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 19 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 19 30
Rank change year-on-year +8 +11 -6
DemandTrendPermanent jobs citing Windows 203 207 260
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 12.23% 8.12% 8.25%
As % of the Operating Systems category 90.63% 70.17% 58.82%
Number of salaries quoted 156 144 187
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £27,500 £29,000 £29,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,500 £42,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.12% +6.25% +14.29%
75th Percentile £42,000 £60,000 £59,375
90th Percentile £55,000 £65,625 £73,750
Yorkshire median annual salary £32,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year -13.33% +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.

DemandTrendPermanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 224 295 442
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 13.49% 11.57% 14.02%
Number of salaries quoted 172 214 283
10th Percentile £26,250 £25,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £29,563 £29,813 £32,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £42,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -16.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £48,750 £56,250 £66,778
90th Percentile £67,500 £65,603 £83,750
Yorkshire median annual salary £32,500 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year -18.75% - -6.43%

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Windows.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Windows

Windows
Salary Histogram in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 19 August 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 19 August 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
DemandTrendPermanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Leeds -6 70 £32,500 -25.09% 48
Wakefield +11 46 £42,000 -50.59% 4
Batley +1 16 £47,500 +126.19% 3
Bradford -5 12 £41,500 -25.23% 9
Pontefract -4 8 £65,000 +109.68%
Knottingley - 8 - -
Halifax +4 7 £25,625 -
Castleford +1 7 - -
Brighouse -6 6 £27,500 -8.33%
Ossett - 5 £30,000 -
Huddersfield +1 4 £27,500 +5.77% 4
Dewsbury - 4 £35,000 - 1
Hebden Bridge - 2 - -
Mirfield - 1 £35,000 -
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 27 (13.30%) Microsoft Exchange
2 22 (10.84%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.97%) IIS
Applications
1 8 (3.94%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (2.46%) SAP Business One
2 1 (0.49%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 77 (37.93%) Microsoft 365
2 66 (32.51%) Azure
3 23 (11.33%) SaaS
4 20 (9.85%) Entra ID
5 16 (7.88%) IaaS
5 16 (7.88%) PaaS
6 13 (6.40%) AWS
7 5 (2.46%) Google Workspace
7 5 (2.46%) OneDrive
8 3 (1.48%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.49%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (0.49%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.49%) GCP
9 1 (0.49%) GitHub
9 1 (0.49%) Nutanix
9 1 (0.49%) OCI
9 1 (0.49%) Power Platform
9 1 (0.49%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 53 (26.11%) Firewall
2 41 (20.20%) DNS
3 39 (19.21%) DHCP
4 28 (13.79%) TCP/IP
5 27 (13.30%) VLAN
6 19 (9.36%) Cisco IOS
7 13 (6.40%) SAN
7 13 (6.40%) VoIP
8 12 (5.91%) Wireless
9 8 (3.94%) VPN
10 7 (3.45%) Wi-Fi
11 4 (1.97%) LAN
12 3 (1.48%) Network Security
13 2 (0.99%) Remote Desktop
14 1 (0.49%) WAN
14 1 (0.49%) WebEx
14 1 (0.49%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.97%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.49%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (1.48%) JIRA
2 1 (0.49%) GitLab
2 1 (0.49%) Jenkins
General
1 52 (25.62%) Esports
2 49 (24.14%) Social Skills
3 23 (11.33%) Law
4 16 (7.88%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (2.96%) Finance
5 6 (2.96%) Manufacturing
6 5 (2.46%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (2.46%) Retail
7 4 (1.97%) Banking
7 4 (1.97%) Retail Banking
8 2 (0.99%) Legal
8 2 (0.99%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.49%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 44 (21.67%) Analyst
2 39 (19.21%) IT Support
3 31 (15.27%) Support Analyst
4 28 (13.79%) IT Analyst
5 25 (12.32%) 2nd Line Support
6 24 (11.82%) IT Engineer
7 20 (9.85%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
8 19 (9.36%) Senior
9 18 (8.87%) IT Support Analyst
10 16 (7.88%) Help Desk Analyst
10 16 (7.88%) Support Technician
11 12 (5.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 10 (4.93%) Service Analyst
12 10 (4.93%) Service Desk Analyst
13 9 (4.43%) 1st Line Support
13 9 (4.43%) IT Support Technician
13 9 (4.43%) IT Technician
13 9 (4.43%) Support Engineer
14 8 (3.94%) 1st Line Support Analyst
14 8 (3.94%) Field Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.97%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 52 (25.62%) Social Media
2 20 (9.85%) Operational Technology
3 13 (6.40%) Clustering
4 6 (2.96%) Data Centre
4 6 (2.96%) FMCG
4 6 (2.96%) Onboarding
5 4 (1.97%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (1.97%) Mainframe
5 4 (1.97%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.48%) Cloud Native
6 3 (1.48%) Driving Licence
6 3 (1.48%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (0.49%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.49%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.49%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 61 (30.05%) Windows Server
2 52 (25.62%) Windows Vista
3 51 (25.12%) Linux
4 33 (16.26%) Windows 10
5 19 (9.36%) Mac OS X
6 13 (6.40%) Windows Server 2016
7 7 (3.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (1.97%) Unix
9 3 (1.48%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.49%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (25.62%) Computer Science
2 30 (14.78%) Problem-Solving
3 25 (12.32%) Customer Service
4 24 (11.82%) Cybersecurity
5 21 (10.34%) Incident Management
6 19 (9.36%) Network Design
6 19 (9.36%) Network Management
7 14 (6.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 13 (6.40%) Process Improvement
8 13 (6.40%) Service Delivery
9 12 (5.91%) Continuous Improvement
9 12 (5.91%) Virtual Environments
10 10 (4.93%) Containerisation
10 10 (4.93%) ITIL
11 9 (4.43%) ITSM
12 7 (3.45%) DevOps
12 7 (3.45%) Proactive Monitoring
12 7 (3.45%) Project Delivery
12 7 (3.45%) Test Automation
13 6 (2.96%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 36 (17.73%) PowerShell
2 32 (15.76%) Python
3 16 (7.88%) SQL
4 6 (2.96%) Bash
5 3 (1.48%) Bicep
6 1 (0.49%) Java
6 1 (0.49%) Perl
6 1 (0.49%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 52 (25.62%) DBS Check
2 33 (16.26%) Microsoft Certification
3 20 (9.85%) Degree
3 20 (9.85%) SC Cleared
3 20 (9.85%) Security Cleared
4 10 (4.93%) CCNP
4 10 (4.93%) Cisco Certification
4 10 (4.93%) MCSA
5 8 (3.94%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.48%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 3 (1.48%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 3 (1.48%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.99%) A+ Certification
8 1 (0.49%) Network+ Certification
8 1 (0.49%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.42%) SLA
2 1 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 109 (53.69%) Active Directory
2 42 (20.69%) Hyper-V
3 19 (9.36%) Virtual Servers
4 17 (8.37%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.49%) Docker
5 1 (0.49%) pfSense
5 1 (0.49%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.49%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 28 (13.79%) Microsoft Intune
2 13 (6.40%) Ansible
3 10 (4.93%) SCCM
4 7 (3.45%) Kubernetes
4 7 (3.45%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
4 7 (3.45%) SCOM
4 7 (3.45%) Terraform
4 7 (3.45%) WSUS
5 1 (0.49%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.49%) NetBackup
5 1 (0.49%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 73 (35.96%) Microsoft
2 26 (12.81%) VMware
3 22 (10.84%) Cisco
4 13 (6.40%) Dell
4 13 (6.40%) HP
4 13 (6.40%) SonicWALL
4 13 (6.40%) Supermicro
5 8 (3.94%) Oracle
6 7 (3.45%) Red Hat
7 6 (2.96%) Sophos
8 5 (2.46%) Google
8 5 (2.46%) Salesforce
8 5 (2.46%) SAP
8 5 (2.46%) Sun
9 4 (1.97%) Citrix
10 2 (0.99%) ESET
11 1 (0.49%) Commvault
11 1 (0.49%) Fortinet
11 1 (0.49%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.49%) Veeam