Project Management
14 105 (5.02%) Service Delivery
15 104 (4.97%) Service Management
16 100 (4.78%) MVC
17 93 (4.44%) MVVM
17 93 (4.44%) OOP
18 86 (4.11%) Change Management
18 86 (4.11%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 309 (14.76%) SQL
2 300 (14.33%) PowerShell
3 238 (11.37%) Python
4 222 (10.61%) C#
5 164 (7.84%) JavaScript
6 161 (7.69%) Java
7 159 (7.60%) C++
8 93 (4.44%) C
9 39 (1.86%) Bash
9 39 (1.86%) VB
10 35 (1.67%) VBScript
11 34 (1.62%) Perl
12 18 (0.86%) R
12 18 (0.86%) XAML
13 15 (0.72%) Haskell
14 14 (0.67%) ActionScript
14 14 (0.67%) Bicep
15 12 (0.57%) Go
16 9 (0.43%) PHP
16 9 (0.43%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 398 (19.02%) Security Cleared
2 352 (16.82%) Degree
3 283 (13.52%) SC Cleared
4 189 (9.03%) DV Cleared
5 125 (5.97%) Microsoft Certification
6 113 (5.40%) Computer Science Degree
7 91 (4.35%) Cisco Certification
8 73 (3.49%) CCNA
9 42 (2.01%) MCP
10 40 (1.91%) DBS Check
11 38 (1.82%) Network+ Certification
12 35 (1.67%) MCSE
13 33 (1.58%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 28 (1.34%) CCNP
15 26 (1.24%) A+ Certification
16 25 (1.19%) Master's Degree
17 20 (0.96%) CompTIA Security+
17 20 (0.96%) MCITP
18 18 (0.86%) HNC
18 18 (0.86%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 149 (7.12%) SLA
2 64 (3.06%) GDPR
3 42 (2.01%) QA
4 38 (1.82%) Cyber Essentials
5 34 (1.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 16 (0.76%) Data Quality
7 8 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 7 (0.33%) ISO 13485
9 6 (0.29%) GRC
10 4 (0.19%) COBIT
10 4 (0.19%) ISO 22301
10 4 (0.19%) NIST
11 3 (0.14%) Accessibility
11 3 (0.14%) PCI DSS
12 2 (0.096%) PMO
13 1 (0.048%) DICOM
13 1 (0.048%) HIPAA
13 1 (0.048%) HL7
13 1 (0.048%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 945 (45.15%) Active Directory
2 356 (17.01%) VMware Infrastructure
3 292 (13.95%) Hyper-V
4 73 (3.49%) Virtual Machines
5 65 (3.11%) XenApp
6 59 (2.82%) VMware ESXi
6 59 (2.82%) vSphere
7 54 (2.58%) Docker
8 50 (2.39%) VirtualBox
9 48 (2.29%) XenDesktop
10 44 (2.10%) Virtual Desktop
11 41 (1.96%) Firmware
12 17 (0.81%) KVM
13 16 (0.76%) Virtual Servers
14 11 (0.53%) NFS
15 10 (0.48%) OpenSSH
15 10 (0.48%) pfSense
16 9 (0.43%) Microsoft Virtual Server
17 6 (0.29%) Citrix Hypervisor
17 6 (0.29%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 202 (9.65%) Microsoft Intune
2 146 (6.98%) SCCM
3 91 (4.35%) WSUS
4 79 (3.77%) vCenter Server
5 68 (3.25%) Kubernetes
6 58 (2.77%) SCOM
7 55 (2.63%) Ansible
8 36 (1.72%) Terraform
9 26 (1.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 22 (1.05%) ZABBIX
11 20 (0.96%) EMC NetWorker
11 20 (0.96%) Puppet
12 18 (0.86%) Nessus
12 18 (0.86%) WMI
13 16 (0.76%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
13 16 (0.76%) SCDPM
14 15 (0.72%) FortiGate
14 15 (0.72%) Grafana
15 14 (0.67%) NetBackup
15 14 (0.67%) Sysprep
Vendors
1 1,060 (50.65%) Microsoft
2 500 (23.89%) VMware
3 178 (8.50%) Cisco
4 145 (6.93%) Citrix
5 113 (5.40%) Red Hat
6 97 (4.63%) Veeam
7 83 (3.97%) IBM
8 60 (2.87%) Apple
8 60 (2.87%) Dell
9 50 (2.39%) HP
10 45 (2.15%) Google
10 45 (2.15%) Oracle
11 44 (2.10%) Adobe
12 42 (2.01%) Juniper
13 33 (1.58%) Meraki
14 32 (1.53%) Palo Alto
14 32 (1.53%) Sophos
15 30 (1.43%) Draytek
16 29 (1.39%) Fortinet
17 25 (1.19%) WatchGuard