Microsoft Windows 7
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Windows 7 skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 751 609 684
Rank change year-on-year -142 +75 -79
Permanent jobs citing Windows 7 32 51 134
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.029% 0.10% 0.16%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.50% 0.74% 1.29%
Number of salaries quoted 26 45 103
10th Percentile £27,719 - £25,750
25th Percentile £31,500 £27,000 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,000 £31,500 £33,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -5.97% +3.08%
75th Percentile £34,500 £38,750 £45,000
90th Percentile £36,500 £40,000 £56,252
UK excluding London median annual salary £33,000 £30,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -7.69% +3.17%

All Operating Systems
UK

Windows 7 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 6,392 6,907 10,405
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.87% 13.82% 12.46%
Number of salaries quoted 4,783 4,575 7,248
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,750 £26,500
25th Percentile £32,000 £31,250 £34,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £41,500 £49,881
Median % change year-on-year +8.43% -16.80% -4.99%
75th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £38,325 £45,000
% change year-on-year +10.89% -14.83% -2.92%

Windows 7
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Windows 7 relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Windows 7 job vacancy trend in the UK

Windows 7
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Windows 7.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Windows 7

Windows 7
Top 9 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows 7 within the UK over the 6 months to 26 August 2026. 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 -109 32 £33,000 +4.76% 10
UK excluding London -103 30 £33,000 +10.00% 3
East of England - 17 £33,000 -
North West -7 7 £32,500 -18.75% 2
North of England -48 7 £32,500 -18.75% 2
West Midlands -28 3 £26,437 -
Midlands -40 3 £26,437 -16.07%
South East -45 3 - -
London -66 2 - - 7

Windows 7
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 26 (81.25%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2007
2 16 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2010
2 16 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2013
3 6 (18.75%) Skype for Business
4 3 (9.38%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (21.88%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 21 (65.63%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (12.50%) Azure
3 1 (3.13%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 16 (50.00%) DNS
2 6 (18.75%) Skype
3 3 (9.38%) WAN
4 2 (6.25%) Firewall
4 2 (6.25%) LAN
4 2 (6.25%) TCP/IP
5 1 (3.13%) SD-WAN
General
1 7 (21.88%) Social Skills
2 3 (9.38%) Documentation Skills
2 3 (9.38%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (6.25%) Finance
3 2 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (6.25%) Manufacturing
4 1 (3.13%) Law
Job Titles
1 12 (37.50%) IT Support
1 12 (37.50%) Support Technician
2 8 (25.00%) IT Technician
2 8 (25.00%) Support Engineer
3 7 (21.88%) IT Engineer
4 6 (18.75%) 2nd Line Support
4 6 (18.75%) 2nd Line Support Technician
4 6 (18.75%) Desktop Engineer
4 6 (18.75%) IT Support Engineer
4 6 (18.75%) IT Support Technician
5 4 (12.50%) 1st Line Support
6 2 (6.25%) 2nd Line Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Technical Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Technical Support
6 2 (6.25%) Technical Support Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) 1st Line Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) 1st Line Support Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) Field Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) IMAC Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.25%) Data Centre
1 2 (6.25%) Driving Licence
2 1 (3.13%) CMDB
2 1 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 32 (100.00%) Windows
2 17 (53.13%) Windows 8
3 16 (50.00%) Linux
4 13 (40.63%) Windows 10
5 1 (3.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (37.50%) Migration
2 7 (21.88%) ITSM
3 6 (18.75%) Disk Encryption
4 5 (15.63%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (15.63%) Service Management
5 4 (12.50%) Customer Service
5 4 (12.50%) ITIL
5 4 (12.50%) User Experience
6 3 (9.38%) Customer Experience
6 3 (9.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 3 (9.38%) Kalman Filter
6 3 (9.38%) Web Filtering
7 2 (6.25%) Collaborative Working
7 2 (6.25%) Fintech
7 2 (6.25%) Project Management
7 2 (6.25%) Service Delivery
8 1 (3.13%) Business Intelligence
8 1 (3.13%) ERP
8 1 (3.13%) Logistics
8 1 (3.13%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (12.50%) PowerShell
1 4 (12.50%) VB
1 4 (12.50%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 3 (9.38%) Azure Certification
1 3 (9.38%) SC Cleared
1 3 (9.38%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.25%) Degree
2 2 (6.25%) MCDST
2 2 (6.25%) MCITP
2 2 (6.25%) MCSA
2 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Certified Professional
3 1 (3.13%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.25%) Accessibility
1 2 (6.25%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (18.75%) BitLocker
2 4 (12.50%) Active Directory
3 2 (6.25%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (3.13%) Hyper-V
4 1 (3.13%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (3.13%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 7 (21.88%) SCCM
2 2 (6.25%) Cisco CUCM
2 2 (6.25%) ServiceCenter
3 1 (3.13%) Autotask
Vendors
1 25 (78.13%) Microsoft
2 7 (21.88%) ServiceNow
3 3 (9.38%) Aruba
3 3 (9.38%) Fortinet
3 3 (9.38%) Juniper
4 2 (6.25%) Apple
4 2 (6.25%) Bloomberg
4 2 (6.25%) Cisco
4 2 (6.25%) Dell
4 2 (6.25%) HP
4 2 (6.25%) Remedy
4 2 (6.25%) Reuters
5 1 (3.13%) ESET
5 1 (3.13%) Google
5 1 (3.13%) VMware