Microsoft Windows
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 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 15 19 33
Rank change year-on-year +4 +14 -10
Permanent jobs citing Windows 9,344 9,905 13,810
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.43% 9.77% 8.80%
As % of the Operating Systems category 66.59% 61.21% 46.38%
Number of salaries quoted 7,626 7,031 9,825
10th Percentile £25,200 £25,750 £25,000
25th Percentile £29,000 £31,250 £30,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £45,000 £43,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £56,000 £60,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £78,750 £76,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,500 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year -6.25% +3.90% -3.75%

All Operating Systems
UK

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 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
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in the UK

Windows
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Windows in the UK

Windows
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for Windows in the UK

Windows
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 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 +5 8,616 £40,000 -8.57% 1,799
UK excluding London +6 7,155 £37,500 -6.25% 1,452
Work from Home +4 2,776 £49,881 -0.24% 658
South East +2 2,047 £40,000 +6.67% 365
London +10 2,004 £55,000 +4.76% 440
North of England +10 1,566 £37,500 -5.65% 321
Midlands +13 1,235 £35,000 -12.50% 258
South West +5 979 £42,500 +11.84% 228
North West -4 758 £40,000 - 167
East of England +3 753 £32,500 -15.58% 194
West Midlands +14 689 £35,000 -12.50% 146
Yorkshire +20 621 £37,000 -2.63% 123
East Midlands +9 540 £34,000 -11.11% 112
Scotland -45 376 £42,202 -6.22% 84
North East +14 189 £33,000 -17.50% 35
Wales +6 149 £32,500 -7.14% 27
Northern Ireland -11 47 £37,500 -25.00% 20
Isle of Man -4 12 £43,750 +45.83%

Windows
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 1,560 (16.70%) Microsoft Exchange
2 985 (10.54%) SharePoint
3 214 (2.29%) IIS
4 135 (1.44%) Apache
5 74 (0.79%) Confluence
6 53 (0.57%) Skype for Business
7 48 (0.51%) Exchange Server 2013
8 47 (0.50%) CMS
9 43 (0.46%) Exchange Server 2010
10 42 (0.45%) Tomcat
11 39 (0.42%) OpenStack
12 22 (0.24%) Exchange Server 2007
12 22 (0.24%) WordPress
13 19 (0.20%) SAS
14 17 (0.18%) SharePoint 2013
15 16 (0.17%) SharePoint 2010
16 15 (0.16%) JBoss
17 10 (0.11%) nginx
17 10 (0.11%) Umbraco
18 9 (0.096%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1,392 (14.90%) Microsoft Office
2 275 (2.94%) Microsoft Excel
3 106 (1.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 33 (0.35%) MS Visio
5 31 (0.33%) AutoCAD
6 23 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
7 18 (0.19%) Trello
8 14 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
9 10 (0.11%) Photoshop
9 10 (0.11%) Revit
10 9 (0.096%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 8 (0.086%) InfoPath
12 7 (0.075%) Adobe Illustrator
13 4 (0.043%) Adobe XD
14 3 (0.032%) Final Cut Pro
14 3 (0.032%) InDesign
14 3 (0.032%) Pro Tools
14 3 (0.032%) Simulink
14 3 (0.032%) SPSS
15 2 (0.021%) InCopy
Business Applications
1 50 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
2 33 (0.35%) NEC Housing
3 19 (0.20%) Unit4 Business World
4 16 (0.17%) Dynamics NAV
4 16 (0.17%) Fidessa
5 10 (0.11%) SAP ERP
6 9 (0.096%) Teamcenter
7 8 (0.086%) Carpe Diem
7 8 (0.086%) Remedy ITSM
8 7 (0.075%) Elite 3E
9 6 (0.064%) Sage 200
10 5 (0.054%) Shopify
10 5 (0.054%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 5 (0.054%) Temenos T24
11 4 (0.043%) Oracle Cash Management
11 4 (0.043%) Salesforce CRM
12 3 (0.032%) Eikon
12 3 (0.032%) JDE EnterpriseOne
12 3 (0.032%) Sage 50
13 2 (0.021%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 4,061 (43.46%) Microsoft 365
2 3,444 (36.86%) Azure
3 1,067 (11.42%) Entra ID
4 888 (9.50%) AWS
5 417 (4.46%) OneDrive
6 315 (3.37%) Azure DevOps
7 305 (3.26%) SaaS
8 238 (2.55%) IBM Cloud
9 226 (2.42%) GCP
10 205 (2.19%) IaaS
11 187 (2.00%) Power Platform
12 184 (1.97%) Serverless
13 143 (1.53%) Azure Logic Apps
14 138 (1.48%) Azure Functions
15 136 (1.46%) Azure API Management
16 135 (1.44%) Azure Service Bus
17 132 (1.41%) Google Workspace
17 132 (1.41%) Mimecast
18 128 (1.37%) Cloud Computing
19 122 (1.31%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1,747 (18.70%) Firewall
2 1,356 (14.51%) DNS
3 983 (10.52%) DHCP
4 880 (9.42%) WAN
5 822 (8.80%) TCP/IP
6 787 (8.42%) LAN
7 743 (7.95%) VPN
8 501 (5.36%) Wireless
9 489 (5.23%) Wi-Fi
10 467 (5.00%) SAN
11 332 (3.55%) VLAN
12 326 (3.49%) VoIP
13 294 (3.15%) Internet
14 222 (2.38%) SD-WAN
15 208 (2.23%) Network Security
16 177 (1.89%) NAS
17 167 (1.79%) Remote Desktop
18 155 (1.66%) Cisco IOS
19 114 (1.22%) SNMP
20 108 (1.16%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 849 (9.09%) SQL Server
2 384 (4.11%) MongoDB
3 326 (3.49%) PostgreSQL
4 295 (3.16%) DB2
5 259 (2.77%) NoSQL
6 245 (2.62%) Relational Database
7 173 (1.85%) MySQL
8 145 (1.55%) Power BI
9 144 (1.54%) Amazon RDS
10 84 (0.90%) Elasticsearch
11 71 (0.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 58 (0.62%) Oracle Database
13 52 (0.56%) Data Warehouse
13 52 (0.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 39 (0.42%) RDBMS
15 34 (0.36%) Azure SQL Database
16 25 (0.27%) Redis
17 23 (0.25%) InfluxDB
18 22 (0.24%) Big Data
19 21 (0.22%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 234 (2.50%) Git
2 231 (2.47%) JIRA
3 151 (1.62%) Jenkins
4 118 (1.26%) Visual Studio
5 103 (1.10%) GitLab
6 72 (0.77%) Subversion
7 45 (0.48%) Bitbucket
8 36 (0.39%) Eclipse
9 27 (0.29%) CMake
10 25 (0.27%) Ant
11 24 (0.26%) TeamCity
12 23 (0.25%) Octopus Deploy
13 22 (0.24%) Artifactory
13 22 (0.24%) LabVIEW
13 22 (0.24%) MSI
14 20 (0.21%) IBM UrbanCode
15 18 (0.19%) SonarQube
16 15 (0.16%) Team Foundation Server
17 13 (0.14%) Postman
18 12 (0.13%) IntelliJ
General
1 2,914 (31.19%) Social Skills
2 1,262 (13.51%) Finance
3 856 (9.16%) Analytical Skills
4 513 (5.49%) Public Sector
5 365 (3.91%) Law
6 349 (3.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 321 (3.44%) Organisational Skills
8 311 (3.33%) Retail
9 292 (3.13%) Telecoms
10 284 (3.04%) Manufacturing
11 262 (2.80%) Legal
12 240 (2.57%) Banking
13 176 (1.88%) Marketing
14 145 (1.55%) Electronics
15 143 (1.53%) Documentation Skills
16 132 (1.41%) Aerospace
17 125 (1.34%) Games
18 101 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
19 87 (0.93%) Automotive
20 77 (0.82%) Military
Job Titles
1 1,590 (17.02%) IT Support
2 1,409 (15.08%) Support Engineer
3 1,207 (12.92%) Analyst
4 1,114 (11.92%) Senior
5 1,098 (11.75%) IT Engineer
6 1,096 (11.73%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 735 (7.87%) IT Support Engineer
8 538 (5.76%) IT Technician
9 517 (5.53%) Lead
10 505 (5.40%) 2nd Line Support
11 490 (5.24%) Support Analyst
12 477 (5.10%) Developer
13 439 (4.70%) IT Analyst
14 380 (4.07%) Support Technician
15 340 (3.64%) Service Analyst
16 335 (3.59%) 2nd Line Engineer
17 319 (3.41%) Software Engineer
18 314 (3.36%) Service Desk Analyst
19 311 (3.33%) 1st Line Support
19 311 (3.33%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 618 (6.61%) .NET
2 457 (4.89%) HTML
3 400 (4.28%) CSS
4 341 (3.65%) AngularJS
5 340 (3.64%) REST
6 339 (3.63%) React
7 334 (3.57%) ASP.NET
8 318 (3.40%) Web Services
9 289 (3.09%) Vue
10 287 (3.07%) jQuery
11 279 (2.99%) Twitter Bootstrap
12 241 (2.58%) Ember.js
13 240 (2.57%) ASP.NET Core
14 238 (2.55%) Backbone.js
15 162 (1.73%) Node.js
16 142 (1.52%) WPF
17 98 (1.05%) .NET Framework
18 93 (1.00%) XML
19 88 (0.94%) RabbitMQ
20 86 (0.92%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 579 (6.20%) Data Centre
2 455 (4.87%) Driving Licence
3 438 (4.69%) Self-Motivation
4 379 (4.06%) Management Information System
5 306 (3.27%) Hybrid Cloud
6 289 (3.09%) Algorithms
7 260 (2.78%) Public Cloud
8 247 (2.64%) Data Structures
9 238 (2.55%) Blockchain
9 238 (2.55%) Video Conferencing
10 237 (2.54%) Replication
11 197 (2.11%) Onboarding
12 160 (1.71%) Clustering
13 148 (1.58%) PKI
14 129 (1.38%) e-Learning
15 99 (1.06%) Smartphone
16 98 (1.05%) Wiki
17 97 (1.04%) EPoS
18 84 (0.90%) Client/Server
19 80 (0.86%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 3,448 (36.90%) Windows Server
2 2,390 (25.58%) Linux
3 1,900 (20.33%) Windows 10
4 702 (7.51%) Android
5 612 (6.55%) Apple iOS
6 600 (6.42%) Windows Server 2016
7 534 (5.71%) Windows Server 2019
8 507 (5.43%) Windows Server 2012
9 427 (4.57%) Mac OS
10 390 (4.17%) Unix
11 325 (3.48%) Windows 7
12 163 (1.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 159 (1.70%) Ubuntu
14 156 (1.67%) Windows Server 2008
15 131 (1.40%) Windows 8
16 122 (1.31%) CentOS
17 116 (1.24%) VMS
18 94 (1.01%) Mac OS X
19 66 (0.71%) Solaris
20 55 (0.59%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,062 (22.07%) Problem-Solving
2 1,586 (16.97%) ITIL
3 1,479 (15.83%) Customer Service
4 1,403 (15.01%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 999 (10.69%) Cybersecurity
6 834 (8.93%) Agile
7 781 (8.36%) DevOps
8 720 (7.71%) Mentoring
9 567 (6.07%) Computer Science
10 493 (5.28%) Software Engineering
11 477 (5.10%) Disaster Recovery
12 464 (4.97%) Project Management
13 463 (4.96%) Service Management
14 431 (4.61%) Continuous Improvement
15 414 (4.43%) Service Delivery
16 409 (4.38%) User Experience
17 398 (4.26%) ITSM
18 390 (4.17%) Change Management
19 372 (3.98%) Artificial Intelligence
20 371 (3.97%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 1,365 (14.61%) SQL
2 1,303 (13.94%) PowerShell
3 790 (8.45%) Python
4 756 (8.09%) C#
5 519 (5.55%) JavaScript
6 413 (4.42%) Java
7 411 (4.40%) Bash
8 312 (3.34%) C++
9 181 (1.94%) C
10 116 (1.24%) T-SQL
11 107 (1.15%) Perl
12 85 (0.91%) VB
13 58 (0.62%) VBScript
14 54 (0.58%) Ruby
15 52 (0.56%) XAML
16 48 (0.51%) TypeScript
17 43 (0.46%) Shell Script
18 39 (0.42%) PHP
19 35 (0.37%) PL/SQL
20 27 (0.29%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1,534 (16.42%) Degree
2 1,058 (11.32%) Security Cleared
3 599 (6.41%) SC Cleared
4 560 (5.99%) Microsoft Certification
5 457 (4.89%) DV Cleared
6 397 (4.25%) Computer Science Degree
7 327 (3.50%) Cisco Certification
8 257 (2.75%) CCNA
9 251 (2.69%) DBS Check
10 206 (2.20%) MCSE
11 185 (1.98%) A+ Certification
12 164 (1.76%) Master's Degree
13 155 (1.66%) MCP
14 139 (1.49%) Azure Certification
15 126 (1.35%) MCSA
16 107 (1.15%) ITIL Certification
17 96 (1.03%) CISSP
17 96 (1.03%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
18 89 (0.95%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
19 79 (0.85%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 619 (6.62%) SLA
2 205 (2.19%) GDPR
3 182 (1.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 150 (1.61%) Cyber Essentials
5 142 (1.52%) QA
6 75 (0.80%) PCI DSS
7 68 (0.73%) NIST
8 60 (0.64%) Accessibility
9 33 (0.35%) PMO
10 21 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 20 (0.21%) COBIT
11 20 (0.21%) ITGC
12 19 (0.20%) Data Quality
12 19 (0.20%) GRC
13 18 (0.19%) SOC 2
14 14 (0.15%) ISO 9001
15 13 (0.14%) NCSC
16 11 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 8 (0.086%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
17 8 (0.086%) MISRA
System Software
1 4,179 (44.72%) Active Directory
2 1,568 (16.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1,133 (12.13%) Hyper-V
4 399 (4.27%) VMware ESXi
5 308 (3.30%) Docker
6 248 (2.65%) vSphere
7 229 (2.45%) Virtual Machines
8 198 (2.12%) XenApp
9 180 (1.93%) XenDesktop
10 157 (1.68%) Virtual Desktop
11 121 (1.29%) Firmware
12 105 (1.12%) Microsoft App-V
13 88 (0.94%) Virtual Servers
14 64 (0.68%) KVM
15 52 (0.56%) Terminal Services
16 48 (0.51%) VirtualBox
17 26 (0.28%) VMware Workstation
18 24 (0.26%) VMware NSX
19 23 (0.25%) VMware Server
20 22 (0.24%) pfSense
Systems Management
1 966 (10.34%) Microsoft Intune
2 748 (8.01%) SCCM
3 417 (4.46%) Ansible
4 361 (3.86%) Kubernetes
5 309 (3.31%) Terraform
6 246 (2.63%) vCenter Server
7 181 (1.94%) WSUS
8 142 (1.52%) SCOM
9 127 (1.36%) Puppet
10 111 (1.19%) AirWatch
11 102 (1.09%) Single Sign-On
12 100 (1.07%) Jamf Pro
13 94 (1.01%) Prometheus
14 74 (0.79%) Grafana
15 72 (0.77%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 64 (0.68%) FortiGate
17 60 (0.64%) Nagios
18 57 (0.61%) Progress Chef
19 54 (0.58%) Microsoft Clustering
20 52 (0.56%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 4,706 (50.36%) Microsoft
2 2,313 (24.75%) VMware
3 848 (9.08%) Cisco
4 638 (6.83%) Citrix
5 511 (5.47%) Red Hat
6 438 (4.69%) Veeam
7 400 (4.28%) Apple
8 380 (4.07%) IBM
9 334 (3.57%) Dell
10 329 (3.52%) HP
11 311 (3.33%) Oracle
12 293 (3.14%) Google
13 214 (2.29%) NetApp
14 198 (2.12%) ServiceNow
15 174 (1.86%) Meraki
16 137 (1.47%) Palo Alto
17 134 (1.43%) Adobe
18 126 (1.35%) Sophos
19 121 (1.29%) Splunk
20 114 (1.22%) SolarWinds