Windows Jobs in Cambridgeshire

Microsoft Windows
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Cambridgeshire 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 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 14 20 20
Rank change year-on-year +6 0 0
Permanent jobs citing Windows 162 165 276
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 10.31% 11.57% 11.17%
As % of the Operating Systems category 48.50% 54.10% 42.07%
Number of salaries quoted 121 103 168
10th Percentile £24,240 £25,250 £25,525
25th Percentile £26,000 £28,125 £31,198
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £38,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.60% -3.75% -11.11%
75th Percentile £43,750 £56,250 £57,500
90th Percentile £55,000 £66,250 £62,875
East of England median annual salary £32,500 £38,500 £38,500
% change year-on-year -15.58% - -8.55%

All Operating Systems
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire with a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 334 305 656
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 21.25% 21.39% 26.54%
Number of salaries quoted 262 159 241
10th Percentile £25,050 £26,250 £27,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.44% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £66,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £83,500 £80,750 £70,000
East of England median annual salary £38,500 £45,000 £42,750
% change year-on-year -14.44% +5.26% -10.00%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in Cambridgeshire

Windows
Salary Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Salary trend for Windows in Cambridgeshire

Windows
Salary Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Windows in Cambridgeshire

Windows
Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 11 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
Cambridge +17 121 £38,000 +8.57% 33
Peterborough -13 13 £45,000 -18.18% 14
Ely - 12 £26,000 -
St Neots - 6 - - 2
Huntingdon -12 5 £58,000 +69.34% 9
Windows
East of England

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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 27 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 19 (11.73%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.23%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (4.32%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (1.85%) Sage 200
1 3 (1.85%) Sage 50
2 1 (0.62%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 53 (32.72%) Microsoft 365
2 48 (29.63%) Azure
3 32 (19.75%) AWS
4 8 (4.94%) Entra ID
4 8 (4.94%) GCP
5 6 (3.70%) Serverless
6 3 (1.85%) Apigee
6 3 (1.85%) Azure API Management
6 3 (1.85%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (1.85%) Azure Service Fabric
6 3 (1.85%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (1.85%) Google Workspace
6 3 (1.85%) Rubrik
7 2 (1.23%) IaaS
7 2 (1.23%) OneDrive
7 2 (1.23%) PaaS
7 2 (1.23%) SaaS
8 1 (0.62%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (0.62%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 36 (22.22%) SAN
2 34 (20.99%) Firewall
3 17 (10.49%) Wi-Fi
4 15 (9.26%) DHCP
4 15 (9.26%) DNS
5 13 (8.02%) TCP/IP
6 10 (6.17%) Bluetooth
7 9 (5.56%) NAS
7 9 (5.56%) VPN
8 7 (4.32%) 3G
8 7 (4.32%) 4G
8 7 (4.32%) GPRS
8 7 (4.32%) GSM
8 7 (4.32%) LTE
8 7 (4.32%) VLAN
9 6 (3.70%) Remote Desktop
10 5 (3.09%) LAN
11 3 (1.85%) Intranet
11 3 (1.85%) NetScaler
12 2 (1.23%) IP Telephony
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (7.41%) SQL Server
2 4 (2.47%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (1.85%) Data Lake
3 3 (1.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (1.23%) MS Access
5 1 (0.62%) Power BI
5 1 (0.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 8 (4.94%) Appium
1 8 (4.94%) UI Automator
2 3 (1.85%) Git
3 1 (0.62%) Bugzilla
3 1 (0.62%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.62%) JIRA
General
1 60 (37.04%) Social Skills
2 17 (10.49%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (7.41%) Finance
4 10 (6.17%) Automotive
4 10 (6.17%) Manufacturing
5 7 (4.32%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (2.47%) Public Sector
7 3 (1.85%) Electronics
8 2 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.23%) Retail
8 2 (1.23%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.62%) Advertising
9 1 (0.62%) Law
Job Titles
1 34 (20.99%) Support Engineer
2 29 (17.90%) Administrator
3 24 (14.81%) IT Support
4 23 (14.20%) IT Engineer
5 21 (12.96%) IT Administrator
5 21 (12.96%) Server Administrator
6 18 (11.11%) IT Support Engineer
7 14 (8.64%) IT Technician
7 14 (8.64%) Senior
8 13 (8.02%) Mobile Engineer
9 12 (7.41%) Technical Support
10 11 (6.79%) Analyst
10 11 (6.79%) Technical Engineer
11 9 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 8 (4.94%) Desktop Support
12 8 (4.94%) Junior
12 8 (4.94%) Test Engineer
13 7 (4.32%) Desktop Engineer
13 7 (4.32%) Desktop Support Engineer
13 7 (4.32%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.85%) ARM Templates
1 3 (1.85%) JSON
2 2 (1.23%) iOS SDK
2 2 (1.23%) PyQt
2 2 (1.23%) scikit-learn
2 2 (1.23%) XML
3 1 (0.62%) Flask
3 1 (0.62%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 28 (17.28%) Self-Motivation
2 24 (14.81%) Data Centre
3 20 (12.35%) Driving Licence
4 9 (5.56%) Smartphone
5 8 (4.94%) Mobile App
6 7 (4.32%) iPad
7 6 (3.70%) Public Cloud
8 5 (3.09%) Client/Server
8 5 (3.09%) Embedded Systems
8 5 (3.09%) Life Science
8 5 (3.09%) Management Information System
8 5 (3.09%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.85%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (1.23%) IoT
10 2 (1.23%) NHS
10 2 (1.23%) Robotics
10 2 (1.23%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 1 (0.62%) e-Learning
11 1 (0.62%) FPGA
11 1 (0.62%) LIMS
Operating Systems
1 75 (46.30%) Windows Server
2 72 (44.44%) Linux
3 23 (14.20%) Mac OS
3 23 (14.20%) Windows 10
4 11 (6.79%) Android
4 11 (6.79%) Windows Server 2019
5 8 (4.94%) Windows 7
5 8 (4.94%) Windows Server 2016
6 7 (4.32%) Unix
7 6 (3.70%) Apple iOS
8 5 (3.09%) Mac OS X
8 5 (3.09%) Windows Server 2003
9 3 (1.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (1.85%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (1.23%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (24.69%) Problem-Solving
2 23 (14.20%) Infrastructure Maintenance
3 22 (13.58%) Server Management
4 21 (12.96%) Benchmarking
4 21 (12.96%) Data Centre Operations
4 21 (12.96%) Performance Monitoring
4 21 (12.96%) Vulnerability Management
5 16 (9.88%) Computer Science
6 14 (8.64%) Asset Management
6 14 (8.64%) Proactive Maintenance
7 13 (8.02%) Customer Service
7 13 (8.02%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 11 (6.79%) ITIL
9 10 (6.17%) Project Management
9 10 (6.17%) Test Automation
10 9 (5.56%) Agile
11 8 (4.94%) Manual Testing
11 8 (4.94%) Mentoring
12 7 (4.32%) Software Engineering
13 6 (3.70%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 39 (24.07%) PowerShell
2 11 (6.79%) Python
2 11 (6.79%) SQL
3 8 (4.94%) Bash
4 4 (2.47%) Java
5 2 (1.23%) C
5 2 (1.23%) C#
5 2 (1.23%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.23%) Kotlin
5 2 (1.23%) Objective-C
5 2 (1.23%) Rust
5 2 (1.23%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.62%) C++
6 1 (0.62%) Embedded C
6 1 (0.62%) Perl
Qualifications
1 45 (27.78%) Security Cleared
2 38 (23.46%) Degree
3 21 (12.96%) SC Cleared
4 18 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
5 14 (8.64%) BPSS Clearance
6 12 (7.41%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (4.32%) CCNA
7 7 (4.32%) Cisco Certification
7 7 (4.32%) MCSA
7 7 (4.32%) MCSE
8 3 (1.85%) A+ Certification
8 3 (1.85%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.85%) DBS Check
8 3 (1.85%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.85%) Master's Degree
9 2 (1.23%) Network+ Certification
9 2 (1.23%) PhD
10 1 (0.62%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.62%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (12.35%) SLA
2 14 (8.64%) PCI DSS
3 9 (5.56%) QA
4 6 (3.70%) GDPR
5 3 (1.85%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (1.23%) Data Quality
System Software
1 70 (43.21%) Active Directory
2 33 (20.37%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (14.20%) Hyper-V
4 14 (8.64%) KVM
5 6 (3.70%) Virtual Servers
6 4 (2.47%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (1.85%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (1.85%) vSphere
8 1 (0.62%) Docker
8 1 (0.62%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (1.85%) Kubernetes
1 3 (1.85%) Terraform
2 2 (1.23%) Jamf Pro
2 2 (1.23%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (1.23%) NetCrunch
3 1 (0.62%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (0.62%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 98 (60.49%) Microsoft
2 60 (37.04%) VMware
3 28 (17.28%) Citrix
4 21 (12.96%) NetApp
5 17 (10.49%) Dell
6 7 (4.32%) HP
7 5 (3.09%) Veeam
8 4 (2.47%) Google
9 3 (1.85%) Apple
9 3 (1.85%) CheckPoint
9 3 (1.85%) Cisco
9 3 (1.85%) Databricks
9 3 (1.85%) Draytek
9 3 (1.85%) Red Hat
9 3 (1.85%) Sage
10 2 (1.23%) ConnectWise
10 2 (1.23%) MikroTik
10 2 (1.23%) Palo Alto
10 2 (1.23%) Ubiquiti
10 2 (1.23%) Xero