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 11 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 14 28
Rank change year-on-year +4 +14 -13
Permanent jobs citing Windows 588 688 526
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 13.39% 9.33% 8.24%
As % of the Operating Systems category 88.55% 80.56% 67.35%
Number of salaries quoted 329 597 401
10th Percentile £26,375 £24,500 £25,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £26,500 £28,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,925 £35,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.50% -12.50% -0.62%
75th Percentile £43,750 £48,750 £53,750
90th Percentile £54,000 £58,000 £63,750
England median annual salary £40,000 £40,000 £43,823
% change year-on-year - -8.72% +3.11%

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 664 854 781
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 15.12% 11.58% 12.24%
Number of salaries quoted 393 728 553
10th Percentile £26,375 £24,734 £25,500
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 £55,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £70,000
England median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - -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 11 May 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 11 May 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 +5 223 £36,925 +13.62% 40
Birmingham -1 126 £45,000 +18.42% 47
Warwickshire +17 100 £32,500 -8.45% 14
Shropshire +12 26 £41,000 +28.13% 9
Worcestershire +2 25 £30,500 -12.86% 26
Solihull 0 23 £55,000 +86.44% 5
Coventry -9 14 £46,250 +8.82% 15
Walsall 0 6 £32,500 +25.00% 1
Sutton Coldfield +11 5 - -
Wolverhampton +13 4 £45,000 +109.30% 3
Herefordshire +9 4 - - 6
West Bromwich +1 4 £26,000 +13.04% 1
Smethwick +2 1 - -
Wednesbury -2 1 £45,000 +50.00%
Dudley -10 1 £105,000 +200.00% 2
Kingswinford - 1 - -
Rowley Regis - 1 - -
Bilston - 1 - -
Tipton - 1 - -
Willenhall - 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 44 (7.48%) Microsoft Exchange
2 38 (6.46%) SharePoint
3 24 (4.08%) Confluence
4 4 (0.68%) IIS
5 2 (0.34%) Skype for Business
6 1 (0.17%) CMS
6 1 (0.17%) Exchange Server 2010
6 1 (0.17%) Exchange Server 2013
6 1 (0.17%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.17%) WordPress
Applications
1 69 (11.73%) Microsoft Office
2 26 (4.42%) Microsoft Excel
3 12 (2.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.51%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 8 (1.36%) Dynamics NAV
2 6 (1.02%) NetSuite
2 6 (1.02%) Oracle EBS
2 6 (1.02%) SAP ERP
3 5 (0.85%) Remedy ITSM
4 4 (0.68%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.17%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 150 (25.51%) Microsoft 365
2 136 (23.13%) Azure
3 104 (17.69%) AWS
4 21 (3.57%) Google Workspace
5 16 (2.72%) Entra ID
6 12 (2.04%) Amazon EC2
7 9 (1.53%) Power Platform
7 9 (1.53%) PowerApps
8 8 (1.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 8 (1.36%) Amazon ELB
8 8 (1.36%) Amazon Glacier
8 8 (1.36%) Amazon S3
8 8 (1.36%) AWS KMS
8 8 (1.36%) SaaS
8 8 (1.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 7 (1.19%) OneDrive
10 6 (1.02%) Google Docs
11 5 (0.85%) Azure Sentinel
11 5 (0.85%) IaaS
11 5 (0.85%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 104 (17.69%) Firewall
2 97 (16.50%) WAN
3 90 (15.31%) LAN
4 43 (7.31%) DHCP
5 41 (6.97%) DNS
6 39 (6.63%) TCP/IP
7 36 (6.12%) WLAN
8 31 (5.27%) VLAN
9 30 (5.10%) VoIP
9 30 (5.10%) VPN
10 27 (4.59%) Network Security
11 23 (3.91%) Internet
12 17 (2.89%) Wi-Fi
13 15 (2.55%) BGP
14 14 (2.38%) OSPF
15 11 (1.87%) Intrusion Detection
16 10 (1.70%) SAN
17 6 (1.02%) Remote Desktop
17 6 (1.02%) SD-WAN
18 4 (0.68%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (3.23%) MySQL
2 18 (3.06%) Relational Database
3 12 (2.04%) SQL Server
4 8 (1.36%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (1.02%) Oracle Database
5 6 (1.02%) Oracle Exadata
6 5 (0.85%) Oracle Reports
7 4 (0.68%) DB2
7 4 (0.68%) MaxDB
7 4 (0.68%) SAP HANA
8 1 (0.17%) Data Hub
8 1 (0.17%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.17%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.17%) SQL CLR
Development Applications
1 25 (4.25%) Git
1 25 (4.25%) JIRA
2 18 (3.06%) Bitbucket
3 9 (1.53%) Jenkins
4 8 (1.36%) Vagrant
5 6 (1.02%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (0.51%) Bitbucket Server
7 2 (0.34%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.34%) GitLab
7 2 (0.34%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.17%) Appium
8 1 (0.17%) GDB
8 1 (0.17%) IDA Disassembler
8 1 (0.17%) Maven
8 1 (0.17%) Selenium
8 1 (0.17%) TestComplete
8 1 (0.17%) Visual Studio Team System
8 1 (0.17%) WebDriver
8 1 (0.17%) WinDbg
General
1 219 (37.24%) Social Skills
2 85 (14.46%) Presentation Skills
3 44 (7.48%) Retail
4 27 (4.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 26 (4.42%) Finance
6 22 (3.74%) Legal
7 21 (3.57%) Automotive
8 19 (3.23%) Analytical Skills
9 17 (2.89%) Law
10 15 (2.55%) Public Sector
10 15 (2.55%) Telecoms
11 6 (1.02%) Manufacturing
11 6 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (0.68%) Advertising
13 4 (0.68%) Games
14 3 (0.51%) Marketing
15 2 (0.34%) Electronics
15 2 (0.34%) Police
16 1 (0.17%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 197 (33.50%) IT Support
2 77 (13.10%) Support Engineer
3 72 (12.24%) IT Engineer
4 43 (7.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 34 (5.78%) Analyst
5 34 (5.78%) IT Support Engineer
6 31 (5.27%) IT Support Specialist
6 31 (5.27%) Lead
6 31 (5.27%) Support Specialist
7 27 (4.59%) Instructor
8 25 (4.25%) Support Analyst
8 25 (4.25%) Systems Engineer
9 21 (3.57%) 2nd Line Support
10 19 (3.23%) Infrastructure Support
11 15 (2.55%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
12 14 (2.38%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 14 (2.38%) IT Analyst
13 13 (2.21%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
13 13 (2.21%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Engineer
13 13 (2.21%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (3.91%) .NET
2 6 (1.02%) Middleware
2 6 (1.02%) Oracle Fusion
2 6 (1.02%) Oracle GoldenGate
3 4 (0.68%) SAP Basis
4 2 (0.34%) .NET Core
4 2 (0.34%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.17%) .NET Framework
5 1 (0.17%) ASP.NET
5 1 (0.17%) Dapper ORM
5 1 (0.17%) Entity Framework
5 1 (0.17%) jQuery
5 1 (0.17%) libvirt
5 1 (0.17%) OAuth
5 1 (0.17%) ODBC
5 1 (0.17%) Playwright
5 1 (0.17%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (0.17%) SAML
5 1 (0.17%) Unity (Game Engine)
5 1 (0.17%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 177 (30.10%) Social Media
2 85 (14.46%) Enterprise Software
3 52 (8.84%) Driving Licence
4 34 (5.78%) Management Information System
5 30 (5.10%) CCTV
6 18 (3.06%) Onboarding
7 14 (2.38%) Data Centre
7 14 (2.38%) Smartphone
8 11 (1.87%) Private Cloud
9 9 (1.53%) Self-Motivation
10 6 (1.02%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (1.02%) Mobile App
11 5 (0.85%) Replication
12 4 (0.68%) iPhone
13 3 (0.51%) Clustering
13 3 (0.51%) Enterprise Storage
13 3 (0.51%) iPad
13 3 (0.51%) Operational Technology
14 2 (0.34%) Analytical Mindset
14 2 (0.34%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 177 (30.10%) Windows Vista
2 110 (18.71%) Windows Server
3 98 (16.67%) Linux
4 83 (14.12%) Windows 10
5 39 (6.63%) Windows Server 2016
6 34 (5.78%) Windows Server 2019
7 19 (3.23%) Apple iOS
8 18 (3.06%) Ubuntu
9 15 (2.55%) Mac OS X
10 10 (1.70%) Android
10 10 (1.70%) Unix
11 8 (1.36%) Mac OS
11 8 (1.36%) VMS
12 7 (1.19%) Windows 7
12 7 (1.19%) Windows Server 2012
13 4 (0.68%) AIX
14 3 (0.51%) Amazon Linux
15 2 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 2 (0.34%) Windows Server 2003
16 1 (0.17%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 199 (33.84%) Problem-Solving
2 89 (15.14%) Line Management
3 83 (14.12%) Mathematics
4 69 (11.73%) ITIL
5 49 (8.33%) Cybersecurity
6 45 (7.65%) Mentoring
7 43 (7.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 41 (6.97%) Asset Management
8 41 (6.97%) Customer Service
9 39 (6.63%) Computer Science
10 32 (5.44%) Agile
11 31 (5.27%) CI/CD
12 24 (4.08%) Performance Tuning
12 24 (4.08%) Systems Engineering
13 23 (3.91%) Business Case
14 22 (3.74%) IT Asset Management
14 22 (3.74%) Network Management
15 21 (3.57%) Coaching
15 21 (3.57%) DevOps
15 21 (3.57%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 67 (11.39%) PowerShell
2 44 (7.48%) SQL
3 33 (5.61%) C#
4 27 (4.59%) Python
5 16 (2.72%) Bash
6 11 (1.87%) Java
7 9 (1.53%) Shell Script
8 8 (1.36%) Perl
9 7 (1.19%) Groovy
10 6 (1.02%) JavaScript
10 6 (1.02%) PL/SQL
11 4 (0.68%) ABAP
12 3 (0.51%) Ruby
13 2 (0.34%) C
13 2 (0.34%) VB
14 1 (0.17%) C++
14 1 (0.17%) CodeQL
14 1 (0.17%) PHP
Qualifications
1 178 (30.27%) DBS Check
2 96 (16.33%) Degree
3 68 (11.56%) Microsoft Certification
4 49 (8.33%) MCSE
5 38 (6.46%) Computer Science Degree
6 36 (6.12%) MCP
7 26 (4.42%) CCNA
7 26 (4.42%) Cisco Certification
8 22 (3.74%) CCNP
8 22 (3.74%) LPIC
9 21 (3.57%) Security Cleared
10 20 (3.40%) MCSA
11 18 (3.06%) BPSS Clearance
12 14 (2.38%) HNC
12 14 (2.38%) HND
13 13 (2.21%) A+ Certification
14 11 (1.87%) SC Cleared
15 8 (1.36%) Azure Certification
16 7 (1.19%) AWS Certification
17 6 (1.02%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 14 (2.38%) SLA
3 10 (1.70%) COBIT
4 5 (0.85%) Accessibility
5 4 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (0.51%) QA
7 2 (0.34%) GDPR
8 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.17%) NIST
8 1 (0.17%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 165 (28.06%) Active Directory
2 57 (9.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (3.06%) Hyper-V
4 15 (2.55%) XenApp
5 10 (1.70%) BitLocker
6 8 (1.36%) Docker
6 8 (1.36%) Firmware
6 8 (1.36%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (0.85%) Virtual Desktop
8 4 (0.68%) DFS Replication
8 4 (0.68%) vSphere
9 1 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.17%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.17%) Xen
Systems Management
1 37 (6.29%) Microsoft Intune
2 26 (4.42%) Ansible
3 15 (2.55%) SCCM
4 11 (1.87%) Terraform
5 6 (1.02%) Oracle RMAN
6 5 (0.85%) Grafana
6 5 (0.85%) Nessus
6 5 (0.85%) Prometheus
6 5 (0.85%) Puppet
6 5 (0.85%) SCOM
7 4 (0.68%) AirWatch
8 3 (0.51%) Nagios
8 3 (0.51%) Progress Chef
8 3 (0.51%) Proxmox
9 2 (0.34%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.34%) SCOrch
9 2 (0.34%) SCSM
9 2 (0.34%) VxRail
10 1 (0.17%) Norton AntiVirus
10 1 (0.17%) WSUS
Vendors
1 205 (34.86%) Microsoft
2 74 (12.59%) VMware
3 70 (11.90%) Cisco
4 45 (7.65%) Apple
5 28 (4.76%) Citrix
6 27 (4.59%) Dell
7 20 (3.40%) Google
8 19 (3.23%) Atlassian
9 18 (3.06%) ServiceNow
10 17 (2.89%) Meraki
11 15 (2.55%) CheckPoint
11 15 (2.55%) SonicWALL
12 14 (2.38%) Fortinet
12 14 (2.38%) Ubiquiti
13 12 (2.04%) HP
13 12 (2.04%) Juniper
14 11 (1.87%) McAfee
14 11 (1.87%) SAP
15 10 (1.70%) Oracle
16 8 (1.36%) MobileIron