Windows Jobs in London

Microsoft Windows
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London 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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 22 27
Rank change year-on-year -6 +5 +27
Permanent jobs citing Windows 1,041 1,947 2,845
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 8.20% 8.12% 8.68%
As % of the Operating Systems category 60.74% 65.29% 54.82%
Number of salaries quoted 757 1,558 2,341
10th Percentile £31,500 £30,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,650
Median % change year-on-year - +4.46% +0.29%
75th Percentile £76,250 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £94,500 £92,000
England median annual salary £40,000 £40,000 £43,799
% change year-on-year - -8.67% +1.86%

All Operating Systems
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 1,714 2,982 5,190
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 13.51% 12.44% 15.83%
Number of salaries quoted 1,137 2,250 3,960
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £89,852
90th Percentile £110,000 £103,750 £110,000
England median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - -14.29% -

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in London

Windows
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Windows in London

Windows
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows in London over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Windows in London

Windows
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows within the London region over the 6 months to 30 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
Central London -3 252 £50,000 -9.09% 70
South London +3 53 £37,000 +0.87% 14
West London +5 38 £31,250 -6.72% 125
East London -24 23 £58,500 +30.00% 13
North London -3 17 £70,000 +100.00% 1
Windows
England

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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
1 166 (15.95%) Microsoft Exchange
2 139 (13.35%) SharePoint
3 13 (1.25%) IIS
4 9 (0.86%) Confluence
5 7 (0.67%) nginx
6 6 (0.58%) Moodle
7 4 (0.38%) Exchange Server 2010
8 3 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.29%) Exchange Server 2013
8 3 (0.29%) SharePoint Server
8 3 (0.29%) WordPress
9 2 (0.19%) Apache
9 2 (0.19%) BizTalk Server
10 1 (0.096%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.096%) CMS
10 1 (0.096%) JBoss
10 1 (0.096%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.096%) SAS
10 1 (0.096%) Skype for Business
10 1 (0.096%) WebSphere
Applications
1 161 (15.47%) Microsoft Office
2 49 (4.71%) Microsoft Excel
3 39 (3.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (1.06%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 8 (0.77%) Chatbot
6 7 (0.67%) MS Visio
7 5 (0.48%) Blender
7 5 (0.48%) CINEMA 4D
7 5 (0.48%) Maya
8 3 (0.29%) Photoshop
9 2 (0.19%) Acrobat
10 1 (0.096%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.096%) Camtasia
10 1 (0.096%) Microsoft Project
10 1 (0.096%) Revit
Business Applications
1 7 (0.67%) Elite 3E
2 6 (0.58%) Temenos T24
3 5 (0.48%) Remedy ITSM
4 4 (0.38%) Carpe Diem
4 4 (0.38%) Fidessa
5 3 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.29%) Sage 200
5 3 (0.29%) Sage 50
6 1 (0.096%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
6 1 (0.096%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.096%) Eikon
6 1 (0.096%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.096%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.096%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 448 (43.04%) Azure
2 399 (38.33%) Microsoft 365
3 149 (14.31%) AWS
4 145 (13.93%) Entra ID
5 69 (6.63%) OneDrive
6 46 (4.42%) SaaS
7 35 (3.36%) Mimecast
8 33 (3.17%) PaaS
9 32 (3.07%) Power Platform
10 27 (2.59%) GCP
10 27 (2.59%) IaaS
11 26 (2.50%) Azure Monitor
12 20 (1.92%) Azure DevOps
12 20 (1.92%) Cloud Computing
13 18 (1.73%) Google Workspace
14 17 (1.63%) GitHub
15 16 (1.54%) Azure Data Factory
16 15 (1.44%) Azure AKS
17 13 (1.25%) Azure Logic Apps
17 13 (1.25%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 188 (18.06%) Firewall
2 145 (13.93%) DNS
3 112 (10.76%) DHCP
4 102 (9.80%) VPN
5 88 (8.45%) LAN
5 88 (8.45%) WAN
6 87 (8.36%) TCP/IP
7 67 (6.44%) Broadband
8 55 (5.28%) Wi-Fi
9 47 (4.51%) Network Security
10 43 (4.13%) VLAN
11 34 (3.27%) SAN
12 29 (2.79%) Wireless
13 28 (2.69%) Structured Cabling
14 20 (1.92%) WebEx
15 18 (1.73%) VoIP
16 15 (1.44%) Internet
17 14 (1.34%) Cisco IOS
17 14 (1.34%) PBX
18 11 (1.06%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (8.45%) SQL Server
2 32 (3.07%) DB2
3 24 (2.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 21 (2.02%) MongoDB
4 21 (2.02%) PostgreSQL
5 14 (1.34%) Relational Database
5 14 (1.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 13 (1.25%) Power BI
7 12 (1.15%) NoSQL
8 6 (0.58%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (0.58%) MySQL
9 5 (0.48%) Data Hub
9 5 (0.48%) SQL CLR
10 4 (0.38%) Metadata
11 3 (0.29%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (0.29%) Oracle Reports
12 2 (0.19%) Azure SQL Database
12 2 (0.19%) Data Warehouse
12 2 (0.19%) Tableau
13 1 (0.096%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 37 (3.55%) Git
2 29 (2.79%) JIRA
3 22 (2.11%) Jenkins
4 10 (0.96%) Visual Studio
5 7 (0.67%) Burp Suite
6 5 (0.48%) Artifactory
7 3 (0.29%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.29%) GitLab
7 3 (0.29%) MSI
7 3 (0.29%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.19%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (0.19%) InstallShield
8 2 (0.19%) Maven
8 2 (0.19%) Plastic SCM
9 1 (0.096%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.096%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.096%) Subversion
9 1 (0.096%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.096%) TestRail
9 1 (0.096%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 403 (38.71%) Social Skills
2 263 (25.26%) Finance
3 94 (9.03%) Law
4 83 (7.97%) Analytical Skills
5 72 (6.92%) Banking
6 67 (6.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 57 (5.48%) Legal
8 35 (3.36%) Telecoms
9 31 (2.98%) Organisational Skills
10 22 (2.11%) Back Office
11 21 (2.02%) Public Sector
12 17 (1.63%) Retail
13 16 (1.54%) Marketing
14 14 (1.34%) Advertising
14 14 (1.34%) Front Office
15 13 (1.25%) Investment Banking
16 11 (1.06%) Games
17 10 (0.96%) Presentation Skills
18 6 (0.58%) German Language
18 6 (0.58%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 263 (25.26%) Analyst
2 178 (17.10%) Support Engineer
3 166 (15.95%) Support Analyst
4 164 (15.75%) IT Support
5 149 (14.31%) Senior
6 106 (10.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 85 (8.17%) IT Analyst
8 82 (7.88%) Desktop Support
9 72 (6.92%) IT Support Analyst
10 53 (5.09%) IT Engineer
11 52 (5.00%) Azure Engineer
12 47 (4.51%) Lead
13 44 (4.23%) Service Analyst
14 42 (4.03%) Service Desk Analyst
15 41 (3.94%) Applications Support
16 39 (3.75%) 2nd Line Support
17 38 (3.65%) Technical Support
18 37 (3.55%) IT Support Engineer
18 37 (3.55%) Windows Engineer
19 36 (3.46%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (4.32%) .NET
2 19 (1.83%) .NET Framework
3 18 (1.73%) AngularJS
4 17 (1.63%) FIX Protocol
4 17 (1.63%) React
5 15 (1.44%) jQuery
6 14 (1.34%) ASP.NET
6 14 (1.34%) HTML
6 14 (1.34%) REST
6 14 (1.34%) SAML
7 12 (1.15%) Backbone.js
7 12 (1.15%) Bootstrap
7 12 (1.15%) Ember.js
8 11 (1.06%) LDAP
9 10 (0.96%) WPF
10 9 (0.86%) HTML5
10 9 (0.86%) Node.js
11 8 (0.77%) CSS
11 8 (0.77%) Middleware
12 7 (0.67%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 50 (4.80%) Data Centre
2 49 (4.71%) Self-Motivation
3 45 (4.32%) Management Information System
4 44 (4.23%) Video Conferencing
5 41 (3.94%) Hybrid Cloud
6 38 (3.65%) Onboarding
7 29 (2.79%) iPhone
7 29 (2.79%) Public Cloud
8 21 (2.02%) Hedge funds
9 17 (1.63%) Clustering
10 16 (1.54%) Driving Licence
11 15 (1.44%) e-Learning
12 14 (1.34%) Cyber Threat
12 14 (1.34%) Security Posture
13 13 (1.25%) Podcast
14 12 (1.15%) Algorithms
14 12 (1.15%) Data Structures
14 12 (1.15%) Fat Client
14 12 (1.15%) Thin Client
15 11 (1.06%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 344 (33.05%) Windows Server
2 238 (22.86%) Linux
3 202 (19.40%) Windows 10
4 112 (10.76%) Windows Server 2012
5 62 (5.96%) Windows Server 2016
6 48 (4.61%) Android
6 48 (4.61%) Windows Server 2019
7 46 (4.42%) Apple iOS
8 41 (3.94%) Mac OS
9 33 (3.17%) Unix
10 21 (2.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 17 (1.63%) Mac OS X
12 15 (1.44%) Windows Server 2008
13 13 (1.25%) Windows Vista
14 10 (0.96%) AIX
14 10 (0.96%) Ubuntu
15 9 (0.86%) Windows 7
16 7 (0.67%) Debian
17 6 (0.58%) VMS
18 4 (0.38%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 224 (21.52%) Problem-Solving
2 223 (21.42%) ITIL
3 173 (16.62%) Customer Service
4 144 (13.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 99 (9.51%) Coaching
6 87 (8.36%) DevOps
7 81 (7.78%) Proactive Maintenance
8 76 (7.30%) ITSM
9 75 (7.20%) Disaster Recovery
10 74 (7.11%) Continuous Improvement
11 73 (7.01%) Proactive Monitoring
12 72 (6.92%) Cybersecurity
13 71 (6.82%) Computer Science
14 69 (6.63%) Mentoring
15 67 (6.44%) Broadcast Engineering
15 67 (6.44%) Post-Production
15 67 (6.44%) Procure-to-Pay
16 64 (6.15%) Agile
17 60 (5.76%) Artificial Intelligence
17 60 (5.76%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 225 (21.61%) PowerShell
2 127 (12.20%) SQL
3 112 (10.76%) Python
4 43 (4.13%) C#
5 37 (3.55%) Bash
6 21 (2.02%) JavaScript
6 21 (2.02%) PL/SQL
7 19 (1.83%) T-SQL
7 19 (1.83%) VB.NET
8 12 (1.15%) Java
8 12 (1.15%) TypeScript
9 6 (0.58%) C++
9 6 (0.58%) Delphi
9 6 (0.58%) Shell Script
10 4 (0.38%) Go
10 4 (0.38%) PHP
10 4 (0.38%) Rust
11 3 (0.29%) Gremlin
11 3 (0.29%) Kotlin
11 3 (0.29%) R
Qualifications
1 269 (25.84%) Degree
2 66 (6.34%) Microsoft Certification
3 60 (5.76%) Cisco Certification
4 48 (4.61%) Azure Certification
5 47 (4.51%) CCNA
6 43 (4.13%) Computer Science Degree
7 31 (2.98%) A+ Certification
8 26 (2.50%) CCNP
9 25 (2.40%) Security Cleared
10 24 (2.31%) CISSP
11 21 (2.02%) GCIH
12 19 (1.83%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 18 (1.73%) GCIA
14 17 (1.63%) OSCP
15 16 (1.54%) MCSE
16 15 (1.44%) Network+ Certification
17 14 (1.34%) CEH
17 14 (1.34%) CompTIA Security+
17 14 (1.34%) DV Cleared
18 13 (1.25%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 103 (9.89%) SLA
2 26 (2.50%) GDPR
2 26 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 17 (1.63%) NIST
4 16 (1.54%) QA
5 11 (1.06%) Cyber Essentials
6 8 (0.77%) Accessibility
7 7 (0.67%) SOC 2
8 5 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 4 (0.38%) HIPAA
9 4 (0.38%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.29%) Data Quality
10 3 (0.29%) ITGC
10 3 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.19%) COBIT
11 2 (0.19%) FINRA
11 2 (0.19%) ISO 22301
11 2 (0.19%) ISO 9001
12 1 (0.096%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.096%) PMO
System Software
1 533 (51.20%) Active Directory
2 159 (15.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 66 (6.34%) Hyper-V
4 50 (4.80%) VMware ESXi
5 25 (2.40%) vSphere
6 23 (2.21%) Virtual Desktop
7 20 (1.92%) Docker
8 16 (1.54%) Virtual Machines
9 13 (1.25%) Virtual Servers
9 13 (1.25%) XenApp
10 10 (0.96%) Firmware
11 5 (0.48%) NFS
12 4 (0.38%) BitLocker
12 4 (0.38%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 4 (0.38%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 3 (0.29%) Microsoft App-V
13 3 (0.29%) Samba
13 3 (0.29%) XenDesktop
14 2 (0.19%) VMware Workstation
14 2 (0.19%) Xen
Systems Management
1 189 (18.16%) Microsoft Intune
2 113 (10.85%) SCCM
3 84 (8.07%) Terraform
4 69 (6.63%) Ansible
5 61 (5.86%) Kubernetes
6 29 (2.79%) Single Sign-On
7 21 (2.02%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 20 (1.92%) Jamf Pro
9 16 (1.54%) NetBackup
9 16 (1.54%) Prometheus
10 15 (1.44%) SCOM
10 15 (1.44%) WSUS
11 12 (1.15%) Grafana
12 10 (0.96%) vCenter Server
13 9 (0.86%) Puppet
14 6 (0.58%) Nagios
14 6 (0.58%) Progress Chef
15 5 (0.48%) Nessus
15 5 (0.48%) Opsgenie
15 5 (0.48%) QRadar
Vendors
1 595 (57.16%) Microsoft
2 232 (22.29%) VMware
3 128 (12.30%) Cisco
4 113 (10.85%) Citrix
5 80 (7.68%) ServiceNow
6 72 (6.92%) Sun
7 51 (4.90%) Apple
8 41 (3.94%) Veeam
9 38 (3.65%) Meraki
10 35 (3.36%) SolarWinds
11 33 (3.17%) Oracle
12 29 (2.79%) HP
13 27 (2.59%) Palo Alto
14 26 (2.50%) iManage
14 26 (2.50%) Red Hat
15 22 (2.11%) Dell
16 21 (2.02%) IBM
17 19 (1.83%) Google
17 19 (1.83%) Sophos
18 18 (1.73%) Fortinet