Windows Jobs in Belfast

Microsoft Windows
County Antrim > Belfast

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Belfast requiring Windows skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Windows over the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 33 23
Rank change year-on-year +7 -10 +11
Permanent jobs citing Windows 5 30 94
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Belfast 2.92% 5.89% 12.52%
As % of the Operating Systems category 29.41% 46.15% 60.65%
Number of salaries quoted 3 25 45
10th Percentile £47,250 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £28,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £40,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +31.25% -33.33% +66.67%
75th Percentile £53,750 £55,000 £65,000
90th Percentile - £88,000 £66,500
County Antrim median annual salary £52,500 £35,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +50.00% -30.00% +36.99%

All Operating Systems
Belfast

Windows falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring operating system skills in Belfast.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 17 65 155
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Belfast 9.94% 12.77% 20.64%
Number of salaries quoted 4 36 72
10th Percentile £47,750 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £32,688 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £46,750 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.30% -20.76% +12.38%
75th Percentile £64,063 £71,875 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,625 £90,000 £82,500
County Antrim median annual salary £52,500 £41,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +28.05% -18.00% +13.64%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in Belfast

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in Belfast

Windows
Salary Trend in Belfast

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

Salary trend for Windows in Belfast

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Belfast 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 3 (60.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (60.00%) OneDrive
3 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) JIRA
2 1 (20.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (20.00%) JMeter
2 1 (20.00%) Mocha
2 1 (20.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (20.00%) Electronics
1 1 (20.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) 3rd Line Support
1 2 (40.00%) 3rd Line Support Specialist
1 2 (40.00%) Support Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Active Directory Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Automation Tester
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (20.00%) HTML
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
1 2 (40.00%) Windows 10
1 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2012
1 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (20.00%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Service Management
2 2 (40.00%) ITSM
2 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (20.00%) End-to-End Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Incident Management
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Integration Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Software Deployment
3 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Software Testing
3 1 (20.00%) System Testing
3 1 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) C#
2 1 (20.00%) C
2 1 (20.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (20.00%) PHP
2 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft