Windows 8 Jobs

Microsoft Windows 8
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Windows 8 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Windows 8 over the 6 months leading up to 24 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 717 790 843
Rank change year-on-year +73 +53 +295
Permanent jobs citing Windows 8 8 110 69
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.014% 0.100% 0.076%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.11% 0.77% 0.46%
Number of salaries quoted 8 102 54
10th Percentile £28,025 £22,750 £20,000
25th Percentile £37,063 £23,563 £24,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £28,165 £31,500
Median % change year-on-year +42.02% -10.59% +14.55%
75th Percentile - £34,500 £34,688
90th Percentile £42,625 £38,000 £36,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £28,165 £31,500
% change year-on-year +42.02% -10.59% +17.76%

All Operating Systems
UK

Windows 8 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 7,151 14,325 14,884
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.64% 12.99% 16.40%
Number of salaries quoted 4,382 10,705 10,170
10th Percentile £27,000 £26,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £32,000 £31,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,000 £45,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% -14.29% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% -5.56% -

Windows 8
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Windows 8 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Windows 8 in the UK

Windows 8
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Windows 8.

Salary trend for Windows 8 in the UK

Windows 8
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows 8 over the 6 months to 24 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Windows 8 in the UK

Windows 8
Top 7 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows 8 within the UK over the 6 months to 24 June 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
UK excluding London +79 8 £40,000 +42.02% 9
England +71 7 £40,000 +42.02% 12
North of England +43 5 £40,000 +70.21% 2
North West +9 5 £40,000 +70.21% 2
South West +108 1 £30,000 -9.09% 2
South East +43 1 £29,500 -1.67% 3
Northern Ireland - 1 £47,500 -

Windows 8
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 3 (37.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (25.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (62.50%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (25.00%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) Entra ID
2 2 (25.00%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 5 (62.50%) DHCP
1 5 (62.50%) DNS
2 1 (12.50%) Firewall
2 1 (12.50%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 1 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (12.50%) Law
1 1 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Analyst
1 5 (62.50%) Support Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Active Directory Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Support
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Junior
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Professional Services Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Support Engineer
Operating Systems
1 8 (100.00%) Windows
2 6 (75.00%) Windows 7
3 2 (25.00%) Windows 10
4 1 (12.50%) Mac OS
4 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (12.50%) Email Management
2 1 (12.50%) Incident Management
2 1 (12.50%) Mentoring
2 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (12.50%) Project Management
2 1 (12.50%) Remote Monitoring and Management
2 1 (12.50%) Service Management
2 1 (12.50%) Software Deployment
2 1 (12.50%) Time Management
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) A+ Certification
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (12.50%) Network+ Certification
System Software
1 8 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (12.50%) Hyper-V
2 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) VMware
2 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
3 1 (12.50%) Meraki
3 1 (12.50%) NETGEAR
3 1 (12.50%) Ubiquiti