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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 24 29 40
Rank change year-on-year +5 +11 -11
Permanent jobs citing Windows 2,812 3,637 5,200
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.33% 8.43% 7.79%
As % of the Operating Systems category 59.73% 54.59% 44.09%
Number of salaries quoted 2,323 2,840 3,858
10th Percentile £27,800 £27,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £35,750 £34,781
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £62,250 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £40,000 £45,000 £43,876
% change year-on-year -11.11% +2.56% -2.50%

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 4,708 6,663 11,793
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.95% 15.44% 17.66%
Number of salaries quoted 3,659 4,860 7,445
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £41,250 £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £66,250 £75,000 £73,675
90th Percentile £82,500 £92,500 £87,500
UK median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% - +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 27 April 2024.

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
1 489 (17.39%) Microsoft Exchange
2 267 (9.50%) SharePoint
3 99 (3.52%) IIS
4 82 (2.92%) Apache
5 27 (0.96%) OpenStack
6 23 (0.82%) Tomcat
7 17 (0.60%) CMS
7 17 (0.60%) Confluence
8 11 (0.39%) Exchange Server 2013
9 9 (0.32%) nginx
10 8 (0.28%) Umbraco
11 6 (0.21%) Exchange Server 2000
11 6 (0.21%) Exchange Server 2010
12 5 (0.18%) SAS
13 3 (0.11%) Apache Solr
13 3 (0.11%) JBoss
13 3 (0.11%) MQSeries
13 3 (0.11%) Orchard CMS
13 3 (0.11%) Skype for Business
13 3 (0.11%) WordPress
Applications
1 296 (10.53%) Microsoft Office
2 47 (1.67%) Microsoft Excel
3 21 (0.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (0.36%) Trello
5 9 (0.32%) MS Visio
6 6 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
8 3 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 3 (0.11%) AutoCAD
8 3 (0.11%) Simulink
8 3 (0.11%) SPSS
9 2 (0.071%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.071%) CATIA
9 2 (0.071%) NASTRAN
9 2 (0.071%) Sketch
10 1 (0.036%) Adobe After Effects
10 1 (0.036%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.036%) InDesign
10 1 (0.036%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.036%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 28 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 27 (0.96%) NEC Housing
3 17 (0.60%) Unit4 Business World
4 8 (0.28%) Dynamics NAV
5 7 (0.25%) Carpe Diem
6 5 (0.18%) Elite 3E
6 5 (0.18%) Remedy ITSM
6 5 (0.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 2 (0.071%) NetSuite
7 2 (0.071%) Sage 200
7 2 (0.071%) Sage 50
7 2 (0.071%) Teamcenter
8 1 (0.036%) Dynamics AX
8 1 (0.036%) SAP Business One
8 1 (0.036%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 1,174 (41.75%) Azure
2 1,154 (41.04%) Microsoft 365
3 423 (15.04%) Entra ID
4 353 (12.55%) AWS
5 141 (5.01%) SaaS
6 106 (3.77%) IaaS
7 94 (3.34%) Azure DevOps
8 93 (3.31%) OneDrive
9 91 (3.24%) Amazon S3
10 90 (3.20%) GitHub
11 88 (3.13%) Power Platform
12 84 (2.99%) GCP
13 67 (2.38%) Cloud Computing
14 42 (1.49%) Nutanix
15 40 (1.42%) WhatsApp
16 37 (1.32%) PaaS
17 35 (1.24%) Azure Monitor
18 33 (1.17%) Power Automate
18 33 (1.17%) Serverless
19 29 (1.03%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 588 (20.91%) Firewall
2 455 (16.18%) DNS
3 307 (10.92%) DHCP
4 271 (9.64%) WAN
5 261 (9.28%) VPN
6 244 (8.68%) LAN
7 238 (8.46%) TCP/IP
8 180 (6.40%) Internet
9 151 (5.37%) SAN
10 132 (4.69%) Wi-Fi
11 130 (4.62%) Wireless
12 115 (4.09%) VLAN
13 78 (2.77%) VoIP
14 77 (2.74%) Network Security
15 72 (2.56%) SNMP
16 60 (2.13%) NAS
17 57 (2.03%) Remote Desktop
18 56 (1.99%) IPsec
19 49 (1.74%) SD-WAN
20 42 (1.49%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 361 (12.84%) SQL Server
2 100 (3.56%) MongoDB
3 75 (2.67%) Power BI
4 74 (2.63%) Elasticsearch
5 70 (2.49%) MySQL
5 70 (2.49%) Relational Database
6 68 (2.42%) Amazon RDS
7 46 (1.64%) DB2
8 40 (1.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 37 (1.32%) Oracle Database
10 35 (1.24%) Data Warehouse
10 35 (1.24%) PostgreSQL
11 30 (1.07%) RDBMS
12 23 (0.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 21 (0.75%) Azure SQL Database
14 16 (0.57%) Amazon Aurora
15 15 (0.53%) Redis
16 14 (0.50%) QlikView
17 13 (0.46%) BusinessObjects
18 12 (0.43%) Data Hub
Development Applications
1 106 (3.77%) Git
2 95 (3.38%) JIRA
3 54 (1.92%) Jenkins
4 53 (1.88%) GitLab
5 49 (1.74%) Visual Studio
6 29 (1.03%) Subversion
7 23 (0.82%) CMake
8 21 (0.75%) Artifactory
9 20 (0.71%) IBM UrbanCode
10 19 (0.68%) Eclipse
11 17 (0.60%) Octopus Deploy
12 15 (0.53%) Team Foundation Server
13 14 (0.50%) Bitbucket
14 10 (0.36%) MSI
14 10 (0.36%) TeamCity
14 10 (0.36%) Trac
15 9 (0.32%) InstallShield
16 7 (0.25%) CircleCI
16 7 (0.25%) IntelliJ
17 6 (0.21%) Snyk
General
1 821 (29.20%) Social Skills
2 594 (21.12%) Finance
3 279 (9.92%) Analytical Skills
4 136 (4.84%) Public Sector
5 120 (4.27%) Banking
6 109 (3.88%) Law
7 97 (3.45%) Legal
8 96 (3.41%) Retail
8 96 (3.41%) Telecoms
9 85 (3.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 79 (2.81%) Marketing
11 73 (2.60%) Organisational Skills
12 50 (1.78%) Electronics
12 50 (1.78%) Games
13 42 (1.49%) Manufacturing
14 40 (1.42%) Military
15 38 (1.35%) Documentation Skills
16 36 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
17 30 (1.07%) Aerospace
17 30 (1.07%) Police
Job Titles
1 488 (17.35%) Senior
2 428 (15.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 351 (12.48%) Analyst
4 318 (11.31%) Support Engineer
5 272 (9.67%) IT Support
6 271 (9.64%) IT Engineer
7 198 (7.04%) Lead
8 164 (5.83%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 155 (5.51%) Consultant
10 149 (5.30%) Developer
11 148 (5.26%) IT Support Engineer
12 141 (5.01%) Support Analyst
13 121 (4.30%) IT Analyst
14 120 (4.27%) Software Engineer
15 111 (3.95%) 3rd Line Support
16 95 (3.38%) DevOps Engineer
17 93 (3.31%) IT Manager
18 88 (3.13%) 2nd Line Support
19 87 (3.09%) Administrator
20 78 (2.77%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 169 (6.01%) .NET
2 99 (3.52%) HTML
3 75 (2.67%) CSS
3 75 (2.67%) RabbitMQ
4 64 (2.28%) YAML
5 55 (1.96%) .NET Framework
5 55 (1.96%) ASP.NET
5 55 (1.96%) WPF
6 52 (1.85%) AngularJS
7 47 (1.67%) REST
8 44 (1.56%) XML
9 41 (1.46%) React
9 41 (1.46%) WinForms
10 37 (1.32%) Web Services
11 36 (1.28%) Middleware
12 33 (1.17%) ASP.NET MVC
13 32 (1.14%) RESTful
14 31 (1.10%) Twitter Bootstrap
15 30 (1.07%) Qt
15 30 (1.07%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 258 (9.17%) Data Centre
2 187 (6.65%) Self-Motivation
3 138 (4.91%) Management Information System
4 133 (4.73%) Public Cloud
5 77 (2.74%) Driving Licence
6 68 (2.42%) PKI
7 66 (2.35%) Onboarding
8 64 (2.28%) Clustering
9 52 (1.85%) Replication
10 46 (1.64%) Cyberattack
11 40 (1.42%) Cloud Native
12 38 (1.35%) Mobile App
13 37 (1.32%) Private Cloud
14 36 (1.28%) Client/Server
15 35 (1.24%) Cyber Threat
15 35 (1.24%) Hybrid Cloud
16 34 (1.21%) Virtual Team
17 33 (1.17%) Video Conferencing
18 32 (1.14%) IoT
19 28 (1.00%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 1,137 (40.43%) Windows Server
2 822 (29.23%) Linux
3 508 (18.07%) Windows 10
4 206 (7.33%) Unix
5 198 (7.04%) Windows Server 2016
6 178 (6.33%) Windows Server 2012
7 161 (5.73%) Windows Server 2019
8 144 (5.12%) Apple iOS
9 114 (4.05%) Android
10 102 (3.63%) Mac OS
11 97 (3.45%) Windows 7
12 68 (2.42%) VMS
13 62 (2.20%) Ubuntu
14 61 (2.17%) Windows 8
15 54 (1.92%) Data ONTAP
16 50 (1.78%) Windows Server 2008
17 48 (1.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
18 33 (1.17%) Mac OS X
19 32 (1.14%) Solaris
20 24 (0.85%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 539 (19.17%) ITIL
2 527 (18.74%) Problem-Solving
3 520 (18.49%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 367 (13.05%) Customer Service
5 366 (13.02%) Agile
6 337 (11.98%) Cybersecurity
7 335 (11.91%) DevOps
8 265 (9.42%) Mentoring
9 191 (6.79%) CI/CD
10 182 (6.47%) Project Management
11 181 (6.44%) Software Engineering
12 180 (6.40%) Migration
13 179 (6.37%) Change Management
14 171 (6.08%) Service Management
15 169 (6.01%) Disaster Recovery
16 159 (5.65%) Continuous Improvement
17 148 (5.26%) Actionable Insight
17 148 (5.26%) Roadmaps
18 144 (5.12%) Computer Science
19 127 (4.52%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 462 (16.43%) PowerShell
2 428 (15.22%) SQL
3 259 (9.21%) Python
4 233 (8.29%) C#
5 133 (4.73%) Bash
6 86 (3.06%) Java
7 77 (2.74%) C++
8 72 (2.56%) JavaScript
9 69 (2.45%) T-SQL
10 47 (1.67%) Perl
11 46 (1.64%) VB
12 37 (1.32%) VBScript
13 32 (1.14%) C
14 27 (0.96%) PL/SQL
15 26 (0.92%) Ruby
16 25 (0.89%) TypeScript
17 22 (0.78%) PHP
18 21 (0.75%) Shell Script
19 19 (0.68%) VB.NET
19 19 (0.68%) XAML
Qualifications
1 511 (18.17%) Degree
2 273 (9.71%) Security Cleared
3 159 (5.65%) Microsoft Certification
4 149 (5.30%) SC Cleared
5 103 (3.66%) DV Cleared
6 96 (3.41%) Computer Science Degree
7 85 (3.02%) Cisco Certification
8 65 (2.31%) CCNA
9 58 (2.06%) CISSP
10 52 (1.85%) Azure Certification
11 44 (1.56%) MCP
12 41 (1.46%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 40 (1.42%) MCSE
14 32 (1.14%) AWS Certification
14 32 (1.14%) CISM
15 27 (0.96%) A+ Certification
16 26 (0.92%) MCITP
17 24 (0.85%) ITIL Certification
17 24 (0.85%) Network+ Certification
18 22 (0.78%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 108 (3.84%) SLA
2 96 (3.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 70 (2.49%) QA
4 66 (2.35%) Cyber Essentials
5 42 (1.49%) NIST
6 30 (1.07%) Accessibility
7 24 (0.85%) PCI DSS
8 18 (0.64%) PMO
9 17 (0.60%) Data Quality
9 17 (0.60%) ITGC
10 16 (0.57%) GDPR
11 13 (0.46%) GRC
12 12 (0.43%) SOC 2
13 11 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 10 (0.36%) ISO 9001
15 8 (0.28%) MISRA
16 6 (0.21%) ISO 9000
16 6 (0.21%) NCSC
17 5 (0.18%) ISO 22301
18 4 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 1,279 (45.48%) Active Directory
2 574 (20.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 392 (13.94%) Hyper-V
4 172 (6.12%) Docker
5 130 (4.62%) Virtual Machines
6 101 (3.59%) Virtual Desktop
7 99 (3.52%) VMware ESXi
8 74 (2.63%) vSphere
9 49 (1.74%) XenApp
10 39 (1.39%) XenDesktop
11 32 (1.14%) VirtualBox
12 24 (0.85%) Firmware
13 18 (0.64%) Virtual Servers
14 16 (0.57%) NFS
15 15 (0.53%) Terminal Services
16 14 (0.50%) VMware Workstation
17 10 (0.36%) pfSense
18 9 (0.32%) Forefront TMG
18 9 (0.32%) OpenSSH
19 8 (0.28%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 383 (13.62%) Microsoft Intune
2 249 (8.85%) Ansible
3 225 (8.00%) SCCM
4 198 (7.04%) Kubernetes
5 190 (6.76%) Terraform
6 126 (4.48%) vCenter Server
7 94 (3.34%) WSUS
8 65 (2.31%) Prometheus
9 59 (2.10%) Single Sign-On
10 58 (2.06%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 58 (2.06%) SCOM
11 55 (1.96%) Puppet
12 49 (1.74%) Grafana
13 38 (1.35%) Microsoft Clustering
14 37 (1.32%) Nagios
15 28 (1.00%) ZABBIX
16 25 (0.89%) Progress Chef
17 20 (0.71%) FortiGate
17 20 (0.71%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
18 19 (0.68%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 1,394 (49.57%) Microsoft
2 826 (29.37%) VMware
3 192 (6.83%) Cisco
4 174 (6.19%) Citrix
5 131 (4.66%) Apple
5 131 (4.66%) Oracle
6 101 (3.59%) Red Hat
7 96 (3.41%) Dell
8 94 (3.34%) NetApp
9 89 (3.17%) HP
9 89 (3.17%) Veeam
10 76 (2.70%) ServiceNow
11 72 (2.56%) Adobe
11 72 (2.56%) Meraki
12 71 (2.52%) IBM
13 66 (2.35%) Palo Alto
14 62 (2.20%) Google
15 54 (1.92%) SolidFire
16 53 (1.88%) SAP
17 48 (1.71%) Splunk