Windows Jobs in West Yorkshire

Microsoft Windows
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire 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 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 16 41 18
Rank change year-on-year +25 -23 -1
Permanent jobs citing Windows 289 359 512
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 9.63% 6.99% 10.86%
As % of the Operating Systems category 72.80% 62.54% 48.62%
Number of salaries quoted 244 244 404
10th Percentile £25,000 £25,059 £23,075
25th Percentile £29,321 £28,500 £26,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £40,113 £36,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.95% +9.90% -9.88%
75th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £47,500
90th Percentile £65,625 £72,500 £65,000
Yorkshire median annual salary £37,000 £38,000 £36,500
% change year-on-year -2.63% +4.11% -8.75%

All Operating Systems
West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire with a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 397 574 1,053
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 13.23% 11.18% 22.33%
Number of salaries quoted 321 356 701
10th Percentile £25,750 £26,125 £24,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,750 £30,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.44% - -5.26%
75th Percentile £61,250 £65,313 £58,750
90th Percentile £72,433 £77,715 £71,250
Yorkshire median annual salary £40,500 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -4.71% -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 11 May 2024.

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 11 May 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
Leeds +22 184 £50,000 +14.94% 30
Bradford +31 29 £30,500 -12.86% 6
Huddersfield +15 18 £28,250 -27.56% 2
Wakefield +26 13 £45,000 +51.26% 1
Halifax +13 7 £70,576 +15.36%
Castleford +22 5 £29,250 -12.69% 2
Elland -2 5 - - 1
Batley +27 4 £29,250 -20.68%
Pontefract 0 4 £31,000 -4.62%
Brighouse -3 4 £30,000 -50.00% 4
Heckmondwike - 4 £30,000 -
Wetherby +18 3 £30,000 +9.09%
Ilkley - 3 £27,000 -
Dewsbury - 2 £20,500 - 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 38 (13.15%) SharePoint
2 31 (10.73%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (2.77%) IIS
4 5 (1.73%) Apache
5 1 (0.35%) CMS
5 1 (0.35%) Confluence
Applications
1 45 (15.57%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.04%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.35%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 150 (51.90%) Azure
2 138 (47.75%) Microsoft 365
3 57 (19.72%) Entra ID
4 41 (14.19%) OneDrive
5 34 (11.76%) AWS
6 19 (6.57%) GCP
7 17 (5.88%) Cloud Computing
8 15 (5.19%) SaaS
9 12 (4.15%) Azure Sentinel
10 11 (3.81%) Azure DevOps
11 8 (2.77%) OpenShift
12 7 (2.42%) Microsoft Purview
13 5 (1.73%) Amazon S3
13 5 (1.73%) DigitalOcean
13 5 (1.73%) IaaS
13 5 (1.73%) Power Automate
13 5 (1.73%) Snowflake
14 4 (1.38%) PaaS
15 3 (1.04%) Azure Monitor
15 3 (1.04%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 89 (30.80%) Firewall
2 64 (22.15%) LAN
2 64 (22.15%) WAN
3 61 (21.11%) DNS
4 50 (17.30%) DHCP
5 47 (16.26%) VPN
6 41 (14.19%) SAN
7 34 (11.76%) NAS
8 31 (10.73%) TCP/IP
9 20 (6.92%) VLAN
9 20 (6.92%) Wi-Fi
10 18 (6.23%) Network Security
11 14 (4.84%) Internet
12 12 (4.15%) VoIP
13 9 (3.11%) SSL
14 8 (2.77%) SD-WAN
15 6 (2.08%) Wireshark
16 5 (1.73%) IPsec
16 5 (1.73%) SNMP
16 5 (1.73%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (10.03%) SQL Server
2 12 (4.15%) Elasticsearch
3 7 (2.42%) MongoDB
3 7 (2.42%) NoSQL
4 6 (2.08%) MySQL
5 5 (1.73%) Redis
6 3 (1.04%) Power BI
6 3 (1.04%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.69%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.69%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (0.69%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (0.69%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.69%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.35%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.35%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 8 (2.77%) IBM UrbanCode
2 2 (0.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 2 (0.69%) Bitbucket
2 2 (0.69%) Git
2 2 (0.69%) Moq
2 2 (0.69%) MSTest
2 2 (0.69%) Postman
2 2 (0.69%) SpecFlow
2 2 (0.69%) Subversion
2 2 (0.69%) Visual Studio
2 2 (0.69%) webpack
3 1 (0.35%) JIRA
General
1 103 (35.64%) Social Skills
2 43 (14.88%) Finance
3 33 (11.42%) Law
4 18 (6.23%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (5.88%) Retail
6 15 (5.19%) Organisational Skills
7 13 (4.50%) Marketing
8 9 (3.11%) Banking
8 9 (3.11%) Presentation Skills
9 8 (2.77%) Games
10 6 (2.08%) French Language
10 6 (2.08%) German Language
10 6 (2.08%) Italian Language
10 6 (2.08%) Manufacturing
10 6 (2.08%) Portuguese Language
10 6 (2.08%) Spanish Language
10 6 (2.08%) Swedish Language
10 6 (2.08%) Turkish Language
11 5 (1.73%) Public Sector
12 4 (1.38%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 61 (21.11%) IT Support
2 47 (16.26%) Analyst
3 35 (12.11%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 33 (11.42%) Lead
5 30 (10.38%) Support Engineer
6 26 (9.00%) Support Technician
7 25 (8.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 25 (8.65%) IT Engineer
8 21 (7.27%) IT Technician
8 21 (7.27%) Senior
9 18 (6.23%) Support Analyst
10 17 (5.88%) IT Support Engineer
10 17 (5.88%) IT Support Technician
11 15 (5.19%) IT Analyst
12 13 (4.50%) 2nd Line Support
12 13 (4.50%) IT Support Analyst
13 12 (4.15%) IT Manager
13 12 (4.15%) Team Leader
13 12 (4.15%) Technical Support
14 11 (3.81%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (2.77%) Middleware
2 7 (2.42%) .NET
2 7 (2.42%) CSS
3 5 (1.73%) AngularJS
3 5 (1.73%) RabbitMQ
3 5 (1.73%) React
3 5 (1.73%) YAML
4 4 (1.38%) Software Packaging
5 3 (1.04%) ASP.NET
5 3 (1.04%) ASP.NET MVC
5 3 (1.04%) HTML
5 3 (1.04%) jQuery
5 3 (1.04%) REST
5 3 (1.04%) RESTful
5 3 (1.04%) Tailwind CSS
5 3 (1.04%) Twitter Bootstrap
5 3 (1.04%) Vue
5 3 (1.04%) WPF
6 2 (0.69%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (0.69%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 30 (10.38%) Data Centre
2 29 (10.03%) Public Cloud
3 16 (5.54%) Management Information System
4 12 (4.15%) Driving Licence
5 9 (3.11%) Cyberattack
5 9 (3.11%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (2.08%) Client/Server
6 6 (2.08%) Operational Technology
6 6 (2.08%) SCADA
6 6 (2.08%) Security Operations Centre
7 5 (1.73%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.38%) Linux Command Line
8 4 (1.38%) Replication
9 3 (1.04%) Wiki
10 2 (0.69%) Graphic Design
10 2 (0.69%) Hybrid Cloud
11 1 (0.35%) Cyber Threat
11 1 (0.35%) Enterprise Software
11 1 (0.35%) iPhone
11 1 (0.35%) New Media
Operating Systems
1 141 (48.79%) Windows Server
2 96 (33.22%) Linux
3 42 (14.53%) Windows 10
4 19 (6.57%) Windows Server 2008
5 16 (5.54%) Windows Server 2012
6 15 (5.19%) Mac OS
7 13 (4.50%) Windows Server 2016
8 12 (4.15%) Apple iOS
9 10 (3.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 9 (3.11%) Android
10 9 (3.11%) Windows Server 2019
11 7 (2.42%) Unix
12 6 (2.08%) Windows 7
13 5 (1.73%) Data ONTAP
13 5 (1.73%) Mac OS X
14 4 (1.38%) Windows 8
15 3 (1.04%) CentOS
16 2 (0.69%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (21.80%) Problem-Solving
2 60 (20.76%) Customer Service
3 55 (19.03%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 38 (13.15%) ITIL
5 34 (11.76%) Migration
6 32 (11.07%) Mentoring
7 31 (10.73%) DevOps
8 26 (9.00%) Agile
9 25 (8.65%) Cybersecurity
10 21 (7.27%) Time Management
11 20 (6.92%) Service Management
11 20 (6.92%) Technical Leadership
12 19 (6.57%) Roadmaps
13 18 (6.23%) Preventative Maintenance
14 17 (5.88%) Containerisation
14 17 (5.88%) Project Management
15 16 (5.54%) Computer Science
15 16 (5.54%) Infrastructure as Code
15 16 (5.54%) Infrastructure Management
16 14 (4.84%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 51 (17.65%) SQL
2 45 (15.57%) PowerShell
3 26 (9.00%) Python
4 10 (3.46%) VBScript
5 8 (2.77%) Groovy
6 3 (1.04%) C#
6 3 (1.04%) T-SQL
6 3 (1.04%) XAML
7 2 (0.69%) Bash
7 2 (0.69%) JavaScript
7 2 (0.69%) Kusto Query Language
7 2 (0.69%) PHP
7 2 (0.69%) Ruby
7 2 (0.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 33 (11.42%) Degree
2 21 (7.27%) Microsoft Certification
3 16 (5.54%) Cisco Certification
4 15 (5.19%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (4.15%) CISSP
5 12 (4.15%) MCSE
6 11 (3.81%) MCP
7 10 (3.46%) CCNA
8 8 (2.77%) CEH
8 8 (2.77%) SSCP
9 7 (2.42%) MCSA
10 6 (2.08%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 6 (2.08%) CCSP
10 6 (2.08%) SANS
10 6 (2.08%) TOGAF Certification
11 5 (1.73%) A+ Certification
11 5 (1.73%) Azure Certification
11 5 (1.73%) DBS Check
11 5 (1.73%) SC Cleared
11 5 (1.73%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (3.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (2.42%) NIST
2 7 (2.42%) SLA
3 6 (2.08%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (0.69%) GDPR
4 2 (0.69%) QA
4 2 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.35%) SOC 2
System Software
1 150 (51.90%) Active Directory
2 73 (25.26%) Hyper-V
3 57 (19.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 35 (12.11%) VMware ESXi
5 13 (4.50%) vSphere
6 9 (3.11%) Virtual Machines
7 8 (2.77%) Docker
8 7 (2.42%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (1.04%) Microsoft App-V
9 3 (1.04%) VMware Server
10 2 (0.69%) VMware Workstation
11 1 (0.35%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 37 (12.80%) Microsoft Intune
2 23 (7.96%) Ansible
2 23 (7.96%) vCenter Server
3 20 (6.92%) SCCM
4 14 (4.84%) Terraform
5 13 (4.50%) Kubernetes
5 13 (4.50%) SCOM
6 12 (4.15%) Prometheus
7 11 (3.81%) WSUS
8 8 (2.77%) Progress Chef
9 7 (2.42%) FortiGate
9 7 (2.42%) Grafana
10 6 (2.08%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
10 6 (2.08%) Nagios
10 6 (2.08%) Nmap
11 5 (1.73%) Jamf Pro
12 4 (1.38%) Backup Exec
13 3 (1.04%) Autotask
13 3 (1.04%) Puppet
14 2 (0.69%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 140 (48.44%) Microsoft
2 96 (33.22%) VMware
3 30 (10.38%) Veeam
4 23 (7.96%) Cisco
5 18 (6.23%) Google
6 14 (4.84%) IBM
6 14 (4.84%) Oracle
6 14 (4.84%) Red Hat
7 13 (4.50%) Splunk
8 9 (3.11%) CheckPoint
8 9 (3.11%) NetApp
9 8 (2.77%) Epicor
10 7 (2.42%) Aruba
10 7 (2.42%) Citrix
10 7 (2.42%) SolarWinds
11 6 (2.08%) Datto
11 6 (2.08%) Dell
11 6 (2.08%) Qualys
11 6 (2.08%) Rapid7
11 6 (2.08%) Thycotic