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

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 24 28 40
Rank change year-on-year +4 +12 -11
Permanent jobs citing Windows 2,824 3,682 5,194
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.34% 8.48% 7.80%
As % of the Operating Systems category 59.60% 54.60% 44.08%
Number of salaries quoted 2,342 2,871 3,849
10th Percentile £27,750 £27,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £35,750 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £61,250 £65,000 £65,313
90th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £40,000 £45,000 £44,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +2.27% -2.22%

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 4,738 6,744 11,784
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 14.00% 15.53% 17.70%
Number of salaries quoted 3,695 4,913 7,433
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £41,250 £40,853
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% - +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 25 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
1 492 (17.42%) Microsoft Exchange
2 271 (9.60%) SharePoint
3 93 (3.29%) IIS
4 75 (2.66%) Apache
5 25 (0.89%) OpenStack
6 17 (0.60%) CMS
6 17 (0.60%) Confluence
7 16 (0.57%) Tomcat
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%) Exchange Server 2007
13 3 (0.11%) GlassFish
13 3 (0.11%) JBoss
13 3 (0.11%) Orchard CMS
13 3 (0.11%) WordPress
Applications
1 298 (10.55%) Microsoft Office
2 47 (1.66%) Microsoft Excel
3 21 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (0.35%) 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 (0.035%) 1Password
10 1 (0.035%) Adobe After Effects
10 1 (0.035%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.035%) InDesign
10 1 (0.035%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 29 (1.03%) Dynamics CRM
2 21 (0.74%) NEC Housing
3 19 (0.67%) 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%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 4 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
8 2 (0.071%) NetSuite
8 2 (0.071%) Sage 200
8 2 (0.071%) Sage 50
8 2 (0.071%) SAP Business One
8 2 (0.071%) Teamcenter
9 1 (0.035%) Dynamics AX
9 1 (0.035%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 1,182 (41.86%) Azure
2 1,167 (41.32%) Microsoft 365
3 424 (15.01%) Entra ID
4 354 (12.54%) AWS
5 142 (5.03%) SaaS
6 108 (3.82%) IaaS
7 94 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
7 94 (3.33%) OneDrive
8 91 (3.22%) GitHub
9 89 (3.15%) Amazon S3
10 88 (3.12%) Power Platform
11 84 (2.97%) GCP
12 68 (2.41%) Cloud Computing
13 43 (1.52%) Nutanix
14 41 (1.45%) WhatsApp
15 37 (1.31%) PaaS
16 35 (1.24%) Azure Monitor
17 33 (1.17%) Power Automate
17 33 (1.17%) Serverless
18 27 (0.96%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 589 (20.86%) Firewall
2 458 (16.22%) DNS
3 309 (10.94%) DHCP
4 274 (9.70%) WAN
5 261 (9.24%) VPN
6 248 (8.78%) LAN
7 239 (8.46%) TCP/IP
8 176 (6.23%) Internet
9 152 (5.38%) SAN
10 131 (4.64%) Wi-Fi
10 131 (4.64%) Wireless
11 117 (4.14%) VLAN
12 77 (2.73%) Network Security
12 77 (2.73%) VoIP
13 72 (2.55%) SNMP
14 61 (2.16%) NAS
15 56 (1.98%) IPsec
15 56 (1.98%) Remote Desktop
16 49 (1.74%) SD-WAN
17 42 (1.49%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 366 (12.96%) SQL Server
2 100 (3.54%) MongoDB
3 75 (2.66%) Power BI
4 74 (2.62%) Elasticsearch
5 70 (2.48%) MySQL
5 70 (2.48%) Relational Database
6 68 (2.41%) Amazon RDS
7 47 (1.66%) DB2
8 42 (1.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 36 (1.27%) Data Warehouse
10 35 (1.24%) PostgreSQL
11 31 (1.10%) Oracle Database
12 30 (1.06%) RDBMS
13 22 (0.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 21 (0.74%) Azure SQL Database
15 16 (0.57%) Amazon Aurora
16 15 (0.53%) Redis
17 14 (0.50%) QlikView
18 13 (0.46%) BusinessObjects
19 12 (0.42%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 105 (3.72%) Git
2 95 (3.36%) JIRA
3 54 (1.91%) GitLab
4 52 (1.84%) Jenkins
5 49 (1.74%) Visual Studio
6 29 (1.03%) Subversion
7 23 (0.81%) CMake
8 21 (0.74%) Artifactory
9 20 (0.71%) IBM UrbanCode
10 19 (0.67%) Eclipse
11 17 (0.60%) Octopus Deploy
12 15 (0.53%) Team Foundation Server
13 14 (0.50%) Bitbucket
14 10 (0.35%) MSI
14 10 (0.35%) TeamCity
14 10 (0.35%) Trac
15 9 (0.32%) InstallShield
16 7 (0.25%) CircleCI
17 6 (0.21%) Postman
17 6 (0.21%) Snyk
General
1 832 (29.46%) Social Skills
2 589 (20.86%) Finance
3 282 (9.99%) Analytical Skills
4 130 (4.60%) Public Sector
5 122 (4.32%) Banking
6 110 (3.90%) Law
7 99 (3.51%) Legal
8 96 (3.40%) Telecoms
9 95 (3.36%) Retail
10 87 (3.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 80 (2.83%) Marketing
12 75 (2.66%) Organisational Skills
13 50 (1.77%) Electronics
13 50 (1.77%) Games
14 42 (1.49%) Manufacturing
15 41 (1.45%) Military
16 38 (1.35%) Documentation Skills
17 37 (1.31%) Presentation Skills
18 30 (1.06%) Aerospace
19 29 (1.03%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 488 (17.28%) Senior
2 432 (15.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 354 (12.54%) Analyst
4 321 (11.37%) Support Engineer
5 274 (9.70%) IT Engineer
6 271 (9.60%) IT Support
7 198 (7.01%) Lead
8 163 (5.77%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 155 (5.49%) Consultant
10 149 (5.28%) Developer
11 147 (5.21%) IT Support Engineer
12 142 (5.03%) Support Analyst
13 120 (4.25%) IT Analyst
13 120 (4.25%) Software Engineer
14 111 (3.93%) 3rd Line Support
15 96 (3.40%) DevOps Engineer
16 94 (3.33%) IT Manager
17 89 (3.15%) 2nd Line Support
17 89 (3.15%) Administrator
18 78 (2.76%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 170 (6.02%) .NET
2 99 (3.51%) HTML
3 75 (2.66%) CSS
4 73 (2.58%) RabbitMQ
5 64 (2.27%) YAML
6 55 (1.95%) .NET Framework
6 55 (1.95%) ASP.NET
6 55 (1.95%) WPF
7 52 (1.84%) AngularJS
8 47 (1.66%) REST
9 45 (1.59%) XML
10 41 (1.45%) React
10 41 (1.45%) WinForms
11 36 (1.27%) Middleware
12 33 (1.17%) ASP.NET MVC
13 32 (1.13%) RESTful
14 31 (1.10%) Twitter Bootstrap
15 30 (1.06%) Qt
15 30 (1.06%) Vue
15 30 (1.06%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 257 (9.10%) Data Centre
2 187 (6.62%) Self-Motivation
3 140 (4.96%) Management Information System
4 125 (4.43%) Public Cloud
5 78 (2.76%) Driving Licence
6 68 (2.41%) PKI
7 67 (2.37%) Onboarding
8 66 (2.34%) Clustering
9 51 (1.81%) Replication
10 46 (1.63%) Cyberattack
11 40 (1.42%) Cloud Native
12 37 (1.31%) Mobile App
12 37 (1.31%) Private Cloud
13 36 (1.27%) Client/Server
14 35 (1.24%) Cyber Threat
14 35 (1.24%) Hybrid Cloud
14 35 (1.24%) Virtual Team
15 33 (1.17%) IoT
15 33 (1.17%) Video Conferencing
16 28 (0.99%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1,147 (40.62%) Windows Server
2 814 (28.82%) Linux
3 513 (18.17%) Windows 10
4 201 (7.12%) Unix
4 201 (7.12%) Windows Server 2016
5 182 (6.44%) Windows Server 2012
6 162 (5.74%) Windows Server 2019
7 145 (5.13%) Apple iOS
8 113 (4.00%) Android
9 103 (3.65%) Mac OS
10 98 (3.47%) Windows 7
11 67 (2.37%) VMS
12 61 (2.16%) Ubuntu
12 61 (2.16%) Windows 8
13 54 (1.91%) Data ONTAP
14 50 (1.77%) Windows Server 2008
15 49 (1.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 34 (1.20%) Mac OS X
17 25 (0.89%) Solaris
18 24 (0.85%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 544 (19.26%) ITIL
2 531 (18.80%) Problem-Solving
3 524 (18.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 369 (13.07%) Customer Service
5 365 (12.92%) Agile
6 339 (12.00%) Cybersecurity
7 336 (11.90%) DevOps
8 268 (9.49%) Mentoring
9 191 (6.76%) CI/CD
10 186 (6.59%) Project Management
11 181 (6.41%) Migration
11 181 (6.41%) Software Engineering
12 180 (6.37%) Change Management
13 170 (6.02%) Disaster Recovery
13 170 (6.02%) Service Management
14 159 (5.63%) Continuous Improvement
15 148 (5.24%) Actionable Insight
16 145 (5.13%) Computer Science
16 145 (5.13%) Roadmaps
17 129 (4.57%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 462 (16.36%) PowerShell
2 433 (15.33%) SQL
3 259 (9.17%) Python
4 234 (8.29%) C#
5 133 (4.71%) Bash
6 83 (2.94%) Java
7 77 (2.73%) C++
8 71 (2.51%) T-SQL
9 70 (2.48%) JavaScript
10 49 (1.74%) Perl
11 46 (1.63%) VB
12 37 (1.31%) VBScript
13 32 (1.13%) C
14 28 (0.99%) PL/SQL
15 27 (0.96%) Ruby
16 25 (0.89%) TypeScript
17 22 (0.78%) PHP
18 19 (0.67%) VB.NET
18 19 (0.67%) XAML
19 17 (0.60%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 508 (17.99%) Degree
2 269 (9.53%) Security Cleared
3 161 (5.70%) Microsoft Certification
4 154 (5.45%) SC Cleared
5 104 (3.68%) DV Cleared
6 97 (3.43%) Computer Science Degree
7 87 (3.08%) Cisco Certification
8 67 (2.37%) CCNA
9 58 (2.05%) CISSP
10 52 (1.84%) Azure Certification
11 45 (1.59%) MCP
12 41 (1.45%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 41 (1.45%) MCSE
13 32 (1.13%) AWS Certification
13 32 (1.13%) CISM
14 27 (0.96%) A+ Certification
14 27 (0.96%) MCITP
15 26 (0.92%) ITIL Certification
15 26 (0.92%) Network+ Certification
16 22 (0.78%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 110 (3.90%) SLA
2 97 (3.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 70 (2.48%) QA
4 68 (2.41%) Cyber Essentials
5 43 (1.52%) NIST
6 24 (0.85%) PCI DSS
7 23 (0.81%) Accessibility
8 19 (0.67%) PMO
9 18 (0.64%) Data Quality
9 18 (0.64%) ITGC
10 17 (0.60%) GDPR
11 13 (0.46%) GRC
12 12 (0.42%) SOC 2
13 11 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 10 (0.35%) 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 1,289 (45.64%) Active Directory
2 579 (20.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 395 (13.99%) Hyper-V
4 170 (6.02%) Docker
5 131 (4.64%) Virtual Machines
6 102 (3.61%) Virtual Desktop
7 100 (3.54%) VMware ESXi
8 75 (2.66%) vSphere
9 49 (1.74%) XenApp
10 39 (1.38%) XenDesktop
11 32 (1.13%) VirtualBox
12 24 (0.85%) Firmware
13 19 (0.67%) Virtual Servers
14 16 (0.57%) NFS
15 15 (0.53%) Terminal Services
16 14 (0.50%) VMware Workstation
17 10 (0.35%) pfSense
18 9 (0.32%) Forefront TMG
18 9 (0.32%) OpenSSH
19 8 (0.28%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 388 (13.74%) Microsoft Intune
2 248 (8.78%) Ansible
3 227 (8.04%) SCCM
4 195 (6.91%) Kubernetes
5 190 (6.73%) Terraform
6 126 (4.46%) vCenter Server
7 94 (3.33%) WSUS
8 65 (2.30%) Prometheus
9 59 (2.09%) Single Sign-On
10 58 (2.05%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 57 (2.02%) SCOM
12 56 (1.98%) Puppet
13 47 (1.66%) Grafana
14 40 (1.42%) Microsoft Clustering
15 37 (1.31%) Nagios
16 28 (0.99%) ZABBIX
17 25 (0.89%) Progress Chef
18 21 (0.74%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
19 20 (0.71%) FortiGate
19 20 (0.71%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 1,403 (49.68%) Microsoft
2 829 (29.36%) VMware
3 191 (6.76%) Cisco
4 177 (6.27%) Citrix
5 132 (4.67%) Apple
6 126 (4.46%) Oracle
7 102 (3.61%) Red Hat
8 98 (3.47%) Dell
9 94 (3.33%) NetApp
10 89 (3.15%) HP
10 89 (3.15%) Veeam
11 77 (2.73%) ServiceNow
12 72 (2.55%) Adobe
12 72 (2.55%) Meraki
13 71 (2.51%) IBM
14 67 (2.37%) Palo Alto
15 62 (2.20%) Google
16 55 (1.95%) SAP
17 54 (1.91%) SolidFire
18 48 (1.70%) Splunk