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The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Windows skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Windows over the 6 months to 23 May 2019 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.
| Microsoft Windows UK |
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6 months to
23 May 2019 |
Same period 2018 |
Same period 2017 |
| Rank |
10 |
12 |
13 |
| Rank change year-on-year |
+2 |
+1 |
-3 |
| Permanent jobs citing Windows |
18,935 |
23,125 |
23,510 |
| As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK |
13.15% |
13.46% |
13.90% |
| As % of the Operating Systems category |
57.24% |
57.20% |
57.20% |
| Number of salaries quoted |
15,503 |
18,948 |
20,364 |
| UK median annual salary |
£40,000 |
£40,000 |
£40,000 |
| 10th Percentile |
£23,500 |
£22,750 |
£22,750 |
| 90th Percentile |
£72,500 |
£70,000 |
£65,000 |
| UK excluding London median annual salary |
£37,500 |
£37,500 |
£36,000 |
| % change year-on-year |
- |
+4.17% |
-4.00% |
Windows 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.
| All Operating Systems UK |
| Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills |
33,078 |
40,431 |
41,102 |
| As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK |
22.97% |
23.52% |
24.29% |
| Number of salaries quoted |
26,287 |
32,744 |
34,459 |
| UK median annual salary |
£47,500 |
£46,000 |
£45,000 |
| Median salary % change year-on-year |
+3.26% |
+2.22% |
+4.65% |
| 10th Percentile |
£25,750 |
£25,500 |
£25,000 |
| 90th Percentile |
£78,750 |
£76,250 |
£73,750 |
| UK excluding London median annual salary |
£42,000 |
£40,000 |
£40,000 |
| % change year-on-year |
+5.00% |
- |
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Windows
Job Vacancy Trend
Job postings citing Windows as a percentage of all IT jobs advertised.
Windows
Salary Trend
This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Windows.
Windows
Salary Histogram
The salary distribution of IT jobs citing Windows over the 6 months to 23 May 2019.
Windows
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 within the UK over the 6 months to 23 May 2019.
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
Job
Vacancies |
| England |
+2 |
17,648 |
£41,500 |
- |
1,123 |
| UK excluding London |
+2 |
11,632 |
£37,500 |
- |
822 |
| London |
-5 |
6,767 |
£50,000 |
- |
355 |
| South East |
+3 |
3,839 |
£39,000 |
-1.48% |
205 |
| North of England |
+4 |
2,523 |
£36,000 |
-1.37% |
209 |
| Midlands |
+5 |
1,781 |
£38,500 |
+8.30% |
129 |
| South West |
-1 |
1,401 |
£37,500 |
- |
104 |
| North West |
+4 |
1,372 |
£37,500 |
- |
116 |
| East of England |
+3 |
1,289 |
£37,500 |
-3.85% |
122 |
| West Midlands |
+4 |
1,129 |
£38,875 |
+11.07% |
73 |
| Yorkshire |
+3 |
955 |
£35,000 |
-3.25% |
81 |
| East Midlands |
+2 |
649 |
£37,500 |
- |
56 |
| Scotland |
-5 |
548 |
£38,500 |
+10.00% |
28 |
| Wales |
+4 |
229 |
£36,000 |
+20.00% |
23 |
| North East |
+10 |
201 |
£35,686 |
+17.00% |
12 |
| Northern Ireland |
-27 |
45 |
£25,000 |
-23.08% |
2 |
| Channel Islands |
+1 |
10 |
£30,000 |
-57.14% |
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| Isle of Man |
-6 |
3 |
£45,000 |
+24.14% |
1 |
For the 6 months to 23 May 2019, IT jobs citing Windows also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity.
The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads with a requirement for Windows.
| 1 |
8,084 (42.69%) |
Microsoft |
| 2 |
7,956 (42.02%) |
Active Directory |
| 3 |
7,030 (37.13%) |
Windows Server |
| 4 |
5,329 (28.14%) |
Linux |
| 5 |
5,041 (26.62%) |
Office 365 |
| 6 |
4,996 (26.39%) |
VMware |
| 7 |
4,500 (23.77%) |
Microsoft Azure |
| 8 |
4,226 (22.32%) |
SQL |
| 9 |
3,653 (19.29%) |
ITIL |
| 10 |
3,421 (18.07%) |
Windows 10 |
| 11 |
3,394 (17.92%) |
SQL Server |
| 12 |
3,120 (16.48%) |
VMware Infrastructure |
| 13 |
3,007 (15.88%) |
PowerShell |
| 14 |
2,930 (15.47%) |
Firewall |
| 15 |
2,908 (15.36%) |
Finance |
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| 16 |
2,843 (15.01%) |
Microsoft Office |
| 17 |
2,842 (15.01%) |
Agile Software Development |
| 18 |
2,745 (14.50%) |
Windows 7 |
| 19 |
2,647 (13.98%) |
Amazon AWS |
| 20 |
2,622 (13.85%) |
DNS |
| 21 |
2,600 (13.73%) |
Windows Server 2012 |
| 22 |
2,482 (13.11%) |
Infrastructure Engineering |
| 23 |
2,436 (12.87%) |
Cisco |
| 24 |
2,423 (12.80%) |
C# |
| 25 |
2,388 (12.61%) |
Problem-Solving |
| 26 |
2,386 (12.60%) |
Hyper-V |
| 27 |
2,204 (11.64%) |
MS Exchange |
| 28 |
2,166 (11.44%) |
Citrix |
| 29 |
2,152 (11.37%) |
Windows Server 2008 |
| 30 |
2,142 (11.31%) |
.NET |
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Windows
Co-occurring IT Skills by Category
The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category.
The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:
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