Windows Jobs in England

Microsoft Windows
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England 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 6 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 15 22 24
Rank change year-on-year +7 +2 -7
Permanent jobs citing Windows 5,662 10,168 10,530
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 12.05% 9.34% 9.43%
As % of the Operating Systems category 68.26% 55.64% 53.59%
Number of salaries quoted 4,617 7,985 8,571
10th Percentile £26,250 £25,750 £24,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,400 £45,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.33% +5.88% -5.56%
75th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £80,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £44,400 £45,000 £43,500
% change year-on-year -1.33% +3.45% -3.33%

All Operating Systems
England

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 England with a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 8,295 18,273 19,651
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.65% 16.78% 17.60%
Number of salaries quoted 6,636 12,601 14,393
10th Percentile £27,500 £27,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £34,000 £36,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £92,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -

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 6 December 2023.

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 6 December 2023. 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 +17 1,910 £55,000 - 610
South East +7 1,269 £41,500 +3.75% 624
North of England +14 842 £37,000 -1.33% 513
South West +8 670 £42,500 +1.29% 273
Midlands +10 655 £40,000 -5.88% 353
West Midlands +11 412 £40,000 -5.88% 212
Yorkshire +13 404 £36,500 +1.39% 205
North West +7 376 £37,500 - 243
East of England +5 270 £36,000 -7.07% 206
East Midlands +7 240 £42,500 -2.30% 141
North East +9 63 £32,500 -13.33% 72
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
1 599 (10.58%) SharePoint
2 392 (6.92%) MS Exchange
3 159 (2.81%) IIS
4 51 (0.90%) Confluence
5 41 (0.72%) Apache
6 27 (0.48%) WebSphere
7 25 (0.44%) nginx
8 22 (0.39%) Exchange Server 2010
9 18 (0.32%) CMS
10 13 (0.23%) Exchange Server 2013
11 11 (0.19%) Site Server
12 10 (0.18%) Skype for Business
13 8 (0.14%) WebSphere Application Server
14 7 (0.12%) Tomcat
14 7 (0.12%) WordPress
15 6 (0.11%) OpenStack
15 6 (0.11%) WebLogic
16 5 (0.088%) SharePoint Server
17 4 (0.071%) Oracle SOA Suite
18 3 (0.053%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 777 (13.72%) Microsoft Office
2 123 (2.17%) Microsoft Excel
3 78 (1.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 21 (0.37%) Microsoft Project
5 20 (0.35%) AutoCAD
6 9 (0.16%) PTC Creo
6 9 (0.16%) SOLIDWORKS
6 9 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
7 8 (0.14%) InCopy
8 7 (0.12%) Adobe Illustrator
8 7 (0.12%) InDesign
8 7 (0.12%) Photoshop
8 7 (0.12%) Revit
9 6 (0.11%) Acrobat
10 5 (0.088%) Trello
11 4 (0.071%) Chatbot
11 4 (0.071%) LibreOffice
11 4 (0.071%) MS Visio
12 3 (0.053%) OrCAD
13 2 (0.035%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 18 (0.32%) Fidessa
2 14 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
3 11 (0.19%) Dynamics NAV
4 7 (0.12%) Carpe Diem
4 7 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
5 6 (0.11%) Elite 3E
6 5 (0.088%) SAP Business One
6 5 (0.088%) SAP ERP
6 5 (0.088%) Unit4 Business World
7 4 (0.071%) assyst
7 4 (0.071%) Eikon
8 3 (0.053%) PlanetPress Connect
8 3 (0.053%) SAP Oil and Gas
9 2 (0.035%) Adaptiv
9 2 (0.035%) Endur
9 2 (0.035%) EuroRunner
9 2 (0.035%) Misys Equation
9 2 (0.035%) Salerio
10 1 (0.018%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 2,576 (45.50%) Microsoft 365
2 2,288 (40.41%) Azure
3 687 (12.13%) AWS
4 675 (11.92%) Entra ID
5 227 (4.01%) SaaS
6 218 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
7 214 (3.78%) IaaS
8 188 (3.32%) OneDrive
9 168 (2.97%) PaaS
10 123 (2.17%) GCP
11 104 (1.84%) Power Platform
12 86 (1.52%) WhatsApp
13 85 (1.50%) Mimecast
14 70 (1.24%) OpenShift
14 70 (1.24%) Serverless
15 65 (1.15%) Azure Monitor
16 61 (1.08%) GitHub
17 53 (0.94%) Cloud Computing
18 49 (0.87%) Google Workspace
19 47 (0.83%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 1,058 (18.69%) DNS
2 1,035 (18.28%) Firewall
3 926 (16.35%) DHCP
4 692 (12.22%) WAN
5 593 (10.47%) VPN
6 582 (10.28%) LAN
7 559 (9.87%) TCP/IP
8 391 (6.91%) Wireless
9 339 (5.99%) SAN
10 313 (5.53%) VLAN
11 266 (4.70%) Wi-Fi
12 184 (3.25%) Internet
12 184 (3.25%) SD-WAN
13 180 (3.18%) VoIP
14 144 (2.54%) Cisco IOS
15 138 (2.44%) Network Security
16 127 (2.24%) Remote Desktop
17 113 (2.00%) WebEx
18 104 (1.84%) HTTP
19 80 (1.41%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 574 (10.14%) SQL Server
2 130 (2.30%) Amazon RDS
3 115 (2.03%) MySQL
4 68 (1.20%) PostgreSQL
5 64 (1.13%) Power BI
6 60 (1.06%) Relational Database
7 51 (0.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 45 (0.79%) Oracle Database
9 43 (0.76%) MongoDB
10 35 (0.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 27 (0.48%) Data Warehouse
12 26 (0.46%) Azure SQL Database
13 25 (0.44%) Metadata
14 24 (0.42%) DB2
15 22 (0.39%) NoSQL
16 21 (0.37%) RDBMS
17 19 (0.34%) Elasticsearch
18 16 (0.28%) SAP HANA
19 12 (0.21%) InfluxDB
19 12 (0.21%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 171 (3.02%) Git
2 142 (2.51%) JIRA
3 112 (1.98%) Jenkins
4 57 (1.01%) GitLab
5 56 (0.99%) Selenium
6 39 (0.69%) TeamCity
7 37 (0.65%) Visual Studio
8 35 (0.62%) Bitbucket
8 35 (0.62%) MSI
9 31 (0.55%) Robot Framework
10 28 (0.49%) Octopus Deploy
11 23 (0.41%) Subversion
12 21 (0.37%) SonarQube
13 19 (0.34%) SoapUI
13 19 (0.34%) Sonatype Nexus
14 17 (0.30%) NUnit
15 16 (0.28%) AdminStudio
15 16 (0.28%) InstallShield
16 15 (0.26%) Postman
17 14 (0.25%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 1,782 (31.47%) Social Skills
2 791 (13.97%) Finance
3 395 (6.98%) Analytical Skills
4 265 (4.68%) Law
5 244 (4.31%) Organisational Skills
6 230 (4.06%) Legal
7 212 (3.74%) Retail
8 187 (3.30%) Telecoms
9 182 (3.21%) Public Sector
10 178 (3.14%) Banking
11 161 (2.84%) Manufacturing
12 145 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 109 (1.93%) Presentation Skills
14 75 (1.32%) Aerospace
15 64 (1.13%) Marketing
16 62 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
17 61 (1.08%) Games
18 49 (0.87%) Back Office
19 44 (0.78%) Electronics
19 44 (0.78%) Military
Job Titles
1 945 (16.69%) Support Engineer
2 898 (15.86%) Analyst
3 843 (14.89%) IT Support
4 799 (14.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 755 (13.33%) Senior
6 611 (10.79%) IT Engineer
7 467 (8.25%) Support Analyst
8 406 (7.17%) 2nd Line Support
9 361 (6.38%) IT Support Engineer
10 341 (6.02%) IT Analyst
11 311 (5.49%) 2nd Line Engineer
12 252 (4.45%) IT Support Analyst
13 238 (4.20%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
13 238 (4.20%) Lead
13 238 (4.20%) Service Analyst
14 233 (4.12%) Administrator
15 232 (4.10%) Desktop Support
16 216 (3.81%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
17 212 (3.74%) Service Desk Analyst
18 201 (3.55%) 3rd Line Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 197 (3.48%) .NET
2 97 (1.71%) HTML
3 71 (1.25%) Web Services
4 69 (1.22%) XML
5 61 (1.08%) ASP.NET
6 51 (0.90%) Elastic Stack
7 48 (0.85%) AngularJS
8 47 (0.83%) ARM Templates
8 47 (0.83%) CSS
9 46 (0.81%) .NET Framework
9 46 (0.81%) YAML
10 44 (0.78%) JSON
11 43 (0.76%) Middleware
12 42 (0.74%) React
13 39 (0.69%) .NET Core
14 31 (0.55%) REST
15 28 (0.49%) FIX Protocol
16 25 (0.44%) 802.1X
16 25 (0.44%) SAML
17 23 (0.41%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 291 (5.14%) Data Centre
2 240 (4.24%) Driving Licence
3 229 (4.04%) Self-Motivation
4 176 (3.11%) Management Information System
5 164 (2.90%) Video Conferencing
6 154 (2.72%) Public Cloud
7 142 (2.51%) PKI
8 126 (2.23%) Virtual Team
9 115 (2.03%) Replication
10 106 (1.87%) Clustering
11 101 (1.78%) Wiki
12 85 (1.50%) Onboarding
13 69 (1.22%) Private Cloud
14 67 (1.18%) iPhone
14 67 (1.18%) Security Operations Centre
15 60 (1.06%) CMDB
15 60 (1.06%) Smartphone
16 55 (0.97%) Client/Server
17 48 (0.85%) Enterprise Software
18 42 (0.74%) EPoS
Operating Systems
1 2,251 (39.76%) Windows Server
2 1,310 (23.14%) Linux
3 1,295 (22.87%) Windows 10
4 458 (8.09%) Windows Server 2016
5 445 (7.86%) Windows Server 2019
6 440 (7.77%) Android
7 424 (7.49%) Windows Server 2012
8 254 (4.49%) Apple iOS
9 253 (4.47%) Mac OS
10 244 (4.31%) Unix
11 179 (3.16%) Windows 7
12 170 (3.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 94 (1.66%) Ubuntu
14 92 (1.62%) Windows Server 2008
15 79 (1.40%) Windows 8
16 71 (1.25%) Windows Server 2003
17 59 (1.04%) Mac OS X
17 59 (1.04%) VMS
18 57 (1.01%) CentOS
19 38 (0.67%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,053 (18.60%) ITIL
2 1,044 (18.44%) Problem-Solving
3 929 (16.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 908 (16.04%) Customer Service
5 538 (9.50%) Agile
6 508 (8.97%) DevOps
7 494 (8.72%) Cybersecurity
8 369 (6.52%) Service Management
9 319 (5.63%) Mentoring
10 314 (5.55%) Computer Science
11 306 (5.40%) Disaster Recovery
12 302 (5.33%) Project Management
13 296 (5.23%) Incident Management
14 272 (4.80%) ITSM
15 271 (4.79%) Actionable Insight
16 270 (4.77%) Migration
17 263 (4.65%) Infrastructure as Code
18 248 (4.38%) Service Delivery
19 245 (4.33%) Change Management
20 243 (4.29%) Mobile Device Management
Programming Languages
1 1,212 (21.41%) PowerShell
2 740 (13.07%) SQL
3 561 (9.91%) Python
4 372 (6.57%) Bash
5 295 (5.21%) C#
6 211 (3.73%) Java
7 180 (3.18%) JavaScript
8 145 (2.56%) C++
9 73 (1.29%) Perl
10 70 (1.24%) T-SQL
11 68 (1.20%) VBScript
12 65 (1.15%) Ruby
13 64 (1.13%) VB
14 63 (1.11%) C
15 43 (0.76%) PL/SQL
16 36 (0.64%) PHP
17 33 (0.58%) Shell Script
18 31 (0.55%) TypeScript
19 28 (0.49%) Bicep
20 24 (0.42%) RPG
Qualifications
1 922 (16.28%) Degree
2 789 (13.94%) Security Cleared
3 509 (8.99%) SC Cleared
4 372 (6.57%) Microsoft Certification
5 316 (5.58%) DV Cleared
6 224 (3.96%) Computer Science Degree
7 212 (3.74%) Cisco Certification
8 153 (2.70%) MCSE
9 137 (2.42%) Master's Degree
10 125 (2.21%) CCNA
11 121 (2.14%) Azure Certification
12 90 (1.59%) DBS Check
13 86 (1.52%) ITIL Certification
14 81 (1.43%) MCSA
15 78 (1.38%) A+ Certification
16 74 (1.31%) CISSP
17 69 (1.22%) MCP
18 52 (0.92%) CompTIA Security+
18 52 (0.92%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
19 46 (0.81%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 448 (7.91%) SLA
2 195 (3.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 130 (2.30%) Cyber Essentials
4 92 (1.62%) GDPR
5 90 (1.59%) QA
6 45 (0.79%) NIST
6 45 (0.79%) PCI DSS
7 34 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 21 (0.37%) NCSC
8 21 (0.37%) PMO
9 14 (0.25%) Accessibility
10 10 (0.18%) Software Quality Assurance
11 9 (0.16%) Data Quality
11 9 (0.16%) ISO 9001
12 7 (0.12%) COBIT
12 7 (0.12%) Disclosure Scotland
13 6 (0.11%) JSP 440
14 5 (0.088%) GRC
14 5 (0.088%) RMADS
14 5 (0.088%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2,867 (50.64%) Active Directory
2 1,155 (20.40%) VMware Infrastructure
3 697 (12.31%) Hyper-V
4 297 (5.25%) VMware ESXi
5 242 (4.27%) Docker
6 178 (3.14%) vSphere
7 157 (2.77%) Virtual Desktop
8 155 (2.74%) XenApp
9 142 (2.51%) Virtual Machines
10 126 (2.23%) XenDesktop
11 119 (2.10%) Microsoft App-V
12 112 (1.98%) Firmware
13 55 (0.97%) Virtual Servers
14 35 (0.62%) VMware NSX
15 27 (0.48%) vCloud
16 21 (0.37%) Terminal Services
17 19 (0.34%) BitLocker
18 15 (0.26%) VMware Workstation
19 14 (0.25%) Microsoft Virtual Server
20 10 (0.18%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 812 (14.34%) SCCM
2 710 (12.54%) Microsoft Intune
3 358 (6.32%) Ansible
4 335 (5.92%) Terraform
5 274 (4.84%) Kubernetes
6 197 (3.48%) Puppet
7 178 (3.14%) SCOM
8 119 (2.10%) WSUS
9 104 (1.84%) AirWatch
10 98 (1.73%) vCenter Server
11 90 (1.59%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 71 (1.25%) Jamf Pro
13 59 (1.04%) FortiGate
14 58 (1.02%) Failover Clustering
14 58 (1.02%) Microsoft Clustering
15 54 (0.95%) Single Sign-On
16 43 (0.76%) Grafana
17 39 (0.69%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
17 39 (0.69%) Nessus
18 32 (0.57%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 2,945 (52.01%) Microsoft
2 1,611 (28.45%) VMware
3 696 (12.29%) Cisco
4 516 (9.11%) Citrix
5 305 (5.39%) HP
6 277 (4.89%) Apple
7 240 (4.24%) ServiceNow
8 222 (3.92%) Oracle
9 218 (3.85%) Dell
10 205 (3.62%) Veeam
11 180 (3.18%) Red Hat
12 171 (3.02%) Google
13 154 (2.72%) Meraki
14 100 (1.77%) Bloomberg
15 97 (1.71%) SolarWinds
16 83 (1.47%) Aruba
17 81 (1.43%) Sophos
18 80 (1.41%) SAP
19 73 (1.29%) Remedy
20 68 (1.20%) Fortinet