Windows Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Microsoft Windows
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring Windows skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 9 23
Rank change year-on-year -41 +14 +10
Permanent jobs citing Windows 81 206 188
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 4.49% 13.60% 9.67%
As % of the Operating Systems category 78.64% 83.74% 59.31%
Number of salaries quoted 65 81 180
10th Percentile £29,000 £26,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £30,625 £29,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,500 £38,198 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.79% -4.51% -5.88%
75th Percentile £48,750 £58,750 £55,000
90th Percentile £65,900 £71,991 £67,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £32,500 £37,500 £36,064
% change year-on-year -13.33% +3.98% -6.93%

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 103 246 317
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 5.71% 16.24% 16.31%
Number of salaries quoted 81 102 279
10th Percentile £29,000 £25,000 £27,950
25th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £33,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,500 £38,224 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.51% -23.55% +5.26%
75th Percentile £48,750 £59,813 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £73,886 £87,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £32,500 £38,250 £42,500
% change year-on-year -15.03% -10.00% -5.56%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Windows relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire.

Windows job vacancy trend 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 30 December 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 30 December 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 -39 47 £36,500 -14.12% 45
Bradford -16 10 £41,500 +38.33% 13
Wakefield +3 9 £42,500 - 14
Batley -1 6 £47,500 -
Pontefract -2 2 £58,250 -
Brighouse -4 2 £32,500 +8.33%
Halifax +3 1 £30,000 -64.81%
Windows
Yorkshire

Windows
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 22 (27.16%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (14.81%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.47%) IIS
Applications
1 14 (17.28%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.47%) Acrobat
Cloud Services
1 57 (70.37%) Microsoft 365
2 34 (41.98%) Azure
3 11 (13.58%) SaaS
4 8 (9.88%) Entra ID
5 7 (8.64%) IaaS
5 7 (8.64%) PaaS
6 4 (4.94%) AWS
7 2 (2.47%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (2.47%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.23%) GCP
8 1 (1.23%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 26 (32.10%) Firewall
2 20 (24.69%) VLAN
3 14 (17.28%) DNS
4 13 (16.05%) DHCP
5 12 (14.81%) TCP/IP
6 10 (12.35%) VoIP
7 8 (9.88%) SAN
8 7 (8.64%) VPN
8 7 (8.64%) Wi-Fi
9 4 (4.94%) LAN
9 4 (4.94%) WAN
10 1 (1.23%) Wireless
10 1 (1.23%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.70%) BusinessObjects
1 3 (3.70%) SAP HANA
2 2 (2.47%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.23%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (2.47%) GitLab
1 2 (2.47%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.23%) JIRA
General
1 24 (29.63%) Social Skills
2 12 (14.81%) Manufacturing
3 10 (12.35%) Legal
4 9 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
5 8 (9.88%) Law
6 7 (8.64%) Retail
7 5 (6.17%) Advertising
7 5 (6.17%) Finance
8 3 (3.70%) Esports
9 2 (2.47%) Analytical Skills
10 1 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 40 (49.38%) IT Support
2 20 (24.69%) Support Engineer
3 18 (22.22%) IT Engineer
3 18 (22.22%) IT Support Engineer
4 16 (19.75%) Senior
5 11 (13.58%) Analyst
5 11 (13.58%) Support Technician
6 10 (12.35%) 1st Line Support
6 10 (12.35%) Support Analyst
7 9 (11.11%) 1st Line Support Analyst
7 9 (11.11%) 3rd Line Support
7 9 (11.11%) IT Analyst
7 9 (11.11%) IT Support Analyst
8 8 (9.88%) Senior Support Technician
8 8 (9.88%) Senior Technician
9 6 (7.41%) IT Support Technician
9 6 (7.41%) IT Technician
10 5 (6.17%) Service Analyst
10 5 (6.17%) Service Desk Analyst
11 4 (4.94%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.70%) SAP Basis
1 3 (3.70%) SAP Fiori
1 3 (3.70%) SAPUI5
2 1 (1.23%) .NET
2 1 (1.23%) ARM Templates
2 1 (1.23%) Flash
2 1 (1.23%) REST
2 1 (1.23%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 8 (9.88%) Clustering
1 8 (9.88%) Driving Licence
2 6 (7.41%) Replication
3 5 (6.17%) Data Centre
3 5 (6.17%) Onboarding
4 4 (4.94%) FMCG
5 3 (3.70%) Social Media
6 2 (2.47%) Cloud Native
6 2 (2.47%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.47%) SCADA
7 1 (1.23%) CMDB
7 1 (1.23%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.23%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.23%) Legacy Code
7 1 (1.23%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.23%) Operational Technology
7 1 (1.23%) PDA
7 1 (1.23%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 40 (49.38%) Windows Server
2 23 (28.40%) Linux
3 22 (27.16%) Windows 10
4 8 (9.88%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (6.17%) Android
5 5 (6.17%) Mac OS
6 3 (3.70%) SUSE
6 3 (3.70%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
7 2 (2.47%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (25.93%) Customer Service
2 15 (18.52%) Problem-Solving
3 14 (17.28%) Incident Management
4 13 (16.05%) Asset Management
5 12 (14.81%) Continuous Improvement
6 11 (13.58%) IT Asset Management
6 11 (13.58%) ITSM
7 10 (12.35%) ITIL
8 8 (9.88%) Migration
9 7 (8.64%) DevOps
10 6 (7.41%) Computer Science
10 6 (7.41%) Performance Tuning
10 6 (7.41%) Virtual Environments
11 5 (6.17%) CI/CD
11 5 (6.17%) Process Improvement
11 5 (6.17%) Project Delivery
11 5 (6.17%) Roadmaps
11 5 (6.17%) Server Management
11 5 (6.17%) Service Delivery
12 4 (4.94%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 20 (24.69%) PowerShell
2 7 (8.64%) Python
3 5 (6.17%) Bash
3 5 (6.17%) SQL
4 4 (4.94%) VBA
5 2 (2.47%) Java
5 2 (2.47%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.23%) C#
6 1 (1.23%) Delphi
6 1 (1.23%) PHP
Qualifications
1 10 (12.35%) SC Cleared
1 10 (12.35%) Security Cleared
2 9 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (6.17%) ITIL Certification
4 4 (4.94%) Degree
5 3 (3.70%) DBS Check
6 2 (2.47%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.23%) A+ Certification
7 1 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.23%) CEH
7 1 (1.23%) CISSP
7 1 (1.23%) City & Guilds
7 1 (1.23%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.23%) GCFA
7 1 (1.23%) GCFE
7 1 (1.23%) GCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (12.35%) SLA
2 2 (2.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.47%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.23%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 42 (51.85%) Active Directory
2 25 (30.86%) Hyper-V
3 18 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (3.70%) vSphere
5 2 (2.47%) Docker
5 2 (2.47%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (2.47%) XenDesktop
6 1 (1.23%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 16 (19.75%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (4.94%) Ansible
3 3 (3.70%) Kubernetes
3 3 (3.70%) Terraform
4 1 (1.23%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (1.23%) Nessus
4 1 (1.23%) SCCM
4 1 (1.23%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 57 (70.37%) Microsoft
2 23 (28.40%) VMware
3 12 (14.81%) Citrix
4 10 (12.35%) Dell
5 8 (9.88%) HP
5 8 (9.88%) SonicWALL
5 8 (9.88%) Supermicro
6 4 (4.94%) Sophos
6 4 (4.94%) Veeam
7 3 (3.70%) SAP
8 2 (2.47%) Adobe
8 2 (2.47%) Cisco
8 2 (2.47%) Nexthink
8 2 (2.47%) ServiceNow
9 1 (1.23%) Duck Creek
9 1 (1.23%) ESET
9 1 (1.23%) F5