Windows Jobs in Oxford

Microsoft Windows
Oxfordshire > Oxford

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

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 11 11
Rank change year-on-year -7 0 +5
Permanent jobs citing Windows 17 69 44
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxford 7.80% 10.60% 9.89%
As % of the Operating Systems category 41.46% 74.19% 78.57%
Number of salaries quoted 8 59 41
10th Percentile £31,500 £26,043 £23,750
25th Percentile £35,063 £36,000 £29,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.88% - -5.88%
75th Percentile £45,000 £55,000 £45,000
90th Percentile £49,500 £62,500 £50,000
Oxfordshire median annual salary £40,000 £41,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year -2.44% +17.14% -30.00%

All Operating Systems
Oxford

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 Oxford.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 41 93 56
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxford 18.81% 14.29% 12.58%
Number of salaries quoted 26 83 53
10th Percentile £36,000 £26,043 £25,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £36,750 £29,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £42,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +35.29% - -2.86%
75th Percentile £62,500 £61,250 £52,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £67,250
Oxfordshire median annual salary £40,000 £42,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +12.00% -25.99%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxford

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in Oxford

Windows
Salary Trend in Oxford

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

Salary trend for Windows in Oxford

Windows
Salary Histogram in Oxford

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows in Oxford over the 6 months to 19 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Windows in Oxford

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Oxford 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 1 (5.88%) Apache
1 1 (5.88%) Exchange Server 2003
1 1 (5.88%) Exchange Server 2007
1 1 (5.88%) Exchange Server 2010
1 1 (5.88%) Exchange Server 2013
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (5.88%) nginx
1 1 (5.88%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (17.65%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (23.53%) AWS
1 4 (23.53%) SaaS
2 3 (17.65%) Azure
3 2 (11.76%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (11.76%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (5.88%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 9 (52.94%) TCP/IP
2 8 (47.06%) DNS
3 6 (35.29%) VPN
4 4 (23.53%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (17.65%) DHCP
5 3 (17.65%) Firewall
5 3 (17.65%) WAN
5 3 (17.65%) Wireless
6 2 (11.76%) IP Telephony
6 2 (11.76%) SD-WAN
6 2 (11.76%) VLAN
7 1 (5.88%) ADSL
7 1 (5.88%) LAN
7 1 (5.88%) Remote Desktop
7 1 (5.88%) WLAN
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Cucumber
1 2 (11.76%) Robot Framework
General
1 13 (76.47%) Social Skills
2 4 (23.53%) Presentation Skills
3 3 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (11.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (11.76%) Telecoms
5 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (41.18%) IT Support
2 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Support Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) IT Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) IT Support Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Support Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) Test Automation Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Test Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) 2nd Line Support Technician
4 1 (5.88%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) IT Support Technician
4 1 (5.88%) IT Technician
4 1 (5.88%) Senior
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Service Delivery Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Service Delivery Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Technical Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Technical Support
4 1 (5.88%) Technical Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.88%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Enterprise Software
1 4 (23.53%) Video Conferencing
2 2 (11.76%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (11.76%) Security Posture
3 1 (5.88%) Data Centre
3 1 (5.88%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 8 (47.06%) Mac OS
2 7 (41.18%) Linux
3 4 (23.53%) Windows Server
4 2 (11.76%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (5.88%) Apple iOS
5 1 (5.88%) OpenBSD
5 1 (5.88%) Windows 10
5 1 (5.88%) Windows 7
5 1 (5.88%) Windows Vista
5 1 (5.88%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (58.82%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (23.53%) Customer Service
2 4 (23.53%) Data Entry
2 4 (23.53%) Line Management
2 4 (23.53%) Mathematics
2 4 (23.53%) Root Cause Analysis
2 4 (23.53%) Service Delivery
3 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (17.65%) Project Delivery
4 2 (11.76%) Cloud Security
4 2 (11.76%) Coaching
4 2 (11.76%) DevOps
4 2 (11.76%) Information Security
4 2 (11.76%) Mentoring
4 2 (11.76%) Patch Management
4 2 (11.76%) SIEM
4 2 (11.76%) System Testing
4 2 (11.76%) Test Automation
4 2 (11.76%) Test Management
4 2 (11.76%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.76%) Bash
1 2 (11.76%) JavaScript
1 2 (11.76%) PowerShell
1 2 (11.76%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (17.65%) Degree
2 2 (11.76%) SC Cleared
2 2 (11.76%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) QA
System Software
1 4 (23.53%) Active Directory
2 3 (17.65%) Hyper-V
2 3 (17.65%) VMware ESXi
2 3 (17.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (5.88%) Squid
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (11.76%) ZENworks
2 1 (5.88%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 7 (41.18%) Microsoft
2 3 (17.65%) HP
2 3 (17.65%) VMware
3 2 (11.76%) Aruba
3 2 (11.76%) Meraki
4 1 (5.88%) Apple
4 1 (5.88%) Cisco
4 1 (5.88%) Veeam