Windows Jobs in Yorkshire

Microsoft Windows
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire 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 19 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 14 17
Rank change year-on-year +2 +3 +3
Permanent jobs citing Windows 446 535 657
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 10.97% 9.01% 10.89%
As % of the Operating Systems category 87.80% 76.32% 69.60%
Number of salaries quoted 342 440 427
10th Percentile £25,750 £25,000 £23,650
25th Percentile £26,750 £28,000 £27,600
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £37,500 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +7.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £42,000 £54,000 £52,000
90th Percentile £55,000 £63,250 £65,313
England median annual salary £38,500 £40,591 £43,750
% change year-on-year -5.15% -7.22% +1.74%

All Operating Systems
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 508 701 944
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 12.50% 11.80% 15.65%
Number of salaries quoted 377 554 565
10th Percentile £26,000 £25,000 £25,000
25th Percentile £27,500 £29,000 £30,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £40,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.75% - -8.05%
75th Percentile £46,250 £54,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £66,250 £63,600 £71,491
England median annual salary £42,192 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -6.24% -14.29% -

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Job postings citing Windows as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Windows in Yorkshire

Windows
Salary Trend in Yorkshire

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Windows in Yorkshire.

Salary trend for Windows in Yorkshire

Windows
Salary Histogram in Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 19 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Windows in Yorkshire

Windows
Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 19 July 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West Yorkshire +8 201 £37,500 -11.76% 61
South Yorkshire +9 73 £32,500 -13.33% 32
East Yorkshire +1 54 £32,000 +20.75% 16
North Yorkshire -21 50 £42,500 +41.67% 18
Windows
England

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 47 (10.54%) Microsoft Exchange
2 28 (6.28%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.12%) IIS
4 1 (0.22%) Confluence
4 1 (0.22%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.22%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.22%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 22 (4.93%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (2.47%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (2.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (1.12%) SAP Business One
2 4 (0.90%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.22%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 193 (43.27%) Microsoft 365
2 112 (25.11%) Azure
3 47 (10.54%) SaaS
4 42 (9.42%) AWS
5 40 (8.97%) Entra ID
6 12 (2.69%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (2.69%) IaaS
6 12 (2.69%) PaaS
7 5 (1.12%) Google Workspace
7 5 (1.12%) OneDrive
8 2 (0.45%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (0.22%) GCP
9 1 (0.22%) GitHub
9 1 (0.22%) Nutanix
9 1 (0.22%) OCI
9 1 (0.22%) Power Platform
9 1 (0.22%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 124 (27.80%) Firewall
2 49 (10.99%) DNS
3 48 (10.76%) Cisco IOS
4 45 (10.09%) DHCP
5 41 (9.19%) VoIP
6 33 (7.40%) LAN
6 33 (7.40%) TCP/IP
7 31 (6.95%) Wireless
8 28 (6.28%) VPN
9 23 (5.16%) VLAN
10 19 (4.26%) SAN
10 19 (4.26%) WAN
11 9 (2.02%) Wi-Fi
12 7 (1.57%) Multicast
12 7 (1.57%) Network Security
12 7 (1.57%) WLAN
12 7 (1.57%) WPA
13 6 (1.35%) Remote Desktop
14 5 (1.12%) NAS
15 3 (0.67%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (6.73%) SQL Server
2 7 (1.57%) RDBMS
2 7 (1.57%) Relational Database
3 6 (1.35%) DB2
4 1 (0.22%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.22%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 7 (1.57%) Git
2 4 (0.90%) JIRA
3 1 (0.22%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.22%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 151 (33.86%) Social Skills
2 52 (11.66%) Esports
3 37 (8.30%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (7.40%) Law
5 28 (6.28%) Organisational Skills
6 23 (5.16%) Telecoms
7 18 (4.04%) Manufacturing
8 14 (3.14%) Retail
9 13 (2.91%) Documentation Skills
9 13 (2.91%) Finance
10 10 (2.24%) Public Sector
11 8 (1.79%) Banking
12 6 (1.35%) Retail Banking
13 4 (0.90%) Multimedia
14 2 (0.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 2 (0.45%) Legal
Job Titles
1 114 (25.56%) IT Support
2 89 (19.96%) Analyst
3 85 (19.06%) IT Engineer
4 60 (13.45%) IT Analyst
5 56 (12.56%) Support Analyst
6 55 (12.33%) Support Engineer
7 47 (10.54%) Desktop Support
8 40 (8.97%) Support Technician
9 38 (8.52%) 2nd Line Support
10 37 (8.30%) IT Support Analyst
10 37 (8.30%) IT Support Engineer
11 35 (7.85%) 1st Line Support
12 24 (5.38%) Help Desk Analyst
13 23 (5.16%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
14 22 (4.93%) Senior
15 20 (4.48%) Lead
16 19 (4.26%) Desktop Support Technician
16 19 (4.26%) Desktop Technician
16 19 (4.26%) Instrumentation Engineer
17 18 (4.04%) 1st Line Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (3.14%) .NET
2 7 (1.57%) ASP.NET
2 7 (1.57%) ASP.NET Core
2 7 (1.57%) REST
2 7 (1.57%) WinForms
3 3 (0.67%) ARM Templates
3 3 (0.67%) EDI
4 1 (0.22%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (0.22%) LDAP
4 1 (0.22%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 58 (13.00%) Operational Technology
2 52 (11.66%) Social Media
3 23 (5.16%) Self-Motivation
4 18 (4.04%) Mobile App
5 15 (3.36%) Onboarding
6 14 (3.14%) Driving Licence
7 11 (2.47%) Management Information System
8 9 (2.02%) Clustering
9 8 (1.79%) Life Science
10 7 (1.57%) Product Ownership
10 7 (1.57%) Replication
11 6 (1.35%) Cloud Native
11 6 (1.35%) Enterprise Storage
11 6 (1.35%) Mainframe
12 5 (1.12%) Data Centre
12 5 (1.12%) FMCG
12 5 (1.12%) Hybrid Cloud
13 3 (0.67%) CCTV
13 3 (0.67%) Enterprise Cloud
13 3 (0.67%) EPoS
Operating Systems
1 143 (32.06%) Windows Server
2 74 (16.59%) Linux
3 73 (16.37%) Windows 10
4 64 (14.35%) Android
5 52 (11.66%) Windows Vista
6 23 (5.16%) Mac OS X
7 17 (3.81%) Windows Server 2016
8 10 (2.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 7 (1.57%) Mac OS
10 6 (1.35%) Windows Server 2012
10 6 (1.35%) Windows Server 2019
11 4 (0.90%) Unix
12 3 (0.67%) Windows 7
13 2 (0.45%) Windows Server 2008
14 1 (0.22%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (25.34%) Problem-Solving
2 98 (21.97%) Cybersecurity
3 92 (20.63%) Customer Service
4 78 (17.49%) ITIL
5 61 (13.68%) Network Management
6 57 (12.78%) Network Design
7 52 (11.66%) Computer Science
8 31 (6.95%) Incident Management
9 30 (6.73%) Mathematics
9 30 (6.73%) Migration
10 24 (5.38%) Vulnerability Management
11 23 (5.16%) DevOps
11 23 (5.16%) Process Improvement
12 22 (4.93%) Service Delivery
13 19 (4.26%) Analytical Thinking
13 19 (4.26%) Continuous Improvement
13 19 (4.26%) CRM
14 18 (4.04%) Data Privacy
14 18 (4.04%) Exploratory Testing
14 18 (4.04%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 43 (9.64%) SQL
2 33 (7.40%) PowerShell
2 33 (7.40%) Python
3 14 (3.14%) C#
4 7 (1.57%) Bash
4 7 (1.57%) JavaScript
4 7 (1.57%) VB.NET
5 4 (0.90%) Bicep
6 1 (0.22%) Java
6 1 (0.22%) Perl
6 1 (0.22%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 52 (11.66%) DBS Check
2 48 (10.76%) Degree
3 31 (6.95%) Microsoft Certification
4 23 (5.16%) SC Cleared
4 23 (5.16%) Security Cleared
5 15 (3.36%) CCNP
5 15 (3.36%) Cisco Certification
6 10 (2.24%) MCSA
7 7 (1.57%) AWS Certification
8 6 (1.35%) A+ Certification
8 6 (1.35%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 4 (0.90%) Azure Certification
9 4 (0.90%) CCNA
10 3 (0.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 3 (0.67%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 2 (0.45%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.45%) MCSE
12 1 (0.22%) CISM
12 1 (0.22%) GCIA
12 1 (0.22%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (5.61%) SLA
2 11 (2.47%) Cyber Essentials
3 7 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.67%) ISO 14001
4 3 (0.67%) ISO 9001
5 2 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (0.45%) NCSC
5 2 (0.45%) NIST
System Software
1 220 (49.33%) Active Directory
2 61 (13.68%) Hyper-V
3 57 (12.78%) Virtual Servers
4 36 (8.07%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (1.35%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.67%) vSphere
7 2 (0.45%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 1 (0.22%) Docker
8 1 (0.22%) Firmware
8 1 (0.22%) KVM
8 1 (0.22%) NFS
8 1 (0.22%) pfSense
8 1 (0.22%) SRDF
8 1 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.22%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.22%) Xen
Systems Management
1 57 (12.78%) Microsoft Intune
2 15 (3.36%) Ansible
3 10 (2.24%) SCCM
4 8 (1.79%) Kubernetes
4 8 (1.79%) Terraform
5 7 (1.57%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
5 7 (1.57%) SCOM
5 7 (1.57%) WSUS
6 5 (1.12%) AirWatch
7 2 (0.45%) NetBackup
7 2 (0.45%) Puppet
8 1 (0.22%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.22%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.22%) NetApp OnCommand
8 1 (0.22%) VxRail
Vendors
1 190 (42.60%) Microsoft
2 64 (14.35%) Cisco
3 52 (11.66%) VMware
4 25 (5.61%) Apple
5 18 (4.04%) Zoho
6 13 (2.91%) Oracle
7 12 (2.69%) SonicWALL
8 10 (2.24%) Red Hat
9 9 (2.02%) Dell
9 9 (2.02%) HP
10 8 (1.79%) Supermicro
11 7 (1.57%) Sophos
12 6 (1.35%) Google
12 6 (1.35%) IBM
13 5 (1.12%) Meraki
13 5 (1.12%) Salesforce
13 5 (1.12%) SAP
13 5 (1.12%) Sun
14 4 (0.90%) Sage
14 4 (0.90%) ServiceNow