Windows Jobs in West Yorkshire

Microsoft Windows
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire 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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 16 39 16
Rank change year-on-year +23 -23 +1
Permanent jobs citing Windows 288 372 515
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 9.66% 7.12% 11.03%
As % of the Operating Systems category 73.28% 63.37% 49.38%
Number of salaries quoted 242 252 410
10th Percentile £25,000 £25,000 £23,475
25th Percentile £29,446 £28,500 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £40,113 £36,625
Median % change year-on-year +5.95% +9.52% -8.44%
75th Percentile £57,500 £62,500 £47,500
90th Percentile £65,625 £72,500 £65,000
Yorkshire median annual salary £37,000 £38,000 £36,375
% change year-on-year -2.63% +4.47% -9.06%

All Operating Systems
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire with a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 393 587 1,043
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 13.19% 11.23% 22.33%
Number of salaries quoted 318 365 702
10th Percentile £25,750 £26,000 £24,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,750 £30,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.44% - -5.26%
75th Percentile £61,250 £65,313 £58,750
90th Percentile £72,433 £77,715 £71,250
Yorkshire median annual salary £40,250 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -5.29% -5.56% -

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in West Yorkshire

Windows
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Salary trend for Windows in West Yorkshire

Windows
Salary Histogram in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Windows in West Yorkshire

Windows
Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 4 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
Leeds +18 183 £50,000 +14.94% 30
Bradford +31 29 £30,500 -12.86% 7
Huddersfield +17 18 £28,250 -27.56% 3
Wakefield +30 13 £45,000 +51.26% 1
Halifax +12 8 £70,576 +15.36%
Castleford +23 5 £29,250 -12.69% 2
Elland -2 5 - -
Batley +27 4 £29,250 -20.68%
Pontefract +1 4 £31,000 -4.62%
Heckmondwike - 4 £30,000 -
Wetherby +18 3 £30,000 +9.09%
Brighouse -3 3 £30,000 -50.00% 2
Ilkley - 3 £27,000 -
Dewsbury - 2 £20,500 - 1
Windows
Yorkshire

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 37 (12.85%) SharePoint
2 31 (10.76%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (2.78%) IIS
4 5 (1.74%) Apache
5 1 (0.35%) CMS
5 1 (0.35%) Confluence
Applications
1 45 (15.63%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.04%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.35%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 152 (52.78%) Azure
2 136 (47.22%) Microsoft 365
3 56 (19.44%) Entra ID
4 40 (13.89%) OneDrive
5 36 (12.50%) AWS
6 19 (6.60%) GCP
7 17 (5.90%) Cloud Computing
8 15 (5.21%) SaaS
9 12 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
9 12 (4.17%) Azure Sentinel
10 8 (2.78%) OpenShift
11 7 (2.43%) Microsoft Purview
12 5 (1.74%) Amazon S3
12 5 (1.74%) DigitalOcean
12 5 (1.74%) IaaS
12 5 (1.74%) Power Automate
12 5 (1.74%) Snowflake
13 4 (1.39%) PaaS
14 3 (1.04%) Azure Monitor
14 3 (1.04%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 89 (30.90%) Firewall
2 64 (22.22%) LAN
2 64 (22.22%) WAN
3 60 (20.83%) DNS
4 49 (17.01%) DHCP
5 47 (16.32%) VPN
6 40 (13.89%) SAN
7 33 (11.46%) NAS
8 30 (10.42%) TCP/IP
9 20 (6.94%) VLAN
9 20 (6.94%) Wi-Fi
10 17 (5.90%) Network Security
11 14 (4.86%) Internet
12 12 (4.17%) VoIP
13 9 (3.13%) SSL
14 8 (2.78%) SD-WAN
15 6 (2.08%) Wireshark
16 5 (1.74%) IPsec
16 5 (1.74%) SNMP
16 5 (1.74%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (10.07%) SQL Server
2 12 (4.17%) Elasticsearch
3 7 (2.43%) MongoDB
3 7 (2.43%) NoSQL
4 6 (2.08%) MySQL
5 5 (1.74%) Redis
6 3 (1.04%) Power BI
6 3 (1.04%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.69%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.69%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (0.69%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (0.69%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.69%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.35%) InfluxDB
8 1 (0.35%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.35%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 10 (3.47%) IBM UrbanCode
2 2 (0.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 2 (0.69%) Bitbucket
2 2 (0.69%) Git
2 2 (0.69%) Moq
2 2 (0.69%) MSTest
2 2 (0.69%) Postman
2 2 (0.69%) SpecFlow
2 2 (0.69%) Subversion
2 2 (0.69%) Visual Studio
2 2 (0.69%) webpack
3 1 (0.35%) GitLab
3 1 (0.35%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.35%) JIRA
3 1 (0.35%) SonarQube
General
1 101 (35.07%) Social Skills
2 45 (15.63%) Finance
3 32 (11.11%) Law
4 18 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (5.90%) Retail
6 15 (5.21%) Organisational Skills
7 12 (4.17%) Marketing
8 11 (3.82%) Banking
9 9 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
10 8 (2.78%) Games
11 6 (2.08%) French Language
11 6 (2.08%) German Language
11 6 (2.08%) Italian Language
11 6 (2.08%) Manufacturing
11 6 (2.08%) Portuguese Language
11 6 (2.08%) Spanish Language
11 6 (2.08%) Swedish Language
11 6 (2.08%) Turkish Language
12 4 (1.39%) Advertising
13 3 (1.04%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 61 (21.18%) IT Support
2 47 (16.32%) Analyst
3 34 (11.81%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 32 (11.11%) Lead
5 30 (10.42%) Support Engineer
6 26 (9.03%) Support Technician
7 25 (8.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 24 (8.33%) IT Engineer
9 21 (7.29%) IT Technician
9 21 (7.29%) Senior
10 18 (6.25%) Support Analyst
11 17 (5.90%) IT Support Engineer
11 17 (5.90%) IT Support Technician
12 15 (5.21%) IT Analyst
13 13 (4.51%) 2nd Line Support
13 13 (4.51%) IT Support Analyst
14 12 (4.17%) DevOps Engineer
14 12 (4.17%) IT Manager
14 12 (4.17%) Team Leader
14 12 (4.17%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (2.78%) Middleware
2 7 (2.43%) .NET
2 7 (2.43%) CSS
3 5 (1.74%) AngularJS
3 5 (1.74%) RabbitMQ
3 5 (1.74%) React
3 5 (1.74%) YAML
4 3 (1.04%) ASP.NET
4 3 (1.04%) ASP.NET MVC
4 3 (1.04%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (1.04%) HTML
4 3 (1.04%) jQuery
4 3 (1.04%) REST
4 3 (1.04%) RESTful
4 3 (1.04%) Software Packaging
4 3 (1.04%) Tailwind CSS
4 3 (1.04%) Twitter Bootstrap
4 3 (1.04%) Vue
4 3 (1.04%) WPF
5 2 (0.69%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 30 (10.42%) Data Centre
1 30 (10.42%) Public Cloud
2 16 (5.56%) Management Information System
3 12 (4.17%) Driving Licence
4 9 (3.13%) Cyberattack
4 9 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (2.08%) Client/Server
5 6 (2.08%) Operational Technology
5 6 (2.08%) SCADA
5 6 (2.08%) Security Operations Centre
6 5 (1.74%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.39%) Linux Command Line
7 4 (1.39%) Replication
8 3 (1.04%) Wiki
9 2 (0.69%) Graphic Design
9 2 (0.69%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (0.69%) Mainframe
10 1 (0.35%) Cyber Threat
10 1 (0.35%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.35%) New Media
Operating Systems
1 140 (48.61%) Windows Server
2 98 (34.03%) Linux
3 40 (13.89%) Windows 10
4 19 (6.60%) Windows Server 2008
5 16 (5.56%) Windows Server 2012
6 15 (5.21%) Mac OS
7 13 (4.51%) Windows Server 2016
8 12 (4.17%) Apple iOS
9 10 (3.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 9 (3.13%) Android
10 9 (3.13%) Unix
10 9 (3.13%) Windows Server 2019
11 6 (2.08%) Windows 7
12 5 (1.74%) Data ONTAP
12 5 (1.74%) Mac OS X
13 4 (1.39%) Windows 8
14 3 (1.04%) CentOS
15 2 (0.69%) CoreOS
15 2 (0.69%) VMS
15 2 (0.69%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (21.88%) Problem-Solving
2 59 (20.49%) Customer Service
3 55 (19.10%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 38 (13.19%) ITIL
5 34 (11.81%) DevOps
6 33 (11.46%) Mentoring
6 33 (11.46%) Migration
7 29 (10.07%) Agile
8 24 (8.33%) Cybersecurity
9 21 (7.29%) Time Management
10 20 (6.94%) Containerisation
10 20 (6.94%) Service Management
10 20 (6.94%) Technical Leadership
11 19 (6.60%) Roadmaps
12 17 (5.90%) Infrastructure as Code
12 17 (5.90%) Preventative Maintenance
12 17 (5.90%) Project Management
13 16 (5.56%) Computer Science
13 16 (5.56%) Infrastructure Management
14 14 (4.86%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 51 (17.71%) SQL
2 46 (15.97%) PowerShell
3 26 (9.03%) Python
4 10 (3.47%) VBScript
5 8 (2.78%) Groovy
6 3 (1.04%) Bash
6 3 (1.04%) C#
6 3 (1.04%) T-SQL
6 3 (1.04%) XAML
7 2 (0.69%) JavaScript
7 2 (0.69%) Kusto Query Language
7 2 (0.69%) PHP
7 2 (0.69%) Ruby
7 2 (0.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 33 (11.46%) Degree
2 21 (7.29%) Microsoft Certification
3 16 (5.56%) Cisco Certification
4 15 (5.21%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (4.17%) MCSE
6 11 (3.82%) CISSP
6 11 (3.82%) MCP
7 10 (3.47%) CCNA
8 8 (2.78%) CEH
8 8 (2.78%) SSCP
9 7 (2.43%) MCSA
10 6 (2.08%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 6 (2.08%) CCSP
10 6 (2.08%) SANS
10 6 (2.08%) TOGAF Certification
11 5 (1.74%) A+ Certification
11 5 (1.74%) Azure Certification
11 5 (1.74%) DBS Check
11 5 (1.74%) SC Cleared
11 5 (1.74%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (2.43%) SLA
3 6 (2.08%) NIST
3 6 (2.08%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (0.69%) GDPR
4 2 (0.69%) QA
4 2 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.35%) SOC 2
System Software
1 148 (51.39%) Active Directory
2 73 (25.35%) Hyper-V
3 57 (19.79%) VMware Infrastructure
4 34 (11.81%) VMware ESXi
5 13 (4.51%) vSphere
6 11 (3.82%) Docker
7 9 (3.13%) Virtual Machines
8 7 (2.43%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (1.04%) Microsoft App-V
9 3 (1.04%) VMware Server
10 2 (0.69%) VMware Workstation
11 1 (0.35%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 37 (12.85%) Microsoft Intune
2 24 (8.33%) Ansible
3 22 (7.64%) vCenter Server
4 20 (6.94%) SCCM
5 16 (5.56%) Kubernetes
6 15 (5.21%) Terraform
7 13 (4.51%) Prometheus
7 13 (4.51%) SCOM
8 11 (3.82%) WSUS
9 8 (2.78%) Grafana
9 8 (2.78%) Progress Chef
10 7 (2.43%) FortiGate
11 6 (2.08%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
11 6 (2.08%) Nagios
11 6 (2.08%) Nmap
12 5 (1.74%) Jamf Pro
13 4 (1.39%) Backup Exec
14 3 (1.04%) Autotask
14 3 (1.04%) Puppet
15 2 (0.69%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 138 (47.92%) Microsoft
2 95 (32.99%) VMware
3 30 (10.42%) Veeam
4 23 (7.99%) Cisco
5 20 (6.94%) Google
6 14 (4.86%) IBM
6 14 (4.86%) Oracle
6 14 (4.86%) Red Hat
7 13 (4.51%) Splunk
8 9 (3.13%) CheckPoint
8 9 (3.13%) NetApp
9 8 (2.78%) Epicor
10 7 (2.43%) Aruba
10 7 (2.43%) Citrix
10 7 (2.43%) SolarWinds
11 6 (2.08%) Datto
11 6 (2.08%) Dell
11 6 (2.08%) Qualys
11 6 (2.08%) Rapid7
11 6 (2.08%) Thycotic