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 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 14 19
Rank change year-on-year -2 +5 +10
Permanent jobs citing Windows 4,644 8,569 8,772
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 9.44% 9.98% 9.89%
As % of the Operating Systems category 67.26% 68.73% 61.29%
Number of salaries quoted 3,061 7,017 6,332
10th Percentile £26,375 £25,247 £25,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £29,290 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £40,000 £44,000
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +3.53%
75th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £73,886 £70,000 £78,750
UK median annual salary £40,000 £40,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year - -11.11% +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 6,905 12,467 14,313
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 14.03% 14.52% 16.13%
Number of salaries quoted 4,101 9,824 9,803
10th Percentile £27,000 £25,759 £26,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - -14.29% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - -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 16 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 16 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 -6 1,095 £56,000 +1.82% 892
North of England -5 1,035 £35,000 -6.67% 516
South East -3 917 £38,325 -4.19% 694
Midlands -1 851 £36,925 +5.50% 291
North West -11 600 £40,000 - 242
West Midlands +4 592 £36,925 +5.50% 161
Yorkshire +1 386 £32,000 -13.51% 215
South West -4 330 £37,500 -11.76% 282
East of England -16 320 £42,500 +30.77% 288
East Midlands -12 257 £32,500 -7.14% 115
North East -19 47 £44,000 +33.33% 68
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
1 542 (11.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 396 (8.53%) SharePoint
3 89 (1.92%) IIS
4 67 (1.44%) Confluence
5 42 (0.90%) Apache
6 18 (0.39%) Tomcat
7 14 (0.30%) Exchange Server 2013
7 14 (0.30%) nginx
7 14 (0.30%) OpenEdge
8 12 (0.26%) WordPress
9 8 (0.17%) Exchange Server 2010
10 7 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
10 7 (0.15%) IBM Domino
11 6 (0.13%) SharePoint Server
11 6 (0.13%) Skype for Business
12 5 (0.11%) Moodle
13 4 (0.086%) Alfresco
13 4 (0.086%) CMS
13 4 (0.086%) Documentum
13 4 (0.086%) SAS
Applications
1 496 (10.68%) Microsoft Office
2 133 (2.86%) Microsoft Excel
3 82 (1.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 16 (0.34%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 16 (0.34%) MS Visio
5 7 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
6 6 (0.13%) Chatbot
6 6 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
6 6 (0.13%) Trello
7 5 (0.11%) Blender
7 5 (0.11%) CINEMA 4D
7 5 (0.11%) Maya
8 4 (0.086%) Mozilla Thunderbird
9 3 (0.065%) Acrobat
9 3 (0.065%) Photoshop
10 2 (0.043%) SOLIDWORKS
11 1 (0.022%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.022%) AutoCAD
11 1 (0.022%) Camtasia
11 1 (0.022%) GNU Octave
Business Applications
1 23 (0.50%) Dynamics NAV
2 20 (0.43%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
3 16 (0.34%) Remedy ITSM
4 11 (0.24%) NetSuite
5 9 (0.19%) Elite 3E
5 9 (0.19%) SAP Business One
6 8 (0.17%) Sage 50
7 7 (0.15%) Fidessa
7 7 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
7 7 (0.15%) SAP ERP
8 6 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
8 6 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
8 6 (0.13%) Temenos T24
9 5 (0.11%) Oracle Applications
9 5 (0.11%) Sage 200
10 4 (0.086%) Carpe Diem
11 1 (0.022%) Eikon
11 1 (0.022%) iTrent
11 1 (0.022%) Oracle Payables
11 1 (0.022%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 1,487 (32.02%) Microsoft 365
2 1,272 (27.39%) Azure
3 607 (13.07%) AWS
4 404 (8.70%) Entra ID
5 150 (3.23%) SaaS
6 141 (3.04%) OneDrive
7 82 (1.77%) GCP
8 75 (1.61%) Power Platform
9 68 (1.46%) PaaS
10 67 (1.44%) Mimecast
11 61 (1.31%) IaaS
12 50 (1.08%) Google Workspace
13 45 (0.97%) Azure DevOps
14 41 (0.88%) Azure Sentinel
14 41 (0.88%) Cloud Computing
15 37 (0.80%) PowerApps
16 33 (0.71%) Azure Monitor
17 31 (0.67%) Microsoft Purview
18 30 (0.65%) Microsoft Copilot
18 30 (0.65%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 711 (15.31%) Firewall
2 645 (13.89%) VPN
3 509 (10.96%) DNS
4 407 (8.76%) DHCP
5 373 (8.03%) WAN
6 361 (7.77%) LAN
7 328 (7.06%) Cisco IOS
7 328 (7.06%) TCP/IP
8 218 (4.69%) Broadband
9 194 (4.18%) VLAN
10 177 (3.81%) VoIP
11 161 (3.47%) Wi-Fi
12 158 (3.40%) SAN
13 137 (2.95%) Network Security
14 129 (2.78%) Wireless
15 103 (2.22%) Internet
16 63 (1.36%) NAS
17 62 (1.34%) Remote Desktop
18 56 (1.21%) WLAN
19 53 (1.14%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 288 (6.20%) SQL Server
2 62 (1.34%) Relational Database
3 61 (1.31%) MySQL
4 58 (1.25%) Amazon RDS
5 47 (1.01%) DB2
6 38 (0.82%) PostgreSQL
7 33 (0.71%) Power BI
8 29 (0.62%) MongoDB
9 28 (0.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 24 (0.52%) NoSQL
11 18 (0.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 12 (0.26%) Azure SQL Database
12 12 (0.26%) Data Warehouse
13 11 (0.24%) Oracle Database
14 8 (0.17%) Elasticsearch
14 8 (0.17%) Metadata
14 8 (0.17%) Oracle Reports
15 7 (0.15%) GIS
15 7 (0.15%) Oracle Exadata
16 6 (0.13%) SQL CLR
Development Applications
1 127 (2.73%) JIRA
2 115 (2.48%) Git
3 64 (1.38%) Cucumber
3 64 (1.38%) Robot Framework
4 57 (1.23%) Jenkins
5 45 (0.97%) Bitbucket
6 20 (0.43%) Eclipse
7 19 (0.41%) Eclipse RCP
8 18 (0.39%) Visual Studio
9 16 (0.34%) MSI
10 15 (0.32%) Sonatype Nexus
11 11 (0.24%) GitLab
12 10 (0.22%) Vagrant
13 8 (0.17%) Artifactory
13 8 (0.17%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
14 7 (0.15%) Burp Suite
14 7 (0.15%) Selenium
15 6 (0.13%) Subversion
16 5 (0.11%) Oracle Forms
16 5 (0.11%) TeamCity
General
1 1,734 (37.34%) Social Skills
2 603 (12.98%) Analytical Skills
3 501 (10.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 463 (9.97%) Finance
5 252 (5.43%) Presentation Skills
6 181 (3.90%) Law
7 177 (3.81%) Telecoms
8 156 (3.36%) Organisational Skills
9 140 (3.01%) Legal
10 136 (2.93%) Retail
11 111 (2.39%) Banking
12 109 (2.35%) Manufacturing
13 73 (1.57%) Public Sector
14 62 (1.34%) Esports
15 49 (1.06%) Marketing
16 46 (0.99%) Back Office
17 44 (0.95%) Automotive
17 44 (0.95%) Electronics
18 41 (0.88%) Local Government
19 38 (0.82%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 992 (21.36%) IT Support
2 713 (15.35%) Support Engineer
3 645 (13.89%) Analyst
4 584 (12.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 388 (8.35%) Support Analyst
6 347 (7.47%) IT Engineer
7 309 (6.65%) Senior
8 250 (5.38%) IT Analyst
9 244 (5.25%) 2nd Line Support
10 223 (4.80%) IT Support Engineer
11 196 (4.22%) IT Support Analyst
12 183 (3.94%) Lead
13 148 (3.19%) Administrator
14 147 (3.17%) Desktop Support
15 143 (3.08%) 1st Line Support
16 137 (2.95%) Technical Support
17 121 (2.61%) Service Analyst
17 121 (2.61%) Support Specialist
18 114 (2.45%) IT Technician
19 110 (2.37%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 277 (5.96%) Elastic Stack
2 130 (2.80%) .NET
3 59 (1.27%) HTML
4 46 (0.99%) CSS
5 43 (0.93%) Middleware
6 31 (0.67%) .NET Framework
6 31 (0.67%) ASP.NET
6 31 (0.67%) REST
7 26 (0.56%) LDAP
8 25 (0.54%) React
9 24 (0.52%) XML
10 20 (0.43%) AngularJS
11 19 (0.41%) FIX Protocol
11 19 (0.41%) JSP
11 19 (0.41%) Node.js
11 19 (0.41%) SAML
12 18 (0.39%) HTML5
12 18 (0.39%) jQuery
12 18 (0.39%) SOAP
12 18 (0.39%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 557 (11.99%) Social Media
2 262 (5.64%) Cyberattack
3 241 (5.19%) Enterprise Software
4 206 (4.44%) Driving Licence
5 178 (3.83%) Management Information System
6 172 (3.70%) Self-Motivation
7 143 (3.08%) Data Centre
8 138 (2.97%) Onboarding
9 74 (1.59%) Linux Command Line
10 69 (1.49%) Video Conferencing
11 64 (1.38%) CCTV
12 63 (1.36%) Hybrid Cloud
13 61 (1.31%) Clustering
14 58 (1.25%) Public Cloud
15 48 (1.03%) Replication
16 44 (0.95%) Security Posture
17 35 (0.75%) iPhone
17 35 (0.75%) PKI
17 35 (0.75%) Private Cloud
17 35 (0.75%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1,183 (25.47%) Windows Server
2 1,175 (25.30%) Linux
3 616 (13.26%) Windows 10
4 551 (11.86%) Windows Vista
5 438 (9.43%) Android
6 306 (6.59%) Windows Server 2012
7 199 (4.29%) Mac OS
8 159 (3.42%) Windows Server 2019
9 158 (3.40%) Windows Server 2016
10 150 (3.23%) Apple iOS
11 78 (1.68%) Unix
12 67 (1.44%) Mac OS X
13 52 (1.12%) Windows 7
14 48 (1.03%) Ubuntu
15 38 (0.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 30 (0.65%) VMS
17 27 (0.58%) Windows Server 2008
18 23 (0.50%) CentOS
19 17 (0.37%) AIX
20 13 (0.28%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,531 (32.97%) Problem-Solving
2 684 (14.73%) Customer Service
3 660 (14.21%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 640 (13.78%) ITIL
5 578 (12.45%) Mathematics
6 557 (11.99%) Line Management
7 534 (11.50%) DevOps
8 400 (8.61%) Coaching
9 388 (8.35%) Cybersecurity
10 334 (7.19%) Computer Science
11 317 (6.83%) Task Automation
12 316 (6.80%) Risk Management
13 311 (6.70%) Mentoring
14 304 (6.55%) Platform Engineering
15 279 (6.01%) Storage Management
16 251 (5.40%) Proactive Maintenance
17 247 (5.32%) Continuous Improvement
18 246 (5.30%) Proactive Monitoring
19 237 (5.10%) Agile
20 231 (4.97%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 951 (20.48%) PowerShell
2 637 (13.72%) Python
3 443 (9.54%) Bash
4 400 (8.61%) SQL
5 170 (3.66%) C#
6 137 (2.95%) JavaScript
7 81 (1.74%) Java
8 43 (0.93%) C++
9 35 (0.75%) T-SQL
10 33 (0.71%) PL/SQL
11 25 (0.54%) PHP
11 25 (0.54%) VB.NET
12 24 (0.52%) TypeScript
13 23 (0.50%) Perl
14 20 (0.43%) Rust
15 19 (0.41%) Progress 4GL
16 18 (0.39%) C
17 17 (0.37%) Ada
17 17 (0.37%) Shell Script
18 15 (0.32%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 1,033 (22.24%) Degree
2 598 (12.88%) DBS Check
3 319 (6.87%) Microsoft Certification
4 295 (6.35%) Security Cleared
5 167 (3.60%) Cisco Certification
5 167 (3.60%) SC Cleared
6 158 (3.40%) DV Cleared
7 145 (3.12%) Computer Science Degree
8 122 (2.63%) A+ Certification
9 121 (2.61%) CCNA
10 104 (2.24%) MCSE
11 100 (2.15%) Azure Certification
12 88 (1.89%) CCNP
13 81 (1.74%) MCP
14 76 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
14 76 (1.64%) MCSA
15 68 (1.46%) CISSP
16 67 (1.44%) Network+ Certification
17 58 (1.25%) Master's Degree
18 56 (1.21%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 248 (5.34%) SLA
2 107 (2.30%) QA
3 106 (2.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 100 (2.15%) GDPR
5 51 (1.10%) Cyber Essentials
6 36 (0.78%) NIST
7 18 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 15 (0.32%) Accessibility
9 14 (0.30%) PCI DSS
10 11 (0.24%) COBIT
11 10 (0.22%) ISO 9001
12 9 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 8 (0.17%) SOC 2
14 5 (0.11%) PMO
15 4 (0.086%) FINRA
15 4 (0.086%) ISO 14001
15 4 (0.086%) NCSC
16 3 (0.065%) Data Quality
16 3 (0.065%) HIPAA
17 2 (0.043%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 1,721 (37.06%) Active Directory
2 576 (12.40%) Hyper-V
3 520 (11.20%) VMware Infrastructure
4 347 (7.47%) vSphere
5 346 (7.45%) Docker
6 276 (5.94%) VMware NSX
7 131 (2.82%) VMware ESXi
8 89 (1.92%) Virtual Desktop
9 58 (1.25%) Virtual Machines
10 42 (0.90%) Firmware
11 28 (0.60%) XenApp
12 25 (0.54%) Terminal Services
12 25 (0.54%) Virtual Servers
13 24 (0.52%) BitLocker
14 12 (0.26%) Microsoft App-V
15 9 (0.19%) DFS Replication
16 6 (0.13%) Embedded Firmware
17 5 (0.11%) KVM
17 5 (0.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
17 5 (0.11%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 480 (10.34%) Microsoft Intune
2 474 (10.21%) Ansible
3 441 (9.50%) Terraform
4 212 (4.57%) SCCM
5 120 (2.58%) Kubernetes
6 56 (1.21%) Puppet
7 52 (1.12%) Single Sign-On
8 44 (0.95%) vCenter Server
9 42 (0.90%) Jamf Pro
10 33 (0.71%) SCOM
10 33 (0.71%) WSUS
11 28 (0.60%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 28 (0.60%) NetBackup
12 27 (0.58%) Prometheus
13 25 (0.54%) Grafana
14 20 (0.43%) WMI
15 17 (0.37%) FortiGate
15 17 (0.37%) Nagios
16 15 (0.32%) Progress Chef
17 14 (0.30%) vMotion
Vendors
1 2,110 (45.43%) Microsoft
2 746 (16.06%) VMware
3 685 (14.75%) Cisco
4 294 (6.33%) Splunk
5 286 (6.16%) Juniper
6 262 (5.64%) 3PAR
7 222 (4.78%) Sun
8 207 (4.46%) Citrix
9 182 (3.92%) Apple
10 169 (3.64%) ServiceNow
11 148 (3.19%) Veeam
12 126 (2.71%) Meraki
13 92 (1.98%) Oracle
14 80 (1.72%) Google
15 79 (1.70%) HP
16 74 (1.59%) Dell
17 61 (1.31%) Fortinet
18 54 (1.16%) Palo Alto
19 50 (1.08%) Atlassian
19 50 (1.08%) SAP