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 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 53 25 39
Rank change year-on-year -28 +14 -2
Permanent jobs citing Windows 13 99 73
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 1.54% 6.72% 6.40%
As % of the Operating Systems category 61.90% 46.48% 51.77%
Number of salaries quoted 12 83 30
10th Percentile £30,717 £24,500 £23,225
25th Percentile £37,170 £26,500 £25,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,047 £30,000 £30,000
Median % change year-on-year +30.16% - -29.41%
75th Percentile £52,625 £42,250 £46,250
90th Percentile £57,050 £52,500 £57,625
Wales median annual salary £50,000 £32,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year +53.85% -7.14% -17.65%

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 21 213 141
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 2.49% 14.46% 12.36%
Number of salaries quoted 20 138 42
10th Percentile £36,453 £24,500 £23,550
25th Percentile £37,170 £28,468 £27,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £40,500 £39,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.28% +2.53% -7.06%
75th Percentile £54,125 £53,750 £56,250
90th Percentile £65,662 £67,500 £67,728
Wales median annual salary £50,000 £40,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year +23.46% +15.71% -22.22%

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 17 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 17 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 +3 8 £38,094 +17.21% 10
Glamorgan -2 2 £38,103 +34.69% 11
Newport -29 2 £65,000 +160.00% 3
Bridgend +31 1 £50,000 +37.08% 4
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 (7.69%) BizTalk Server
1 1 (7.69%) IIS
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (7.69%) SharePoint
1 1 (7.69%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 8 (61.54%) Azure
2 7 (53.85%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (30.77%) Entra ID
3 4 (30.77%) IaaS
3 4 (30.77%) PaaS
3 4 (30.77%) SaaS
4 2 (15.38%) AWS
5 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (7.69%) GitHub
5 1 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (7.69%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 6 (46.15%) DNS
2 2 (15.38%) TCP/IP
3 1 (7.69%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (7.69%) Cisco Firepower
3 1 (7.69%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (7.69%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (7.69%) DHCP
3 1 (7.69%) Firewall
3 1 (7.69%) Network Security
3 1 (7.69%) SAN
3 1 (7.69%) VoIP
3 1 (7.69%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) SQL Server
2 1 (7.69%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 9 (69.23%) Social Skills
2 5 (38.46%) Finance
3 4 (30.77%) Welsh Language
4 1 (7.69%) Back Office
4 1 (7.69%) Manufacturing
4 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Server Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Analyst
2 2 (15.38%) Technical Support
3 1 (7.69%) Administrator
3 1 (7.69%) Consultant
3 1 (7.69%) Desktop Support
3 1 (7.69%) Desktop Support Technician
3 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) IT Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Network Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Network Support Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Support Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Support Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Support Technician
3 1 (7.69%) Systems Administrator
3 1 (7.69%) Systems Support
3 1 (7.69%) Technical Consultant
3 1 (7.69%) Technical Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) IoT
2 1 (7.69%) Data Centre
2 1 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (7.69%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 9 (69.23%) Windows Server
2 3 (23.08%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) ITIL
1 6 (46.15%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (30.77%) Collaborative Working
2 4 (30.77%) Data Collection
2 4 (30.77%) Incident Management
2 4 (30.77%) Performance Monitoring
2 4 (30.77%) Proactive Maintenance
2 4 (30.77%) Proactive Monitoring
2 4 (30.77%) Problem Management
2 4 (30.77%) Server Migrations
2 4 (30.77%) Service Management
3 2 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (15.38%) High Availability
3 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (7.69%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (7.69%) Requirements Gathering
4 1 (7.69%) Roadmaps
4 1 (7.69%) Tech Ops
4 1 (7.69%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 2 (15.38%) PowerShell
1 2 (15.38%) SQL
2 1 (7.69%) VBA
Qualifications
1 5 (38.46%) Azure Certification
2 4 (30.77%) DBS Check
2 4 (30.77%) MCSA
2 4 (30.77%) MCSE
2 4 (30.77%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (15.38%) Degree
4 1 (7.69%) CCNA
4 1 (7.69%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (7.69%) CTC Cleared
4 1 (7.69%) CWNA
4 1 (7.69%) CWTS
4 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
4 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (38.46%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (76.92%) Active Directory
2 4 (30.77%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (15.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (7.69%) Docker
4 1 (7.69%) Hyper-V
4 1 (7.69%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Ansible
1 1 (7.69%) Cisco Prime
1 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (69.23%) Microsoft
2 3 (23.08%) Cisco
2 3 (23.08%) VMware
3 1 (7.69%) Aerohive Networks
3 1 (7.69%) AppDynamics
3 1 (7.69%) Guidewire
3 1 (7.69%) Pega
3 1 (7.69%) Salesforce