Windows Specialist
UK

The median Windows Specialist salary in the UK is £75,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 872 970 1184
Rank change year-on-year +98 +214 -334
Permanent jobs requiring a Windows Specialist 17 8 31
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.017% 0.008% 0.020%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.018% 0.008% 0.021%
Number of salaries quoted 13 5 30
10th Percentile - £40,100 £58,800
25th Percentile £33,966 £62,000 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -35.00% +33.33%
75th Percentile - £75,000 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median annual salary £33,966 £62,000 £100,000
% change year-on-year -45.22% -38.00% +207.69%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 92,477 96,786 147,852
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.63% 91.57% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 66,588 60,676 85,408
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,075
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

Windows Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Windows Specialist in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Windows Specialist in the UK

Windows Specialist
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Windows Specialist in the UK

Windows Specialist
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows Specialist over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Windows Specialist in the UK

Windows Specialist
Top 6 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows Specialist within the UK over the 6 months to 23 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 +124 17 £75,000 +7.14% 2
London +139 13 £75,000 - 2
Work from Home +83 5 £33,966 -47.74%
Midlands +24 4 £33,966 -45.22%
UK excluding London +6 4 £33,966 -45.22%
East Midlands - 4 £33,966 -

Windows Specialist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 23 April 2024, Windows Specialist job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Windows Specialist in the job title.

1 17 (100.00%) Windows
2 16 (94.12%) Microsoft
3 11 (64.71%) Unix
3 11 (64.71%) Linux
3 11 (64.71%) Finance
3 11 (64.71%) VMware
3 11 (64.71%) Qualys
3 11 (64.71%) SCCM
3 11 (64.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (64.71%) Threat Management
4 8 (47.06%) Management Information System
5 7 (41.18%) Banking
5 7 (41.18%) Penetration Testing
5 7 (41.18%) Patch Management
5 7 (41.18%) Incident Response
6 6 (35.29%) Azure
7 5 (29.41%) Entra ID
7 5 (29.41%) Active Directory
8 4 (23.53%) Configuration Management
8 4 (23.53%) Project Management
8 4 (23.53%) Information Security
8 4 (23.53%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (23.53%) PKI
8 4 (23.53%) WSUS
8 4 (23.53%) High Availability
8 4 (23.53%) Vulnerability Management
8 4 (23.53%) Data Centre
8 4 (23.53%) Mentoring
8 4 (23.53%) Requirements Gathering

Windows Specialist Skill Set
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 2 (11.76%) SharePoint
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Adobe Creative Suite
Cloud Services
1 6 (35.29%) Azure
2 5 (29.41%) Entra ID
3 2 (11.76%) AWS
3 2 (11.76%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (5.88%) Slack
General
1 11 (64.71%) Finance
2 7 (41.18%) Banking
3 1 (5.88%) Social Science
Miscellaneous
1 8 (47.06%) Management Information System
2 4 (23.53%) Data Centre
2 4 (23.53%) PKI
2 4 (23.53%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 17 (100.00%) Windows
2 11 (64.71%) Linux
2 11 (64.71%) Unix
3 3 (17.65%) Windows Server
4 1 (5.88%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (64.71%) Threat Management
2 7 (41.18%) Incident Response
2 7 (41.18%) Patch Management
2 7 (41.18%) Penetration Testing
3 4 (23.53%) Configuration Management
3 4 (23.53%) High Availability
3 4 (23.53%) Information Security
3 4 (23.53%) Mentoring
3 4 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (23.53%) Project Management
3 4 (23.53%) Requirements Gathering
3 4 (23.53%) Vulnerability Management
4 2 (11.76%) ITIL
4 2 (11.76%) ITSM
5 1 (5.88%) Migration
5 1 (5.88%) Performance Optimisation
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (64.71%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (29.41%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (64.71%) SCCM
2 4 (23.53%) WSUS
3 2 (11.76%) Nessus
4 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (5.88%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 16 (94.12%) Microsoft
2 11 (64.71%) Qualys
2 11 (64.71%) VMware
3 1 (5.88%) Adobe
3 1 (5.88%) DocuSign
3 1 (5.88%) Salesforce