Windows Jobs with Work from Home Options

Microsoft Windows
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 6 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 22 29 38
Rank change year-on-year +7 +9 -8
Permanent jobs citing Windows 2,205 4,603 3,850
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 9.73% 8.45% 7.66%
As % of the Operating Systems category 61.32% 49.11% 46.56%
Number of salaries quoted 1,798 3,644 3,155
10th Percentile £27,500 £27,750 £27,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £35,482 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £44,400 £45,000 £43,500
% change year-on-year -1.33% +3.45% -3.33%

All Operating Systems
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 3,596 9,372 8,269
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 15.87% 17.20% 16.45%
Number of salaries quoted 2,802 6,369 6,352
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £39,720 £41,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,950 £90,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -

Windows
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Windows as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Windows trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Windows.

Windows salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Windows
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Windows over the 6 months to 6 December 2023.

Windows salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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
1 206 (9.34%) SharePoint
2 140 (6.35%) MS Exchange
3 92 (4.17%) IIS
4 27 (1.22%) WebLogic
5 25 (1.13%) Confluence
6 14 (0.63%) WebSphere
7 13 (0.59%) WebSphere Application Server
8 9 (0.41%) Exchange Server 2010
8 9 (0.41%) nginx
9 5 (0.23%) Apache
9 5 (0.23%) Skype for Business
10 4 (0.18%) CMS
10 4 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 4 (0.18%) SharePoint Server
11 3 (0.14%) WordPress
12 2 (0.091%) Exchange Server 2013
12 2 (0.091%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.091%) Site Server
13 1 (0.045%) Gunicorn
13 1 (0.045%) uWSGI
Applications
1 256 (11.61%) Microsoft Office
2 18 (0.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 17 (0.77%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
4 5 (0.23%) Trello
5 4 (0.18%) Chatbot
5 4 (0.18%) LibreOffice
5 4 (0.18%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.14%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.091%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.045%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.045%) PTC Creo
8 1 (0.045%) SOLIDWORKS
8 1 (0.045%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 10 (0.45%) Unit4 Business World
2 7 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.27%) Carpe Diem
4 4 (0.18%) Shopify
5 3 (0.14%) Eikon
5 3 (0.14%) Elite 3E
5 3 (0.14%) SAP Business One
6 2 (0.091%) EuroRunner
6 2 (0.091%) Misys Equation
6 2 (0.091%) Salerio
6 2 (0.091%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.045%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.045%) IBM Planning Analytics
7 1 (0.045%) ION Anvil
7 1 (0.045%) Magento
7 1 (0.045%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.045%) Sage 200
7 1 (0.045%) Sage 50
7 1 (0.045%) SAP GTS
7 1 (0.045%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 963 (43.67%) Azure
2 913 (41.41%) Microsoft 365
3 298 (13.51%) AWS
4 269 (12.20%) Entra ID
5 162 (7.35%) SaaS
6 136 (6.17%) IaaS
7 124 (5.62%) PaaS
8 79 (3.58%) Azure DevOps
9 57 (2.59%) GCP
10 55 (2.49%) GitHub
11 49 (2.22%) Power Platform
12 47 (2.13%) Azure Monitor
13 43 (1.95%) OneDrive
14 39 (1.77%) WhatsApp
15 31 (1.41%) Serverless
16 29 (1.32%) Mimecast
17 28 (1.27%) Azure Storage
18 24 (1.09%) Amazon EKS
19 22 (1.00%) Nutanix
19 22 (1.00%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 417 (18.91%) Firewall
2 337 (15.28%) DNS
3 292 (13.24%) DHCP
4 287 (13.02%) WAN
5 266 (12.06%) LAN
6 191 (8.66%) VPN
7 164 (7.44%) TCP/IP
8 153 (6.94%) SAN
9 127 (5.76%) VLAN
10 113 (5.12%) Wireless
11 82 (3.72%) Intrusion Detection
12 72 (3.27%) Internet
13 68 (3.08%) Wi-Fi
14 67 (3.04%) VoIP
15 59 (2.68%) Remote Desktop
16 51 (2.31%) Network Security
17 39 (1.77%) SMTP
18 38 (1.72%) SD-WAN
19 36 (1.63%) NAS
20 33 (1.50%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 287 (13.02%) SQL Server
2 74 (3.36%) MySQL
3 52 (2.36%) Relational Database
4 44 (2.00%) Amazon RDS
5 35 (1.59%) Elasticsearch
6 33 (1.50%) Power BI
6 33 (1.50%) RDBMS
7 29 (1.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 26 (1.18%) PostgreSQL
9 20 (0.91%) Data Warehouse
10 16 (0.73%) DB2
10 16 (0.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 14 (0.63%) BusinessObjects
12 13 (0.59%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
12 13 (0.59%) Oracle Database
13 9 (0.41%) Amazon Aurora
13 9 (0.41%) SQLite
14 8 (0.36%) GIS
15 7 (0.32%) NoSQL
15 7 (0.32%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 83 (3.76%) JIRA
2 81 (3.67%) Git
3 65 (2.95%) GitLab
4 43 (1.95%) Jenkins
5 26 (1.18%) MSI
5 26 (1.18%) Sonatype Nexus
6 23 (1.04%) Octopus Deploy
7 17 (0.77%) Oracle APEX
8 16 (0.73%) TeamCity
9 15 (0.68%) AdminStudio
9 15 (0.68%) InstallShield
10 11 (0.50%) Axure RP
10 11 (0.50%) Team Foundation Server
11 10 (0.45%) Bitbucket
11 10 (0.45%) CMake
11 10 (0.45%) Visual Studio
12 9 (0.41%) Subversion
13 8 (0.36%) IBM UrbanCode
13 8 (0.36%) SonarQube
14 5 (0.23%) Selenium
General
1 752 (34.10%) Social Skills
2 363 (16.46%) Finance
3 213 (9.66%) Analytical Skills
4 117 (5.31%) Organisational Skills
5 98 (4.44%) Law
5 98 (4.44%) Presentation Skills
6 93 (4.22%) Public Sector
7 92 (4.17%) Banking
8 83 (3.76%) Legal
9 76 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 66 (2.99%) Games
11 63 (2.86%) Telecoms
12 62 (2.81%) Retail
13 38 (1.72%) Manufacturing
14 37 (1.68%) Marketing
15 32 (1.45%) Documentation Skills
16 27 (1.22%) Military
17 25 (1.13%) Aerospace
18 22 (1.00%) Financial Institution
19 15 (0.68%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 389 (17.64%) Senior
2 320 (14.51%) Analyst
3 315 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 288 (13.06%) Support Engineer
5 211 (9.57%) IT Engineer
6 203 (9.21%) IT Support
7 195 (8.84%) Support Analyst
8 146 (6.62%) Architect
9 128 (5.80%) 2nd Line Support
10 112 (5.08%) Lead
11 107 (4.85%) IT Support Engineer
12 103 (4.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 102 (4.63%) Applications Support
14 97 (4.40%) IT Analyst
15 92 (4.17%) 2nd Line Engineer
16 90 (4.08%) Windows Engineer
17 87 (3.95%) Infrastructure Architect
18 85 (3.85%) 3rd Line Engineer
19 82 (3.72%) Administrator
20 77 (3.49%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 143 (6.49%) .NET
2 41 (1.86%) XML
3 36 (1.63%) Web Services
4 35 (1.59%) Middleware
5 31 (1.41%) ASP.NET
5 31 (1.41%) HTML
6 30 (1.36%) Spring
7 29 (1.32%) AngularJS
8 28 (1.27%) CSS
9 26 (1.18%) J2EE
9 26 (1.18%) Java EE
10 25 (1.13%) JSON
11 19 (0.86%) .NET Core
11 19 (0.86%) Elastic Stack
11 19 (0.86%) REST
12 17 (0.77%) .NET Framework
12 17 (0.77%) ARM Templates
12 17 (0.77%) RESTful
13 16 (0.73%) Qt
14 14 (0.63%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 143 (6.49%) Data Centre
2 116 (5.26%) Public Cloud
3 87 (3.95%) Driving Licence
4 85 (3.85%) Private Cloud
5 75 (3.40%) Security Operations Centre
6 66 (2.99%) Management Information System
6 66 (2.99%) Self-Motivation
7 58 (2.63%) Virtual Team
8 54 (2.45%) PKI
9 41 (1.86%) Replication
10 31 (1.41%) Clustering
11 24 (1.09%) EFT
12 23 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
12 23 (1.04%) Hybrid Cloud
13 21 (0.95%) Mobile App
14 19 (0.86%) Onboarding
15 17 (0.77%) Fat Client
15 17 (0.77%) Thin Client
16 16 (0.73%) Greenfield Project
16 16 (0.73%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 880 (39.91%) Windows Server
2 562 (25.49%) Linux
3 380 (17.23%) Windows 10
4 239 (10.84%) Unix
5 191 (8.66%) Windows Server 2016
6 182 (8.25%) Windows Server 2019
7 152 (6.89%) Windows Server 2012
8 90 (4.08%) Android
9 77 (3.49%) Apple iOS
10 76 (3.45%) Mac OS
11 51 (2.31%) Windows 7
12 44 (2.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 36 (1.63%) Windows Server 2003
14 32 (1.45%) Ubuntu
15 30 (1.36%) VMS
16 27 (1.22%) Windows 8
17 24 (1.09%) Mac OS X
18 20 (0.91%) Windows Server 2008
19 15 (0.68%) Debian
19 15 (0.68%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 446 (20.23%) ITIL
2 366 (16.60%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 341 (15.46%) Problem-Solving
4 328 (14.88%) Customer Service
5 308 (13.97%) Agile
6 263 (11.93%) Cybersecurity
7 247 (11.20%) DevOps
8 232 (10.52%) Service Management
9 178 (8.07%) Incident Management
10 172 (7.80%) Project Management
11 167 (7.57%) Actionable Insight
12 165 (7.48%) Mentoring
13 164 (7.44%) Infrastructure as Code
14 144 (6.53%) Migration
15 138 (6.26%) CI/CD
16 130 (5.90%) SIEM
17 127 (5.76%) Disaster Recovery
18 116 (5.26%) Problem Management
19 115 (5.22%) Change Management
20 109 (4.94%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 506 (22.95%) PowerShell
2 359 (16.28%) SQL
3 182 (8.25%) C#
4 181 (8.21%) Python
5 138 (6.26%) Bash
6 121 (5.49%) Java
7 76 (3.45%) JavaScript
8 66 (2.99%) C++
9 43 (1.95%) VB
10 36 (1.63%) T-SQL
11 35 (1.59%) Ruby
12 29 (1.32%) Perl
13 26 (1.18%) VBScript
14 23 (1.04%) Shell Script
15 20 (0.91%) Bicep
15 20 (0.91%) PL/SQL
16 17 (0.77%) C
16 17 (0.77%) Go
17 14 (0.63%) Korn
17 14 (0.63%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 343 (15.56%) Degree
2 267 (12.11%) Security Cleared
3 202 (9.16%) SC Cleared
4 153 (6.94%) Microsoft Certification
5 83 (3.76%) DV Cleared
6 81 (3.67%) CISSP
7 70 (3.17%) CISM
8 64 (2.90%) Cisco Certification
9 62 (2.81%) SSCP
10 57 (2.59%) CCNA
11 49 (2.22%) MCSE
12 47 (2.13%) Azure Certification
13 46 (2.09%) Computer Science Degree
14 42 (1.90%) MCITP
15 40 (1.81%) ITIL Certification
16 38 (1.72%) MCSA
17 35 (1.59%) Network+ Certification
18 27 (1.22%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
18 27 (1.22%) MCP
19 25 (1.13%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 158 (7.17%) SLA
2 156 (7.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 84 (3.81%) GDPR
4 74 (3.36%) Cyber Essentials
5 39 (1.77%) QA
6 33 (1.50%) NIST
7 20 (0.91%) PMO
8 19 (0.86%) NCSC
9 17 (0.77%) PCI DSS
10 15 (0.68%) Accessibility
11 12 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 11 (0.50%) ISO 9001
13 6 (0.27%) Data Quality
13 6 (0.27%) ITGC
13 6 (0.27%) SOC 2
14 4 (0.18%) COBIT
14 4 (0.18%) RMADS
15 3 (0.14%) GRC
16 2 (0.091%) MISRA C
16 2 (0.091%) NIST 800
System Software
1 959 (43.49%) Active Directory
2 364 (16.51%) VMware Infrastructure
3 221 (10.02%) Hyper-V
4 90 (4.08%) Docker
5 83 (3.76%) Virtual Machines
6 80 (3.63%) Virtual Desktop
7 77 (3.49%) VMware ESXi
8 63 (2.86%) vSphere
9 45 (2.04%) Firmware
10 22 (1.00%) VMware NSX
11 20 (0.91%) Virtual Servers
12 18 (0.82%) Microsoft App-V
13 14 (0.63%) XenApp
14 13 (0.59%) vCloud
14 13 (0.59%) XenDesktop
15 7 (0.32%) BitLocker
16 5 (0.23%) VirtualBox
17 4 (0.18%) DFS Replication
17 4 (0.18%) VMware Workstation
18 3 (0.14%) NFS
Systems Management
1 265 (12.02%) Microsoft Intune
2 243 (11.02%) SCCM
3 192 (8.71%) Terraform
4 177 (8.03%) Ansible
5 126 (5.71%) Kubernetes
6 63 (2.86%) Puppet
6 63 (2.86%) WSUS
7 53 (2.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 42 (1.90%) Single Sign-On
9 41 (1.86%) SCOM
10 37 (1.68%) AirWatch
11 35 (1.59%) vCenter Server
12 33 (1.50%) Jamf Pro
13 28 (1.27%) FortiGate
14 27 (1.22%) Grafana
14 27 (1.22%) Microsoft Clustering
15 26 (1.18%) OpenSSO
16 19 (0.86%) Failover Clustering
16 19 (0.86%) Nessus
17 17 (0.77%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 1,112 (50.43%) Microsoft
2 562 (25.49%) VMware
3 199 (9.02%) Cisco
4 185 (8.39%) Oracle
5 140 (6.35%) Citrix
6 126 (5.71%) HP
7 110 (4.99%) Dell
8 86 (3.90%) Apple
8 86 (3.90%) ServiceNow
9 59 (2.68%) Google
10 56 (2.54%) Veeam
11 44 (2.00%) Meraki
12 42 (1.90%) Sophos
13 35 (1.59%) Splunk
14 33 (1.50%) Red Hat
15 30 (1.36%) SolarWinds
15 30 (1.36%) Sun
16 28 (1.27%) Adobe
17 27 (1.22%) IBM
18 26 (1.18%) SAP