Windows 10 Jobs

Microsoft Windows 10
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Windows 10 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Windows 10 over the 6 months leading up to 23 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 185 153 221
Rank change year-on-year -32 +68 -30
Permanent jobs citing Windows 10 1,094 1,359 2,558
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.45% 2.29% 1.82%
As % of the Operating Systems category 11.84% 13.13% 10.69%
Number of salaries quoted 675 1,195 2,073
10th Percentile £26,250 £25,000 £23,375
25th Percentile £30,000 £27,750 £26,737
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,000 £35,000 £34,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.71% +2.94% +4.62%
75th Percentile £47,500 £48,750 £45,479
90th Percentile £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £33,250 £31,000 £30,500
% change year-on-year +7.26% +1.64% +5.17%

All Operating Systems
UK

Windows 10 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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 9,239 10,352 23,928
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.21% 17.41% 17.03%
Number of salaries quoted 5,285 7,679 14,323
10th Percentile £28,388 £27,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £51,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% +5.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £69,800 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £46,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +3.26% +2.22% -

Windows 10
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Windows 10 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Windows 10 in the UK

Windows 10
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Windows 10.

Salary trend for Windows 10 in the UK

Windows 10
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows 10 over the 6 months to 23 October 2024.

Salary histogram for Windows 10 in the UK

Windows 10
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows 10 within the UK over the 6 months to 23 October 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
England -57 998 £37,000 +5.71% 264
UK excluding London -7 788 £33,250 +7.26% 220
Work from Home +3 323 £36,750 -8.13% 149
London -100 293 £42,500 +10.39% 63
South East -42 186 £37,500 +25.00% 65
Midlands +26 180 £32,500 -4.41% 44
North of England -45 162 £31,500 -3.08% 50
South West +21 117 £30,695 +4.26% 23
West Midlands -5 108 £35,000 - 21
North West -38 89 £32,000 -14.67% 35
Scotland +35 72 £29,000 -4.13% 15
East Midlands +19 72 £30,000 +3.45% 23
Yorkshire -3 56 £30,000 - 12
East of England -65 54 £42,500 +57.41% 23
North East -25 16 £34,000 +4.62% 4
Northern Ireland +31 12 £52,500 +40.00% 4
Wales +20 5 £34,000 +1.49% 4

Windows 10
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 226 (20.66%) Microsoft Exchange
2 173 (15.81%) SharePoint
3 11 (1.01%) Confluence
4 10 (0.91%) Skype for Business
5 7 (0.64%) IIS
6 4 (0.37%) CMS
7 2 (0.18%) SharePoint Server
7 2 (0.18%) Site Server
8 1 (0.091%) Exchange Server 2010
8 1 (0.091%) Exchange Server 2013
8 1 (0.091%) MQSeries
8 1 (0.091%) SharePoint 2013
8 1 (0.091%) WordPress
Applications
1 300 (27.42%) Microsoft Office
2 53 (4.84%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.27%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.091%) Acrobat
5 1 (0.091%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.091%) Adobe Premiere
5 1 (0.091%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (0.64%) Dynamics NAV
2 6 (0.55%) Remedy ITSM
3 4 (0.37%) NEC Housing
4 3 (0.27%) Dynamics AX
5 2 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.091%) Farmplan
6 1 (0.091%) iTrent
6 1 (0.091%) KEYPrime
6 1 (0.091%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 680 (62.16%) Microsoft 365
2 361 (33.00%) Azure
3 206 (18.83%) Entra ID
4 67 (6.12%) OneDrive
5 37 (3.38%) Google Workspace
6 31 (2.83%) AWS
7 27 (2.47%) Mimecast
8 12 (1.10%) IaaS
8 12 (1.10%) PaaS
9 10 (0.91%) SaaS
10 9 (0.82%) Dynamics 365
11 8 (0.73%) Datadog
12 7 (0.64%) Dropbox
13 6 (0.55%) Cloud Computing
13 6 (0.55%) WhatsApp
14 5 (0.46%) Azure DevOps
14 5 (0.46%) GCP
15 4 (0.37%) Power Platform
15 4 (0.37%) Slack
16 3 (0.27%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 256 (23.40%) DNS
2 203 (18.56%) DHCP
3 189 (17.28%) Firewall
4 147 (13.44%) TCP/IP
5 141 (12.89%) LAN
6 128 (11.70%) WAN
7 113 (10.33%) VPN
8 88 (8.04%) Wireless
9 85 (7.77%) Wi-Fi
10 80 (7.31%) VLAN
11 54 (4.94%) WLAN
12 47 (4.30%) Broadband
13 37 (3.38%) SAN
14 33 (3.02%) VoIP
15 31 (2.83%) Internet
16 25 (2.29%) FTP
17 24 (2.19%) 4G
17 24 (2.19%) BGP
17 24 (2.19%) Remote Desktop
18 20 (1.83%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (5.85%) SQL Server
2 28 (2.56%) Amazon RDS
3 11 (1.01%) MySQL
4 8 (0.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 6 (0.55%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (0.46%) Metadata
7 4 (0.37%) UniData
8 2 (0.18%) Power BI
8 2 (0.18%) Tableau
9 1 (0.091%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.091%) Electronic Patient Records
9 1 (0.091%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.091%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 22 (2.01%) JIRA
2 16 (1.46%) MSI
3 12 (1.10%) InstallShield
4 10 (0.91%) AdminStudio
5 7 (0.64%) LabVIEW
6 5 (0.46%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 5 (0.46%) Bitbucket
6 5 (0.46%) Git
6 5 (0.46%) Jenkins
6 5 (0.46%) Visual Studio
7 3 (0.27%) Axure RP
7 3 (0.27%) Subversion
8 2 (0.18%) Wise Package Studio
9 1 (0.091%) IntelliJ
General
1 437 (39.95%) Social Skills
2 157 (14.35%) Finance
3 83 (7.59%) Law
4 77 (7.04%) Legal
5 75 (6.86%) Analytical Skills
6 64 (5.85%) Manufacturing
7 57 (5.21%) Games
8 46 (4.20%) Italian Language
9 36 (3.29%) Banking
10 33 (3.02%) Organisational Skills
11 31 (2.83%) Public Sector
11 31 (2.83%) Retail
11 31 (2.83%) Telecoms
12 26 (2.38%) Automotive
13 25 (2.29%) Back Office
14 21 (1.92%) Marketing
15 15 (1.37%) Financial Institution
16 12 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 11 (1.01%) Documentation Skills
17 11 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 372 (34.00%) Analyst
2 264 (24.13%) IT Support
3 175 (16.00%) Support Analyst
3 175 (16.00%) Support Engineer
4 169 (15.45%) Service Analyst
5 167 (15.27%) IT Analyst
6 165 (15.08%) Service Desk Analyst
7 132 (12.07%) IT Engineer
8 114 (10.42%) IT Support Analyst
9 108 (9.87%) 2nd Line Support
10 90 (8.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 88 (8.04%) Senior
12 79 (7.22%) 2nd Line Engineer
13 76 (6.95%) Desktop Engineer
14 71 (6.49%) IT Support Engineer
15 66 (6.03%) IT Technician
16 62 (5.67%) Desktop Support
17 54 (4.94%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
18 46 (4.20%) 1st Line Support
19 42 (3.84%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (0.82%) ADO
2 5 (0.46%) .NET
2 5 (0.46%) LDAP
2 5 (0.46%) Web Services
3 4 (0.37%) XMPP
4 3 (0.27%) .NET Framework
4 3 (0.27%) 802.1X
4 3 (0.27%) Qt
4 3 (0.27%) Software Packaging
5 2 (0.18%) HTML
5 2 (0.18%) RESTful
5 2 (0.18%) SAML
5 2 (0.18%) SOAP
5 2 (0.18%) Universal Windows Platform
5 2 (0.18%) WPF
6 1 (0.091%) ARM Templates
6 1 (0.091%) Hibernate
6 1 (0.091%) JSON
6 1 (0.091%) Spring
6 1 (0.091%) TAPI
Miscellaneous
1 73 (6.67%) Smartphone
2 66 (6.03%) Self-Motivation
3 47 (4.30%) Onboarding
4 41 (3.75%) Driving Licence
5 37 (3.38%) Management Information System
6 26 (2.38%) Video Conferencing
7 22 (2.01%) Data Centre
8 16 (1.46%) Enterprise Software
9 15 (1.37%) iPhone
9 15 (1.37%) Replication
10 13 (1.19%) Blackberry
10 13 (1.19%) Handset
11 11 (1.01%) CMDB
11 11 (1.01%) PKI
12 10 (0.91%) Clustering
12 10 (0.91%) EPoS
12 10 (0.91%) Robotics
13 9 (0.82%) Public Cloud
13 9 (0.82%) Shadow IT
14 7 (0.64%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 1,094 (100.00%) Windows
2 335 (30.62%) Windows Server
3 136 (12.43%) Android
4 129 (11.79%) Windows Server 2019
5 127 (11.61%) Windows Server 2016
6 124 (11.33%) Apple iOS
7 106 (9.69%) Mac OS
8 91 (8.32%) Linux
9 89 (8.14%) Windows 7
10 83 (7.59%) Windows Server 2012
11 33 (3.02%) Mac OS X
12 27 (2.47%) Ubuntu
13 25 (2.29%) Windows Server 2008
14 12 (1.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 10 (0.91%) Windows NT
16 6 (0.55%) CentOS
16 6 (0.55%) Unix
16 6 (0.55%) Windows 8
16 6 (0.55%) Windows Server 2003
17 5 (0.46%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 357 (32.63%) Customer Service
2 300 (27.42%) Problem-Solving
3 239 (21.85%) ITIL
4 109 (9.96%) ITSM
5 101 (9.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 91 (8.32%) Service Management
7 73 (6.67%) Cybersecurity
8 70 (6.40%) Change Management
8 70 (6.40%) Service Delivery
9 63 (5.76%) Roadmaps
9 63 (5.76%) Ticket Management
10 61 (5.58%) Customer Experience
11 59 (5.39%) Continuous Improvement
12 55 (5.03%) Time Management
13 50 (4.57%) Computer Science
13 50 (4.57%) Inventory Management
14 49 (4.48%) Technology Roadmap
15 48 (4.39%) Disaster Recovery
16 44 (4.02%) Asset Management
16 44 (4.02%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 137 (12.52%) PowerShell
2 81 (7.40%) SQL
3 23 (2.10%) VB
4 16 (1.46%) C#
5 11 (1.01%) VBScript
6 10 (0.91%) Python
7 7 (0.64%) Bash
8 6 (0.55%) Java
9 3 (0.27%) C
9 3 (0.27%) C++
10 2 (0.18%) JavaScript
10 2 (0.18%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.18%) VB.NET
10 2 (0.18%) XAML
11 1 (0.091%) VBA
Qualifications
1 149 (13.62%) Degree
2 106 (9.69%) Microsoft Certification
3 98 (8.96%) Security Cleared
4 75 (6.86%) SC Cleared
5 41 (3.75%) Computer Science Degree
6 40 (3.66%) DV Cleared
6 40 (3.66%) MCSE
7 33 (3.02%) DBS Check
8 30 (2.74%) MCP
9 27 (2.47%) HND
10 22 (2.01%) Cisco Certification
11 21 (1.92%) CCNA
11 21 (1.92%) HNC
12 20 (1.83%) ITIL Certification
13 18 (1.65%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 17 (1.55%) Azure Certification
15 11 (1.01%) A+ Certification
16 9 (0.82%) MCITP
16 9 (0.82%) Network+ Certification
16 9 (0.82%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (6.86%) SLA
2 28 (2.56%) Cyber Essentials
3 21 (1.92%) GDPR
4 14 (1.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 13 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (0.82%) QA
7 8 (0.73%) Accessibility
8 6 (0.55%) NIST
9 5 (0.46%) NIST 800
10 4 (0.37%) PMO
11 1 (0.091%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 689 (62.98%) Active Directory
2 139 (12.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 124 (11.33%) Hyper-V
4 49 (4.48%) Virtual Desktop
5 32 (2.93%) VMware ESXi
6 20 (1.83%) XenApp
7 17 (1.55%) vSphere
8 16 (1.46%) Firmware
9 14 (1.28%) VMware NSX
10 13 (1.19%) XenDesktop
11 10 (0.91%) Microsoft App-V
12 8 (0.73%) Virtual Servers
13 7 (0.64%) Docker
13 7 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
14 5 (0.46%) Terminal Services
15 4 (0.37%) BitLocker
16 3 (0.27%) Microsoft Virtual Server
17 2 (0.18%) NFS
Systems Management
1 228 (20.84%) SCCM
2 206 (18.83%) Microsoft Intune
3 55 (5.03%) WSUS
4 36 (3.29%) Jamf Pro
5 22 (2.01%) vCenter Server
6 18 (1.65%) Terraform
7 14 (1.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 13 (1.19%) Single Sign-On
9 9 (0.82%) Sysprep
10 8 (0.73%) McAfee ePO
10 8 (0.73%) SCOM
11 7 (0.64%) Nessus
12 6 (0.55%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
12 6 (0.55%) PaperCut
12 6 (0.55%) SCDPM
12 6 (0.55%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
13 5 (0.46%) Kubernetes
13 5 (0.46%) Microsoft Clustering
13 5 (0.46%) Packer
13 5 (0.46%) VxRail
Vendors
1 724 (66.18%) Microsoft
2 210 (19.20%) VMware
3 133 (12.16%) Cisco
4 102 (9.32%) Citrix
5 71 (6.49%) Apple
6 49 (4.48%) Dell
7 48 (4.39%) ServiceNow
8 46 (4.20%) Google
9 45 (4.11%) Veeam
10 31 (2.83%) iManage
11 29 (2.65%) Fortinet
12 28 (2.56%) Bloomberg
13 27 (2.47%) Meraki
14 26 (2.38%) Sophos
15 24 (2.19%) Ubiquiti
16 20 (1.83%) HP
17 17 (1.55%) McAfee
17 17 (1.55%) SolarWinds
18 15 (1.37%) Aruba
19 13 (1.19%) Remedy