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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 2 April 2020 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.
| Microsoft Windows UK |
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6 months to
2 Apr 2020 |
Same period 2019 |
Same period 2018 |
| Rank |
11 |
10 |
12 |
| Rank change year-on-year |
-1 |
+2 |
+1 |
| Permanent jobs citing Windows |
15,349 |
19,581 |
23,797 |
| As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK |
13.10% |
13.23% |
13.45% |
| As % of the Operating Systems category |
60.86% |
57.28% |
56.59% |
| Number of salaries quoted |
13,103 |
16,559 |
20,251 |
| Median annual salary |
£42,500 |
£42,000 |
£40,000 |
| Median salary % change year-on-year |
+1.19% |
+5.00% |
- |
| 10th Percentile |
£24,000 |
£24,000 |
£22,750 |
| 90th Percentile |
£72,500 |
£72,500 |
£70,000 |
| UK excluding London median annual salary |
£38,500 |
£37,500 |
£37,500 |
| % change year-on-year |
+2.67% |
- |
+7.14% |
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 |
25,220 |
34,184 |
42,050 |
| As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK |
21.53% |
23.09% |
23.76% |
| Number of salaries quoted |
20,251 |
27,355 |
34,458 |
| Median annual salary |
£47,500 |
£47,500 |
£45,000 |
| Median salary % change year-on-year |
- |
+5.56% |
+3.45% |
| 10th Percentile |
£26,000 |
£25,851 |
£25,250 |
| 90th Percentile |
£80,000 |
£78,450 |
£76,250 |
| UK excluding London median annual salary |
£42,500 |
£42,000 |
£40,000 |
| % change year-on-year |
+1.19% |
+5.00% |
+2.56% |
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Windows
Job Vacancy Trend
Job postings citing Windows as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.
Windows
Salary Trend
3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Windows.
Windows
Salary Histogram
Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows over the 6 months to 2 April 2020.
Windows
Top 19 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 2 April 2020.
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 |
14,177 |
£42,500 |
- |
2,172 |
| UK excluding London |
0 |
9,658 |
£38,500 |
+2.67% |
1,790 |
| London |
-1 |
5,254 |
£50,750 |
+1.50% |
523 |
| South East |
0 |
3,158 |
£40,000 |
- |
482 |
| North of England |
+1 |
2,033 |
£40,000 |
+7.02% |
438 |
| Midlands |
-1 |
1,595 |
£38,250 |
-0.65% |
282 |
| South West |
+5 |
1,222 |
£35,000 |
-6.67% |
226 |
| North West |
0 |
1,061 |
£40,000 |
+6.67% |
218 |
| West Midlands |
0 |
1,044 |
£40,000 |
+2.56% |
171 |
| East of England |
0 |
896 |
£40,000 |
+6.67% |
223 |
| Yorkshire |
+1 |
789 |
£42,000 |
+16.67% |
149 |
| Work from Home |
+8 |
729 |
£57,500 |
+4.55% |
106 |
| East Midlands |
+2 |
547 |
£37,500 |
- |
109 |
| Scotland |
+6 |
467 |
£38,500 |
- |
82 |
| Wales |
+1 |
257 |
£37,500 |
+0.67% |
59 |
| North East |
+5 |
183 |
£33,000 |
-5.71% |
71 |
| Northern Ireland |
+17 |
27 |
£27,250 |
-9.17% |
2 |
| Channel Islands |
-3 |
10 |
£25,000 |
-25.37% |
1 |
| Isle of Man |
-1 |
1 |
£33,000 |
-12.00% |
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For the 6 months to 2 April 2020, 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 |
6,893 (44.91%) |
Microsoft |
| 2 |
6,553 (42.69%) |
Active Directory |
| 3 |
5,642 (36.76%) |
Windows Server |
| 4 |
5,268 (34.32%) |
Office 365 |
| 5 |
4,362 (28.42%) |
Azure |
| 6 |
4,192 (27.31%) |
VMware |
| 7 |
3,970 (25.86%) |
Linux |
| 8 |
3,450 (22.48%) |
Windows 10 |
| 9 |
2,808 (18.29%) |
SQL |
| 10 |
2,655 (17.30%) |
VMware Infrastructure |
| 11 |
2,584 (16.83%) |
ITIL |
| 12 |
2,512 (16.37%) |
SQL Server |
| 13 |
2,510 (16.35%) |
PowerShell |
| 14 |
2,446 (15.94%) |
Firewall |
| 15 |
2,259 (14.72%) |
Finance |
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| 16 |
2,106 (13.72%) |
DNS |
| 17 |
2,099 (13.68%) |
Agile Software Development |
| 18 |
2,061 (13.43%) |
Infrastructure Engineering |
| 19 |
2,057 (13.40%) |
AWS |
| 20 |
2,050 (13.36%) |
Problem-Solving |
| 21 |
2,041 (13.30%) |
Microsoft Office |
| 22 |
1,897 (12.36%) |
Windows Server 2012 |
| 23 |
1,876 (12.22%) |
SCCM |
| 24 |
1,823 (11.88%) |
Citrix |
| 25 |
1,794 (11.69%) |
Cisco |
| 26 |
1,775 (11.56%) |
C# |
| 27 |
1,731 (11.28%) |
Hyper-V |
| 28 |
1,711 (11.15%) |
Windows 7 |
| 29 |
1,682 (10.96%) |
MS Exchange |
| 30 |
1,672 (10.89%) |
TCP/IP |
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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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