Windows Jobs in Northern Ireland

Microsoft Windows
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland 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 19 February 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Feb 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 23 15
Rank change year-on-year +2 -8 +17
Permanent jobs citing Windows 27 49 132
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 8.11% 8.49% 16.92%
As % of the Operating Systems category 52.94% 69.01% 74.16%
Number of salaries quoted 12 25 82
10th Percentile £46,750 £29,750 £26,375
25th Percentile £51,250 £33,750 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £42,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.53% -15.00% +42.86%
75th Percentile £53,750 £77,500 £65,000
90th Percentile - £104,000 £70,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £40,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% +3.45%

All Operating Systems
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 51 71 178
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 15.32% 12.31% 22.82%
Number of salaries quoted 23 37 109
10th Percentile - £32,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £39,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +15.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £95,000 £77,500 £65,000
90th Percentile - £97,000 £70,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +10.53% -9.52% +1.94%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

Job postings citing Windows as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland.

Job vacancy trend for Windows in Northern Ireland

Windows
Salary Trend in Northern Ireland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Windows in Northern Ireland.

Salary trend for Windows in Northern Ireland

Windows
Salary Histogram in Northern Ireland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows in Northern Ireland over the 6 months to 19 February 2025.

Salary histogram for Windows in Northern Ireland

Windows
Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 19 February 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
County Antrim +6 24 £52,500 +23.53% 5
Newry 0 2 £52,500 +36.36% 2
County Down -5 2 £52,500 +36.36% 1
County Londonderry - 1 £27,800 -
Windows
UK

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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 12 (44.44%) SharePoint
2 2 (7.41%) Confluence
3 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 11 (40.74%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 24 (88.89%) Azure
2 18 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
3 12 (44.44%) OneDrive
4 3 (11.11%) Entra ID
5 2 (7.41%) Amazon ECR
5 2 (7.41%) AWS
5 2 (7.41%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (7.41%) Azure AKS
5 2 (7.41%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 2 (7.41%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (7.41%) Azure Event Grid
5 2 (7.41%) GCP
5 2 (7.41%) GitHub
5 2 (7.41%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (7.41%) IaaS
5 2 (7.41%) PaaS
5 2 (7.41%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (14.81%) TCP/IP
2 3 (11.11%) Firewall
2 3 (11.11%) WAN
3 2 (7.41%) DNS
3 2 (7.41%) IPv6
3 2 (7.41%) Multicast
3 2 (7.41%) Reverse Proxy
3 2 (7.41%) SD-WAN
3 2 (7.41%) VPN
4 1 (3.70%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (3.70%) LAN
4 1 (3.70%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.41%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 9 (33.33%) JIRA
2 2 (7.41%) Apache Archiva
2 2 (7.41%) Artifactory
2 2 (7.41%) Bitbucket
2 2 (7.41%) Cucumber
2 2 (7.41%) Git
2 2 (7.41%) GitLab
2 2 (7.41%) Jenkins
2 2 (7.41%) JMeter
2 2 (7.41%) Mocha
2 2 (7.41%) Selenium
2 2 (7.41%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (7.41%) Vagrant
General
1 6 (22.22%) Marketing
2 4 (14.81%) Law
3 3 (11.11%) Banking
4 2 (7.41%) Social Skills
5 1 (3.70%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 8 (29.63%) Analyst
1 8 (29.63%) IT Analyst
2 6 (22.22%) Support Specialist
3 5 (18.52%) IT Support
3 5 (18.52%) IT Support Analyst
3 5 (18.52%) Support Analyst
4 4 (14.81%) 2nd Line Support
4 4 (14.81%) 3rd Line Support
4 4 (14.81%) Support Engineer
5 3 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) 3rd Line Support Specialist
6 2 (7.41%) Automation Tester
6 2 (7.41%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) Principal Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) Technical Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) Technical Support
6 2 (7.41%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.41%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (7.41%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (3.70%) AngularJS
2 1 (3.70%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.41%) CCTV
1 2 (7.41%) PKI
1 2 (7.41%) Product Ownership
1 2 (7.41%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (3.70%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (3.70%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.70%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 16 (59.26%) Windows 10
2 12 (44.44%) Windows Server 2016
3 8 (29.63%) Windows Server
3 8 (29.63%) Windows Server 2012
4 7 (25.93%) Linux
5 4 (14.81%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (7.41%) VMS
7 1 (3.70%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (33.33%) Service Management
2 8 (29.63%) ITSM
3 4 (14.81%) Computer Science
3 4 (14.81%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (11.11%) ITIL
4 3 (11.11%) Test Automation
5 2 (7.41%) Agile
5 2 (7.41%) Configuration Management
5 2 (7.41%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (7.41%) GitOps
5 2 (7.41%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (7.41%) Integration Testing
5 2 (7.41%) Open Source
5 2 (7.41%) Proactive Maintenance
5 2 (7.41%) Software Testing
5 2 (7.41%) System Testing
5 2 (7.41%) User Acceptance Testing
5 2 (7.41%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 8 (29.63%) SQL
2 3 (11.11%) C#
2 3 (11.11%) JavaScript
2 3 (11.11%) Python
3 2 (7.41%) Bash
3 2 (7.41%) Java
3 2 (7.41%) PowerShell
3 2 (7.41%) Shell Script
4 1 (3.70%) C
4 1 (3.70%) PHP
Qualifications
1 7 (25.93%) Degree
2 3 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (11.11%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 3 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (7.41%) CCNA
3 2 (7.41%) CCNP
3 2 (7.41%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (3.70%) Azure Certification
4 1 (3.70%) CEH
4 1 (3.70%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (14.81%) QA
2 2 (7.41%) Data Quality
3 1 (3.70%) GDPR
3 1 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 11 (40.74%) Active Directory
2 4 (14.81%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (7.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (11.11%) AirWatch
1 3 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (11.11%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
2 2 (7.41%) Ansible
2 2 (7.41%) Argo
2 2 (7.41%) Kubernetes
2 2 (7.41%) Kustomize
2 2 (7.41%) Prometheus
2 2 (7.41%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (59.26%) Microsoft
2 3 (11.11%) iManage
2 3 (11.11%) Symantec
3 2 (7.41%) Cisco
4 1 (3.70%) Sage
4 1 (3.70%) VMware