Windows Jobs in the North of England

Microsoft Windows
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 15 25
Rank change year-on-year -15 +10 -7
Permanent jobs citing Windows 762 1,567 1,679
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 6.96% 9.07% 9.65%
As % of the Operating Systems category 56.61% 69.71% 69.78%
Number of salaries quoted 572 1,281 1,151
10th Percentile £25,750 £24,500 £23,500
25th Percentile £29,000 £27,000 £27,600
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £37,500 £39,500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.06% +6.76%
75th Percentile £48,000 £52,500 £53,000
90th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £63,750
England median annual salary £40,000 £40,500 £43,750
% change year-on-year -1.23% -7.43% +2.94%

All Operating Systems
North of England

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 of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 1,346 2,248 2,406
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 12.29% 13.01% 13.82%
Number of salaries quoted 718 1,763 1,535
10th Percentile £26,000 £25,000 £24,750
25th Percentile £30,656 £29,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.18% - -
75th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £57,500
90th Percentile £74,258 £67,968 £71,652
England median annual salary £46,323 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +2.94% -14.29% -

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in the North of England

Windows
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

Salary trend for Windows in the North of England

Windows
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Windows in the North of England

Windows
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows within the North of England region over the 6 months to 1 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
Yorkshire +2 368 £32,000 -13.51% 124
North West -41 344 £40,000 - 206
North East -15 48 £45,000 +30.43% 52
Windows
England

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 86 (11.29%) Microsoft Exchange
2 54 (7.09%) SharePoint
3 12 (1.57%) IIS
4 11 (1.44%) Apache
5 3 (0.39%) SAS
5 3 (0.39%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.26%) Confluence
6 2 (0.26%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.26%) WebSphere Application Server
7 1 (0.13%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.13%) CMS
7 1 (0.13%) nginx
7 1 (0.13%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 81 (10.63%) Microsoft Office
2 33 (4.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 25 (3.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.79%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.26%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.26%) Trello
6 1 (0.13%) GNU Octave
Business Applications
1 4 (0.52%) NEC Housing
1 4 (0.52%) NetSuite
2 3 (0.39%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
2 3 (0.39%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (0.39%) Sage 50
3 1 (0.13%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 241 (31.63%) Microsoft 365
2 182 (23.88%) Azure
3 174 (22.83%) AWS
4 60 (7.87%) Entra ID
5 47 (6.17%) SaaS
6 20 (2.62%) GCP
7 17 (2.23%) Power Platform
8 12 (1.57%) Microsoft Copilot
8 12 (1.57%) OneDrive
9 11 (1.44%) Azure DevOps
9 11 (1.44%) GitHub
10 10 (1.31%) Mimecast
11 8 (1.05%) IaaS
11 8 (1.05%) Microsoft Purview
12 7 (0.92%) Nutanix
12 7 (0.92%) OCI
13 5 (0.66%) Cloud Computing
13 5 (0.66%) PaaS
14 4 (0.52%) Amazon EC2
14 4 (0.52%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 117 (15.35%) Firewall
2 90 (11.81%) DNS
3 76 (9.97%) DHCP
4 68 (8.92%) LAN
4 68 (8.92%) VPN
5 53 (6.96%) WAN
6 37 (4.86%) Cisco IOS
7 32 (4.20%) Wireless
8 29 (3.81%) TCP/IP
8 29 (3.81%) VoIP
9 28 (3.67%) SAN
10 15 (1.97%) Internet
10 15 (1.97%) Intrusion Detection
11 14 (1.84%) NAS
11 14 (1.84%) Wi-Fi
12 11 (1.44%) VLAN
13 9 (1.18%) Remote Desktop
13 9 (1.18%) SMTP
13 9 (1.18%) VSAN
14 8 (1.05%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (7.35%) SQL Server
2 16 (2.10%) Power BI
3 10 (1.31%) MySQL
4 7 (0.92%) DB2
5 6 (0.79%) MongoDB
6 5 (0.66%) BusinessObjects
6 5 (0.66%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (0.52%) RDBMS
7 4 (0.52%) Relational Database
7 4 (0.52%) Tableau
8 3 (0.39%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (0.39%) NoSQL
8 3 (0.39%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.13%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.13%) Cloud Spanner
9 1 (0.13%) Couchbase
9 1 (0.13%) Data Hub
9 1 (0.13%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.13%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.13%) SQL CLR
Development Applications
1 13 (1.71%) Git
1 13 (1.71%) Jenkins
1 13 (1.71%) JIRA
2 5 (0.66%) Oracle Forms
3 4 (0.52%) Cucumber
3 4 (0.52%) Eclipse
3 4 (0.52%) Eclipse RCP
3 4 (0.52%) Robot Framework
3 4 (0.52%) Spinnaker
3 4 (0.52%) TeamCity
4 3 (0.39%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (0.26%) Artifactory
5 2 (0.26%) SonarQube
5 2 (0.26%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.13%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.13%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.13%) GitLab
6 1 (0.13%) IBM UrbanCode
6 1 (0.13%) Jaeger
6 1 (0.13%) Travis CI
General
1 361 (47.38%) Social Skills
2 116 (15.22%) Presentation Skills
3 108 (14.17%) Analytical Skills
4 102 (13.39%) Finance
5 50 (6.56%) Organisational Skills
6 43 (5.64%) Law
7 33 (4.33%) Banking
8 29 (3.81%) Legal
9 27 (3.54%) Telecoms
10 26 (3.41%) Manufacturing
11 22 (2.89%) Esports
11 22 (2.89%) Public Sector
12 18 (2.36%) Retail
13 10 (1.31%) Automotive
14 9 (1.18%) Local Government
15 8 (1.05%) Games
15 8 (1.05%) Retail Banking
16 7 (0.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 5 (0.66%) Influencing Skills
17 5 (0.66%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 244 (32.02%) IT Support
2 139 (18.24%) Analyst
3 72 (9.45%) IT Engineer
4 70 (9.19%) Support Engineer
5 64 (8.40%) IT Analyst
5 64 (8.40%) Support Analyst
6 56 (7.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 49 (6.43%) Senior
8 46 (6.04%) 2nd Line Support
9 45 (5.91%) IT Support Analyst
10 44 (5.77%) Lead
11 40 (5.25%) IT Support Engineer
12 37 (4.86%) Desktop Support
13 27 (3.54%) 1st Line Support
13 27 (3.54%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
13 27 (3.54%) Service Analyst
14 26 (3.41%) Architect
14 26 (3.41%) Service Desk Analyst
15 25 (3.28%) IT Technician
16 22 (2.89%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (1.44%) Middleware
2 9 (1.18%) HTML
3 8 (1.05%) .NET
3 8 (1.05%) XML
4 7 (0.92%) Elastic Stack
4 7 (0.92%) SOAP
5 6 (0.79%) LDAP
6 5 (0.66%) CSS
7 4 (0.52%) ASP.NET
7 4 (0.52%) JSP
7 4 (0.52%) REST
7 4 (0.52%) XSLT
8 3 (0.39%) .NET Framework
8 3 (0.39%) ASP.NET Core
8 3 (0.39%) SAML
8 3 (0.39%) WinForms
9 2 (0.26%) ARM Templates
9 2 (0.26%) JSON
10 1 (0.13%) Software Packaging
10 1 (0.13%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 121 (15.88%) Social Media
2 103 (13.52%) Enterprise Software
3 62 (8.14%) Self-Motivation
4 44 (5.77%) Management Information System
5 29 (3.81%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 23 (3.02%) Data Centre
7 22 (2.89%) Replication
8 21 (2.76%) Onboarding
9 17 (2.23%) Mobile App
10 14 (1.84%) Security Posture
11 12 (1.57%) Cloud Native
12 10 (1.31%) Driving Licence
13 9 (1.18%) Hybrid Cloud
14 8 (1.05%) CCTV
14 8 (1.05%) Data Protection Act
14 8 (1.05%) FMCG
15 7 (0.92%) Operational Technology
15 7 (0.92%) Private Cloud
15 7 (0.92%) SCADA
15 7 (0.92%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 205 (26.90%) Windows Server
2 151 (19.82%) Linux
3 121 (15.88%) Windows Vista
4 107 (14.04%) Windows 10
5 63 (8.27%) Android
6 38 (4.99%) Windows Server 2019
7 33 (4.33%) Windows Server 2016
8 28 (3.67%) Mac OS X
9 24 (3.15%) Mac OS
10 20 (2.62%) Unix
11 13 (1.71%) Windows Server 2012
12 10 (1.31%) Windows 7
13 9 (1.18%) Solaris
13 9 (1.18%) Windows Server 2008
14 6 (0.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 5 (0.66%) CentOS
15 5 (0.66%) Windows 8
16 4 (0.52%) Apple iOS
17 3 (0.39%) Ubuntu
17 3 (0.39%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 326 (42.78%) Problem-Solving
2 147 (19.29%) Customer Service
3 140 (18.37%) Mathematics
4 113 (14.83%) Line Management
5 105 (13.78%) ITIL
6 73 (9.58%) Computer Science
7 65 (8.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 61 (8.01%) Cybersecurity
9 57 (7.48%) Disaster Recovery
10 54 (7.09%) Continuous Improvement
11 50 (6.56%) DevOps
12 47 (6.17%) Service Delivery
13 46 (6.04%) Mentoring
14 41 (5.38%) ITSM
15 40 (5.25%) Agile
16 39 (5.12%) Collaborative Working
17 38 (4.99%) Decision-Making
18 34 (4.46%) Data Protection
19 33 (4.33%) Migration
20 32 (4.20%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 71 (9.32%) SQL
2 58 (7.61%) PowerShell
2 58 (7.61%) Python
3 20 (2.62%) Bash
4 16 (2.10%) JavaScript
5 14 (1.84%) C#
6 13 (1.71%) Java
7 8 (1.05%) PHP
8 5 (0.66%) C
8 5 (0.66%) Perl
9 4 (0.52%) Ada
9 4 (0.52%) Bicep
9 4 (0.52%) C++
9 4 (0.52%) Jython
9 4 (0.52%) Rust
10 3 (0.39%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.26%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.26%) VBScript
12 1 (0.13%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.13%) XAML
Qualifications
1 152 (19.95%) Degree
2 126 (16.54%) DBS Check
3 55 (7.22%) Microsoft Certification
4 34 (4.46%) Cisco Certification
5 28 (3.67%) Master's Degree
5 28 (3.67%) Security Cleared
6 26 (3.41%) SC Cleared
7 21 (2.76%) Computer Science Degree
8 20 (2.62%) MCSA
9 18 (2.36%) CISSP
10 17 (2.23%) CISM
11 15 (1.97%) CEH
12 14 (1.84%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 14 (1.84%) ACCA
12 14 (1.84%) CIMA
12 14 (1.84%) CISA
12 14 (1.84%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 13 (1.71%) CCNP
14 11 (1.44%) Network+ Certification
15 10 (1.31%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (5.38%) SLA
2 30 (3.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 21 (2.76%) GDPR
4 19 (2.49%) NIST
5 15 (1.97%) QA
6 12 (1.57%) Cyber Essentials
7 8 (1.05%) ISO 9001
8 5 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 4 (0.52%) Accessibility
9 4 (0.52%) NCSC
10 3 (0.39%) ISO 14001
10 3 (0.39%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.39%) PMO
11 1 (0.13%) ISO 13485
11 1 (0.13%) SOC 2
System Software
1 237 (31.10%) Active Directory
2 73 (9.58%) VMware Infrastructure
3 65 (8.53%) Hyper-V
4 18 (2.36%) Virtual Machines
5 14 (1.84%) vSphere
6 12 (1.57%) DFS Replication
7 11 (1.44%) Docker
8 10 (1.31%) Virtual Desktop
9 8 (1.05%) VMware ESXi
10 7 (0.92%) VMware NSX
11 6 (0.79%) Terminal Services
12 3 (0.39%) Firmware
12 3 (0.39%) NFS
12 3 (0.39%) Veritas Cluster Server
12 3 (0.39%) Virtual Servers
13 2 (0.26%) KVM
13 2 (0.26%) SRDF
13 2 (0.26%) Xen
14 1 (0.13%) Microsoft App-V
14 1 (0.13%) pfSense
Systems Management
1 53 (6.96%) Microsoft Intune
2 37 (4.86%) Terraform
3 32 (4.20%) Ansible
4 30 (3.94%) SCCM
5 16 (2.10%) Kubernetes
6 12 (1.57%) Puppet
7 8 (1.05%) Grafana
7 8 (1.05%) SCOM
8 7 (0.92%) Progress Chef
8 7 (0.92%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (0.66%) AirWatch
9 5 (0.66%) Prometheus
10 4 (0.52%) Jamf Pro
10 4 (0.52%) Proxmox
10 4 (0.52%) SCOrch
11 3 (0.39%) Autotask
11 3 (0.39%) Control-M
11 3 (0.39%) Docker Swarm
11 3 (0.39%) FortiGate
11 3 (0.39%) WSUS
Vendors
1 313 (41.08%) Microsoft
2 142 (18.64%) VMware
3 83 (10.89%) Cisco
4 35 (4.59%) Veeam
5 32 (4.20%) Apple
6 30 (3.94%) Oracle
7 25 (3.28%) ServiceNow
8 16 (2.10%) Zoho
9 14 (1.84%) Citrix
10 11 (1.44%) iManage
11 10 (1.31%) Google
11 10 (1.31%) Veritas
12 8 (1.05%) HP
12 8 (1.05%) IronPort
12 8 (1.05%) Meraki
12 8 (1.05%) Sophos
13 7 (0.92%) IBM
13 7 (0.92%) Red Hat
13 7 (0.92%) SolarWinds
14 6 (0.79%) Avaya