Windows Jobs in the Midlands

Microsoft Windows
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for Windows skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Windows over the 6 months to 6 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 11 21 14
Rank change year-on-year +10 -7 -3
Permanent jobs citing Windows 655 1,147 1,335
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 12.93% 10.22% 12.44%
As % of the Operating Systems category 77.51% 60.15% 68.39%
Number of salaries quoted 563 887 1,158
10th Percentile £25,525 £24,373 £22,500
25th Percentile £28,875 £30,000 £28,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £42,500 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +13.33% -6.25%
75th Percentile £53,478 £53,750 £52,500
90th Percentile £62,500 £60,000 £67,500
England median annual salary £44,400 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -1.33% +5.88% -5.56%

All Operating Systems
Midlands

Windows is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 845 1,907 1,952
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 16.68% 17.00% 18.19%
Number of salaries quoted 710 1,242 1,566
10th Percentile £25,750 £25,500 £23,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,250 £45,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.89% +5.88% -
75th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £56,250
90th Percentile £67,500 £66,000 £69,375
England median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in the Midlands

Windows
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for Windows in the Midlands

Windows
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows in the Midlands over the 6 months to 6 December 2023.

Salary histogram for Windows in the Midlands

Windows
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 6 December 2023. 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
West Midlands +11 412 £40,000 -5.88% 212
East Midlands +7 240 £42,500 -2.30% 141
Windows
England

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 61 (9.31%) MS Exchange
2 51 (7.79%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.31%) Apache
3 2 (0.31%) Exchange Server 2010
3 2 (0.31%) MODX
3 2 (0.31%) Site Server
3 2 (0.31%) Skype for Business
3 2 (0.31%) WebLogic
3 2 (0.31%) WordPress
4 1 (0.15%) Confluence
4 1 (0.15%) Exchange Server 2007
4 1 (0.15%) IBM Notes
4 1 (0.15%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.15%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 71 (10.84%) Microsoft Office
2 18 (2.75%) Microsoft Excel
3 16 (2.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.15%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 2 (0.31%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.15%) Misys Equation
2 1 (0.15%) Sage 200
2 1 (0.15%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 316 (48.24%) Microsoft 365
2 308 (47.02%) Azure
3 114 (17.40%) Entra ID
4 96 (14.66%) AWS
5 26 (3.97%) GCP
6 25 (3.82%) OneDrive
7 20 (3.05%) IaaS
8 17 (2.60%) SaaS
9 12 (1.83%) Azure DevOps
9 12 (1.83%) PaaS
10 11 (1.68%) Azure Sentinel
11 9 (1.37%) Mimecast
11 9 (1.37%) Rubrik
12 8 (1.22%) Cloud Computing
12 8 (1.22%) Nutanix
12 8 (1.22%) WhatsApp
13 7 (1.07%) Google Workspace
13 7 (1.07%) Power Platform
14 6 (0.92%) Amazon EC2
15 5 (0.76%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 177 (27.02%) DNS
2 176 (26.87%) DHCP
3 154 (23.51%) Firewall
4 100 (15.27%) WAN
5 98 (14.96%) TCP/IP
6 93 (14.20%) LAN
7 79 (12.06%) SAN
8 54 (8.24%) Wireless
9 51 (7.79%) Wi-Fi
10 46 (7.02%) VLAN
10 46 (7.02%) VPN
11 29 (4.43%) FTP
12 28 (4.27%) Remote Desktop
12 28 (4.27%) SMTP
13 27 (4.12%) HTTP
13 27 (4.12%) Network Security
13 27 (4.12%) SSH
14 25 (3.82%) Internet
14 25 (3.82%) SNMP
14 25 (3.82%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (6.87%) SQL Server
2 24 (3.66%) Amazon RDS
3 11 (1.68%) Oracle Database
4 10 (1.53%) MySQL
5 6 (0.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 4 (0.61%) Oracle Reports
7 3 (0.46%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (0.46%) Power BI
7 3 (0.46%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.31%) RDBMS
8 2 (0.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (0.31%) Tableau
9 1 (0.15%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.15%) BusinessObjects
9 1 (0.15%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
9 1 (0.15%) InfluxDB
9 1 (0.15%) MariaDB
9 1 (0.15%) OLTP
9 1 (0.15%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.15%) UniData
Development Applications
1 10 (1.53%) Git
2 8 (1.22%) JIRA
3 4 (0.61%) Jenkins
3 4 (0.61%) Oracle APEX
3 4 (0.61%) Terragrunt
4 3 (0.46%) GitLab
5 1 (0.15%) Fiddler
5 1 (0.15%) Selenium
5 1 (0.15%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.15%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.15%) Visual Studio
General
1 220 (33.59%) Social Skills
2 64 (9.77%) Law
3 47 (7.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 44 (6.72%) Analytical Skills
5 39 (5.95%) Organisational Skills
6 34 (5.19%) Retail
7 33 (5.04%) Telecoms
8 25 (3.82%) Manufacturing
9 23 (3.51%) Finance
10 20 (3.05%) Public Sector
11 16 (2.44%) Games
12 14 (2.14%) Presentation Skills
13 13 (1.98%) Legal
14 12 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
14 12 (1.83%) Local Government
15 10 (1.53%) Fire and Rescue
16 9 (1.37%) Banking
17 4 (0.61%) Aerospace
17 4 (0.61%) Financial Institution
18 3 (0.46%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 139 (21.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 99 (15.11%) Senior
3 96 (14.66%) IT Engineer
4 88 (13.44%) Support Engineer
5 86 (13.13%) IT Support
6 59 (9.01%) Analyst
7 41 (6.26%) IT Support Engineer
7 41 (6.26%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 35 (5.34%) Windows Engineer
9 34 (5.19%) Administrator
10 33 (5.04%) Field Engineer
11 31 (4.73%) Support Analyst
12 28 (4.27%) Lead
13 27 (4.12%) Field Service Engineer
14 25 (3.82%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
14 25 (3.82%) Network Engineer
14 25 (3.82%) Systems Administrator
15 24 (3.66%) Support Technician
16 23 (3.51%) IT Analyst
17 22 (3.36%) 3rd Line Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (1.22%) .NET
1 8 (1.22%) Web Services
2 5 (0.76%) Node.js
2 5 (0.76%) YAML
3 4 (0.61%) HTML
3 4 (0.61%) React
3 4 (0.61%) REST
4 3 (0.46%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (0.46%) Middleware
4 3 (0.46%) Oracle Fusion
4 3 (0.46%) React Native
5 2 (0.31%) SignalR
5 2 (0.31%) WebSockets
5 2 (0.31%) WPF
5 2 (0.31%) XML
6 1 (0.15%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.15%) ASP.NET Core
6 1 (0.15%) LDAP
6 1 (0.15%) SAML
6 1 (0.15%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 76 (11.60%) Data Centre
2 72 (10.99%) Driving Licence
3 31 (4.73%) Virtual Team
4 29 (4.43%) Management Information System
5 28 (4.27%) Replication
6 25 (3.82%) Self-Motivation
7 24 (3.66%) EFT
8 16 (2.44%) Private Cloud
9 14 (2.14%) Clustering
10 13 (1.98%) PKI
10 13 (1.98%) Social Media
11 11 (1.68%) Public Cloud
12 9 (1.37%) Security Operations Centre
13 6 (0.92%) Blackberry
13 6 (0.92%) CMDB
13 6 (0.92%) Renewable Energy
14 5 (0.76%) Client/Server
14 5 (0.76%) iPhone
14 5 (0.76%) Security Posture
14 5 (0.76%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 309 (47.18%) Windows Server
2 104 (15.88%) Linux
3 101 (15.42%) Windows 10
4 60 (9.16%) Windows Server 2016
5 56 (8.55%) Android
5 56 (8.55%) Windows Server 2019
6 43 (6.56%) Apple iOS
6 43 (6.56%) Windows Server 2012
7 32 (4.89%) Mac OS
8 27 (4.12%) Unix
9 17 (2.60%) Windows 7
10 12 (1.83%) Windows Vista
11 11 (1.68%) Windows Server 2003
12 8 (1.22%) Windows Server 2008
13 6 (0.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 6 (0.92%) Windows 8
14 5 (0.76%) Windows 2000
15 4 (0.61%) CentOS
16 3 (0.46%) Ubuntu
16 3 (0.46%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 153 (23.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 125 (19.08%) ITIL
3 114 (17.40%) Problem-Solving
4 80 (12.21%) Customer Service
5 44 (6.72%) Project Delivery
6 42 (6.41%) Cybersecurity
7 39 (5.95%) Problem Management
8 38 (5.80%) Service Delivery
9 36 (5.50%) Incident Management
10 33 (5.04%) High Availability
11 32 (4.89%) DevOps
12 30 (4.58%) Infrastructure as Code
12 30 (4.58%) SIEM
13 28 (4.27%) Agile
13 28 (4.27%) Disaster Recovery
13 28 (4.27%) Service Management
14 26 (3.97%) Mentoring
15 25 (3.82%) ERP
16 24 (3.66%) Server Patching
16 24 (3.66%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 142 (21.68%) PowerShell
2 65 (9.92%) SQL
3 29 (4.43%) Python
4 15 (2.29%) C#
5 10 (1.53%) Bash
5 10 (1.53%) Java
6 9 (1.37%) C++
7 7 (1.07%) T-SQL
8 6 (0.92%) C
9 5 (0.76%) PL/SQL
9 5 (0.76%) Ruby
10 4 (0.61%) Objective-C
10 4 (0.61%) PHP
11 3 (0.46%) TypeScript
11 3 (0.46%) VB
12 2 (0.31%) MATLAB
12 2 (0.31%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.15%) Delphi
13 1 (0.15%) R
Qualifications
1 95 (14.50%) Degree
2 63 (9.62%) Security Cleared
3 50 (7.63%) SC Cleared
4 45 (6.87%) Microsoft Certification
5 35 (5.34%) Cisco Certification
6 24 (3.66%) DBS Check
7 21 (3.21%) MCSE
8 18 (2.75%) CCNA
9 17 (2.60%) CompTIA Security+
10 14 (2.14%) MCSA
11 11 (1.68%) DV Cleared
11 11 (1.68%) ITIL Certification
12 9 (1.37%) NVQ Level 3
13 8 (1.22%) A+ Certification
13 8 (1.22%) Azure Certification
14 7 (1.07%) CISSP
14 7 (1.07%) Computer Science Degree
14 7 (1.07%) MCP
15 6 (0.92%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 5 (0.76%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (6.11%) SLA
2 33 (5.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 22 (3.36%) Cyber Essentials
4 10 (1.53%) GDPR
5 8 (1.22%) NIST
6 7 (1.07%) Disclosure Scotland
7 6 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 5 (0.76%) ISO 9001
8 5 (0.76%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.61%) GRC
9 4 (0.61%) RMADS
10 3 (0.46%) COBIT
11 2 (0.31%) MISRA
11 2 (0.31%) MISRA C
11 2 (0.31%) NCSC
11 2 (0.31%) QA
12 1 (0.15%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 351 (53.59%) Active Directory
2 154 (23.51%) VMware Infrastructure
3 115 (17.56%) Hyper-V
4 55 (8.40%) VMware ESXi
5 20 (3.05%) Virtual Desktop
6 19 (2.90%) Docker
7 12 (1.83%) Firmware
8 9 (1.37%) vSphere
9 8 (1.22%) Virtual Servers
10 7 (1.07%) Virtual Machines
10 7 (1.07%) XenApp
11 6 (0.92%) XenDesktop
12 5 (0.76%) Microsoft App-V
13 4 (0.61%) BitLocker
13 4 (0.61%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 4 (0.61%) Oracle RAC
13 4 (0.61%) Terminal Services
13 4 (0.61%) VMware NSX
14 2 (0.31%) NFS
Systems Management
1 99 (15.11%) SCCM
2 91 (13.89%) Microsoft Intune
3 43 (6.56%) Terraform
4 37 (5.65%) Ansible
5 35 (5.34%) vCenter Server
6 23 (3.51%) Kubernetes
7 15 (2.29%) Puppet
8 13 (1.98%) WSUS
9 11 (1.68%) AirWatch
9 11 (1.68%) Failover Clustering
10 10 (1.53%) Jamf Pro
11 8 (1.22%) Microsoft Clustering
12 7 (1.07%) McAfee ePO
12 7 (1.07%) SCOM
13 6 (0.92%) Nessus
13 6 (0.92%) PaperCut
13 6 (0.92%) SmoothWall
14 5 (0.76%) EdgeSight
15 4 (0.61%) Data Guard
15 4 (0.61%) Nagios
Vendors
1 342 (52.21%) Microsoft
2 244 (37.25%) VMware
3 94 (14.35%) Cisco
4 75 (11.45%) HP
5 58 (8.85%) Citrix
6 50 (7.63%) Dell
7 45 (6.87%) Apple
8 37 (5.65%) Veeam
9 31 (4.73%) Google
9 31 (4.73%) Meraki
10 29 (4.43%) ServiceNow
11 24 (3.66%) Globalscape
11 24 (3.66%) Oracle
12 17 (2.60%) Aruba
12 17 (2.60%) Nimble Storage
13 15 (2.29%) SolarWinds
14 14 (2.14%) Symantec
15 13 (1.98%) Mitel
15 13 (1.98%) Zerto
16 12 (1.83%) Remedy