Windows Jobs in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Windows
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 12 18 18
Rank change year-on-year +6 0 -4
Permanent jobs citing Windows 7,250 6,840 7,816
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.34% 11.02% 11.09%
As % of the Operating Systems category 68.31% 66.83% 53.37%
Number of salaries quoted 5,992 4,498 6,002
10th Percentile £24,500 £24,500 £23,500
25th Percentile £27,500 £28,500 £27,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £40,000 £38,049
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +5.13% -4.88%
75th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
90th Percentile £62,500 £66,000 £67,500
UK median annual salary £40,000 £45,000 £44,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +2.27% -2.22%

All Operating Systems
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 10,614 10,235 14,644
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.14% 16.49% 20.77%
Number of salaries quoted 8,265 6,470 9,355
10th Percentile £25,250 £25,500 £25,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% - -
75th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £68,750 £73,750 £72,500
UK median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% - +5.00%

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 25 April 2024.

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 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
South East +2 2,097 £40,000 +9.59% 386
North of England +9 1,567 £37,500 -6.25% 313
Midlands +12 1,234 £35,000 -12.50% 259
South West +5 1,000 £42,500 +8.97% 222
North West -1 757 £40,000 - 183
East of England +2 756 £32,500 -16.91% 185
West Midlands +13 695 £35,000 -12.50% 155
Yorkshire +19 623 £37,250 -3.25% 100
East Midlands +10 533 £33,966 -15.09% 104
Scotland -39 390 £40,000 -11.11% 99
North East +12 189 £33,000 -17.50% 34
Wales +13 155 £32,500 -7.14% 26
Northern Ireland -13 49 £37,500 -25.00% 26
Isle of Man -5 12 £43,750 +45.83%
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 1,079 (14.88%) Microsoft Exchange
2 731 (10.08%) SharePoint
3 140 (1.93%) IIS
4 105 (1.45%) Apache
5 51 (0.70%) Confluence
6 37 (0.51%) CMS
7 35 (0.48%) OpenStack
8 33 (0.46%) Exchange Server 2013
9 29 (0.40%) Exchange Server 2010
10 24 (0.33%) Skype for Business
11 20 (0.28%) Exchange Server 2007
12 14 (0.19%) WordPress
13 11 (0.15%) Tomcat
14 10 (0.14%) Umbraco
15 9 (0.12%) SharePoint 2010
15 9 (0.12%) SharePoint 2013
16 8 (0.11%) nginx
17 7 (0.097%) ArcGIS
17 7 (0.097%) CloudStack
18 6 (0.083%) Exchange Server 2000
Applications
1 1,053 (14.52%) Microsoft Office
2 197 (2.72%) Microsoft Excel
3 75 (1.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 24 (0.33%) MS Visio
5 22 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
6 18 (0.25%) AutoCAD
7 17 (0.23%) Trello
8 10 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
9 8 (0.11%) Photoshop
10 7 (0.097%) InfoPath
11 5 (0.069%) Adobe Illustrator
12 4 (0.055%) Adobe XD
13 3 (0.041%) Final Cut Pro
13 3 (0.041%) Pro Tools
13 3 (0.041%) Simulink
14 2 (0.028%) Adobe Creative Suite
14 2 (0.028%) CATIA
14 2 (0.028%) NASTRAN
14 2 (0.028%) Sketch
15 1 (0.014%) 1Password
Business Applications
1 18 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (0.21%) Unit4 Business World
3 12 (0.17%) Dynamics NAV
4 11 (0.15%) SAP ERP
5 6 (0.083%) Sage 200
6 5 (0.069%) Shopify
7 4 (0.055%) NEC Housing
8 3 (0.041%) assyst
8 3 (0.041%) JDE EnterpriseOne
8 3 (0.041%) Remedy ITSM
8 3 (0.041%) Sage 50
8 3 (0.041%) Salesforce CRM
9 2 (0.028%) SAP Business One
9 2 (0.028%) SAP S/4HANA
9 2 (0.028%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 2 (0.028%) Teamcenter
9 2 (0.028%) Visualfiles
10 1 (0.014%) Sage X3
10 1 (0.014%) SAP CRM
10 1 (0.014%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 3,147 (43.41%) Microsoft 365
2 2,636 (36.36%) Azure
3 828 (11.42%) Entra ID
4 629 (8.68%) AWS
5 311 (4.29%) OneDrive
6 235 (3.24%) Azure DevOps
7 216 (2.98%) SaaS
8 213 (2.94%) IBM Cloud
9 147 (2.03%) IaaS
10 146 (2.01%) GCP
11 130 (1.79%) Serverless
12 124 (1.71%) Azure Logic Apps
13 116 (1.60%) Azure Service Bus
14 115 (1.59%) Azure Functions
15 113 (1.56%) Azure API Management
16 110 (1.52%) Power Platform
17 99 (1.37%) Google Workspace
18 97 (1.34%) Cloud Computing
19 86 (1.19%) Mimecast
20 73 (1.01%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1,385 (19.10%) Firewall
2 1,058 (14.59%) DNS
3 822 (11.34%) DHCP
4 689 (9.50%) TCP/IP
5 630 (8.69%) WAN
6 616 (8.50%) LAN
7 582 (8.03%) VPN
8 395 (5.45%) Wi-Fi
9 358 (4.94%) SAN
10 336 (4.63%) Wireless
11 303 (4.18%) VLAN
12 288 (3.97%) VoIP
13 206 (2.84%) Internet
14 156 (2.15%) Network Security
15 136 (1.88%) NAS
16 134 (1.85%) Remote Desktop
17 101 (1.39%) SD-WAN
18 100 (1.38%) SNMP
19 85 (1.17%) HTTP
20 69 (0.95%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 567 (7.82%) SQL Server
2 320 (4.41%) MongoDB
3 258 (3.56%) PostgreSQL
4 252 (3.48%) DB2
5 231 (3.19%) NoSQL
6 198 (2.73%) Relational Database
7 125 (1.72%) MySQL
8 119 (1.64%) Amazon RDS
9 85 (1.17%) Power BI
10 66 (0.91%) Elasticsearch
11 39 (0.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 35 (0.48%) Data Warehouse
13 32 (0.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 28 (0.39%) Oracle Database
15 26 (0.36%) RDBMS
16 25 (0.34%) Redis
17 24 (0.33%) Azure SQL Database
18 20 (0.28%) MariaDB
18 20 (0.28%) QlikView
19 19 (0.26%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 166 (2.29%) Git
2 141 (1.94%) JIRA
3 113 (1.56%) Visual Studio
4 69 (0.95%) Subversion
5 68 (0.94%) Jenkins
6 67 (0.92%) GitLab
7 34 (0.47%) Eclipse
8 25 (0.34%) IBM UrbanCode
9 24 (0.33%) Ant
10 23 (0.32%) LabVIEW
11 21 (0.29%) Artifactory
11 21 (0.29%) CMake
12 19 (0.26%) MSI
13 15 (0.21%) Bitbucket
13 15 (0.21%) Team Foundation Server
14 13 (0.18%) Octopus Deploy
15 11 (0.15%) Selenium
16 10 (0.14%) SonarQube
16 10 (0.14%) Trac
17 9 (0.12%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 2,222 (30.65%) Social Skills
2 699 (9.64%) Finance
3 597 (8.23%) Analytical Skills
4 410 (5.66%) Public Sector
5 289 (3.99%) Organisational Skills
6 266 (3.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 248 (3.42%) Manufacturing
8 247 (3.41%) Law
9 244 (3.37%) Retail
10 220 (3.03%) Telecoms
11 143 (1.97%) Legal
12 128 (1.77%) Marketing
13 120 (1.66%) Electronics
14 118 (1.63%) Documentation Skills
15 117 (1.61%) Aerospace
16 88 (1.21%) Games
17 81 (1.12%) Presentation Skills
18 78 (1.08%) Military
19 57 (0.79%) Automotive
20 53 (0.73%) Banking
Job Titles
1 1,267 (17.48%) IT Support
2 1,158 (15.97%) Support Engineer
3 951 (13.12%) IT Engineer
4 920 (12.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 841 (11.60%) Analyst
6 800 (11.03%) Senior
7 649 (8.95%) IT Support Engineer
8 489 (6.74%) IT Technician
9 414 (5.71%) 2nd Line Support
10 397 (5.48%) Lead
11 389 (5.37%) Developer
12 353 (4.87%) Support Technician
13 308 (4.25%) Support Analyst
14 300 (4.14%) IT Analyst
15 294 (4.06%) Software Engineer
16 288 (3.97%) IT Support Technician
17 271 (3.74%) 1st Line Support
18 265 (3.66%) 2nd Line Engineer
19 260 (3.59%) Service Analyst
20 251 (3.46%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 505 (6.97%) .NET
2 382 (5.27%) HTML
3 330 (4.55%) CSS
4 301 (4.15%) AngularJS
5 297 (4.10%) ASP.NET
6 292 (4.03%) React
7 285 (3.93%) REST
8 267 (3.68%) Web Services
9 262 (3.61%) Vue
10 261 (3.60%) jQuery
11 252 (3.48%) Twitter Bootstrap
12 216 (2.98%) ASP.NET Core
13 213 (2.94%) Backbone.js
13 213 (2.94%) Ember.js
14 143 (1.97%) Node.js
15 112 (1.54%) WPF
16 90 (1.24%) XML
17 83 (1.14%) .NET Framework
18 71 (0.98%) RabbitMQ
19 59 (0.81%) STL
Miscellaneous
1 464 (6.40%) Data Centre
2 444 (6.12%) Driving Licence
3 355 (4.90%) Self-Motivation
4 278 (3.83%) Management Information System
5 265 (3.66%) Hybrid Cloud
6 263 (3.63%) Algorithms
7 223 (3.08%) Data Structures
8 213 (2.94%) Blockchain
9 185 (2.55%) Public Cloud
10 166 (2.29%) Replication
11 151 (2.08%) Onboarding
12 112 (1.54%) Clustering
12 112 (1.54%) PKI
13 106 (1.46%) e-Learning
14 75 (1.03%) EPoS
15 64 (0.88%) CMDB
16 62 (0.86%) Smartphone
17 60 (0.83%) Client/Server
18 56 (0.77%) NHS
19 55 (0.76%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 2,825 (38.97%) Windows Server
2 1,878 (25.90%) Linux
3 1,396 (19.26%) Windows 10
4 516 (7.12%) Windows Server 2016
5 501 (6.91%) Android
6 475 (6.55%) Apple iOS
7 467 (6.44%) Windows Server 2019
8 427 (5.89%) Windows Server 2012
9 304 (4.19%) Mac OS
10 286 (3.94%) Windows 7
11 253 (3.49%) Unix
12 137 (1.89%) Windows 8
13 131 (1.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 122 (1.68%) Windows Server 2008
15 85 (1.17%) CentOS
16 74 (1.02%) Ubuntu
17 60 (0.83%) Mac OS X
17 60 (0.83%) VMS
18 50 (0.69%) Data ONTAP
19 35 (0.48%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,703 (23.49%) Problem-Solving
2 1,245 (17.17%) Customer Service
3 1,235 (17.03%) ITIL
4 1,179 (16.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 753 (10.39%) Cybersecurity
6 629 (8.68%) Agile
7 603 (8.32%) Mentoring
8 575 (7.93%) DevOps
9 428 (5.90%) Software Engineering
10 366 (5.05%) Computer Science
11 362 (4.99%) User Experience
12 358 (4.94%) Project Management
13 356 (4.91%) Service Management
14 329 (4.54%) Service Delivery
15 313 (4.32%) Disaster Recovery
16 306 (4.22%) Artificial Intelligence
17 303 (4.18%) OO
18 302 (4.17%) MVC
19 298 (4.11%) Continuous Improvement
20 282 (3.89%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 1,005 (13.86%) SQL
2 925 (12.76%) PowerShell
3 608 (8.39%) C#
4 607 (8.37%) Python
5 412 (5.68%) JavaScript
6 351 (4.84%) Java
7 290 (4.00%) C++
8 253 (3.49%) Bash
9 165 (2.28%) C
10 82 (1.13%) VB
11 61 (0.84%) T-SQL
12 59 (0.81%) VBScript
13 56 (0.77%) Perl
14 49 (0.68%) XAML
15 35 (0.48%) TypeScript
16 31 (0.43%) PHP
17 25 (0.34%) R
18 24 (0.33%) MATLAB
18 24 (0.33%) VB.NET
19 23 (0.32%) Go
Qualifications
1 1,058 (14.59%) Degree
2 902 (12.44%) Security Cleared
3 547 (7.54%) SC Cleared
4 448 (6.18%) Microsoft Certification
5 396 (5.46%) DV Cleared
6 267 (3.68%) Cisco Certification
6 267 (3.68%) Computer Science Degree
7 231 (3.19%) CCNA
8 217 (2.99%) DBS Check
9 151 (2.08%) A+ Certification
10 139 (1.92%) MCSE
11 138 (1.90%) MCP
12 94 (1.30%) Azure Certification
13 87 (1.20%) ITIL Certification
14 79 (1.09%) MCSA
15 74 (1.02%) Network+ Certification
16 69 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
17 63 (0.87%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
18 61 (0.84%) CCNP
19 56 (0.77%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 479 (6.61%) SLA
2 166 (2.29%) GDPR
3 137 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 121 (1.67%) Cyber Essentials
5 112 (1.54%) QA
6 58 (0.80%) PCI DSS
7 47 (0.65%) NIST
8 21 (0.29%) Data Quality
9 19 (0.26%) Accessibility
10 18 (0.25%) PMO
11 14 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 14 (0.19%) ITGC
12 13 (0.18%) ISO 9001
13 10 (0.14%) SOC 2
14 8 (0.11%) GRC
14 8 (0.11%) ISO 13485
14 8 (0.11%) MISRA
15 6 (0.083%) ISO 22301
15 6 (0.083%) ISO 9000
16 5 (0.069%) ISO 14001
System Software
1 3,213 (44.32%) Active Directory
2 1,247 (17.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1,055 (14.55%) Hyper-V
4 237 (3.27%) Docker
5 206 (2.84%) VMware ESXi
6 198 (2.73%) vSphere
7 189 (2.61%) Virtual Machines
8 116 (1.60%) Virtual Desktop
9 100 (1.38%) Firmware
10 84 (1.16%) XenApp
11 64 (0.88%) KVM
11 64 (0.88%) XenDesktop
12 50 (0.69%) VirtualBox
13 49 (0.68%) Virtual Servers
14 44 (0.61%) Terminal Services
15 23 (0.32%) VMware NSX
16 21 (0.29%) pfSense
16 21 (0.29%) VMware Server
17 20 (0.28%) VMware Workstation
18 18 (0.25%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 753 (10.39%) Microsoft Intune
2 497 (6.86%) SCCM
3 277 (3.82%) Ansible
4 265 (3.66%) Kubernetes
5 180 (2.48%) vCenter Server
6 167 (2.30%) WSUS
7 165 (2.28%) Terraform
8 124 (1.71%) SCOM
9 84 (1.16%) Puppet
10 80 (1.10%) Prometheus
11 56 (0.77%) FortiGate
12 53 (0.73%) Jamf Pro
13 45 (0.62%) ZABBIX
14 44 (0.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 44 (0.61%) Failover Clustering
15 43 (0.59%) Grafana
16 42 (0.58%) Progress Chef
17 40 (0.55%) Nagios
18 38 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
19 37 (0.51%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 3,675 (50.69%) Microsoft
2 1,838 (25.35%) VMware
3 550 (7.59%) Cisco
4 421 (5.81%) Red Hat
5 397 (5.48%) Citrix
6 349 (4.81%) Veeam
7 316 (4.36%) IBM
8 289 (3.99%) Dell
9 283 (3.90%) Apple
10 254 (3.50%) HP
11 225 (3.10%) Google
12 182 (2.51%) Oracle
13 164 (2.26%) NetApp
14 137 (1.89%) Meraki
15 129 (1.78%) ServiceNow
16 119 (1.64%) Sophos
17 101 (1.39%) Adobe
18 85 (1.17%) SolarWinds
19 82 (1.13%) Palo Alto
19 82 (1.13%) Splunk