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 23 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 16 15 26
Rank change year-on-year -1 +11 -3
Permanent jobs citing Windows 5,501 6,091 10,767
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 8.23% 11.68% 8.97%
As % of the Operating Systems category 64.64% 66.39% 52.22%
Number of salaries quoted 3,267 4,773 8,214
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,250 £25,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.88%
75th Percentile £61,250 £61,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £78,750
UK median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year - - +3.45%

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 8,510 9,175 20,620
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 12.74% 17.60% 17.17%
Number of salaries quoted 4,912 7,021 12,978
10th Percentile £28,500 £27,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £35,944
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £51,869 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.60% -1.20% +5.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £69,800 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £88,750 £91,250
UK median annual salary £50,000 £51,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% +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 23 October 2024.

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 23 October 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 -10 1,445 £55,000 +2.80% 311
South East -4 1,163 £48,925 +15.12% 344
Midlands -5 866 £37,500 -6.25% 240
North of England -8 847 £40,000 +6.67% 283
South West +2 745 £35,000 -17.65% 189
West Midlands 0 541 £40,000 - 131
North West -4 477 £40,250 -5.29% 155
East of England -2 381 £40,000 +14.29% 171
East Midlands -9 322 £34,000 -20.00% 108
Yorkshire -11 292 £40,681 +17.92% 102
North East -18 77 £38,000 +16.03% 32
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
1 762 (13.85%) Microsoft Exchange
2 570 (10.36%) SharePoint
3 117 (2.13%) IIS
4 69 (1.25%) Apache
5 48 (0.87%) Confluence
6 45 (0.82%) Tomcat
7 19 (0.35%) OpenEdge
7 19 (0.35%) OpenStack
7 19 (0.35%) Skype for Business
8 17 (0.31%) SharePoint 2013
9 16 (0.29%) nginx
9 16 (0.29%) SharePoint 2010
10 15 (0.27%) CloudStack
11 11 (0.20%) CMS
11 11 (0.20%) Tuxedo
12 8 (0.15%) Umbraco
13 7 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2010
13 7 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2013
14 5 (0.091%) SharePoint Server
15 3 (0.055%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 687 (12.49%) Microsoft Office
2 180 (3.27%) Microsoft Excel
3 70 (1.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 14 (0.25%) Simulink
5 11 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
6 10 (0.18%) MS Visio
7 7 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
8 6 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 5 (0.091%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.036%) Windchill
11 1 (0.018%) Acrobat
11 1 (0.018%) Adobe Premiere
11 1 (0.018%) AutoCAD
11 1 (0.018%) InfoPath
11 1 (0.018%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.018%) Revit
Business Applications
1 84 (1.53%) NEC Housing
2 23 (0.42%) Remedy ITSM
3 16 (0.29%) Unit4 Business World
4 13 (0.24%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
5 11 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
6 9 (0.16%) Sage 200
7 8 (0.15%) Dynamics CRM
8 7 (0.13%) Fidessa
9 5 (0.091%) Elite 3E
9 5 (0.091%) SAP Business One
10 3 (0.055%) Dynamics AX
10 3 (0.055%) NetSuite
10 3 (0.055%) Oracle Cash Management
11 2 (0.036%) Carpe Diem
11 2 (0.036%) Dynamics GP
11 2 (0.036%) Endur
11 2 (0.036%) Findur
11 2 (0.036%) SAP EHS
12 1 (0.018%) iTrent
12 1 (0.018%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2,032 (36.94%) Microsoft 365
2 1,845 (33.54%) Azure
3 622 (11.31%) Entra ID
4 516 (9.38%) AWS
5 181 (3.29%) SaaS
6 148 (2.69%) OneDrive
7 130 (2.36%) IaaS
8 129 (2.35%) Azure DevOps
9 128 (2.33%) GCP
10 100 (1.82%) PaaS
11 88 (1.60%) Power Platform
12 78 (1.42%) Google Workspace
13 73 (1.33%) Mimecast
14 58 (1.05%) Azure Monitor
14 58 (1.05%) Cloud Computing
15 42 (0.76%) WhatsApp
16 40 (0.73%) Azure AKS
17 39 (0.71%) Nutanix
18 37 (0.67%) Dynamics 365
18 37 (0.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 931 (16.92%) Firewall
2 828 (15.05%) DNS
3 624 (11.34%) DHCP
4 510 (9.27%) LAN
5 488 (8.87%) TCP/IP
6 471 (8.56%) VPN
7 463 (8.42%) WAN
8 302 (5.49%) Network Security
9 291 (5.29%) Internet
10 260 (4.73%) SAN
11 234 (4.25%) WLAN
12 233 (4.24%) VLAN
13 231 (4.20%) Wi-Fi
14 223 (4.05%) Wireless
15 127 (2.31%) VoIP
16 107 (1.95%) NAS
17 88 (1.60%) Remote Desktop
18 67 (1.22%) SSL
19 48 (0.87%) SNMP
20 47 (0.85%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 484 (8.80%) SQL Server
2 81 (1.47%) MySQL
2 81 (1.47%) PostgreSQL
3 79 (1.44%) Amazon RDS
4 76 (1.38%) DB2
5 68 (1.24%) Power BI
6 67 (1.22%) MongoDB
7 65 (1.18%) BusinessObjects
8 55 (1.00%) Oracle Database
9 51 (0.93%) Relational Database
10 50 (0.91%) NoSQL
11 48 (0.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 36 (0.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 29 (0.53%) QlikView
14 23 (0.42%) Azure SQL Database
14 23 (0.42%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 17 (0.31%) Elasticsearch
16 16 (0.29%) Data Warehouse
17 14 (0.25%) MariaDB
18 8 (0.15%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 141 (2.56%) Git
2 101 (1.84%) JIRA
3 97 (1.76%) Jenkins
4 42 (0.76%) Subversion
5 35 (0.64%) GitLab
6 26 (0.47%) Octopus Deploy
6 26 (0.47%) Visual Studio
7 20 (0.36%) MSI
8 19 (0.35%) LabVIEW
9 18 (0.33%) CMake
10 17 (0.31%) Bitbucket
11 15 (0.27%) AdminStudio
11 15 (0.27%) Oracle Forms
11 15 (0.27%) TeamCity
12 14 (0.25%) Eclipse
12 14 (0.25%) Rational Rhapsody
13 12 (0.22%) Android Studio
13 12 (0.22%) InstallShield
14 10 (0.18%) Eclipse RCP
15 9 (0.16%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 1,707 (31.03%) Social Skills
2 752 (13.67%) Finance
3 475 (8.63%) Analytical Skills
4 258 (4.69%) Public Sector
5 246 (4.47%) Law
6 189 (3.44%) Manufacturing
7 183 (3.33%) Banking
8 174 (3.16%) Legal
9 152 (2.76%) Organisational Skills
10 138 (2.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 132 (2.40%) Retail
12 124 (2.25%) Telecoms
13 110 (2.00%) Local Government
14 95 (1.73%) Police
15 85 (1.55%) Electronics
16 84 (1.53%) Back Office
17 77 (1.40%) Military
18 70 (1.27%) Aerospace
19 62 (1.13%) Automotive
20 60 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 843 (15.32%) Analyst
2 775 (14.09%) IT Support
3 720 (13.09%) Support Engineer
4 693 (12.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 612 (11.13%) Senior
6 591 (10.74%) IT Engineer
7 382 (6.94%) Support Analyst
8 348 (6.33%) IT Support Engineer
9 312 (5.67%) IT Analyst
10 301 (5.47%) 2nd Line Support
11 269 (4.89%) Lead
12 263 (4.78%) Service Analyst
13 260 (4.73%) Administrator
14 248 (4.51%) Service Desk Analyst
15 206 (3.74%) 2nd Line Engineer
16 202 (3.67%) Software Engineer
17 193 (3.51%) IT Technician
18 188 (3.42%) Developer
18 188 (3.42%) IT Support Analyst
18 188 (3.42%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 258 (4.69%) .NET
2 152 (2.76%) HTML
3 123 (2.24%) Web Services
4 103 (1.87%) ASP.NET
5 101 (1.84%) CSS
6 92 (1.67%) REST
7 83 (1.51%) WPF
8 80 (1.45%) React
9 73 (1.33%) AngularJS
10 62 (1.13%) .NET Framework
11 58 (1.05%) Vue
12 57 (1.04%) XML
13 51 (0.93%) jQuery
14 43 (0.78%) Twitter Bootstrap
15 41 (0.75%) JSON
15 41 (0.75%) WinForms
16 37 (0.67%) ASP.NET Core
16 37 (0.67%) HTML5
17 36 (0.65%) Backbone.js
17 36 (0.65%) Ember.js
Miscellaneous
1 362 (6.58%) Driving Licence
2 285 (5.18%) Self-Motivation
3 210 (3.82%) Management Information System
4 204 (3.71%) Data Centre
4 204 (3.71%) Onboarding
5 149 (2.71%) Social Media
6 130 (2.36%) PKI
7 100 (1.82%) Clustering
7 100 (1.82%) Public Cloud
8 94 (1.71%) Replication
9 93 (1.69%) Hybrid Cloud
10 87 (1.58%) Video Conferencing
11 82 (1.49%) Smartphone
12 73 (1.33%) Algorithms
13 54 (0.98%) Security Posture
14 53 (0.96%) Cyber Threat
15 47 (0.85%) Linux Command Line
16 44 (0.80%) Cloud Native
17 43 (0.78%) Client/Server
18 39 (0.71%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 1,858 (33.78%) Windows Server
2 1,620 (29.45%) Linux
3 998 (18.14%) Windows 10
4 303 (5.51%) Windows Server 2019
5 301 (5.47%) Windows Server 2016
6 278 (5.05%) Android
7 240 (4.36%) Apple iOS
8 210 (3.82%) Unix
9 206 (3.74%) Windows Server 2012
10 204 (3.71%) Mac OS
11 145 (2.64%) Windows Vista
12 115 (2.09%) Ubuntu
13 99 (1.80%) Solaris
14 91 (1.65%) Windows 7
15 80 (1.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 65 (1.18%) Windows Server 2008
17 62 (1.13%) CentOS
18 48 (0.87%) Mac OS X
19 38 (0.69%) VMS
20 22 (0.40%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,220 (22.18%) Problem-Solving
2 1,031 (18.74%) ITIL
3 967 (17.58%) Customer Service
4 838 (15.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 495 (9.00%) Cybersecurity
6 475 (8.63%) Mentoring
7 444 (8.07%) Computer Science
8 405 (7.36%) DevOps
9 385 (7.00%) Agile
10 302 (5.49%) Asset Management
11 290 (5.27%) Disaster Recovery
12 284 (5.16%) Service Management
13 274 (4.98%) Software Engineering
14 273 (4.96%) ITSM
15 259 (4.71%) Continuous Improvement
16 253 (4.60%) Incident Management
17 247 (4.49%) Service Delivery
18 236 (4.29%) Project Management
19 232 (4.22%) Change Management
20 212 (3.85%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 825 (15.00%) PowerShell
2 730 (13.27%) SQL
3 444 (8.07%) Python
4 336 (6.11%) C#
5 292 (5.31%) Bash
6 181 (3.29%) JavaScript
7 179 (3.25%) C++
8 165 (3.00%) Java
9 114 (2.07%) C
10 64 (1.16%) Perl
11 59 (1.07%) T-SQL
12 55 (1.00%) VB
13 49 (0.89%) Shell Script
14 36 (0.65%) PHP
15 32 (0.58%) Bicep
15 32 (0.58%) MATLAB
15 32 (0.58%) Ruby
16 30 (0.55%) TypeScript
17 28 (0.51%) Go
17 28 (0.51%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 991 (18.01%) Degree
2 729 (13.25%) Security Cleared
3 526 (9.56%) Microsoft Certification
4 383 (6.96%) SC Cleared
5 316 (5.74%) DV Cleared
6 306 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
7 287 (5.22%) DBS Check
8 273 (4.96%) Cisco Certification
9 252 (4.58%) CCNA
10 235 (4.27%) MCSE
11 225 (4.09%) MCP
12 173 (3.14%) CCNP
13 160 (2.91%) Azure Certification
14 134 (2.44%) LPIC
15 104 (1.89%) A+ Certification
16 69 (1.25%) HND
17 63 (1.15%) MCSA
18 59 (1.07%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
19 55 (1.00%) ITIL Certification
20 54 (0.98%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 335 (6.09%) SLA
2 126 (2.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 105 (1.91%) Cyber Essentials
4 100 (1.82%) GDPR
5 97 (1.76%) Accessibility
6 68 (1.24%) NIST
7 67 (1.22%) ISO 9001
8 56 (1.02%) QA
9 40 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 28 (0.51%) PCI DSS
11 17 (0.31%) HIPAA
12 16 (0.29%) COBIT
12 16 (0.29%) ITGC
13 14 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 13 (0.24%) PMO
15 12 (0.22%) Data Quality
15 12 (0.22%) NCSC
16 11 (0.20%) NIST 800
17 9 (0.16%) SOC 2
18 6 (0.11%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 2,134 (38.79%) Active Directory
2 884 (16.07%) VMware Infrastructure
3 609 (11.07%) Hyper-V
4 191 (3.47%) VMware ESXi
5 176 (3.20%) Docker
6 134 (2.44%) vSphere
7 126 (2.29%) Virtual Machines
8 117 (2.13%) Virtual Desktop
9 84 (1.53%) XenApp
10 76 (1.38%) XenDesktop
11 75 (1.36%) Firmware
12 69 (1.25%) Virtual Servers
13 40 (0.73%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 30 (0.55%) VMware NSX
15 19 (0.35%) pfSense
15 19 (0.35%) VMware Server
16 14 (0.25%) Terminal Services
17 13 (0.24%) Embedded Firmware
17 13 (0.24%) Microsoft App-V
17 13 (0.24%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 538 (9.78%) Microsoft Intune
2 412 (7.49%) SCCM
3 221 (4.02%) Ansible
4 207 (3.76%) Kubernetes
4 207 (3.76%) Terraform
5 130 (2.36%) WSUS
6 111 (2.02%) vCenter Server
7 85 (1.55%) Jamf Pro
8 74 (1.35%) Puppet
9 60 (1.09%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 59 (1.07%) SCOM
10 59 (1.07%) Single Sign-On
11 54 (0.98%) Grafana
12 37 (0.67%) Prometheus
13 34 (0.62%) Progress Chef
14 29 (0.53%) Nagios
15 28 (0.51%) Backup Exec
15 28 (0.51%) FortiGate
15 28 (0.51%) ZABBIX
16 25 (0.45%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 2,725 (49.54%) Microsoft
2 1,243 (22.60%) VMware
3 563 (10.23%) Cisco
4 398 (7.24%) Citrix
5 230 (4.18%) Apple
6 201 (3.65%) Oracle
7 198 (3.60%) Veeam
8 186 (3.38%) Dell
9 178 (3.24%) Google
10 172 (3.13%) HP
11 156 (2.84%) Red Hat
11 156 (2.84%) ServiceNow
12 120 (2.18%) IBM
13 98 (1.78%) Palo Alto
14 90 (1.64%) Meraki
15 84 (1.53%) NEC
16 81 (1.47%) Fortinet
17 70 (1.27%) NetApp
18 61 (1.11%) SolarWinds
19 50 (0.91%) Sophos