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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 March 2019 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.
| Microsoft Windows UK |
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6 months to
23 Mar 2019 |
Same period 2018 |
Same period 2017 |
| Rank |
10 |
12 |
13 |
| Rank change year-on-year |
+2 |
+1 |
-4 |
| Permanent jobs citing Windows |
19,829 |
23,902 |
23,993 |
| As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK |
13.26% |
13.50% |
13.94% |
| As % of the Operating Systems category |
57.44% |
56.51% |
57.88% |
| Number of salaries quoted |
16,264 |
19,916 |
20,759 |
| UK median annual salary |
£42,000 |
£40,000 |
£39,000 |
| Median salary % change year-on-year |
+5.00% |
+2.56% |
-2.50% |
| 10th Percentile |
£23,750 |
£22,500 |
£22,500 |
| 90th Percentile |
£72,312 |
£68,750 |
£65,000 |
| UK excluding London median annual salary |
£37,500 |
£37,500 |
£35,000 |
| % change year-on-year |
- |
+7.14% |
-6.67% |
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 |
34,521 |
42,295 |
41,455 |
| As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK |
23.09% |
23.89% |
24.09% |
| Number of salaries quoted |
27,655 |
34,742 |
34,822 |
| UK median annual salary |
£47,500 |
£45,000 |
£43,349 |
| Median salary % change year-on-year |
+5.56% |
+3.81% |
-0.35% |
| 10th Percentile |
£26,000 |
£25,000 |
£24,750 |
| 90th Percentile |
£77,500 |
£75,000 |
£72,500 |
| UK excluding London median annual salary |
£42,000 |
£40,000 |
£39,000 |
| % change year-on-year |
+5.00% |
+2.56% |
-2.50% |
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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 March 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 March 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 |
18,616 |
£42,500 |
+6.25% |
1,192 |
| UK excluding London |
+2 |
11,963 |
£37,500 |
- |
860 |
| London |
-2 |
7,377 |
£50,000 |
- |
392 |
| South East |
+1 |
3,978 |
£40,000 |
+5.26% |
208 |
| North of England |
+4 |
2,602 |
£37,500 |
+7.14% |
235 |
| Midlands |
+6 |
1,864 |
£38,500 |
+9.22% |
155 |
| North West |
+5 |
1,450 |
£37,500 |
- |
142 |
| South West |
0 |
1,410 |
£37,500 |
- |
121 |
| East of England |
+4 |
1,361 |
£37,500 |
-2.60% |
82 |
| West Midlands |
+5 |
1,195 |
£38,500 |
+10.00% |
98 |
| Yorkshire |
+3 |
927 |
£36,000 |
+2.86% |
80 |
| East Midlands |
+3 |
667 |
£38,500 |
+2.67% |
56 |
| Scotland |
-5 |
506 |
£38,500 |
+10.00% |
47 |
| Wales |
+1 |
237 |
£37,000 |
+17.46% |
11 |
| North East |
+8 |
229 |
£35,000 |
+7.69% |
13 |
| Northern Ireland |
-32 |
32 |
£32,500 |
-2.26% |
1 |
| Channel Islands |
+1 |
11 |
£35,000 |
-50.00% |
1 |
| Isle of Man |
-2 |
3 |
£37,500 |
-11.76% |
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For the 6 months to 23 March 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 |
8,465 (42.69%) |
Microsoft |
| 2 |
8,168 (41.19%) |
Active Directory |
| 3 |
7,077 (35.69%) |
Windows Server |
| 4 |
5,654 (28.51%) |
Linux |
| 5 |
5,097 (25.70%) |
VMware |
| 6 |
4,901 (24.72%) |
Office 365 |
| 7 |
4,561 (23.00%) |
SQL |
| 8 |
4,356 (21.97%) |
Microsoft Azure |
| 9 |
3,840 (19.37%) |
ITIL |
| 10 |
3,602 (18.17%) |
SQL Server |
| 11 |
3,475 (17.52%) |
Windows 10 |
| 12 |
3,183 (16.05%) |
Finance |
| 13 |
3,137 (15.82%) |
VMware Infrastructure |
| 14 |
3,085 (15.56%) |
PowerShell |
| 15 |
3,053 (15.40%) |
Firewall |
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| 16 |
3,019 (15.23%) |
Agile Software Development |
| 17 |
2,942 (14.84%) |
Microsoft Office |
| 18 |
2,913 (14.69%) |
Windows 7 |
| 19 |
2,693 (13.58%) |
Amazon AWS |
| 20 |
2,684 (13.54%) |
Windows Server 2012 |
| 21 |
2,613 (13.18%) |
C# |
| 22 |
2,579 (13.01%) |
Problem-Solving |
| 23 |
2,518 (12.70%) |
DNS |
| 24 |
2,439 (12.30%) |
Infrastructure Engineering |
| 25 |
2,414 (12.17%) |
Windows Server 2008 |
| 26 |
2,397 (12.09%) |
Cisco |
| 27 |
2,337 (11.79%) |
MS Exchange |
| 28 |
2,285 (11.52%) |
.NET |
| 29 |
2,278 (11.49%) |
Hyper-V |
| 30 |
2,249 (11.34%) |
Citrix |
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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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