Windows Job Trends in the South East

Microsoft Windows
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Windows skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 10 10
Rank change year-on-year -15 0 +2
Permanent jobs citing Windows 732 866 2,010
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 5.03% 10.99% 11.31%
As % of the Operating Systems category 67.72% 75.04% 71.45%
Number of salaries quoted 638 665 1,710
10th Percentile £27,000 £26,250 £25,750
25th Percentile £29,750 £30,750 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £38,325 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.15% -4.19% +6.67%
75th Percentile £50,000 £45,000 £55,000
90th Percentile £68,750 £57,500 £65,000
England median annual salary £39,000 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -8.05%

All Operating Systems
South East

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 the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 1,081 1,154 2,813
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 7.42% 14.65% 15.82%
Number of salaries quoted 923 877 2,269
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,950 £26,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -11.11% +2.95%
75th Percentile £65,000 £51,250 £58,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £65,000 £71,000
England median annual salary £45,000 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +5.88% -5.56% -14.29%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Windows relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Windows job vacancy trend in the South East

Windows
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Windows.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Windows

Windows
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows in the South East over the 6 months to 7 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Windows in the South East

Windows
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows within the South East region over the 6 months to 7 June 2026. 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
Thames Valley -6 285 £40,000 +6.67% 100
Hampshire -9 191 £37,500 -18.92% 71
Berkshire +1 122 £45,000 +20.00% 51
Buckinghamshire +6 118 £39,000 +4.00% 25
Kent -15 104 £40,000 +4.37% 21
Surrey -30 89 £37,500 -6.25% 32
Oxfordshire -21 45 £34,000 -15.00% 24
Sussex +1 24 £30,000 -22.58% 2
East Sussex -21 19 £32,500 -2.99% 5
West Sussex -22 17 £28,250 -39.25% 11
Middlesex +25 2 £36,250 -3.33% 3
Isle of Wight - 1 £42,500 -
Home Counties - 1 £60,000 -
Windows
England

Windows
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 68 (9.29%) Microsoft Exchange
2 58 (7.92%) SharePoint
3 20 (2.73%) IIS
4 11 (1.50%) Confluence
5 7 (0.96%) Apache
6 2 (0.27%) WordPress
7 1 (0.14%) CMS
7 1 (0.14%) Tomcat
Applications
1 81 (11.07%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (2.32%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.14%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 3 (0.41%) NetSuite
1 3 (0.41%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.14%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 330 (45.08%) Microsoft 365
2 225 (30.74%) Azure
3 80 (10.93%) Entra ID
4 73 (9.97%) AWS
5 33 (4.51%) Google Workspace
6 25 (3.42%) SaaS
7 21 (2.87%) OneDrive
8 19 (2.60%) Azure Sentinel
8 19 (2.60%) GCP
9 16 (2.19%) Cloudflare
10 12 (1.64%) Nutanix
10 12 (1.64%) Power Platform
11 8 (1.09%) PowerApps
12 7 (0.96%) Azure Stack
12 7 (0.96%) OpenShift
13 6 (0.82%) IaaS
13 6 (0.82%) Mimecast
13 6 (0.82%) PaaS
14 5 (0.68%) Power Automate
15 4 (0.55%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 190 (25.96%) Firewall
2 156 (21.31%) DNS
3 103 (14.07%) VPN
4 96 (13.11%) DHCP
5 82 (11.20%) TCP/IP
6 75 (10.25%) LAN
7 67 (9.15%) WAN
8 48 (6.56%) Wi-Fi
9 35 (4.78%) VoIP
10 28 (3.83%) VLAN
11 21 (2.87%) SAN
12 19 (2.60%) Wireless
13 17 (2.32%) NAS
13 17 (2.32%) Remote Desktop
14 13 (1.78%) Wireshark
15 12 (1.64%) Network Security
15 12 (1.64%) SSL
16 10 (1.37%) NetScaler
17 7 (0.96%) HTTP
18 6 (0.82%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (7.38%) SQL Server
2 6 (0.82%) Relational Database
3 5 (0.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 4 (0.55%) Crystal Reports
4 4 (0.55%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (0.55%) Power BI
5 3 (0.41%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (0.41%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.14%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.14%) MySQL
6 1 (0.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 43 (5.87%) JIRA
2 16 (2.19%) Git
3 8 (1.09%) GitLab
4 3 (0.41%) Ranorex
4 3 (0.41%) Team Foundation Server
5 2 (0.27%) C++Builder
5 2 (0.27%) JUnit
5 2 (0.27%) Subversion
5 2 (0.27%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.14%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.14%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.14%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.14%) Selenium
6 1 (0.14%) Snyk
General
1 253 (34.56%) Social Skills
2 57 (7.79%) Analytical Skills
3 42 (5.74%) Finance
4 32 (4.37%) Organisational Skills
5 26 (3.55%) Documentation Skills
6 24 (3.28%) Retail
7 19 (2.60%) Manufacturing
8 16 (2.19%) Local Government
9 14 (1.91%) Telecoms
10 12 (1.64%) Law
11 11 (1.50%) Legal
12 10 (1.37%) Back Office
12 10 (1.37%) Military
13 9 (1.23%) Influencing Skills
14 7 (0.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 7 (0.96%) Public Sector
15 5 (0.68%) Games
16 4 (0.55%) Pharmaceutical
16 4 (0.55%) Social Housing
17 3 (0.41%) Fire and Rescue
Job Titles
1 209 (28.55%) IT Support
2 136 (18.58%) Support Engineer
3 131 (17.90%) IT Engineer
4 118 (16.12%) Analyst
5 116 (15.85%) IT Support Engineer
6 92 (12.57%) Support Technician
7 82 (11.20%) 2nd Line Support
8 72 (9.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 72 (9.84%) Support Analyst
9 54 (7.38%) 1st Line Support
10 47 (6.42%) Senior
11 41 (5.60%) IT Technician
12 37 (5.05%) Architect
12 37 (5.05%) IT Support Technician
13 36 (4.92%) 2nd Line Engineer
14 35 (4.78%) 1st/2nd Line Support
15 32 (4.37%) Infrastructure Support
15 32 (4.37%) IT Analyst
16 30 (4.10%) 1st Line Support Technician
17 28 (3.83%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (2.73%) Regular Expression
2 16 (2.19%) JSON
2 16 (2.19%) LDAP
2 16 (2.19%) XMPP
3 14 (1.91%) XML
4 12 (1.64%) .NET
5 11 (1.50%) CSS
6 10 (1.37%) HTML
7 7 (0.96%) ARM Templates
8 6 (0.82%) AngularJS
9 5 (0.68%) React
10 4 (0.55%) Django
10 4 (0.55%) Elastic Stack
10 4 (0.55%) JSON Schema
10 4 (0.55%) Node.js
10 4 (0.55%) WebSockets
11 3 (0.41%) ASP.NET
11 3 (0.41%) MFC
11 3 (0.41%) Web Services
11 3 (0.41%) XSL
Miscellaneous
1 85 (11.61%) Driving Licence
2 37 (5.05%) Social Media
3 34 (4.64%) Onboarding
4 28 (3.83%) Self-Motivation
5 24 (3.28%) EPoS
6 21 (2.87%) Hybrid Cloud
7 19 (2.60%) PKI
8 16 (2.19%) Client/Server
9 13 (1.78%) Public Cloud
10 12 (1.64%) NHS
11 11 (1.50%) Analytical Mindset
11 11 (1.50%) Cyber Defence
11 11 (1.50%) Data Centre
12 10 (1.37%) Cyber Threat
12 10 (1.37%) Smartphone
13 9 (1.23%) Clustering
13 9 (1.23%) Management Information System
13 9 (1.23%) Replication
14 8 (1.09%) Security Posture
15 6 (0.82%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 300 (40.98%) Windows Server
2 156 (21.31%) Linux
3 79 (10.79%) Windows 10
4 44 (6.01%) Mac OS
5 31 (4.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 26 (3.55%) Android
7 24 (3.28%) Apple iOS
7 24 (3.28%) Windows Server 2016
8 22 (3.01%) Ubuntu
9 20 (2.73%) Windows Server 2019
10 15 (2.05%) CentOS
11 12 (1.64%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (0.27%) VMS
13 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 184 (25.14%) Customer Service
2 178 (24.32%) Problem-Solving
3 110 (15.03%) ITIL
4 94 (12.84%) Cybersecurity
5 88 (12.02%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 76 (10.38%) Continuous Improvement
7 62 (8.47%) Mentoring
8 58 (7.92%) ITSM
9 50 (6.83%) Project Delivery
10 47 (6.42%) Agile
10 47 (6.42%) SIEM
11 44 (6.01%) Disaster Recovery
12 37 (5.05%) Creative Thinking
13 35 (4.78%) Coaching
14 32 (4.37%) Process Improvement
14 32 (4.37%) Security Operations
15 30 (4.10%) Root Cause Analysis
16 28 (3.83%) Service Delivery
17 27 (3.69%) Incident Management
17 27 (3.69%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 79 (10.79%) PowerShell
2 60 (8.20%) SQL
3 47 (6.42%) Python
4 22 (3.01%) Bash
5 20 (2.73%) C#
5 20 (2.73%) C++
6 18 (2.46%) JavaScript
7 8 (1.09%) C
8 7 (0.96%) PHP
9 6 (0.82%) Search Processing Language
10 4 (0.55%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.27%) Delphi
11 2 (0.27%) Go
11 2 (0.27%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.14%) Bicep
12 1 (0.14%) DCL
12 1 (0.14%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.14%) Tcl
12 1 (0.14%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.14%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 102 (13.93%) Security Cleared
2 90 (12.30%) Degree
3 81 (11.07%) DBS Check
4 60 (8.20%) DV Cleared
5 38 (5.19%) SC Cleared
6 32 (4.37%) Microsoft Certification
7 17 (2.32%) A+ Certification
8 13 (1.78%) Cisco Certification
9 12 (1.64%) CompTIA Security+
10 11 (1.50%) CCNA
11 9 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
11 9 (1.23%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 9 (1.23%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 8 (1.09%) GIAC
13 7 (0.96%) Azure Certification
13 7 (0.96%) Computer Science Degree
13 7 (0.96%) CREST Certified
13 7 (0.96%) GCIA
13 7 (0.96%) GCIH
13 7 (0.96%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (11.07%) SLA
2 22 (3.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 17 (2.32%) QA
4 14 (1.91%) Cyber Essentials
5 11 (1.50%) GDPR
6 8 (1.09%) NIST
7 7 (0.96%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 4 (0.55%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.41%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.27%) ISO 22301
10 2 (0.27%) NCSC
10 2 (0.27%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.14%) Accessibility
11 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27005
11 1 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 292 (39.89%) Active Directory
2 90 (12.30%) Hyper-V
3 76 (10.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 38 (5.19%) vSphere
5 25 (3.42%) Docker
6 21 (2.87%) VMware ESXi
7 9 (1.23%) VMware NSX
8 8 (1.09%) KVM
9 5 (0.68%) Virtual Servers
10 3 (0.41%) BitLocker
10 3 (0.41%) ClearTrust
10 3 (0.41%) Terminal Services
10 3 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
11 2 (0.27%) Firmware
11 2 (0.27%) Terminal Server
11 2 (0.27%) UAG
12 1 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 72 (9.84%) Microsoft Intune
2 53 (7.24%) SCCM
3 30 (4.10%) Terraform
4 24 (3.28%) Ansible
4 24 (3.28%) vCenter Server
5 22 (3.01%) Kubernetes
6 16 (2.19%) Jamf Pro
7 13 (1.78%) Graylog
7 13 (1.78%) Nagios
8 12 (1.64%) ZABBIX
9 9 (1.23%) Backup Exec
9 9 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
10 8 (1.09%) Nessus
10 8 (1.09%) Proxmox
11 7 (0.96%) Kibana
11 7 (0.96%) vRealize
12 5 (0.68%) Docker Swarm
12 5 (0.68%) Podman
12 5 (0.68%) SCOM
13 4 (0.55%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 398 (54.37%) Microsoft
2 138 (18.85%) VMware
3 44 (6.01%) Cisco
4 42 (5.74%) Google
5 41 (5.60%) Veeam
6 39 (5.33%) ServiceNow
7 32 (4.37%) SolarWinds
8 27 (3.69%) Citrix
9 25 (3.42%) Meraki
10 24 (3.28%) Red Hat
11 21 (2.87%) Apple
12 20 (2.73%) Splunk
13 17 (2.32%) McAfee
14 16 (2.19%) SonicWALL
15 14 (1.91%) Fortinet
15 14 (1.91%) HP
16 13 (1.78%) NetApp
16 13 (1.78%) Palo Alto
17 12 (1.64%) Sophos
18 11 (1.50%) Dell