Windows Job Trends in Exeter

Microsoft Windows
Devon > Exeter

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Exeter requiring Windows skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 18 12
Rank change year-on-year +8 -6 +9
Permanent jobs citing Windows 23 12 16
As % of all permanent jobs in Exeter 10.50% 5.85% 13.91%
As % of the Operating Systems category 95.83% 46.15% 94.12%
Number of salaries quoted 19 8 14
10th Percentile - £25,750 £25,200
25th Percentile £24,500 £27,136 £35,423
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £25,000 £28,243 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.48% -46.20% +54.41%
75th Percentile £33,625 £37,915 £66,750
90th Percentile £47,500 £67,250 -
Devon median annual salary £28,000 £40,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -30.00% -15.79% +30.40%

All Operating Systems
Exeter

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 Exeter.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 24 26 17
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Exeter 10.96% 12.68% 14.78%
Number of salaries quoted 20 19 15
10th Percentile - £27,229 £25,350
25th Percentile £24,500 £27,598 £37,096
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £25,000 £32,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -21.88% -39.05% +47.20%
75th Percentile £39,063 £44,374 £66,750
90th Percentile £48,000 £61,000 -
Devon median annual salary £28,000 £40,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -30.00% -15.79% +30.11%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in Exeter

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Windows relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Exeter.

Windows job vacancy trend in Exeter

Windows
Salary Trend in Exeter

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Exeter citing Windows.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Exeter citing Windows

Windows
Salary Histogram in Exeter

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows in Exeter over the 6 months to 5 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Windows in Exeter

Windows
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Exeter by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 12 (52.17%) SharePoint
2 4 (17.39%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 18 (78.26%) Microsoft 365
2 13 (56.52%) Azure
3 12 (52.17%) Entra ID
4 8 (34.78%) OneDrive
5 2 (8.70%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (4.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (4.35%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (4.35%) Amazon ECR
6 1 (4.35%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (4.35%) Amazon S3
6 1 (4.35%) AWS
6 1 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (4.35%) CloudFront
6 1 (4.35%) IaaS
6 1 (4.35%) Serverless
6 1 (4.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 12 (52.17%) DHCP
1 12 (52.17%) DNS
2 4 (17.39%) VPN
3 2 (8.70%) Firewall
3 2 (8.70%) SAN
3 2 (8.70%) TCP/IP
3 2 (8.70%) VLAN
3 2 (8.70%) VoIP
3 2 (8.70%) Wireless
4 1 (4.35%) Network Security
4 1 (4.35%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (4.35%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Bitbucket
1 1 (4.35%) Jenkins
General
1 8 (34.78%) Law
1 8 (34.78%) Social Skills
2 4 (17.39%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (8.70%) Advertising
3 2 (8.70%) Manufacturing
4 1 (4.35%) Back Office
4 1 (4.35%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (4.35%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.35%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (60.87%) IT Support
1 14 (60.87%) Support Technician
2 13 (56.52%) IT Technician
3 12 (52.17%) IT Support Technician
4 2 (8.70%) 1st Line Support
4 2 (8.70%) 1st Line Support Technician
4 2 (8.70%) Analyst
4 2 (8.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) IT Analyst
4 2 (8.70%) IT Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) IT Support Analyst
4 2 (8.70%) Support Analyst
5 1 (4.35%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Senior
5 1 (4.35%) Senior DevOps
5 1 (4.35%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Service Desk Support
5 1 (4.35%) Service Desk Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 13 (56.52%) Driving Licence
2 6 (26.09%) Onboarding
3 4 (17.39%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (4.35%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 15 (65.22%) Windows Server
2 5 (21.74%) Windows 10
3 4 (17.39%) Apple iOS
4 1 (4.35%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (39.13%) ITIL
2 8 (34.78%) Customer Service
3 5 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (13.04%) Ticket Management
5 2 (8.70%) Cloud Security
5 2 (8.70%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (8.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (8.70%) Infrastructure Monitoring
5 2 (8.70%) ITSM
5 2 (8.70%) Patch Management
6 1 (4.35%) Application Packaging
6 1 (4.35%) CI/CD
6 1 (4.35%) Compatibility Testing
6 1 (4.35%) Configuration Management
6 1 (4.35%) Containerisation
6 1 (4.35%) Cybersecurity
6 1 (4.35%) Infrastructure as Code
6 1 (4.35%) Logistics
6 1 (4.35%) Project Delivery
6 1 (4.35%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (17.39%) PowerShell
2 1 (4.35%) Bash
2 1 (4.35%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (8.70%) A+ Certification
2 1 (4.35%) AWS Certification
2 1 (4.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.70%) GDPR
2 1 (4.35%) SLA
System Software
1 19 (82.61%) Active Directory
2 4 (17.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (8.70%) Hyper-V
4 1 (4.35%) Docker
4 1 (4.35%) iptables
4 1 (4.35%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 5 (21.74%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (13.04%) SCCM
3 2 (8.70%) WSUS
4 1 (4.35%) Ansible
4 1 (4.35%) Grafana
4 1 (4.35%) Progress Chef
4 1 (4.35%) Prometheus
4 1 (4.35%) Puppet
4 1 (4.35%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (47.83%) Microsoft
2 4 (17.39%) Apple
2 4 (17.39%) VMware
3 2 (8.70%) SolarWinds
3 2 (8.70%) SonicWALL
3 2 (8.70%) Sophos
3 2 (8.70%) Veeam
4 1 (4.35%) Clearswift
4 1 (4.35%) Fortinet