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

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 19 28
Rank change year-on-year -10 +9 +24
Permanent jobs citing Windows 1,055 1,999 2,918
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 8.16% 8.46% 8.52%
As % of the Operating Systems category 59.77% 65.09% 54.13%
Number of salaries quoted 807 1,600 2,419
10th Percentile £31,500 £30,250 £31,200
25th Percentile £40,500 £36,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +4.76% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £91,750 £91,991 £93,750
England median annual salary £40,000 £40,000 £43,823
% change year-on-year - -8.72% +3.11%

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 1,765 3,071 5,391
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 13.65% 12.99% 15.74%
Number of salaries quoted 1,230 2,331 4,123
10th Percentile £33,250 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £41,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £82,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £111,250 £102,500 £112,250
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 12 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 12 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 -4 263 £50,000 -9.09% 80
South London -3 41 £37,000 -1.33% 22
West London +6 29 £42,500 +25.00% 46
East London -25 15 £58,500 +14.15% 16
North London +1 8 £42,500 +21.43% 5
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
1 183 (17.35%) Microsoft Exchange
2 141 (13.36%) SharePoint
3 15 (1.42%) IIS
4 11 (1.04%) nginx
5 6 (0.57%) Confluence
6 5 (0.47%) Exchange Server 2010
6 5 (0.47%) Moodle
6 5 (0.47%) WordPress
7 4 (0.38%) Apache
7 4 (0.38%) Exchange Server 2013
8 3 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.28%) SharePoint Server
8 3 (0.28%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.19%) BizTalk Server
10 1 (0.095%) CMS
10 1 (0.095%) JBoss
10 1 (0.095%) NetWeaver
10 1 (0.095%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.095%) SAS
10 1 (0.095%) WebSphere
Applications
1 167 (15.83%) Microsoft Office
2 50 (4.74%) Microsoft Excel
3 38 (3.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 14 (1.33%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 11 (1.04%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.47%) Blender
6 5 (0.47%) CINEMA 4D
6 5 (0.47%) Maya
7 4 (0.38%) Acrobat
7 4 (0.38%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.28%) Photoshop
9 2 (0.19%) SOLIDWORKS
10 1 (0.095%) Camtasia
Business Applications
1 8 (0.76%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
2 7 (0.66%) Elite 3E
2 7 (0.66%) Fidessa
3 6 (0.57%) Temenos T24
4 5 (0.47%) Remedy ITSM
4 5 (0.47%) Sage 200
4 5 (0.47%) Sage 50
5 4 (0.38%) Carpe Diem
5 4 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.19%) Eikon
7 1 (0.095%) Dynamics AX
7 1 (0.095%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.095%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.095%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.095%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.095%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 475 (45.02%) Azure
2 441 (41.80%) Microsoft 365
3 164 (15.55%) AWS
4 158 (14.98%) Entra ID
5 66 (6.26%) OneDrive
6 57 (5.40%) SaaS
7 40 (3.79%) Mimecast
8 36 (3.41%) PaaS
9 32 (3.03%) GCP
10 31 (2.94%) IaaS
11 25 (2.37%) Azure Monitor
11 25 (2.37%) Power Platform
12 21 (1.99%) Cloud Computing
13 20 (1.90%) Azure DevOps
14 18 (1.71%) Azure AKS
14 18 (1.71%) Google Workspace
15 14 (1.33%) Azure Sentinel
16 13 (1.23%) Azure Data Factory
17 12 (1.14%) GitHub
18 11 (1.04%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 193 (18.29%) Firewall
2 153 (14.50%) DNS
3 119 (11.28%) DHCP
4 97 (9.19%) VPN
5 82 (7.77%) TCP/IP
6 80 (7.58%) LAN
7 79 (7.49%) WAN
8 58 (5.50%) Wi-Fi
9 47 (4.45%) Network Security
10 46 (4.36%) VLAN
11 43 (4.08%) SAN
12 37 (3.51%) Wireless
13 28 (2.65%) Structured Cabling
14 21 (1.99%) VoIP
14 21 (1.99%) WebEx
15 20 (1.90%) Internet
16 18 (1.71%) Broadband
16 18 (1.71%) Cisco IOS
16 18 (1.71%) PBX
17 14 (1.33%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (8.91%) SQL Server
2 34 (3.22%) DB2
3 29 (2.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 19 (1.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 17 (1.61%) MongoDB
5 17 (1.61%) PostgreSQL
6 14 (1.33%) Relational Database
7 10 (0.95%) Amazon RDS
7 10 (0.95%) Power BI
8 8 (0.76%) NoSQL
9 6 (0.57%) Metadata
10 5 (0.47%) MySQL
11 4 (0.38%) Data Hub
11 4 (0.38%) SQL CLR
12 3 (0.28%) Elasticsearch
12 3 (0.28%) Oracle Reports
13 2 (0.19%) Azure SQL Database
13 2 (0.19%) Data Warehouse
13 2 (0.19%) Redis
14 1 (0.095%) Hazelcast
Development Applications
1 32 (3.03%) Git
2 27 (2.56%) JIRA
3 22 (2.09%) Jenkins
4 10 (0.95%) Visual Studio
5 7 (0.66%) Burp Suite
6 5 (0.47%) Artifactory
6 5 (0.47%) Sonatype Nexus
7 4 (0.38%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.38%) InstallShield
8 3 (0.28%) GitLab
8 3 (0.28%) MSI
9 2 (0.19%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (0.19%) AutoIt
9 2 (0.19%) Eclipse
9 2 (0.19%) Maven
9 2 (0.19%) Plastic SCM
10 1 (0.095%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.095%) Jaeger
10 1 (0.095%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.095%) TestRail
General
1 380 (36.02%) Social Skills
2 295 (27.96%) Finance
3 107 (10.14%) Law
4 90 (8.53%) Analytical Skills
5 79 (7.49%) Banking
6 65 (6.16%) Legal
7 59 (5.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 34 (3.22%) Telecoms
9 30 (2.84%) Organisational Skills
10 25 (2.37%) Back Office
10 25 (2.37%) Marketing
11 18 (1.71%) Retail
12 17 (1.61%) Front Office
12 17 (1.61%) Investment Banking
13 13 (1.23%) Advertising
14 12 (1.14%) Public Sector
15 11 (1.04%) Local Government
15 11 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
16 10 (0.95%) Games
17 7 (0.66%) German Language
Job Titles
1 294 (27.87%) Analyst
2 191 (18.10%) Support Analyst
3 165 (15.64%) IT Support
4 157 (14.88%) Senior
5 135 (12.80%) Support Engineer
6 126 (11.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 98 (9.29%) IT Analyst
8 80 (7.58%) IT Support Analyst
9 76 (7.20%) Desktop Support
10 59 (5.59%) IT Engineer
11 53 (5.02%) Applications Support
12 52 (4.93%) Service Analyst
13 49 (4.64%) Lead
14 45 (4.27%) 2nd Line Support
14 45 (4.27%) Applications Support Analyst
15 44 (4.17%) Service Desk Analyst
16 41 (3.89%) Azure Engineer
16 41 (3.89%) IT Support Engineer
17 38 (3.60%) Technical Support
17 38 (3.60%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (4.55%) .NET
2 18 (1.71%) FIX Protocol
3 17 (1.61%) .NET Framework
4 15 (1.42%) AngularJS
5 14 (1.33%) HTML
6 13 (1.23%) ASP.NET
7 12 (1.14%) LDAP
7 12 (1.14%) React
7 12 (1.14%) REST
7 12 (1.14%) SAML
8 11 (1.04%) WPF
9 10 (0.95%) HTML5
9 10 (0.95%) jQuery
10 9 (0.85%) CSS
11 8 (0.76%) Backbone.js
11 8 (0.76%) Bootstrap
11 8 (0.76%) Elastic Stack
11 8 (0.76%) Ember.js
11 8 (0.76%) Middleware
11 8 (0.76%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 55 (5.21%) Data Centre
2 52 (4.93%) Management Information System
3 50 (4.74%) Self-Motivation
4 49 (4.64%) Onboarding
5 39 (3.70%) Video Conferencing
6 33 (3.13%) Hybrid Cloud
7 32 (3.03%) Public Cloud
8 29 (2.75%) iPhone
9 23 (2.18%) Hedge funds
10 19 (1.80%) Cyber Threat
10 19 (1.80%) Driving Licence
11 18 (1.71%) Security Posture
12 17 (1.61%) Legacy Applications
13 16 (1.52%) Clustering
14 15 (1.42%) Social Media
15 14 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
16 13 (1.23%) e-Learning
16 13 (1.23%) Podcast
17 12 (1.14%) Linux Command Line
17 12 (1.14%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 353 (33.46%) Windows Server
2 255 (24.17%) Linux
3 234 (22.18%) Windows 10
4 64 (6.07%) Windows Server 2012
5 61 (5.78%) Windows Server 2016
6 47 (4.45%) Windows Server 2019
7 45 (4.27%) Android
8 43 (4.08%) Apple iOS
9 40 (3.79%) Mac OS
10 35 (3.32%) Unix
11 20 (1.90%) Windows Vista
12 19 (1.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 18 (1.71%) Mac OS X
13 18 (1.71%) Windows Server 2008
14 13 (1.23%) Ubuntu
15 11 (1.04%) AIX
16 10 (0.95%) Windows 7
17 9 (0.85%) Debian
18 7 (0.66%) CentOS
18 7 (0.66%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 226 (21.42%) ITIL
2 225 (21.33%) Problem-Solving
3 169 (16.02%) Customer Service
4 166 (15.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 83 (7.87%) DevOps
6 80 (7.58%) Cybersecurity
6 80 (7.58%) Disaster Recovery
7 78 (7.39%) ITSM
8 75 (7.11%) Computer Science
9 72 (6.82%) Continuous Improvement
10 63 (5.97%) Incident Management
10 63 (5.97%) Mentoring
11 60 (5.69%) Agile
11 60 (5.69%) CI/CD
12 59 (5.59%) Migration
12 59 (5.59%) Project Management
13 57 (5.40%) Change Management
14 55 (5.21%) Infrastructure as Code
15 54 (5.12%) High Availability
16 50 (4.74%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 248 (23.51%) PowerShell
2 138 (13.08%) SQL
3 125 (11.85%) Python
4 51 (4.83%) C#
5 44 (4.17%) Bash
6 27 (2.56%) PL/SQL
7 25 (2.37%) VB.NET
8 23 (2.18%) JavaScript
9 19 (1.80%) T-SQL
10 15 (1.42%) TypeScript
11 14 (1.33%) Java
12 6 (0.57%) Delphi
12 6 (0.57%) Shell Script
13 5 (0.47%) C++
14 3 (0.28%) Gremlin
14 3 (0.28%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.28%) Kusto Query Language
14 3 (0.28%) PHP
14 3 (0.28%) R
14 3 (0.28%) Rust
Qualifications
1 222 (21.04%) Degree
2 68 (6.45%) Microsoft Certification
3 64 (6.07%) Cisco Certification
4 47 (4.45%) CCNA
4 47 (4.45%) Computer Science Degree
5 46 (4.36%) Azure Certification
6 30 (2.84%) CISSP
7 29 (2.75%) A+ Certification
8 27 (2.56%) Security Cleared
9 25 (2.37%) CCNP
10 22 (2.09%) GCIH
11 20 (1.90%) DBS Check
12 18 (1.71%) DV Cleared
12 18 (1.71%) GCIA
13 17 (1.61%) CompTIA Security+
13 17 (1.61%) OSCP
14 16 (1.52%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 16 (1.52%) MCSE
15 15 (1.42%) CEH
15 15 (1.42%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 96 (9.10%) SLA
2 23 (2.18%) GDPR
3 20 (1.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 14 (1.33%) QA
5 12 (1.14%) NIST
6 10 (0.95%) Cyber Essentials
7 8 (0.76%) Accessibility
8 7 (0.66%) SOC 2
9 5 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 5 (0.47%) FINRA
10 4 (0.38%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.28%) Data Quality
11 3 (0.28%) HIPAA
12 2 (0.19%) ISO 22301
12 2 (0.19%) ISO 9001
13 1 (0.095%) COBIT
13 1 (0.095%) NIST 800
13 1 (0.095%) PMO
System Software
1 506 (47.96%) Active Directory
2 169 (16.02%) VMware Infrastructure
3 76 (7.20%) Hyper-V
4 60 (5.69%) VMware ESXi
5 33 (3.13%) Virtual Desktop
6 24 (2.27%) vSphere
7 23 (2.18%) Docker
8 16 (1.52%) Virtual Machines
9 13 (1.23%) Firmware
9 13 (1.23%) Virtual Servers
10 11 (1.04%) XenApp
11 4 (0.38%) BitLocker
11 4 (0.38%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 3 (0.28%) Microsoft App-V
12 3 (0.28%) Samba
12 3 (0.28%) VMware Workstation
12 3 (0.28%) XenDesktop
13 2 (0.19%) VirtualBox
13 2 (0.19%) VMware NSX
13 2 (0.19%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 207 (19.62%) Microsoft Intune
2 128 (12.13%) SCCM
3 84 (7.96%) Terraform
4 72 (6.82%) Ansible
5 58 (5.50%) Kubernetes
6 29 (2.75%) Single Sign-On
7 23 (2.18%) WSUS
8 18 (1.71%) Jamf Pro
9 17 (1.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 17 (1.61%) NetBackup
10 16 (1.52%) Prometheus
11 15 (1.42%) SCOM
11 15 (1.42%) vCenter Server
12 11 (1.04%) Grafana
13 10 (0.95%) Puppet
14 6 (0.57%) Nagios
15 5 (0.47%) Graylog
15 5 (0.47%) Nessus
15 5 (0.47%) Opsgenie
15 5 (0.47%) QRadar
Vendors
1 562 (53.27%) Microsoft
2 251 (23.79%) VMware
3 136 (12.89%) Cisco
4 121 (11.47%) Citrix
5 84 (7.96%) ServiceNow
6 52 (4.93%) Apple
7 46 (4.36%) Veeam
8 45 (4.27%) Meraki
9 33 (3.13%) Oracle
9 33 (3.13%) Palo Alto
9 33 (3.13%) SolarWinds
10 32 (3.03%) iManage
11 25 (2.37%) HP
11 25 (2.37%) Sun
12 22 (2.09%) Red Hat
13 21 (1.99%) Adobe
13 21 (1.99%) Dell
14 20 (1.90%) Fortinet
15 19 (1.80%) CheckPoint
16 18 (1.71%) Bloomberg