Windows Jobs in Wales

Microsoft Windows
UK > Wales

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Wales 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 23 34 28
Rank change year-on-year +11 -6 -16
Permanent jobs citing Windows 153 113 156
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 7.59% 6.79% 8.25%
As % of the Operating Systems category 52.22% 64.57% 47.13%
Number of salaries quoted 127 64 112
10th Percentile £24,500 £24,300 £24,775
25th Percentile £26,500 £29,625 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £35,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% -17.65% +13.33%
75th Percentile £42,500 £46,750 £50,000
90th Percentile £54,250 £52,844 £58,625
UK median annual salary £40,000 £45,000 £43,876
% change year-on-year -11.11% +2.56% -2.50%

All Operating Systems
Wales

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 Wales with a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 293 175 331
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 14.53% 10.51% 17.49%
Number of salaries quoted 202 78 157
10th Percentile £24,775 £25,000 £26,000
25th Percentile £28,468 £28,500 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,500 £35,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.08% -21.11% +15.38%
75th Percentile £52,500 £47,875 £50,000
90th Percentile £62,500 £58,750 £60,750
UK median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% - +5.00%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in Wales

Windows
Salary Trend in Wales

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

Salary trend for Windows in Wales

Windows
Salary Histogram in Wales

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

Salary histogram for Windows in Wales

Windows
Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows within the Wales 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
South Wales +21 101 £30,000 - 18
North Wales +10 30 £33,500 -3.60% 5
West Wales +7 19 £44,000 +17.33% 3
Windows
UK

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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 22 (14.38%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (8.50%) SharePoint
3 7 (4.58%) Confluence
3 7 (4.58%) OpenStack
4 5 (3.27%) Apache
5 4 (2.61%) IIS
6 3 (1.96%) Jupyter
Applications
1 28 (18.30%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (10.46%) Microsoft Excel
3 13 (8.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.65%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 78 (50.98%) Microsoft 365
2 67 (43.79%) Azure
3 24 (15.69%) Entra ID
4 15 (9.80%) AWS
4 15 (9.80%) OneDrive
5 7 (4.58%) Nutanix
6 5 (3.27%) Amazon S3
6 5 (3.27%) Azure Monitor
6 5 (3.27%) Cloud Computing
7 4 (2.61%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (1.96%) GCP
8 3 (1.96%) OpenShift
8 3 (1.96%) Power Platform
9 2 (1.31%) SaaS
10 1 (0.65%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (0.65%) Cloudflare
10 1 (0.65%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 32 (20.92%) Firewall
2 31 (20.26%) DNS
3 24 (15.69%) DHCP
4 16 (10.46%) Internet
4 16 (10.46%) Remote Desktop
5 14 (9.15%) VPN
6 13 (8.50%) SAN
7 11 (7.19%) LAN
7 11 (7.19%) TCP/IP
7 11 (7.19%) WAN
7 11 (7.19%) Wi-Fi
8 10 (6.54%) VoIP
9 5 (3.27%) Extranet
9 5 (3.27%) IPsec
9 5 (3.27%) SNMP
9 5 (3.27%) Unified Communications
10 4 (2.61%) MPLS
10 4 (2.61%) Network Security
11 3 (1.96%) Bluetooth
11 3 (1.96%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (7.19%) SQL Server
2 9 (5.88%) MongoDB
3 6 (3.92%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (3.27%) MySQL
4 5 (3.27%) RDBMS
4 5 (3.27%) Relational Database
5 3 (1.96%) Big Data
5 3 (1.96%) Metabase
5 3 (1.96%) Power BI
6 1 (0.65%) InfluxDB
6 1 (0.65%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.65%) Redis
Development Applications
1 8 (5.23%) JIRA
2 3 (1.96%) IBM UrbanCode
2 3 (1.96%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 3 (1.96%) Visual Studio Code
3 2 (1.31%) GitLab
4 1 (0.65%) Git
4 1 (0.65%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.65%) SonarQube
General
1 45 (29.41%) Social Skills
2 31 (20.26%) Finance
3 11 (7.19%) Manufacturing
4 10 (6.54%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (6.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 10 (6.54%) Local Government
4 10 (6.54%) Police
5 6 (3.92%) Advertising
5 6 (3.92%) Law
6 5 (3.27%) Legal
7 3 (1.96%) Banking
7 3 (1.96%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (1.96%) Retail
7 3 (1.96%) Welsh Language
8 1 (0.65%) Electronics
8 1 (0.65%) Games
8 1 (0.65%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.65%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 30 (19.61%) Senior
2 29 (18.95%) Support Engineer
3 26 (16.99%) IT Support
4 20 (13.07%) IT Technician
5 15 (9.80%) Analyst
5 15 (9.80%) IT Engineer
6 13 (8.50%) Desktop Engineer
6 13 (8.50%) Desktop Support
6 13 (8.50%) Desktop Support Engineer
7 11 (7.19%) DBA
7 11 (7.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 10 (6.54%) ICT Engineer
8 10 (6.54%) Senior Technical Engineer
8 10 (6.54%) Technical Engineer
9 9 (5.88%) IT Support Engineer
10 8 (5.23%) 2nd Line Engineer
10 8 (5.23%) Consultant
11 7 (4.58%) IT Analyst
11 7 (4.58%) Senior Systems Engineer
11 7 (4.58%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.27%) RabbitMQ
1 5 (3.27%) YAML
2 3 (1.96%) .NET
2 3 (1.96%) COM
2 3 (1.96%) SAML
2 3 (1.96%) WinForms
3 1 (0.65%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.65%) REST
3 1 (0.65%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 22 (14.38%) Data Centre
2 12 (7.84%) Driving Licence
3 6 (3.92%) Onboarding
4 5 (3.27%) Management Information System
4 5 (3.27%) Smartphone
5 4 (2.61%) Clustering
5 4 (2.61%) EPoS
5 4 (2.61%) Public Cloud
5 4 (2.61%) Replication
6 3 (1.96%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.96%) Raspberry Pi
6 3 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.31%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.31%) iPad
8 1 (0.65%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.65%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.65%) Life Science
8 1 (0.65%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 62 (40.52%) Windows Server
2 41 (26.80%) Linux
3 23 (15.03%) Windows 10
4 11 (7.19%) Windows Server 2012
5 8 (5.23%) Android
5 8 (5.23%) Mac OS
6 7 (4.58%) Unix
6 7 (4.58%) Windows Server 2019
7 6 (3.92%) Apple iOS
8 5 (3.27%) Data ONTAP
9 3 (1.96%) VMS
9 3 (1.96%) Windows 7
10 2 (1.31%) Ubuntu
10 2 (1.31%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (32.03%) Customer Service
2 28 (18.30%) Problem-Solving
3 25 (16.34%) ITIL
4 18 (11.76%) Break/Fix
5 15 (9.80%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 15 (9.80%) Project Management
5 15 (9.80%) Service Delivery
6 13 (8.50%) Ticket Management
7 12 (7.84%) Actionable Insight
7 12 (7.84%) Agile
8 10 (6.54%) CI/CD
8 10 (6.54%) Problem Management
9 9 (5.88%) Change Management
10 8 (5.23%) DevOps
10 8 (5.23%) Storage Management
11 7 (4.58%) Agile Project Management
11 7 (4.58%) Cybersecurity
11 7 (4.58%) Hardware Maintenance
11 7 (4.58%) Infrastructure Maintenance
11 7 (4.58%) Infrastructure Management
Programming Languages
1 27 (17.65%) SQL
2 13 (8.50%) PowerShell
3 7 (4.58%) Python
4 4 (2.61%) C#
4 4 (2.61%) VB
5 3 (1.96%) Groovy
6 2 (1.31%) Bash
7 1 (0.65%) C++
7 1 (0.65%) Java
7 1 (0.65%) Perl
Qualifications
1 25 (16.34%) Degree
2 12 (7.84%) SC Cleared
2 12 (7.84%) Security Cleared
3 10 (6.54%) CCNA
3 10 (6.54%) Cisco Certification
3 10 (6.54%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (6.54%) Microsoft Certification
4 8 (5.23%) A+ Certification
5 4 (2.61%) ITIL Certification
5 4 (2.61%) MCP
6 2 (1.31%) CCNP
6 2 (1.31%) PMI Certification
6 2 (1.31%) PMP
7 1 (0.65%) HNC
7 1 (0.65%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (10.46%) SLA
2 9 (5.88%) GDPR
3 4 (2.61%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (1.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.65%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 73 (47.71%) Active Directory
2 23 (15.03%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (9.15%) Docker
4 10 (6.54%) Hyper-V
5 7 (4.58%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (2.61%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (1.31%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.65%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 26 (16.99%) Microsoft Intune
2 17 (11.11%) Ansible
3 15 (9.80%) Kubernetes
4 14 (9.15%) SCCM
5 8 (5.23%) Terraform
6 6 (3.92%) Prometheus
7 5 (3.27%) Progress Chef
7 5 (3.27%) SCOM
7 5 (3.27%) vCenter Server
8 3 (1.96%) Perfmon
8 3 (1.96%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (1.31%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.65%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (0.65%) Grafana
10 1 (0.65%) PaperCut
10 1 (0.65%) Puppet
10 1 (0.65%) WSUS
Vendors
1 91 (59.48%) Microsoft
2 36 (23.53%) VMware
3 10 (6.54%) NetApp
3 10 (6.54%) Veeam
4 8 (5.23%) Cisco
5 7 (4.58%) Citrix
6 6 (3.92%) HP
6 6 (3.92%) Meraki
7 5 (3.27%) AppDynamics
7 5 (3.27%) Apple
7 5 (3.27%) Oracle
7 5 (3.27%) Palo Alto
7 5 (3.27%) Red Hat
7 5 (3.27%) SolidFire
7 5 (3.27%) Sophos
8 4 (2.61%) Acronis
8 4 (2.61%) Aruba
8 4 (2.61%) Atlassian
8 4 (2.61%) IBM
8 4 (2.61%) Mitel