Windows Jobs in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Windows
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 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 16 12 16
Rank change year-on-year -4 +4 +3
Permanent jobs citing Windows 3,508 7,187 6,462
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.84% 9.60% 11.27%
As % of the Operating Systems category 69.26% 67.19% 67.05%
Number of salaries quoted 2,292 5,826 4,153
10th Percentile £26,250 £24,696 £24,750
25th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £28,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £37,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year - -6.25% -
75th Percentile £47,500 £52,500 £55,000
90th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £66,250
UK median annual salary £40,000 £40,000 £44,500
% change year-on-year - -10.11% +1.14%

All Operating Systems
UK excluding London

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 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
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in the UK excluding London

Windows
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Windows in the UK excluding London

Windows
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Salary histogram for Windows in the UK excluding London

Windows
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 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 -3 1,061 £34,500 -8.00% 454
South East -4 907 £38,325 -4.19% 406
Midlands -1 796 £36,925 +5.50% 246
North West -14 573 £38,000 -5.00% 251
West Midlands +6 554 £36,925 +5.50% 141
Yorkshire +4 439 £32,000 -11.11% 147
South West -5 315 £35,000 -16.67% 272
East of England -24 310 £43,000 +32.31% 215
East Midlands -16 240 £32,500 -4.32% 104
Scotland -14 95 £50,000 +17.65% 151
Wales -11 50 £48,750 +50.00% 42
North East -14 47 £48,000 +45.45% 61
Northern Ireland +1 4 £50,000 +33.33% 42
Isle of Man +5 1 £34,500 -21.14%
Channel Islands - 1 £45,000 - 18
Windows
UK

Windows
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
1 379 (10.80%) Microsoft Exchange
2 270 (7.70%) SharePoint
3 75 (2.14%) IIS
4 62 (1.77%) Confluence
5 46 (1.31%) Apache
6 14 (0.40%) Tomcat
7 12 (0.34%) OpenEdge
8 11 (0.31%) Exchange Server 2013
9 7 (0.20%) IBM Domino
9 7 (0.20%) nginx
9 7 (0.20%) SharePoint Server
9 7 (0.20%) WordPress
10 6 (0.17%) Skype for Business
11 4 (0.11%) Exchange Server 2010
11 4 (0.11%) OpenStack
11 4 (0.11%) SAS
12 3 (0.086%) CMS
12 3 (0.086%) Exchange Server 2007
12 3 (0.086%) Office Communications Server
13 2 (0.057%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 312 (8.89%) Microsoft Office
2 73 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
3 33 (0.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
5 6 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
5 6 (0.17%) Mozilla Thunderbird
5 6 (0.17%) MS Visio
5 6 (0.17%) Trello
6 2 (0.057%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.029%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.029%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.029%) GNU Octave
7 1 (0.029%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 25 (0.71%) Dynamics NAV
2 10 (0.29%) NetSuite
2 10 (0.29%) Remedy ITSM
3 7 (0.20%) SAP Business One
3 7 (0.20%) SAP ERP
3 7 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
4 6 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
5 4 (0.11%) Oracle Applications
6 3 (0.086%) Dynamics CRM
6 3 (0.086%) Sage 50
7 2 (0.057%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
7 2 (0.057%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.057%) Sage 1000
8 1 (0.029%) assyst
8 1 (0.029%) Dynamics GP
8 1 (0.029%) Elite 3E
8 1 (0.029%) iTrent
8 1 (0.029%) Magento
8 1 (0.029%) Oracle Payables
8 1 (0.029%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 1,088 (31.01%) Microsoft 365
2 864 (24.63%) Azure
3 375 (10.69%) AWS
4 254 (7.24%) Entra ID
5 98 (2.79%) SaaS
6 87 (2.48%) OneDrive
7 45 (1.28%) Power Platform
8 43 (1.23%) IaaS
9 40 (1.14%) GCP
9 40 (1.14%) PaaS
10 34 (0.97%) Google Workspace
11 30 (0.86%) Azure DevOps
12 28 (0.80%) PowerApps
13 26 (0.74%) Amazon EC2
13 26 (0.74%) Mimecast
14 24 (0.68%) Cloud Computing
15 22 (0.63%) Amazon S3
15 22 (0.63%) Microsoft Copilot
15 22 (0.63%) Power Automate
16 21 (0.60%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 584 (16.65%) Firewall
2 544 (15.51%) VPN
3 366 (10.43%) DNS
4 311 (8.87%) Cisco IOS
5 298 (8.49%) WAN
6 295 (8.41%) DHCP
7 286 (8.15%) LAN
8 259 (7.38%) TCP/IP
9 157 (4.48%) VoIP
10 156 (4.45%) VLAN
11 125 (3.56%) SAN
12 120 (3.42%) Wi-Fi
13 110 (3.14%) Network Security
14 93 (2.65%) Wireless
15 79 (2.25%) Broadband
16 76 (2.17%) Internet
17 57 (1.62%) Remote Desktop
18 54 (1.54%) NAS
18 54 (1.54%) WLAN
19 42 (1.20%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 196 (5.59%) SQL Server
2 65 (1.85%) Relational Database
3 55 (1.57%) Amazon RDS
4 54 (1.54%) MySQL
5 40 (1.14%) PostgreSQL
6 24 (0.68%) RDBMS
7 19 (0.54%) Power BI
8 11 (0.31%) DB2
8 11 (0.31%) NoSQL
8 11 (0.31%) Oracle Database
9 9 (0.26%) Data Warehouse
10 8 (0.23%) Elasticsearch
10 8 (0.23%) GIS
10 8 (0.23%) MongoDB
11 6 (0.17%) Azure SQL Database
11 6 (0.17%) Oracle Exadata
11 6 (0.17%) Oracle Reports
12 5 (0.14%) SAP HANA
12 5 (0.14%) Tableau
13 4 (0.11%) MaxDB
Development Applications
1 104 (2.96%) JIRA
2 92 (2.62%) Git
3 62 (1.77%) Cucumber
3 62 (1.77%) Robot Framework
4 39 (1.11%) Bitbucket
5 38 (1.08%) Jenkins
6 25 (0.71%) Eclipse
6 25 (0.71%) Eclipse RCP
7 18 (0.51%) Visual Studio
8 17 (0.48%) Vagrant
9 15 (0.43%) MSI
10 13 (0.37%) Sonatype Nexus
11 9 (0.26%) GitLab
11 9 (0.26%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 6 (0.17%) Selenium
13 5 (0.14%) Octopus Deploy
13 5 (0.14%) Oracle Forms
13 5 (0.14%) Subversion
13 5 (0.14%) TeamCity
14 4 (0.11%) LabVIEW
General
1 1,214 (34.61%) Social Skills
2 473 (13.48%) Analytical Skills
3 451 (12.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 179 (5.10%) Finance
5 159 (4.53%) Presentation Skills
6 138 (3.93%) Telecoms
7 132 (3.76%) Organisational Skills
8 115 (3.28%) Retail
9 110 (3.14%) Manufacturing
10 77 (2.19%) Law
11 76 (2.17%) Esports
11 76 (2.17%) Legal
12 59 (1.68%) Public Sector
13 45 (1.28%) Automotive
14 41 (1.17%) Electronics
15 30 (0.86%) Banking
16 27 (0.77%) Advertising
17 26 (0.74%) Back Office
17 26 (0.74%) Documentation Skills
18 22 (0.63%) Games
Job Titles
1 792 (22.58%) IT Support
2 476 (13.57%) Support Engineer
3 471 (13.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 393 (11.20%) Analyst
5 329 (9.38%) IT Engineer
6 220 (6.27%) Support Analyst
7 204 (5.82%) 2nd Line Support
8 190 (5.42%) IT Support Engineer
9 174 (4.96%) IT Analyst
10 162 (4.62%) Senior
11 149 (4.25%) Lead
12 133 (3.79%) 1st Line Support
13 125 (3.56%) IT Support Analyst
14 112 (3.19%) Administrator
15 108 (3.08%) Support Technician
16 103 (2.94%) Technical Support
17 102 (2.91%) Infrastructure Support
18 93 (2.65%) 3rd Line Support
19 90 (2.57%) Systems Engineer
20 89 (2.54%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 267 (7.61%) Elastic Stack
2 100 (2.85%) .NET
3 45 (1.28%) HTML
4 42 (1.20%) CSS
5 41 (1.17%) Middleware
6 25 (0.71%) JSP
7 22 (0.63%) REST
8 20 (0.57%) ASP.NET
9 17 (0.48%) XML
10 14 (0.40%) .NET Framework
10 14 (0.40%) LDAP
11 13 (0.37%) JSON
12 12 (0.34%) .NET Core
12 12 (0.34%) SOAP
13 10 (0.29%) WinForms
14 9 (0.26%) Entity Framework
14 9 (0.26%) MFC
15 8 (0.23%) Node.js
15 8 (0.23%) SAML
15 8 (0.23%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 546 (15.56%) Social Media
2 260 (7.41%) Cyberattack
3 208 (5.93%) Driving Licence
4 155 (4.42%) Enterprise Software
5 114 (3.25%) Management Information System
6 106 (3.02%) Self-Motivation
7 92 (2.62%) Onboarding
8 87 (2.48%) Data Centre
9 81 (2.31%) Operational Technology
10 69 (1.97%) Linux Command Line
11 56 (1.60%) CCTV
12 48 (1.37%) Replication
13 40 (1.14%) IoT
14 39 (1.11%) Clustering
15 31 (0.88%) Video Conferencing
16 28 (0.80%) Mobile App
16 28 (0.80%) PKI
17 26 (0.74%) Hybrid Cloud
18 24 (0.68%) Team-Oriented Environment
18 24 (0.68%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 928 (26.45%) Linux
2 855 (24.37%) Windows Server
3 522 (14.88%) Windows Vista
4 399 (11.37%) Windows 10
5 389 (11.09%) Android
6 164 (4.68%) Mac OS
7 122 (3.48%) Windows Server 2019
8 112 (3.19%) Windows Server 2012
9 105 (2.99%) Windows Server 2016
10 102 (2.91%) Apple iOS
11 74 (2.11%) Unix
12 44 (1.25%) Mac OS X
13 40 (1.14%) Windows 7
14 34 (0.97%) Ubuntu
15 33 (0.94%) VMS
16 24 (0.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
17 18 (0.51%) CentOS
18 10 (0.29%) Windows 8
19 8 (0.23%) AIX
19 8 (0.23%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,269 (36.17%) Problem-Solving
2 530 (15.11%) Customer Service
3 504 (14.37%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 493 (14.05%) Mathematics
5 473 (13.48%) Line Management
6 453 (12.91%) DevOps
7 423 (12.06%) ITIL
8 365 (10.40%) Cybersecurity
9 301 (8.58%) Task Automation
10 282 (8.04%) Risk Management
11 280 (7.98%) Platform Engineering
12 278 (7.92%) Mentoring
13 276 (7.87%) Storage Management
14 268 (7.64%) Computer Science
15 213 (6.07%) Coaching
16 194 (5.53%) Agile
17 182 (5.19%) Continuous Improvement
18 149 (4.25%) ITSM
19 129 (3.68%) Disaster Recovery
20 126 (3.59%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 706 (20.13%) PowerShell
2 518 (14.77%) Python
3 393 (11.20%) Bash
4 270 (7.70%) SQL
5 135 (3.85%) C#
6 111 (3.16%) JavaScript
7 86 (2.45%) Java
8 53 (1.51%) C++
9 25 (0.71%) PHP
10 24 (0.68%) C
11 22 (0.63%) Ada
11 22 (0.63%) Rust
12 18 (0.51%) Groovy
12 18 (0.51%) VBA
13 17 (0.48%) Progress 4GL
14 16 (0.46%) Perl
15 14 (0.40%) T-SQL
16 12 (0.34%) Shell Script
17 11 (0.31%) VB
18 10 (0.29%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 664 (18.93%) Degree
2 580 (16.53%) DBS Check
3 268 (7.64%) Microsoft Certification
4 264 (7.53%) Security Cleared
5 154 (4.39%) SC Cleared
6 137 (3.91%) DV Cleared
7 110 (3.14%) A+ Certification
8 104 (2.96%) Cisco Certification
9 98 (2.79%) Computer Science Degree
10 94 (2.68%) MCSE
11 84 (2.39%) BPSS Clearance
12 82 (2.34%) CCNA
13 78 (2.22%) MCP
14 77 (2.19%) MCSA
15 66 (1.88%) CCNP
16 64 (1.82%) Azure Certification
17 53 (1.51%) Network+ Certification
18 38 (1.08%) Master's Degree
19 33 (0.94%) HND
20 31 (0.88%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 150 (4.28%) SLA
2 93 (2.65%) QA
3 82 (2.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 71 (2.02%) GDPR
5 50 (1.43%) Cyber Essentials
6 19 (0.54%) NIST
7 17 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 13 (0.37%) PCI DSS
9 10 (0.29%) COBIT
10 7 (0.20%) ISO 9001
11 6 (0.17%) Accessibility
12 5 (0.14%) NCSC
13 4 (0.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 3 (0.086%) ISO 14001
15 2 (0.057%) ISO 13485
15 2 (0.057%) ISO 9000
15 2 (0.057%) PMO
16 1 (0.029%) SOC 2
16 1 (0.029%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 1,170 (33.35%) Active Directory
2 509 (14.51%) Hyper-V
3 352 (10.03%) VMware Infrastructure
4 329 (9.38%) Docker
5 317 (9.04%) vSphere
6 270 (7.70%) VMware NSX
7 78 (2.22%) VMware ESXi
8 66 (1.88%) Virtual Servers
9 63 (1.80%) Virtual Desktop
10 41 (1.17%) Virtual Machines
11 37 (1.05%) Firmware
12 27 (0.77%) Terminal Services
13 21 (0.60%) BitLocker
14 18 (0.51%) XenApp
15 13 (0.37%) DFS Replication
16 9 (0.26%) Microsoft App-V
17 6 (0.17%) NFS
18 4 (0.11%) Squid
19 3 (0.086%) Postfix
19 3 (0.086%) Xen
Systems Management
1 402 (11.46%) Ansible
2 356 (10.15%) Terraform
3 310 (8.84%) Microsoft Intune
4 89 (2.54%) SCCM
5 58 (1.65%) Kubernetes
6 44 (1.25%) Puppet
7 27 (0.77%) vCenter Server
8 24 (0.68%) Jamf Pro
9 23 (0.66%) Grafana
9 23 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
10 19 (0.54%) Prometheus
10 19 (0.54%) SCOM
10 19 (0.54%) WMI
11 17 (0.48%) FortiGate
12 16 (0.46%) Proxmox
13 14 (0.40%) vMotion
14 12 (0.34%) Nagios
15 11 (0.31%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 11 (0.31%) AirWatch
16 10 (0.29%) Autotask
Vendors
1 1,454 (41.45%) Microsoft
2 557 (15.88%) Cisco
3 500 (14.25%) VMware
4 288 (8.21%) Juniper
5 281 (8.01%) Splunk
6 260 (7.41%) 3PAR
7 137 (3.91%) Apple
8 102 (2.91%) Veeam
9 89 (2.54%) ServiceNow
10 85 (2.42%) Meraki
11 83 (2.37%) Citrix
12 68 (1.94%) Sun
13 67 (1.91%) Google
14 64 (1.82%) Oracle
15 54 (1.54%) HP
16 50 (1.43%) Dell
17 42 (1.20%) SAP
18 41 (1.17%) Atlassian
19 38 (1.08%) Fortinet
20 34 (0.97%) Sophos