Windows Jobs in Cambridge

Microsoft Windows
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Cambridge 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 13 28
Rank change year-on-year 0 +15 +11
Permanent jobs citing Windows 31 124 79
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridge 12.20% 11.99% 8.80%
As % of the Operating Systems category 64.58% 43.36% 44.13%
Number of salaries quoted 24 91 50
10th Percentile - £24,240 £27,000
25th Percentile £26,250 £30,000 £29,023
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,695 £38,000 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.07% +8.57% -12.50%
75th Percentile £49,688 £43,750 £45,938
90th Percentile £84,375 £53,750 £60,000
Cambridgeshire median annual salary £32,500 £37,500 £38,500
% change year-on-year -13.33% -2.60% -3.75%

All Operating Systems
Cambridge

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 Cambridge.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 48 286 179
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridge 18.90% 27.66% 19.93%
Number of salaries quoted 39 224 98
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,800 £28,175
25th Percentile £30,000 £37,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £45,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +9.89% -9.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £87,500
Cambridgeshire median annual salary £42,500 £47,000 £48,500
% change year-on-year -9.57% -3.09% +2.11%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in Cambridge

Windows
Salary Trend in Cambridge

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

Salary trend for Windows in Cambridge

Windows
Salary Histogram in Cambridge

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows in Cambridge over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Windows in Cambridge

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridge 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 6 (19.35%) IIS
1 6 (19.35%) Tomcat
2 4 (12.90%) SharePoint
3 3 (9.68%) Apache
3 3 (9.68%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (9.68%) nginx
Applications
1 6 (19.35%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 14 (45.16%) Microsoft 365
2 13 (41.94%) Azure
3 11 (35.48%) Entra ID
4 6 (19.35%) Microsoft Copilot
4 6 (19.35%) Power Automate
5 2 (6.45%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (3.23%) AWS
6 1 (3.23%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 1 (3.23%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 8 (25.81%) Firewall
2 6 (19.35%) DMARC
2 6 (19.35%) SSL
3 5 (16.13%) VPN
4 3 (9.68%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (6.45%) DNS
5 2 (6.45%) LAN
5 2 (6.45%) VLAN
5 2 (6.45%) WAN
5 2 (6.45%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (3.23%) TCP/IP
6 1 (3.23%) Unified Communications
6 1 (3.23%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (25.81%) SQL Server
2 6 (19.35%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.23%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 3 (9.68%) GitLab
1 3 (9.68%) Jenkins
1 3 (9.68%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 19 (61.29%) Social Skills
2 11 (35.48%) Organisational Skills
3 7 (22.58%) Presentation Skills
4 6 (19.35%) Czech Language
5 3 (9.68%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (6.45%) Finance
6 2 (6.45%) Legal
7 1 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (3.23%) Manufacturing
7 1 (3.23%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (29.03%) Administrator
1 9 (29.03%) IT Support
2 6 (19.35%) IT Administrator
2 6 (19.35%) IT Technician
3 5 (16.13%) Help Desk Manager
3 5 (16.13%) Help Desk Technician
4 3 (9.68%) 2nd Line Support
4 3 (9.68%) Systems Administrator
5 2 (6.45%) 1st Line Support
5 2 (6.45%) Analyst
5 2 (6.45%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 2 (6.45%) IT Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Lead
5 2 (6.45%) Security Analyst
6 1 (3.23%) 2nd Line Engineer
6 1 (3.23%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (3.23%) Cutover Manager
6 1 (3.23%) Embedded Engineer
6 1 (3.23%) Senior
6 1 (3.23%) Senior IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (19.35%) JSON
1 6 (19.35%) REST
1 6 (19.35%) SOAP
1 6 (19.35%) XML
2 1 (3.23%) MFC
2 1 (3.23%) STL
Miscellaneous
1 7 (22.58%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (19.35%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (9.68%) Data Centre
3 3 (9.68%) Management Information System
4 2 (6.45%) Biopharmaceutical
4 2 (6.45%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (6.45%) Driving Licence
4 2 (6.45%) Security Posture
5 1 (3.23%) CCTV
5 1 (3.23%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 10 (32.26%) Linux
2 7 (22.58%) Windows Server
3 6 (19.35%) Unix
4 3 (9.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (6.45%) Windows 10
5 2 (6.45%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (54.84%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (35.48%) Customer Service
3 7 (22.58%) Line Management
3 7 (22.58%) Project Management
4 6 (19.35%) Agile
4 6 (19.35%) Change Management
4 6 (19.35%) Continuous Improvement
4 6 (19.35%) CRM
4 6 (19.35%) Data Privacy
4 6 (19.35%) ITIL
4 6 (19.35%) Portfolio Management
4 6 (19.35%) Roadmaps
4 6 (19.35%) Technology Roadmap
5 5 (16.13%) Collaborative Working
5 5 (16.13%) IT Governance
5 5 (16.13%) Mathematics
5 5 (16.13%) Mentoring
5 5 (16.13%) Performance Management
5 5 (16.13%) Performance Metrics
5 5 (16.13%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (25.81%) PowerShell
2 6 (19.35%) Java
2 6 (19.35%) JavaScript
2 6 (19.35%) SQL
2 6 (19.35%) VBA
3 3 (9.68%) Bash
4 1 (3.23%) C++
4 1 (3.23%) Python
4 1 (3.23%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (16.13%) DBS Check
1 5 (16.13%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (6.45%) Degree
3 1 (3.23%) Azure Certification
3 1 (3.23%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (3.23%) Postgraduate
3 1 (3.23%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (19.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (6.45%) GDPR
2 2 (6.45%) NIST
2 2 (6.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 23 (74.19%) Active Directory
2 5 (16.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (12.90%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (9.68%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (3.23%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (3.23%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 10 (32.26%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (25.81%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (9.68%) Ansible
3 3 (9.68%) Graylog
3 3 (9.68%) Nagios
3 3 (9.68%) Puppet
3 3 (9.68%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 23 (74.19%) Microsoft
2 8 (25.81%) Oracle
3 5 (16.13%) VMware
4 4 (12.90%) Citrix
5 3 (9.68%) Cisco
5 3 (9.68%) Juniper
5 3 (9.68%) NetApp
5 3 (9.68%) PagerDuty
5 3 (9.68%) Pure Storage
6 1 (3.23%) SAP