Job Vacancy Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Job Locations Skill Sets
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The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in West Sussex 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 22 May 2022 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Microsoft Windows
South East > West Sussex
6 months to
22 May 2022		 Same period 2021 Same period 2020
Rank 10 15 7
Rank change year-on-year +5 -8 +2
Permanent jobs citing Windows 175 195 302
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Sussex 15.22% 16.08% 19.61%
As % of the Operating Systems category 70.28% 76.17% 81.84%
Number of salaries quoted 134 130 249
10th Percentile £24,300 £23,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £30,000 £30,313 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% - +5.88%
75th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £55,000
90th Percentile £58,750 £62,500 £63,750
South East median annual salary £42,500 £42,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year - +6.25% +2.56%

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 advertised in West Sussex with a requirement for operating system skills.

All Operating Systems
West Sussex
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 249 256 369
As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in West Sussex 21.65% 21.10% 23.96%
Number of salaries quoted 151 184 305
10th Percentile £25,000 £27,250 £31,550
25th Percentile £30,500 £32,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.89% - -
75th Percentile £48,750 £51,250 £55,000
90th Percentile £60,000 £61,225 £63,750
South East median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year - +5.56% -

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in West Sussex

Windows
Salary Trend in West Sussex

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

Salary trend for Windows in West Sussex

Windows
Salary Histogram in West Sussex

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows in West Sussex over the 6 months to 22 May 2022.

Salary histogram for Windows in West Sussex

Windows
Job Locations in West Sussex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows within the West Sussex region over the 6 months to 22 May 2022. 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
Crawley -5 50 £40,000 -20.00% 8
Horsham +4 30 £45,000 +24.14% 1
Burgess Hill +4 28 £24,498 -15.53% 3
Gatwick +3 20 £41,000 -
Haywards Heath +14 17 £31,000 +21.57%
Worthing +6 16 £57,500 +43.75% 2
Bognor Regis - 6 £30,000 -
Chichester +7 1 £22,000 - 2
Shoreham-by-Sea -5 1 £30,000 -28.57% 1
Windows
South East

For the 6 months to 22 May 2022, 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 across the West Sussex region with a requirement for Windows.

1 90 (51.43%) Microsoft
2 79 (45.14%) Windows Server
3 72 (41.14%) Windows 10
4 67 (38.29%) Active Directory
5 65 (37.14%) Microsoft 365
6 62 (35.43%) Social Skills
7 54 (30.86%) ITIL
8 52 (29.71%) VMware
9 50 (28.57%) Azure
10 38 (21.71%) VMware Infrastructure
11 37 (21.14%) Finance
12 33 (18.86%) SCCM
13 32 (18.29%) Firewall
14 31 (17.71%) Problem-Solving
15 28 (16.00%) GDPR
15 28 (16.00%) Cisco
16 27 (15.43%) Windows Server 2019
17 26 (14.86%) Citrix
18 25 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
19 24 (13.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 24 (13.71%) Linux
20 23 (13.14%) SLA
20 23 (13.14%) Service Management
21 22 (12.57%) Games
21 22 (12.57%) Digital Economy
21 22 (12.57%) Windows Server 2012
22 21 (12.00%) Unix
23 20 (11.43%) SQL
23 20 (11.43%) Telecoms
23 20 (11.43%) Degree

Windows
Co-occurring IT Skills in West Sussex 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:

Application Platforms
1 19 (10.86%) SharePoint
2 12 (6.86%) MS Exchange
3 5 (2.86%) IIS
4 3 (1.71%) SharePoint 2013
5 1 (0.57%) Confluence
Applications
1 25 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.71%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.14%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.57%) PTC Creo
4 1 (0.57%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 5 (2.86%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 65 (37.14%) Microsoft 365
2 50 (28.57%) Azure
3 8 (4.57%) Azure Active Directory
4 7 (4.00%) Dynamics 365
5 6 (3.43%) IBM Cloud
6 4 (2.29%) Rubrik
7 3 (1.71%) Azure Pipelines
7 3 (1.71%) OneDrive
7 3 (1.71%) SaaS
8 1 (0.57%) AWS
8 1 (0.57%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (0.57%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (0.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (0.57%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 32 (18.29%) Firewall
2 16 (9.14%) LAN
2 16 (9.14%) WAN
3 15 (8.57%) Network Security
4 14 (8.00%) DHCP
5 13 (7.43%) DNS
5 13 (7.43%) SAN
6 10 (5.71%) PBX
6 10 (5.71%) SNMP
7 7 (4.00%) VLAN
8 5 (2.86%) HTTP
8 5 (2.86%) Internet
8 5 (2.86%) Intrusion Detection
9 4 (2.29%) VPN
10 3 (1.71%) Remote Desktop
11 2 (1.14%) Intranet
11 2 (1.14%) Wireless
12 1 (0.57%) HTTPS
12 1 (0.57%) TCP/IP
12 1 (0.57%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (10.86%) SQL Server
2 5 (2.86%) Oracle Database
3 4 (2.29%) DB2
4 3 (1.71%) Big Data
5 1 (0.57%) MySQL
5 1 (0.57%) Power BI
5 1 (0.57%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 10 (5.71%) Visual Studio
2 6 (3.43%) Rational DOORS
3 4 (2.29%) JIRA
4 1 (0.57%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.57%) ClearCase
4 1 (0.57%) ClearQuest
4 1 (0.57%) Eclipse
4 1 (0.57%) Git (software)
4 1 (0.57%) PyCharm
4 1 (0.57%) Rational Rhapsody
4 1 (0.57%) Subversion
General
1 62 (35.43%) Social Skills
2 37 (21.14%) Finance
3 22 (12.57%) Digital Economy
3 22 (12.57%) Games
4 20 (11.43%) Telecoms
5 15 (8.57%) Legal
6 11 (6.29%) Advertising
7 10 (5.71%) Electronics
8 7 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (3.43%) Manufacturing
9 6 (3.43%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (2.86%) Analytical Skills
10 5 (2.86%) Banking
10 5 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (2.29%) Law
11 4 (2.29%) Retail
12 3 (1.71%) Aviation
12 3 (1.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.57%) Military
Job Titles
1 34 (19.43%) Analyst
2 27 (15.43%) IT Support
3 25 (14.29%) IT Engineer
3 25 (14.29%) Support Engineer
4 24 (13.71%) Support Analyst
5 22 (12.57%) 2nd Line Support
6 18 (10.29%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 17 (9.71%) Developer
8 16 (9.14%) 3rd Line Support
9 15 (8.57%) Support Technician
10 14 (8.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 13 (7.43%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
11 13 (7.43%) Infrastructure Analyst
12 12 (6.86%) 1st Line Support
12 12 (6.86%) Infrastructure Support
12 12 (6.86%) IT Support Engineer
13 11 (6.29%) .NET Developer
13 11 (6.29%) Team Leader
14 10 (5.71%) Infrastructure Support Analyst
15 9 (5.14%) Service Desk Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (6.29%) .NET
2 9 (5.14%) COM
2 9 (5.14%) WPF
3 5 (2.86%) JSON
3 5 (2.86%) REST
4 3 (1.71%) ISPF
5 2 (1.14%) CSS
5 2 (1.14%) HTML
6 1 (0.57%) Node.js
6 1 (0.57%) Node-RED
6 1 (0.57%) Tkinter
6 1 (0.57%) Universal Windows Platform
Miscellaneous
1 14 (8.00%) Data Centre
2 11 (6.29%) Algorithms
3 10 (5.71%) User Experience
3 10 (5.71%) Video Conferencing
3 10 (5.71%) Virtual Team
4 9 (5.14%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (4.57%) Management Information System
6 5 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (2.29%) Driving Licence
7 4 (2.29%) Graphic Design
8 3 (1.71%) Blackberry
8 3 (1.71%) Blockchain
8 3 (1.71%) IoT
8 3 (1.71%) Mainframe
9 2 (1.14%) PMI
9 2 (1.14%) Replication
9 2 (1.14%) Smartphone
10 1 (0.57%) FPGA
10 1 (0.57%) iPhone
10 1 (0.57%) SCORM
Operating Systems
1 79 (45.14%) Windows Server
2 72 (41.14%) Windows 10
3 27 (15.43%) Windows Server 2019
4 24 (13.71%) Linux
5 22 (12.57%) Windows Server 2012
6 21 (12.00%) Unix
7 20 (11.43%) Windows Server 2016
8 17 (9.71%) Windows Server 2008
9 11 (6.29%) Mac OS
10 9 (5.14%) VMS
11 8 (4.57%) Android
11 8 (4.57%) Apple iOS
12 7 (4.00%) Windows Server 2003
12 7 (4.00%) zOS
13 6 (3.43%) Windows 7
14 1 (0.57%) Mac OS X
14 1 (0.57%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (30.86%) ITIL
2 31 (17.71%) Problem-Solving
3 24 (13.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 23 (13.14%) Service Management
5 14 (8.00%) Software Testing
6 13 (7.43%) Test Automation
7 12 (6.86%) Change Management
7 12 (6.86%) PRINCE2
7 12 (6.86%) Project Management
7 12 (6.86%) SDLC
8 11 (6.29%) Continuous Improvement
8 11 (6.29%) ITSM
9 10 (5.71%) Agile
9 10 (5.71%) Document Management
9 10 (5.71%) Stakeholder Management
10 9 (5.14%) Information Security
10 9 (5.14%) Manual Testing
10 9 (5.14%) Performance Testing
10 9 (5.14%) Strategic Planning
10 9 (5.14%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (11.43%) SQL
2 18 (10.29%) PowerShell
3 12 (6.86%) C++
4 11 (6.29%) C#
4 11 (6.29%) VB
4 11 (6.29%) VB6
5 6 (3.43%) Java
5 6 (3.43%) PL/SQL
6 5 (2.86%) C
6 5 (2.86%) VB.NET
7 4 (2.29%) Perl
8 3 (1.71%) Assembly Language
8 3 (1.71%) COBOL
8 3 (1.71%) JCL
8 3 (1.71%) Python
9 1 (0.57%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.57%) XAML
Qualifications
1 20 (11.43%) Degree
2 18 (10.29%) ITIL Certification
3 15 (8.57%) Microsoft Certification
4 14 (8.00%) MCP
5 10 (5.71%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 9 (5.14%) CISSP
7 8 (4.57%) MCSE
8 5 (2.86%) Master's Degree
9 2 (1.14%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.57%) CCA
10 1 (0.57%) CCNA
10 1 (0.57%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.57%) Citrix Certification
10 1 (0.57%) MCSA
10 1 (0.57%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (16.00%) GDPR
2 23 (13.14%) SLA
3 15 (8.57%) QA
4 12 (6.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 4 (2.29%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (2.29%) NIST
6 4 (2.29%) PCI DSS
7 2 (1.14%) PMO
System Software
1 67 (38.29%) Active Directory
2 38 (21.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (10.86%) Hyper-V
4 16 (9.14%) VMware ESXi
5 10 (5.71%) vSphere
5 10 (5.71%) XenApp
6 4 (2.29%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (1.71%) RACF
7 3 (1.71%) Time Sharing Option
8 1 (0.57%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 33 (18.86%) SCCM
2 13 (7.43%) Microsoft Intune
3 10 (5.71%) SCOM
4 6 (3.43%) vRealize
5 5 (2.86%) Avamar
6 1 (0.57%) AirWatch
6 1 (0.57%) Autotask
6 1 (0.57%) Puppet
6 1 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.57%) XenMobile
Vendors
1 90 (51.43%) Microsoft
2 52 (29.71%) VMware
3 28 (16.00%) Cisco
4 26 (14.86%) Citrix
5 15 (8.57%) Oracle
6 14 (8.00%) IBM
7 13 (7.43%) NetApp
8 10 (5.71%) HP
8 10 (5.71%) SolarWinds
9 9 (5.14%) ANSYS
9 9 (5.14%) Bloomberg
10 8 (4.57%) Mitel
11 7 (4.00%) Avaya
12 6 (3.43%) EMC
13 4 (2.29%) Isilon
14 2 (1.14%) Altiris
14 2 (1.14%) Google
14 2 (1.14%) SAP
14 2 (1.14%) ServiceNow
14 2 (1.14%) Veeam