Windows 8 Jobs in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Windows 8
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Windows 8 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Windows 8 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 569 644 691
Rank change year-on-year +75 +47 +83
Permanent jobs citing Windows 8 10 118 57
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.025% 0.16% 0.099%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.20% 1.10% 0.59%
Number of salaries quoted 10 106 48
10th Percentile £28,175 £22,750 £20,000
25th Percentile £31,188 £23,563 £24,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £28,583 £31,500
Median % change year-on-year +39.95% -9.26% +18.98%
75th Percentile - £34,500 £33,375
90th Percentile £48,750 £38,000 £36,000
UK median annual salary £40,000 £28,583 £31,500
% change year-on-year +39.95% -9.26% +14.55%

All Operating Systems
UK excluding London

Windows 8 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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 5,065 10,697 9,637
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.76% 14.28% 16.81%
Number of salaries quoted 2,959 8,165 5,978
10th Percentile £26,250 £25,500 £25,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -5.56% -
75th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £73,225
UK median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - -14.29% -

Windows 8
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Windows 8 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Windows 8 in the UK excluding London

Windows 8
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Windows 8 in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Windows 8 in the UK excluding London

Windows 8
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows 8 in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Windows 8 in the UK excluding London

Windows 8
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows 8 within the UK excluding London 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
North of England +28 5 £40,000 +70.21% 3
North West +1 5 £40,000 +70.21% 1
South West +110 2 £38,750 +28.10% 1
South East +24 2 £29,500 -1.67% 2
Northern Ireland - 1 £47,500 -
Windows 8
UK

Windows 8
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (20.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (20.00%) Azure
2 2 (20.00%) Entra ID
2 2 (20.00%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 5 (50.00%) DHCP
1 5 (50.00%) DNS
2 1 (10.00%) Firewall
2 1 (10.00%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (10.00%) Law
1 1 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Analyst
1 5 (50.00%) Support Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
3 1 (10.00%) 2nd Line Support
3 1 (10.00%) Active Directory Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Desktop Support
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Support
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) IT Support
3 1 (10.00%) Junior
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Professional Services Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Support Engineer
Operating Systems
1 10 (100.00%) Windows
2 8 (80.00%) Windows 7
3 4 (40.00%) Windows 10
4 2 (20.00%) Mac OS
5 1 (10.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (20.00%) Software Deployment
2 1 (10.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (10.00%) Email Management
2 1 (10.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (10.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (10.00%) Project Management
2 1 (10.00%) Remote Monitoring and Management
2 1 (10.00%) Service Management
2 1 (10.00%) Ticket Management
2 1 (10.00%) Time Management
2 1 (10.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) VB
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (10.00%) A+ Certification
2 1 (10.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) MCP
2 1 (10.00%) MCSE
2 1 (10.00%) Network+ Certification
2 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 10 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (10.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (10.00%) SCCM
1 1 (10.00%) WMI
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) VMware
2 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (10.00%) Meraki
3 1 (10.00%) NETGEAR
3 1 (10.00%) Remedy
3 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (10.00%) Ubiquiti