Windows Jobs in Durham

Microsoft Windows
North East > Durham

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Durham 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 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 10 18
Rank change year-on-year -16 +8 -12
Permanent jobs citing Windows 12 50 40
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Durham 4.88% 11.71% 12.70%
As % of the Operating Systems category 75.00% 70.42% 67.80%
Number of salaries quoted 12 26 31
10th Percentile £24,675 £25,500 £26,000
25th Percentile £26,625 £26,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,000 £30,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -25.00% +6.38%
75th Percentile £32,438 £38,563 £43,750
90th Percentile £38,250 £43,750 £51,250
North East median annual salary £48,000 £33,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year +45.45% -17.50% -

All Operating Systems
Durham

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 Durham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 16 71 59
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Durham 6.50% 16.63% 18.73%
Number of salaries quoted 16 42 43
10th Percentile £25,375 £25,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £30,125 £26,563 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,000 £37,750 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.23% -5.63% +6.67%
75th Percentile £50,440 £47,500 £43,750
90th Percentile £74,258 £61,250 £50,350
North East median annual salary £48,000 £37,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year +28.00% -6.25% -

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in Durham

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in Durham

Windows
Salary Trend in Durham

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

Salary trend for Windows in Durham

Windows
Salary Histogram in Durham

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows in Durham over the 6 months to 14 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Windows in Durham

Windows
Job Locations in Durham

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows within the Durham region over the 6 months to 14 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
Billingham - 2 £28,000 - 5
Peterlee - 2 £25,000 -
Darlington +7 1 £37,500 - 1
Hartlepool -4 1 £40,000 +45.45% 1
Windows
North East

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Durham 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 7 (58.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (41.67%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 10 (83.33%) Microsoft 365
2 8 (66.67%) Azure
3 2 (16.67%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (50.00%) Firewall
1 6 (50.00%) VPN
2 5 (41.67%) DHCP
2 5 (41.67%) DNS
3 1 (8.33%) LAN
3 1 (8.33%) VLAN
3 1 (8.33%) VoIP
3 1 (8.33%) WAN
3 1 (8.33%) Wi-Fi
General
1 9 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (58.33%) 2nd Line Support
2 4 (33.33%) IT Support
3 2 (16.67%) 1st/2nd Line Support
3 2 (16.67%) 1st/2nd Line Support Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) 3rd Line Support
3 2 (16.67%) Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) IT Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) IT Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) IT Support Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Junior
3 2 (16.67%) Junior DevOps
3 2 (16.67%) Junior DevOps Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Support Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) IT Support Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Support Engineer
Operating Systems
1 8 (66.67%) Windows Server
2 3 (25.00%) Mac OS
3 2 (16.67%) Linux
4 1 (8.33%) Windows 10
4 1 (8.33%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Customer Service
2 5 (41.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 5 (41.67%) Patch Management
2 5 (41.67%) Process Improvement
3 4 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (25.00%) ITIL
5 2 (16.67%) Agile
5 2 (16.67%) Asset Management
5 2 (16.67%) CI/CD
5 2 (16.67%) DevOps
5 2 (16.67%) ERP
5 2 (16.67%) Migration
5 2 (16.67%) Server Management
6 1 (8.33%) Coaching
6 1 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (8.33%) Incident Management
6 1 (8.33%) Mentoring
6 1 (8.33%) Mobile Device Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
System Software
1 9 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 7 (58.33%) Hyper-V
2 7 (58.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (41.67%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (8.33%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (8.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 10 (83.33%) Microsoft
2 7 (58.33%) VMware
3 1 (8.33%) Avaya