Windows Jobs in the South West

Microsoft Windows
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 26 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 12 13
Rank change year-on-year +2 +1 +7
DemandTrendPermanent jobs citing Windows 376 840 735
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 10.10% 9.98% 13.06%
As % of the Operating Systems category 68.49% 61.09% 64.47%
Number of salaries quoted 270 594 514
10th Percentile £27,000 £23,500 £26,110
25th Percentile £30,531 £30,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £39,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.39% -7.06% +6.25%
75th Percentile £45,000 £53,750 £56,125
90th Percentile £55,200 £62,275 £70,000
England median annual salary £38,325 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -9.82% -5.56% +2.27%

All Operating Systems
South West

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 West.

DemandTrendPermanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 549 1,375 1,140
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 14.75% 16.33% 20.26%
Number of salaries quoted 341 946 774
10th Percentile £28,250 £26,250 £27,000
25th Percentile £30,750 £32,500 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -22.11% - -5.00%
75th Percentile £50,000 £60,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £80,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £41,000 £48,925 £52,500
% change year-on-year -16.20% -6.81% -

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in the South West

Windows
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Windows

Windows
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows in the South West over the 6 months to 26 August 2025.

Salary histogram for Windows in the South West

Windows
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows within the South West region over the 6 months to 26 August 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
DemandTrendPermanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Devon +6 96 £33,500 -18.70% 19
Gloucestershire +1 68 £37,500 - 64
Wiltshire -9 62 £35,000 -12.50% 36
Bristol -9 62 £42,500 - 56
Somerset +5 54 £40,000 +37.93% 28
Dorset -6 27 £31,000 -22.50% 18
Cornwall -18 5 £31,500 +7.69% 2
Windows
England

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 65 (17.29%) Microsoft Exchange
2 36 (9.57%) SharePoint
3 33 (8.78%) IIS
4 3 (0.80%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.27%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 39 (10.37%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.27%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 15 (3.99%) Dynamics NAV
2 4 (1.06%) Visualfiles
3 2 (0.53%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 208 (55.32%) Microsoft 365
2 143 (38.03%) Azure
3 69 (18.35%) Entra ID
4 36 (9.57%) AWS
5 13 (3.46%) OneDrive
6 10 (2.66%) Serverless
7 9 (2.39%) SaaS
8 8 (2.13%) Azure Stack
8 8 (2.13%) IaaS
9 6 (1.60%) Amazon ECS
9 6 (1.60%) PaaS
10 5 (1.33%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (1.33%) Azure Sentinel
10 5 (1.33%) Rubrik
11 4 (1.06%) Cloud Computing
12 2 (0.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 2 (0.53%) Amazon S3
12 2 (0.53%) Azure DevOps
12 2 (0.53%) GitHub
12 2 (0.53%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 108 (28.72%) Firewall
2 91 (24.20%) DNS
3 84 (22.34%) DHCP
4 65 (17.29%) VLAN
5 51 (13.56%) VPN
6 49 (13.03%) WAN
7 44 (11.70%) LAN
8 43 (11.44%) VoIP
9 41 (10.90%) Wi-Fi
10 23 (6.12%) SAN
11 21 (5.59%) TCP/IP
12 18 (4.79%) Internet
13 17 (4.52%) Kerberos
14 13 (3.46%) IPsec
15 11 (2.93%) SD-WAN
16 10 (2.66%) ADSL
16 10 (2.66%) MPLS
17 8 (2.13%) Remote Desktop
17 8 (2.13%) Wireless
18 7 (1.86%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (11.17%) Amazon RDS
2 27 (7.18%) SQL Server
3 6 (1.60%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (1.33%) MySQL
5 2 (0.53%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.27%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.27%) DB2
6 1 (0.27%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.27%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (0.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.27%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 5 (1.33%) JIRA
2 2 (0.53%) Jenkins
2 2 (0.53%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.27%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.27%) CMake
3 1 (0.27%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.27%) GitLab
3 1 (0.27%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (0.27%) Rational Rhapsody
3 1 (0.27%) Robot Framework
3 1 (0.27%) Selenium
3 1 (0.27%) Subversion
3 1 (0.27%) WiX
General
1 163 (43.35%) Social Skills
2 44 (11.70%) Manufacturing
3 38 (10.11%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (6.91%) Public Sector
5 24 (6.38%) Legal
6 19 (5.05%) Law
6 19 (5.05%) Telecoms
7 17 (4.52%) Finance
8 15 (3.99%) Back Office
8 15 (3.99%) Organisational Skills
9 11 (2.93%) Electronics
9 11 (2.93%) Retail
10 10 (2.66%) Advertising
10 10 (2.66%) Aerospace
10 10 (2.66%) Marketing
11 9 (2.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 7 (1.86%) Automotive
13 6 (1.60%) Documentation Skills
14 5 (1.33%) Police
15 3 (0.80%) Games
Job Titles
1 103 (27.39%) IT Support
2 74 (19.68%) Analyst
3 62 (16.49%) Support Analyst
4 56 (14.89%) Support Engineer
5 52 (13.83%) 2nd Line Support
6 40 (10.64%) IT Engineer
7 37 (9.84%) Support Technician
8 30 (7.98%) 3rd Line Support
8 30 (7.98%) IT Analyst
9 28 (7.45%) IT Support Analyst
10 26 (6.91%) IT Support Engineer
11 25 (6.65%) Technical Support
12 23 (6.12%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 23 (6.12%) Senior
13 22 (5.85%) Desktop Support
14 21 (5.59%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
15 20 (5.32%) Systems Engineer
16 19 (5.05%) Administrator
17 17 (4.52%) Coordinator
17 17 (4.52%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (4.52%) LDAP
2 6 (1.60%) .NET
3 5 (1.33%) 802.1X
4 3 (0.80%) OpenCL
5 2 (0.53%) HTML
5 2 (0.53%) MFC
5 2 (0.53%) Middleware
6 1 (0.27%) .NET Framework
6 1 (0.27%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.27%) FHIR
6 1 (0.27%) JSON
6 1 (0.27%) ModSecurity
6 1 (0.27%) OLE
6 1 (0.27%) Playwright
6 1 (0.27%) Qt
6 1 (0.27%) Universal Windows Platform
6 1 (0.27%) WinUI
6 1 (0.27%) WPF
6 1 (0.27%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 72 (19.15%) Driving Licence
2 44 (11.70%) Social Media
3 26 (6.91%) Onboarding
4 19 (5.05%) Video Conferencing
5 18 (4.79%) PKI
6 15 (3.99%) Hybrid Cloud
7 14 (3.72%) Legacy Systems
8 13 (3.46%) Data Centre
9 11 (2.93%) Smartphone
10 10 (2.66%) CCTV
11 9 (2.39%) e-Learning
11 9 (2.39%) Self-Motivation
12 8 (2.13%) Clustering
13 6 (1.60%) Management Information System
14 5 (1.33%) BYOD
14 5 (1.33%) Cloud Security Posture
14 5 (1.33%) Public Cloud
14 5 (1.33%) Security Posture
15 4 (1.06%) Product Ownership
15 4 (1.06%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 190 (50.53%) Windows Server
2 87 (23.14%) Linux
3 71 (18.88%) Windows 10
4 44 (11.70%) Windows Vista
5 40 (10.64%) Windows Server 2016
6 39 (10.37%) Windows Server 2019
7 16 (4.26%) Mac OS
8 14 (3.72%) Apple iOS
9 8 (2.13%) Rocky
9 8 (2.13%) Windows Server 2012
10 6 (1.60%) Android
11 2 (0.53%) AIX
11 2 (0.53%) Debian
11 2 (0.53%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.27%) Windows 7
12 1 (0.27%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (30.85%) Problem-Solving
2 98 (26.06%) Customer Service
3 71 (18.88%) ITIL
4 66 (17.55%) Cybersecurity
5 48 (12.77%) Continuous Improvement
6 47 (12.50%) Computer Science
7 31 (8.24%) Disaster Recovery
8 29 (7.71%) Migration
9 28 (7.45%) Customer Experience
10 27 (7.18%) Time Management
11 26 (6.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 25 (6.65%) Containerisation
13 24 (6.38%) Mentoring
14 21 (5.59%) ERP
15 20 (5.32%) Kalman Filter
15 20 (5.32%) Service Management
15 20 (5.32%) Ticket Management
15 20 (5.32%) Web Filtering
16 19 (5.05%) Analytics
16 19 (5.05%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 71 (18.88%) PowerShell
2 30 (7.98%) SQL
3 21 (5.59%) Python
4 18 (4.79%) VB
5 12 (3.19%) Bash
6 7 (1.86%) C++
7 5 (1.33%) C
7 5 (1.33%) PHP
8 4 (1.06%) Perl
8 4 (1.06%) Progress 4GL
8 4 (1.06%) R
9 3 (0.80%) C#
9 3 (0.80%) JavaScript
10 2 (0.53%) VC++
11 1 (0.27%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.27%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.27%) Tcl
11 1 (0.27%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.27%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.27%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 75 (19.95%) Security Cleared
2 56 (14.89%) SC Cleared
3 54 (14.36%) Degree
4 48 (12.77%) DBS Check
5 33 (8.78%) A+ Certification
6 21 (5.59%) Microsoft Certification
7 20 (5.32%) Network+ Certification
8 18 (4.79%) DV Cleared
9 17 (4.52%) MCP
10 16 (4.26%) BPSS Clearance
11 14 (3.72%) AWS Certification
11 14 (3.72%) CTC Cleared
12 13 (3.46%) Azure Certification
13 9 (2.39%) Cisco Certification
14 7 (1.86%) CISSP
15 6 (1.60%) ACMT
15 6 (1.60%) CompTIA Security+
15 6 (1.60%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 5 (1.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 5 (1.33%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (11.97%) SLA
2 25 (6.65%) Cyber Essentials
3 16 (4.26%) PCI DSS
4 11 (2.93%) GDPR
5 10 (2.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.80%) QA
7 1 (0.27%) DICOM
7 1 (0.27%) HL7
7 1 (0.27%) NCSC
System Software
1 186 (49.47%) Active Directory
2 58 (15.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 52 (13.83%) Hyper-V
4 21 (5.59%) VMware ESXi
5 18 (4.79%) Docker
6 14 (3.72%) Terminal Server
7 12 (3.19%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.80%) Firmware
8 3 (0.80%) vSphere
9 2 (0.53%) BitLocker
9 2 (0.53%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.27%) iptables
10 1 (0.27%) Microsoft App-V
10 1 (0.27%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 75 (19.95%) Microsoft Intune
2 26 (6.91%) Kubernetes
3 18 (4.79%) WSUS
4 14 (3.72%) Ansible
5 12 (3.19%) Terraform
6 7 (1.86%) SCCM
7 6 (1.60%) Autotask
7 6 (1.60%) vCenter Server
8 5 (1.33%) PaperCut
8 5 (1.33%) Puppet
9 3 (0.80%) SmoothWall
10 2 (0.53%) Backup Exec
10 2 (0.53%) Iperf
10 2 (0.53%) NetBackup
11 1 (0.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.27%) Grafana
11 1 (0.27%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.27%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 239 (63.56%) Microsoft
2 83 (22.07%) VMware
3 40 (10.64%) Cisco
4 37 (9.84%) Veeam
5 19 (5.05%) Oracle
6 15 (3.99%) Apple
6 15 (3.99%) Datto
6 15 (3.99%) SolarWinds
6 15 (3.99%) Splunk
7 14 (3.72%) Brocade
7 14 (3.72%) Nimble Storage
7 14 (3.72%) Tanium
8 9 (2.39%) Aruba
8 9 (2.39%) SAP
8 9 (2.39%) Sophos
9 8 (2.13%) Dell
10 7 (1.86%) Fortinet
10 7 (1.86%) HP
11 6 (1.60%) Google
11 6 (1.60%) Sun