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 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 15 21
Rank change year-on-year +6 +6 0
Permanent jobs citing Windows 40 109 118
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Sheffield 13.75% 9.91% 13.14%
As % of the Operating Systems category 81.63% 75.69% 54.88%
Number of salaries quoted 32 92 73
10th Percentile £26,000 £24,540 £20,000
25th Percentile £29,000 £27,750 £24,150
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £35,000 £27,600
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +26.81% -21.14%
75th Percentile £38,875 £47,500 £37,000
90th Percentile £68,000 £56,250 £47,750
South Yorkshire median annual salary £32,500 £35,500 £32,200
% change year-on-year -8.45% +10.25% -8.00%

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 49 144 215
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Sheffield 16.84% 13.09% 23.94%
Number of salaries quoted 38 112 112
10th Percentile £26,000 £25,250 £20,580
25th Percentile £30,156 £29,000 £24,150
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £38,750 £32,200
Median % change year-on-year -16.13% +20.34% -35.60%
75th Percentile £49,000 £51,250 £43,750
90th Percentile £70,000 £60,000 £48,750
South Yorkshire median annual salary £32,500 £40,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year -18.75% +23.08% -25.71%

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 17 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 5 (12.50%) SharePoint
2 2 (5.00%) Confluence
2 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (5.00%) Tomcat
2 2 (5.00%) WebSphere
2 2 (5.00%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 5 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 17 (42.50%) Azure
1 17 (42.50%) Microsoft 365
2 10 (25.00%) Entra ID
3 9 (22.50%) AWS
4 4 (10.00%) SaaS
5 3 (7.50%) GitHub
6 2 (5.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 8 (20.00%) Multicast
1 8 (20.00%) SAN
1 8 (20.00%) VPN
2 7 (17.50%) Firewall
3 4 (10.00%) LAN
3 4 (10.00%) NAS
3 4 (10.00%) WAN
4 3 (7.50%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (5.00%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (5.00%) FCoE
5 2 (5.00%) Fibre Channel
5 2 (5.00%) iSCSI
6 1 (2.50%) Internet
6 1 (2.50%) SMTP
6 1 (2.50%) TCP/IP
6 1 (2.50%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (32.50%) SQL Server
2 6 (15.00%) DB2
3 2 (5.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (7.50%) Jenkins
2 2 (5.00%) JIRA
2 2 (5.00%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (2.50%) GitLab
General
1 20 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
3 7 (17.50%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (7.50%) Law
5 2 (5.00%) Finance
6 1 (2.50%) Banking
6 1 (2.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 15 (37.50%) Support Engineer
2 9 (22.50%) IT Engineer
3 8 (20.00%) IT Support
3 8 (20.00%) IT Support Engineer
3 8 (20.00%) Lead
3 8 (20.00%) Team Leader
4 6 (15.00%) Cloud Engineer
5 5 (12.50%) 2nd Line Support
5 5 (12.50%) Help Desk Team Lead
6 4 (10.00%) Analyst
6 4 (10.00%) Software Support Engineer
7 3 (7.50%) 2nd Line Engineer
7 3 (7.50%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
7 3 (7.50%) Administrator
7 3 (7.50%) Support Analyst
8 2 (5.00%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
8 2 (5.00%) Architect
8 2 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (5.00%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
8 2 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.00%) LDAP
1 2 (5.00%) Middleware
2 1 (2.50%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 8 (20.00%) Replication
2 6 (15.00%) Enterprise Storage
3 5 (12.50%) Onboarding
4 4 (10.00%) Driving Licence
4 4 (10.00%) Mobile App
4 4 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (7.50%) Data Centre
5 3 (7.50%) EPoS
5 3 (7.50%) Life Science
6 2 (5.00%) Clustering
7 1 (2.50%) Client/Server
7 1 (2.50%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 14 (35.00%) Windows Server
2 11 (27.50%) Windows 10
3 10 (25.00%) Linux
4 6 (15.00%) Windows Server 2012
4 6 (15.00%) Windows Server 2016
4 6 (15.00%) Windows Server 2019
5 4 (10.00%) Android
6 3 (7.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (7.50%) Windows 7
7 2 (5.00%) Solaris
8 1 (2.50%) Unix
8 1 (2.50%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (57.50%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (27.50%) Customer Service
3 8 (20.00%) DevOps
4 6 (15.00%) Client Onboarding
4 6 (15.00%) Process Improvement
4 6 (15.00%) Product Management
5 5 (12.50%) Containerisation
5 5 (12.50%) CRM
5 5 (12.50%) Mentoring
5 5 (12.50%) Test Automation
6 4 (10.00%) Analytical Thinking
6 4 (10.00%) Data Privacy
6 4 (10.00%) Exploratory Testing
6 4 (10.00%) Mathematics
6 4 (10.00%) Migration
6 4 (10.00%) Software Testing
7 3 (7.50%) CI/CD
7 3 (7.50%) Coaching
7 3 (7.50%) High Availability
7 3 (7.50%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (20.00%) SQL
2 2 (5.00%) Java
2 2 (5.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (5.00%) Python
3 1 (2.50%) Bash
3 1 (2.50%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (15.00%) Degree
2 1 (2.50%) Azure Certification
2 1 (2.50%) CCNP
2 1 (2.50%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (2.50%) HP ASE
2 1 (2.50%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 1 (2.50%) NCIE
System Software
1 14 (35.00%) Hyper-V
2 12 (30.00%) Active Directory
3 8 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (7.50%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 2 (5.00%) KVM
5 2 (5.00%) NFS
5 2 (5.00%) SRDF
5 2 (5.00%) Xen
Systems Management
1 4 (10.00%) Ansible
2 3 (7.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (7.50%) Puppet
3 2 (5.00%) Control-M
3 2 (5.00%) Kubernetes
4 1 (2.50%) NetApp OnCommand
4 1 (2.50%) NetBackup
4 1 (2.50%) Terraform
4 1 (2.50%) VxRail
Vendors
1 24 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 9 (22.50%) VMware
3 8 (20.00%) Cisco
4 6 (15.00%) IBM
5 4 (10.00%) NetApp
5 4 (10.00%) Zoho
6 3 (7.50%) EMC
6 3 (7.50%) Red Hat
7 2 (5.00%) F5
7 2 (5.00%) Google
7 2 (5.00%) Oracle
7 2 (5.00%) ServiceNow
8 1 (2.50%) Brocade
8 1 (2.50%) Commvault
8 1 (2.50%) Dell
8 1 (2.50%) HP
8 1 (2.50%) Pure Storage
8 1 (2.50%) Veritas