Windows Jobs in South Yorkshire

Microsoft Windows
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire 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 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 16 27
Rank change year-on-year +6 +11 -13
Permanent jobs citing Windows 46 128 171
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 11.53% 9.24% 11.35%
As % of the Operating Systems category 80.70% 73.14% 59.58%
Number of salaries quoted 34 111 99
10th Percentile £25,750 £24,500 £20,000
25th Percentile £29,000 £28,500 £24,150
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £35,500 £32,200
Median % change year-on-year -8.45% +10.25% -8.00%
75th Percentile £37,313 £46,000 £37,000
90th Percentile £64,000 £56,250 £48,750
Yorkshire median annual salary £32,000 £37,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year -13.51% -1.33% +4.53%

All Operating Systems
South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 57 175 287
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 14.29% 12.64% 19.04%
Number of salaries quoted 42 136 145
10th Percentile £25,775 £25,075 £21,550
25th Percentile £29,250 £29,563 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £40,000 £34,800
Median % change year-on-year -18.75% +14.94% -18.12%
75th Percentile £49,000 £50,000 £43,750
90th Percentile £69,625 £60,000 £48,750
Yorkshire median annual salary £32,500 £40,250 £42,500
% change year-on-year -19.25% -5.29% -5.56%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in South Yorkshire

Windows
Salary Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Salary trend for Windows in South Yorkshire

Windows
Salary Histogram in South Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 19 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Windows in South Yorkshire

Windows
Job Locations in South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 19 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
Sheffield +7 40 £32,500 -7.14% 29
Doncaster +1 4 £24,750 -25.56% 10
Barnsley +13 2 - - 8
Windows
Yorkshire

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 5 (10.87%) SharePoint
2 2 (4.35%) Confluence
2 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (4.35%) Tomcat
2 2 (4.35%) WebSphere
2 2 (4.35%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 5 (10.87%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 17 (36.96%) Azure
1 17 (36.96%) Microsoft 365
2 13 (28.26%) AWS
3 10 (21.74%) Entra ID
4 4 (8.70%) SaaS
5 3 (6.52%) GitHub
6 2 (4.35%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 8 (17.39%) Multicast
1 8 (17.39%) SAN
1 8 (17.39%) VPN
2 7 (15.22%) Firewall
3 4 (8.70%) LAN
3 4 (8.70%) NAS
3 4 (8.70%) WAN
4 3 (6.52%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (4.35%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (4.35%) FCoE
5 2 (4.35%) Fibre Channel
5 2 (4.35%) iSCSI
6 1 (2.17%) Internet
6 1 (2.17%) SMTP
6 1 (2.17%) TCP/IP
6 1 (2.17%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (28.26%) SQL Server
2 6 (13.04%) DB2
3 2 (4.35%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (6.52%) Jenkins
2 2 (4.35%) JIRA
2 2 (4.35%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (2.17%) GitLab
General
1 25 (54.35%) Social Skills
2 8 (17.39%) Organisational Skills
3 7 (15.22%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (8.70%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (6.52%) Law
6 2 (4.35%) Finance
7 1 (2.17%) Banking
7 1 (2.17%) Games
7 1 (2.17%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 16 (34.78%) Support Engineer
2 12 (26.09%) IT Support
3 9 (19.57%) IT Engineer
4 8 (17.39%) IT Support Engineer
4 8 (17.39%) Lead
4 8 (17.39%) Team Leader
5 6 (13.04%) 2nd Line Support
5 6 (13.04%) Cloud Engineer
6 5 (10.87%) Help Desk Team Lead
7 4 (8.70%) 2nd Line Engineer
7 4 (8.70%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
7 4 (8.70%) Analyst
7 4 (8.70%) Software Support Engineer
8 3 (6.52%) Administrator
8 3 (6.52%) Support Analyst
9 2 (4.35%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
9 2 (4.35%) Architect
9 2 (4.35%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
9 2 (4.35%) Solutions Architect
9 2 (4.35%) Storage Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.35%) LDAP
1 2 (4.35%) Middleware
2 1 (2.17%) DirectX
2 1 (2.17%) REST
2 1 (2.17%) Unity (Game Engine)
Miscellaneous
1 8 (17.39%) Replication
2 6 (13.04%) Enterprise Storage
3 5 (10.87%) Driving Licence
3 5 (10.87%) Onboarding
4 4 (8.70%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (8.70%) Mobile App
4 4 (8.70%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (6.52%) Data Centre
5 3 (6.52%) EPoS
5 3 (6.52%) Life Science
6 2 (4.35%) Clustering
7 1 (2.17%) Client/Server
7 1 (2.17%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 14 (30.43%) Windows Server
2 11 (23.91%) Windows 10
3 10 (21.74%) Linux
4 6 (13.04%) Windows Server 2012
4 6 (13.04%) Windows Server 2016
4 6 (13.04%) Windows Server 2019
5 4 (8.70%) Android
6 3 (6.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (6.52%) Windows 7
7 2 (4.35%) Solaris
8 1 (2.17%) Unix
8 1 (2.17%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (58.70%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (23.91%) Customer Service
3 8 (17.39%) DevOps
3 8 (17.39%) Mathematics
4 6 (13.04%) Client Onboarding
4 6 (13.04%) Process Improvement
4 6 (13.04%) Product Management
5 5 (10.87%) Containerisation
5 5 (10.87%) CRM
5 5 (10.87%) Line Management
5 5 (10.87%) Mentoring
5 5 (10.87%) Migration
5 5 (10.87%) Test Automation
6 4 (8.70%) Analytical Thinking
6 4 (8.70%) Data Privacy
6 4 (8.70%) Exploratory Testing
6 4 (8.70%) Software Testing
7 3 (6.52%) CI/CD
7 3 (6.52%) Coaching
7 3 (6.52%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 8 (17.39%) SQL
2 2 (4.35%) Java
2 2 (4.35%) PowerShell
2 2 (4.35%) Python
3 1 (2.17%) Bash
3 1 (2.17%) C#
3 1 (2.17%) C++
3 1 (2.17%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (15.22%) Degree
2 1 (2.17%) Azure Certification
2 1 (2.17%) CCNP
2 1 (2.17%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (2.17%) HP ASE
2 1 (2.17%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 1 (2.17%) NCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.17%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (30.43%) Hyper-V
2 12 (26.09%) Active Directory
3 8 (17.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (6.52%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 2 (4.35%) KVM
5 2 (4.35%) NFS
5 2 (4.35%) SRDF
5 2 (4.35%) Xen
Systems Management
1 4 (8.70%) Ansible
2 3 (6.52%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (6.52%) Puppet
3 2 (4.35%) Control-M
3 2 (4.35%) Kubernetes
4 1 (2.17%) NetApp OnCommand
4 1 (2.17%) NetBackup
4 1 (2.17%) Terraform
4 1 (2.17%) VxRail
Vendors
1 24 (52.17%) Microsoft
2 9 (19.57%) VMware
3 8 (17.39%) Cisco
4 6 (13.04%) IBM
5 4 (8.70%) NetApp
5 4 (8.70%) Zoho
6 3 (6.52%) EMC
6 3 (6.52%) Red Hat
7 2 (4.35%) F5
7 2 (4.35%) Google
7 2 (4.35%) Oracle
7 2 (4.35%) ServiceNow
8 1 (2.17%) Brocade
8 1 (2.17%) Commvault
8 1 (2.17%) Dell
8 1 (2.17%) HP
8 1 (2.17%) Pure Storage
8 1 (2.17%) Veritas