Windows Jobs in South Wales

Microsoft Windows
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in South Wales 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 55 25 37
Rank change year-on-year -30 +12 +5
Permanent jobs citing Windows 11 99 81
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 1.15% 6.28% 6.97%
As % of the Operating Systems category 55.00% 46.48% 53.29%
Number of salaries quoted 9 82 29
10th Percentile £25,841 £24,500 £23,200
25th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,094 £30,000 £30,000
Median % change year-on-year +26.98% - -29.41%
75th Percentile £39,018 £42,125 £47,500
90th Percentile £55,000 £52,250 £59,750
Wales median annual salary £48,750 £32,500 £33,500
% change year-on-year +50.00% -2.99% -21.18%

All Operating Systems
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 20 213 152
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 2.09% 13.52% 13.08%
Number of salaries quoted 18 137 41
10th Percentile £28,875 £24,500 £24,000
25th Percentile £37,170 £28,290 £27,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £40,500 £39,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.28% +3.85% -7.67%
75th Percentile £56,250 £53,750 £56,250
90th Percentile £66,987 £64,500 £67,775
Wales median annual salary £50,000 £40,500 £33,000
% change year-on-year +23.46% +22.73% -26.67%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in South Wales

Windows
Salary Trend in South Wales

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

Salary trend for Windows in South Wales

Windows
Salary Histogram in South Wales

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

Salary histogram for Windows in South Wales

Windows
Job Locations in South Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 31 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
Cardiff +8 6 £38,094 +17.21% 17
Bridgend +31 2 £38,750 +6.24% 9
Newport -30 2 £65,000 +160.00% 4
Glamorgan -4 1 £24,205 -14.44% 17
Windows
Wales

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales 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 (9.09%) BizTalk Server
1 1 (9.09%) IIS
1 1 (9.09%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 6 (54.55%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (45.45%) Azure
3 4 (36.36%) IaaS
3 4 (36.36%) PaaS
3 4 (36.36%) SaaS
4 2 (18.18%) Entra ID
5 1 (9.09%) AWS
5 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (9.09%) GitHub
5 1 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (36.36%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) SQL Server
2 1 (9.09%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 9 (81.82%) Social Skills
2 5 (45.45%) Finance
3 4 (36.36%) Welsh Language
4 1 (9.09%) Back Office
4 1 (9.09%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Server Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) IT Support
2 2 (18.18%) Technical Support
3 1 (9.09%) Administrator
3 1 (9.09%) Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) Desktop Support
3 1 (9.09%) Desktop Support Technician
3 1 (9.09%) Desktop Technician
3 1 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) IT Administrator
3 1 (9.09%) IT Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) IT Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Rollout Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Support Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) Support Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Support Technician
3 1 (9.09%) Systems Administrator
3 1 (9.09%) Systems Support
3 1 (9.09%) Technical Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) IoT
2 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 6 (54.55%) Windows Server
2 2 (18.18%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (45.45%) ITIL
3 4 (36.36%) Collaborative Working
3 4 (36.36%) Data Collection
3 4 (36.36%) Incident Management
3 4 (36.36%) Performance Monitoring
3 4 (36.36%) Proactive Maintenance
3 4 (36.36%) Proactive Monitoring
3 4 (36.36%) Problem Management
3 4 (36.36%) Server Migrations
3 4 (36.36%) Service Management
4 1 (9.09%) Analytics
4 1 (9.09%) Collaborative Culture
4 1 (9.09%) Customer Acquisition
4 1 (9.09%) Customer Experience
4 1 (9.09%) Customer Service
4 1 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (9.09%) DevOps
4 1 (9.09%) Software Delivery
4 1 (9.09%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) SQL
2 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
2 1 (9.09%) VBA
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) Azure Certification
1 4 (36.36%) DBS Check
1 4 (36.36%) MCSA
1 4 (36.36%) MCSE
1 4 (36.36%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (18.18%) Degree
3 1 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (9.09%) CTC Cleared
3 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
3 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (45.45%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (72.73%) Active Directory
2 4 (36.36%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (9.09%) Docker
3 1 (9.09%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Ansible
1 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
1 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (63.64%) Microsoft
2 2 (18.18%) Cisco
2 2 (18.18%) VMware
3 1 (9.09%) Guidewire
3 1 (9.09%) Pega
3 1 (9.09%) Salesforce