Windows Jobs in the West Midlands

Microsoft Windows
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 15 21 27
Rank change year-on-year +6 +6 -10
Permanent jobs citing Windows 640 428 759
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 9.15% 8.43% 8.69%
As % of the Operating Systems category 81.63% 65.05% 55.60%
Number of salaries quoted 462 358 651
10th Percentile £24,696 £25,000 £24,250
25th Percentile £27,500 £29,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £40,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -5.88% +6.25%
75th Percentile £52,500 £53,750 £51,250
90th Percentile £62,438 £63,750 £61,000
England median annual salary £42,500 £44,125 £43,150
% change year-on-year -3.68% +2.26% -4.11%

All Operating Systems
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 784 658 1,365
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 11.21% 12.96% 15.64%
Number of salaries quoted 550 523 905
10th Percentile £25,249 £25,783 £25,750
25th Percentile £28,550 £31,250 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.56% - +5.88%
75th Percentile £56,250 £59,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £68,750 £70,000 £68,750
England median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.52% - +5.00%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Windows as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Windows in the West Midlands

Windows
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for Windows in the West Midlands

Windows
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Salary histogram for Windows in the West Midlands

Windows
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows within the West Midlands 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
Birmingham +5 179 £43,227 +10.98% 23
Staffordshire +2 152 £32,500 -16.67% 14
Warwickshire +42 69 £39,000 -35.00% 11
Worcestershire 0 54 £35,000 -15.15% 11
Shropshire +12 25 £32,000 -20.00% 5
Solihull +13 21 £29,500 +9.26% 3
Coventry -9 17 £26,500 -41.11% 7
Walsall +8 11 £26,000 +23.81% 3
Wednesbury -4 6 £30,000 -14.29%
Halesowen - 6 £35,000 -
Dudley +4 4 £27,000 -12.90%
Herefordshire +3 4 £60,000 +50.00% 6
Wolverhampton -7 4 £45,000 -2.17% 2
Sutton Coldfield - 4 - - 1
West Bromwich +2 3 - - 1
Stourbridge - 3 £50,000 -
Brierley Hill - 3 £45,000 -
Smethwick -4 2 £42,500 +4.94%
Tipton -3 1 - -
Willenhall - 1 - - 1
Bilston - 1 - -
Kingswinford - 1 - -
Rowley Regis - 1 - -
Windows
England

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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
1 103 (16.09%) Microsoft Exchange
2 77 (12.03%) SharePoint
3 23 (3.59%) IIS
4 20 (3.13%) Skype for Business
5 8 (1.25%) Apache
5 8 (1.25%) Tomcat
6 7 (1.09%) Confluence
7 6 (0.94%) Umbraco
8 2 (0.31%) BizTalk Server
8 2 (0.31%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 97 (15.16%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (2.50%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (1.09%) Trello
4 6 (0.94%) Adobe XD
4 6 (0.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.47%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 11 (1.72%) NEC Housing
2 6 (0.94%) Dynamics NAV
3 5 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.63%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 307 (47.97%) Microsoft 365
2 201 (31.41%) Azure
3 89 (13.91%) Entra ID
4 30 (4.69%) AWS
5 19 (2.97%) IaaS
5 19 (2.97%) OneDrive
6 18 (2.81%) SaaS
7 16 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
8 13 (2.03%) Google Workspace
8 13 (2.03%) PaaS
9 12 (1.88%) GCP
9 12 (1.88%) Power Platform
10 10 (1.56%) Power Automate
11 9 (1.41%) Azure Sentinel
12 7 (1.09%) Cloud Computing
13 6 (0.94%) Figma
14 5 (0.78%) Dynamics 365
14 5 (0.78%) Mimecast
15 2 (0.31%) PowerApps
16 1 (0.16%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 109 (17.03%) DNS
2 106 (16.56%) Firewall
3 100 (15.63%) DHCP
4 71 (11.09%) Network Security
5 67 (10.47%) WAN
6 62 (9.69%) LAN
7 59 (9.22%) TCP/IP
8 57 (8.91%) WLAN
9 56 (8.75%) Internet
10 47 (7.34%) Wi-Fi
11 33 (5.16%) SAN
12 24 (3.75%) VPN
13 23 (3.59%) Skype
14 22 (3.44%) VLAN
15 16 (2.50%) Wireless
16 13 (2.03%) PBX
17 12 (1.88%) VoIP
18 10 (1.56%) SMTP
19 9 (1.41%) SNMP
19 9 (1.41%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (10.94%) SQL Server
2 12 (1.88%) MySQL
3 11 (1.72%) Oracle Database
3 11 (1.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 10 (1.56%) Amazon RDS
4 10 (1.56%) Power BI
5 9 (1.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 7 (1.09%) Relational Database
7 4 (0.63%) InfluxDB
8 3 (0.47%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.31%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.31%) SQLite
10 1 (0.16%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.16%) BusinessObjects
10 1 (0.16%) DB2
10 1 (0.16%) PowerCenter
10 1 (0.16%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (1.25%) Git
1 8 (1.25%) JIRA
2 4 (0.63%) Octopus Deploy
2 4 (0.63%) TeamCity
3 1 (0.16%) Toad
General
1 194 (30.31%) Social Skills
2 68 (10.63%) Finance
3 64 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 48 (7.50%) Law
4 48 (7.50%) Retail
5 36 (5.63%) Manufacturing
6 33 (5.16%) Documentation Skills
7 21 (3.28%) Automotive
8 20 (3.13%) Public Sector
9 17 (2.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 16 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
10 16 (2.50%) Police
10 16 (2.50%) Telecoms
11 15 (2.34%) Legal
12 11 (1.72%) Local Government
13 7 (1.09%) Advertising
14 6 (0.94%) Games
15 5 (0.78%) Military
15 5 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
16 4 (0.63%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 167 (26.09%) IT Support
2 128 (20.00%) IT Engineer
3 125 (19.53%) Support Engineer
4 92 (14.38%) IT Support Engineer
5 81 (12.66%) Analyst
6 62 (9.69%) Senior
7 58 (9.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 37 (5.78%) Developer
8 37 (5.78%) IT Analyst
9 36 (5.63%) 2nd Line Support
10 32 (5.00%) 1st Line Support
11 30 (4.69%) Administrator
12 26 (4.06%) IT Support Specialist
12 26 (4.06%) Support Analyst
12 26 (4.06%) Support Specialist
13 23 (3.59%) Technical Support
14 22 (3.44%) IT Support Analyst
15 21 (3.28%) 2nd Line Engineer
16 20 (3.13%) IT Technician
17 18 (2.81%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (8.13%) .NET
2 26 (4.06%) HTML
3 15 (2.34%) ASP.NET
3 15 (2.34%) CSS
3 15 (2.34%) REST
3 15 (2.34%) WinForms
4 13 (2.03%) ASP.NET MVC
4 13 (2.03%) WPF
5 12 (1.88%) Vue
6 11 (1.72%) .NET Framework
7 10 (1.56%) .NET Core
8 9 (1.41%) Tailwind CSS
8 9 (1.41%) Twitter Bootstrap
8 9 (1.41%) Web Services
9 8 (1.25%) Entity Framework
9 8 (1.25%) Middleware
10 7 (1.09%) ASP.NET Web API
10 7 (1.09%) JSON
10 7 (1.09%) XML
11 6 (0.94%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 81 (12.66%) Driving Licence
2 58 (9.06%) Onboarding
3 48 (7.50%) Self-Motivation
4 37 (5.78%) Data Centre
5 28 (4.38%) Management Information System
6 23 (3.59%) Public Cloud
6 23 (3.59%) Replication
7 21 (3.28%) Video Conferencing
8 16 (2.50%) PKI
9 13 (2.03%) Cloud Native
10 11 (1.72%) Clustering
10 11 (1.72%) EPoS
10 11 (1.72%) Private Cloud
10 11 (1.72%) Security Operations Centre
11 8 (1.25%) Cyberattack
12 7 (1.09%) Product Ownership
13 6 (0.94%) Client/Server
13 6 (0.94%) Hybrid Cloud
13 6 (0.94%) Smartphone
14 5 (0.78%) EFT
Operating Systems
1 253 (39.53%) Windows Server
2 148 (23.13%) Linux
3 147 (22.97%) Windows 10
4 56 (8.75%) Windows Server 2019
5 48 (7.50%) Windows Server 2012
5 48 (7.50%) Windows Server 2016
6 31 (4.84%) Windows 7
7 29 (4.53%) Apple iOS
8 25 (3.91%) Android
9 20 (3.13%) Unix
10 18 (2.81%) Ubuntu
11 16 (2.50%) Solaris
12 14 (2.19%) VMS
13 13 (2.03%) Mac OS
14 11 (1.72%) Windows 8
15 9 (1.41%) CentOS
16 8 (1.25%) Mac OS X
17 6 (0.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
18 4 (0.63%) Windows Server 2008
18 4 (0.63%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 187 (29.22%) Problem-Solving
2 143 (22.34%) ITIL
3 97 (15.16%) Customer Service
4 92 (14.38%) Cybersecurity
5 82 (12.81%) Computer Science
6 78 (12.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 74 (11.56%) Mentoring
8 72 (11.25%) Asset Management
9 58 (9.06%) Network Management
10 53 (8.28%) IT Asset Management
11 50 (7.81%) Continuous Improvement
12 44 (6.88%) Time Management
13 41 (6.41%) Server Management
14 40 (6.25%) Project Delivery
15 34 (5.31%) DevOps
16 29 (4.53%) Information Security
17 26 (4.06%) Identity Access Management
17 26 (4.06%) Stakeholder Management
18 25 (3.91%) Service Management
18 25 (3.91%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 109 (17.03%) SQL
2 65 (10.16%) PowerShell
3 37 (5.78%) C#
4 21 (3.28%) JavaScript
5 13 (2.03%) T-SQL
6 12 (1.88%) Python
6 12 (1.88%) VB.NET
7 10 (1.56%) PHP
8 8 (1.25%) Shell Script
9 7 (1.09%) Java
10 5 (0.78%) C++
10 5 (0.78%) XAML
11 4 (0.63%) Bash
12 3 (0.47%) C
12 3 (0.47%) R
13 2 (0.31%) COBOL
13 2 (0.31%) Micro Focus COBOL
14 1 (0.16%) Bicep
14 1 (0.16%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.16%) RPG IV
Qualifications
1 139 (21.72%) Degree
2 114 (17.81%) Microsoft Certification
3 73 (11.41%) MCSE
4 66 (10.31%) Cisco Certification
5 65 (10.16%) CCNA
6 64 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 64 (10.00%) MCP
7 56 (8.75%) CCNP
8 52 (8.13%) Security Cleared
9 50 (7.81%) LPIC
10 26 (4.06%) Azure Certification
11 25 (3.91%) DBS Check
12 22 (3.44%) SC Cleared
13 11 (1.72%) DV Cleared
13 11 (1.72%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 10 (1.56%) A+ Certification
15 9 (1.41%) AWS Certification
16 8 (1.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 8 (1.25%) MCSA
17 6 (0.94%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (5.78%) SLA
2 17 (2.66%) Accessibility
3 15 (2.34%) GDPR
4 13 (2.03%) Cyber Essentials
5 11 (1.72%) QA
6 8 (1.25%) NIST
7 4 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 3 (0.47%) JSP 440
9 1 (0.16%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.16%) ITGC
System Software
1 289 (45.16%) Active Directory
2 115 (17.97%) VMware Infrastructure
3 98 (15.31%) Hyper-V
4 38 (5.94%) VMware ESXi
5 21 (3.28%) vSphere
6 13 (2.03%) Docker
7 12 (1.88%) Virtual Servers
8 7 (1.09%) Virtual Desktop
8 7 (1.09%) VMware NSX
8 7 (1.09%) XenApp
8 7 (1.09%) XenDesktop
9 6 (0.94%) Firmware
10 5 (0.78%) VMware Workstation
11 4 (0.63%) NFS
11 4 (0.63%) pfSense
11 4 (0.63%) VMware Server
12 3 (0.47%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 3 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 72 (11.25%) Microsoft Intune
2 64 (10.00%) SCCM
3 17 (2.66%) Kubernetes
4 16 (2.50%) Terraform
5 15 (2.34%) SCOM
6 13 (2.03%) Single Sign-On
6 13 (2.03%) vCenter Server
7 8 (1.25%) Failover Clustering
8 7 (1.09%) WSUS
9 5 (0.78%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 4 (0.63%) Grafana
10 4 (0.63%) VxRail
11 3 (0.47%) AirWatch
11 3 (0.47%) Autotask
11 3 (0.47%) Backup Exec
11 3 (0.47%) Jamf Pro
12 2 (0.31%) FortiGate
12 2 (0.31%) PaperCut
12 2 (0.31%) SCVMM
12 2 (0.31%) SmoothWall
Vendors
1 406 (63.44%) Microsoft
2 178 (27.81%) VMware
3 101 (15.78%) Cisco
4 49 (7.66%) Veeam
5 45 (7.03%) Dell
6 39 (6.09%) Apple
7 26 (4.06%) Citrix
8 21 (3.28%) HP
9 20 (3.13%) Adobe
10 16 (2.50%) Fortinet
10 16 (2.50%) ServiceNow
11 14 (2.19%) Remedy
11 14 (2.19%) Sophos
12 13 (2.03%) Ubiquiti
13 12 (1.88%) Oracle
14 11 (1.72%) Google
14 11 (1.72%) NEC
15 10 (1.56%) NetApp
16 9 (1.41%) IBM
16 9 (1.41%) Meraki