Windows Jobs in the North West

Microsoft Windows
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 23 21 20
Rank change year-on-year -2 -1 -3
Permanent jobs citing Windows 667 646 1,007
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 7.20% 9.98% 9.97%
As % of the Operating Systems category 64.88% 67.79% 58.28%
Number of salaries quoted 465 477 791
10th Percentile £25,250 £25,000 £22,000
25th Percentile £28,498 £29,000 £25,591
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £45,000 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +28.57% -17.65%
75th Percentile £56,250 £58,000 £48,875
90th Percentile £67,968 £67,500 £64,750
England median annual salary £42,500 £44,125 £43,150
% change year-on-year -3.68% +2.26% -4.11%

All Operating Systems
North West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 1,028 953 1,728
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 11.10% 14.73% 17.11%
Number of salaries quoted 692 657 1,112
10th Percentile £26,250 £25,750 £23,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,750 £28,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +17.65% -5.56%
75th Percentile £60,000 £66,250 £57,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £76,250 £72,500
England median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.52% - +5.00%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in the North West

Windows
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for Windows in the North West

Windows
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows in the North West over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Windows in the North West

Windows
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows within the North West region over the 6 months to 26 July 2024. 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
Manchester +6 361 £44,263 -13.21% 59
Cheshire -3 150 £35,000 -7.89% 22
Lancashire -14 81 £36,000 -24.21% 33
Merseyside -11 58 £40,000 +5.26% 17
Cumbria -9 16 £32,000 +16.36% 11
Windows
England

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 65 (9.75%) Microsoft Exchange
2 29 (4.35%) Apache
3 28 (4.20%) SharePoint
4 20 (3.00%) IIS
5 8 (1.20%) Tomcat
6 6 (0.90%) Apache Solr
6 6 (0.90%) ArcGIS
7 4 (0.60%) CMS
7 4 (0.60%) Umbraco
8 2 (0.30%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
8 2 (0.30%) CloudStack
8 2 (0.30%) SAS
8 2 (0.30%) Tuxedo
9 1 (0.15%) Confluence
9 1 (0.15%) Site Server
Applications
1 91 (13.64%) Microsoft Office
2 24 (3.60%) Microsoft Excel
3 12 (1.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (1.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (1.20%) NEC Housing
3 5 (0.75%) SAP ERP
4 2 (0.30%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 267 (40.03%) Azure
2 179 (26.84%) Microsoft 365
3 77 (11.54%) IBM Cloud
4 73 (10.94%) Azure DevOps
5 67 (10.04%) AWS
6 65 (9.75%) Entra ID
7 46 (6.90%) Serverless
8 43 (6.45%) Azure Functions
8 43 (6.45%) Azure Logic Apps
9 41 (6.15%) Azure API Management
9 41 (6.15%) Azure Service Bus
10 15 (2.25%) IaaS
11 12 (1.80%) Power Platform
12 11 (1.65%) Amazon S3
12 11 (1.65%) Cloud Computing
13 9 (1.35%) OneDrive
13 9 (1.35%) SaaS
14 7 (1.05%) GCP
15 6 (0.90%) Azure Data Factory
15 6 (0.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 95 (14.24%) Firewall
2 72 (10.79%) LAN
3 63 (9.45%) DNS
4 43 (6.45%) WAN
5 42 (6.30%) DHCP
6 40 (6.00%) VPN
7 39 (5.85%) TCP/IP
8 26 (3.90%) Internet
9 21 (3.15%) Wireless
10 20 (3.00%) Remote Desktop
11 18 (2.70%) VoIP
12 17 (2.55%) Wi-Fi
13 11 (1.65%) Network Security
13 11 (1.65%) SNMP
13 11 (1.65%) VLAN
14 10 (1.50%) IPsec
15 8 (1.20%) WLAN
16 7 (1.05%) SAN
17 5 (0.75%) Intrusion Detection
18 4 (0.60%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (14.24%) MongoDB
2 86 (12.89%) PostgreSQL
3 83 (12.44%) NoSQL
4 78 (11.69%) DB2
5 64 (9.60%) SQL Server
6 53 (7.95%) Relational Database
7 25 (3.75%) QlikView
8 12 (1.80%) MySQL
9 10 (1.50%) Elasticsearch
9 10 (1.50%) Oracle Database
9 10 (1.50%) Power BI
10 9 (1.35%) Azure SQL Database
11 8 (1.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 8 (1.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 7 (1.05%) Data Warehouse
12 7 (1.05%) Redis
13 6 (0.90%) Geospatial Data
13 6 (0.90%) GIS
14 5 (0.75%) Amazon RDS
14 5 (0.75%) MaxDB
Development Applications
1 9 (1.35%) Git
2 8 (1.20%) Jenkins
3 7 (1.05%) Visual Studio
4 6 (0.90%) Dreamweaver
4 6 (0.90%) GitLab
5 5 (0.75%) AdminStudio
5 5 (0.75%) Artifactory
5 5 (0.75%) CMake
5 5 (0.75%) GCC
5 5 (0.75%) GDB
6 3 (0.45%) Eclipse
6 3 (0.45%) JIRA
7 2 (0.30%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.15%) MSI
8 1 (0.15%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.15%) Subversion
8 1 (0.15%) TeamCity
General
1 166 (24.89%) Social Skills
2 118 (17.69%) Public Sector
3 84 (12.59%) Finance
4 74 (11.09%) Analytical Skills
5 51 (7.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 42 (6.30%) Law
7 29 (4.35%) Retail
8 22 (3.30%) Organisational Skills
9 17 (2.55%) Legal
10 13 (1.95%) Presentation Skills
11 11 (1.65%) Military
12 10 (1.50%) Police
12 10 (1.50%) Telecoms
13 9 (1.35%) Games
14 8 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
14 8 (1.20%) Local Government
15 7 (1.05%) Manufacturing
15 7 (1.05%) Marketing
16 4 (0.60%) Electronics
17 3 (0.45%) Banking
Job Titles
1 92 (13.79%) Developer
2 83 (12.44%) Analyst
3 77 (11.54%) IT Support
4 75 (11.24%) Senior
5 68 (10.19%) Support Engineer
6 59 (8.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 53 (7.95%) Azure Engineer
8 47 (7.05%) Full Stack Developer
9 44 (6.60%) IT Engineer
10 41 (6.15%) Azure Developer
10 41 (6.15%) Technical Support
11 36 (5.40%) Full Stack Engineer
12 35 (5.25%) IT Support Engineer
12 35 (5.25%) IT Technician
13 31 (4.65%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 28 (4.20%) Support Technician
15 27 (4.05%) Support Specialist
16 24 (3.60%) Consultant
16 24 (3.60%) IT Support Technician
17 23 (3.45%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 110 (16.49%) .NET
2 99 (14.84%) HTML
3 96 (14.39%) React
4 93 (13.94%) ASP.NET
4 93 (13.94%) Web Services
5 91 (13.64%) REST
6 90 (13.49%) AngularJS
6 90 (13.49%) CSS
7 84 (12.59%) Vue
8 83 (12.44%) jQuery
8 83 (12.44%) Twitter Bootstrap
9 77 (11.54%) ASP.NET Core
9 77 (11.54%) Backbone.js
9 77 (11.54%) Ember.js
10 53 (7.95%) Node.js
11 18 (2.70%) .NET Core
12 16 (2.40%) RabbitMQ
13 12 (1.80%) .NET Framework
13 12 (1.80%) HTML5
14 10 (1.50%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 87 (13.04%) Algorithms
2 86 (12.89%) Hybrid Cloud
3 77 (11.54%) Blockchain
3 77 (11.54%) Data Structures
4 46 (6.90%) Data Centre
5 43 (6.45%) Driving Licence
6 41 (6.15%) Management Information System
7 36 (5.40%) e-Learning
8 27 (4.05%) Public Cloud
9 26 (3.90%) Self-Motivation
10 14 (2.10%) EPoS
11 10 (1.50%) iPad
11 10 (1.50%) Private Cloud
12 9 (1.35%) Smartphone
13 8 (1.20%) Cyberattack
13 8 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
13 8 (1.20%) PKI
14 7 (1.05%) Social Media
14 7 (1.05%) Video Conferencing
15 6 (0.90%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 231 (34.63%) Linux
2 181 (27.14%) Windows Server
3 95 (14.24%) Windows 10
4 92 (13.79%) Android
5 91 (13.64%) Apple iOS
6 32 (4.80%) Windows Vista
7 27 (4.05%) Windows Server 2012
8 26 (3.90%) Mac OS
9 23 (3.45%) Unix
10 19 (2.85%) Windows Server 2016
11 15 (2.25%) Windows Server 2019
12 10 (1.50%) Data ONTAP
13 9 (1.35%) Solaris
13 9 (1.35%) Windows Phone
14 8 (1.20%) VMS
15 7 (1.05%) Embedded Linux
16 6 (0.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
17 5 (0.75%) Windows Server 2008
18 4 (0.60%) Windows 7
19 3 (0.45%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 167 (25.04%) Problem-Solving
2 99 (14.84%) ITIL
3 95 (14.24%) User Experience
4 90 (13.49%) DevOps
4 90 (13.49%) Full Stack Development
5 89 (13.34%) MVC
6 86 (12.89%) Artificial Intelligence
6 86 (12.89%) Web Development
7 85 (12.74%) OO
8 83 (12.44%) MVVM
9 81 (12.14%) Customer Service
9 81 (12.14%) Design Patterns
10 77 (11.54%) Co-Creation
10 77 (11.54%) Design Thinking
10 77 (11.54%) OOP
10 77 (11.54%) Responsive Web Design
10 77 (11.54%) SOLID
11 72 (10.79%) Coaching
12 70 (10.49%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 70 (10.49%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 125 (18.74%) SQL
2 108 (16.19%) C#
3 102 (15.29%) JavaScript
4 97 (14.54%) Python
5 58 (8.70%) PowerShell
6 50 (7.50%) Java
7 29 (4.35%) C++
8 17 (2.55%) Bash
9 10 (1.50%) Delphi
9 10 (1.50%) Shell Script
10 9 (1.35%) VB
11 8 (1.20%) C
11 8 (1.20%) VBScript
12 6 (0.90%) TypeScript
13 5 (0.75%) ABAP
14 2 (0.30%) COBOL
14 2 (0.30%) Julia
14 2 (0.30%) Micro Focus COBOL
14 2 (0.30%) PHP
14 2 (0.30%) R
Qualifications
1 120 (17.99%) Degree
2 37 (5.55%) Microsoft Certification
2 37 (5.55%) Security Cleared
3 24 (3.60%) HNC
3 24 (3.60%) HND
4 21 (3.15%) SC Cleared
5 19 (2.85%) MCP
6 16 (2.40%) DBS Check
7 15 (2.25%) DV Cleared
8 12 (1.80%) ACCA
8 12 (1.80%) CIMA
9 11 (1.65%) BPSS Clearance
9 11 (1.65%) Computer Science Degree
10 10 (1.50%) CCNA
10 10 (1.50%) Cisco Certification
11 9 (1.35%) ITIL Certification
12 7 (1.05%) A+ Certification
12 7 (1.05%) MCSE
13 5 (0.75%) CFA
13 5 (0.75%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (5.70%) SLA
2 15 (2.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (1.65%) GDPR
4 10 (1.50%) QA
5 9 (1.35%) Accessibility
6 7 (1.05%) PCI DSS
7 6 (0.90%) ISO 9000
8 4 (0.60%) NIST
9 3 (0.45%) NCSC
10 2 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 1 (0.15%) PMO
11 1 (0.15%) SOC 2
System Software
1 224 (33.58%) Active Directory
2 64 (9.60%) VMware Infrastructure
3 54 (8.10%) Hyper-V
4 17 (2.55%) Terminal Services
5 16 (2.40%) Docker
6 13 (1.95%) Firmware
7 11 (1.65%) VMware ESXi
8 10 (1.50%) Virtual Machines
9 9 (1.35%) vSphere
10 4 (0.60%) XenApp
11 3 (0.45%) VMware Server
11 3 (0.45%) XenDesktop
12 2 (0.30%) KVM
13 1 (0.15%) DFS Replication
13 1 (0.15%) Dovecot
13 1 (0.15%) Embedded Firmware
13 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 1 (0.15%) Postfix
13 1 (0.15%) Terminal Server
13 1 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 58 (8.70%) Microsoft Intune
2 28 (4.20%) Ansible
3 24 (3.60%) SCCM
4 20 (3.00%) Kubernetes
5 17 (2.55%) Terraform
6 15 (2.25%) Prometheus
7 13 (1.95%) WSUS
8 10 (1.50%) vCenter Server
9 9 (1.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 9 (1.35%) AirWatch
10 8 (1.20%) Jamf Pro
11 7 (1.05%) Grafana
12 5 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
13 4 (0.60%) IBM BigFix
14 3 (0.45%) cPanel
14 3 (0.45%) Progress Chef
15 2 (0.30%) Autotask
15 2 (0.30%) Failover Clustering
15 2 (0.30%) Plesk
15 2 (0.30%) SELinux
Vendors
1 282 (42.28%) Microsoft
2 103 (15.44%) VMware
3 94 (14.09%) IBM
4 92 (13.79%) Red Hat
5 28 (4.20%) Apple
6 25 (3.75%) Cisco
6 25 (3.75%) Citrix
6 25 (3.75%) Oracle
7 23 (3.45%) NetApp
8 20 (3.00%) Veeam
9 16 (2.40%) Dell
9 16 (2.40%) ServiceNow
10 15 (2.25%) HP
11 14 (2.10%) Adobe
12 10 (1.50%) Palo Alto
12 10 (1.50%) SolidFire
13 8 (1.20%) NEC
14 7 (1.05%) BMC
14 7 (1.05%) SolarWinds
15 6 (0.90%) ESRI