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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 14 28
Rank change year-on-year +6 +14 -13
Permanent jobs citing Windows 628 693 571
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 14.06% 9.57% 8.57%
As % of the Operating Systems category 88.33% 80.30% 68.80%
Number of salaries quoted 316 604 418
10th Percentile £26,375 £24,500 £24,850
25th Percentile £31,250 £26,500 £28,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,925 £35,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.50% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £45,037 £48,750 £53,750
90th Percentile £57,000 £57,500 £62,875
England median annual salary £40,000 £40,197 £43,750
% change year-on-year -0.49% -8.12% +2.94%

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 711 863 830
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 15.92% 11.92% 12.45%
Number of salaries quoted 380 739 570
10th Percentile £26,375 £25,000 £25,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £27,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,925 £37,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.53% -16.67% +5.88%
75th Percentile £52,500 £53,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £62,500 £63,750 £70,000
England median annual salary £46,500 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +3.33% -14.29% -

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 30 April 2025.

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 30 April 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
Staffordshire +4 229 £36,925 +9.41% 32
Birmingham +1 127 £45,500 +19.74% 32
Warwickshire +19 115 £32,500 -4.41% 12
Worcestershire +1 30 £30,500 -12.86% 17
Solihull -3 20 £55,000 +86.44% 6
Shropshire +8 18 £28,500 -10.94% 4
Coventry -9 15 £46,250 +8.82% 6
Walsall -1 8 £32,500 +25.00%
Sutton Coldfield - 6 - - 1
Wolverhampton +16 5 £45,000 +109.30% 2
Herefordshire +9 4 - - 13
West Bromwich 0 4 £26,000 +13.04% 1
Smethwick +2 2 - -
Wednesbury 0 2 £45,000 +50.00%
Dudley -11 2 £105,000 +200.00% 1
Bilston - 2 - -
Kingswinford - 2 - -
Rowley Regis - 2 - -
Willenhall - 2 - -
Tipton - 2 - -
Brierley Hill +4 1 - -
Halesowen +3 1 - -
Stourbridge 0 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 45 (7.17%) Microsoft Exchange
2 43 (6.85%) SharePoint
3 19 (3.03%) Confluence
4 4 (0.64%) IIS
5 2 (0.32%) CMS
5 2 (0.32%) Skype for Business
6 1 (0.16%) Exchange Server 2010
6 1 (0.16%) Exchange Server 2013
6 1 (0.16%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.16%) WordPress
Applications
1 72 (11.46%) Microsoft Office
2 31 (4.94%) Microsoft Excel
3 15 (2.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.48%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 7 (1.11%) Dynamics NAV
2 6 (0.96%) NetSuite
2 6 (0.96%) Oracle EBS
3 5 (0.80%) SAP ERP
4 4 (0.64%) NEC Housing
4 4 (0.64%) Oracle Applications
5 3 (0.48%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.16%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 149 (23.73%) Microsoft 365
2 130 (20.70%) Azure
3 99 (15.76%) AWS
4 23 (3.66%) Google Workspace
5 17 (2.71%) Entra ID
6 9 (1.43%) Power Platform
6 9 (1.43%) PowerApps
6 9 (1.43%) SaaS
7 8 (1.27%) OneDrive
8 7 (1.11%) Amazon EC2
9 6 (0.96%) Google Docs
10 5 (0.80%) Azure Sentinel
10 5 (0.80%) IaaS
10 5 (0.80%) PaaS
11 4 (0.64%) Microsoft Purview
11 4 (0.64%) Power Automate
11 4 (0.64%) Route 53
12 3 (0.48%) Amazon ECS
12 3 (0.48%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 3 (0.48%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 100 (15.92%) Firewall
2 88 (14.01%) WAN
2 88 (14.01%) WLAN
3 83 (13.22%) LAN
4 78 (12.42%) Network Security
5 73 (11.62%) Internet
6 46 (7.32%) DHCP
7 41 (6.53%) DNS
8 39 (6.21%) TCP/IP
9 34 (5.41%) VLAN
10 30 (4.78%) VoIP
11 29 (4.62%) VPN
12 17 (2.71%) BGP
13 16 (2.55%) OSPF
14 14 (2.23%) Wi-Fi
15 11 (1.75%) Intrusion Detection
15 11 (1.75%) SAN
16 6 (0.96%) Remote Desktop
17 4 (0.64%) HTTPS
17 4 (0.64%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (3.03%) MySQL
2 18 (2.87%) Relational Database
3 12 (1.91%) SQL Server
4 6 (0.96%) Oracle Database
4 6 (0.96%) Oracle Exadata
5 5 (0.80%) Oracle Reports
6 4 (0.64%) BusinessObjects
6 4 (0.64%) DB2
6 4 (0.64%) MaxDB
6 4 (0.64%) SAP HANA
7 3 (0.48%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.16%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
8 1 (0.16%) Data Hub
8 1 (0.16%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.16%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.16%) SAP Data Services
8 1 (0.16%) SQL CLR
Development Applications
1 20 (3.18%) Git
1 20 (3.18%) JIRA
2 18 (2.87%) Bitbucket
3 5 (0.80%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.48%) Bitbucket Server
4 3 (0.48%) Vagrant
5 2 (0.32%) Cucumber
5 2 (0.32%) GitLab
5 2 (0.32%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.16%) Appium
6 1 (0.16%) GDB
6 1 (0.16%) IDA Disassembler
6 1 (0.16%) Maven
6 1 (0.16%) Selenium
6 1 (0.16%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.16%) TestComplete
6 1 (0.16%) Visual Studio Team System
6 1 (0.16%) WebDriver
6 1 (0.16%) WinDbg
General
1 213 (33.92%) Social Skills
2 83 (13.22%) Presentation Skills
3 46 (7.32%) Retail
4 33 (5.25%) Finance
5 27 (4.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 26 (4.14%) Legal
7 23 (3.66%) Automotive
8 18 (2.87%) Analytical Skills
8 18 (2.87%) Law
9 16 (2.55%) Public Sector
10 14 (2.23%) Telecoms
11 6 (0.96%) Manufacturing
11 6 (0.96%) Police
12 5 (0.80%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (0.80%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (0.64%) Games
13 4 (0.64%) Local Government
14 3 (0.48%) Advertising
14 3 (0.48%) Marketing
15 2 (0.32%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 243 (38.69%) IT Support
2 125 (19.90%) IT Engineer
3 121 (19.27%) Support Engineer
4 83 (13.22%) IT Support Engineer
5 40 (6.37%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 32 (5.10%) Analyst
7 31 (4.94%) IT Support Specialist
7 31 (4.94%) Support Specialist
8 27 (4.30%) Instructor
8 27 (4.30%) Systems Engineer
9 24 (3.82%) Lead
10 23 (3.66%) Support Analyst
11 18 (2.87%) Senior
12 16 (2.55%) 2nd Line Support
12 16 (2.55%) Infrastructure Support
13 14 (2.23%) 3rd Line Engineer
13 14 (2.23%) IT Analyst
14 13 (2.07%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
14 13 (2.07%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Engineer
14 13 (2.07%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (3.66%) .NET
2 6 (0.96%) Middleware
2 6 (0.96%) Oracle Fusion
2 6 (0.96%) Oracle GoldenGate
3 4 (0.64%) SAP Basis
4 2 (0.32%) .NET Core
4 2 (0.32%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.16%) .NET Framework
5 1 (0.16%) ASP.NET
5 1 (0.16%) Dapper ORM
5 1 (0.16%) Entity Framework
5 1 (0.16%) jQuery
5 1 (0.16%) LDAP
5 1 (0.16%) libvirt
5 1 (0.16%) OAuth
5 1 (0.16%) ODBC
5 1 (0.16%) Playwright
5 1 (0.16%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (0.16%) Unity (Game Engine)
5 1 (0.16%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 174 (27.71%) Social Media
2 99 (15.76%) Driving Licence
3 85 (13.54%) Enterprise Software
4 36 (5.73%) Management Information System
5 30 (4.78%) CCTV
6 17 (2.71%) Onboarding
7 16 (2.55%) Smartphone
8 14 (2.23%) Data Centre
9 11 (1.75%) Private Cloud
10 9 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
11 7 (1.11%) Data Protection Act
12 6 (0.96%) Mobile App
13 4 (0.64%) iPhone
14 3 (0.48%) Clustering
14 3 (0.48%) Enterprise Storage
14 3 (0.48%) iPad
14 3 (0.48%) Operational Technology
15 2 (0.32%) Analytical Mindset
15 2 (0.32%) Linux Command Line
15 2 (0.32%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 174 (27.71%) Windows Vista
2 147 (23.41%) Linux
3 111 (17.68%) Windows Server
4 84 (13.38%) Windows 10
5 41 (6.53%) Windows Server 2016
6 35 (5.57%) Windows Server 2019
7 20 (3.18%) Ubuntu
8 18 (2.87%) Apple iOS
9 17 (2.71%) Mac OS X
10 10 (1.59%) Android
10 10 (1.59%) Unix
10 10 (1.59%) Windows Server 2012
11 7 (1.11%) Mac OS
11 7 (1.11%) Windows 7
12 4 (0.64%) AIX
12 4 (0.64%) Solaris
13 3 (0.48%) VMS
14 2 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 2 (0.32%) Windows Server 2003
14 2 (0.32%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 245 (39.01%) Problem-Solving
2 118 (18.79%) ITIL
3 94 (14.97%) Mentoring
4 90 (14.33%) Computer Science
5 89 (14.17%) Line Management
6 87 (13.85%) Asset Management
7 83 (13.22%) Mathematics
8 72 (11.46%) IT Asset Management
8 72 (11.46%) Network Management
9 48 (7.64%) Cybersecurity
10 40 (6.37%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 36 (5.73%) Customer Service
12 31 (4.94%) CI/CD
13 30 (4.78%) Agile
14 29 (4.62%) Business Case
15 26 (4.14%) Performance Tuning
15 26 (4.14%) Systems Engineering
16 22 (3.50%) Project Delivery
17 21 (3.34%) Coaching
18 19 (3.03%) Infrastructure Management
Programming Languages
1 64 (10.19%) PowerShell
2 49 (7.80%) SQL
3 33 (5.25%) C#
4 22 (3.50%) Python
5 16 (2.55%) Bash
6 9 (1.43%) Shell Script
7 8 (1.27%) Java
8 6 (0.96%) JavaScript
8 6 (0.96%) PL/SQL
9 5 (0.80%) Perl
10 4 (0.64%) ABAP
11 3 (0.48%) Groovy
11 3 (0.48%) Ruby
11 3 (0.48%) VB
12 2 (0.32%) C
13 1 (0.16%) C++
13 1 (0.16%) CodeQL
13 1 (0.16%) PHP
Qualifications
1 179 (28.50%) DBS Check
2 145 (23.09%) Degree
3 118 (18.79%) Microsoft Certification
4 99 (15.76%) MCSE
5 89 (14.17%) Computer Science Degree
6 84 (13.38%) MCP
7 76 (12.10%) CCNA
7 76 (12.10%) Cisco Certification
8 72 (11.46%) CCNP
8 72 (11.46%) LPIC
9 18 (2.87%) BPSS Clearance
9 18 (2.87%) MCSA
10 16 (2.55%) HNC
10 16 (2.55%) HND
11 15 (2.39%) Security Cleared
12 11 (1.75%) A+ Certification
13 6 (0.96%) Azure Certification
14 5 (0.80%) AWS Certification
14 5 (0.80%) ITIL Certification
14 5 (0.80%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 15 (2.39%) SLA
3 10 (1.59%) COBIT
4 9 (1.43%) Accessibility
5 4 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (0.64%) ISO 9001
6 3 (0.48%) GDPR
6 3 (0.48%) QA
7 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.16%) NIST
7 1 (0.16%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 160 (25.48%) Active Directory
2 59 (9.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (3.34%) Hyper-V
4 14 (2.23%) XenApp
5 8 (1.27%) BitLocker
5 8 (1.27%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (0.96%) Firmware
7 5 (0.80%) Docker
7 5 (0.80%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (0.80%) vSphere
8 2 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.16%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.16%) Xen
Systems Management
1 37 (5.89%) Microsoft Intune
2 24 (3.82%) Ansible
3 13 (2.07%) SCCM
4 6 (0.96%) Oracle RMAN
4 6 (0.96%) Terraform
5 5 (0.80%) Nessus
5 5 (0.80%) Puppet
5 5 (0.80%) SCOM
6 4 (0.64%) AirWatch
7 3 (0.48%) Nagios
7 3 (0.48%) Progress Chef
7 3 (0.48%) Proxmox
8 2 (0.32%) FortiGate
8 2 (0.32%) SCOrch
8 2 (0.32%) SCSM
8 2 (0.32%) vCenter Server
8 2 (0.32%) VxRail
9 1 (0.16%) Failover Clustering
9 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Clustering
9 1 (0.16%) WSUS
Vendors
1 255 (40.61%) Microsoft
2 118 (18.79%) Cisco
3 76 (12.10%) VMware
4 44 (7.01%) Apple
5 31 (4.94%) Citrix
6 29 (4.62%) Dell
7 22 (3.50%) Google
8 19 (3.03%) Atlassian
9 16 (2.55%) Fortinet
9 16 (2.55%) Ubiquiti
10 15 (2.39%) Meraki
11 14 (2.23%) CheckPoint
11 14 (2.23%) SonicWALL
12 13 (2.07%) ServiceNow
13 11 (1.75%) SAP
14 10 (1.59%) HP
14 10 (1.59%) Juniper
14 10 (1.59%) Oracle
15 9 (1.43%) McAfee
16 6 (0.96%) MobileIron