Windows Jobs in the West Midlands

Microsoft Windows
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 14 27 15
Rank change year-on-year +13 -12 -7
Permanent jobs citing Windows 699 563 772
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 9.62% 8.52% 10.61%
As % of the Operating Systems category 80.81% 68.83% 64.01%
Number of salaries quoted 610 414 654
10th Percentile £24,500 £24,825 £24,000
25th Percentile £26,500 £28,000 £30,531
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - -
75th Percentile £48,750 £53,750 £48,750
90th Percentile £57,500 £63,750 £60,000
England median annual salary £40,132 £43,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year -7.74% +2.35% -5.56%

All Operating Systems
West Midlands

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 West Midlands with a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 865 818 1,206
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 11.91% 12.38% 16.58%
Number of salaries quoted 743 564 879
10th Percentile £24,775 £25,000 £25,500
25th Percentile £27,500 £31,188 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +5.88% -
75th Percentile £53,750 £57,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £63,750 £70,000 £71,250
England median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% - +5.00%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Windows as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Windows in the West Midlands

Windows
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for Windows in the West Midlands

Windows
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Windows in the West Midlands

Windows
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 3 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
Birmingham +1 209 £38,000 -1.30% 46
Staffordshire -1 147 £35,000 -12.50% 29
Worcestershire -1 61 £35,000 -13.85% 25
Warwickshire +60 48 £35,500 -21.11% 13
Solihull +17 33 £29,500 -9.23% 2
Shropshire +8 31 £32,000 +23.08% 7
Coventry +11 23 £42,500 - 8
Dudley +18 16 £35,000 +12.90% 4
Wednesbury +3 11 £30,000 -18.64%
Halesowen -3 10 £36,500 +8.96% 1
Walsall +22 8 £26,000 +23.81% 4
Wolverhampton -3 6 £21,500 -57.00% 3
Herefordshire -6 4 £60,000 +33.33% 11
Stourbridge - 4 £50,000 - 1
Brierley Hill - 4 £33,750 -
West Bromwich -1 1 £23,000 -
Smethwick - 1 £42,500 -
Windows
England

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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
1 128 (18.31%) Microsoft Exchange
2 104 (14.88%) SharePoint
3 17 (2.43%) IIS
4 13 (1.86%) Skype for Business
5 7 (1.00%) Confluence
6 6 (0.86%) Exchange Server 2010
7 4 (0.57%) Apache
7 4 (0.57%) Tomcat
8 3 (0.43%) Exchange Server 2007
9 2 (0.29%) CMS
9 2 (0.29%) Exchange Server 2003
9 2 (0.29%) Exchange Server 2013
9 2 (0.29%) Liferay
9 2 (0.29%) Magnolia
9 2 (0.29%) Sitecore CMS
9 2 (0.29%) Umbraco
10 1 (0.14%) BizTalk Server
10 1 (0.14%) IBM Notes
Applications
1 113 (16.17%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (1.72%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (1.57%) Trello
4 7 (1.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.57%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.57%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.43%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.29%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 5 (0.72%) Dynamics NAV
2 4 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.57%) NEC Housing
3 1 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 367 (52.50%) Microsoft 365
2 257 (36.77%) Azure
3 130 (18.60%) Entra ID
4 39 (5.58%) AWS
5 26 (3.72%) OneDrive
6 19 (2.72%) Power Platform
6 19 (2.72%) SaaS
7 16 (2.29%) Power Automate
8 15 (2.15%) GCP
9 13 (1.86%) Azure DevOps
9 13 (1.86%) Azure Sentinel
10 11 (1.57%) IaaS
11 9 (1.29%) Azure Logic Apps
11 9 (1.29%) Cloud Computing
11 9 (1.29%) GitHub
11 9 (1.29%) PaaS
12 6 (0.86%) Google Workspace
13 4 (0.57%) Google Docs
13 4 (0.57%) Google Sheets
14 2 (0.29%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 158 (22.60%) Firewall
2 127 (18.17%) DNS
3 116 (16.60%) DHCP
4 80 (11.44%) TCP/IP
5 68 (9.73%) LAN
6 65 (9.30%) WAN
7 46 (6.58%) SAN
8 44 (6.29%) Wi-Fi
9 43 (6.15%) VPN
10 26 (3.72%) Wireless
11 18 (2.58%) VLAN
11 18 (2.58%) VoIP
12 17 (2.43%) PBX
13 14 (2.00%) Network Security
13 14 (2.00%) Skype
14 13 (1.86%) HTTP
14 13 (1.86%) iSCSI
14 13 (1.86%) SMTP
15 12 (1.72%) FTP
15 12 (1.72%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (10.30%) SQL Server
2 19 (2.72%) Amazon RDS
3 17 (2.43%) Power BI
4 16 (2.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 16 (2.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 5 (0.72%) Oracle Database
5 5 (0.72%) Relational Database
6 4 (0.57%) InfluxDB
6 4 (0.57%) Metadata
6 4 (0.57%) MySQL
6 4 (0.57%) SQLite
7 3 (0.43%) InterSystems Cache
8 2 (0.29%) Crystal Reports
8 2 (0.29%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.29%) DB2
8 2 (0.29%) DTS
8 2 (0.29%) Tableau
9 1 (0.14%) BusinessObjects
9 1 (0.14%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.14%) PowerCenter
Development Applications
1 15 (2.15%) JIRA
2 6 (0.86%) Git
3 5 (0.72%) Visual Studio
4 4 (0.57%) Octopus Deploy
4 4 (0.57%) TeamCity
5 3 (0.43%) IBM UrbanCode
5 3 (0.43%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.29%) Bower
6 2 (0.29%) CANoe
6 2 (0.29%) gulp
6 2 (0.29%) Moq
7 1 (0.14%) Toad
General
1 220 (31.47%) Social Skills
2 71 (10.16%) Finance
3 61 (8.73%) Analytical Skills
4 52 (7.44%) Law
4 52 (7.44%) Manufacturing
5 46 (6.58%) Retail
6 38 (5.44%) Documentation Skills
7 32 (4.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 28 (4.01%) Telecoms
9 16 (2.29%) Organisational Skills
10 15 (2.15%) Games
11 12 (1.72%) Electronics
11 12 (1.72%) Local Government
11 12 (1.72%) Public Sector
12 11 (1.57%) Automotive
13 10 (1.43%) Police
14 9 (1.29%) Marketing
15 8 (1.14%) Legal
16 7 (1.00%) Advertising
17 6 (0.86%) Military
Job Titles
1 144 (20.60%) IT Support
2 121 (17.31%) Support Engineer
3 117 (16.74%) IT Engineer
4 88 (12.59%) Analyst
5 76 (10.87%) IT Support Engineer
6 68 (9.73%) Senior
7 65 (9.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 34 (4.86%) 2nd Line Support
9 33 (4.72%) 1st Line Support
10 32 (4.58%) Developer
11 31 (4.43%) IT Technician
12 29 (4.15%) IT Analyst
13 25 (3.58%) Service Analyst
14 24 (3.43%) 2nd Line Engineer
14 24 (3.43%) Administrator
14 24 (3.43%) IT Support Specialist
14 24 (3.43%) Support Analyst
14 24 (3.43%) Support Specialist
15 23 (3.29%) 3rd Line Support
16 22 (3.15%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (7.73%) .NET
2 21 (3.00%) HTML
3 16 (2.29%) ASP.NET
4 15 (2.15%) ASP.NET MVC
4 15 (2.15%) REST
5 14 (2.00%) .NET Framework
6 13 (1.86%) CSS
6 13 (1.86%) WinForms
6 13 (1.86%) WPF
7 11 (1.57%) Entity Framework
8 10 (1.43%) .NET Core
9 9 (1.29%) AngularJS
9 9 (1.29%) React
9 9 (1.29%) Web Services
10 8 (1.14%) ASP.NET Web API
10 8 (1.14%) jQuery
11 6 (0.86%) Middleware
11 6 (0.86%) RESTful
11 6 (0.86%) Vue
12 5 (0.72%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 48 (6.87%) Self-Motivation
2 41 (5.87%) Data Centre
3 39 (5.58%) Driving Licence
4 38 (5.44%) Management Information System
5 33 (4.72%) Replication
6 18 (2.58%) PKI
7 16 (2.29%) Security Operations Centre
8 15 (2.15%) Clustering
8 15 (2.15%) Public Cloud
9 13 (1.86%) Cloud Native
9 13 (1.86%) Video Conferencing
10 11 (1.57%) Private Cloud
11 10 (1.43%) Onboarding
11 10 (1.43%) Social Media
12 9 (1.29%) EPoS
12 9 (1.29%) Virtual Team
13 8 (1.14%) EFT
13 8 (1.14%) Product Ownership
13 8 (1.14%) Team-Oriented Environment
14 7 (1.00%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 315 (45.06%) Windows Server
2 165 (23.61%) Windows 10
3 101 (14.45%) Linux
4 69 (9.87%) Windows Server 2012
5 50 (7.15%) Windows Server 2016
6 45 (6.44%) Windows Server 2019
7 44 (6.29%) Windows 7
8 26 (3.72%) Mac OS
9 25 (3.58%) Apple iOS
10 22 (3.15%) Unix
11 19 (2.72%) Android
12 17 (2.43%) Windows 8
13 14 (2.00%) Ubuntu
14 12 (1.72%) CentOS
15 11 (1.57%) Windows Server 2008
16 10 (1.43%) Solaris
16 10 (1.43%) VMS
17 9 (1.29%) Windows Vista
18 8 (1.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
19 7 (1.00%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 162 (23.18%) Problem-Solving
2 110 (15.74%) ITIL
3 104 (14.88%) Customer Service
4 90 (12.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 87 (12.45%) Cybersecurity
6 48 (6.87%) Continuous Improvement
7 45 (6.44%) Project Delivery
8 42 (6.01%) DevOps
9 40 (5.72%) Agile
9 40 (5.72%) Time Management
10 36 (5.15%) Server Management
11 32 (4.58%) Project Management
12 30 (4.29%) Computer Science
12 30 (4.29%) ERP
13 28 (4.01%) Mentoring
14 25 (3.58%) Asset Management
14 25 (3.58%) Change Management
14 25 (3.58%) Information Security
14 25 (3.58%) Roadmaps
15 24 (3.43%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 113 (16.17%) SQL
2 72 (10.30%) PowerShell
3 43 (6.15%) C#
4 24 (3.43%) T-SQL
5 20 (2.86%) Python
6 18 (2.58%) JavaScript
7 13 (1.86%) Java
8 12 (1.72%) C
8 12 (1.72%) VB.NET
9 9 (1.29%) XAML
10 7 (1.00%) Bash
11 6 (0.86%) C++
12 5 (0.72%) Bicep
12 5 (0.72%) Embedded C
12 5 (0.72%) TypeScript
13 4 (0.57%) Shell Script
14 3 (0.43%) Go
14 3 (0.43%) R
15 2 (0.29%) Kotlin
15 2 (0.29%) VB
Qualifications
1 96 (13.73%) Degree
2 63 (9.01%) Microsoft Certification
3 44 (6.29%) Security Cleared
4 33 (4.72%) DBS Check
5 29 (4.15%) SC Cleared
6 22 (3.15%) A+ Certification
7 19 (2.72%) Azure Certification
7 19 (2.72%) MCSE
8 16 (2.29%) Cisco Certification
9 15 (2.15%) CCNA
9 15 (2.15%) MCP
10 12 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
10 12 (1.72%) MCSA
11 11 (1.57%) DV Cleared
12 10 (1.43%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 8 (1.14%) Network+ Certification
14 7 (1.00%) AWS Certification
15 6 (0.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 4 (0.57%) CompTIA Security+
16 4 (0.57%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (4.86%) SLA
2 20 (2.86%) Cyber Essentials
3 19 (2.72%) GDPR
4 13 (1.86%) QA
5 12 (1.72%) NIST
6 6 (0.86%) Accessibility
7 5 (0.72%) MISRA
8 4 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.43%) JSP 440
10 2 (0.29%) AUTOSAR
10 2 (0.29%) ISO 26262
11 1 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.14%) Disclosure Scotland
11 1 (0.14%) ISO 22301
11 1 (0.14%) ITGC
11 1 (0.14%) PMO
System Software
1 359 (51.36%) Active Directory
2 142 (20.31%) VMware Infrastructure
3 137 (19.60%) Hyper-V
4 39 (5.58%) VMware ESXi
5 17 (2.43%) Docker
6 15 (2.15%) vSphere
7 12 (1.72%) Virtual Machines
8 10 (1.43%) Virtual Servers
9 8 (1.14%) Firmware
9 8 (1.14%) Virtual Desktop
9 8 (1.14%) VMware Workstation
10 6 (0.86%) NFS
10 6 (0.86%) pfSense
11 5 (0.72%) VMware NSX
11 5 (0.72%) VMware Server
12 4 (0.57%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 3 (0.43%) Terminal Services
14 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 2 (0.29%) XenApp
14 2 (0.29%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 89 (12.73%) Microsoft Intune
2 75 (10.73%) SCCM
3 17 (2.43%) Kubernetes
4 14 (2.00%) Terraform
5 13 (1.86%) Failover Clustering
6 12 (1.72%) vCenter Server
7 9 (1.29%) Single Sign-On
8 8 (1.14%) AirWatch
9 7 (1.00%) SCOM
10 6 (0.86%) WSUS
11 5 (0.72%) Backup Exec
11 5 (0.72%) Jamf Pro
12 4 (0.57%) Autotask
12 4 (0.57%) Grafana
13 3 (0.43%) FortiGate
13 3 (0.43%) SCVMM
14 2 (0.29%) Nagios
14 2 (0.29%) Nessus
14 2 (0.29%) PaperCut
14 2 (0.29%) SmoothWall
Vendors
1 437 (62.52%) Microsoft
2 204 (29.18%) VMware
3 66 (9.44%) Cisco
4 60 (8.58%) Veeam
5 51 (7.30%) Apple
6 46 (6.58%) Dell
7 38 (5.44%) HP
8 37 (5.29%) Citrix
9 26 (3.72%) Adobe
10 23 (3.29%) Sophos
11 16 (2.29%) Fortinet
12 14 (2.00%) Nimble Storage
12 14 (2.00%) ServiceNow
13 13 (1.86%) Remedy
14 12 (1.72%) Aruba
15 11 (1.57%) Google
15 11 (1.57%) Zerto
16 9 (1.29%) IBM
16 9 (1.29%) NetApp
17 8 (1.14%) Symantec