Microsoft Windows
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Windows skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Windows over the 6 months leading up to 19 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 17 18
Rank change year-on-year -3 +1 +20
Permanent jobs citing Windows 4,690 9,565 9,326
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.36% 8.59% 10.18%
As % of the Operating Systems category 65.96% 66.23% 62.41%
Number of salaries quoted 3,233 7,534 6,637
10th Percentile £26,250 £25,250 £26,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £29,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £40,000 £43,750
Median % change year-on-year - -8.57% +0.57%
75th Percentile £53,750 £55,696 £61,250
90th Percentile £73,000 £70,000 £77,611
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,500 £37,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year - -6.25% +0.63%

All Operating Systems
UK

Windows 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 7,110 14,442 14,943
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.68% 12.96% 16.31%
Number of salaries quoted 4,329 10,800 10,207
10th Percentile £27,000 £26,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £32,000 £31,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - -14.29% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £81,250 £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
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in the UK

Windows
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Windows in the UK

Windows
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows over the 6 months to 19 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Windows in the UK

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 19 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
England -1 4,460 £40,000 - 8,423
UK excluding London -5 3,482 £37,500 - 6,214
Work from Home -5 1,512 £42,500 -12.37% 3,681
North of England -4 1,035 £34,500 -8.00% 1,496
London -10 1,008 £55,000 - 2,755
South East -5 935 £38,325 -4.19% 1,467
Midlands -2 754 £36,925 +5.50% 997
North West -14 575 £36,250 -9.38% 832
West Midlands +2 510 £36,925 +5.50% 551
Yorkshire +6 406 £32,500 -10.04% 545
South West -4 331 £35,000 -12.50% 810
East of England -26 310 £43,000 +32.31% 798
East Midlands -10 242 £32,500 -3.66% 446
Scotland -24 91 £45,000 +5.88% 396
Wales -9 54 £52,500 +67.25% 187
North East -13 52 £40,000 +23.08% 123
Northern Ireland +1 6 £52,500 +40.00% 128
Channel Islands - 2 £55,000 -
Isle of Man +3 1 £34,500 -21.14%

Windows
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
1 600 (12.79%) Microsoft Exchange
2 432 (9.21%) SharePoint
3 96 (2.05%) IIS
4 80 (1.71%) Confluence
5 45 (0.96%) Apache
6 16 (0.34%) Exchange Server 2013
7 15 (0.32%) Tomcat
8 12 (0.26%) nginx
9 10 (0.21%) OpenEdge
9 10 (0.21%) SharePoint Server
9 10 (0.21%) WordPress
10 8 (0.17%) Exchange Server 2010
10 8 (0.17%) Moodle
11 7 (0.15%) CMS
11 7 (0.15%) IBM Domino
11 7 (0.15%) Skype for Business
12 6 (0.13%) Apache Solr
12 6 (0.13%) SAS
13 4 (0.085%) BizTalk Server
13 4 (0.085%) OpenStack
Applications
1 511 (10.90%) Microsoft Office
2 124 (2.64%) Microsoft Excel
3 73 (1.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 17 (0.36%) MS Visio
5 13 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
6 11 (0.23%) Chatbot
7 9 (0.19%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 8 (0.17%) Trello
9 7 (0.15%) Mozilla Thunderbird
9 7 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
10 5 (0.11%) Blender
10 5 (0.11%) CINEMA 4D
10 5 (0.11%) Maya
11 4 (0.085%) AutoCAD
12 3 (0.064%) Photoshop
13 2 (0.043%) Acrobat
13 2 (0.043%) Revit
14 1 (0.021%) Adobe Illustrator
14 1 (0.021%) Simulink
14 1 (0.021%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 26 (0.55%) Dynamics NAV
2 14 (0.30%) Remedy ITSM
3 12 (0.26%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
4 11 (0.23%) NetSuite
5 9 (0.19%) SAP Business One
6 8 (0.17%) Elite 3E
6 8 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
7 7 (0.15%) Dynamics CRM
7 7 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
7 7 (0.15%) SAP ERP
8 6 (0.13%) Fidessa
8 6 (0.13%) Temenos T24
9 5 (0.11%) Oracle Applications
10 4 (0.085%) Carpe Diem
10 4 (0.085%) Sage 1000
11 3 (0.064%) Sage 50
12 2 (0.043%) Eikon
12 2 (0.043%) Oracle ERP
13 1 (0.021%) Dynamics GP
13 1 (0.021%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 1,623 (34.61%) Microsoft 365
2 1,419 (30.26%) Azure
3 452 (9.64%) Entra ID
4 394 (8.40%) AWS
5 168 (3.58%) OneDrive
6 142 (3.03%) SaaS
7 86 (1.83%) Power Platform
8 79 (1.68%) IaaS
9 72 (1.54%) PaaS
10 61 (1.30%) Mimecast
11 60 (1.28%) Azure DevOps
12 53 (1.13%) GCP
13 52 (1.11%) Google Workspace
14 42 (0.90%) Amazon EC2
15 40 (0.85%) Azure Sentinel
15 40 (0.85%) Cloud Computing
15 40 (0.85%) PowerApps
16 39 (0.83%) Nutanix
17 37 (0.79%) GitHub
18 36 (0.77%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 844 (18.00%) Firewall
2 664 (14.16%) VPN
3 543 (11.58%) DNS
4 431 (9.19%) DHCP
5 402 (8.57%) WAN
6 386 (8.23%) LAN
7 383 (8.17%) TCP/IP
8 325 (6.93%) Cisco IOS
9 227 (4.84%) Broadband
10 202 (4.31%) VLAN
11 188 (4.01%) Wi-Fi
12 176 (3.75%) VoIP
13 155 (3.30%) SAN
14 135 (2.88%) Network Security
15 123 (2.62%) Wireless
16 73 (1.56%) Internet
17 70 (1.49%) Remote Desktop
18 61 (1.30%) NAS
19 59 (1.26%) SD-WAN
20 48 (1.02%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 314 (6.70%) SQL Server
2 82 (1.75%) Relational Database
3 69 (1.47%) Amazon RDS
4 64 (1.36%) PostgreSQL
5 61 (1.30%) MySQL
6 42 (0.90%) DB2
6 42 (0.90%) Power BI
7 28 (0.60%) MongoDB
7 28 (0.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 25 (0.53%) NoSQL
8 25 (0.53%) RDBMS
9 18 (0.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 16 (0.34%) Elasticsearch
11 13 (0.28%) Data Hub
11 13 (0.28%) SQL CLR
12 11 (0.23%) Oracle Database
13 10 (0.21%) Data Warehouse
14 9 (0.19%) Oracle Reports
15 8 (0.17%) Azure SQL Database
15 8 (0.17%) GIS
Development Applications
1 150 (3.20%) JIRA
2 126 (2.69%) Git
3 64 (1.36%) Cucumber
3 64 (1.36%) Robot Framework
4 56 (1.19%) Jenkins
5 39 (0.83%) Bitbucket
6 36 (0.77%) Visual Studio
7 25 (0.53%) Vagrant
8 24 (0.51%) Eclipse
9 23 (0.49%) Eclipse RCP
10 19 (0.41%) MSI
11 15 (0.32%) Sonatype Nexus
12 13 (0.28%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 11 (0.23%) GitLab
14 9 (0.19%) Subversion
15 8 (0.17%) Artifactory
15 8 (0.17%) Selenium
16 6 (0.13%) Burp Suite
16 6 (0.13%) Octopus Deploy
16 6 (0.13%) WiX
General
1 1,702 (36.29%) Social Skills
2 607 (12.94%) Analytical Skills
3 522 (11.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 425 (9.06%) Finance
5 178 (3.80%) Organisational Skills
6 167 (3.56%) Law
6 167 (3.56%) Telecoms
7 134 (2.86%) Manufacturing
8 132 (2.81%) Legal
9 130 (2.77%) Retail
10 99 (2.11%) Banking
11 98 (2.09%) Public Sector
12 92 (1.96%) Esports
13 57 (1.22%) Back Office
14 48 (1.02%) Advertising
14 48 (1.02%) Automotive
15 47 (1.00%) Marketing
15 47 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
16 44 (0.94%) Electronics
17 41 (0.87%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 854 (18.21%) IT Support
2 749 (15.97%) Support Engineer
3 703 (14.99%) Analyst
4 606 (12.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 430 (9.17%) Support Analyst
6 368 (7.85%) IT Engineer
7 315 (6.72%) Senior
8 279 (5.95%) IT Analyst
9 262 (5.59%) 2nd Line Support
10 215 (4.58%) IT Support Analyst
11 206 (4.39%) IT Support Engineer
11 206 (4.39%) Lead
12 173 (3.69%) Technical Support
13 172 (3.67%) Desktop Support
14 163 (3.48%) 1st Line Support
15 144 (3.07%) Infrastructure Support
15 144 (3.07%) Support Technician
16 143 (3.05%) Administrator
17 131 (2.79%) 3rd Line Support
18 119 (2.54%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 273 (5.82%) Elastic Stack
2 160 (3.41%) .NET
3 61 (1.30%) HTML
4 51 (1.09%) CSS
5 44 (0.94%) Middleware
6 40 (0.85%) .NET Framework
6 40 (0.85%) REST
7 35 (0.75%) ASP.NET
8 34 (0.72%) LDAP
9 24 (0.51%) .NET Core
9 24 (0.51%) SAML
10 23 (0.49%) JSP
11 22 (0.47%) Entity Framework
12 21 (0.45%) React
13 20 (0.43%) AngularJS
14 19 (0.41%) JSON
15 17 (0.36%) FIX Protocol
15 17 (0.36%) jQuery
15 17 (0.36%) XML
16 16 (0.34%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 599 (12.77%) Social Media
2 262 (5.59%) Cyberattack
3 235 (5.01%) Driving Licence
4 176 (3.75%) Self-Motivation
5 148 (3.16%) Management Information System
6 146 (3.11%) Onboarding
7 137 (2.92%) Data Centre
8 84 (1.79%) Video Conferencing
9 82 (1.75%) Operational Technology
10 79 (1.68%) Linux Command Line
11 68 (1.45%) Hybrid Cloud
11 68 (1.45%) Replication
12 55 (1.17%) Clustering
13 51 (1.09%) CCTV
14 48 (1.02%) IoT
15 43 (0.92%) iPhone
15 43 (0.92%) Public Cloud
16 38 (0.81%) PKI
17 37 (0.79%) Algorithms
17 37 (0.79%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1,287 (27.44%) Windows Server
2 1,108 (23.62%) Linux
3 609 (12.99%) Windows 10
4 578 (12.32%) Windows Vista
5 447 (9.53%) Android
6 308 (6.57%) Windows Server 2012
7 231 (4.93%) Mac OS
8 194 (4.14%) Windows Server 2019
9 173 (3.69%) Windows Server 2016
10 159 (3.39%) Apple iOS
11 115 (2.45%) Unix
12 56 (1.19%) Mac OS X
13 55 (1.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 49 (1.04%) Windows 7
15 47 (1.00%) VMS
16 41 (0.87%) Ubuntu
17 21 (0.45%) Windows Server 2008
18 20 (0.43%) CentOS
19 18 (0.38%) AIX
20 13 (0.28%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,429 (30.47%) Problem-Solving
2 769 (16.40%) Customer Service
3 680 (14.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 679 (14.48%) ITIL
5 553 (11.79%) DevOps
6 478 (10.19%) Cybersecurity
7 396 (8.44%) Coaching
8 378 (8.06%) Mathematics
9 358 (7.63%) Line Management
10 344 (7.33%) Mentoring
11 331 (7.06%) Task Automation
12 309 (6.59%) Computer Science
13 308 (6.57%) Platform Engineering
14 306 (6.52%) Risk Management
15 294 (6.27%) Storage Management
16 291 (6.20%) Continuous Improvement
17 269 (5.74%) Agile
18 267 (5.69%) Proactive Monitoring
19 258 (5.50%) Proactive Maintenance
20 225 (4.80%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 959 (20.45%) PowerShell
2 617 (13.16%) Python
3 432 (9.21%) Bash
4 407 (8.68%) SQL
5 194 (4.14%) C#
6 138 (2.94%) JavaScript
7 100 (2.13%) Java
8 70 (1.49%) C++
9 34 (0.72%) T-SQL
10 29 (0.62%) C
11 28 (0.60%) Groovy
12 27 (0.58%) Rust
13 26 (0.55%) PHP
13 26 (0.55%) VB.NET
14 25 (0.53%) PL/SQL
15 23 (0.49%) Ada
16 22 (0.47%) VBA
17 19 (0.41%) Shell Script
18 16 (0.34%) Perl
19 15 (0.32%) Progress 4GL
Qualifications
1 975 (20.79%) Degree
2 636 (13.56%) DBS Check
3 324 (6.91%) Microsoft Certification
4 307 (6.55%) Security Cleared
5 181 (3.86%) SC Cleared
6 148 (3.16%) A+ Certification
7 143 (3.05%) DV Cleared
8 137 (2.92%) Cisco Certification
9 131 (2.79%) Azure Certification
10 106 (2.26%) Computer Science Degree
11 101 (2.15%) CCNA
12 89 (1.90%) MCSA
13 88 (1.88%) MCSE
14 69 (1.47%) Network+ Certification
15 64 (1.36%) CCNP
16 61 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
16 61 (1.30%) MCP
17 52 (1.11%) CISSP
18 51 (1.09%) Master's Degree
19 46 (0.98%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 273 (5.82%) SLA
2 123 (2.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 119 (2.54%) QA
4 115 (2.45%) GDPR
5 75 (1.60%) Cyber Essentials
6 45 (0.96%) NIST
7 27 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 22 (0.47%) PCI DSS
9 14 (0.30%) Accessibility
10 13 (0.28%) COBIT
11 7 (0.15%) ISO 9001
11 7 (0.15%) NCSC
11 7 (0.15%) SOC 2
12 6 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 4 (0.085%) HIPAA
13 4 (0.085%) ITGC
14 3 (0.064%) Data Quality
14 3 (0.064%) ISO 14001
14 3 (0.064%) PMO
14 3 (0.064%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 1,855 (39.55%) Active Directory
2 615 (13.11%) Hyper-V
3 547 (11.66%) VMware Infrastructure
4 355 (7.57%) Docker
5 350 (7.46%) vSphere
6 273 (5.82%) VMware NSX
7 121 (2.58%) VMware ESXi
8 82 (1.75%) Virtual Desktop
8 82 (1.75%) Virtual Servers
9 62 (1.32%) Virtual Machines
10 54 (1.15%) Firmware
11 29 (0.62%) Terminal Services
12 28 (0.60%) BitLocker
12 28 (0.60%) XenApp
13 21 (0.45%) DFS Replication
14 13 (0.28%) NFS
15 12 (0.26%) Microsoft App-V
16 5 (0.11%) EMC RecoverPoint
16 5 (0.11%) VMware Workstation
16 5 (0.11%) Xen
Systems Management
1 544 (11.60%) Microsoft Intune
2 465 (9.91%) Ansible
3 445 (9.49%) Terraform
4 200 (4.26%) SCCM
5 120 (2.56%) Kubernetes
6 53 (1.13%) Single Sign-On
7 50 (1.07%) Puppet
8 49 (1.04%) Grafana
9 46 (0.98%) Prometheus
10 44 (0.94%) Jamf Pro
11 39 (0.83%) SCOM
12 38 (0.81%) vCenter Server
13 34 (0.72%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 28 (0.60%) NetBackup
15 24 (0.51%) FortiGate
16 21 (0.45%) WSUS
17 19 (0.41%) WMI
18 18 (0.38%) Nessus
19 15 (0.32%) Backup Exec
19 15 (0.32%) Nagios
Vendors
1 2,258 (48.14%) Microsoft
2 762 (16.25%) VMware
3 682 (14.54%) Cisco
4 306 (6.52%) Splunk
5 303 (6.46%) Juniper
6 262 (5.59%) 3PAR
7 225 (4.80%) Sun
8 196 (4.18%) Apple
9 178 (3.80%) Citrix
10 173 (3.69%) ServiceNow
11 144 (3.07%) Veeam
12 122 (2.60%) Meraki
13 104 (2.22%) Oracle
14 94 (2.00%) HP
15 86 (1.83%) Google
16 80 (1.71%) Dell
17 58 (1.24%) SAP
18 57 (1.22%) Fortinet
19 56 (1.19%) Sophos
20 53 (1.13%) Red Hat