Windows Jobs in West Yorkshire

Microsoft Windows
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 17 37
Rank change year-on-year +9 +20 -17
Permanent jobs citing Windows 207 275 361
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 14.96% 8.86% 7.53%
As % of the Operating Systems category 91.19% 73.14% 64.70%
Number of salaries quoted 117 227 233
10th Percentile £26,000 £25,000 £25,196
25th Percentile £27,000 £28,500 £29,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.59% +6.25% +14.29%
75th Percentile £42,000 £57,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £66,250 £65,000 £73,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £32,000 £36,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year -11.11% -4.00% +7.14%

All Operating Systems
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 227 376 558
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 16.40% 12.11% 11.64%
Number of salaries quoted 133 296 336
10th Percentile £26,250 £25,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £27,500 £30,453 £32,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% - -
75th Percentile £42,000 £57,500 £65,313
90th Percentile £73,608 £65,625 £77,715
Yorkshire median annual salary £32,500 £40,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -18.75% -5.88% -5.56%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in West Yorkshire

Windows
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Salary trend for Windows in West Yorkshire

Windows
Salary Histogram in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Windows in West Yorkshire

Windows
Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 31 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
Leeds -1 58 £30,500 -39.00% 41
Wakefield +13 42 £42,000 -6.67% 4
Pontefract -2 10 £65,000 +109.68% 2
Bradford -6 10 £35,000 +13.82% 1
Knottingley - 10 - -
Castleford 0 9 - -
Halifax -1 9 £25,625 -63.69% 1
Brighouse -1 8 £27,500 -4.35% 1
Huddersfield +1 7 £27,500 +7.84% 3
Dewsbury -5 6 £35,000 +70.73%
Batley -5 5 £33,500 +59.52% 6
Ossett - 5 £30,000 -
Ilkley +1 2 - - 2
Heckmondwike 0 2 - -
Elland -5 2 - -
Wetherby -6 2 - -
Hebden Bridge - 2 - -
Otley - 2 - -
Liversedge - 2 - -
Mirfield - 2 - -
Cleckheaton - 1 - -
Pudsey - 1 - - 1
Windows
Yorkshire

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 13 (6.28%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.90%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.45%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (2.90%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (2.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (2.42%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (1.45%) SAP Business One
2 1 (0.48%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 58 (28.02%) AWS
2 41 (19.81%) Microsoft 365
3 29 (14.01%) Azure
4 8 (3.86%) Entra ID
4 8 (3.86%) SaaS
5 4 (1.93%) IaaS
5 4 (1.93%) Microsoft Purview
5 4 (1.93%) PaaS
6 3 (1.45%) Google Workspace
6 3 (1.45%) OneDrive
6 3 (1.45%) Power Platform
7 2 (0.97%) Microsoft Copilot
7 2 (0.97%) Mimecast
8 1 (0.48%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.48%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (0.48%) Nutanix
8 1 (0.48%) OCI
8 1 (0.48%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 35 (16.91%) Firewall
2 19 (9.18%) Cisco IOS
3 17 (8.21%) DNS
4 15 (7.25%) DHCP
4 15 (7.25%) TCP/IP
4 15 (7.25%) Wireless
5 10 (4.83%) VPN
6 9 (4.35%) LAN
7 4 (1.93%) DKIM
7 4 (1.93%) DMARC
7 4 (1.93%) DNSSEC
7 4 (1.93%) Internet
7 4 (1.93%) SAN
7 4 (1.93%) SMTP
8 3 (1.45%) WAN
9 2 (0.97%) IP Telephony
9 2 (0.97%) NAS
9 2 (0.97%) VLAN
10 1 (0.48%) Network Security
10 1 (0.48%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.86%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.45%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (1.45%) JIRA
General
1 86 (41.55%) Social Skills
2 51 (24.64%) Presentation Skills
3 43 (20.77%) Esports
4 19 (9.18%) Law
5 11 (5.31%) Finance
6 10 (4.83%) Banking
7 8 (3.86%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (3.86%) Public Sector
8 6 (2.90%) Retail Banking
9 3 (1.45%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.45%) Retail
10 2 (0.97%) Legal
11 1 (0.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.48%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 73 (35.27%) IT Support
2 37 (17.87%) Analyst
3 25 (12.08%) Support Analyst
4 22 (10.63%) 2nd Line Support
5 20 (9.66%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
5 20 (9.66%) IT Analyst
6 18 (8.70%) IT Engineer
7 13 (6.28%) IT Support Analyst
8 10 (4.83%) Help Desk Analyst
9 8 (3.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 7 (3.38%) Instrumentation Engineer
10 7 (3.38%) Service Analyst
10 7 (3.38%) Service Desk Analyst
10 7 (3.38%) Service Desk Engineer
11 6 (2.90%) 2nd Line Engineer
12 5 (2.42%) Azure Engineer
12 5 (2.42%) Lead
12 5 (2.42%) Support Engineer
13 4 (1.93%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
13 4 (1.93%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.45%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 53 (25.60%) Enterprise Software
2 43 (20.77%) Social Media
3 20 (9.66%) Operational Technology
4 6 (2.90%) Mainframe
4 6 (2.90%) Management Information System
5 4 (1.93%) Cloud Native
6 3 (1.45%) Driving Licence
6 3 (1.45%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (0.97%) Data Centre
7 2 (0.97%) HP Storage
7 2 (0.97%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (0.97%) NHS
7 2 (0.97%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.48%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.48%) SCADA
8 1 (0.48%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 43 (20.77%) Windows Vista
2 37 (17.87%) Windows Server
3 29 (14.01%) Linux
4 19 (9.18%) Mac OS X
5 16 (7.73%) Windows 10
6 3 (1.45%) Unix
7 2 (0.97%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.97%) Windows Server 2008
7 2 (0.97%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (0.97%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.48%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (35.27%) Problem-Solving
2 59 (28.50%) Line Management
3 57 (27.54%) Mathematics
4 43 (20.77%) Computer Science
5 25 (12.08%) Cybersecurity
6 22 (10.63%) Customer Service
7 19 (9.18%) Network Design
7 19 (9.18%) Network Management
8 18 (8.70%) Service Delivery
9 10 (4.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 9 (4.35%) Change Management
10 9 (4.35%) Continuous Improvement
11 8 (3.86%) Artificial Intelligence
11 8 (3.86%) ITIL
12 6 (2.90%) Business Continuity
12 6 (2.90%) Data Management
12 6 (2.90%) ERP
12 6 (2.90%) Incident Management
12 6 (2.90%) Information Management
12 6 (2.90%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 24 (11.59%) Python
2 21 (10.14%) SQL
3 8 (3.86%) PowerShell
4 5 (2.42%) Bicep
5 4 (1.93%) Bash
6 1 (0.48%) Perl
Qualifications
1 43 (20.77%) DBS Check
2 18 (8.70%) Degree
3 16 (7.73%) Microsoft Certification
4 10 (4.83%) CCNP
4 10 (4.83%) Cisco Certification
4 10 (4.83%) MCSA
4 10 (4.83%) SC Cleared
4 10 (4.83%) Security Cleared
5 3 (1.45%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.97%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.48%) A+ Certification
7 1 (0.48%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.86%) SLA
2 2 (0.97%) QA
3 1 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 79 (38.16%) Active Directory
2 19 (9.18%) Virtual Servers
3 7 (3.38%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.97%) Firmware
4 2 (0.97%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.48%) pfSense
5 1 (0.48%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (3.38%) Ansible
1 7 (3.38%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (2.90%) Terraform
3 5 (2.42%) SCCM
4 3 (1.45%) WSUS
5 2 (0.97%) Kubernetes
5 2 (0.97%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
5 2 (0.97%) SCOM
6 1 (0.48%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 34 (16.43%) Microsoft
2 24 (11.59%) Cisco
3 11 (5.31%) VMware
4 4 (1.93%) Citrix
4 4 (1.93%) IronPort
4 4 (1.93%) Veeam
4 4 (1.93%) Veritas
5 3 (1.45%) Google
5 3 (1.45%) Oracle
5 3 (1.45%) Salesforce
5 3 (1.45%) SAP
5 3 (1.45%) Sun
6 2 (0.97%) Avaya
6 2 (0.97%) Dell
6 2 (0.97%) HP
6 2 (0.97%) Red Hat
6 2 (0.97%) SonicWALL
7 1 (0.48%) Commvault
7 1 (0.48%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.48%) SolarWinds