Windows Jobs in Wales

Microsoft Windows
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Wales 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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 20 26 34
Rank change year-on-year +6 +8 -17
Permanent jobs citing Windows 117 150 130
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 6.07% 8.77% 6.64%
As % of the Operating Systems category 53.67% 58.82% 55.56%
Number of salaries quoted 88 69 93
10th Percentile £24,500 £24,800 £27,250
25th Percentile £26,500 £30,000 £33,284
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £35,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% -12.50% +11.89%
75th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
90th Percentile £55,149 £58,750 £58,000
UK median annual salary £42,500 £44,500 £44,000
% change year-on-year -4.49% +1.14% -2.22%

All Operating Systems
Wales

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 in Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 218 255 234
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 11.30% 14.91% 11.94%
Number of salaries quoted 153 103 143
10th Percentile £24,500 £25,250 £29,800
25th Percentile £29,000 £26,875 £35,480
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,067 £35,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.33% -22.22% +20.00%
75th Percentile £53,750 £49,125 £50,000
90th Percentile £57,500 £58,500 £61,250
UK median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.52% - +5.00%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in Wales

Windows
Salary Trend in Wales

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

Salary trend for Windows in Wales

Windows
Salary Histogram in Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows in Wales over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Windows in Wales

Windows
Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows within the Wales region over the 6 months to 26 July 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
South Wales +1 79 £30,000 -14.29% 22
North Wales +6 21 £34,000 +3.82% 1
West Wales +8 14 £51,000 +45.71% 4
Windows
UK

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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 19 (16.24%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (11.11%) SharePoint
3 8 (6.84%) Confluence
4 5 (4.27%) Apache
5 3 (2.56%) Jupyter
5 3 (2.56%) OpenStack
5 3 (2.56%) WebLogic
6 2 (1.71%) IIS
Applications
1 25 (21.37%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (5.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.85%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 65 (55.56%) Microsoft 365
2 57 (48.72%) Azure
3 22 (18.80%) Entra ID
4 12 (10.26%) AWS
5 8 (6.84%) OneDrive
6 5 (4.27%) Amazon S3
7 3 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (2.56%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (2.56%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (2.56%) Nutanix
8 2 (1.71%) Power Platform
9 1 (0.85%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.85%) GCP
9 1 (0.85%) GitHub
9 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (0.85%) OpenShift
9 1 (0.85%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 33 (28.21%) Firewall
2 23 (19.66%) DNS
3 18 (15.38%) DHCP
4 14 (11.97%) Internet
5 13 (11.11%) VoIP
6 12 (10.26%) LAN
6 12 (10.26%) WAN
7 11 (9.40%) SAN
7 11 (9.40%) TCP/IP
7 11 (9.40%) Wi-Fi
8 9 (7.69%) Remote Desktop
8 9 (7.69%) VPN
9 5 (4.27%) IPsec
9 5 (4.27%) Network Security
9 5 (4.27%) SNMP
10 4 (3.42%) MPLS
10 4 (3.42%) VLAN
11 3 (2.56%) Bluetooth
11 3 (2.56%) Extranet
11 3 (2.56%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (7.69%) MongoDB
1 9 (7.69%) SQL Server
2 6 (5.13%) Relational Database
3 5 (4.27%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (4.27%) MySQL
3 5 (4.27%) RDBMS
4 3 (2.56%) Big Data
4 3 (2.56%) Metabase
4 3 (2.56%) Oracle Database
4 3 (2.56%) Oracle Database 12c
5 2 (1.71%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 9 (7.69%) JIRA
2 3 (2.56%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 3 (2.56%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (0.85%) GitLab
3 1 (0.85%) Jenkins
General
1 24 (20.51%) Social Skills
2 21 (17.95%) Finance
3 13 (11.11%) Manufacturing
4 8 (6.84%) Advertising
5 6 (5.13%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (5.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (5.13%) Law
5 6 (5.13%) Local Government
5 6 (5.13%) Police
6 4 (3.42%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (2.56%) Welsh Language
8 2 (1.71%) Retail
9 1 (0.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 23 (19.66%) IT Technician
2 18 (15.38%) IT Support
3 15 (12.82%) Support Engineer
4 14 (11.97%) DBA
4 14 (11.97%) Senior
5 10 (8.55%) Consultant
5 10 (8.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 9 (7.69%) IT Engineer
7 8 (6.84%) Oracle DBA
8 7 (5.98%) 2nd Line Engineer
8 7 (5.98%) Analyst
8 7 (5.98%) SQL DBA
9 6 (5.13%) 2nd Line Support
9 6 (5.13%) Desktop Engineer
9 6 (5.13%) Desktop Support
9 6 (5.13%) Desktop Support Engineer
9 6 (5.13%) ICT Engineer
9 6 (5.13%) IT Support Technician
9 6 (5.13%) Senior Technical Engineer
9 6 (5.13%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.27%) RabbitMQ
1 5 (4.27%) YAML
2 3 (2.56%) .NET
2 3 (2.56%) COM
2 3 (2.56%) Middleware
2 3 (2.56%) Oracle Fusion
2 3 (2.56%) SAML
2 3 (2.56%) WinForms
3 1 (0.85%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 16 (13.68%) Data Centre
2 7 (5.98%) Driving Licence
3 6 (5.13%) Replication
4 5 (4.27%) Onboarding
5 4 (3.42%) Clustering
5 4 (3.42%) EPoS
6 3 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.56%) Raspberry Pi
6 3 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (2.56%) Smartphone
7 2 (1.71%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.85%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.85%) iPad
8 1 (0.85%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 53 (45.30%) Windows Server
2 29 (24.79%) Linux
3 15 (12.82%) Windows 10
4 11 (9.40%) Windows Server 2012
5 8 (6.84%) Mac OS
5 8 (6.84%) Windows Server 2019
6 6 (5.13%) Android
7 5 (4.27%) Data ONTAP
7 5 (4.27%) Unix
8 4 (3.42%) Windows 7
9 3 (2.56%) Apple iOS
10 2 (1.71%) VMS
10 2 (1.71%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (1.71%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.85%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (29.91%) Customer Service
2 17 (14.53%) Problem-Solving
2 17 (14.53%) Service Delivery
3 14 (11.97%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 14 (11.97%) ITIL
4 11 (9.40%) Project Management
5 10 (8.55%) Actionable Insight
6 8 (6.84%) Change Management
7 7 (5.98%) Cybersecurity
7 7 (5.98%) Infrastructure Management
7 7 (5.98%) Problem Management
8 6 (5.13%) Break/Fix
8 6 (5.13%) CI/CD
8 6 (5.13%) Incident Management
8 6 (5.13%) Release Management
8 6 (5.13%) Storage Management
8 6 (5.13%) Ticket Management
9 5 (4.27%) Artificial Intelligence
9 5 (4.27%) Disaster Recovery
9 5 (4.27%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 22 (18.80%) SQL
2 9 (7.69%) PowerShell
3 6 (5.13%) Python
4 3 (2.56%) C#
4 3 (2.56%) PL/SQL
4 3 (2.56%) VB
5 1 (0.85%) Java
Qualifications
1 28 (23.93%) Degree
2 14 (11.97%) CCNA
2 14 (11.97%) Cisco Certification
3 11 (9.40%) Microsoft Certification
4 6 (5.13%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (5.13%) SC Cleared
4 6 (5.13%) Security Cleared
5 5 (4.27%) A+ Certification
6 3 (2.56%) MCSE
7 2 (1.71%) CCNP
7 2 (1.71%) MCITP
7 2 (1.71%) MCP
7 2 (1.71%) MCSA
7 2 (1.71%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.71%) PMP
8 1 (0.85%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (11.11%) SLA
2 6 (5.13%) Cyber Essentials
2 6 (5.13%) GDPR
3 3 (2.56%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 54 (46.15%) Active Directory
2 22 (18.80%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (9.40%) Hyper-V
4 9 (7.69%) Docker
5 3 (2.56%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (2.56%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (1.71%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.85%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 17 (14.53%) Microsoft Intune
2 11 (9.40%) Kubernetes
3 9 (7.69%) Ansible
4 6 (5.13%) SCCM
5 5 (4.27%) Prometheus
5 5 (4.27%) vCenter Server
6 4 (3.42%) Terraform
7 3 (2.56%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
7 3 (2.56%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 3 (2.56%) Oracle RMAN
7 3 (2.56%) Perfmon
7 3 (2.56%) SCOM
7 3 (2.56%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (1.71%) SmoothWall
9 1 (0.85%) Failover Clustering
9 1 (0.85%) Puppet
Vendors
1 68 (58.12%) Microsoft
2 34 (29.06%) VMware
3 12 (10.26%) Veeam
4 11 (9.40%) Cisco
5 9 (7.69%) Oracle
6 8 (6.84%) NetApp
7 7 (5.98%) Meraki
8 6 (5.13%) Sophos
9 5 (4.27%) Acronis
9 5 (4.27%) Aruba
9 5 (4.27%) Datto
9 5 (4.27%) Mitel
9 5 (4.27%) Palo Alto
9 5 (4.27%) Red Hat
9 5 (4.27%) SolidFire
10 4 (3.42%) Apple
10 4 (3.42%) Atlassian
10 4 (3.42%) Citrix
10 4 (3.42%) HP
11 3 (2.56%) Fortinet