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

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 16 25
Rank change year-on-year -13 +9 -7
Permanent jobs citing Windows 859 1,562 1,638
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 7.44% 8.93% 9.52%
As % of the Operating Systems category 53.59% 69.42% 69.47%
Number of salaries quoted 599 1,276 1,128
10th Percentile £25,750 £24,500 £23,500
25th Percentile £29,000 £27,500 £27,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £37,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -6.25% +8.11%
75th Percentile £48,000 £52,500 £53,096
90th Percentile £66,500 £65,000 £63,750
England median annual salary £40,000 £40,000 £43,823
% change year-on-year - -8.72% +3.11%

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 1,603 2,250 2,358
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 13.88% 12.86% 13.71%
Number of salaries quoted 744 1,760 1,506
10th Percentile £26,000 £25,000 £24,875
25th Percentile £30,625 £29,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% - -
75th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £57,500
90th Percentile £73,886 £67,968 £71,652
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 11 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 11 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 -38 424 £40,000 - 218
Yorkshire +1 387 £32,000 -13.51% 186
North East -16 46 £44,000 +33.33% 66
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 85 (9.90%) Microsoft Exchange
2 53 (6.17%) SharePoint
3 14 (1.63%) IIS
4 11 (1.28%) Apache
5 3 (0.35%) SAS
5 3 (0.35%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.23%) Confluence
6 2 (0.23%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.23%) WebSphere Application Server
7 1 (0.12%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.12%) CMS
7 1 (0.12%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 79 (9.20%) Microsoft Office
2 31 (3.61%) Microsoft Excel
3 22 (2.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.70%) Spreadsheet
5 4 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.47%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.47%) Trello
6 1 (0.12%) GNU Octave
Business Applications
1 4 (0.47%) NetSuite
2 3 (0.35%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
2 3 (0.35%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (0.35%) Sage 50
3 1 (0.12%) iTrent
3 1 (0.12%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 249 (28.99%) Microsoft 365
2 178 (20.72%) Azure
3 170 (19.79%) AWS
4 53 (6.17%) Entra ID
5 48 (5.59%) SaaS
6 18 (2.10%) GCP
7 13 (1.51%) Power Platform
8 12 (1.40%) Azure DevOps
8 12 (1.40%) Microsoft Copilot
8 12 (1.40%) OneDrive
9 11 (1.28%) GitHub
10 9 (1.05%) Mimecast
11 8 (0.93%) IaaS
11 8 (0.93%) Microsoft Purview
12 7 (0.81%) Nutanix
12 7 (0.81%) OCI
13 6 (0.70%) PaaS
14 5 (0.58%) Cloud Computing
15 4 (0.47%) Amazon EC2
15 4 (0.47%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 141 (16.41%) VPN
2 122 (14.20%) Firewall
3 108 (12.57%) Cisco IOS
4 89 (10.36%) DNS
5 73 (8.50%) DHCP
6 69 (8.03%) LAN
7 55 (6.40%) WAN
8 35 (4.07%) Wireless
9 34 (3.96%) VoIP
10 31 (3.61%) TCP/IP
11 28 (3.26%) SAN
12 16 (1.86%) Internet
13 15 (1.75%) Intrusion Detection
14 14 (1.63%) NAS
14 14 (1.63%) Wi-Fi
15 10 (1.16%) VLAN
16 9 (1.05%) Remote Desktop
16 9 (1.05%) SMTP
17 8 (0.93%) DKIM
17 8 (0.93%) DMARC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (6.64%) SQL Server
2 12 (1.40%) Power BI
3 10 (1.16%) MySQL
4 7 (0.81%) DB2
5 6 (0.70%) MongoDB
6 5 (0.58%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (0.47%) RDBMS
7 4 (0.47%) Relational Database
7 4 (0.47%) Tableau
8 3 (0.35%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (0.35%) NoSQL
8 3 (0.35%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.12%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.12%) BusinessObjects
9 1 (0.12%) Cloud Spanner
9 1 (0.12%) Couchbase
9 1 (0.12%) Data Hub
9 1 (0.12%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.12%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.12%) SQL CLR
Development Applications
1 15 (1.75%) JIRA
2 13 (1.51%) Git
3 11 (1.28%) Jenkins
4 5 (0.58%) Oracle Forms
5 4 (0.47%) Cucumber
5 4 (0.47%) Eclipse
5 4 (0.47%) Eclipse RCP
5 4 (0.47%) Robot Framework
5 4 (0.47%) Spinnaker
5 4 (0.47%) TeamCity
6 3 (0.35%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (0.23%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.23%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.23%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.12%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.12%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.12%) CMake
8 1 (0.12%) GitLab
8 1 (0.12%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.12%) Travis CI
General
1 368 (42.84%) Social Skills
2 172 (20.02%) Analytical Skills
3 111 (12.92%) Presentation Skills
4 94 (10.94%) Finance
5 77 (8.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 51 (5.94%) Organisational Skills
7 40 (4.66%) Law
8 36 (4.19%) Banking
9 32 (3.73%) Esports
10 28 (3.26%) Legal
10 28 (3.26%) Telecoms
11 26 (3.03%) Manufacturing
12 18 (2.10%) Retail
13 17 (1.98%) Public Sector
14 11 (1.28%) Automotive
15 8 (0.93%) Retail Banking
16 5 (0.58%) Aerospace
16 5 (0.58%) Games
16 5 (0.58%) Influencing Skills
16 5 (0.58%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 252 (29.34%) IT Support
2 143 (16.65%) Analyst
3 121 (14.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 74 (8.61%) Support Engineer
5 70 (8.15%) IT Analyst
6 68 (7.92%) Support Analyst
7 66 (7.68%) IT Engineer
8 51 (5.94%) 2nd Line Support
9 47 (5.47%) IT Support Analyst
10 44 (5.12%) Senior
11 43 (5.01%) Lead
12 39 (4.54%) IT Support Engineer
13 37 (4.31%) Desktop Support
14 31 (3.61%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
15 28 (3.26%) 1st Line Support
16 27 (3.14%) Service Analyst
17 26 (3.03%) Architect
17 26 (3.03%) IT Technician
17 26 (3.03%) Service Desk Analyst
18 23 (2.68%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (8.73%) Elastic Stack
2 11 (1.28%) Middleware
3 9 (1.05%) HTML
4 8 (0.93%) .NET
4 8 (0.93%) XML
5 7 (0.81%) SOAP
6 6 (0.70%) LDAP
7 5 (0.58%) CSS
8 4 (0.47%) ASP.NET
8 4 (0.47%) JSP
8 4 (0.47%) REST
8 4 (0.47%) XSLT
9 3 (0.35%) .NET Framework
9 3 (0.35%) ARM Templates
9 3 (0.35%) ASP.NET Core
9 3 (0.35%) WinForms
10 2 (0.23%) JSON
10 2 (0.23%) SAML
11 1 (0.12%) Entity Framework
11 1 (0.12%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 139 (16.18%) Social Media
2 103 (11.99%) Enterprise Software
3 70 (8.15%) Cyberattack
4 60 (6.98%) Self-Motivation
5 44 (5.12%) Management Information System
6 29 (3.38%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 21 (2.44%) Onboarding
8 20 (2.33%) Data Centre
9 17 (1.98%) Mobile App
9 17 (1.98%) Replication
10 15 (1.75%) Security Posture
11 13 (1.51%) Cloud Native
12 12 (1.40%) Driving Licence
13 9 (1.05%) Hybrid Cloud
13 9 (1.05%) Private Cloud
14 8 (0.93%) CCTV
14 8 (0.93%) FMCG
15 7 (0.81%) Operational Technology
15 7 (0.81%) SCADA
16 6 (0.70%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 220 (25.61%) Linux
2 211 (24.56%) Windows Server
3 138 (16.07%) Windows Vista
4 134 (15.60%) Android
5 110 (12.81%) Windows 10
6 31 (3.61%) Windows Server 2019
7 29 (3.38%) Windows Server 2016
8 28 (3.26%) Mac OS X
9 25 (2.91%) Mac OS
10 19 (2.21%) Unix
11 13 (1.51%) Windows Server 2012
12 10 (1.16%) Windows 7
13 8 (0.93%) Windows Server 2008
14 6 (0.70%) CentOS
14 6 (0.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 5 (0.58%) Windows 8
16 4 (0.47%) Apple iOS
16 4 (0.47%) Solaris
17 3 (0.35%) zOS
18 2 (0.23%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 400 (46.57%) Problem-Solving
2 206 (23.98%) Mathematics
3 183 (21.30%) Line Management
4 147 (17.11%) Customer Service
5 130 (15.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 121 (14.09%) DevOps
7 110 (12.81%) ITIL
8 94 (10.94%) Computer Science
9 86 (10.01%) Risk Management
10 78 (9.08%) Task Automation
11 75 (8.73%) Platform Engineering
12 71 (8.27%) Storage Management
13 63 (7.33%) Cybersecurity
14 54 (6.29%) Continuous Improvement
15 50 (5.82%) Mentoring
16 49 (5.70%) Disaster Recovery
17 45 (5.24%) Service Delivery
18 42 (4.89%) ITSM
19 40 (4.66%) Agile
20 39 (4.54%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 129 (15.02%) Python
2 127 (14.78%) PowerShell
3 91 (10.59%) Bash
4 66 (7.68%) SQL
5 16 (1.86%) JavaScript
6 14 (1.63%) C#
7 13 (1.51%) Java
8 7 (0.81%) PHP
9 5 (0.58%) Bicep
9 5 (0.58%) C
9 5 (0.58%) C++
9 5 (0.58%) Perl
10 4 (0.47%) Ada
10 4 (0.47%) Jython
10 4 (0.47%) Rust
11 3 (0.35%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.23%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.23%) VB
12 2 (0.23%) VBScript
13 1 (0.12%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 161 (18.74%) Degree
2 141 (16.41%) DBS Check
3 54 (6.29%) Microsoft Certification
4 35 (4.07%) Cisco Certification
5 27 (3.14%) Master's Degree
6 26 (3.03%) Security Cleared
7 24 (2.79%) SC Cleared
8 20 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
8 20 (2.33%) MCSA
9 18 (2.10%) CISSP
10 17 (1.98%) CISM
11 15 (1.75%) CEH
12 14 (1.63%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 14 (1.63%) CCNP
12 14 (1.63%) CISA
12 14 (1.63%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 11 (1.28%) Azure Certification
13 11 (1.28%) Network+ Certification
14 10 (1.16%) ACCA
14 10 (1.16%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (4.89%) SLA
2 30 (3.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 21 (2.44%) GDPR
4 19 (2.21%) NIST
5 17 (1.98%) QA
6 12 (1.40%) Cyber Essentials
7 5 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 4 (0.47%) ISO 9001
8 4 (0.47%) NCSC
9 3 (0.35%) ISO 14001
9 3 (0.35%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.23%) PMO
11 1 (0.12%) ISO 13485
11 1 (0.12%) SOC 2
System Software
1 238 (27.71%) Active Directory
2 138 (16.07%) Hyper-V
3 85 (9.90%) vSphere
4 81 (9.43%) Docker
5 77 (8.96%) VMware NSX
6 75 (8.73%) VMware Infrastructure
7 20 (2.33%) Virtual Machines
8 10 (1.16%) Virtual Desktop
9 9 (1.05%) VMware ESXi
10 7 (0.81%) DFS Replication
11 6 (0.70%) Terminal Services
12 3 (0.35%) Firmware
12 3 (0.35%) NFS
12 3 (0.35%) Veritas Cluster Server
12 3 (0.35%) Virtual Servers
13 2 (0.23%) KVM
13 2 (0.23%) SRDF
13 2 (0.23%) Xen
14 1 (0.12%) Microsoft App-V
14 1 (0.12%) pfSense
Systems Management
1 107 (12.46%) Terraform
2 101 (11.76%) Ansible
3 56 (6.52%) Microsoft Intune
4 28 (3.26%) SCCM
5 17 (1.98%) Kubernetes
6 12 (1.40%) Puppet
7 7 (0.81%) Progress Chef
7 7 (0.81%) SCOM
8 6 (0.70%) Grafana
8 6 (0.70%) Proxmox
8 6 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (0.58%) AirWatch
9 5 (0.58%) Jamf Pro
10 4 (0.47%) SCOrch
11 3 (0.35%) Autotask
11 3 (0.35%) Control-M
11 3 (0.35%) Docker Swarm
11 3 (0.35%) Prometheus
11 3 (0.35%) WSUS
12 2 (0.23%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 306 (35.62%) Microsoft
2 159 (18.51%) Cisco
3 143 (16.65%) VMware
4 71 (8.27%) Splunk
5 70 (8.15%) 3PAR
5 70 (8.15%) Juniper
6 35 (4.07%) Veeam
7 32 (3.73%) Apple
8 30 (3.49%) Oracle
9 26 (3.03%) ServiceNow
10 16 (1.86%) Zoho
11 12 (1.40%) iManage
12 11 (1.28%) Citrix
12 11 (1.28%) Google
13 10 (1.16%) Meraki
13 10 (1.16%) Veritas
14 9 (1.05%) Sophos
15 8 (0.93%) HP
15 8 (0.93%) IronPort
16 7 (0.81%) IBM