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 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 18 24
Rank change year-on-year -3 +6 -6
Permanent jobs citing Windows 1,048 1,554 1,623
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 9.13% 8.77% 9.64%
As % of the Operating Systems category 59.18% 69.47% 69.24%
Number of salaries quoted 562 1,266 1,102
10th Percentile £25,750 £24,500 £23,775
25th Percentile £28,500 £27,000 £28,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £34,500 £37,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% -6.25% +8.11%
75th Percentile £46,875 £52,500 £53,750
90th Percentile £63,625 £63,750 £65,000
England median annual salary £40,000 £40,000 £43,750
% change year-on-year - -8.57% +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 1,771 2,237 2,344
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 15.43% 12.63% 13.93%
Number of salaries quoted 683 1,746 1,472
10th Percentile £26,000 £25,000 £25,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £29,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% - -
75th Percentile £56,161 £56,250 £58,051
90th Percentile £72,324 £67,968 £72,500
England median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - -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 23 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 23 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
North West -14 579 £40,000 - 586
Yorkshire +5 422 £32,000 -13.51% 427
North East -17 45 £48,000 +45.45% 167
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 69 (6.58%) Microsoft Exchange
2 56 (5.34%) SharePoint
3 14 (1.34%) IIS
4 11 (1.05%) Apache
5 3 (0.29%) SAS
5 3 (0.29%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.19%) Confluence
6 2 (0.19%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.19%) WebSphere Application Server
7 1 (0.095%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.095%) CMS
7 1 (0.095%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 75 (7.16%) Microsoft Office
2 33 (3.15%) Microsoft Excel
3 21 (2.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (0.67%) Spreadsheet
5 6 (0.57%) Microsoft Project
5 6 (0.57%) MS Visio
5 6 (0.57%) Trello
6 1 (0.095%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.095%) GNU Octave
Business Applications
1 4 (0.38%) NetSuite
2 3 (0.29%) Sage 50
3 2 (0.19%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
3 2 (0.19%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.19%) SAP Business One
4 1 (0.095%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 247 (23.57%) Microsoft 365
2 171 (16.32%) AWS
3 169 (16.13%) Azure
4 45 (4.29%) Entra ID
5 42 (4.01%) SaaS
6 14 (1.34%) GCP
7 12 (1.15%) Microsoft Copilot
7 12 (1.15%) OneDrive
8 11 (1.05%) Power Platform
9 9 (0.86%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (0.67%) Mimecast
10 7 (0.67%) Nutanix
10 7 (0.67%) OCI
11 6 (0.57%) GitHub
11 6 (0.57%) IaaS
11 6 (0.57%) PaaS
12 5 (0.48%) Cloud Computing
13 4 (0.38%) Amazon EC2
13 4 (0.38%) Amazon S3
13 4 (0.38%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 310 (29.58%) VPN
2 290 (27.67%) Cisco IOS
3 141 (13.45%) Firewall
4 73 (6.97%) DNS
5 56 (5.34%) DHCP
5 56 (5.34%) LAN
6 44 (4.20%) WAN
7 36 (3.44%) Wireless
8 33 (3.15%) VoIP
9 28 (2.67%) SAN
10 21 (2.00%) TCP/IP
11 14 (1.34%) NAS
11 14 (1.34%) Wi-Fi
12 13 (1.24%) Intrusion Detection
13 10 (0.95%) Internet
14 8 (0.76%) Multicast
14 8 (0.76%) VLAN
15 6 (0.57%) MPLS
15 6 (0.57%) Remote Desktop
16 5 (0.48%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (5.53%) SQL Server
2 10 (0.95%) Power BI
3 9 (0.86%) MySQL
4 7 (0.67%) DB2
5 6 (0.57%) MongoDB
6 5 (0.48%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (0.48%) RDBMS
6 5 (0.48%) Relational Database
7 4 (0.38%) Tableau
8 3 (0.29%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (0.29%) NoSQL
8 3 (0.29%) Oracle Database
9 2 (0.19%) Data Hub
9 2 (0.19%) SQL CLR
10 1 (0.095%) BusinessObjects
10 1 (0.095%) Cloud Spanner
10 1 (0.095%) Couchbase
10 1 (0.095%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.095%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 17 (1.62%) JIRA
2 14 (1.34%) Git
3 7 (0.67%) Jenkins
4 5 (0.48%) Oracle Forms
5 4 (0.38%) Cucumber
5 4 (0.38%) Eclipse
5 4 (0.38%) Eclipse RCP
5 4 (0.38%) Robot Framework
5 4 (0.38%) TeamCity
6 3 (0.29%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (0.19%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.19%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.19%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.095%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.095%) CMake
8 1 (0.095%) GitLab
8 1 (0.095%) IBM UrbanCode
8 1 (0.095%) Jaeger
8 1 (0.095%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.095%) Travis CI
General
1 367 (35.02%) Social Skills
2 348 (33.21%) Analytical Skills
3 258 (24.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 110 (10.50%) Presentation Skills
5 82 (7.82%) Finance
6 52 (4.96%) Organisational Skills
7 41 (3.91%) Esports
8 37 (3.53%) Law
9 27 (2.58%) Legal
10 26 (2.48%) Telecoms
11 25 (2.39%) Banking
12 24 (2.29%) Manufacturing
13 17 (1.62%) Retail
14 15 (1.43%) Public Sector
15 11 (1.05%) Automotive
16 6 (0.57%) Retail Banking
17 5 (0.48%) Aerospace
18 4 (0.38%) Games
18 4 (0.38%) Local Government
18 4 (0.38%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 286 (27.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 253 (24.14%) IT Support
3 145 (13.84%) Analyst
4 76 (7.25%) Support Analyst
5 75 (7.16%) IT Analyst
6 74 (7.06%) IT Engineer
7 73 (6.97%) Support Engineer
8 55 (5.25%) 2nd Line Support
9 50 (4.77%) IT Support Analyst
10 37 (3.53%) IT Support Engineer
11 36 (3.44%) Desktop Support
12 35 (3.34%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
12 35 (3.34%) Senior
13 33 (3.15%) 1st Line Support
13 33 (3.15%) Lead
14 27 (2.58%) Service Analyst
15 26 (2.48%) Service Desk Analyst
16 24 (2.29%) Architect
16 24 (2.29%) Support Technician
17 21 (2.00%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 256 (24.43%) Elastic Stack
2 11 (1.05%) Middleware
3 10 (0.95%) .NET
4 6 (0.57%) LDAP
5 5 (0.48%) ASP.NET
5 5 (0.48%) CSS
5 5 (0.48%) HTML
5 5 (0.48%) REST
6 4 (0.38%) .NET Framework
6 4 (0.38%) ASP.NET Core
6 4 (0.38%) JSP
6 4 (0.38%) WinForms
6 4 (0.38%) XML
7 3 (0.29%) ARM Templates
7 3 (0.29%) SOAP
8 2 (0.19%) .NET Core
8 2 (0.19%) Dapper ORM
8 2 (0.19%) Entity Framework
8 2 (0.19%) JSON
9 1 (0.095%) Loki
Miscellaneous
1 251 (23.95%) Cyberattack
2 146 (13.93%) Social Media
3 103 (9.83%) Enterprise Software
4 53 (5.06%) Self-Motivation
5 41 (3.91%) Management Information System
6 34 (3.24%) Operational Technology
7 28 (2.67%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 19 (1.81%) Onboarding
9 17 (1.62%) Data Centre
9 17 (1.62%) Mobile App
10 14 (1.34%) Security Posture
11 13 (1.24%) Driving Licence
12 10 (0.95%) Replication
13 9 (0.86%) Cloud Native
13 9 (0.86%) Hybrid Cloud
14 8 (0.76%) FMCG
14 8 (0.76%) Life Science
14 8 (0.76%) Private Cloud
15 7 (0.67%) SCADA
16 6 (0.57%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 384 (36.64%) Linux
2 316 (30.15%) Android
3 191 (18.23%) Windows Server
4 144 (13.74%) Windows Vista
5 110 (10.50%) Windows 10
6 26 (2.48%) Mac OS X
7 25 (2.39%) Mac OS
8 21 (2.00%) Windows Server 2019
9 18 (1.72%) Windows Server 2016
10 17 (1.62%) Windows Server 2012
11 11 (1.05%) Unix
12 10 (0.95%) Windows 7
13 6 (0.57%) CentOS
13 6 (0.57%) Windows Server 2008
14 5 (0.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 5 (0.48%) Windows 8
15 4 (0.38%) Solaris
16 3 (0.29%) Apple iOS
17 2 (0.19%) Debian
17 2 (0.19%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 576 (54.96%) Problem-Solving
2 383 (36.55%) Mathematics
3 362 (34.54%) Line Management
4 297 (28.34%) DevOps
5 295 (28.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 265 (25.29%) Risk Management
7 260 (24.81%) Task Automation
8 256 (24.43%) Platform Engineering
9 253 (24.14%) Storage Management
10 139 (13.26%) Customer Service
11 107 (10.21%) ITIL
12 100 (9.54%) Computer Science
13 96 (9.16%) Cybersecurity
14 55 (5.25%) Continuous Improvement
15 46 (4.39%) Mentoring
16 43 (4.10%) Service Delivery
17 42 (4.01%) Agile
18 41 (3.91%) ITSM
19 38 (3.63%) Collaborative Working
19 38 (3.63%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 305 (29.10%) Python
2 304 (29.01%) PowerShell
3 267 (25.48%) Bash
4 65 (6.20%) SQL
5 15 (1.43%) C#
6 13 (1.24%) Java
7 12 (1.15%) JavaScript
8 6 (0.57%) PHP
9 5 (0.48%) Bicep
10 4 (0.38%) Ada
10 4 (0.38%) C++
10 4 (0.38%) Rust
10 4 (0.38%) VB
11 3 (0.29%) T-SQL
11 3 (0.29%) VBA
12 2 (0.19%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.19%) VBScript
13 1 (0.095%) Perl
13 1 (0.095%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.095%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 163 (15.55%) Degree
2 150 (14.31%) DBS Check
3 48 (4.58%) Microsoft Certification
4 32 (3.05%) Cisco Certification
5 25 (2.39%) Master's Degree
6 23 (2.19%) Security Cleared
7 21 (2.00%) SC Cleared
8 17 (1.62%) Computer Science Degree
9 16 (1.53%) CISSP
9 16 (1.53%) MCSA
10 15 (1.43%) CCNP
10 15 (1.43%) CISM
11 13 (1.24%) CEH
12 12 (1.15%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 12 (1.15%) CISA
13 11 (1.05%) ITIL Certification
14 10 (0.95%) A+ Certification
14 10 (0.95%) PMI Certification
14 10 (0.95%) PMP
14 10 (0.95%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (3.53%) SLA
2 26 (2.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 18 (1.72%) GDPR
3 18 (1.72%) NIST
3 18 (1.72%) QA
4 12 (1.15%) Cyber Essentials
5 5 (0.48%) NCSC
6 4 (0.38%) ISO 9001
7 3 (0.29%) ISO 14001
7 3 (0.29%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.095%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.095%) ISO 13485
8 1 (0.095%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.095%) SOC 2
System Software
1 301 (28.72%) Hyper-V
2 261 (24.90%) vSphere
3 260 (24.81%) Docker
4 258 (24.62%) VMware NSX
5 252 (24.05%) Active Directory
6 61 (5.82%) VMware Infrastructure
7 29 (2.77%) Virtual Servers
8 16 (1.53%) Virtual Machines
9 10 (0.95%) VMware ESXi
10 9 (0.86%) Virtual Desktop
11 6 (0.57%) Terminal Services
12 3 (0.29%) Firmware
12 3 (0.29%) NFS
12 3 (0.29%) Veritas Cluster Server
13 2 (0.19%) KVM
13 2 (0.19%) SRDF
13 2 (0.19%) Xen
14 1 (0.095%) BitLocker
14 1 (0.095%) pfSense
14 1 (0.095%) RHEV
Systems Management
1 286 (27.29%) Terraform
2 280 (26.72%) Ansible
3 64 (6.11%) Microsoft Intune
4 26 (2.48%) SCCM
5 15 (1.43%) Kubernetes
6 10 (0.95%) Puppet
7 6 (0.57%) Grafana
7 6 (0.57%) Jamf Pro
7 6 (0.57%) Proxmox
7 6 (0.57%) SCOM
8 5 (0.48%) AirWatch
8 5 (0.48%) Progress Chef
9 4 (0.38%) SCOrch
9 4 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.29%) Autotask
10 3 (0.29%) Control-M
10 3 (0.29%) Docker Swarm
10 3 (0.29%) Prometheus
10 3 (0.29%) WSUS
11 2 (0.19%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 335 (31.97%) Cisco
2 296 (28.24%) Microsoft
3 252 (24.05%) Splunk
4 251 (23.95%) 3PAR
4 251 (23.95%) Juniper
5 117 (11.16%) VMware
6 32 (3.05%) Veeam
7 30 (2.86%) Apple
7 30 (2.86%) Oracle
8 25 (2.39%) ServiceNow
9 16 (1.53%) Zoho
10 13 (1.24%) iManage
11 12 (1.15%) Google
11 12 (1.15%) Meraki
12 10 (0.95%) Sophos
13 9 (0.86%) Citrix
14 8 (0.76%) Adobe
15 7 (0.67%) IBM
15 7 (0.67%) Red Hat
16 6 (0.57%) Veritas