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 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 35 12
Rank change year-on-year +1 -23 +7
Permanent jobs citing Windows 46 58 82
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 4.47% 6.24% 10.98%
As % of the Operating Systems category 65.71% 65.17% 81.19%
Number of salaries quoted 30 32 70
10th Percentile £29,750 £31,375 £26,125
25th Percentile £30,500 £35,375 £28,289
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,497 £44,137 £32,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.08% +35.81% -13.33%
75th Percentile £50,443 £50,625 £43,625
90th Percentile £60,750 £53,625 £48,875
England median annual salary £37,500 £45,000 £44,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% +2.27% -2.22%

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 70 89 101
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 6.80% 9.57% 13.52%
Number of salaries quoted 47 52 89
10th Percentile £29,750 £32,625 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,500 £36,625 £28,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,445 £50,000 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.11% +42.86% -12.50%
75th Percentile £60,750 £60,313 £48,750
90th Percentile £73,000 £68,175 £57,500
England median annual salary £44,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% - -4.76%

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 14 January 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 14 January 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 -3 30 £48,445 +10.10% 16
Durham +4 11 £31,500 -35.38% 4
Northumberland +12 5 £31,000 -17.33% 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 7 (15.22%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (4.35%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (6.52%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 3 (6.52%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 17 (36.96%) Azure
2 15 (32.61%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (17.39%) AWS
4 3 (6.52%) Nutanix
5 2 (4.35%) Entra ID
5 2 (4.35%) GCP
6 1 (2.17%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 11 (23.91%) DNS
2 10 (21.74%) TCP/IP
3 8 (17.39%) VPN
3 8 (17.39%) Wi-Fi
4 6 (13.04%) Firewall
5 4 (8.70%) SAN
6 3 (6.52%) DHCP
6 3 (6.52%) LAN
6 3 (6.52%) Remote Desktop
6 3 (6.52%) WAN
7 2 (4.35%) Internet
7 2 (4.35%) SSL
7 2 (4.35%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (41.30%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (4.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (2.17%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (19.57%) Bitbucket
1 9 (19.57%) JIRA
2 7 (15.22%) Git
3 2 (4.35%) Artifactory
3 2 (4.35%) Octopus Deploy
3 2 (4.35%) SonarQube
3 2 (4.35%) TeamCity
General
1 26 (56.52%) Social Skills
2 9 (19.57%) Finance
3 8 (17.39%) Marketing
4 6 (13.04%) Advertising
5 5 (10.87%) Manufacturing
5 5 (10.87%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 18 (39.13%) Analyst
1 18 (39.13%) Support Analyst
2 11 (23.91%) IT Analyst
2 11 (23.91%) IT Support
2 11 (23.91%) IT Support Analyst
3 8 (17.39%) Coordinator
4 7 (15.22%) Applications Support
4 7 (15.22%) Applications Support Analyst
5 5 (10.87%) Senior
6 4 (8.70%) Applications Engineer
6 4 (8.70%) Operations Engineer
6 4 (8.70%) Senior Applications Engineer
6 4 (8.70%) Senior Operations Engineer
7 3 (6.52%) Administrator
7 3 (6.52%) Cloud Engineer
8 2 (4.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (4.35%) Support Engineer
8 2 (4.35%) Technical Engineer
8 2 (4.35%) Technical Support
8 2 (4.35%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.52%) Itk
2 2 (4.35%) .NET
2 2 (4.35%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (2.17%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 13 (28.26%) LIMS
2 6 (13.04%) Client/Server
3 5 (10.87%) Onboarding
3 5 (10.87%) Public Cloud
3 5 (10.87%) SCADA
4 3 (6.52%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (4.35%) Clustering
6 1 (2.17%) Driving Licence
6 1 (2.17%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 26 (56.52%) Windows Server
2 23 (50.00%) Linux
3 8 (17.39%) Mac OS
4 6 (13.04%) Windows 10
5 2 (4.35%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (60.87%) ITIL
2 20 (43.48%) Computer Science
3 15 (32.61%) Change Management
4 11 (23.91%) Containerisation
5 10 (21.74%) Business Continuity
6 9 (19.57%) Coaching
6 9 (19.57%) Mentoring
6 9 (19.57%) Service Management
7 8 (17.39%) Cybersecurity
8 7 (15.22%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (10.87%) Biotechnology
9 5 (10.87%) Customer Service
9 5 (10.87%) DevOps
9 5 (10.87%) User Experience
9 5 (10.87%) Validation
10 4 (8.70%) Agile
10 4 (8.70%) CI/CD
10 4 (8.70%) Continuous Improvement
10 4 (8.70%) Infrastructure as Code
10 4 (8.70%) Systems Thinking
Programming Languages
1 11 (23.91%) SQL
2 6 (13.04%) PowerShell
3 5 (10.87%) Python
4 3 (6.52%) Tcl
5 2 (4.35%) C#
5 2 (4.35%) Java
Qualifications
1 17 (36.96%) Degree
2 11 (23.91%) HNC
2 11 (23.91%) HND
3 9 (19.57%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (13.04%) CCNA
4 6 (13.04%) Cisco Certification
4 6 (13.04%) ITIL Certification
5 5 (10.87%) A+ Certification
5 5 (10.87%) MCSA
5 5 (10.87%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (10.87%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.87%) 21 CFR Part 11
1 5 (10.87%) GxP
2 3 (6.52%) SLA
System Software
1 27 (58.70%) Active Directory
2 14 (30.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (26.09%) Hyper-V
4 2 (4.35%) Docker
4 2 (4.35%) vSphere
5 1 (2.17%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 9 (19.57%) Control-M
1 9 (19.57%) Grafana
1 9 (19.57%) Kubernetes
2 7 (15.22%) Prometheus
3 4 (8.70%) Ansible
3 4 (8.70%) Terraform
4 2 (4.35%) Docker Swarm
5 1 (2.17%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (2.17%) SCCM
Vendors
1 25 (54.35%) Microsoft
2 15 (32.61%) VMware
3 6 (13.04%) Cisco
4 4 (8.70%) HP
5 3 (6.52%) Dell
5 3 (6.52%) Dell Compellent
5 3 (6.52%) Nimble Storage
5 3 (6.52%) Siemens
6 2 (4.35%) Atlassian
6 2 (4.35%) BMC
6 2 (4.35%) Dynatrace
6 2 (4.35%) Splunk
7 1 (2.17%) Aruba
7 1 (2.17%) Citrix
7 1 (2.17%) Google