Windows Jobs in the North of England

Microsoft Windows
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for Windows skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Windows over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 16 25 18
Rank change year-on-year +9 -7 -5
Permanent jobs citing Windows 1,562 1,638 2,014
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 8.93% 9.52% 11.22%
As % of the Operating Systems category 69.42% 69.47% 53.92%
Number of salaries quoted 1,276 1,128 1,556
10th Percentile £24,500 £23,500 £22,250
25th Percentile £27,500 £27,750 £26,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £40,000 £37,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +8.11% -7.50%
75th Percentile £52,500 £53,096 £47,500
90th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £63,750
England median annual salary £40,000 £43,823 £42,500
% change year-on-year -8.72% +3.11% -5.56%

All Operating Systems
North of England

Windows is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 2,250 2,358 3,735
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 12.86% 13.71% 20.81%
Number of salaries quoted 1,760 1,506 2,427
10th Percentile £25,000 £24,875 £24,000
25th Percentile £29,250 £31,250 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.56%
75th Percentile £56,250 £57,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £67,968 £71,652 £68,750
England median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% - +5.00%

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 10 May 2024.

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 10 May 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
North West -5 754 £40,000 - 169
Yorkshire +20 621 £37,000 -2.63% 122
North East +14 189 £33,000 -17.50% 35
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
1 252 (16.13%) Microsoft Exchange
2 127 (8.13%) SharePoint
3 30 (1.92%) Apache
3 30 (1.92%) IIS
4 8 (0.51%) CMS
5 7 (0.45%) ArcGIS
6 6 (0.38%) Tomcat
7 5 (0.32%) Apache Solr
8 4 (0.26%) CloudStack
8 4 (0.26%) Confluence
8 4 (0.26%) Umbraco
9 2 (0.13%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
9 2 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2013
9 2 (0.13%) Resin
9 2 (0.13%) SAS
10 1 (0.064%) Site Server
10 1 (0.064%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 254 (16.26%) Microsoft Office
2 33 (2.11%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (1.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.32%) Microsoft Project
4 5 (0.32%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.13%) Adobe XD
6 2 (0.13%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 9 (0.58%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.38%) NEC Housing
3 5 (0.32%) SAP ERP
4 3 (0.19%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.064%) Magento
5 1 (0.064%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 662 (42.38%) Microsoft 365
2 647 (41.42%) Azure
3 206 (13.19%) Entra ID
4 161 (10.31%) AWS
5 93 (5.95%) Azure DevOps
6 78 (4.99%) IBM Cloud
7 68 (4.35%) OneDrive
8 51 (3.27%) Serverless
9 48 (3.07%) Azure Service Bus
10 46 (2.94%) Azure Logic Apps
11 43 (2.75%) Azure Functions
12 42 (2.69%) Azure API Management
12 42 (2.69%) IaaS
13 41 (2.62%) GCP
14 34 (2.18%) Google Workspace
14 34 (2.18%) SaaS
15 28 (1.79%) Cloud Computing
16 25 (1.60%) Power Platform
17 17 (1.09%) Amazon S3
18 15 (0.96%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 289 (18.50%) Firewall
2 209 (13.38%) DNS
3 195 (12.48%) LAN
4 181 (11.59%) WAN
5 169 (10.82%) DHCP
6 135 (8.64%) VPN
7 118 (7.55%) TCP/IP
8 84 (5.38%) Wi-Fi
9 76 (4.87%) SAN
9 76 (4.87%) Wireless
10 70 (4.48%) VoIP
11 59 (3.78%) VLAN
12 49 (3.14%) Network Security
13 44 (2.82%) NAS
14 43 (2.75%) Internet
15 35 (2.24%) WLAN
16 33 (2.11%) Remote Desktop
17 21 (1.34%) SSL
18 16 (1.02%) SNMP
19 15 (0.96%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 165 (10.56%) SQL Server
2 105 (6.72%) MongoDB
3 92 (5.89%) NoSQL
4 91 (5.83%) PostgreSQL
5 89 (5.70%) DB2
6 62 (3.97%) Relational Database
7 29 (1.86%) MySQL
8 28 (1.79%) Amazon RDS
9 27 (1.73%) Data Warehouse
9 27 (1.73%) Elasticsearch
10 18 (1.15%) Power BI
11 14 (0.90%) Redis
12 12 (0.77%) Azure SQL Database
12 12 (0.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 9 (0.58%) Oracle Database
13 9 (0.58%) RDBMS
13 9 (0.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 7 (0.45%) Geospatial Data
14 7 (0.45%) GIS
15 6 (0.38%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 29 (1.86%) Git
2 25 (1.60%) GitLab
3 21 (1.34%) Artifactory
4 18 (1.15%) JIRA
5 14 (0.90%) Jenkins
6 13 (0.83%) Visual Studio
7 11 (0.70%) IBM UrbanCode
8 9 (0.58%) Eclipse
9 6 (0.38%) Dreamweaver
9 6 (0.38%) MSI
9 6 (0.38%) Subversion
10 5 (0.32%) AdminStudio
10 5 (0.32%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.32%) InstallShield
10 5 (0.32%) Octopus Deploy
11 3 (0.19%) CMake
11 3 (0.19%) GCC
11 3 (0.19%) GDB
11 3 (0.19%) Postman
12 2 (0.13%) SpecFlow
General
1 501 (32.07%) Social Skills
2 188 (12.04%) Finance
3 145 (9.28%) Analytical Skills
4 137 (8.77%) Public Sector
5 86 (5.51%) Law
6 77 (4.93%) Retail
7 63 (4.03%) Organisational Skills
8 57 (3.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 52 (3.33%) Manufacturing
10 43 (2.75%) Marketing
11 28 (1.79%) Legal
12 27 (1.73%) Telecoms
13 20 (1.28%) Games
14 18 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
15 14 (0.90%) Banking
16 12 (0.77%) Documentation Skills
17 9 (0.58%) Local Government
17 9 (0.58%) Military
18 7 (0.45%) Electronics
18 7 (0.45%) Police
Job Titles
1 258 (16.52%) IT Support
2 214 (13.70%) Analyst
2 214 (13.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 201 (12.87%) Support Engineer
4 158 (10.12%) IT Engineer
5 151 (9.67%) Senior
6 122 (7.81%) IT Technician
7 121 (7.75%) Developer
8 105 (6.72%) Lead
9 103 (6.59%) IT Support Engineer
10 95 (6.08%) Support Technician
11 79 (5.06%) Service Analyst
12 75 (4.80%) IT Support Technician
12 75 (4.80%) Service Desk Analyst
13 72 (4.61%) 2nd Line Support
14 68 (4.35%) IT Analyst
15 64 (4.10%) Cloud Engineer
16 62 (3.97%) 1st Line Support
16 62 (3.97%) Support Analyst
17 59 (3.78%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 140 (8.96%) .NET
2 107 (6.85%) HTML
3 104 (6.66%) ASP.NET
4 103 (6.59%) React
5 102 (6.53%) CSS
6 100 (6.40%) REST
7 98 (6.27%) AngularJS
8 92 (5.89%) Web Services
9 90 (5.76%) Vue
10 87 (5.57%) jQuery
10 87 (5.57%) Twitter Bootstrap
11 78 (4.99%) ASP.NET Core
11 78 (4.99%) Backbone.js
11 78 (4.99%) Ember.js
12 64 (4.10%) Node.js
13 25 (1.60%) .NET Core
13 25 (1.60%) RabbitMQ
14 20 (1.28%) WPF
15 15 (0.96%) YAML
16 13 (0.83%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 121 (7.75%) Data Centre
2 105 (6.72%) Hybrid Cloud
3 98 (6.27%) Management Information System
4 92 (5.89%) Public Cloud
5 87 (5.57%) Algorithms
6 86 (5.51%) Driving Licence
7 81 (5.19%) Data Structures
8 78 (4.99%) Blockchain
9 47 (3.01%) Self-Motivation
10 38 (2.43%) e-Learning
11 30 (1.92%) EPoS
12 26 (1.66%) Replication
13 23 (1.47%) Onboarding
14 22 (1.41%) Life Science
15 20 (1.28%) Private Cloud
16 18 (1.15%) Clustering
16 18 (1.15%) SCADA
17 16 (1.02%) Cyberattack
17 16 (1.02%) Operational Technology
18 13 (0.83%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 617 (39.50%) Windows Server
2 416 (26.63%) Linux
3 263 (16.84%) Windows 10
4 122 (7.81%) Android
5 119 (7.62%) Apple iOS
6 96 (6.15%) Windows Server 2012
7 94 (6.02%) Windows Server 2016
8 77 (4.93%) Mac OS
8 77 (4.93%) Windows Server 2019
9 62 (3.97%) Unix
10 32 (2.05%) Windows 7
10 32 (2.05%) Windows Server 2008
11 22 (1.41%) Windows Vista
12 18 (1.15%) Windows 8
13 16 (1.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 15 (0.96%) Data ONTAP
15 14 (0.90%) VMS
16 9 (0.58%) Windows Phone
17 7 (0.45%) Mac OS X
17 7 (0.45%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 408 (26.12%) Problem-Solving
2 333 (21.32%) ITIL
3 286 (18.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 270 (17.29%) Customer Service
5 184 (11.78%) Mentoring
6 144 (9.22%) DevOps
7 143 (9.15%) Cybersecurity
8 130 (8.32%) Agile
9 129 (8.26%) User Experience
10 124 (7.94%) Coaching
11 108 (6.91%) Disaster Recovery
12 104 (6.66%) MVC
13 101 (6.47%) Artificial Intelligence
13 101 (6.47%) OO
14 99 (6.34%) Service Management
15 97 (6.21%) Migration
16 94 (6.02%) Full Stack Development
17 92 (5.89%) Web Development
18 90 (5.76%) MVVM
18 90 (5.76%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 253 (16.20%) SQL
2 145 (9.28%) PowerShell
3 144 (9.22%) C#
4 129 (8.26%) Python
5 113 (7.23%) JavaScript
6 58 (3.71%) Java
7 29 (1.86%) C++
8 28 (1.79%) Bash
9 23 (1.47%) VBScript
10 20 (1.28%) C
11 15 (0.96%) VB
12 13 (0.83%) XAML
13 11 (0.70%) Delphi
13 11 (0.70%) Groovy
13 11 (0.70%) T-SQL
13 11 (0.70%) TypeScript
14 8 (0.51%) Shell Script
15 6 (0.38%) Embedded C
15 6 (0.38%) PHP
16 5 (0.32%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 204 (13.06%) Degree
2 116 (7.43%) Microsoft Certification
3 51 (3.27%) DBS Check
4 46 (2.94%) Security Cleared
5 45 (2.88%) Cisco Certification
6 36 (2.30%) CCNA
6 36 (2.30%) Computer Science Degree
7 35 (2.24%) MCSE
8 34 (2.18%) MCP
9 33 (2.11%) MCSA
10 32 (2.05%) ITIL Certification
11 26 (1.66%) Azure Certification
12 23 (1.47%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 21 (1.34%) A+ Certification
13 21 (1.34%) SC Cleared
14 18 (1.15%) CISSP
15 15 (0.96%) HNC
15 15 (0.96%) HND
16 13 (0.83%) AWS Certification
16 13 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 125 (8.00%) SLA
2 49 (3.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 21 (1.34%) NIST
4 20 (1.28%) Cyber Essentials
5 18 (1.15%) GDPR
6 17 (1.09%) PCI DSS
7 12 (0.77%) QA
8 8 (0.51%) Accessibility
9 6 (0.38%) ISO 9000
9 6 (0.38%) ISO 9001
10 4 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 3 (0.19%) PMO
12 2 (0.13%) Data Quality
12 2 (0.13%) ISO 14001
12 2 (0.13%) NCSC
12 2 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 1 (0.064%) GRC
13 1 (0.064%) ISO 13485
13 1 (0.064%) SOC 2
System Software
1 676 (43.28%) Active Directory
2 231 (14.79%) Hyper-V
3 198 (12.68%) VMware Infrastructure
4 48 (3.07%) VMware ESXi
5 39 (2.50%) Virtual Machines
6 33 (2.11%) Docker
7 29 (1.86%) vSphere
8 27 (1.73%) Terminal Services
9 19 (1.22%) Virtual Desktop
10 12 (0.77%) Firmware
11 10 (0.64%) Virtual Servers
12 7 (0.45%) KVM
12 7 (0.45%) VMware Server
13 6 (0.38%) Microsoft App-V
14 3 (0.19%) VMware Workstation
15 1 (0.064%) DFS Replication
15 1 (0.064%) Dovecot
15 1 (0.064%) Postfix
15 1 (0.064%) Terminal Server
15 1 (0.064%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 187 (11.97%) Microsoft Intune
2 74 (4.74%) SCCM
3 59 (3.78%) Ansible
4 50 (3.20%) Terraform
5 45 (2.88%) Kubernetes
6 36 (2.30%) vCenter Server
7 29 (1.86%) SCOM
7 29 (1.86%) WSUS
8 24 (1.54%) Prometheus
9 17 (1.09%) Jamf Pro
10 15 (0.96%) Failover Clustering
11 14 (0.90%) Progress Chef
12 13 (0.83%) FortiGate
13 12 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
14 9 (0.58%) AirWatch
14 9 (0.58%) Autotask
14 9 (0.58%) Grafana
14 9 (0.58%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
15 8 (0.51%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 6 (0.38%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 768 (49.17%) Microsoft
2 346 (22.15%) VMware
3 126 (8.07%) IBM
4 108 (6.91%) Red Hat
5 103 (6.59%) Cisco
6 86 (5.51%) Citrix
7 74 (4.74%) Apple
8 65 (4.16%) Veeam
9 54 (3.46%) Google
10 42 (2.69%) Dell
10 42 (2.69%) Oracle
11 39 (2.50%) NetApp
12 35 (2.24%) Splunk
13 31 (1.98%) HP
13 31 (1.98%) SolarWinds
14 28 (1.79%) ServiceNow
15 26 (1.66%) Adobe
16 18 (1.15%) Palo Alto
17 17 (1.09%) Dynatrace
17 17 (1.09%) Meraki