Windows Jobs in the North East

Microsoft Windows
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North East 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 23 January 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jan 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 11 19
Rank change year-on-year -22 +8 -9
Permanent jobs citing Windows 58 114 99
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 6.35% 11.52% 9.81%
As % of the Operating Systems category 65.91% 79.17% 52.94%
Number of salaries quoted 32 98 88
10th Percentile £29,225 £24,500 £23,000
25th Percentile £34,688 £27,500 £25,594
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,000 £32,500 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year +29.23% -13.33% +7.14%
75th Percentile £50,625 £43,625 £52,500
90th Percentile £54,875 £48,750 £62,875
England median annual salary £45,000 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +5.88% -5.56% +4.65%

All Operating Systems
North East

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 the North East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 88 144 187
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 9.63% 14.55% 18.53%
Number of salaries quoted 51 126 142
10th Percentile £32,500 £24,500 £24,500
25th Percentile £35,875 £27,500 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £35,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% -12.50% +6.67%
75th Percentile £61,250 £48,563 £57,500
90th Percentile £68,750 £57,500 £78,500
England median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in the North East

Windows
Salary Trend in the North East

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

Salary trend for Windows in the North East

Windows
Salary Histogram in the North East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows in the North East over the 6 months to 23 January 2025.

Salary histogram for Windows in the North East

Windows
Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows within the North East region over the 6 months to 23 January 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
Tyne and Wear -18 41 £42,000 +21.60% 23
Durham -16 15 £47,500 +46.15% 5
Northumberland -12 2 £37,500 +38.89% 2
Windows
England

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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 (24.14%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (8.62%) IIS
3 4 (6.90%) SharePoint
4 3 (5.17%) Apache
4 3 (5.17%) nginx
5 1 (1.72%) Tomcat
Applications
1 12 (20.69%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.72%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 24 (41.38%) Microsoft 365
2 19 (32.76%) Azure
3 7 (12.07%) Entra ID
4 5 (8.62%) Slack
5 3 (5.17%) AWS
6 1 (1.72%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 11 (18.97%) Firewall
2 8 (13.79%) DHCP
2 8 (13.79%) DNS
2 8 (13.79%) SAN
3 7 (12.07%) VPN
4 4 (6.90%) SSL
4 4 (6.90%) TCP/IP
5 3 (5.17%) Remote Desktop
5 3 (5.17%) VoIP
6 2 (3.45%) Broadband
6 2 (3.45%) iSCSI
6 2 (3.45%) Skype
7 1 (1.72%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.34%) SQL Server
2 4 (6.90%) MariaDB
3 2 (3.45%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (3.45%) Apache Cassandra
3 2 (3.45%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (3.45%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (5.17%) Octopus Deploy
2 2 (3.45%) TeamCity
3 1 (1.72%) Artifactory
3 1 (1.72%) SonarQube
General
1 28 (48.28%) Social Skills
2 11 (18.97%) Finance
3 7 (12.07%) Banking
4 6 (10.34%) Law
5 5 (8.62%) Financial Institution
5 5 (8.62%) Manufacturing
6 4 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (5.17%) Telecoms
8 2 (3.45%) Advertising
9 1 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.72%) Legal
9 1 (1.72%) Marketing
9 1 (1.72%) Military
9 1 (1.72%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.72%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 15 (25.86%) Support Engineer
2 9 (15.52%) IT Technician
3 8 (13.79%) 3rd Line Support
3 8 (13.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 8 (13.79%) IT Engineer
3 8 (13.79%) IT Support
4 7 (12.07%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 7 (12.07%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 6 (10.34%) IT Support Engineer
6 5 (8.62%) Applications Engineer
6 5 (8.62%) Applications Support
6 5 (8.62%) Applications Support Engineer
6 5 (8.62%) Azure Engineer
6 5 (8.62%) Senior
7 4 (6.90%) Infrastructure Support
7 4 (6.90%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
7 4 (6.90%) IT Manager
7 4 (6.90%) Technical Specialist
8 3 (5.17%) 1st Line Support Technician
8 3 (5.17%) Help Desk Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.45%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (3.45%) REST
1 2 (3.45%) XML
1 2 (3.45%) XML Messaging
2 1 (1.72%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.62%) Driving Licence
2 4 (6.90%) Enterprise Storage
3 3 (5.17%) Replication
4 2 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.72%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 38 (65.52%) Windows Server
2 14 (24.14%) Linux
3 13 (22.41%) Windows Server 2016
4 12 (20.69%) Windows Server 2019
5 8 (13.79%) Windows 10
6 6 (10.34%) Unix
7 3 (5.17%) Ubuntu
8 2 (3.45%) Debian
8 2 (3.45%) Solaris
9 1 (1.72%) AIX
9 1 (1.72%) Mac OS
9 1 (1.72%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (17.24%) Customer Service
1 10 (17.24%) Disaster Recovery
1 10 (17.24%) Supply Chain Management
2 9 (15.52%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (13.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 7 (12.07%) Agile
4 7 (12.07%) ITIL
5 6 (10.34%) Service Delivery
6 5 (8.62%) Containerisation
6 5 (8.62%) Project Delivery
7 4 (6.90%) Data Security
7 4 (6.90%) DevOps
7 4 (6.90%) Incident Management
7 4 (6.90%) Mentoring
8 3 (5.17%) CI/CD
8 3 (5.17%) Computer Science
8 3 (5.17%) High Availability
8 3 (5.17%) Incident Response
8 3 (5.17%) Server Management
9 2 (3.45%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 10 (17.24%) SQL
2 7 (12.07%) PowerShell
3 5 (8.62%) Bash
3 5 (8.62%) Python
4 3 (5.17%) Java
5 2 (3.45%) C#
6 1 (1.72%) PHP
Qualifications
1 13 (22.41%) Degree
2 7 (12.07%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (5.17%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (3.45%) CCNA
4 2 (3.45%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (3.45%) MCSE
5 1 (1.72%) CCDA
5 1 (1.72%) CCNP
5 1 (1.72%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.72%) MCSA
5 1 (1.72%) MCSD
5 1 (1.72%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.72%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.72%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.45%) SLA
2 1 (1.72%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.72%) ISO 9001
2 1 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 34 (58.62%) Active Directory
2 14 (24.14%) Hyper-V
3 11 (18.97%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (10.34%) Docker
5 5 (8.62%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (3.45%) Ceph
6 2 (3.45%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 2 (3.45%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (17.24%) WSUS
2 9 (15.52%) Ansible
3 5 (8.62%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (6.90%) Kubernetes
5 2 (3.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (3.45%) Docker Swarm
5 2 (3.45%) Grafana
5 2 (3.45%) N-central
5 2 (3.45%) Puppet
5 2 (3.45%) Terraform
Vendors
1 35 (60.34%) Microsoft
2 15 (25.86%) VMware
3 5 (8.62%) Cisco
4 4 (6.90%) Veeam
5 3 (5.17%) Draytek
5 3 (5.17%) Fortinet
5 3 (5.17%) Juniper
5 3 (5.17%) Sophos
6 2 (3.45%) Citrix
6 2 (3.45%) Mitel
6 2 (3.45%) Palo Alto
6 2 (3.45%) Zerto
7 1 (1.72%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.72%) Avaya
7 1 (1.72%) MikroTik
7 1 (1.72%) Oracle
7 1 (1.72%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.72%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.72%) Ubiquiti