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

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 24 28 40
Rank change year-on-year +4 +12 -12
Permanent jobs citing Windows 2,825 3,654 5,211
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.35% 8.45% 7.81%
As % of the Operating Systems category 59.66% 54.58% 44.12%
Number of salaries quoted 2,342 2,851 3,862
10th Percentile £27,750 £27,500 £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 £61,813 £65,000 £65,000
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 4,735 6,695 11,811
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 14.00% 15.48% 17.70%
Number of salaries quoted 3,691 4,881 7,452
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £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 26 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
2 269 (9.52%) SharePoint
3 93 (3.29%) IIS
4 75 (2.65%) Apache
5 27 (0.96%) 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%) 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
1 300 (10.62%) 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%) Adobe After Effects
10 1 (0.035%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.035%) InDesign
10 1 (0.035%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.035%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 29 (1.03%) Dynamics CRM
2 21 (0.74%) 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 (0.035%) Dynamics AX
8 1 (0.035%) SAP Business One
8 1 (0.035%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 1,181 (41.81%) Azure
2 1,167 (41.31%) Microsoft 365
3 425 (15.04%) Entra ID
4 356 (12.60%) AWS
5 141 (4.99%) SaaS
6 107 (3.79%) IaaS
7 94 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
8 93 (3.29%) OneDrive
9 91 (3.22%) Amazon S3
9 91 (3.22%) GitHub
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 36 (1.27%) Azure Monitor
17 33 (1.17%) Power Automate
17 33 (1.17%) Serverless
18 29 (1.03%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 592 (20.96%) Firewall
2 458 (16.21%) DNS
3 309 (10.94%) DHCP
4 276 (9.77%) WAN
5 261 (9.24%) VPN
6 250 (8.85%) LAN
7 240 (8.50%) TCP/IP
8 180 (6.37%) Internet
9 151 (5.35%) SAN
10 133 (4.71%) Wi-Fi
10 133 (4.71%) Wireless
11 117 (4.14%) VLAN
12 80 (2.83%) VoIP
13 77 (2.73%) Network Security
14 72 (2.55%) SNMP
15 60 (2.12%) NAS
16 58 (2.05%) Remote Desktop
17 56 (1.98%) IPsec
18 49 (1.73%) SD-WAN
19 42 (1.49%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 366 (12.96%) SQL Server
2 100 (3.54%) MongoDB
3 75 (2.65%) Power BI
4 74 (2.62%) Elasticsearch
5 70 (2.48%) Amazon RDS
5 70 (2.48%) MySQL
5 70 (2.48%) Relational Database
6 46 (1.63%) DB2
7 41 (1.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 35 (1.24%) Data Warehouse
8 35 (1.24%) PostgreSQL
9 30 (1.06%) Oracle Database
9 30 (1.06%) RDBMS
10 23 (0.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 21 (0.74%) Azure SQL Database
12 16 (0.57%) Amazon Aurora
13 15 (0.53%) Redis
14 14 (0.50%) QlikView
15 13 (0.46%) BusinessObjects
16 12 (0.42%) Data Hub
Development Applications
1 107 (3.79%) Git
2 95 (3.36%) JIRA
3 54 (1.91%) GitLab
3 54 (1.91%) Jenkins
4 49 (1.73%) Visual Studio
5 29 (1.03%) Subversion
6 23 (0.81%) CMake
7 21 (0.74%) Artifactory
8 20 (0.71%) IBM UrbanCode
9 19 (0.67%) Eclipse
10 17 (0.60%) Octopus Deploy
11 15 (0.53%) Team Foundation Server
12 14 (0.50%) Bitbucket
13 10 (0.35%) MSI
13 10 (0.35%) TeamCity
13 10 (0.35%) Trac
14 9 (0.32%) InstallShield
15 7 (0.25%) CircleCI
15 7 (0.25%) IntelliJ
16 6 (0.21%) Snyk
General
1 830 (29.38%) Social Skills
2 589 (20.85%) Finance
3 282 (9.98%) Analytical Skills
4 129 (4.57%) Public Sector
5 121 (4.28%) Banking
6 111 (3.93%) Law
7 98 (3.47%) Legal
7 98 (3.47%) Telecoms
8 96 (3.40%) Retail
9 85 (3.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 79 (2.80%) Marketing
11 76 (2.69%) Organisational Skills
12 50 (1.77%) Electronics
12 50 (1.77%) Games
13 42 (1.49%) Manufacturing
14 40 (1.42%) Documentation Skills
14 40 (1.42%) Military
15 37 (1.31%) Presentation Skills
16 30 (1.06%) Aerospace
17 29 (1.03%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 490 (17.35%) Senior
2 433 (15.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 355 (12.57%) Analyst
4 321 (11.36%) Support Engineer
5 273 (9.66%) IT Engineer
6 272 (9.63%) IT Support
7 199 (7.04%) Lead
8 165 (5.84%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 155 (5.49%) Consultant
10 149 (5.27%) Developer
11 148 (5.24%) IT Support Engineer
12 142 (5.03%) Support Analyst
13 121 (4.28%) IT Analyst
14 120 (4.25%) Software Engineer
15 112 (3.96%) 3rd Line Support
16 96 (3.40%) DevOps Engineer
17 94 (3.33%) IT Manager
18 88 (3.12%) 2nd Line Support
18 88 (3.12%) Administrator
19 78 (2.76%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 169 (5.98%) .NET
2 99 (3.50%) HTML
3 75 (2.65%) CSS
3 75 (2.65%) RabbitMQ
4 64 (2.27%) YAML
5 55 (1.95%) .NET Framework
5 55 (1.95%) ASP.NET
5 55 (1.95%) WPF
6 52 (1.84%) AngularJS
7 47 (1.66%) REST
8 44 (1.56%) XML
9 41 (1.45%) React
9 41 (1.45%) WinForms
10 36 (1.27%) Middleware
11 33 (1.17%) ASP.NET MVC
12 32 (1.13%) RESTful
13 31 (1.10%) Twitter Bootstrap
14 30 (1.06%) Qt
14 30 (1.06%) Vue
14 30 (1.06%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 259 (9.17%) Data Centre
2 187 (6.62%) Self-Motivation
3 140 (4.96%) Management Information System
4 126 (4.46%) Public Cloud
5 79 (2.80%) Driving Licence
6 68 (2.41%) PKI
7 67 (2.37%) Onboarding
8 64 (2.27%) Clustering
9 52 (1.84%) Replication
10 46 (1.63%) Cyberattack
11 40 (1.42%) Cloud Native
12 38 (1.35%) Mobile App
13 37 (1.31%) Private Cloud
14 36 (1.27%) Client/Server
15 35 (1.24%) Cyber Threat
15 35 (1.24%) Hybrid Cloud
16 34 (1.20%) Virtual Team
17 33 (1.17%) IoT
17 33 (1.17%) Video Conferencing
18 28 (0.99%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1,146 (40.57%) Windows Server
2 817 (28.92%) Linux
3 514 (18.19%) Windows 10
4 200 (7.08%) Unix
5 199 (7.04%) Windows Server 2016
6 180 (6.37%) Windows Server 2012
7 162 (5.73%) Windows Server 2019
8 145 (5.13%) Apple iOS
9 114 (4.04%) Android
10 104 (3.68%) Mac OS
11 98 (3.47%) Windows 7
12 68 (2.41%) VMS
13 62 (2.19%) Ubuntu
14 61 (2.16%) Windows 8
15 54 (1.91%) Data ONTAP
16 50 (1.77%) Windows Server 2008
17 49 (1.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
18 33 (1.17%) Mac OS X
19 25 (0.88%) Solaris
20 24 (0.85%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 544 (19.26%) ITIL
2 532 (18.83%) Problem-Solving
3 525 (18.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 374 (13.24%) Customer Service
5 367 (12.99%) Agile
6 339 (12.00%) Cybersecurity
7 337 (11.93%) DevOps
8 267 (9.45%) Mentoring
9 192 (6.80%) CI/CD
10 184 (6.51%) Project Management
11 181 (6.41%) Change Management
11 181 (6.41%) Migration
11 181 (6.41%) Software Engineering
12 172 (6.09%) Disaster Recovery
12 172 (6.09%) Service Management
13 160 (5.66%) Continuous Improvement
14 148 (5.24%) Actionable Insight
14 148 (5.24%) Roadmaps
15 144 (5.10%) Computer Science
16 129 (4.57%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 462 (16.35%) PowerShell
2 429 (15.19%) SQL
3 261 (9.24%) Python
4 233 (8.25%) C#
5 135 (4.78%) Bash
6 86 (3.04%) Java
7 77 (2.73%) C++
8 72 (2.55%) JavaScript
9 70 (2.48%) T-SQL
10 49 (1.73%) 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 (0.88%) TypeScript
17 22 (0.78%) PHP
18 19 (0.67%) VB.NET
18 19 (0.67%) XAML
19 17 (0.60%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 507 (17.95%) Degree
2 268 (9.49%) Security Cleared
3 163 (5.77%) Microsoft Certification
4 151 (5.35%) SC Cleared
5 104 (3.68%) DV Cleared
6 96 (3.40%) Computer Science Degree
7 87 (3.08%) Cisco Certification
8 67 (2.37%) CCNA
9 58 (2.05%) CISSP
10 53 (1.88%) 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 28 (0.99%) MCITP
15 27 (0.96%) A+ Certification
16 26 (0.92%) Network+ Certification
17 25 (0.88%) ITIL Certification
18 22 (0.78%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 110 (3.89%) SLA
2 96 (3.40%) 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 18 (0.64%) Data Quality
8 18 (0.64%) PMO
9 17 (0.60%) GDPR
9 17 (0.60%) ITGC
10 13 (0.46%) GRC
11 12 (0.42%) SOC 2
12 11 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 10 (0.35%) ISO 9001
14 8 (0.28%) MISRA
15 6 (0.21%) ISO 9000
15 6 (0.21%) NCSC
16 5 (0.18%) ISO 22301
17 4 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 1,292 (45.73%) Active Directory
2 577 (20.42%) VMware Infrastructure
3 395 (13.98%) Hyper-V
4 172 (6.09%) Docker
5 131 (4.64%) Virtual Machines
6 102 (3.61%) Virtual Desktop
7 99 (3.50%) VMware ESXi
8 75 (2.65%) vSphere
9 49 (1.73%) 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
1 384 (13.59%) Microsoft Intune
2 250 (8.85%) Ansible
3 227 (8.04%) SCCM
4 198 (7.01%) 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
10 58 (2.05%) SCOM
11 56 (1.98%) Puppet
12 49 (1.73%) Grafana
13 38 (1.35%) Microsoft Clustering
14 37 (1.31%) Nagios
15 28 (0.99%) ZABBIX
16 25 (0.88%) Progress Chef
17 20 (0.71%) FortiGate
17 20 (0.71%) Jamf Pro
17 20 (0.71%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
Vendors
1 1,399 (49.52%) Microsoft
2 829 (29.35%) VMware
3 194 (6.87%) Cisco
4 175 (6.19%) Citrix
5 132 (4.67%) Apple
6 124 (4.39%) Oracle
7 102 (3.61%) Red Hat
8 99 (3.50%) Dell
9 94 (3.33%) NetApp
10 92 (3.26%) HP
11 90 (3.19%) Veeam
12 77 (2.73%) ServiceNow
13 72 (2.55%) Adobe
13 72 (2.55%) Meraki
14 71 (2.51%) IBM
15 66 (2.34%) Palo Alto
16 62 (2.19%) Google
17 54 (1.91%) SolidFire
18 53 (1.88%) SAP
19 48 (1.70%) Splunk