Windows Jobs in England

Microsoft Windows
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 13 19
Rank change year-on-year -4 +6 +7
Permanent jobs citing Windows 4,198 8,725 9,181
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 9.12% 10.24% 9.92%
As % of the Operating Systems category 68.45% 69.14% 61.45%
Number of salaries quoted 3,032 7,191 6,579
10th Percentile £26,375 £25,250 £25,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £29,440 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £40,500 £43,750
Median % change year-on-year -1.23% -7.43% +2.94%
75th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,900 £70,000 £78,750
UK median annual salary £40,354 £40,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +0.88% -11.11% +2.27%

All Operating Systems
England

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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 6,133 12,620 14,940
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 13.32% 14.81% 16.15%
Number of salaries quoted 4,114 10,019 10,228
10th Percentile £27,250 £25,750 £26,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,323 £45,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -14.29% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -14.29% -

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in England

Windows
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Windows in England

Windows
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Windows in England

Windows
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows within the England region over the 6 months to 1 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
London -8 1,081 £57,500 +4.55% 688
Midlands +2 900 £36,925 +5.50% 266
South East -4 821 £40,000 - 536
North of England -15 762 £37,500 - 368
West Midlands +6 630 £36,925 +5.50% 140
Yorkshire +2 368 £32,000 -13.51% 123
North West -41 344 £40,000 - 202
South West -4 331 £37,500 -11.76% 224
East of England -11 290 £42,500 +30.77% 215
East Midlands -6 268 £32,500 -4.41% 115
North East -15 48 £45,000 +30.43% 51
Windows
UK

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 561 (13.36%) Microsoft Exchange
2 420 (10.00%) SharePoint
3 87 (2.07%) IIS
4 59 (1.41%) Confluence
5 44 (1.05%) Apache
6 18 (0.43%) nginx
6 18 (0.43%) Tomcat
7 16 (0.38%) OpenEdge
8 13 (0.31%) Exchange Server 2013
8 13 (0.31%) WordPress
9 8 (0.19%) Exchange Server 2010
10 7 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
10 7 (0.17%) IBM Domino
11 6 (0.14%) CMS
12 5 (0.12%) Skype for Business
13 4 (0.095%) Alfresco
13 4 (0.095%) Documentum
13 4 (0.095%) Moodle
13 4 (0.095%) OpenStack
13 4 (0.095%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 507 (12.08%) Microsoft Office
2 147 (3.50%) Microsoft Excel
3 89 (2.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 18 (0.43%) MS Visio
5 16 (0.38%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 8 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.12%) Blender
7 5 (0.12%) CINEMA 4D
7 5 (0.12%) Maya
7 5 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
8 4 (0.095%) Acrobat
8 4 (0.095%) Chatbot
9 3 (0.071%) Mozilla Thunderbird
9 3 (0.071%) Photoshop
9 3 (0.071%) SOLIDWORKS
10 2 (0.048%) Trello
11 1 (0.024%) AutoCAD
11 1 (0.024%) Camtasia
11 1 (0.024%) GNU Octave
Business Applications
1 21 (0.50%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
2 20 (0.48%) Dynamics NAV
3 14 (0.33%) Remedy ITSM
4 12 (0.29%) NEC Housing
5 11 (0.26%) NetSuite
6 10 (0.24%) Elite 3E
7 9 (0.21%) Sage 50
8 8 (0.19%) Fidessa
8 8 (0.19%) SAP Business One
9 7 (0.17%) Dynamics CRM
9 7 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
10 6 (0.14%) Sage 200
10 6 (0.14%) SAP ERP
10 6 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
10 6 (0.14%) Temenos T24
11 5 (0.12%) Oracle Applications
12 4 (0.095%) Carpe Diem
13 3 (0.071%) Dynamics AX
14 2 (0.048%) Eikon
15 1 (0.024%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 1,520 (36.21%) Microsoft 365
2 1,307 (31.13%) Azure
3 616 (14.67%) AWS
4 417 (9.93%) Entra ID
5 156 (3.72%) SaaS
6 145 (3.45%) OneDrive
7 91 (2.17%) GCP
8 76 (1.81%) Power Platform
9 73 (1.74%) Mimecast
10 65 (1.55%) PaaS
11 62 (1.48%) IaaS
12 52 (1.24%) Google Workspace
13 50 (1.19%) Azure DevOps
14 44 (1.05%) Azure Sentinel
15 42 (1.00%) Cloud Computing
16 35 (0.83%) Microsoft Purview
16 35 (0.83%) PowerApps
17 31 (0.74%) Azure Monitor
18 29 (0.69%) GitHub
19 28 (0.67%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 717 (17.08%) Firewall
2 531 (12.65%) DNS
3 429 (10.22%) DHCP
4 407 (9.70%) VPN
5 366 (8.72%) WAN
6 360 (8.58%) LAN
7 338 (8.05%) TCP/IP
8 208 (4.95%) Network Security
9 206 (4.91%) VLAN
10 173 (4.12%) Internet
11 171 (4.07%) Wi-Fi
12 168 (4.00%) VoIP
13 152 (3.62%) SAN
14 131 (3.12%) Wireless
15 124 (2.95%) WLAN
16 68 (1.62%) Cisco IOS
17 62 (1.48%) Remote Desktop
18 59 (1.41%) NAS
19 55 (1.31%) SD-WAN
20 51 (1.21%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 296 (7.05%) SQL Server
2 65 (1.55%) Relational Database
3 61 (1.45%) MySQL
4 46 (1.10%) Amazon RDS
5 44 (1.05%) DB2
6 35 (0.83%) Power BI
6 35 (0.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 26 (0.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 21 (0.50%) PostgreSQL
9 19 (0.45%) MongoDB
10 15 (0.36%) NoSQL
11 13 (0.31%) BusinessObjects
12 12 (0.29%) Azure SQL Database
12 12 (0.29%) Data Warehouse
13 11 (0.26%) Oracle Database
14 10 (0.24%) Metadata
15 9 (0.21%) Elasticsearch
16 8 (0.19%) Oracle Reports
17 7 (0.17%) GIS
17 7 (0.17%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 117 (2.79%) JIRA
2 108 (2.57%) Git
3 64 (1.52%) Cucumber
3 64 (1.52%) Robot Framework
4 54 (1.29%) Jenkins
5 46 (1.10%) Bitbucket
6 21 (0.50%) Eclipse
7 20 (0.48%) Visual Studio
8 19 (0.45%) Eclipse RCP
9 13 (0.31%) GitLab
10 12 (0.29%) MSI
11 10 (0.24%) Sonatype Nexus
12 8 (0.19%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 7 (0.17%) Burp Suite
13 7 (0.17%) Selenium
14 6 (0.14%) Artifactory
14 6 (0.14%) Subversion
15 5 (0.12%) Oracle Forms
15 5 (0.12%) SpecFlow
15 5 (0.12%) TeamCity
General
1 1,523 (36.28%) Social Skills
2 524 (12.48%) Finance
3 354 (8.43%) Analytical Skills
4 250 (5.96%) Presentation Skills
5 218 (5.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 198 (4.72%) Law
7 176 (4.19%) Telecoms
8 156 (3.72%) Legal
9 140 (3.33%) Retail
10 137 (3.26%) Organisational Skills
11 119 (2.83%) Banking
12 105 (2.50%) Manufacturing
13 70 (1.67%) Public Sector
14 55 (1.31%) Local Government
15 51 (1.21%) Marketing
16 46 (1.10%) Electronics
17 45 (1.07%) Automotive
18 40 (0.95%) Back Office
19 38 (0.91%) Esports
20 36 (0.86%) Games
Job Titles
1 1,027 (24.46%) IT Support
2 647 (15.41%) Analyst
3 566 (13.48%) Support Engineer
4 443 (10.55%) IT Engineer
5 382 (9.10%) Support Analyst
6 348 (8.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 329 (7.84%) Senior
8 298 (7.10%) IT Support Engineer
9 249 (5.93%) IT Analyst
10 227 (5.41%) 2nd Line Support
11 195 (4.65%) IT Support Analyst
12 182 (4.34%) Lead
13 143 (3.41%) Administrator
14 137 (3.26%) Desktop Support
15 132 (3.14%) 1st Line Support
16 128 (3.05%) Service Analyst
16 128 (3.05%) Technical Support
17 122 (2.91%) Support Specialist
18 119 (2.83%) IT Technician
19 114 (2.72%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 140 (3.33%) .NET
2 65 (1.55%) HTML
3 50 (1.19%) CSS
4 41 (0.98%) Middleware
5 32 (0.76%) ASP.NET
6 29 (0.69%) .NET Framework
7 26 (0.62%) REST
8 24 (0.57%) XML
9 23 (0.55%) HTML5
10 22 (0.52%) LDAP
11 20 (0.48%) SAML
11 20 (0.48%) WPF
12 19 (0.45%) FIX Protocol
12 19 (0.45%) JSP
12 19 (0.45%) Web Services
13 18 (0.43%) Node.js
14 17 (0.40%) .NET Core
14 17 (0.40%) Elastic Stack
14 17 (0.40%) SOAP
15 16 (0.38%) React
Miscellaneous
1 457 (10.89%) Social Media
2 268 (6.38%) Driving Licence
3 241 (5.74%) Enterprise Software
4 186 (4.43%) Management Information System
5 175 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
6 154 (3.67%) Data Centre
7 144 (3.43%) Onboarding
8 78 (1.86%) Linux Command Line
9 74 (1.76%) Video Conferencing
10 66 (1.57%) CCTV
11 57 (1.36%) Clustering
12 55 (1.31%) Public Cloud
13 51 (1.21%) Hybrid Cloud
14 50 (1.19%) Replication
15 44 (1.05%) Security Posture
16 39 (0.93%) iPhone
17 36 (0.86%) PKI
18 34 (0.81%) Virtual Team
19 33 (0.79%) Team-Oriented Environment
20 32 (0.76%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 1,223 (29.13%) Windows Server
2 1,006 (23.96%) Linux
3 637 (15.17%) Windows 10
4 454 (10.81%) Windows Vista
5 204 (4.86%) Mac OS
6 178 (4.24%) Windows Server 2016
7 172 (4.10%) Windows Server 2019
8 165 (3.93%) Android
9 140 (3.33%) Apple iOS
10 101 (2.41%) Windows Server 2012
11 84 (2.00%) Unix
12 68 (1.62%) Mac OS X
13 60 (1.43%) Ubuntu
14 54 (1.29%) Windows 7
15 45 (1.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 32 (0.76%) Windows Server 2008
17 30 (0.71%) CentOS
18 22 (0.52%) VMS
19 21 (0.50%) Debian
20 20 (0.48%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,338 (31.87%) Problem-Solving
2 705 (16.79%) ITIL
3 686 (16.34%) Customer Service
4 437 (10.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 381 (9.08%) Computer Science
6 378 (9.00%) Cybersecurity
7 375 (8.93%) Mentoring
8 310 (7.38%) Mathematics
9 283 (6.74%) Line Management
10 270 (6.43%) DevOps
11 246 (5.86%) Disaster Recovery
12 240 (5.72%) ITSM
13 233 (5.55%) Continuous Improvement
14 216 (5.15%) Agile
15 189 (4.50%) Service Delivery
16 176 (4.19%) Coaching
17 174 (4.14%) Asset Management
18 173 (4.12%) Incident Management
19 170 (4.05%) Project Management
20 157 (3.74%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 699 (16.65%) PowerShell
2 422 (10.05%) SQL
3 369 (8.79%) Python
4 185 (4.41%) C#
5 183 (4.36%) Bash
6 138 (3.29%) JavaScript
7 74 (1.76%) Java
8 45 (1.07%) C++
9 42 (1.00%) PL/SQL
10 38 (0.91%) T-SQL
11 33 (0.79%) VB.NET
12 28 (0.67%) TypeScript
13 24 (0.57%) Perl
14 23 (0.55%) C
15 22 (0.52%) PHP
16 21 (0.50%) Progress 4GL
17 20 (0.48%) Rust
18 17 (0.40%) Ada
18 17 (0.40%) Shell Script
19 16 (0.38%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 872 (20.77%) Degree
2 507 (12.08%) DBS Check
3 394 (9.39%) Microsoft Certification
4 298 (7.10%) Security Cleared
5 241 (5.74%) Cisco Certification
6 211 (5.03%) Computer Science Degree
7 193 (4.60%) CCNA
8 169 (4.03%) DV Cleared
9 167 (3.98%) MCSE
10 160 (3.81%) SC Cleared
11 150 (3.57%) CCNP
12 147 (3.50%) MCP
13 125 (2.98%) A+ Certification
14 96 (2.29%) Azure Certification
15 95 (2.26%) LPIC
16 76 (1.81%) Network+ Certification
17 75 (1.79%) MCSA
18 74 (1.76%) BPSS Clearance
19 69 (1.64%) CISSP
20 58 (1.38%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 236 (5.62%) SLA
2 102 (2.43%) QA
3 101 (2.41%) GDPR
4 99 (2.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 51 (1.21%) Cyber Essentials
6 37 (0.88%) NIST
7 26 (0.62%) Accessibility
8 22 (0.52%) ISO 9001
9 16 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 12 (0.29%) PCI DSS
11 11 (0.26%) COBIT
11 11 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 10 (0.24%) PMO
13 8 (0.19%) SOC 2
14 5 (0.12%) FINRA
15 4 (0.095%) ISO 14001
15 4 (0.095%) NCSC
16 3 (0.071%) Data Quality
16 3 (0.071%) HIPAA
17 2 (0.048%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 1,543 (36.76%) Active Directory
2 524 (12.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 323 (7.69%) Hyper-V
4 129 (3.07%) VMware ESXi
5 90 (2.14%) Virtual Desktop
6 82 (1.95%) vSphere
7 81 (1.93%) Docker
8 62 (1.48%) Virtual Machines
9 45 (1.07%) Firmware
10 30 (0.71%) XenApp
11 25 (0.60%) BitLocker
12 24 (0.57%) Virtual Servers
13 22 (0.52%) Terminal Services
14 16 (0.38%) VMware NSX
15 12 (0.29%) DFS Replication
16 11 (0.26%) Microsoft App-V
17 9 (0.21%) Embedded Firmware
17 9 (0.21%) pfSense
18 7 (0.17%) XenDesktop
19 6 (0.14%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 479 (11.41%) Microsoft Intune
2 231 (5.50%) SCCM
3 209 (4.98%) Ansible
4 172 (4.10%) Terraform
5 116 (2.76%) Kubernetes
6 54 (1.29%) Puppet
7 49 (1.17%) Single Sign-On
8 48 (1.14%) vCenter Server
9 38 (0.91%) Jamf Pro
9 38 (0.91%) WSUS
10 36 (0.86%) SCOM
11 28 (0.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 28 (0.67%) NetBackup
12 20 (0.48%) Prometheus
13 18 (0.43%) Grafana
13 18 (0.43%) Nagios
14 17 (0.40%) FortiGate
14 17 (0.40%) WMI
15 16 (0.38%) Progress Chef
16 12 (0.29%) Graylog
Vendors
1 1,999 (47.62%) Microsoft
2 749 (17.84%) VMware
3 488 (11.62%) Cisco
4 232 (5.53%) Citrix
5 178 (4.24%) Apple
6 172 (4.10%) ServiceNow
7 149 (3.55%) Veeam
8 121 (2.88%) Meraki
9 90 (2.14%) Oracle
10 88 (2.10%) Google
11 82 (1.95%) Dell
12 73 (1.74%) HP
13 62 (1.48%) Fortinet
14 58 (1.38%) Palo Alto
15 53 (1.26%) SolarWinds
16 52 (1.24%) Atlassian
17 51 (1.21%) iManage
18 45 (1.07%) Red Hat
19 44 (1.05%) SAP
20 42 (1.00%) CheckPoint