Windows Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Microsoft Windows
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work 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 8 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 24 28
Rank change year-on-year -12 +4 +14
Permanent jobs citing Windows 1,112 2,780 3,537
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 6.77% 8.23% 8.40%
As % of the Operating Systems category 57.50% 59.44% 54.23%
Number of salaries quoted 893 2,297 2,771
10th Percentile £27,550 £28,165 £27,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £35,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,500 £49,800 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.63% -0.40% +2.04%
75th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £76,000 £77,500 £81,250
UK median annual salary £40,000 £40,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year - -11.11% +3.45%

All Operating Systems
Work from Home

Windows falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 1,934 4,677 6,522
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 11.77% 13.84% 15.50%
Number of salaries quoted 1,381 3,637 4,776
10th Percentile £29,000 £30,000 £30,875
25th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £92,500
UK median annual salary £46,500 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +3.33% -14.29% -

Windows
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Windows as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Windows trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Windows
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options 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 remote working options citing Windows over the 6 months to 8 May 2025.

Windows salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Windows
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
1 219 (19.69%) Microsoft Exchange
2 144 (12.95%) SharePoint
3 49 (4.41%) IIS
4 13 (1.17%) Apache
5 9 (0.81%) Tomcat
6 6 (0.54%) Apache Airflow
6 6 (0.54%) Confluence
6 6 (0.54%) Skype for Business
7 5 (0.45%) CMS
7 5 (0.45%) nginx
7 5 (0.45%) SharePoint Server
8 4 (0.36%) Moodle
9 3 (0.27%) Apache Solr
9 3 (0.27%) Exchange Server 2013
10 2 (0.18%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
10 2 (0.18%) SAS
10 2 (0.18%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.18%) WebSphere Application Server
11 1 (0.090%) NetWeaver
11 1 (0.090%) Umbraco
Applications
1 121 (10.88%) Microsoft Office
2 29 (2.61%) Microsoft Excel
3 24 (2.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.36%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.18%) Acrobat
5 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.18%) Trello
6 1 (0.090%) 1Password
6 1 (0.090%) Camtasia
Business Applications
1 21 (1.89%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
2 8 (0.72%) Sage 50
3 7 (0.63%) Elite 3E
3 7 (0.63%) NetSuite
4 5 (0.45%) Sage 200
5 4 (0.36%) Carpe Diem
5 4 (0.36%) Oracle Applications
5 4 (0.36%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
6 3 (0.27%) Remedy ITSM
7 1 (0.090%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.090%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 500 (44.96%) Azure
2 471 (42.36%) Microsoft 365
3 176 (15.83%) AWS
4 122 (10.97%) Entra ID
5 98 (8.81%) SaaS
6 46 (4.14%) OneDrive
7 45 (4.05%) GCP
8 43 (3.87%) PaaS
9 30 (2.70%) IaaS
10 28 (2.52%) Microsoft Purview
11 27 (2.43%) Azure DevOps
12 26 (2.34%) Azure Sentinel
12 26 (2.34%) Microsoft Copilot
13 23 (2.07%) Power Platform
14 22 (1.98%) Cloud Computing
15 19 (1.71%) Mimecast
16 18 (1.62%) Google Workspace
17 17 (1.53%) GitHub
18 15 (1.35%) Azure Monitor
19 13 (1.17%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 254 (22.84%) Firewall
2 179 (16.10%) DNS
3 122 (10.97%) DHCP
4 110 (9.89%) WAN
5 109 (9.80%) VPN
6 89 (8.00%) LAN
7 85 (7.64%) TCP/IP
8 64 (5.76%) SAN
9 63 (5.67%) Wi-Fi
10 47 (4.23%) VLAN
11 39 (3.51%) Wireless
12 26 (2.34%) Internet
13 25 (2.25%) Remote Desktop
13 25 (2.25%) VoIP
14 22 (1.98%) NAS
14 22 (1.98%) SD-WAN
15 21 (1.89%) WPA
16 16 (1.44%) Network Security
17 15 (1.35%) SMTP
18 14 (1.26%) DMARC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 146 (13.13%) SQL Server
2 34 (3.06%) DB2
3 27 (2.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 25 (2.25%) PostgreSQL
4 25 (2.25%) Relational Database
5 21 (1.89%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 12 (1.08%) Amazon RDS
7 10 (0.90%) NoSQL
7 10 (0.90%) RDBMS
8 9 (0.81%) MongoDB
8 9 (0.81%) Power BI
9 7 (0.63%) GIS
9 7 (0.63%) MySQL
10 6 (0.54%) Oracle Database
11 5 (0.45%) Data Hub
11 5 (0.45%) SQL CLR
12 4 (0.36%) Data Warehouse
12 4 (0.36%) Elasticsearch
12 4 (0.36%) Oracle Exadata
13 3 (0.27%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 53 (4.77%) Git
2 32 (2.88%) Jenkins
3 30 (2.70%) Visual Studio
4 29 (2.61%) JIRA
5 9 (0.81%) Subversion
6 8 (0.72%) GitLab
6 8 (0.72%) Selenium
7 5 (0.45%) Oracle Forms
7 5 (0.45%) WiX
8 4 (0.36%) SpecFlow
8 4 (0.36%) Spinnaker
9 3 (0.27%) Artifactory
9 3 (0.27%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (0.18%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (0.18%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.18%) Hudson
10 2 (0.18%) TestComplete
11 1 (0.090%) MSI
11 1 (0.090%) Team Foundation Server
11 1 (0.090%) WebDriver
General
1 390 (35.07%) Social Skills
2 227 (20.41%) Finance
3 126 (11.33%) Analytical Skills
4 58 (5.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 50 (4.50%) Law
6 46 (4.14%) Banking
7 43 (3.87%) Legal
8 32 (2.88%) Telecoms
9 31 (2.79%) Local Government
10 30 (2.70%) Organisational Skills
11 29 (2.61%) Manufacturing
11 29 (2.61%) Marketing
12 23 (2.07%) Public Sector
13 21 (1.89%) Back Office
14 17 (1.53%) Presentation Skills
15 15 (1.35%) Advertising
16 12 (1.08%) Automotive
16 12 (1.08%) Games
16 12 (1.08%) Retail
17 11 (0.99%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 206 (18.53%) IT Support
2 204 (18.35%) Analyst
3 155 (13.94%) Support Engineer
4 126 (11.33%) Senior
5 116 (10.43%) Support Analyst
6 113 (10.16%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 99 (8.90%) IT Engineer
8 77 (6.92%) IT Analyst
9 76 (6.83%) 2nd Line Support
10 68 (6.12%) Lead
11 63 (5.67%) IT Support Engineer
12 57 (5.13%) Cloud Engineer
13 55 (4.95%) Applications Support
14 52 (4.68%) IT Support Analyst
15 47 (4.23%) 3rd Line Engineer
16 44 (3.96%) 3rd Line Support
17 42 (3.78%) Applications Support Analyst
18 41 (3.69%) Developer
19 40 (3.60%) Administrator
20 36 (3.24%) IT Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (6.38%) .NET
2 29 (2.61%) .NET Framework
3 26 (2.34%) REST
4 21 (1.89%) ASP.NET
5 19 (1.71%) HTML
5 19 (1.71%) SOAP
6 17 (1.53%) Node.js
6 17 (1.53%) XML
7 16 (1.44%) .NET Core
7 16 (1.44%) Middleware
8 15 (1.35%) Entity Framework
8 15 (1.35%) Web Services
9 11 (0.99%) Elastic Stack
9 11 (0.99%) JSON
10 8 (0.72%) COM
10 8 (0.72%) LDAP
11 7 (0.63%) MFC
12 6 (0.54%) CSS
12 6 (0.54%) React
12 6 (0.54%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 77 (6.92%) Self-Motivation
2 75 (6.74%) Management Information System
3 64 (5.76%) Onboarding
4 60 (5.40%) Data Centre
5 58 (5.22%) Driving Licence
6 41 (3.69%) Social Media
7 40 (3.60%) Public Cloud
8 31 (2.79%) Hybrid Cloud
9 22 (1.98%) Replication
10 21 (1.89%) Algorithms
10 21 (1.89%) Clustering
11 20 (1.80%) Cloud Native
11 20 (1.80%) Legacy Applications
12 17 (1.53%) Video Conferencing
13 15 (1.35%) Cyber Threat
14 14 (1.26%) Hedge funds
15 13 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
15 13 (1.17%) iPhone
15 13 (1.17%) Security Posture
16 11 (0.99%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 376 (33.81%) Windows Server
2 300 (26.98%) Linux
3 158 (14.21%) Windows 10
4 70 (6.29%) Windows Server 2019
5 64 (5.76%) Windows Server 2016
6 63 (5.67%) Apple iOS
7 48 (4.32%) Mac OS
8 45 (4.05%) Unix
9 44 (3.96%) Windows Vista
10 43 (3.87%) Android
11 25 (2.25%) Windows Server 2012
12 22 (1.98%) Windows 7
13 15 (1.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 14 (1.26%) Windows Server 2008
15 11 (0.99%) AIX
16 8 (0.72%) Ubuntu
17 7 (0.63%) Mac OS X
18 6 (0.54%) CentOS
18 6 (0.54%) Solaris
19 5 (0.45%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 288 (25.90%) Problem-Solving
2 202 (18.17%) ITIL
3 188 (16.91%) Customer Service
4 137 (12.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 117 (10.52%) DevOps
6 112 (10.07%) Cybersecurity
7 93 (8.36%) Mentoring
8 90 (8.09%) Agile
9 86 (7.73%) Disaster Recovery
10 79 (7.10%) Continuous Improvement
10 79 (7.10%) Incident Management
11 77 (6.92%) Project Delivery
12 72 (6.47%) Change Management
13 71 (6.38%) ITSM
14 66 (5.94%) Computer Science
15 62 (5.58%) CI/CD
16 61 (5.49%) Project Management
17 57 (5.13%) High Availability
18 56 (5.04%) Problem Management
19 55 (4.95%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 196 (17.63%) PowerShell
2 185 (16.64%) SQL
3 119 (10.70%) Python
4 70 (6.29%) C#
5 51 (4.59%) Bash
6 43 (3.87%) Java
7 40 (3.60%) C++
8 38 (3.42%) JavaScript
9 33 (2.97%) PL/SQL
10 28 (2.52%) VB.NET
11 25 (2.25%) T-SQL
12 11 (0.99%) TypeScript
13 10 (0.90%) C
13 10 (0.90%) Perl
14 9 (0.81%) R
15 8 (0.72%) PHP
15 8 (0.72%) Shell Script
15 8 (0.72%) VBA
16 6 (0.54%) Bicep
16 6 (0.54%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 176 (15.83%) Degree
2 84 (7.55%) Microsoft Certification
3 59 (5.31%) DBS Check
4 50 (4.50%) Security Cleared
5 42 (3.78%) Cisco Certification
6 40 (3.60%) Azure Certification
7 31 (2.79%) CISSP
8 30 (2.70%) CCNA
8 30 (2.70%) MCSA
8 30 (2.70%) SC Cleared
9 28 (2.52%) Computer Science Degree
10 26 (2.34%) CompTIA Security+
10 26 (2.34%) MCSE
11 25 (2.25%) AWS Certification
12 21 (1.89%) MCP
13 20 (1.80%) A+ Certification
13 20 (1.80%) CCNP
14 18 (1.62%) DV Cleared
15 17 (1.53%) Network+ Certification
16 16 (1.44%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (7.28%) SLA
2 29 (2.61%) QA
3 24 (2.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 23 (2.07%) GDPR
5 7 (0.63%) Accessibility
5 7 (0.63%) NIST
5 7 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 5 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
6 5 (0.45%) FINRA
7 4 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 3 (0.27%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.18%) ISO 13485
10 1 (0.090%) ISO 14001
10 1 (0.090%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.090%) PMO
System Software
1 493 (44.33%) Active Directory
2 155 (13.94%) VMware Infrastructure
3 88 (7.91%) Hyper-V
4 43 (3.87%) VMware ESXi
5 32 (2.88%) Docker
6 23 (2.07%) Virtual Machines
7 18 (1.62%) Firmware
8 16 (1.44%) Virtual Desktop
8 16 (1.44%) vSphere
8 16 (1.44%) XenApp
9 11 (0.99%) Terminal Services
10 10 (0.90%) VMware NSX
11 9 (0.81%) BitLocker
12 7 (0.63%) Virtual Servers
13 4 (0.36%) Embedded Firmware
13 4 (0.36%) pfSense
14 3 (0.27%) Squid
14 3 (0.27%) Terminal Server
15 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 2 (0.18%) Xen
Systems Management
1 172 (15.47%) Microsoft Intune
2 76 (6.83%) Ansible
3 75 (6.74%) Terraform
4 63 (5.67%) SCCM
5 47 (4.23%) Kubernetes
6 23 (2.07%) Single Sign-On
7 18 (1.62%) Puppet
8 13 (1.17%) Progress Chef
9 11 (0.99%) Jamf Pro
9 11 (0.99%) SCOM
9 11 (0.99%) vCenter Server
10 10 (0.90%) Prometheus
11 9 (0.81%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 6 (0.54%) Failover Clustering
12 6 (0.54%) SCOrch
13 5 (0.45%) AirWatch
13 5 (0.45%) Nessus
13 5 (0.45%) WSUS
13 5 (0.45%) ZABBIX
14 4 (0.36%) Grafana
Vendors
1 545 (49.01%) Microsoft
2 250 (22.48%) VMware
3 91 (8.18%) Cisco
4 60 (5.40%) ServiceNow
5 57 (5.13%) Apple
6 54 (4.86%) Citrix
7 50 (4.50%) Oracle
8 37 (3.33%) Meraki
9 27 (2.43%) Google
10 25 (2.25%) HP
11 24 (2.16%) Veeam
12 21 (1.89%) Fortinet
12 21 (1.89%) iManage
13 20 (1.80%) CheckPoint
13 20 (1.80%) Dell
14 19 (1.71%) SonicWALL
15 14 (1.26%) IBM
15 14 (1.26%) Tenable
16 13 (1.17%) NetApp
16 13 (1.17%) SolarWinds