Windows Jobs in South Wales

Microsoft Windows
Wales > South Wales

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in South Wales with a requirement for Windows skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Windows over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 27 45 29
Rank change year-on-year +18 -16 -18
Permanent jobs citing Windows 102 65 110
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 7.07% 5.67% 7.68%
As % of the Operating Systems category 46.79% 55.08% 42.47%
Number of salaries quoted 85 33 81
10th Percentile £24,500 £23,600 £24,750
25th Percentile £26,500 £27,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,000 £35,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -17.65% +8.97%
75th Percentile £42,250 £47,500 £48,750
90th Percentile £52,500 £57,450 £67,500
Wales median annual salary £32,500 £35,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% -17.65% +13.33%

All Operating Systems
South Wales

Windows is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in South Wales with a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 218 118 259
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 15.12% 10.29% 18.07%
Number of salaries quoted 140 42 111
10th Percentile £24,500 £24,100 £25,750
25th Percentile £28,290 £28,500 £33,809
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,500 £38,750 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.52% -8.82% -
75th Percentile £54,063 £55,625 £51,750
90th Percentile £67,500 £67,750 £65,000
Wales median annual salary £40,000 £36,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% -20.00% +15.38%

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 25 April 2024.

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 25 April 2024. 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 +18 39 £32,500 -7.14% 10
Bridgend -11 28 £36,476 +21.59% 1
Newport +22 17 £25,000 -33.33% 2
Gwent - 8 £28,290 -
Glamorgan +11 6 £28,290 +17.88% 6
Caerphilly +1 2 £28,290 -12.95%
Vale of Glamorgan +1 1 £24,500 -2.00% 1
Rhondda Cynon Taff - 1 - -
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 19 (18.63%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (4.90%) Apache
3 3 (2.94%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.96%) IIS
Applications
1 20 (19.61%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (12.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (12.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.98%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 58 (56.86%) Microsoft 365
2 48 (47.06%) Azure
3 21 (20.59%) Entra ID
4 15 (14.71%) OneDrive
5 7 (6.86%) AWS
6 5 (4.90%) Amazon S3
6 5 (4.90%) Azure Monitor
6 5 (4.90%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (2.94%) GCP
7 3 (2.94%) OpenShift
7 3 (2.94%) Power Platform
8 2 (1.96%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.98%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.98%) Cloudflare
9 1 (0.98%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 23 (22.55%) Firewall
2 20 (19.61%) DNS
3 16 (15.69%) Remote Desktop
4 13 (12.75%) DHCP
4 13 (12.75%) SAN
5 10 (9.80%) Internet
5 10 (9.80%) VoIP
6 9 (8.82%) VPN
7 8 (7.84%) LAN
7 8 (7.84%) WAN
8 7 (6.86%) TCP/IP
9 5 (4.90%) Extranet
9 5 (4.90%) IPsec
9 5 (4.90%) SNMP
9 5 (4.90%) Unified Communications
10 4 (3.92%) MPLS
10 4 (3.92%) Network Security
10 4 (3.92%) Wi-Fi
11 3 (2.94%) HTTP
11 3 (2.94%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.88%) Elasticsearch
1 6 (5.88%) MongoDB
2 5 (4.90%) MySQL
2 5 (4.90%) RDBMS
2 5 (4.90%) Relational Database
2 5 (4.90%) SQL Server
3 3 (2.94%) Power BI
4 1 (0.98%) InfluxDB
4 1 (0.98%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.98%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (2.94%) IBM UrbanCode
2 1 (0.98%) GitLab
2 1 (0.98%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.98%) JIRA
2 1 (0.98%) SonarQube
General
1 26 (25.49%) Finance
1 26 (25.49%) Social Skills
2 10 (9.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 10 (9.80%) Local Government
2 10 (9.80%) Police
3 6 (5.88%) Advertising
3 6 (5.88%) Law
3 6 (5.88%) Manufacturing
4 3 (2.94%) Banking
4 3 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (1.96%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (0.98%) Electronics
6 1 (0.98%) Games
6 1 (0.98%) Retail
6 1 (0.98%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 18 (17.65%) Senior
1 18 (17.65%) Support Engineer
2 14 (13.73%) IT Technician
3 13 (12.75%) Desktop Engineer
3 13 (12.75%) Desktop Support
3 13 (12.75%) Desktop Support Engineer
4 12 (11.76%) Analyst
4 12 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 10 (9.80%) ICT Engineer
5 10 (9.80%) Senior Technical Engineer
5 10 (9.80%) Technical Engineer
6 9 (8.82%) IT Support
7 8 (7.84%) Consultant
8 7 (6.86%) IT Analyst
8 7 (6.86%) IT Engineer
9 5 (4.90%) DevOps Engineer
9 5 (4.90%) IT Support Technician
9 5 (4.90%) NetApp Consultant
9 5 (4.90%) Oracle DBA
9 5 (4.90%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.90%) RabbitMQ
1 5 (4.90%) YAML
2 1 (0.98%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (0.98%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 12 (11.76%) Data Centre
2 5 (4.90%) Driving Licence
2 5 (4.90%) Smartphone
3 4 (3.92%) Public Cloud
4 3 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.96%) iPad
5 2 (1.96%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.98%) Clustering
6 1 (0.98%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.98%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.98%) Life Science
6 1 (0.98%) Replication
6 1 (0.98%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 40 (39.22%) Windows Server
2 24 (23.53%) Linux
3 21 (20.59%) Windows 10
4 11 (10.78%) Windows Server 2012
5 8 (7.84%) Windows Server 2019
6 7 (6.86%) Unix
7 6 (5.88%) Android
8 5 (4.90%) Data ONTAP
9 3 (2.94%) VMS
10 2 (1.96%) Apple iOS
10 2 (1.96%) Mac OS
10 2 (1.96%) Ubuntu
10 2 (1.96%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (30.39%) Customer Service
2 15 (14.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 13 (12.75%) Break/Fix
3 13 (12.75%) Ticket Management
4 12 (11.76%) Actionable Insight
4 12 (11.76%) ITIL
4 12 (11.76%) Service Delivery
5 10 (9.80%) Problem Management
5 10 (9.80%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (7.84%) Storage Management
7 7 (6.86%) Infrastructure Management
8 6 (5.88%) Change Management
8 6 (5.88%) DevOps
8 6 (5.88%) Incident Management
8 6 (5.88%) Incident Response
8 6 (5.88%) Infrastructure as Code
8 6 (5.88%) Line Management
8 6 (5.88%) Project Management
8 6 (5.88%) Release Management
9 5 (4.90%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 9 (8.82%) SQL
2 6 (5.88%) Python
3 5 (4.90%) PowerShell
4 3 (2.94%) Groovy
5 2 (1.96%) Bash
6 1 (0.98%) Perl
6 1 (0.98%) VB
Qualifications
1 13 (12.75%) Degree
2 7 (6.86%) CCNA
2 7 (6.86%) Cisco Certification
2 7 (6.86%) Microsoft Certification
2 7 (6.86%) SC Cleared
2 7 (6.86%) Security Cleared
3 4 (3.92%) A+ Certification
3 4 (3.92%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (3.92%) MCP
4 3 (2.94%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (1.96%) CCNP
6 1 (0.98%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.84%) SLA
2 5 (4.90%) GDPR
3 4 (3.92%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (1.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.98%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 45 (44.12%) Active Directory
2 20 (19.61%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (8.82%) Hyper-V
4 7 (6.86%) Docker
5 5 (4.90%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (3.92%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (1.96%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (1.96%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 22 (21.57%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (9.80%) Ansible
3 7 (6.86%) SCCM
4 6 (5.88%) Kubernetes
4 6 (5.88%) Prometheus
4 6 (5.88%) Terraform
5 5 (4.90%) SCOM
5 5 (4.90%) vCenter Server
6 3 (2.94%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.98%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (0.98%) Grafana
7 1 (0.98%) PaperCut
7 1 (0.98%) Puppet
7 1 (0.98%) WSUS
Vendors
1 63 (61.76%) Microsoft
2 32 (31.37%) VMware
3 10 (9.80%) NetApp
4 7 (6.86%) Veeam
5 6 (5.88%) HP
6 5 (4.90%) AppDynamics
6 5 (4.90%) Cisco
6 5 (4.90%) Citrix
6 5 (4.90%) Oracle
6 5 (4.90%) Palo Alto
6 5 (4.90%) Red Hat
6 5 (4.90%) SolidFire
6 5 (4.90%) Sophos
7 4 (3.92%) Acronis
7 4 (3.92%) Aruba
7 4 (3.92%) Datto
7 4 (3.92%) IBM
7 4 (3.92%) Mitel
8 3 (2.94%) Google
8 3 (2.94%) Meraki