Windows Jobs in Croydon

Microsoft Windows
South London > Croydon

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Croydon 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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 44 10
Rank change year-on-year +7 -34 +33
Permanent jobs citing Windows 8 7 31
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Croydon 4.21% 3.38% 16.76%
As % of the Operating Systems category 50.00% 50.00% 86.11%
Number of salaries quoted 3 7 20
10th Percentile £37,750 - £36,675
25th Percentile £49,375 £23,000 £39,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £26,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +178.85% -50.48% +24.19%
75th Percentile £78,125 £42,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £79,250 £58,000 £65,375
South London median annual salary £37,000 £35,861 £43,000
% change year-on-year +3.18% -16.60% +32.31%

All Operating Systems
Croydon

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 Croydon.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 16 14 36
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Croydon 8.42% 6.76% 19.46%
Number of salaries quoted 3 14 21
10th Percentile £37,750 £23,000 £38,000
25th Percentile £49,375 £23,688 £39,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +26.09% +4.55% +24.87%
75th Percentile £78,125 £83,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £79,250 £86,000 £80,000
South London median annual salary £45,000 £38,500 £44,000
% change year-on-year +16.88% -12.50% +3.53%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in Croydon

Windows
Salary Trend in Croydon

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

Salary trend for Windows in Croydon

Windows
Salary Histogram in Croydon

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows in Croydon over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Windows in Croydon

Windows
Job Locations in Croydon

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows within the Croydon region over the 6 months to 29 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
Coulsdon - 1 - -
Kenley - 1 - -
South Croydon - 1 - -
Thornton Heath - 1 - -
Windows
South London

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Croydon 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 1 (12.50%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) Azure
1 2 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 2 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
1 2 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 2 (25.00%) Cloud Computing
1 2 (25.00%) Entra ID
1 2 (25.00%) IaaS
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Purview
1 2 (25.00%) PaaS
2 1 (12.50%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (50.00%) Broadband
2 3 (37.50%) Firewall
2 3 (37.50%) SAN
3 2 (25.00%) NAS
3 2 (25.00%) SD-WAN
3 2 (25.00%) VPN
3 2 (25.00%) WAN
4 1 (12.50%) DHCP
4 1 (12.50%) DNS
4 1 (12.50%) HTTP
4 1 (12.50%) Internet
4 1 (12.50%) OpenLDAP
4 1 (12.50%) SSL
4 1 (12.50%) VLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Git
1 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
1 1 (12.50%) Maven
1 1 (12.50%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Legal
3 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Support Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Security Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Security Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Security Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) DevOps Systems Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Graduate
3 1 (12.50%) Graduate Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Graduate Support Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Graduate Technical Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Graduate Technical Support
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Linux DevOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Linux Systems Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Linux/Unix DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) .NET
1 1 (12.50%) LDAP
1 1 (12.50%) React
1 1 (12.50%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) PKI
1 2 (25.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) Windows Server 2012
2 3 (37.50%) Windows Server
3 2 (25.00%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (12.50%) CentOS
4 1 (12.50%) Debian
4 1 (12.50%) Linux
4 1 (12.50%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Broadcast Engineering
1 4 (50.00%) Coaching
1 4 (50.00%) Post-Production
1 4 (50.00%) Proactive Maintenance
1 4 (50.00%) Proactive Monitoring
1 4 (50.00%) Procure-to-Pay
2 2 (25.00%) Cloud Security
2 2 (25.00%) Compliance Management
2 2 (25.00%) Cyber Resilience
2 2 (25.00%) Data Loss Prevention
2 2 (25.00%) Incident Response
2 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (25.00%) IT Strategy
2 2 (25.00%) Log Analytics
2 2 (25.00%) Network Segmentation
2 2 (25.00%) Remediation Plan
2 2 (25.00%) Security Monitoring
2 2 (25.00%) SOAR
2 2 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
2 2 (25.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (12.50%) C#
2 1 (12.50%) Python
2 1 (12.50%) Shell Script
2 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (62.50%) Degree
2 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (25.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 2 (25.00%) GDPR
1 2 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (25.00%) NIST
System Software
1 6 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (25.00%) Hyper-V
2 2 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (25.00%) Terraform
2 1 (12.50%) Nessus
2 1 (12.50%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (50.00%) Sun
3 3 (37.50%) VMware
4 2 (25.00%) Cisco
4 2 (25.00%) Dell
4 2 (25.00%) EMC
4 2 (25.00%) Palo Alto
4 2 (25.00%) SonicWALL
5 1 (12.50%) Sophos