Microsoft Windows
UK

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 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 15 19 33
Rank change year-on-year +4 +14 -10
Permanent jobs citing Windows 9,321 9,864 13,877
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.39% 9.78% 8.81%
As % of the Operating Systems category 66.52% 61.24% 46.44%
Number of salaries quoted 7,608 7,017 9,858
10th Percentile £25,248 £25,750 £25,000
25th Percentile £29,000 £31,250 £30,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £45,000 £43,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £56,000 £60,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £78,750 £76,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,500 £40,000 £38,869
% change year-on-year -6.25% +2.91% -2.83%

All Operating Systems
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 14,012 16,106 29,883
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 14.12% 15.96% 18.96%
Number of salaries quoted 10,794 10,892 16,523
10th Percentile £26,000 £27,000 £26,275
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £35,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £71,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £92,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -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 11 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Windows in the UK

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 11 May 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 +5 8,599 £40,000 -8.72% 1,860
UK excluding London +6 7,137 £37,500 -6.25% 1,515
Work from Home +4 2,769 £49,881 -0.24% 662
South East +3 2,041 £40,000 +6.67% 395
London +9 1,999 £55,000 +4.76% 442
North of England +9 1,564 £37,500 -6.25% 325
Midlands +13 1,231 £35,000 -12.50% 273
South West +5 980 £42,500 +11.84% 237
North West -4 756 £40,000 - 167
East of England +3 751 £32,500 -15.58% 202
West Midlands +14 689 £35,000 -12.50% 155
Yorkshire +20 621 £37,000 -2.63% 126
East Midlands +7 536 £35,000 -7.58% 118
Scotland -42 372 £42,202 -6.22% 86
North East +17 189 £33,000 -17.50% 36
Wales +8 148 £32,500 -7.14% 31
Northern Ireland -11 47 £37,500 -25.00% 17
Isle of Man -4 12 £43,750 +45.83% 1

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 1,553 (16.66%) Microsoft Exchange
2 983 (10.55%) SharePoint
3 219 (2.35%) IIS
4 138 (1.48%) Apache
5 73 (0.78%) Confluence
6 54 (0.58%) Skype for Business
7 48 (0.51%) CMS
7 48 (0.51%) Exchange Server 2013
8 45 (0.48%) Tomcat
9 43 (0.46%) Exchange Server 2010
10 39 (0.42%) OpenStack
11 22 (0.24%) Exchange Server 2007
11 22 (0.24%) WordPress
12 19 (0.20%) SAS
13 17 (0.18%) SharePoint 2013
14 16 (0.17%) SharePoint 2010
15 15 (0.16%) JBoss
16 10 (0.11%) nginx
16 10 (0.11%) Umbraco
17 9 (0.097%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1,389 (14.90%) Microsoft Office
2 276 (2.96%) Microsoft Excel
3 106 (1.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 35 (0.38%) MS Visio
5 30 (0.32%) AutoCAD
6 23 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
7 18 (0.19%) Trello
8 14 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
9 10 (0.11%) Photoshop
10 9 (0.097%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 9 (0.097%) Revit
11 8 (0.086%) InfoPath
12 7 (0.075%) Adobe Illustrator
13 4 (0.043%) Adobe XD
14 3 (0.032%) Final Cut Pro
14 3 (0.032%) InDesign
14 3 (0.032%) Pro Tools
14 3 (0.032%) Simulink
14 3 (0.032%) SPSS
15 2 (0.021%) InCopy
Business Applications
1 49 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
2 35 (0.38%) NEC Housing
3 19 (0.20%) Unit4 Business World
4 16 (0.17%) Dynamics NAV
4 16 (0.17%) Fidessa
5 10 (0.11%) SAP ERP
6 9 (0.097%) Remedy ITSM
6 9 (0.097%) Teamcenter
7 8 (0.086%) Carpe Diem
8 7 (0.075%) Elite 3E
9 6 (0.064%) Sage 200
10 5 (0.054%) Shopify
10 5 (0.054%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 5 (0.054%) Temenos T24
11 4 (0.043%) Oracle Cash Management
11 4 (0.043%) Salesforce CRM
12 3 (0.032%) Eikon
12 3 (0.032%) JDE EnterpriseOne
12 3 (0.032%) Sage 50
13 2 (0.021%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 4,047 (43.42%) Microsoft 365
2 3,426 (36.76%) Azure
3 1,071 (11.49%) Entra ID
4 887 (9.52%) AWS
5 416 (4.46%) OneDrive
6 304 (3.26%) Azure DevOps
7 303 (3.25%) SaaS
8 238 (2.55%) IBM Cloud
9 227 (2.44%) GCP
10 207 (2.22%) IaaS
11 186 (2.00%) Power Platform
12 184 (1.97%) Serverless
13 143 (1.53%) Azure Logic Apps
14 138 (1.48%) Azure Functions
15 136 (1.46%) Azure API Management
16 135 (1.45%) Azure Service Bus
17 129 (1.38%) Google Workspace
17 129 (1.38%) Mimecast
18 128 (1.37%) Cloud Computing
19 123 (1.32%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1,747 (18.74%) Firewall
2 1,355 (14.54%) DNS
3 979 (10.50%) DHCP
4 873 (9.37%) WAN
5 820 (8.80%) TCP/IP
6 782 (8.39%) LAN
7 742 (7.96%) VPN
8 491 (5.27%) Wireless
9 489 (5.25%) Wi-Fi
10 468 (5.02%) SAN
11 326 (3.50%) VLAN
12 322 (3.45%) VoIP
13 295 (3.16%) Internet
14 222 (2.38%) SD-WAN
15 208 (2.23%) Network Security
16 176 (1.89%) NAS
17 167 (1.79%) Remote Desktop
18 154 (1.65%) Cisco IOS
19 114 (1.22%) SNMP
20 107 (1.15%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 850 (9.12%) SQL Server
2 384 (4.12%) MongoDB
3 326 (3.50%) PostgreSQL
4 295 (3.16%) DB2
5 259 (2.78%) NoSQL
6 245 (2.63%) Relational Database
7 171 (1.83%) MySQL
8 144 (1.54%) Power BI
9 143 (1.53%) Amazon RDS
10 84 (0.90%) Elasticsearch
11 71 (0.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 63 (0.68%) Oracle Database
13 54 (0.58%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 53 (0.57%) Data Warehouse
15 39 (0.42%) RDBMS
16 34 (0.36%) Azure SQL Database
17 25 (0.27%) Redis
18 22 (0.24%) Big Data
19 21 (0.23%) QlikView
20 20 (0.21%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 233 (2.50%) Git
2 230 (2.47%) JIRA
3 140 (1.50%) Jenkins
4 119 (1.28%) Visual Studio
5 90 (0.97%) GitLab
6 72 (0.77%) Subversion
7 45 (0.48%) Bitbucket
8 36 (0.39%) Eclipse
9 27 (0.29%) CMake
10 25 (0.27%) Ant
11 24 (0.26%) TeamCity
12 23 (0.25%) Octopus Deploy
13 22 (0.24%) Artifactory
13 22 (0.24%) LabVIEW
13 22 (0.24%) MSI
14 20 (0.21%) IBM UrbanCode
15 15 (0.16%) Team Foundation Server
16 13 (0.14%) Postman
17 12 (0.13%) IntelliJ
18 11 (0.12%) Selenium
General
1 2,904 (31.16%) Social Skills
2 1,262 (13.54%) Finance
3 859 (9.22%) Analytical Skills
4 515 (5.53%) Public Sector
5 367 (3.94%) Law
6 351 (3.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 320 (3.43%) Organisational Skills
8 312 (3.35%) Retail
9 293 (3.14%) Telecoms
10 286 (3.07%) Manufacturing
11 264 (2.83%) Legal
12 241 (2.59%) Banking
13 176 (1.89%) Marketing
14 145 (1.56%) Electronics
15 141 (1.51%) Documentation Skills
16 133 (1.43%) Aerospace
17 124 (1.33%) Games
18 102 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
19 88 (0.94%) Automotive
20 77 (0.83%) Military
Job Titles
1 1,588 (17.04%) IT Support
2 1,404 (15.06%) Support Engineer
3 1,205 (12.93%) Analyst
4 1,111 (11.92%) Senior
5 1,094 (11.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1,090 (11.69%) IT Engineer
7 732 (7.85%) IT Support Engineer
8 540 (5.79%) IT Technician
9 515 (5.53%) Lead
10 502 (5.39%) 2nd Line Support
11 488 (5.24%) Support Analyst
12 478 (5.13%) Developer
13 440 (4.72%) IT Analyst
14 381 (4.09%) Support Technician
15 339 (3.64%) Service Analyst
16 334 (3.58%) 2nd Line Engineer
17 321 (3.44%) Software Engineer
18 313 (3.36%) Service Desk Analyst
19 312 (3.35%) Administrator
20 310 (3.33%) 1st Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 621 (6.66%) .NET
2 458 (4.91%) HTML
3 400 (4.29%) CSS
4 341 (3.66%) AngularJS
4 341 (3.66%) REST
5 340 (3.65%) React
6 335 (3.59%) ASP.NET
7 323 (3.47%) Web Services
8 289 (3.10%) Vue
9 288 (3.09%) jQuery
10 279 (2.99%) Twitter Bootstrap
11 241 (2.59%) Ember.js
12 240 (2.57%) ASP.NET Core
13 238 (2.55%) Backbone.js
14 162 (1.74%) Node.js
15 142 (1.52%) WPF
16 99 (1.06%) .NET Framework
17 93 (1.00%) XML
18 88 (0.94%) RabbitMQ
19 86 (0.92%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 579 (6.21%) Data Centre
2 451 (4.84%) Driving Licence
3 438 (4.70%) Self-Motivation
4 378 (4.06%) Management Information System
5 306 (3.28%) Hybrid Cloud
6 289 (3.10%) Algorithms
7 249 (2.67%) Public Cloud
8 248 (2.66%) Data Structures
9 238 (2.55%) Blockchain
10 237 (2.54%) Replication
11 236 (2.53%) Video Conferencing
12 195 (2.09%) Onboarding
13 162 (1.74%) Clustering
14 149 (1.60%) PKI
15 128 (1.37%) e-Learning
16 100 (1.07%) Smartphone
17 97 (1.04%) EPoS
17 97 (1.04%) Wiki
18 85 (0.91%) Client/Server
19 80 (0.86%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 3,433 (36.83%) Windows Server
2 2,384 (25.58%) Linux
3 1,895 (20.33%) Windows 10
4 703 (7.54%) Android
5 614 (6.59%) Apple iOS
6 598 (6.42%) Windows Server 2016
7 533 (5.72%) Windows Server 2019
8 504 (5.41%) Windows Server 2012
9 421 (4.52%) Mac OS
10 397 (4.26%) Unix
11 324 (3.48%) Windows 7
12 160 (1.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 160 (1.72%) Ubuntu
13 157 (1.68%) Windows Server 2008
14 132 (1.42%) Windows 8
15 122 (1.31%) CentOS
16 117 (1.26%) VMS
17 94 (1.01%) Mac OS X
18 69 (0.74%) Solaris
19 55 (0.59%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,057 (22.07%) Problem-Solving
2 1,588 (17.04%) ITIL
3 1,476 (15.84%) Customer Service
4 1,402 (15.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1,003 (10.76%) Cybersecurity
6 822 (8.82%) Agile
7 770 (8.26%) DevOps
8 720 (7.72%) Mentoring
9 567 (6.08%) Computer Science
10 485 (5.20%) Software Engineering
11 477 (5.12%) Disaster Recovery
12 464 (4.98%) Project Management
13 463 (4.97%) Service Management
14 431 (4.62%) Continuous Improvement
15 412 (4.42%) Service Delivery
16 410 (4.40%) User Experience
17 394 (4.23%) ITSM
18 389 (4.17%) Change Management
19 373 (4.00%) Artificial Intelligence
20 372 (3.99%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 1,367 (14.67%) SQL
2 1,287 (13.81%) PowerShell
3 788 (8.45%) Python
4 759 (8.14%) C#
5 520 (5.58%) JavaScript
6 412 (4.42%) Java
7 396 (4.25%) Bash
8 316 (3.39%) C++
9 183 (1.96%) C
10 115 (1.23%) T-SQL
11 107 (1.15%) Perl
12 85 (0.91%) VB
13 58 (0.62%) VBScript
14 53 (0.57%) Ruby
15 52 (0.56%) XAML
16 48 (0.51%) TypeScript
17 46 (0.49%) Shell Script
18 39 (0.42%) PHP
19 34 (0.36%) PL/SQL
20 28 (0.30%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1,533 (16.45%) Degree
2 1,060 (11.37%) Security Cleared
3 597 (6.40%) SC Cleared
4 559 (6.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 456 (4.89%) DV Cleared
6 395 (4.24%) Computer Science Degree
7 323 (3.47%) Cisco Certification
8 254 (2.73%) CCNA
9 250 (2.68%) DBS Check
10 207 (2.22%) MCSE
11 184 (1.97%) A+ Certification
12 163 (1.75%) Master's Degree
13 155 (1.66%) MCP
14 140 (1.50%) Azure Certification
15 127 (1.36%) MCSA
16 107 (1.15%) ITIL Certification
17 98 (1.05%) CISSP
18 97 (1.04%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
19 89 (0.95%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
20 77 (0.83%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 613 (6.58%) SLA
2 206 (2.21%) GDPR
3 186 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 152 (1.63%) Cyber Essentials
5 142 (1.52%) QA
6 75 (0.80%) PCI DSS
7 71 (0.76%) NIST
8 63 (0.68%) Accessibility
9 33 (0.35%) PMO
10 21 (0.23%) COBIT
10 21 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 20 (0.21%) Data Quality
11 20 (0.21%) ITGC
12 19 (0.20%) GRC
13 18 (0.19%) SOC 2
14 14 (0.15%) ISO 9001
15 13 (0.14%) NCSC
16 11 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 9 (0.097%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
18 8 (0.086%) MISRA
System Software
1 4,168 (44.72%) Active Directory
2 1,564 (16.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1,129 (12.11%) Hyper-V
4 399 (4.28%) VMware ESXi
5 295 (3.16%) Docker
6 247 (2.65%) vSphere
7 229 (2.46%) Virtual Machines
8 198 (2.12%) XenApp
9 180 (1.93%) XenDesktop
10 157 (1.68%) Virtual Desktop
11 119 (1.28%) Firmware
12 104 (1.12%) Microsoft App-V
13 89 (0.95%) Virtual Servers
14 64 (0.69%) KVM
15 52 (0.56%) Terminal Services
16 49 (0.53%) VirtualBox
17 26 (0.28%) VMware Workstation
18 24 (0.26%) VMware NSX
19 23 (0.25%) VMware Server
20 22 (0.24%) pfSense
Systems Management
1 961 (10.31%) Microsoft Intune
2 741 (7.95%) SCCM
3 405 (4.35%) Ansible
4 348 (3.73%) Kubernetes
5 299 (3.21%) Terraform
6 247 (2.65%) vCenter Server
7 181 (1.94%) WSUS
8 142 (1.52%) SCOM
9 125 (1.34%) Puppet
10 109 (1.17%) AirWatch
11 103 (1.11%) Single Sign-On
12 97 (1.04%) Jamf Pro
13 82 (0.88%) Prometheus
14 72 (0.77%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 63 (0.68%) FortiGate
16 62 (0.67%) Grafana
17 60 (0.64%) Nagios
18 57 (0.61%) Progress Chef
19 55 (0.59%) Microsoft Clustering
20 52 (0.56%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 4,706 (50.49%) Microsoft
2 2,309 (24.77%) VMware
3 840 (9.01%) Cisco
4 637 (6.83%) Citrix
5 509 (5.46%) Red Hat
6 437 (4.69%) Veeam
7 396 (4.25%) Apple
8 380 (4.08%) IBM
9 330 (3.54%) Dell
10 322 (3.45%) HP
11 316 (3.39%) Oracle
12 290 (3.11%) Google
13 214 (2.30%) NetApp
14 197 (2.11%) ServiceNow
15 171 (1.83%) Meraki
16 136 (1.46%) Palo Alto
17 133 (1.43%) Adobe
18 126 (1.35%) Sophos
19 121 (1.30%) Splunk
20 114 (1.22%) SolarWinds