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 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 14 28
Rank change year-on-year -14 +14 -18
Permanent jobs citing Windows 47 190 114
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 5.30% 9.59% 9.02%
As % of the Operating Systems category 77.05% 75.40% 69.94%
Number of salaries quoted 43 157 98
10th Percentile £27,300 £23,650 £24,500
25th Percentile £32,000 £26,250 £31,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £33,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +45.45% -17.50% -
75th Percentile £62,500 £46,250 £51,906
90th Percentile £67,500 £54,250 £61,250
England median annual salary £40,000 £40,000 £43,799
% change year-on-year - -8.67% +1.86%

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 61 252 163
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 6.88% 12.72% 12.90%
Number of salaries quoted 55 203 133
10th Percentile £28,700 £24,100 £26,250
25th Percentile £34,500 £26,250 £31,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £37,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +28.00% -6.25% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £48,125 £52,500
90th Percentile £68,550 £61,250 £63,500
England median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - -14.29% -

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 30 May 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 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
Tyne and Wear -8 33 £48,000 +28.00% 79
Durham -14 11 £32,000 +6.67% 13
Northumberland -8 3 £37,500 +53.06% 3
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 7 (14.89%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (12.77%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.13%) Apache
3 1 (2.13%) IIS
3 1 (2.13%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.13%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 26 (55.32%) Azure
2 13 (27.66%) Microsoft 365
3 11 (23.40%) AWS
4 6 (12.77%) OCI
5 4 (8.51%) SaaS
6 3 (6.38%) Entra ID
6 3 (6.38%) GCP
7 1 (2.13%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.13%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 10 (21.28%) Firewall
2 6 (12.77%) VPN
3 5 (10.64%) DHCP
3 5 (10.64%) DNS
3 5 (10.64%) SAN
4 2 (4.26%) NAS
4 2 (4.26%) VLAN
4 2 (4.26%) VoIP
5 1 (2.13%) Broadband
5 1 (2.13%) LAN
5 1 (2.13%) WAN
5 1 (2.13%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (2.13%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (19.15%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (8.51%) TeamCity
2 3 (6.38%) Artifactory
2 3 (6.38%) Octopus Deploy
2 3 (6.38%) SonarQube
3 2 (4.26%) Bitbucket
3 2 (4.26%) JIRA
General
1 19 (40.43%) Social Skills
2 8 (17.02%) Finance
3 2 (4.26%) Advertising
4 1 (2.13%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.13%) Electronics
4 1 (2.13%) Manufacturing
4 1 (2.13%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 10 (21.28%) Lead
2 8 (17.02%) 2nd Line Support
2 8 (17.02%) IT Support
3 7 (14.89%) Analyst
3 7 (14.89%) DevOps Engineer
3 7 (14.89%) IT Analyst
4 6 (12.77%) Architect
4 6 (12.77%) Infrastructure Architect
5 5 (10.64%) IT Support Analyst
5 5 (10.64%) Support Analyst
6 4 (8.51%) Cloud Architect
6 4 (8.51%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
6 4 (8.51%) IT Engineer
7 3 (6.38%) Support Engineer
8 2 (4.26%) 1st/2nd Line Support
8 2 (4.26%) 1st/2nd Line Support Analyst
8 2 (4.26%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
8 2 (4.26%) IT Support Engineer
8 2 (4.26%) Junior
8 2 (4.26%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.51%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (4.26%) .NET
3 1 (2.13%) ASP.NET
3 1 (2.13%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 10 (21.28%) Social Media
2 6 (12.77%) Data Centre
2 6 (12.77%) Operational Technology
2 6 (12.77%) SCADA
3 1 (2.13%) Driving Licence
3 1 (2.13%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 16 (34.04%) Windows Server
2 13 (27.66%) Linux
3 10 (21.28%) Windows Vista
4 3 (6.38%) Mac OS
4 3 (6.38%) Windows 10
5 2 (4.26%) Solaris
5 2 (4.26%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (2.13%) AIX
6 1 (2.13%) Unix
6 1 (2.13%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (27.66%) DevOps
1 13 (27.66%) Mentoring
2 12 (25.53%) Coaching
2 12 (25.53%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (19.15%) Agile
3 9 (19.15%) Customer Service
4 7 (14.89%) CI/CD
4 7 (14.89%) Disaster Recovery
5 6 (12.77%) Process Improvement
5 6 (12.77%) TOGAF
6 5 (10.64%) ITIL
6 5 (10.64%) Patch Management
7 4 (8.51%) Infrastructure as Code
7 4 (8.51%) Migration
8 3 (6.38%) Computer Science
8 3 (6.38%) Containerisation
8 3 (6.38%) Continuous Integration
8 3 (6.38%) Infrastructure Automation
9 2 (4.26%) Server Management
9 2 (4.26%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 6 (12.77%) PowerShell
2 5 (10.64%) Java
3 4 (8.51%) C#
3 4 (8.51%) Python
4 3 (6.38%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (21.28%) DBS Check
2 6 (12.77%) TOGAF Certification
3 5 (10.64%) Degree
4 3 (6.38%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (6.38%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (4.26%) CCNA
5 2 (4.26%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (4.26%) MCSE
6 1 (2.13%) CCDA
6 1 (2.13%) CCNP
6 1 (2.13%) DV Cleared
6 1 (2.13%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (2.13%) MCSA
6 1 (2.13%) MCSD
6 1 (2.13%) SC Cleared
6 1 (2.13%) Security Cleared
6 1 (2.13%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.13%) ISO 9001
1 1 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (2.13%) SLA
System Software
1 18 (38.30%) Active Directory
2 12 (25.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (14.89%) Hyper-V
4 6 (12.77%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (8.51%) Docker
6 3 (6.38%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (21.28%) Terraform
2 5 (10.64%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (8.51%) Ansible
3 4 (8.51%) Docker Swarm
3 4 (8.51%) Grafana
3 4 (8.51%) Kubernetes
4 2 (4.26%) Control-M
5 1 (2.13%) SCCM
Vendors
1 22 (46.81%) Microsoft
2 20 (42.55%) VMware
3 7 (14.89%) Oracle
4 3 (6.38%) Atlassian
4 3 (6.38%) Cisco
5 1 (2.13%) Google
5 1 (2.13%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.13%) Sun
5 1 (2.13%) Veeam