Windows Jobs in the City of London

Microsoft Windows
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the City of London 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 16 18 20
Rank change year-on-year +2 +2 +12
Permanent jobs citing Windows 392 525 666
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 11.68% 11.34% 9.28%
As % of the Operating Systems category 78.56% 62.28% 54.10%
Number of salaries quoted 311 449 503
10th Percentile £31,500 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,375 £37,250 £38,712
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -4.17%
75th Percentile £73,750 £71,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £91,500 £95,000
Central London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £53,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -0.94% -3.64%

All Operating Systems
City of London

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 the City of London with a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 499 843 1,231
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 14.87% 18.20% 17.16%
Number of salaries quoted 396 717 1,007
10th Percentile £32,500 £34,000 £35,550
25th Percentile £42,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -3.70% -
75th Percentile £82,500 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £106,250 £109,250 £106,250
Central London median annual salary £60,000 £63,820 £65,000
% change year-on-year -5.99% -1.82% +1.96%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in the City of London

Windows
Salary Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Windows in the City of London.

Salary trend for Windows in the City of London

Windows
Salary Histogram in the City of London

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

Salary histogram for Windows in the City of London

Windows
Job Locations in the City of London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows within the City of London 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
London Bridge - 1 £35,000 -
Windows
Central London

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 89 (22.70%) Microsoft Exchange
2 49 (12.50%) SharePoint
3 25 (6.38%) Skype for Business
4 11 (2.81%) IIS
5 6 (1.53%) Apache
6 5 (1.28%) Exchange Server 2010
7 3 (0.77%) SAS
8 2 (0.51%) CMS
8 2 (0.51%) Exchange Server 2007
8 2 (0.51%) Exchange Server 2013
9 1 (0.26%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
9 1 (0.26%) Confluence
9 1 (0.26%) JBoss
9 1 (0.26%) SharePoint 2013
9 1 (0.26%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.26%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.26%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.26%) WildFly
9 1 (0.26%) WordPress
Applications
1 91 (23.21%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (4.34%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (2.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (1.02%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.51%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 2 (0.51%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 7 (1.79%) Carpe Diem
2 6 (1.53%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.51%) Eikon
3 2 (0.51%) Farmplan
3 2 (0.51%) KEYPrime
4 1 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.26%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.26%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 194 (49.49%) Microsoft 365
2 181 (46.17%) Azure
3 77 (19.64%) Entra ID
4 40 (10.20%) AWS
5 23 (5.87%) SaaS
6 21 (5.36%) Azure DevOps
7 16 (4.08%) WhatsApp
8 13 (3.32%) Google Workspace
9 12 (3.06%) Cloud Computing
9 12 (3.06%) OneDrive
10 9 (2.30%) Azure Sentinel
10 9 (2.30%) GitHub
11 8 (2.04%) Azure Storage
11 8 (2.04%) Dynamics 365
11 8 (2.04%) Mimecast
12 7 (1.79%) Azure API Management
12 7 (1.79%) Azure Key Vault
12 7 (1.79%) Azure Monitor
12 7 (1.79%) GCP
12 7 (1.79%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 50 (12.76%) Firewall
2 39 (9.95%) DNS
2 39 (9.95%) LAN
3 33 (8.42%) Skype
4 29 (7.40%) WAN
5 28 (7.14%) Cisco IOS
5 28 (7.14%) Telepresence
6 22 (5.61%) VPN
7 21 (5.36%) Wi-Fi
8 20 (5.10%) SAN
8 20 (5.10%) Wireless
9 18 (4.59%) DHCP
10 17 (4.34%) NAS
11 16 (4.08%) Network Security
11 16 (4.08%) TCP/IP
12 14 (3.57%) SD-WAN
13 12 (3.06%) Internet
14 8 (2.04%) Broadband
14 8 (2.04%) Remote Desktop
15 7 (1.79%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (16.07%) SQL Server
2 11 (2.81%) Relational Database
3 6 (1.53%) Elasticsearch
3 6 (1.53%) MongoDB
4 5 (1.28%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (1.28%) MySQL
4 5 (1.28%) RDBMS
4 5 (1.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 4 (1.02%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (1.02%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (0.77%) Oracle Database
6 3 (0.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (0.77%) SQLite
7 2 (0.51%) Metadata
7 2 (0.51%) Power BI
8 1 (0.26%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.26%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 31 (7.91%) JIRA
2 10 (2.55%) GitLab
3 7 (1.79%) Katalon Studio
4 6 (1.53%) Jenkins
5 4 (1.02%) Git
6 3 (0.77%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.51%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.51%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.26%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.26%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.26%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.26%) JUnit
8 1 (0.26%) MSI
8 1 (0.26%) Postman
8 1 (0.26%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.26%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.26%) Zephyr
General
1 142 (36.22%) Social Skills
2 126 (32.14%) Finance
3 57 (14.54%) Analytical Skills
4 45 (11.48%) Law
5 36 (9.18%) Legal
6 30 (7.65%) Telecoms
7 27 (6.89%) Pharmaceutical
8 24 (6.12%) Automotive
9 22 (5.61%) Banking
10 12 (3.06%) Games
11 10 (2.55%) Documentation Skills
11 10 (2.55%) Presentation Skills
12 8 (2.04%) Marketing
12 8 (2.04%) Retail Banking
13 5 (1.28%) Advertising
13 5 (1.28%) Manufacturing
13 5 (1.28%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 4 (1.02%) Multimedia
15 3 (0.77%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 78 (19.90%) Senior
1 78 (19.90%) Support Engineer
2 58 (14.80%) Analyst
3 40 (10.20%) IT Support
4 38 (9.69%) Support Analyst
5 35 (8.93%) Consultant
5 35 (8.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 32 (8.16%) Lead
7 26 (6.63%) 2nd Line Engineer
8 25 (6.38%) 2nd Line Support
8 25 (6.38%) Developer
8 25 (6.38%) IT Analyst
9 24 (6.12%) Software Developer
10 22 (5.61%) Azure Engineer
11 21 (5.36%) IT Engineer
11 21 (5.36%) IT Support Analyst
12 20 (5.10%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 19 (4.85%) Senior Developer
13 19 (4.85%) Senior Software Developer
13 19 (4.85%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (8.42%) .NET
2 27 (6.89%) CSS
2 27 (6.89%) HTML
3 24 (6.12%) HTML5
4 21 (5.36%) WPF
5 13 (3.32%) YAML
6 6 (1.53%) RabbitMQ
7 5 (1.28%) REST
7 5 (1.28%) X-Windows
8 4 (1.02%) ASP.NET
8 4 (1.02%) XMPP
9 2 (0.51%) .NET Core
9 2 (0.51%) 802.1X
9 2 (0.51%) ARM Templates
9 2 (0.51%) ASP.NET MVC
10 1 (0.26%) ASP.NET Web API
10 1 (0.26%) Elastic Stack
10 1 (0.26%) Kafka
10 1 (0.26%) React
10 1 (0.26%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 55 (14.03%) Video Conferencing
2 31 (7.91%) Self-Motivation
3 20 (5.10%) Clustering
4 15 (3.83%) Greenfield Project
5 12 (3.06%) Data Centre
5 12 (3.06%) Onboarding
6 11 (2.81%) Linux Command Line
6 11 (2.81%) Management Information System
7 9 (2.30%) Blackberry
7 9 (2.30%) Enterprise Software
8 8 (2.04%) Public Cloud
8 8 (2.04%) Security Posture
9 7 (1.79%) Cloud Security Posture
9 7 (1.79%) Enterprise Cloud
9 7 (1.79%) PKI
9 7 (1.79%) Security Operations Centre
10 6 (1.53%) Replication
11 5 (1.28%) Driving Licence
11 5 (1.28%) iPhone
12 4 (1.02%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 163 (41.58%) Windows Server
2 106 (27.04%) Windows 10
3 53 (13.52%) Linux
4 38 (9.69%) Windows 7
5 27 (6.89%) Windows Server 2012
5 27 (6.89%) Windows Server 2016
6 26 (6.63%) Apple iOS
7 21 (5.36%) Android
7 21 (5.36%) Mac OS
8 13 (3.32%) Mac OS X
8 13 (3.32%) Windows Server 2019
9 11 (2.81%) Unix
10 6 (1.53%) Windows Server 2008
11 5 (1.28%) Data ONTAP
11 5 (1.28%) Windows Server 2003
12 3 (0.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 2 (0.51%) VMS
14 1 (0.26%) AIX
14 1 (0.26%) Debian
14 1 (0.26%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (19.39%) Problem-Solving
2 72 (18.37%) ITIL
3 60 (15.31%) Customer Service
4 48 (12.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 47 (11.99%) DevOps
6 45 (11.48%) Continuous Improvement
7 37 (9.44%) Information Security
7 37 (9.44%) ITSM
8 36 (9.18%) Computer Science
9 33 (8.42%) Collaborative Working
9 33 (8.42%) Service Management
10 32 (8.16%) Cybersecurity
11 28 (7.14%) Incident Management
12 26 (6.63%) Change Management
12 26 (6.63%) CI/CD
12 26 (6.63%) Project Management
13 24 (6.12%) Multithreaded Programming
13 24 (6.12%) Multithreading
14 23 (5.87%) Agile
15 21 (5.36%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 81 (20.66%) PowerShell
2 75 (19.13%) SQL
3 38 (9.69%) C#
4 28 (7.14%) JavaScript
4 28 (7.14%) Python
5 24 (6.12%) Bash
6 8 (2.04%) Java
7 6 (1.53%) C++
8 3 (0.77%) PL/SQL
8 3 (0.77%) SAS Macro
9 2 (0.51%) Perl
10 1 (0.26%) Go
10 1 (0.26%) PHP
10 1 (0.26%) Ruby
10 1 (0.26%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.26%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 85 (21.68%) Degree
2 30 (7.65%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 29 (7.40%) Master's Degree
4 24 (6.12%) MBA
5 13 (3.32%) Cisco Certification
5 13 (3.32%) Microsoft Certification
6 12 (3.06%) Azure Certification
7 11 (2.81%) Security Cleared
8 9 (2.30%) CEH
8 9 (2.30%) Computer Science Degree
9 8 (2.04%) A+ Certification
10 7 (1.79%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 7 (1.79%) CCSP
10 7 (1.79%) CISSP
10 7 (1.79%) MCSE
10 7 (1.79%) SANS
10 7 (1.79%) SSCP
11 6 (1.53%) ITIL Certification
12 5 (1.28%) CCNA
12 5 (1.28%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (5.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 17 (4.34%) SLA
3 13 (3.32%) PCI DSS
4 10 (2.55%) Cyber Essentials
5 9 (2.30%) NIST
6 8 (2.04%) SOC 2
7 6 (1.53%) QA
8 3 (0.77%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.51%) ITGC
9 2 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.26%) GDPR
10 1 (0.26%) GRC
10 1 (0.26%) PMO
System Software
1 199 (50.77%) Active Directory
2 64 (16.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 37 (9.44%) VMware ESXi
4 17 (4.34%) vSphere
5 15 (3.83%) Virtual Desktop
6 12 (3.06%) Docker
7 8 (2.04%) Hyper-V
8 7 (1.79%) Virtual Machines
8 7 (1.79%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (0.77%) Firmware
10 2 (0.51%) DFS Replication
10 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.26%) KVM
11 1 (0.26%) Microsoft App-V
11 1 (0.26%) pfSense
11 1 (0.26%) Terminal Services
11 1 (0.26%) Veritas Cluster Server
11 1 (0.26%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.26%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 54 (13.78%) Microsoft Intune
2 38 (9.69%) vCenter Server
3 32 (8.16%) SCCM
4 31 (7.91%) Single Sign-On
5 18 (4.59%) Kubernetes
5 18 (4.59%) Microsoft Clustering
6 14 (3.57%) Terraform
7 12 (3.06%) Ansible
8 7 (1.79%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 7 (1.79%) Jamf Pro
8 7 (1.79%) Nmap
9 5 (1.28%) Prometheus
9 5 (1.28%) SCOM
10 4 (1.02%) AirWatch
10 4 (1.02%) Backup Exec
10 4 (1.02%) vRealize Orchestrator
10 4 (1.02%) WSUS
11 3 (0.77%) NetBackup
11 3 (0.77%) Puppet
11 3 (0.77%) vRealize
Vendors
1 209 (53.32%) Microsoft
2 102 (26.02%) VMware
3 71 (18.11%) Cisco
4 47 (11.99%) Apple
5 34 (8.67%) ServiceNow
6 31 (7.91%) Citrix
6 31 (7.91%) Commvault
7 24 (6.12%) Polycom
8 23 (5.87%) Bloomberg
9 20 (5.10%) Sun
10 16 (4.08%) Google
10 16 (4.08%) iManage
11 15 (3.83%) Palo Alto
11 15 (3.83%) SolarWinds
12 14 (3.57%) HP
12 14 (3.57%) NetApp
13 12 (3.06%) Veeam
14 10 (2.55%) Oracle
14 10 (2.55%) Remedy
14 10 (2.55%) Splunk