Windows Jobs in Sheffield

Microsoft Windows
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Sheffield 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 15 12
Rank change year-on-year +7 -3 +8
Permanent jobs citing Windows 44 107 133
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Sheffield 15.49% 9.12% 15.18%
As % of the Operating Systems category 81.48% 74.83% 60.18%
Number of salaries quoted 36 89 81
10th Percentile £25,750 £24,500 £20,000
25th Percentile £26,000 £28,000 £24,150
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,875 £35,000 £27,600
Median % change year-on-year -8.93% +26.81% -9.51%
75th Percentile £33,750 £47,500 £37,000
90th Percentile £49,375 £56,500 £48,750
South Yorkshire median annual salary £31,875 £35,500 £32,200
% change year-on-year -10.21% +10.25% -0.92%

All Operating Systems
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 54 143 221
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Sheffield 19.01% 12.19% 25.23%
Number of salaries quoted 43 110 120
10th Percentile £25,800 £25,215 £21,250
25th Percentile £27,500 £29,000 £24,150
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £40,000 £32,200
Median % change year-on-year -18.75% +24.22% -35.60%
75th Percentile £48,875 £51,250 £43,750
90th Percentile £61,000 £60,000 £48,750
South Yorkshire median annual salary £32,500 £42,250 £34,650
% change year-on-year -23.08% +21.93% -18.47%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in Sheffield

Windows
Salary Trend in Sheffield

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

Salary trend for Windows in Sheffield

Windows
Salary Histogram in Sheffield

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows in Sheffield over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Windows in Sheffield

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield 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 7 (15.91%) SharePoint
2 2 (4.55%) Confluence
2 2 (4.55%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (4.55%) Tomcat
2 2 (4.55%) WebSphere
2 2 (4.55%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 4 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 20 (45.45%) Microsoft 365
2 19 (43.18%) Azure
3 12 (27.27%) Entra ID
4 11 (25.00%) AWS
5 6 (13.64%) SaaS
6 2 (4.55%) GCP
6 2 (4.55%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 8 (18.18%) Multicast
1 8 (18.18%) SAN
2 7 (15.91%) Firewall
2 7 (15.91%) VPN
3 4 (9.09%) LAN
3 4 (9.09%) NAS
3 4 (9.09%) WAN
4 3 (6.82%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (4.55%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (4.55%) FCoE
5 2 (4.55%) Fibre Channel
5 2 (4.55%) iSCSI
6 1 (2.27%) Internet
6 1 (2.27%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (34.09%) SQL Server
2 6 (13.64%) DB2
3 2 (4.55%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (6.82%) Jenkins
2 2 (4.55%) JIRA
2 2 (4.55%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (2.27%) GitLab
General
1 25 (56.82%) Social Skills
2 10 (22.73%) Organisational Skills
3 9 (20.45%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (13.64%) Law
5 2 (4.55%) Finance
6 1 (2.27%) Banking
6 1 (2.27%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 17 (38.64%) Support Engineer
2 10 (22.73%) IT Engineer
2 10 (22.73%) IT Support
2 10 (22.73%) IT Support Engineer
3 8 (18.18%) Analyst
3 8 (18.18%) Lead
3 8 (18.18%) Team Leader
4 6 (13.64%) 2nd Line Support
4 6 (13.64%) Cloud Engineer
4 6 (13.64%) Support Analyst
5 5 (11.36%) Help Desk Team Lead
6 4 (9.09%) 1st Line Support
6 4 (9.09%) 2nd Line Engineer
6 4 (9.09%) Software Support Engineer
7 3 (6.82%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
7 3 (6.82%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
7 3 (6.82%) Administrator
7 3 (6.82%) Applications Support
8 2 (4.55%) 1st Line Support Analyst
8 2 (4.55%) 1st Line Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.55%) LDAP
1 2 (4.55%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 8 (18.18%) Replication
2 6 (13.64%) Enterprise Storage
2 6 (13.64%) Mobile App
2 6 (13.64%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (11.36%) Onboarding
4 4 (9.09%) Driving Licence
4 4 (9.09%) Life Science
5 3 (6.82%) EPoS
6 2 (4.55%) Clustering
6 2 (4.55%) Data Centre
7 1 (2.27%) Client/Server
7 1 (2.27%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 13 (29.55%) Windows 10
1 13 (29.55%) Windows Server
2 10 (22.73%) Linux
3 6 (13.64%) Android
3 6 (13.64%) Windows Server 2012
3 6 (13.64%) Windows Server 2016
3 6 (13.64%) Windows Server 2019
4 3 (6.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (6.82%) Windows 7
5 2 (4.55%) Solaris
6 1 (2.27%) Unix
6 1 (2.27%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (59.09%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (31.82%) Customer Service
3 7 (15.91%) CRM
3 7 (15.91%) DevOps
4 6 (13.64%) Analytical Thinking
4 6 (13.64%) Client Onboarding
4 6 (13.64%) Data Privacy
4 6 (13.64%) Exploratory Testing
4 6 (13.64%) Mathematics
4 6 (13.64%) Migration
4 6 (13.64%) Process Improvement
4 6 (13.64%) Product Management
4 6 (13.64%) Software Testing
5 5 (11.36%) Containerisation
5 5 (11.36%) Mentoring
5 5 (11.36%) Test Automation
6 3 (6.82%) CI/CD
6 3 (6.82%) High Availability
6 3 (6.82%) Incident Management
6 3 (6.82%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 8 (18.18%) SQL
2 2 (4.55%) Java
2 2 (4.55%) Python
3 1 (2.27%) Bash
3 1 (2.27%) PowerShell
3 1 (2.27%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (15.91%) Degree
2 1 (2.27%) Azure Certification
2 1 (2.27%) CCNP
2 1 (2.27%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (2.27%) HP ASE
2 1 (2.27%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (2.27%) NCIE
System Software
1 15 (34.09%) Active Directory
2 14 (31.82%) Hyper-V
3 8 (18.18%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (6.82%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 2 (4.55%) KVM
5 2 (4.55%) NFS
5 2 (4.55%) SRDF
5 2 (4.55%) Xen
Systems Management
1 6 (13.64%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (6.82%) Ansible
2 3 (6.82%) Puppet
3 2 (4.55%) Control-M
3 2 (4.55%) Kubernetes
4 1 (2.27%) NetApp OnCommand
4 1 (2.27%) NetBackup
4 1 (2.27%) Terraform
4 1 (2.27%) VxRail
Vendors
1 25 (56.82%) Microsoft
2 9 (20.45%) VMware
3 8 (18.18%) Cisco
4 6 (13.64%) IBM
4 6 (13.64%) Zoho
5 4 (9.09%) NetApp
6 3 (6.82%) EMC
6 3 (6.82%) Red Hat
7 2 (4.55%) F5
7 2 (4.55%) Google
7 2 (4.55%) Oracle
8 1 (2.27%) Brocade
8 1 (2.27%) Commvault
8 1 (2.27%) Dell
8 1 (2.27%) HP
8 1 (2.27%) Pure Storage
8 1 (2.27%) ServiceNow
8 1 (2.27%) Veritas