Windows Job Trends in York

Microsoft Windows
North Yorkshire > York

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in York requiring Windows skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 14 14
Rank change year-on-year +3 0 +11
Permanent jobs citing Windows 10 19 23
As % of all permanent jobs in York 7.69% 9.09% 11.68%
As % of the Operating Systems category 100.00% 95.00% 76.67%
Number of salaries quoted 6 16 22
10th Percentile £24,563 - £28,000
25th Percentile £25,375 £26,250 £42,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £25,750 £33,750 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -23.70% -35.71% +60.31%
75th Percentile £26,125 £40,688 £62,188
90th Percentile £37,813 £61,250 £68,500
North Yorkshire median annual salary £45,000 £37,500 £33,750
% change year-on-year +20.00% +11.11% -12.34%

All Operating Systems
York

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 10 20 30
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in York 7.69% 9.57% 15.23%
Number of salaries quoted 6 17 28
10th Percentile £24,563 - £27,850
25th Percentile £25,375 £26,250 £43,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £25,750 £37,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -31.33% -25.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £26,125 £46,500 £60,313
90th Percentile £37,813 £60,500 £67,000
North Yorkshire median annual salary £45,000 £37,500 £41,250
% change year-on-year +20.00% -9.09% -10.33%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in York

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Windows relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in York.

Windows job vacancy trend in York

Windows
Salary Trend in York

Salary distribution trend for jobs in York citing Windows.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in York citing Windows

Windows
Salary Histogram in York

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows in York over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Windows in York

Windows
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in York by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) AWS
1 1 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (10.00%) Azure
1 1 (10.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) Firewall
1 2 (20.00%) LAN
1 2 (20.00%) WAN
2 1 (10.00%) DHCP
2 1 (10.00%) DNS
2 1 (10.00%) Network Security
2 1 (10.00%) Peer-to-Peer Networking
2 1 (10.00%) VPN
2 1 (10.00%) Wireless
2 1 (10.00%) WLAN
General
1 8 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (40.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 4 (40.00%) Manufacturing
3 2 (20.00%) Advertising
3 2 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) IT Support
2 4 (40.00%) 1st Line Support
3 2 (20.00%) Administrator
4 1 (10.00%) 1st/2nd Line Support
4 1 (10.00%) 1st/2nd Line Support Technician
4 1 (10.00%) 2nd Line Support
4 1 (10.00%) 2nd Line Support Technician
4 1 (10.00%) Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Core Network Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) IT Support Technician
4 1 (10.00%) IT Technician
4 1 (10.00%) Network Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Service Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Service Desk Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Support Technician
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Driving Licence
1 4 (40.00%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 5 (50.00%) Linux
2 4 (40.00%) Unix
3 1 (10.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (30.00%) Customer Service
3 1 (10.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (10.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (10.00%) DevOps
3 1 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) CCNA
1 1 (10.00%) CCNP
1 1 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (40.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
1 1 (10.00%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Ansible
1 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Cisco
2 1 (10.00%) Meraki