Microsoft Windows 10
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Windows 10 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Windows 10 over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 153 204 235
Rank change year-on-year +51 +31 -61
Permanent jobs citing Windows 10 1,905 1,872 2,745
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.92% 1.85% 1.75%
As % of the Operating Systems category 13.58% 11.57% 9.22%
Number of salaries quoted 1,627 1,488 2,173
10th Percentile £23,500 £24,750 £23,000
25th Percentile £26,500 £27,938 £26,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £34,500 £31,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.80% +9.52% -3.82%
75th Percentile £43,750 £45,000 £45,000
90th Percentile £55,675 £60,000 £60,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £30,500 £31,500 £28,500
% change year-on-year -3.17% +10.53% -

All Operating Systems
UK

Windows 10 is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 14,033 16,182 29,776
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 14.16% 15.97% 18.98%
Number of salaries quoted 10,810 10,929 16,503
10th Percentile £26,000 £27,000 £26,450
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £35,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £71,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £92,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -5.56% - -

Windows 10
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Windows 10 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Windows 10 in the UK

Windows 10
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Windows 10.

Salary trend for Windows 10 in the UK

Windows 10
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows 10 over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Windows 10 in the UK

Windows 10
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows 10 within the UK over the 6 months to 9 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
England +54 1,809 £32,500 -5.42% 334
UK excluding London +37 1,369 £30,500 -3.17% 267
London +42 509 £42,072 +9.28% 83
Work from Home +46 490 £38,000 - 86
South East +24 441 £32,500 +7.88% 70
North of England +19 263 £30,000 -6.25% 53
Midlands +58 212 £29,000 -10.77% 46
South West +15 198 £32,000 +3.23% 51
East of England +62 184 £30,000 -7.69% 31
West Midlands +72 166 £29,500 -9.23% 24
North West -41 107 £30,000 -6.25% 24
Yorkshire +70 104 £30,500 -4.69% 27
North East +26 52 £27,500 -8.33% 2
East Midlands -6 45 £28,165 +0.59% 22
Scotland -85 41 £31,000 -22.50% 15
Wales +5 23 £27,000 -10.00% 3
Northern Ireland +23 4 £90,000 +179.07% 4
Isle of Man - 4 £43,000 -

Windows 10
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 561 (29.45%) Microsoft Exchange
2 308 (16.17%) SharePoint
3 43 (2.26%) Skype for Business
4 12 (0.63%) CMS
5 8 (0.42%) Confluence
5 8 (0.42%) IIS
6 7 (0.37%) Exchange Server 2013
7 6 (0.31%) Exchange Server 2000
7 6 (0.31%) OpenStack
7 6 (0.31%) SharePoint 2013
8 5 (0.26%) Exchange Server 2010
8 5 (0.26%) SharePoint 2010
9 4 (0.21%) WordPress
10 3 (0.16%) Apache
10 3 (0.16%) MQSeries
11 1 (0.052%) IBM Notes
11 1 (0.052%) Moodle
Applications
1 598 (31.39%) Microsoft Office
2 33 (1.73%) Microsoft Excel
3 13 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (0.52%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.10%) Adobe Illustrator
5 2 (0.10%) InCopy
5 2 (0.10%) InDesign
5 2 (0.10%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.10%) Photoshop
5 2 (0.10%) S-PLUS
6 1 (0.052%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 5 (0.26%) Elite 3E
2 4 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
3 3 (0.16%) Carpe Diem
3 3 (0.16%) Eikon
4 2 (0.10%) Farmplan
4 2 (0.10%) KEYPrime
4 2 (0.10%) Sage 200
4 2 (0.10%) Sage 50
4 2 (0.10%) Shopify
5 1 (0.052%) iTrent
5 1 (0.052%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.052%) Sage 300 ERP
5 1 (0.052%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.052%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.052%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 1,343 (70.50%) Microsoft 365
2 601 (31.55%) Azure
3 286 (15.01%) Entra ID
4 150 (7.87%) OneDrive
5 50 (2.62%) Mimecast
6 47 (2.47%) AWS
7 34 (1.78%) Power Platform
8 31 (1.63%) Power Automate
9 28 (1.47%) Google Workspace
10 27 (1.42%) SaaS
11 23 (1.21%) IaaS
12 20 (1.05%) Azure Sentinel
13 16 (0.84%) PaaS
14 13 (0.68%) WhatsApp
15 12 (0.63%) Cloud Computing
15 12 (0.63%) OCI
16 11 (0.58%) Azure DevOps
16 11 (0.58%) Nutanix
17 10 (0.52%) GCP
18 9 (0.47%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 280 (14.70%) Firewall
2 271 (14.23%) DNS
3 269 (14.12%) WAN
4 218 (11.44%) DHCP
5 216 (11.34%) TCP/IP
6 198 (10.39%) Wireless
7 178 (9.34%) LAN
8 159 (8.35%) Wi-Fi
9 141 (7.40%) VPN
10 129 (6.77%) Cisco IOS
11 107 (5.62%) SD-WAN
12 104 (5.46%) WebEx
13 81 (4.25%) VoIP
14 77 (4.04%) VLAN
15 66 (3.46%) SAN
16 56 (2.94%) Internet
17 45 (2.36%) Remote Desktop
18 43 (2.26%) Skype
19 29 (1.52%) Telepresence
20 21 (1.10%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (4.36%) SQL Server
2 25 (1.31%) Power BI
3 24 (1.26%) MySQL
4 22 (1.15%) Amazon RDS
5 9 (0.47%) DB2
5 9 (0.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 8 (0.42%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (0.31%) InfluxDB
7 6 (0.31%) MariaDB
8 4 (0.21%) UniData
9 2 (0.10%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (0.10%) DTS
9 2 (0.10%) Metadata
9 2 (0.10%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.10%) MS Access
9 2 (0.10%) Neo4j
9 2 (0.10%) NoSQL
9 2 (0.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.052%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 25 (1.31%) JIRA
2 23 (1.21%) Git
3 15 (0.79%) Visual Studio
4 13 (0.68%) Subversion
5 8 (0.42%) IntelliJ
5 8 (0.42%) MSI
6 7 (0.37%) Jenkins
7 6 (0.31%) Eclipse
8 4 (0.21%) AdminStudio
8 4 (0.21%) InstallShield
9 2 (0.10%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 1 (0.052%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.052%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.052%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.052%) GitLab
10 1 (0.052%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.052%) Zephyr
General
1 778 (40.84%) Social Skills
2 223 (11.71%) Analytical Skills
3 206 (10.81%) Finance
4 118 (6.19%) Organisational Skills
5 109 (5.72%) Law
6 95 (4.99%) Legal
7 77 (4.04%) Manufacturing
8 75 (3.94%) Telecoms
9 70 (3.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 52 (2.73%) Retail
11 40 (2.10%) Automotive
12 36 (1.89%) Banking
13 34 (1.78%) Public Sector
14 29 (1.52%) Back Office
15 28 (1.47%) Pharmaceutical
16 25 (1.31%) Marketing
17 21 (1.10%) Advertising
18 16 (0.84%) Documentation Skills
18 16 (0.84%) Electronics
18 16 (0.84%) Police
Job Titles
1 594 (31.18%) IT Support
2 426 (22.36%) Analyst
3 414 (21.73%) Support Engineer
4 278 (14.59%) IT Engineer
5 224 (11.76%) IT Support Engineer
6 207 (10.87%) Support Analyst
7 203 (10.66%) 2nd Line Support
8 202 (10.60%) IT Analyst
9 167 (8.77%) IT Technician
10 135 (7.09%) Service Analyst
11 134 (7.03%) 2nd Line Engineer
12 131 (6.88%) Support Specialist
13 129 (6.77%) Senior
14 126 (6.61%) 1st Line Support
15 121 (6.35%) Support Technician
16 120 (6.30%) IT Support Analyst
17 116 (6.09%) Service Desk Analyst
18 112 (5.88%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
18 112 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
19 111 (5.83%) IT Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (1.26%) .NET
2 11 (0.58%) .NET Framework
2 11 (0.58%) Qt
3 9 (0.47%) X-Windows
4 8 (0.42%) REST
5 5 (0.26%) .NET Core
5 5 (0.26%) EDI
5 5 (0.26%) React
6 4 (0.21%) XMPP
7 3 (0.16%) Hibernate
7 3 (0.16%) HTML
7 3 (0.16%) JSON
7 3 (0.16%) Spring
8 2 (0.10%) ADO
8 2 (0.10%) Razor View Engine
8 2 (0.10%) TAPI
9 1 (0.052%) Elastic Stack
9 1 (0.052%) Kafka
9 1 (0.052%) RESTEasy
9 1 (0.052%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 170 (8.92%) Video Conferencing
2 134 (7.03%) Driving Licence
3 95 (4.99%) Self-Motivation
4 92 (4.83%) Wiki
5 78 (4.09%) Management Information System
6 65 (3.41%) Data Centre
7 62 (3.25%) Smartphone
8 61 (3.20%) Replication
9 55 (2.89%) iPhone
10 33 (1.73%) iPad
11 30 (1.57%) CCTV
12 29 (1.52%) Blackberry
13 28 (1.47%) Private Cloud
14 26 (1.36%) Onboarding
15 25 (1.31%) EPoS
16 24 (1.26%) Clustering
17 19 (1.00%) Distributed Systems
18 17 (0.89%) NHS
19 14 (0.73%) Fat Client
19 14 (0.73%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 1,900 (99.74%) Windows
2 612 (32.13%) Windows Server
3 266 (13.96%) Windows 7
4 251 (13.18%) Android
5 238 (12.49%) Windows Server 2016
6 227 (11.92%) Windows Server 2019
7 200 (10.50%) Windows Server 2012
8 141 (7.40%) Apple iOS
9 122 (6.40%) Linux
10 109 (5.72%) Mac OS
11 98 (5.14%) Windows 8
12 63 (3.31%) Windows Server 2008
13 39 (2.05%) Mac OS X
14 24 (1.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 24 (1.26%) Windows XP
15 22 (1.15%) Ubuntu
16 19 (1.00%) CentOS
17 16 (0.84%) Windows NT
18 15 (0.79%) VMS
18 15 (0.79%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 517 (27.14%) ITIL
2 491 (25.77%) Problem-Solving
3 479 (25.14%) Customer Service
4 150 (7.87%) ITSM
5 147 (7.72%) Cybersecurity
6 142 (7.45%) Mobile Device Management
7 138 (7.24%) Computer Science
8 136 (7.14%) Service Management
9 133 (6.98%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 121 (6.35%) Time Management
11 120 (6.30%) Service Delivery
12 100 (5.25%) Business Continuity
13 95 (4.99%) Application Virtualisation
14 91 (4.78%) BCP
14 91 (4.78%) Business Continuity Planning
14 91 (4.78%) Contract Negotiation
15 87 (4.57%) Continuous Improvement
15 87 (4.57%) Project Management
16 85 (4.46%) Change Management
17 81 (4.25%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 204 (10.71%) PowerShell
2 161 (8.45%) SQL
3 21 (1.10%) Python
4 18 (0.94%) Bash
5 14 (0.73%) C#
6 13 (0.68%) Perl
7 12 (0.63%) C
7 12 (0.63%) C++
8 11 (0.58%) VB
9 10 (0.52%) Java
10 6 (0.31%) Ruby
11 5 (0.26%) TypeScript
12 4 (0.21%) T-SQL
13 3 (0.16%) JavaScript
14 2 (0.10%) PHP
14 2 (0.10%) Scala
15 1 (0.052%) Go
15 1 (0.052%) Swift
Qualifications
1 382 (20.05%) Degree
2 147 (7.72%) Security Cleared
3 133 (6.98%) Microsoft Certification
4 121 (6.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 119 (6.25%) Master's Degree
6 86 (4.51%) SC Cleared
7 68 (3.57%) DBS Check
8 67 (3.52%) DV Cleared
9 57 (2.99%) A+ Certification
10 53 (2.78%) MCP
11 51 (2.68%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 40 (2.10%) Cisco Certification
13 29 (1.52%) CCNA
13 29 (1.52%) ITIL Certification
14 28 (1.47%) MCSA
15 25 (1.31%) CCNP
15 25 (1.31%) MBA
16 24 (1.26%) HNC
17 23 (1.21%) Azure Certification
18 22 (1.15%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 177 (9.29%) SLA
2 54 (2.83%) GDPR
3 37 (1.94%) Cyber Essentials
4 27 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (0.63%) NIST
6 10 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 3 (0.16%) ISO 9001
7 3 (0.16%) PMO
7 3 (0.16%) QA
7 3 (0.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.10%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.052%) DICOM
9 1 (0.052%) HL7
9 1 (0.052%) NCSC
9 1 (0.052%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1,275 (66.93%) Active Directory
2 345 (18.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 236 (12.39%) Hyper-V
4 162 (8.50%) XenApp
5 151 (7.93%) VMware ESXi
6 149 (7.82%) XenDesktop
7 99 (5.20%) Microsoft App-V
8 53 (2.78%) vSphere
9 45 (2.36%) VirtualBox
10 35 (1.84%) Virtual Desktop
11 28 (1.47%) Virtual Machines
12 26 (1.36%) Firmware
13 16 (0.84%) Terminal Services
13 16 (0.84%) Virtual Servers
14 14 (0.73%) KVM
15 11 (0.58%) Docker
16 9 (0.47%) Microsoft Virtual Server
17 7 (0.37%) VMware Workstation
18 6 (0.31%) Citrix Hypervisor
18 6 (0.31%) pfSense
Systems Management
1 360 (18.90%) SCCM
2 294 (15.43%) Microsoft Intune
3 91 (4.78%) AirWatch
4 47 (2.47%) WSUS
5 44 (2.31%) Jamf Pro
6 25 (1.31%) SCOM
7 19 (1.00%) vCenter Server
8 18 (0.94%) Failover Clustering
9 17 (0.89%) Terraform
10 16 (0.84%) Single Sign-On
11 13 (0.68%) EMC NetWorker
11 13 (0.68%) NetBackup
12 12 (0.63%) Ansible
12 12 (0.63%) Sysprep
13 10 (0.52%) McAfee ePO
14 9 (0.47%) Autotask
14 9 (0.47%) Backup Exec
14 9 (0.47%) SmoothWall
15 8 (0.42%) EMC VPLEX
15 8 (0.42%) Nagios
Vendors
1 1,399 (73.44%) Microsoft
2 462 (24.25%) VMware
3 298 (15.64%) Cisco
4 281 (14.75%) Citrix
5 163 (8.56%) Apple
6 98 (5.14%) Veeam
7 60 (3.15%) HP
8 56 (2.94%) Dell
9 51 (2.68%) Adobe
9 51 (2.68%) ServiceNow
10 43 (2.26%) Sophos
11 39 (2.05%) iManage
12 35 (1.84%) Google
13 31 (1.63%) SolarWinds
14 30 (1.57%) Palo Alto
15 29 (1.52%) Polycom
16 28 (1.47%) Bloomberg
17 23 (1.21%) MobileIron
17 23 (1.21%) Symantec
18 22 (1.15%) Oracle