Windows Jobs in Merseyside

Microsoft Windows
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Merseyside 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 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 27 13
Rank change year-on-year +9 -14 -6
Permanent jobs citing Windows 49 83 142
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Merseyside 10.94% 6.32% 13.18%
As % of the Operating Systems category 68.06% 74.77% 72.82%
Number of salaries quoted 27 73 80
10th Percentile £27,000 £23,500 £24,975
25th Percentile £31,750 £26,750 £29,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £34,500 £34,000 £39,294
Median % change year-on-year +1.47% -13.47% +4.78%
75th Percentile £46,000 £46,000 £49,000
90th Percentile - £51,650 £58,750
North West median annual salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year - - +9.59%

All Operating Systems
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 72 111 195
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Merseyside 16.07% 8.45% 18.11%
Number of salaries quoted 30 90 96
10th Percentile £27,000 £23,475 £25,741
25th Percentile £31,750 £25,875 £29,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,250 £34,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.17% -13.75% -
75th Percentile £46,000 £47,500 £50,063
90th Percentile - £53,750 £58,750
North West median annual salary £44,500 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -1.11% - +5.88%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in Merseyside

Windows
Salary Trend in Merseyside

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

Salary trend for Windows in Merseyside

Windows
Salary Histogram in Merseyside

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows in Merseyside over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Windows in Merseyside

Windows
Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows within the Merseyside region over the 6 months to 17 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
Liverpool +10 24 £45,000 +12.50% 10
Southport - 1 - -
Windows
North West

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Merseyside 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 14 (28.57%) SharePoint
2 10 (20.41%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (10.20%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (8.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (8.16%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 19 (38.78%) Microsoft 365
2 14 (28.57%) Azure
3 8 (16.33%) Microsoft Copilot
4 6 (12.24%) Mimecast
5 5 (10.20%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (6.12%) Entra ID
7 1 (2.04%) IaaS
7 1 (2.04%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (42.86%) Firewall
2 13 (26.53%) VPN
3 9 (18.37%) DNS
4 8 (16.33%) WAN
5 6 (12.24%) LAN
5 6 (12.24%) MPLS
6 5 (10.20%) Cisco IOS
6 5 (10.20%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (6.12%) DHCP
8 2 (4.08%) TCP/IP
9 1 (2.04%) Remote Desktop
9 1 (2.04%) SD-WAN
9 1 (2.04%) SNMP
9 1 (2.04%) VLAN
9 1 (2.04%) VoIP
9 1 (2.04%) VSAN
Development Applications
1 1 (2.04%) Cucumber
1 1 (2.04%) Robot Framework
General
1 29 (59.18%) Social Skills
2 9 (18.37%) Legal
3 8 (16.33%) Manufacturing
4 6 (12.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (10.20%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (10.20%) Finance
6 2 (4.08%) Law
7 1 (2.04%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 26 (53.06%) Analyst
2 14 (28.57%) IT Analyst
3 12 (24.49%) IT Support
4 8 (16.33%) 2nd Line Support
4 8 (16.33%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
4 8 (16.33%) IT Support Analyst
4 8 (16.33%) Support Analyst
4 8 (16.33%) Support Engineer
5 7 (14.29%) Service Analyst
6 6 (12.24%) Junior
6 6 (12.24%) Junior Support Engineer
6 6 (12.24%) Junior Technical Engineer
6 6 (12.24%) Junior Technical Support
6 6 (12.24%) Junior Technical Support Engineer
6 6 (12.24%) Service Desk Analyst
6 6 (12.24%) Technical Engineer
6 6 (12.24%) Technical Support
6 6 (12.24%) Technical Support Engineer
7 5 (10.20%) First Line Help Desk Support
7 5 (10.20%) Help Desk Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (10.20%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (2.04%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (16.33%) FMCG
1 8 (16.33%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (12.24%) Private Cloud
3 5 (10.20%) Cyberattack
3 5 (10.20%) Management Information System
4 2 (4.08%) Replication
5 1 (2.04%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.04%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (2.04%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 16 (32.65%) Windows Server
2 11 (22.45%) Windows Server 2019
3 10 (20.41%) Windows 10
4 9 (18.37%) Android
4 9 (18.37%) Mac OS
5 6 (12.24%) Linux
6 3 (6.12%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (55.10%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (26.53%) Customer Service
2 13 (26.53%) ITIL
3 12 (24.49%) Mentoring
4 9 (18.37%) Application Packaging
4 9 (18.37%) ITSM
5 8 (16.33%) Deployment Automation
6 6 (12.24%) Coaching
6 6 (12.24%) Customer Experience
6 6 (12.24%) DevOps
6 6 (12.24%) Incident Management
7 5 (10.20%) Agile
7 5 (10.20%) Creative Thinking
7 5 (10.20%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 5 (10.20%) Line Management
7 5 (10.20%) Mathematics
7 5 (10.20%) Platform Engineering
7 5 (10.20%) Risk Management
7 5 (10.20%) Storage Management
7 5 (10.20%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 17 (34.69%) PowerShell
2 6 (12.24%) Bash
2 6 (12.24%) Python
3 1 (2.04%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (2.04%) Degree
1 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.04%) PMO
1 1 (2.04%) QA
System Software
1 18 (36.73%) Active Directory
2 12 (24.49%) Hyper-V
3 8 (16.33%) Virtual Desktop
3 8 (16.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (10.20%) Docker
4 5 (10.20%) VMware NSX
4 5 (10.20%) vSphere
5 2 (4.08%) DFS Replication
6 1 (2.04%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (14.29%) SCCM
2 6 (12.24%) Proxmox
3 5 (10.20%) Ansible
3 5 (10.20%) Terraform
4 3 (6.12%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (2.04%) FortiGate
5 1 (2.04%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 24 (48.98%) Microsoft
2 11 (22.45%) Cisco
3 9 (18.37%) iManage
3 9 (18.37%) VMware
4 5 (10.20%) 3PAR
4 5 (10.20%) Juniper
4 5 (10.20%) ServiceNow
4 5 (10.20%) Sophos
4 5 (10.20%) Splunk
5 1 (2.04%) Aderant
5 1 (2.04%) SolarWinds