Windows Jobs in Central London

Microsoft Windows
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 20 15 15
Rank change year-on-year -5 0 +4
Permanent jobs citing Windows 254 420 607
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 10.58% 11.11% 12.14%
As % of the Operating Systems category 67.91% 79.25% 65.20%
Number of salaries quoted 227 335 523
10th Percentile £33,450 £31,850 £30,550
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £89,500 £100,000
London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,575
% change year-on-year - +4.61% +0.14%

All Operating Systems
Central London

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 Central London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 374 530 931
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 15.58% 14.02% 18.62%
Number of salaries quoted 309 417 795
10th Percentile £35,950 £32,750 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.60% -11.20% -3.85%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,500 £110,000
London median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in Central London

Windows
Salary Trend in Central London

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

Salary trend for Windows in Central London

Windows
Salary Histogram in Central London

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

Salary histogram for Windows in Central London

Windows
Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows within the Central London region over the 6 months to 31 May 2025. 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
City of London -2 214 £50,000 -9.09% 50
West End of London +1 8 £50,000 +21.95% 13
Camden -6 6 £70,000 +79.49% 1
City of Westminster -16 4 £26,000 -22.39% 4
Lambeth - 2 £47,500 - 3
Kensington and Chelsea -2 1 - -
Southwark -11 1 - -
Windows
London

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 64 (25.20%) Microsoft Exchange
2 32 (12.60%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.57%) Exchange Server 2010
3 4 (1.57%) IIS
4 3 (1.18%) Exchange Server 2013
5 2 (0.79%) BizTalk Server
5 2 (0.79%) Moodle
Applications
1 68 (26.77%) Microsoft Office
2 25 (9.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 22 (8.66%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.79%) Acrobat
5 1 (0.39%) Camtasia
Business Applications
1 5 (1.97%) Elite 3E
2 3 (1.18%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.18%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.39%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.39%) Eikon
3 1 (0.39%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 105 (41.34%) Microsoft 365
2 103 (40.55%) Azure
3 41 (16.14%) Entra ID
4 25 (9.84%) AWS
5 20 (7.87%) OneDrive
6 10 (3.94%) Azure Monitor
7 8 (3.15%) Cloud Computing
7 8 (3.15%) Power Platform
8 7 (2.76%) Mimecast
9 6 (2.36%) Azure Data Factory
9 6 (2.36%) Nutanix
9 6 (2.36%) SaaS
10 5 (1.97%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 5 (1.97%) IaaS
11 4 (1.57%) Azure Sentinel
11 4 (1.57%) GitHub
11 4 (1.57%) Google Workspace
11 4 (1.57%) PaaS
12 3 (1.18%) Dynamics 365
12 3 (1.18%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 27 (10.63%) DHCP
1 27 (10.63%) DNS
2 26 (10.24%) Firewall
3 20 (7.87%) WAN
4 19 (7.48%) LAN
5 16 (6.30%) TCP/IP
6 15 (5.91%) Structured Cabling
7 13 (5.12%) VPN
7 13 (5.12%) WebEx
8 12 (4.72%) Network Security
9 11 (4.33%) VLAN
10 7 (2.76%) Broadband
10 7 (2.76%) Wi-Fi
11 6 (2.36%) VoIP
11 6 (2.36%) Wireless
12 5 (1.97%) Internet
12 5 (1.97%) Kerberos
13 4 (1.57%) NetScaler
13 4 (1.57%) Remote Desktop
13 4 (1.57%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (13.39%) SQL Server
2 11 (4.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 10 (3.94%) DB2
3 10 (3.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 4 (1.57%) Metadata
4 4 (1.57%) Power BI
5 3 (1.18%) Data Hub
5 3 (1.18%) Relational Database
5 3 (1.18%) SQL CLR
6 2 (0.79%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.39%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.39%) NonStop SQL
7 1 (0.39%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (3.94%) JIRA
2 7 (2.76%) Git
3 1 (0.39%) Eclipse
3 1 (0.39%) InstallShield
3 1 (0.39%) MSI
3 1 (0.39%) NeoLoad
3 1 (0.39%) SpecFlow
3 1 (0.39%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.39%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 120 (47.24%) Social Skills
2 57 (22.44%) Finance
3 54 (21.26%) Law
4 37 (14.57%) Legal
5 28 (11.02%) Analytical Skills
6 21 (8.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 18 (7.09%) Telecoms
8 11 (4.33%) Banking
9 8 (3.15%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (1.97%) Public Sector
11 4 (1.57%) Back Office
12 3 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.79%) Advertising
14 1 (0.39%) Billing
14 1 (0.39%) Financial Institution
14 1 (0.39%) Police
14 1 (0.39%) Retail
Job Titles
1 89 (35.04%) Analyst
2 61 (24.02%) Support Analyst
3 50 (19.69%) IT Support
4 38 (14.96%) IT Analyst
5 37 (14.57%) Senior
6 33 (12.99%) IT Support Analyst
7 31 (12.20%) Support Engineer
8 29 (11.42%) Desktop Support
9 20 (7.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 20 (7.87%) Service Analyst
10 19 (7.48%) Senior Analyst
11 18 (7.09%) Service Desk Analyst
11 18 (7.09%) Support Manager
12 17 (6.69%) Applications Support
12 17 (6.69%) IT Support Specialist
12 17 (6.69%) Support Specialist
13 16 (6.30%) Applications Support Analyst
13 16 (6.30%) IT Engineer
13 16 (6.30%) Senior Support Analyst
14 15 (5.91%) Desktop Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (9.84%) .NET
2 8 (3.15%) HTML
3 6 (2.36%) AngularJS
3 6 (2.36%) CSS
3 6 (2.36%) HTML5
3 6 (2.36%) WPF
4 5 (1.97%) LDAP
4 5 (1.97%) OAuth
4 5 (1.97%) OpenID
4 5 (1.97%) SailPoint
4 5 (1.97%) SAML
5 4 (1.57%) .NET Core
5 4 (1.57%) REST
6 3 (1.18%) .NET Framework
6 3 (1.18%) Dapper ORM
6 3 (1.18%) Entity Framework
6 3 (1.18%) FIX Protocol
6 3 (1.18%) GraphQL
6 3 (1.18%) Middleware
7 2 (0.79%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 28 (11.02%) Video Conferencing
2 18 (7.09%) Onboarding
3 13 (5.12%) Self-Motivation
4 10 (3.94%) iPhone
4 10 (3.94%) Legacy Applications
5 8 (3.15%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (2.76%) Management Information System
7 5 (1.97%) Distributed Architecture
7 5 (1.97%) PKI
8 4 (1.57%) e-Learning
8 4 (1.57%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.57%) Private Cloud
8 4 (1.57%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.18%) Hedge funds
9 3 (1.18%) Learning Management System
9 3 (1.18%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 2 (0.79%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.79%) iPad
10 2 (0.79%) Reference Data
10 2 (0.79%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 67 (26.38%) Windows Server
2 65 (25.59%) Windows 10
3 34 (13.39%) Linux
4 26 (10.24%) Windows Server 2012
5 15 (5.91%) Windows Server 2016
6 13 (5.12%) Windows Server 2019
7 8 (3.15%) Apple iOS
7 8 (3.15%) Windows 7
8 7 (2.76%) Unix
8 7 (2.76%) Windows Server 2008
9 6 (2.36%) Android
10 5 (1.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 4 (1.57%) Mac OS
12 3 (1.18%) Mac OS X
13 2 (0.79%) Rocky
13 2 (0.79%) Ubuntu
14 1 (0.39%) CentOS
14 1 (0.39%) VMS
14 1 (0.39%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (25.59%) ITIL
2 58 (22.83%) Problem-Solving
3 47 (18.50%) Customer Service
4 30 (11.81%) Document Management
5 29 (11.42%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 24 (9.45%) Computer Science
7 23 (9.06%) ITSM
8 21 (8.27%) Agile
8 21 (8.27%) Mentoring
9 19 (7.48%) Disaster Recovery
10 18 (7.09%) Continuous Improvement
10 18 (7.09%) Data Management
11 15 (5.91%) DevOps
11 15 (5.91%) People Management
11 15 (5.91%) Project Management
12 14 (5.51%) Coaching
12 14 (5.51%) Collaborative Working
13 13 (5.12%) Infrastructure as Code
14 12 (4.72%) Customer-Centricity
14 12 (4.72%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 48 (18.90%) PowerShell
2 30 (11.81%) SQL
3 21 (8.27%) C#
4 20 (7.87%) Python
5 10 (3.94%) PL/SQL
5 10 (3.94%) VB.NET
6 8 (3.15%) Bash
7 6 (2.36%) JavaScript
7 6 (2.36%) TypeScript
8 4 (1.57%) Java
8 4 (1.57%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.39%) COBOL
9 1 (0.39%) Go
9 1 (0.39%) PHP
Qualifications
1 87 (34.25%) Degree
2 23 (9.06%) A+ Certification
3 18 (7.09%) Microsoft Certification
4 15 (5.91%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (5.12%) Azure Certification
6 9 (3.54%) Master's Degree
7 6 (2.36%) CISSP
7 6 (2.36%) MCSA
7 6 (2.36%) Security Cleared
8 5 (1.97%) CCNA
8 5 (1.97%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (1.97%) CISM
9 4 (1.57%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 4 (1.57%) Network+ Certification
10 3 (1.18%) DV Cleared
10 3 (1.18%) MCSE
10 3 (1.18%) SC Cleared
11 1 (0.39%) CCIE
11 1 (0.39%) MCP
11 1 (0.39%) MCT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (13.39%) SLA
2 6 (2.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (2.36%) QA
3 5 (1.97%) GDPR
3 5 (1.97%) NIST
4 4 (1.57%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.79%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.79%) ISO 22301
5 2 (0.79%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.39%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.39%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 145 (57.09%) Active Directory
2 38 (14.96%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (3.54%) Hyper-V
4 7 (2.76%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (1.18%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.79%) BitLocker
6 2 (0.79%) Firmware
6 2 (0.79%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.39%) Docker
7 1 (0.39%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (0.39%) vSphere
7 1 (0.39%) XenApp
7 1 (0.39%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 49 (19.29%) Microsoft Intune
2 25 (9.84%) SCCM
3 18 (7.09%) Terraform
4 15 (5.91%) Single Sign-On
5 11 (4.33%) Ansible
6 7 (2.76%) Grafana
7 6 (2.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 5 (1.97%) Kubernetes
8 5 (1.97%) Prometheus
8 5 (1.97%) QRadar
9 4 (1.57%) SCOM
10 3 (1.18%) vCenter Server
11 1 (0.39%) AirWatch
11 1 (0.39%) Avamar
11 1 (0.39%) DameWare
11 1 (0.39%) EMC NetWorker
11 1 (0.39%) Nessus
11 1 (0.39%) NetBackup
11 1 (0.39%) Plesk
11 1 (0.39%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 165 (64.96%) Microsoft
2 49 (19.29%) VMware
3 28 (11.02%) Citrix
4 19 (7.48%) Cisco
5 16 (6.30%) HP
5 16 (6.30%) ServiceNow
6 13 (5.12%) iManage
7 12 (4.72%) Apple
8 11 (4.33%) SolarWinds
9 9 (3.54%) Oracle
10 7 (2.76%) Bloomberg
10 7 (2.76%) Sun
11 6 (2.36%) Sophos
12 5 (1.97%) Aderant
12 5 (1.97%) Splunk
13 4 (1.57%) Adobe
13 4 (1.57%) FactSet
13 4 (1.57%) Intapp
13 4 (1.57%) NetApp
13 4 (1.57%) Veeam