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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 January 2020 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.
| Microsoft Windows UK |
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6 months to
23 Jan 2020 |
Same period 2019 |
Same period 2018 |
| Rank |
11 |
10 |
12 |
| Rank change year-on-year |
-1 |
+2 |
+1 |
| Permanent jobs citing Windows |
17,193 |
20,471 |
23,885 |
| As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK |
13.67% |
13.48% |
13.68% |
| As % of the Operating Systems category |
61.08% |
58.02% |
56.57% |
| Number of salaries quoted |
14,041 |
16,733 |
19,984 |
| UK median annual salary |
£40,000 |
£42,500 |
£40,000 |
| Median salary % change year-on-year |
-5.88% |
+6.25% |
+5.26% |
| 10th Percentile |
£23,250 |
£23,500 |
£22,000 |
| 90th Percentile |
£71,250 |
£72,500 |
£67,500 |
| UK excluding London median annual salary |
£37,500 |
£37,500 |
£35,000 |
| % change year-on-year |
- |
+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 |
28,147 |
35,282 |
42,222 |
| As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK |
22.38% |
23.24% |
24.18% |
| Number of salaries quoted |
22,562 |
28,276 |
34,545 |
| UK median annual salary |
£45,000 |
£47,500 |
£45,000 |
| Median salary % change year-on-year |
-5.26% |
+5.56% |
+2.27% |
| 10th Percentile |
£25,000 |
£25,750 |
£24,750 |
| 90th Percentile |
£80,000 |
£78,750 |
£75,000 |
| UK excluding London median annual salary |
£41,000 |
£42,000 |
£40,000 |
| % change year-on-year |
-2.38% |
+5.00% |
+1.27% |
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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 January 2020.
Windows
Top 17 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 January 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 |
-1 |
15,961 |
£40,000 |
-5.88% |
3,605 |
| UK excluding London |
+2 |
10,556 |
£37,500 |
- |
2,981 |
| London |
0 |
6,142 |
£47,500 |
-5.00% |
838 |
| South East |
+1 |
3,680 |
£37,500 |
-6.25% |
813 |
| North of England |
+1 |
2,144 |
£37,000 |
-1.33% |
737 |
| Midlands |
0 |
1,654 |
£37,500 |
-2.60% |
464 |
| South West |
+4 |
1,396 |
£35,000 |
-6.67% |
399 |
| North West |
0 |
1,154 |
£37,500 |
-1.96% |
415 |
| West Midlands |
-1 |
1,064 |
£37,500 |
-2.60% |
252 |
| East of England |
0 |
904 |
£40,000 |
+5.26% |
353 |
| Yorkshire |
-2 |
837 |
£37,500 |
+2.74% |
247 |
| East Midlands |
+4 |
590 |
£35,000 |
-9.09% |
212 |
| Scotland |
+4 |
455 |
£37,500 |
-6.25% |
121 |
| Wales |
+1 |
291 |
£38,500 |
+6.94% |
78 |
| North East |
-4 |
153 |
£32,500 |
-7.14% |
75 |
| Northern Ireland |
+5 |
39 |
£34,250 |
-11.04% |
12 |
| Channel Islands |
0 |
6 |
£25,000 |
-25.37% |
4 |
For the 6 months to 23 January 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 |
7,760 (45.13%) |
Microsoft |
| 2 |
7,464 (43.41%) |
Active Directory |
| 3 |
6,144 (35.74%) |
Windows Server |
| 4 |
5,722 (33.28%) |
Office 365 |
| 5 |
4,633 (26.95%) |
VMware |
| 6 |
4,583 (26.66%) |
Azure |
| 7 |
4,311 (25.07%) |
Linux |
| 8 |
4,023 (23.40%) |
Windows 10 |
| 9 |
3,190 (18.55%) |
ITIL |
| 10 |
2,960 (17.22%) |
SQL |
| 11 |
2,934 (17.07%) |
VMware Infrastructure |
| 12 |
2,820 (16.40%) |
SQL Server |
| 13 |
2,606 (15.16%) |
PowerShell |
| 14 |
2,551 (14.84%) |
Finance |
| 15 |
2,539 (14.77%) |
Microsoft Office |
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| 16 |
2,504 (14.56%) |
Firewall |
| 17 |
2,377 (13.83%) |
AWS |
| 18 |
2,373 (13.80%) |
DNS |
| 19 |
2,294 (13.34%) |
Agile Software Development |
| 20 |
2,288 (13.31%) |
Problem-Solving |
| 21 |
2,239 (13.02%) |
Windows 7 |
| 22 |
2,170 (12.62%) |
Windows Server 2012 |
| 23 |
2,122 (12.34%) |
Infrastructure Engineering |
| 24 |
2,121 (12.34%) |
SCCM |
| 25 |
2,103 (12.23%) |
Citrix |
| 26 |
2,012 (11.70%) |
MS Exchange |
| 27 |
1,993 (11.59%) |
Cisco |
| 28 |
1,975 (11.49%) |
C# |
| 29 |
1,892 (11.00%) |
DHCP |
| 30 |
1,852 (10.77%) |
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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