Microsoft Windows 10
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Windows 10 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Windows 10 over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 145 203 231
Rank change year-on-year +58 +28 -57
Permanent jobs citing Windows 10 1,960 1,979 2,789
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.00% 1.89% 1.81%
As % of the Operating Systems category 13.88% 11.87% 9.58%
Number of salaries quoted 1,664 1,542 2,238
10th Percentile £23,500 £25,000 £23,000
25th Percentile £26,250 £28,000 £26,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £35,000 £32,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +9.38% -2.29%
75th Percentile £43,750 £46,188 £45,000
90th Percentile £55,000 £60,225 £59,300
UK excluding London median annual salary £30,000 £31,000 £28,500
% change year-on-year -3.23% +8.77% -1.72%

All Operating Systems
UK

Windows 10 is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 14,126 16,679 29,098
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 14.39% 15.92% 18.88%
Number of salaries quoted 10,937 11,263 16,749
10th Percentile £25,759 £27,000 £26,450
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £35,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £71,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £92,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -5.56% - -

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 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Windows 10 in the UK

Windows 10
Top 18 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 26 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
England +54 1,859 £32,500 -5.80% 319
UK excluding London +27 1,400 £30,000 -3.23% 259
London +55 533 £42,072 +5.18% 79
Work from Home +51 518 £38,000 +1.33% 81
South East +36 462 £32,500 +4.84% 68
North of England +14 268 £30,000 -6.25% 53
Midlands +33 209 £29,500 -7.81% 45
South West +14 200 £32,000 +3.23% 48
East of England +64 185 £30,000 -7.69% 30
West Midlands +60 163 £29,500 -7.81% 29
North West -34 113 £30,000 -3.23% 35
Yorkshire +67 104 £30,500 -4.69% 16
North East +31 51 £27,500 -8.33% 2
East Midlands -22 45 £28,165 -13.34% 16
Scotland -72 45 £30,000 -29.41% 15
Wales +10 23 £27,000 -10.00% 3
Northern Ireland +21 5 £105,000 +236.00% 4
Isle of Man - 4 £43,000 -

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
1 581 (29.64%) Microsoft Exchange
2 309 (15.77%) SharePoint
3 43 (2.19%) Skype for Business
4 10 (0.51%) CMS
4 10 (0.51%) IIS
5 8 (0.41%) Confluence
6 7 (0.36%) Exchange Server 2013
7 6 (0.31%) Exchange Server 2000
7 6 (0.31%) OpenStack
8 5 (0.26%) Exchange Server 2010
8 5 (0.26%) SharePoint 2010
8 5 (0.26%) SharePoint 2013
9 4 (0.20%) MQSeries
10 3 (0.15%) Apache
10 3 (0.15%) WordPress
11 1 (0.051%) IBM Notes
11 1 (0.051%) Moodle
Applications
1 617 (31.48%) Microsoft Office
2 34 (1.73%) Microsoft Excel
3 14 (0.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (0.51%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.10%) Adobe Illustrator
5 2 (0.10%) InCopy
5 2 (0.10%) InDesign
5 2 (0.10%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.10%) Photoshop
5 2 (0.10%) S-PLUS
6 1 (0.051%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 5 (0.26%) Elite 3E
2 4 (0.20%) Carpe Diem
3 3 (0.15%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.15%) Eikon
4 2 (0.10%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.10%) Farmplan
4 2 (0.10%) KEYPrime
4 2 (0.10%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.10%) Sage 200
4 2 (0.10%) Sage 50
4 2 (0.10%) Shopify
5 1 (0.051%) Sage 300 ERP
5 1 (0.051%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.051%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.051%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 1,402 (71.53%) Microsoft 365
2 603 (30.77%) Azure
3 281 (14.34%) Entra ID
4 148 (7.55%) OneDrive
5 49 (2.50%) Mimecast
6 48 (2.45%) AWS
7 36 (1.84%) Power Platform
8 31 (1.58%) Power Automate
9 29 (1.48%) SaaS
10 27 (1.38%) Google Workspace
11 26 (1.33%) IaaS
12 21 (1.07%) Azure Sentinel
13 19 (0.97%) PaaS
14 15 (0.77%) WhatsApp
15 13 (0.66%) Cloud Computing
16 12 (0.61%) OCI
17 11 (0.56%) Azure DevOps
17 11 (0.56%) Nutanix
18 10 (0.51%) GCP
19 9 (0.46%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 298 (15.20%) WAN
2 284 (14.49%) Firewall
3 279 (14.23%) DNS
4 228 (11.63%) DHCP
5 223 (11.38%) Wireless
6 218 (11.12%) TCP/IP
7 192 (9.80%) LAN
8 160 (8.16%) Wi-Fi
9 146 (7.45%) Cisco IOS
10 142 (7.24%) VPN
11 123 (6.28%) SD-WAN
12 120 (6.12%) WebEx
13 97 (4.95%) VLAN
14 83 (4.23%) VoIP
15 69 (3.52%) SAN
16 51 (2.60%) Internet
17 45 (2.30%) Remote Desktop
18 43 (2.19%) Skype
19 29 (1.48%) Telepresence
20 23 (1.17%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (4.34%) SQL Server
2 26 (1.33%) Power BI
3 25 (1.28%) MySQL
4 21 (1.07%) Amazon RDS
5 9 (0.46%) DB2
5 9 (0.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 8 (0.41%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (0.31%) InfluxDB
7 6 (0.31%) MariaDB
8 4 (0.20%) UniData
9 2 (0.10%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (0.10%) DTS
9 2 (0.10%) Metadata
9 2 (0.10%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.10%) MS Access
9 2 (0.10%) Neo4j
9 2 (0.10%) NoSQL
9 2 (0.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.051%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 24 (1.22%) JIRA
2 23 (1.17%) Git
3 15 (0.77%) Visual Studio
4 13 (0.66%) Subversion
5 9 (0.46%) IntelliJ
6 8 (0.41%) MSI
7 7 (0.36%) Jenkins
8 6 (0.31%) Eclipse
9 4 (0.20%) AdminStudio
9 4 (0.20%) InstallShield
10 2 (0.10%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 1 (0.051%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.051%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.051%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.051%) GitLab
11 1 (0.051%) Octopus Deploy
11 1 (0.051%) Zephyr
General
1 805 (41.07%) Social Skills
2 225 (11.48%) Analytical Skills
3 200 (10.20%) Finance
4 126 (6.43%) Organisational Skills
5 109 (5.56%) Law
6 93 (4.74%) Legal
7 85 (4.34%) Telecoms
8 73 (3.72%) Manufacturing
9 68 (3.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 53 (2.70%) Retail
11 41 (2.09%) Automotive
12 39 (1.99%) Banking
13 30 (1.53%) Back Office
14 29 (1.48%) Public Sector
15 28 (1.43%) Pharmaceutical
16 22 (1.12%) Marketing
17 21 (1.07%) Advertising
18 16 (0.82%) Police
19 15 (0.77%) Electronics
20 14 (0.71%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 621 (31.68%) IT Support
2 436 (22.24%) Support Engineer
3 424 (21.63%) Analyst
4 290 (14.80%) IT Engineer
5 232 (11.84%) IT Support Engineer
6 211 (10.77%) 2nd Line Support
7 208 (10.61%) Support Analyst
8 199 (10.15%) IT Analyst
9 172 (8.78%) IT Technician
10 148 (7.55%) Support Specialist
11 138 (7.04%) Service Analyst
12 135 (6.89%) 2nd Line Engineer
13 134 (6.84%) Senior
14 126 (6.43%) IT Support Specialist
15 125 (6.38%) 1st Line Support
16 123 (6.28%) Support Technician
17 119 (6.07%) IT Support Analyst
17 119 (6.07%) Service Desk Analyst
18 113 (5.77%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
18 113 (5.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (1.22%) .NET
2 11 (0.56%) .NET Framework
2 11 (0.56%) Qt
3 9 (0.46%) X-Windows
4 8 (0.41%) REST
5 5 (0.26%) .NET Core
5 5 (0.26%) EDI
5 5 (0.26%) JSON
5 5 (0.26%) React
6 4 (0.20%) Hibernate
6 4 (0.20%) Spring
6 4 (0.20%) XMPP
7 3 (0.15%) HTML
8 2 (0.10%) Razor View Engine
9 1 (0.051%) Classic ASP
9 1 (0.051%) Elastic Stack
9 1 (0.051%) Kafka
9 1 (0.051%) Middleware
9 1 (0.051%) RESTEasy
9 1 (0.051%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 187 (9.54%) Video Conferencing
2 139 (7.09%) Driving Licence
3 108 (5.51%) Wiki
4 94 (4.80%) Self-Motivation
5 78 (3.98%) Management Information System
6 67 (3.42%) Data Centre
7 65 (3.32%) Smartphone
8 59 (3.01%) Replication
9 54 (2.76%) iPhone
10 33 (1.68%) iPad
11 30 (1.53%) CCTV
12 28 (1.43%) Private Cloud
13 27 (1.38%) Blackberry
14 24 (1.22%) Clustering
14 24 (1.22%) EPoS
14 24 (1.22%) Onboarding
15 20 (1.02%) Distributed Systems
16 17 (0.87%) NHS
17 14 (0.71%) BYOD
17 14 (0.71%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 1,955 (99.74%) Windows
2 623 (31.79%) Windows Server
3 275 (14.03%) Windows 7
4 267 (13.62%) Android
5 241 (12.30%) Windows Server 2016
6 231 (11.79%) Windows Server 2019
7 204 (10.41%) Windows Server 2012
8 142 (7.24%) Apple iOS
9 121 (6.17%) Linux
10 110 (5.61%) Mac OS
11 102 (5.20%) Windows 8
12 69 (3.52%) Windows Server 2008
13 39 (1.99%) Mac OS X
14 25 (1.28%) Windows XP
15 23 (1.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 22 (1.12%) Ubuntu
17 19 (0.97%) CentOS
17 19 (0.97%) Windows NT
18 15 (0.77%) VMS
19 14 (0.71%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 538 (27.45%) ITIL
2 501 (25.56%) Problem-Solving
3 500 (25.51%) Customer Service
4 158 (8.06%) Mobile Device Management
5 156 (7.96%) Computer Science
5 156 (7.96%) ITSM
6 148 (7.55%) Cybersecurity
7 146 (7.45%) Service Management
8 138 (7.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 126 (6.43%) Service Delivery
10 124 (6.33%) Time Management
11 116 (5.92%) Business Continuity
12 111 (5.66%) Application Virtualisation
13 107 (5.46%) BCP
13 107 (5.46%) Business Continuity Planning
13 107 (5.46%) Contract Negotiation
14 90 (4.59%) Project Management
15 88 (4.49%) Continuous Improvement
16 85 (4.34%) Change Management
17 77 (3.93%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 208 (10.61%) PowerShell
2 162 (8.27%) SQL
3 21 (1.07%) Python
4 19 (0.97%) Bash
5 14 (0.71%) C#
6 13 (0.66%) Perl
7 12 (0.61%) C
7 12 (0.61%) C++
8 11 (0.56%) Java
8 11 (0.56%) VB
9 6 (0.31%) Ruby
10 5 (0.26%) TypeScript
11 4 (0.20%) T-SQL
12 3 (0.15%) JavaScript
13 2 (0.10%) PHP
13 2 (0.10%) Scala
14 1 (0.051%) Go
14 1 (0.051%) Swift
Qualifications
1 406 (20.71%) Degree
2 155 (7.91%) Security Cleared
3 151 (7.70%) Microsoft Certification
4 139 (7.09%) Computer Science Degree
5 135 (6.89%) Master's Degree
6 93 (4.74%) SC Cleared
7 72 (3.67%) DV Cleared
8 68 (3.47%) DBS Check
9 56 (2.86%) A+ Certification
10 53 (2.70%) Cisco Certification
10 53 (2.70%) MCP
11 50 (2.55%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 42 (2.14%) CCNA
13 34 (1.73%) Network+ Certification
14 31 (1.58%) MCSA
15 29 (1.48%) MCITP
16 28 (1.43%) ITIL Certification
17 25 (1.28%) Azure Certification
17 25 (1.28%) CCNP
17 25 (1.28%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 181 (9.23%) SLA
2 55 (2.81%) GDPR
3 39 (1.99%) Cyber Essentials
4 27 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (0.61%) NIST
6 10 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 4 (0.20%) QA
8 3 (0.15%) ISO 9001
8 3 (0.15%) PMO
8 3 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.051%) DICOM
9 1 (0.051%) HL7
9 1 (0.051%) NCSC
9 1 (0.051%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1,320 (67.35%) Active Directory
2 355 (18.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 238 (12.14%) Hyper-V
4 177 (9.03%) XenApp
5 164 (8.37%) XenDesktop
6 163 (8.32%) VMware ESXi
7 115 (5.87%) Microsoft App-V
8 54 (2.76%) vSphere
9 47 (2.40%) VirtualBox
10 35 (1.79%) Virtual Desktop
11 30 (1.53%) Firmware
12 28 (1.43%) Virtual Machines
13 19 (0.97%) Virtual Servers
14 16 (0.82%) Terminal Services
15 15 (0.77%) KVM
16 12 (0.61%) Docker
17 10 (0.51%) Microsoft Virtual Server
18 7 (0.36%) VMware Workstation
19 6 (0.31%) Citrix Hypervisor
19 6 (0.31%) pfSense
Systems Management
1 376 (19.18%) SCCM
2 291 (14.85%) Microsoft Intune
3 107 (5.46%) AirWatch
4 52 (2.65%) WSUS
5 40 (2.04%) Jamf Pro
6 26 (1.33%) SCOM
7 18 (0.92%) Failover Clustering
7 18 (0.92%) vCenter Server
8 15 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
8 15 (0.77%) Terraform
9 14 (0.71%) Sysprep
10 13 (0.66%) Ansible
10 13 (0.66%) EMC NetWorker
10 13 (0.66%) NetBackup
11 12 (0.61%) McAfee ePO
12 9 (0.46%) Autotask
12 9 (0.46%) Backup Exec
12 9 (0.46%) SmoothWall
13 8 (0.41%) Nagios
13 8 (0.41%) Nessus
Vendors
1 1,444 (73.67%) Microsoft
2 469 (23.93%) VMware
3 326 (16.63%) Cisco
4 294 (15.00%) Citrix
5 164 (8.37%) Apple
6 95 (4.85%) Veeam
7 65 (3.32%) HP
8 54 (2.76%) Dell
9 53 (2.70%) ServiceNow
10 52 (2.65%) Adobe
11 50 (2.55%) Sophos
12 39 (1.99%) iManage
13 35 (1.79%) Google
14 33 (1.68%) SolarWinds
15 31 (1.58%) Palo Alto
16 29 (1.48%) Bloomberg
16 29 (1.48%) Polycom
17 27 (1.38%) MobileIron
18 23 (1.17%) McAfee
18 23 (1.17%) Symantec