Windows Job Trends in the North East

Microsoft Windows
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North East requiring Windows skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 22 12
Rank change year-on-year -30 -10 +11
Permanent jobs citing Windows 39 49 191
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 2.29% 8.75% 10.69%
As % of the Operating Systems category 60.94% 77.78% 77.02%
Number of salaries quoted 24 46 160
10th Percentile £33,650 £27,750 £23,725
25th Percentile £42,000 £32,000 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,497 £40,000 £32,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.74% +23.08% -18.75%
75th Percentile £50,000 £48,000 £46,311
90th Percentile £57,658 £67,500 £53,875
England median annual salary £38,500 £42,500 £40,197
% change year-on-year -9.41% +5.73% -10.00%

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 64 63 248
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 3.76% 11.25% 13.88%
Number of salaries quoted 42 59 203
10th Percentile £32,000 £28,900 £24,100
25th Percentile £42,313 £33,125 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £48,000 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.04% +28.00% -6.25%
75th Percentile £52,500 £64,500 £48,750
90th Percentile £70,000 £74,167 £61,250
England median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -14.29%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Windows relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Windows job vacancy trend in the North East

Windows
Salary Trend in the North East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Windows.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Windows

Windows
Salary Histogram in the North East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows in the North East over the 6 months to 11 April 2026.

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 11 April 2026. 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 -32 31 £45,497 -5.21% 11
Durham -14 8 £31,500 -1.56% 1
Windows
England

Windows
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (10.26%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 25 (64.10%) Azure
2 11 (28.21%) AWS
3 8 (20.51%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (17.95%) Nutanix
5 5 (12.82%) IaaS
6 3 (7.69%) Entra ID
7 1 (2.56%) Azure AKS
7 1 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.56%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (2.56%) GCP
7 1 (2.56%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 11 (28.21%) DHCP
1 11 (28.21%) DNS
2 9 (23.08%) Firewall
3 8 (20.51%) VPN
4 7 (17.95%) Remote Desktop
5 5 (12.82%) DMZ
5 5 (12.82%) Reverse Proxy
5 5 (12.82%) STUN
5 5 (12.82%) VLAN
5 5 (12.82%) VoIP
6 3 (7.69%) LAN
6 3 (7.69%) WAN
7 1 (2.56%) SAN
7 1 (2.56%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (23.08%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.56%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.56%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.56%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (12.82%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 4 (10.26%) Bitbucket
2 4 (10.26%) JIRA
3 3 (7.69%) Git
4 1 (2.56%) Artifactory
4 1 (2.56%) GitLab
4 1 (2.56%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (2.56%) SonarQube
4 1 (2.56%) TeamCity
General
1 25 (64.10%) Social Skills
2 5 (12.82%) Documentation Skills
2 5 (12.82%) Finance
3 3 (7.69%) Law
4 2 (5.13%) Advertising
4 2 (5.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.56%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (30.77%) Cloud Engineer
1 12 (30.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (17.95%) Support Engineer
3 6 (15.38%) Senior
4 5 (12.82%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (12.82%) Infrastructure Support
4 5 (12.82%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 5 (12.82%) VoIP Engineer
4 5 (12.82%) VoIP Support Engineer
5 4 (10.26%) Analyst
5 4 (10.26%) Applications Engineer
5 4 (10.26%) DevOps Engineer
5 4 (10.26%) Operations Engineer
5 4 (10.26%) Senior Applications Engineer
5 4 (10.26%) Senior Operations Engineer
5 4 (10.26%) Support Analyst
6 3 (7.69%) Applications Support
6 3 (7.69%) Applications Support Analyst
6 3 (7.69%) IT Support
7 2 (5.13%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (12.82%) FreeSWITCH
2 1 (2.56%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (2.56%) Node.js
2 1 (2.56%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 9 (23.08%) Hybrid Cloud
1 9 (23.08%) Public Cloud
2 3 (7.69%) Driving Licence
3 1 (2.56%) Client/Server
3 1 (2.56%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.56%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 26 (66.67%) Windows Server
2 19 (48.72%) Linux
3 5 (12.82%) Debian
4 4 (10.26%) Windows 10
5 3 (7.69%) Unix
6 2 (5.13%) Apple iOS
6 2 (5.13%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (58.97%) ITIL
2 14 (35.90%) Coaching
2 14 (35.90%) Mentoring
3 13 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 12 (30.77%) Change Management
4 12 (30.77%) High Availability
5 10 (25.64%) Business Continuity
5 10 (25.64%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (20.51%) Disaster Recovery
7 7 (17.95%) Business Strategy
7 7 (17.95%) ITSM
7 7 (17.95%) Knowledge Transfer
7 7 (17.95%) Server Management
7 7 (17.95%) Storage Management
7 7 (17.95%) Vulnerability Remediation
8 6 (15.38%) Containerisation
9 5 (12.82%) Agile
10 4 (10.26%) Computer Science
10 4 (10.26%) DevOps
10 4 (10.26%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (20.51%) PowerShell
2 6 (15.38%) Python
3 5 (12.82%) Bash
3 5 (12.82%) SQL
4 2 (5.13%) Java
5 1 (2.56%) C#
Qualifications
1 6 (15.38%) Azure Certification
2 4 (10.26%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (10.26%) Degree
3 2 (5.13%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.56%) CCNA
4 1 (2.56%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (17.95%) SLA
System Software
1 22 (56.41%) Active Directory
2 13 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (30.77%) Hyper-V
4 1 (2.56%) Docker
4 1 (2.56%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (2.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (15.38%) Terraform
2 4 (10.26%) Control-M
2 4 (10.26%) Grafana
2 4 (10.26%) Kubernetes
2 4 (10.26%) SCCM
3 3 (7.69%) Ansible
3 3 (7.69%) Prometheus
4 2 (5.13%) WSUS
5 1 (2.56%) Argo
5 1 (2.56%) Docker Swarm
5 1 (2.56%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 16 (41.03%) Microsoft
2 14 (35.90%) VMware
3 8 (20.51%) HP
4 7 (17.95%) Dell
4 7 (17.95%) Dell Compellent
4 7 (17.95%) Nimble Storage
5 6 (15.38%) Cisco
6 2 (5.13%) Apple
6 2 (5.13%) BMC
6 2 (5.13%) Dynatrace
6 2 (5.13%) Splunk
7 1 (2.56%) Aruba
7 1 (2.56%) Atlassian
7 1 (2.56%) Citrix
7 1 (2.56%) Veeam