Windows Jobs in Somerset

Microsoft Windows
South West > Somerset

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Somerset 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 21 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 8 25
Rank change year-on-year -10 +17 -11
Permanent jobs citing Windows 41 74 46
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Somerset 10.85% 9.80% 8.16%
As % of the Operating Systems category 97.62% 63.25% 58.23%
Number of salaries quoted 36 60 41
10th Percentile £25,750 £21,950 £23,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £25,500 £28,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £29,448 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +35.83% -30.71% +16.04%
75th Percentile £42,908 £56,625 £55,000
90th Percentile £51,875 £57,580 £58,750
South West median annual salary £37,500 £42,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year -11.76% +6.25% +6.67%

All Operating Systems
Somerset

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 Somerset.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 42 117 79
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Somerset 11.11% 15.50% 14.01%
Number of salaries quoted 36 99 73
10th Percentile £25,750 £24,250 £25,536
25th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £38,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -24.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £42,908 £57,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £51,875 £62,000 £68,750
South West median annual salary £40,000 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -15.79% +5.56% -6.25%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in Somerset

Windows
Salary Trend in Somerset

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

Salary trend for Windows in Somerset

Windows
Salary Histogram in Somerset

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows in Somerset over the 6 months to 21 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Windows in Somerset

Windows
Job Locations in Somerset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows within the Somerset region over the 6 months to 21 May 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
Frome +2 17 £40,000 -
Portishead +12 7 £26,000 -22.39% 4
Bath +14 5 £35,000 -6.67% 7
Shepton Mallet +3 3 £44,750 -10.50%
Clevedon -1 2 - - 1
Weston-super-Mare 0 1 - -
Yeovil -25 1 £40,101 -28.39% 1
Windows
South West

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Somerset 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 11 (26.83%) IIS
2 7 (17.07%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (4.88%) SharePoint
4 1 (2.44%) Apache
Applications
1 3 (7.32%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.44%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 34 (82.93%) Microsoft 365
2 24 (58.54%) Azure
3 9 (21.95%) Entra ID
4 3 (7.32%) AWS
5 2 (4.88%) SaaS
6 1 (2.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (2.44%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 1 (2.44%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (2.44%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 23 (56.10%) Firewall
2 21 (51.22%) VLAN
3 20 (48.78%) DNS
4 19 (46.34%) DHCP
4 19 (46.34%) VPN
5 11 (26.83%) VoIP
6 10 (24.39%) ADSL
7 5 (12.20%) WAN
8 4 (9.76%) LAN
9 3 (7.32%) SAN
10 2 (4.88%) DMZ
10 2 (4.88%) Wireshark
11 1 (2.44%) Ethernet
11 1 (2.44%) IPsec
11 1 (2.44%) SD-WAN
11 1 (2.44%) SSH
11 1 (2.44%) TCP/IP
11 1 (2.44%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (36.59%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.44%) Oracle Database
2 1 (2.44%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.44%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 1 (2.44%) CMake
1 1 (2.44%) Eclipse
1 1 (2.44%) Eclipse RCP
1 1 (2.44%) Subversion
1 1 (2.44%) WiX
General
1 10 (24.39%) Social Skills
2 3 (7.32%) Back Office
2 3 (7.32%) Finance
2 3 (7.32%) Local Government
2 3 (7.32%) Public Sector
3 2 (4.88%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.44%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.44%) Electronics
4 1 (2.44%) Fire and Rescue
4 1 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (2.44%) Manufacturing
4 1 (2.44%) Marketing
4 1 (2.44%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (2.44%) Police
4 1 (2.44%) Retail
4 1 (2.44%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 21 (51.22%) IT Support
2 20 (48.78%) Analyst
2 20 (48.78%) Support Analyst
3 16 (39.02%) IT Analyst
3 16 (39.02%) IT Support Analyst
4 11 (26.83%) 3rd Line Support
5 10 (24.39%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
6 6 (14.63%) Junior
6 6 (14.63%) Support Engineer
7 5 (12.20%) 2nd Line Support
7 5 (12.20%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
8 4 (9.76%) Junior Analyst
8 4 (9.76%) Junior Support Analyst
8 4 (9.76%) Senior
9 3 (7.32%) Desktop Support
9 3 (7.32%) Desktop Support Technician
9 3 (7.32%) Desktop Technician
9 3 (7.32%) IT Engineer
9 3 (7.32%) IT Support Engineer
9 3 (7.32%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.88%) HTML
2 1 (2.44%) CSS
2 1 (2.44%) JSP
2 1 (2.44%) Middleware
2 1 (2.44%) Qt
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.20%) Driving Licence
2 2 (4.88%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (4.88%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (2.44%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.44%) Clustering
3 1 (2.44%) Distributed Applications
3 1 (2.44%) e-Learning
3 1 (2.44%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.44%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 24 (58.54%) Windows Server
2 19 (46.34%) Linux
3 6 (14.63%) Windows 10
4 4 (9.76%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (7.32%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (4.88%) Android
6 2 (4.88%) Apple iOS
6 2 (4.88%) Mac OS
6 2 (4.88%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (2.44%) AIX
7 1 (2.44%) Solaris
7 1 (2.44%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (63.41%) ITIL
2 23 (56.10%) Cybersecurity
3 17 (41.46%) Disaster Recovery
4 13 (31.71%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (19.51%) Customer Service
6 7 (17.07%) Continuous Improvement
7 6 (14.63%) Analytics
8 5 (12.20%) Collaborative Working
8 5 (12.20%) Project Delivery
8 5 (12.20%) Project Planning
9 4 (9.76%) Customer-Centricity
9 4 (9.76%) Workflow
10 3 (7.32%) Business Intelligence
10 3 (7.32%) Customer Acquisition
10 3 (7.32%) Customer Experience
10 3 (7.32%) Infrastructure Management
10 3 (7.32%) Patch Management
10 3 (7.32%) Server Management
10 3 (7.32%) Software Deployment
10 3 (7.32%) Ticket Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (34.15%) PowerShell
1 14 (34.15%) SQL
2 2 (4.88%) Bash
2 2 (4.88%) Java
2 2 (4.88%) Python
3 1 (2.44%) Ada
3 1 (2.44%) C
3 1 (2.44%) C#
3 1 (2.44%) C++
3 1 (2.44%) PHP
3 1 (2.44%) Rust
Qualifications
1 10 (24.39%) A+ Certification
1 10 (24.39%) Network+ Certification
2 6 (14.63%) Degree
3 5 (12.20%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (9.76%) SC Cleared
4 4 (9.76%) Security Cleared
5 3 (7.32%) CTC Cleared
6 2 (4.88%) AWS Certification
6 2 (4.88%) Azure Certification
6 2 (4.88%) CCNA
6 2 (4.88%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (4.88%) DBS Check
6 2 (4.88%) MCP
6 2 (4.88%) MCSA
6 2 (4.88%) NVQ Level 3
7 1 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (2.44%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.76%) SLA
2 1 (2.44%) ISO 14001
2 1 (2.44%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 28 (68.29%) Active Directory
2 7 (17.07%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (9.76%) Hyper-V
4 2 (4.88%) Docker
5 1 (2.44%) LXC
5 1 (2.44%) Samba
Systems Management
1 22 (53.66%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (4.88%) Iperf
2 2 (4.88%) SmoothWall
3 1 (2.44%) Backup Exec
3 1 (2.44%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (2.44%) NetBackup
3 1 (2.44%) Puppet
3 1 (2.44%) SCCM
Vendors
1 36 (87.80%) Microsoft
2 7 (17.07%) Cisco
2 7 (17.07%) VMware
3 2 (4.88%) EMC
3 2 (4.88%) Fortinet
3 2 (4.88%) Google
3 2 (4.88%) Oracle
3 2 (4.88%) Palo Alto
3 2 (4.88%) Ruckus Wireless
3 2 (4.88%) SonicWALL
3 2 (4.88%) Ubiquiti
4 1 (2.44%) Hitachi
4 1 (2.44%) IBM
4 1 (2.44%) NetApp
4 1 (2.44%) SAP
4 1 (2.44%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.44%) Snow
4 1 (2.44%) Veritas